“Will smiled and said 'What is written across my face? I have the guilt of a Catholic, the shame of a Jew, and the scruples of a whore?'”Trash is a coming of age novel about someone who sets his sights on a seductive shadow in the rain.The main character breaks a piece of himself as he churns through a bareback sex and meth resurgence in 1990's Atlanta.
More than anything in the world I wanted to be a gospel singer—a little girl in a white fringe vest with silver and gold crosses embroidered on the back. I wanted gray-headed ladies to cry when they saw my pink cheeks.
J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Custer’s Trials In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg, co-author of The Problem of Democracy, takes on our comforting myths about equality, ...
When his father moves them halfway across Colorado, eleven-year-old Hugo O'Donnell is surprised that his remarkable talent for garbology makes him popular for the first time in his life.
This picture book biography of Tyree Guyton, an urban environmental artist, shows how he transformed his decaying, crime-ridden neighborhood into the Heidelberg Project, an interactive sculpture park.
This tale of buried scholarly treasure weaves together unforgettable portraits of Solomon Schechter and the other heroes of this drama with explorations of the medieval documents themselves-letters and poems, wills and marriage contracts, ...
Vivid in its historical detail, profound in its imaginative empathy, War Trash is Ha Jin’s most ambitious book to date.
A Boston Globe-Horn Book honor-winning title traces the efforts of an oceanographer to track the journey of sea-disposed garbage in order to help the scientific community better understand how to protect the world's oceans. Reprint.
“Life After The Swan.” People 62, no. 5 (August 2, 2004). http://www.people.com/people/archive/ article/0,,20150694,00.html. Grim, Ryan, Arthur Delaney, and Lucia Graves. “Learning to Walk: Fear, Shame and Your Underwater Mortgage.
In Garbology, Edward Humes investigates trash—what’s in it; how much we pay for it; how we manage to create so much of it; and how some families, communities, and even nations are finding a way back from waste to discover a new kind of ...
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