Shiner

Author : Amy Jo Burns
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525533656
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shiner written by Amy Jo Burns and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY NPR “Amy Jo Burns writes a version of Appalachia that is one step removed from magic – all strychnine and moonshine and powerful wonder.”—NPR “[A] wrenching testament, told in language as incandescent as smoldering coal. . . This is not a despairing book, but a hopeful one, of Appalachian women taking back their life stories.” —New York Times Book Review On a lush mountaintop trapped in time, two women vow to protect each other at all costs-and one young girl must defy her father to survive. An hour from the closest West Virginia mining town, fifteen-year-old Wren Bird lives in a cloistered mountain cabin with her parents. They have no car, no mailbox, and no visitors-except for her mother's lifelong best friend. Every Sunday, Wren's father delivers winding sermons in an abandoned gas station, where he takes up serpents and praises the Lord for his blighted white eye, proof of his divinity and key to the hold he has over the community, over Wren and her mother. But over the course of one summer, a miracle performed by Wren's father quickly turns to tragedy. As the order of her world begins to shatter, Wren must uncover the truth of her father's mysterious legend and her mother's harrowing history and complex bond with her best friend. And with that newfound knowledge, Wren can imagine a different future for herself than she has been told to expect. Rich with epic love and epic loss, and diving deep into a world that is often forgotten but still part of America, Shiner reveals the hidden story behind two generations' worth of Appalachian heartbreak and resolve. Amy Jo Burns brings us a smoldering, taut debut novel about modern female myth-making in a land of men-and one young girl who must ultimately open her eyes.

Author : Amy Jo Burns
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807052272
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinderland written by Amy Jo Burns and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting literary debut about the cost of keeping quiet Amy Jo Burns grew up in Mercury, Pennsylvania, an industrial town humbled by the steel collapse of the 1980s. Instead of the construction booms and twelve-hour shifts her parents’ generation had known, the Mercury Amy Jo knew was marred by empty houses, old strip mines, and vacant lots. It wasn’t quite a ghost town—only because many people had no choice but to stay. The year Burns turned ten, this sleepy town suddenly woke up. Howard Lotte, its beloved piano teacher, was accused of sexually assaulting his female students. Among the countless girls questioned, only seven came forward. For telling the truth, the town ostracized these girls and accused them of trying to smear a good man’s reputation. As for the remaining girls—well, they were smarter. They lied. Burns was one of them. But such a lie has its own consequences. Against a backdrop of fire and steel, shame and redemption, Burns tells of the boys she ran from and toward, the friends she abandoned, and the endless performances she gave to please a town that never trusted girls in the first place. This is the story of growing up in a town that both worshipped and sacrificed its youth—a town that believed being a good girl meant being a quiet one—and the long road Burns took toward forgiving her ten-year-old self. Cinderland is an elegy to that young girl’s innocence, as well as a praise song to the curative powers of breaking a long silence.

Author : Larry E. Shiner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226753430
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Art written by Larry E. Shiner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of ine art is a modern invention - and that the lines drawn between art and craft emerged only as the result of key European social transformations during the long eighteenth century"--Publisher's description.

Author : Maggie Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786994666
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shiner written by Maggie Nelson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets. The poems of Shiner experiment with a variety of styles-syllabic verse, sonnets, macaronic translation, Zen poems, walking poems-to express love, bewilderment, grief, and beauty. This book, Nelson's first, heralded the arrival of a fully formed, virtuoso voice.

Author : Rory Shiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925424737
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Forever written by Rory Shiner and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When the New Testament describes what it means to be a Christian, it uses a phrase that is everywhere in Paul's letters but almost nowhere in our churches. Overwhelmingly, when the Bible wants to describe being a Christian, it says that we are in Christ. But what does it mean to be in Christ? And how does this important biblical idea help us understand what God has done for us through Jesus, and what it means to be a Christian? This short book by Rory Shiner sparkles with clarity, wit and biblical wisdom on this vital and much-neglected topic." -- Back cover.

Author : Whitney Shiner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0826462200
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proclaiming the Gospel written by Whitney Shiner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long understood that the texts we now know as the Gospels were read aloud in the Greco-Roman world, but few have actually envisioned what a performance of the Gospel of Mark would have been like in the first century and how it would have shaped the experience of its audience. Proclaiming the Gospel shows us. Oral performances in the New Testament world were lively affairs. In the performance of Greco-Roman theater, readers lose their voices from the stress of emotional passages. Audiences cheer for philosophers as if at a rock concert, and in law courts, they are paid for their responses. Storytellers compete for attention with jugglers, and some speakers must fend off hostile crowds. Congregations at churches and synagogues cheer as if at the theater. Shiner reveals the ways that Mark wrote his Gospel to compete in this arena and how his audiences would have responded: applause for the miracles of Jesus, then an altogether different response at the cross. Whitney Shiner is Assistant Professor of Christian Origins at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, and the author of Follow Me: Disciples in markan Rhetoric.

Author : Terry Beresford
Publisher : Chipmunkapublishing ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847473768
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shiner written by Terry Beresford and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael L. Schuh
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1470947846
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shiner's Fix Up & Drink Up written by Michael L. Schuh and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has many stories about my friends that are fine And them working on my place whilst drinking my shine Many weeks they get started with the repairs It's really nice to have friends like mine that truly cares I wish you could be here but then I would not write about All what I have to say and when I talk I tend to shout. But you'd not believe how beautiful it is, today for sure The birds are all singing and these hills are alive once more Spring is the season I wait for each year And I always feel much better once it is here Boy"" This shine that I'm now a-drinking is extra ripe That means I've made once again some, moonshine with bite You get all this and much, much more...

Author : LaRue Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life History of the Spottail Shiner (Notropis Hudsonius) in Southeastern Lake Michigan, the Kalamazoo River, and Western Lake Erie written by LaRue Wells and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spottail shiners (Notropis hudsonius) were sampled from portions of Lake Michigan, the Kalamazoo River, and Lake Erie to determine ages, growth rate, sex ratios and life history information.

Author : Scott A. Gritters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.6O/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Status of the Weed Shiner (Notropic Texanus) in Pool 13 of the Upper Mississippi River System written by Scott A. Gritters and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: