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Weapons Grade: Poems (University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series) מאת Terese Svoboda In her poetry Terese Svoboda walks out to the edge where language is made and destroyed. Her subject is human suffering. Called “disturbing, edgy and provocative” by Book Magazine, her work is often the surreal poetry of a nightmare yet is written with such wit, verve, and passion that she can a...

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The Panther: Posthumous Poems מאת James Whitehead Through a series of dramatic monologues (spoken by Mary, the Angel Gabriel, Paul of Tarsus, and the “Sidonian archer,” Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera), the fourteen poems gathered here give life to the Jewish-apocryphal legend of “Jesus, son of Pantera”—the story that Jesus was sired by a R...

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Army Life: From a Soldier’s Journal (The Civil War in the West) מאת A. O. Marshall In 1884, when Albert O. Marshall published Army Life, a memoir of his service as a private in the Thirty-Third Illinois Regiment, twenty years had passed since his 1864 discharge. Marshall left the journal untouched at publication, and today it is a journal that is rare in what it is not. This memoi...

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Digging for History at Old Washington מאת Mary L. Kwas Positioned along the legendary Southwest Trail, the town of Washington in Hempstead County in southwest Arkansas was a thriving center of commerce,business, and county government in the nineteenth century. Historicalfigures such as Davy Crockett and Sam Houston passed through, and during the Civil W...

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Sam Dellinger: Raiders of the Lost Arkansas מאת Jr. Robert C. Mainfort Samuel C. Dellinger (1892 - 1973) made it his life's work to ensure that future Arkansans would remember their state's pre-historic past. He gathered nearly eight thousand prehistoric artifacts in order to keep them from going to out-of-state museums - including Harvard's Peabody, the Field in Chica...

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Reading with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed America, 2nd Edition מאת Kathleen Rooney Adored by its fans, deplored by its critics, Oprah's Book Club has been at the center of arguments about cultural authority and literary taste since it began in 1996. Reading with Oprah explores the club's revolutionary fusion of books, television, and commerce and tells the engaging and in-d...

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An Unforgiving Sport: An Inside Look at Another Year in Boxing מאת Thomas Hauser Thomas Hauser has become “must reading” in the boxing community, and his latest book demonstrates why. An Unforgiving Sport brings together Hauser’s 2008 articles from secondsout.com and espn.com, in which he exposes the inner workings of HBO Sports, goes behind the scenes at boxing’s bigges...

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Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad מאת Forugh Farrokhzad For the first time, the work of Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad is being brought to English-speaking readers through the perspective of a translator who is a poet in her own right, fluent in both Persian and English and intimately familiar with each culture. Sin includes the entirety o...

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The Headpots of Northeast Arkansas and Southern Pemiscot County, Missouri מאת James F. Cherry In 1981, James F. Cherry embarked on what evolved into a passionate, personal quest to identify and document all the known headpots of MississippianIndian culture from northeast Arkansas and the bootheel region of southeast Missouri. Produced by two groups the Spanish called the Casqui and Pacaha an...

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BLACK LIGHTS: INSIDE THE WORLD OF PROFESSIONAL BOXING (Sweet Science: Boxing in Literature and History) מאת THOMAS HAUSER

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Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party מאת Curtis J. Austin Curtis J. Austin's Up Against the Wall chronicles how violence brought about the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, dominated its policies, and finally destroyed the party as one member after another -- Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton, Alex Rackley -...

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Finding the Lost Year: What Happened When Little Rock Closed Its Public Schools (University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series) מאת Sondra Gordy Much has been written about the Little Rock School Crisis of 1957, but very little has been devoted to the following year—the Lost Year, 1958–59—when Little Rock schools were closed to all students, both black and white. Finding the Lost Year is the first book to look at the unresolved element...

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Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol’ Boys Defined a State מאת Brooks Blevins What do Scott Joplin, John Grisham, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Maya Angelou, Brooks Robinson, Helen Gurley Brown, Johnny Cash, Alan Ladd, and Sonny Boy Williamson have in common? They’re all Arkansans. What do hillbillies, rednecks, slow trains, bare feet, moonshine, and double-wides have in common? ...

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All Shook Up: Collected Poems About Elvis מאת WILL CLEMENS

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Rift: Poems (Arkansas Poetry Award) מאת Barbara Helfgott Hyett Barbara Helgott Hyett's new collection considers, from close and afar, the elemental forces coming to bear on human character in our time. In one sense a personal explication of long marriage and its betrayal, these stunning poems take solace in nature's steadfastness, and in the prospect of a newly...