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Hamblin, Robert & Melanie
Speight
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The fifteen papers included in this volume edited by Robert W. Hamblin and Melanie Speight were presented at the Faulkner and Twain Conference hosted by Southeast Missouri State University’s Center for Faulkner Studies in Cape Girardeau, October 19–21, 2006.
The various essays discuss Faulkner’s and Twain’s treatment of such topics as humor, the frontier, the Mississippi River, race relations, politics, detective fiction and death. |
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Anton, Mary Sue
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New Madrid's pioneers reveal their past and their stories through letters, newspapers, official records, and other sources. The author takes the reader through the town's history, recounting tales of legendary people whose lives crossed with those of area residents. |
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Tweedy, Joanna Beth
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Raised deep in the Shawnee Hills amid hogback bluffs, a roundabout river, and unending family, two divergent sisters share a colorful journey: first through childhood in a place both blessed and cursed by the hybrid footprints of the Appalachia and Ozark regions surrounding it, and then into the world beyond, compelled by their shared wanderlust. |
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Habel, Jenn
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"There are books that leave us, once we have turned the last page, with a soft, clear tone that overrides ideas or emotional impressions. It is the music of grief and desire, when grief and desire have become indistinguishably joined. Jenn Habel's In the Little House is such a collection." —David Keplinger |
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McBride, Greg
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"From Okinawa to Vietnam to the marital bed, these poems pack a punch—and a caress. Military and domestic battlegrounds are viewed close up, through the unsparing eye of a photographer. And yet these poems fairly bristle with restrained emotion. These are decent, honorable poems, and under them all is a fine music that makes the grief more bearable." —Barbara Goldberg
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Lund,
Michael & Robert Hamblin
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Dr. Michael Lund and his brother Carl donated the original poem "About a little girl" by William Carlos Williams to Kent Library at Southeast Missouri State University. As part of the celebration of such a unique acquisition, the University Press produced a small artbook that includes the poem, a facsimile of the original artifact, photos, and essays by families of both William Carlos Williams and Marian Macy Lund. The essays include an introduction by Dr. Robert Hamblin that charts the voyage of the poem into Kent Library's safekeeping, an essay by Michael Lund tracing the place and importance of literature in his family, a short explication of the poem, and afterwords by Suzy Williams Sinclaire and Daphne Williams Fox about their illustrious family member. |
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Taylor, Thomas A.
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In the real world, public figures are faced with hazardous situations every day. Stalkers, inappropriate or threatening communications, and unwelcome approaches are all part of public life. The fiction thriller Mortal Shield, by protection-expert Thomas Taylor, delves into the hearts and minds of bodyguards, the dignitaries they protect, and the opponents they attempt to foil. Mortal Shield is a realistic and spellbinding portrayal of protection work, which captures the everyday challenge of guarding high-level VIPs. Finalist in ForeWord Magazine's 2008 Book of the Year Award |
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Nienow, Matthew
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"With 'dark swollen words and shifting air,' Matthew Nienow builds poems as if building boats, 'each strip like a tree's growth,' and 'asking the question rivers are always asking: why?' From Nienow I am grateful to have learned that poetry 'is movement with one desire: to pull at whatever it touches.' There is much talk these days of the importance of a poet's voice. But here we have proof that a poet's ear…for music, for complexity, for 'the prodigal aria returning home'…is just as important." —Todd Boss |
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Swingle, Morley |
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When Allison Culbertson takes the case of Joey Red Horse, an Osage Indian charged with stealing a sacred artifact from the Heartland Mound Builder Museum, she finds herself in the middle of a courtroom battle pitting contemporary American Indians against a private museum over legal rights to the bones of "Bootheel Man," a Native American who lived, fought, and loved Cahokia and Southeast Missouri in the year 1050. Finalist in the 2008 William Rockhill Nelson Award |
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Around noon, November 22, 1915, everyone in Stoutland, Missouri, who could walk or ride rushed to view the mortal remains of one of the area's most prosperous farmers and leading citizens. Hidden in a brush pile on nearby Rouse Hill, the victim's body displayed the marks of a determined and vicious killer. |
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And God Answered: A Memoir invites us into the life of Jean Bell Mosley, who grew up on a rural Missouri farm, through the Depression, wars, the triumphs of country know-how and formal education, the loss of loved ones and the celebration of new birth, and the ever-present influences of God, nature, and the events of the twentieth century. |
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Kolin, Philip C.
