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Joanna didn't eat any soupB. The doctor said she would dieC. Joanna counted the leaves of the ivy plantD. Joanna thought when the last ivy leaf went, she would die2. Why didn't the last ivy leaf fall after a few windy days?A. Because it was painted on the wallB. Because the ...
Award-winning Louisiana Black American literary author of Creole and Indian descent writer of fiction and nonfiction. New book, Economy Hall: "lyrical and mysterious and always captivating," New York Times. #PEN America, #7th Ward, #JamesLittle
An intimate and sometimes-profound chronicle of grief.” —Kirkus Reviews Catch Me When I Fall is an intimate collection of poetry that shows how even in the most difficult of times, love finds a way to pierce the darkness and bring joy into our lives. This is not just a collection for...
David Kenyon Webster, author of "Parachute Infantry - An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich"
prisons and slaughterhouses are exposed. ButDirty Workexamines a less familiar set of occupational hazards: psychological and emotional hardships such as stigma, shame, PTSD, and moral injury. These burdens fall disproportionately on low-income workers, undocumented immigrants, women, and people of ...
Those students who reported that their parents argued about finances were more likely to have more than two cards than the students whose parents who did not argue about finances. In terms of debt, those students who had two or more credit cards were nearly three times more likely to report...
The conductor, an accommodating type, gave each passenger a sleeping cabin. “On the house! You might want to settle in. It’s going to be a while.” Powered up and on the Way One day, the passengers awoke to the gentle swaying of the train traveling along the tracks. It had been ...
[#insert2] The literature of the Sumerians was treasured throughout the Near East, and long after Sumerian ceased to be spoken, the Babylonians and Assyrians and others kept it alive as a literary language, the way Europeans kept Latin alive after the fall of Rome. [#insert3] For the ...
Fall of Autumn Posted onSeptember 8, 2018 Reply Another summer passed. I got around 25k written this summer, which is much more than last summer, but I had far greater opportunity. Unfortunately, I also extracted 21k words from the same WIP, saving those two story lines for a third book...