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Trapeze

By: Deborah Digges

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These lush, rewarding reflections on a woman’s passage into midlife are grounded in our intimacy with nature and mortality. Deborah Digges, now in her fifties, looks back in such poems as “Boat” to see younger mothers and their children, and ponders her own “brilliant, trivial unmooring.” As she wanders from the garden to the barn and into the woods, she finds her moods mirrored in the calendar of the seasons, making lush music of the materials at hand and accepting the seismic changes in her life with an appreciation for the incidental scraps of beauty she chances upon. Throughout these luminous poems–which touch movingly on the illness and loss of her husband–Digges marvels at the brio with which we fling ourselves daringly into the night: See how the first dark takes the city in its arms and carries it into what yesterday we called the future. O, the dying are such acrobats. Here you must take a boat from one day to the next, or clutch the girders of the bridge, hand over hand. But they are sailing like a pendulum between eternity and evening, diving, recovering, balancing the air.

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030754821X

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The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart

Poems

By: Deborah Digges

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The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart

Poems

By: Deborah Digges

Now in paperback, the final, posthumous collection of poems by Deborah Digges: rich stories of family life, nature's bounty, love, and loss--the overflowing of a heart burdened by grief and moved by beauty. When Deborah Digges died in the spring of 2009, at the age of fifty-nine, she left this gathering of poems that captures a stunning gift that prevailed to the end. Here are poems that speak of her rural Missouri childhood in a family with ten children; the love between men and women as well as the devastation of widowhood; the moods of nature; and throughout, touching all subjects, is the call to poetry itself.

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0375711708

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The Stardust Lounge

Stories from a Boy's Adolescence

By: Deborah Digges

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The Stardust Lounge

Stories from a Boy's Adolescence

By: Deborah Digges

Stephen Digges is the kind of angry adolescent a lot of parents would have given up on. He is out of control by the time he is 13 -- running with gangs, stealing cars, fooling around with drugs and guns, and in general making his family’s life hell. Confronted with his growing recklessness and defiance, his mother, the poet Deborah Digges, decides to try to accept Stephen on his own terms--a course that stuns her family and leads to the breakup of her second marriage. Digges “shadows” him on his late-night forays so that she can understand his world, welcomes his gang into their apartment, and tries to see life through his eyes. When she discovers that children who are devoted to animals have an easier time forming attachments to other people, she fills their home with a menagerie of ailing or abandoned pets. She also turns to an unconventional therapist who offers unusual — but helpful — treatment. The Stardust Lounge isn’t your usual story of rebellious adolescence. The power of Digges’s memoir comes from her stubborn unwillingness to give up on Stephen. Even when things are roughest, Digges manages to see the intelligent, sensitive child behind the hostile behavior. However difficult the path she chooses, her story is ultimately a heartening one, and it’s impossible not to root for this family as it rebuilds itself.

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0307491307

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The Stardust Lounge

Stories from a Boy's Adolescence

By: Deborah Digges

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Stories from a Boy's Adolescence

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The Jewel House

Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution

By: Deborah E. Harkness

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The Jewel House

Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution

By: Deborah E. Harkness

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of A Discovery of Witchesexamines the real-life history of the scientific community of Elizabethan London. Travel to the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London, where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in the study of nature. These assorted merchants, gardeners, barber-surgeons, midwives, instrument makers, mathematics teachers, engineers, alchemists, and other experimenters formed a patchwork scientific community whose practices set the stage for the Scientific Revolution. While Francis Bacon has been widely regarded as the father of modern science, scores of his London contemporaries also deserve a share in this distinction. It was their collaborative, yet often contentious, ethos that helped to develop the ideals of modern scientific research. The book examines six particularly fascinating episodes of scientific inquiry and dispute in sixteenth-century London, bringing to life the individuals involved and the challenges they faced. These men and women experimented and invented, argued and competed, waged wars in the press, and struggled to understand the complexities of the natural world. Together their stories illuminate the blind alleys and surprising twists and turns taken as medieval philosophy gave way to the empirical, experimental culture that became a hallmark of the Scientific Revolution. “Elegant and erudite.” —Anthony Grafton, American Scientist “A truly wonderful book, deeply researched, full of original material, and exhilarating to read.” —John Carey, Sunday Times “Widely accessible.” —Ian Archer, Oxford University “Vivid, compelling, and panoramic, this revelatory work will force us to revise everything we thought we knew about Renaissance science.” —Adrian Johns, author of The Nature Book

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Yale University Press

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0300185758

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Trapeze

By: Deborah Digges

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The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart

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By: Deborah Digges

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British Colonial Realism in Africa

Inalienable Objects, Contested Domains

By: Deborah Shapple Spillman

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British Colonial Realism in Africa

Inalienable Objects, Contested Domains

By: Deborah Shapple Spillman

What role do objects play in realist narratives as they move between societies and their different systems of value as commodities, as charms, as gifts, as trophies, or as curses? This book explores how the struggle to represent objects in British colonial realism corresponded with historical struggles over the material world and its significance.