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Hurricane Blues is a unique artifact of American history: an anthology of original poems about the two most infamous hurricanes of 2005. Many of these poems are eyewitness accounts—written by both distinguished and emerging poets, all of whom were moved by the destruction of a legendary American city and the roughly 300-mile radius within Katrina's wrath. |
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Whether he's championing the virtues of funnel cake or recounting his experiences judging a national pie contest, Harte is often whimsical, always informative, and never uninteresting in his "culinary reflections" on such topics as the history of food, the logic behind common recipe conventions, the nomenclature of food, homages to great gourmets such as Julia Child and Thomas Jefferson, or tributes to great ingredients such as brown sugar and butter. His over-200 carefully selected recipes will be a welcome addition to anyone's files. |
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Thrower, Jon
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The poets featured in this collection are young writers from Southeast Missouri, and they represent some of the exciting talent popping up in the area. They are involved in local writing collectives, work with various literary magazines, and have been published in various literary magazines. |
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Bentley, Roy |
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An excerpt from Section 3: My Father Dressing Me as Zorro, taken from the poem "Listening to Coltrane on the 4th of July": Now I've lowered a mask over my face The eye-slits don't fit, and I can't see. I scent the smoke of his cigarette. I tell him they turned off the electricity, the gas and phone, that neighbors fed us after he left. I'm feeling in the gift box for a toy rapier, which I wave between us. He tells me to stop horsing around: this close, one of us is likely to get hurt. |
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Meyerhofer, Michael
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"Inquisitive and
insightful, the poems of Michael Meyerhofer aren't afraid to go to those weird
places other poets fear or dismiss. There's equal parts humor and pathos in this
poet, and he brings us poems that regard the world with a certain lyric
skepticism that, nonetheless, wants to believe in all those old-fashioned
ancient truths—beauty, harmony, peace. Meyerhofer's poems are much more durable
than the 'Cardboard Urn' of this collection's title poem—they are resilent,
incisive, and ultimately, redemptive."
—Allison Joseph, poet |
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Sprengel, C.M.
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1700s in America illuminated the
strength of our country's early settlers in a new voice from a distant past,
a German historian from the 18th century who describes the birth of a nation
from a European perspective. |
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Hamblin, Robert
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"Mind the Gap is a compendium of free-verse poetry that evokes imagination and wonder from observing the longstanding grandeur of London and the activities of both the ordinary and the eccentric people who live there. Mind the Gap is a verbal feast of impressions for the imagination." —The Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review |
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Matthews,
Edward C., III
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Spanning more than 200 years and 8 generations, the story of the Matthews family is an account of the birth of a nation, the settlement of the Louisiana Territory, and the subsequent growth and development of Southeast Missouri. Winner of the 2005 Fred Kniffen Book Award Winner of the 2006 Missouri Endowment for the Humanities' Governor's Book Award |
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Parker, Linda Busby
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The novel traces the life of African-American Brewster McAtee, a hardworking and innovative carpenter, as he struggles for his dreams to own land and build a home and respectability in rural Alabama. When the Civil Rights Movement explodes, he is drawn into the core of the conflict, where he and his family face the ultimate loss from which they may never recover. Winner of the James Jones First Novel Award Winner of the Langum Award for Historical Fiction Selected by Booklist as a top choice for adults and young adults
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Trowbridge, William
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Kong is hip and horrendous, always terribly in love with a small, screaming blonde, and still bearing the biggest, brightest heart that Hollywood has ever broken. Kong treads fortissimo where mortals fear to go and holds forth in these poems with the fresh, no-nonsense voice that makes Trowbridge one of poetry's most cutting-edge bards. |
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Suggs, Dr. George G., Jr.
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Swingle, Morley
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An exciting historical novel that begins and ends with a modern-day courtroom drama over buried treasure. The secrets of the treasure emerge in a journey back to the steamboating days along the Mississippi River. Two young lovers face myriad trials and adventures together until—in the ultimate test of their love—the Civil War places them, their community, and an entire nation in devastating turmoil. Winner of the 2005 Missouri Endowment for the Humanities' Governor's Book Award Selected for the United We Read program in Cape Girardeau, Missouri |
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