| Author | : Ashley Shelby |
| Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780873515009 |
The gripping, true-life story of one of the most destructive floods in U.S. history and its effect on one city and its citizens.
| Author | : Athol Dickson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2006-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780764203381 |
A well-crafted tale of secrets and evil lurking under the surface in the Mississippi river town of Pilotville, Louisiana, during the great flood of 1927.
| Author | : Tim Willocks |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Parolees |
| ISBN | : 0099509482 |
After Three Years' Hard Time, Minding No-One'S Business But His Own, Ray Klein Wins His Parole. That Same Day, The Disciplinary Perfection Of Green River State Penitentiary Is Torn Apart By Tribal War, And The Prison Falls Into The Hands Of Its Inmates.As The River Sucks Them All Towards The Abyss, Klein Must Choose Either To Claim His Freedom And Leave The Ones He Cares For To Die, Or Risk Everything And Fight...
| Author | : John M. Barry |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 554 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
The great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America.
| Author | : Daniel McCool |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0231161301 |
Daniel McCool chronicles the surging grassroots movement to bring America's rivers back to life and ensure they remain pristine for future generations. This book confirms the surprising news that America's rivers are indeed returning to a healthier, free-flowing condition. Through passion and dedication, ordinary people are reclaiming the American landscape, forming a nation-wide "river republic" of concerned citizens from all backgrounds and sectors of society. McCool profiles the individuals he calls "instigators," who initiated the fight for these waterways and have succeeded in the near-impossible task of challenging and changing the status quo. He ties the history, culture, and fate of America to its rivers and presents their restoration as a microcosm mirroring American beliefs, livelihoods, and an increasing awareness of our shared environmental fate.
| Author | : Patricia Jabbeh Wesley |
| Publisher | : Press 53 |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-08-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9781950413591 |
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley and her family fled their native country after suffering tremendous privations and violence during the bloody Liberian Civil War at the end of the 20th Century. These poems are more than the story of one woman who carried her children over dead bodies in the streets where she lived, who fled bombs and constant gunfire, who was locked with her daughters in an internment camp where she witnessed every kind of crime against women. Wesley did more than survive. She helped other women. She wrote. The River Is Rising is more than a collection of poems, it is a story of family, customs, struggle, survival, witness, and love. Originally published by Autumn House Press in 2007, Press 53 returns this important book to print as part of its Silver COncho Poetry Series, edited by Pamela Uschuk and William Pitt Root.
| Author | : Roger Johns |
| Publisher | : Minotaur Books |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2017-08-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1250110092 |
"Baton Rouge Police Detective Wallace Hartman has had better days. With her long-time partner and mentor on medical leave and a personal life in shambles, she's called to the scene of a particularly gruesome murder: the body of a known criminal has been found in a deserted warehouse, a snake sewn into his belly ... When federal agent Mason Cunningham arrives on the scene, Wallace expects a hostile takeover of the case. But when a scientist with ties to the victim goes missing from a government lab, she needs Mason's federal connections as much as he needs her local insight, and the two form an uneasy partnership"--
| Author | : A. J. Poitras |
| Publisher | : Vantage Press, Inc |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780533156085 |
Many of the practices of modern capitalism were born during the six hundred years leading to the Industrial Revolution, well before the assessments of Adam Smith and Karl Marx. In his well-written and informative study, Poitras delves deep into the birth of capitalism, bringing readers to the very verge of industrialism and a modern economy.
| Author | : Victoria Pope Hubbell |
| Publisher | : Iris Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2016-09-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781604542349 |
The first time the author met eighty-six-year-old Hadley Thompson, he told her about the Thompson-Crismon feud in Missouri in the 1920s. He described his lifelong quest to understand his father's murder. This book describes a collaborative effort between the author and Thompson to investigate why his father was targeted by the Ku Klux Klan.