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0230378013

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John Dee's Conversations with Angels

Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature

By: Deborah E. Harkness

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John Dee's Conversations with Angels

Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature

By: Deborah E. Harkness

John Dee's angel conversations have been an enigmatic facet of Elizabethan England's most famous natural philosopher's life and work. Professor Harkness contextualizes Dee's angel conversations within the natural philosophical, religious and social contexts of his time. She argues that they represent a continuing development of John Dee's earlier concerns and interests. These conversations include discussions of the natural world, the practice of natural philosophy, and the apocalypse.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107268591

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Writer's Diary 2014

By: Deborah Marinkovic

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Writer's Diary 2014

By: Deborah Marinkovic

This is the go-to diary for any and every writer planning to write in 2014. So, whether you're looking for inspiration for an article, fiction, a script or even a simple writing exercise, this is where you will find something for each day of 2014

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Lulu.com

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1291477918

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Making it Home

Place in Canadian Literature

By: Deborah Keahey

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Making it Home

Place in Canadian Literature

By: Deborah Keahey

Traditional approaches to Prairie literature have focussed on the significance of "the land" in attempts to make a place into a home. The emphasis on the importance of landscape as a defining feature ignores the important roles played by other influences brought to the land such as history, culture, gender, ethnicity, religion, community, family, and occupation. Deborah Keahey considers over 70 years of Canadian Prairie literature, including poetry, autobiography, drama, and fiction. The 17 writers range from the well-established, like Martha Ostenso and Robert Kroetsch, to newer writers, like Ian Ross and Kelly Rebar. Through their works, she asks whether the Prairies are a physical or a political creation, whether "home" is made by what you bring with you, or what you find when you arrive, and she incorporates the influences and effects far beyond landscape to understand what guides the "home-making" process of both the writers and their creations. Her study acknowledges that "home" is a complicated concept, and making a place into a home place is a complicated process. Informed by current linguistic, feminist, postcolonial, and cultural theory, Keahey explores these concepts in depth and redefines our understanding of place, home, and the relationship between them.

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Univ. of Manitoba Press

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0887553419

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Fugitive Spring

A Memoir

By: Deborah Digges

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Fugitive Spring

A Memoir

By: Deborah Digges

In this memoir, Digges recounts her passage from a cloistered childhood in a large and devout Missouri family, through her defiant college career, to her early marriage to an Air Force pilot during the Vietnam war and her emergence as a gifted poet. "A work that will strike emphathetic chords in many readers. . . ".--Newsday.

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Vintage

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067974083X

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Fugitive Spring

A Memoir

By: Deborah Digges

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A Memoir

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Freedom on My Mind, Combined Volume

A History of African Americans, with Documents

By: Deborah Gray White,Mia Bay,Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

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Freedom on My Mind, Combined Volume

A History of African Americans, with Documents

By: Deborah Gray White,Mia Bay,Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

Award-winning scholars and veteran teachers Deborah Gray White, Mia Bay, and Waldo E. Martin Jr. have collaborated to create a fresh, innovative new African American history textbook that weaves together narrative and a wealth of carefully selected primary sources. The narrative focuses on the diversity of black experience, on culture, and on the impact of African Americans on the nation as a whole. Every chapter contains two themed sets of written documents and a visual source essay, guiding students through the process of analyzing sources and offering the convenience and value of a "two-in-one" textbook and reader.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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145763760X

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Freedom on My Mind, Volume II

A History of African Americans, with Documents

By: Deborah Gray White,Mia Bay,Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

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A History of African Americans, with Documents

By: Deborah Gray White,Mia Bay,Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

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1457637626

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Daily Doses of Deborah V

By: Deborah Mills, spiritualist

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Daily Doses of Deborah V

By: Deborah Mills, spiritualist

A daily dose of poetry, prose, devotional reads, a splash of art work, this grandma spiritualist, shares the wisdom of age, past experiences, thoughts in a delightful way.

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Book's by Deborah Digges

Trapeze

Trapeze

The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart

The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart

The Stardust Lounge

The Stardust Lounge

The Stardust Lounge

The Stardust Lounge

The Jewel House

The Jewel House

Trapeze

Trapeze

The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart

The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart

British Colonial Realism in Africa

British Colonial Realism in Africa

John Dee's Conversations with Angels

John Dee's Conversations with Angels

Writer's Diary 2014

Writer's Diary 2014

Making it Home

Making it Home

Fugitive Spring

Fugitive Spring

Fugitive Spring

Fugitive Spring

Freedom on My Mind, Combined Volume

Freedom on My Mind, Combined Volume

Freedom on My Mind, Volume II

Freedom on My Mind, Volume II

Daily Doses of Deborah V

Daily Doses of Deborah V

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