Temple Houston and the Soiled Dove Speech - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Temple Houston and the Soiled Dove Speech write by Luther S. Mcgaugh. This book was released on 2016-04-08. Temple Houston and the Soiled Dove Speech available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a short account (Federal Writers' Project) of the life of Temple Houston, youngest child of noted Texan Sam Houston. It also includes the "Soiled Dove" speech, also known as the "Plea for a Fallen Woman" speech delivered by Temple Houston in defense of Minnie Stacy, a prostitute, in Woodward, OK in 1899. Addendums include a bibliography and the obituary of Laura Cross Houston, wife of Temple Houston.
Mother Winter
Mother Winter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mother Winter write by Sophia Shalmiyev. This book was released on 2020-02-11. Mother Winter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Lyrical and emotionally gutting." —O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE “Intellectually satisfying [and] artistically profound.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW) “Mesmeric.”—THE PARIS REVIEW “Vividly awesome and truly great." —EILEEN MYLES “Gorgeous, gutting, unforgettable." —LENI ZUMAS “Brilliant.” —MICHELLE TEA An arresting memoir equal parts refugee-coming-of-age story, feminist manifesto, and meditation on motherhood, displacement, gender politics, and art that follows award-winning writer Sophia Shalmiyev’s flight from the Soviet Union, where she was forced to abandon her estranged mother, and her subsequent quest to find her. Russian sentences begin backward, Sophia Shalmiyev tells us on the first page of her striking lyrical memoir. To understand the end of her story, we must go back to the beginning. Born to a Russian mother and an Azerbaijani father, Shalmiyev was raised in the stark oppressiveness of 1980s Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), where anti-Semitism and an imbalance of power were omnipresent in her home. At just eleven years old, Shalmiyev’s father stole her away to America, forever abandoning her estranged alcoholic mother, Elena. Motherless on a tumultuous voyage to the states, terrified in a strange new land, Shalmiyev depicts in urgent, poetic vignettes her emotional journeys through an uncharted world as an immigrant, artist, and, eventually, as a mother of two. As an adult, Shalmiyev voyages back to Russia to search endlessly for the mother she never knew—in her pursuit, we witness an arresting, impassioned meditation on art-making, gender politics, displacement, and most potently, motherhood.
Lawmen, Crimebusters and Champions of Justice
Lawmen, Crimebusters and Champions of Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lawmen, Crimebusters and Champions of Justice write by John Sale. This book was released on 1991. Lawmen, Crimebusters and Champions of Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses famous lawmen, the law enforcement agencies for which they work, and the legal system at work.
Tolbert of Texas
Tolbert of Texas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tolbert of Texas write by Frank X. Tolbert. This book was released on 1986. Tolbert of Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No writer of Texas lore is better known than Frank X. Tolbert. He wrote of the Texas that he loved and shared enough for us to feel the same way.
Tragedy and Triumph on the Texas Plains
Tragedy and Triumph on the Texas Plains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tragedy and Triumph on the Texas Plains write by Chuck Lanehart. This book was released on 2021-05-03. Tragedy and Triumph on the Texas Plains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Out on the Texas Plains, wrangling with history resembles taking in the sunset--a stampede of splendor and shadow all at once. Roam an Ohio-sized patch of prairie and take stock of the heroic tasks and moral dilemmas facing the unforgettable characters who called West Texas home. Ben Hogan sinks a putt with the focus of the Clovis man who hunted mammoth in the same spot thousands of years before. Lubbock's largest lawsuit runs its interminable course. And a starving Roy Rogers makes a quick meal of jackrabbit on the Llano Estacado. Chuck Lanehart gathers statesmen and journalists, outlaws and entertainers, in these profiles of the Texas Plains.
