Southernmost

Southernmost
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Publisher : Algonquin Books
Total Pages : 369
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781616209360
ISBN-13 : 1616209364
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Southernmost by : Silas House

“A novel for our time, a courageous and necessary book.” —Jennifer Haigh, author of Heat and Light In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles with the limits of belief and the infinite ways to love. In the aftermath of a flood that washes away much of a small Tennessee town, evangelical preacher Asher Sharp offers shelter to two gay men. In doing so, he starts to see his life anew—and risks losing everything: his wife, locked into her religious prejudices; his congregation, which shuns Asher after he delivers a passionate sermon in defense of tolerance; and his young son, Justin, caught in the middle of what turns into a bitter custody battle. With no way out but ahead, Asher takes Justin and flees to Key West, where he hopes to find his brother, Luke, whom he’d turned against years ago after Luke came out. And it is there, at the southernmost point of the country, that Asher and Justin discover a new way of thinking about the world, and a new way of understanding love. Southernmost is a tender and affecting book, a meditation on love and its consequences.

Key West

Key West
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 288
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0813056470
ISBN-13 : 9780813056470
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Key West by : Maureen Ogle

Personalities and events are wrapped in Ogle's unique and candid history of Key West, an account that will fascinate past and president citizens of the Conch Republic, history buffs, and the millions of tourists who love this colorful island city. 44 photos.

Code of Federal Regulations

Code of Federal Regulations
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 484
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:39015059864390
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Code of Federal Regulations by :

Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.

Strabo's Geography

Strabo's Geography
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 1105
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780691243122
ISBN-13 : 0691243123
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Strabo's Geography by : Strabo

A lively new translation of Strabo’s complete Geography—an encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CE—connecting it with the world of the twenty-first century Strabo’s Geography is an encyclopedic description of the ancient world as it appeared to a contemporary observer in the early Roman empire. Information about taming elephants, collecting saffron, producing asphalt, and practicing yoga is found alongside accounts of prostitution, volcanic activity, religious festivals, and obscure eastern dynasties—all set against the shifting backdrop of political power in the first century CE. Traveling around the Mediterranean, Strabo gathered knowledge of places and people, supplementing his firsthand experiences with an immense amount of reading to create a sweeping chronicle that attempts to answer the implicit questions “Who are we?” and “Where do we come from?” Sarah Pothecary’s new translation of Strabo’s complete Geography makes this important work more accessible, relevant, and enjoyable than ever before. Conveying the informal, lively, and almost journalistic style of Strabo’s Greek, this translation connects the ancient and modern worlds by providing modern names and maps for places mentioned in the text, a generous page layout, and marginal notes, allowing readers to appreciate Strabo’s work directly and immediately. The result mimics what Strabo was doing two thousand years ago—relating the rapidly changing present of his original readers to their own ancient past. A remarkably modern translation of a revealing window on the ancient world, this is essential reading for anyone interested in how we look at both antiquity and the world today.

The United States and the United Nations

The United States and the United Nations
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 392
Release :
ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044061134235
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis The United States and the United Nations by : United States. President