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What It Used to Be Like

A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver

By: Maryann Burk Carver

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What It Used to Be Like

A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver

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Maryann Burk Carver met Raymond Carver in 1955, when she was fifteen-years-old and he seventeen. In What It Used to be Like, Maryann Burk Carver recounts a tale of love at first sight in which the two teenagers got to know each other by sharing a two year long-distance correspondence that soon after found them married and with two small children. Over the next twenty-five years, as Carver's fame grew, the family led a nomadic life, moving from school to school, teaching post to teaching post. Finally, in 1972, they settled in Cupertino, California where Raymond Carver gave his wife one of his sharpened pencils and bade her to write an account of their history. The result is a breathtaking memoir of a marriage replete with the intimacy of detail that fully reveals the illnesses and talents of this larger than life man, his complicated relationships, and his profound loves and losses. What It Used to Be Like brings to light, for the first time, Raymond Carver's lost years and stories and the "stories behind the stories" of this most brilliant writer. MARYANN BURK CARVER married Raymond Carver when she was sixteen and he was nineteen. They were married for twenty-five years, and had two children, Christi and Vance. Maryann Burk Carver is a teacher living on Lummi Island in Washington State. "Maryann covers the tumultuous circumstances of her 18 years of marriage to Raymond Carver in page after page that may be easily construed as plot outlines for Carver's early short story masterpieces." --Sam Halpert, author of Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography and A Real Good War "Ray Carver had a brilliant and heartbreakingly brief career. Seventeen years after his death, we still miss him like crazy. Mary Ann Carver, his first wife, tells the story of how she and he fell through the ice with honesty and considerable courage." --William Kittredge, author of Hole in the Sky and The Best Short Stories of William Kittredge "The marriage between Ray carver and Maryann Burk which commenced when they were teenagers and lasted 25 years, was absurd, tenacious, and sometimes cruel. There was much partying and aimless wandering. Unfathomable decisions were made. Yet the marriage was also the bedrock beneath a small earthquake in the American short story A humble agent transubstantiational in its effect. This is a dear, sturdy, disarming memoir which proves, at the very least, that even dead 18 years, the masterful Ray Carver knows how to keep the love of a good woman. --Joy Williams, author of The Quick and the Dead and Honored Guest "A testimony of a marriage as well as a portrait of an artist before becoming 'The Author.' It is the story of the hunger for education, the necessity of art, in the lives of the working poor. I hope it helps dispel myths about working-class writers, about the creative/destructive spirit, about violence and love. For folks who live paycheck to paycheck, for readers whose books are all stamped 'Property of the Public Library,' this story is only too familiar." --Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street and Caramelo "Good writers write what they know, but great writers show us what they know to be true. Raymond and Maryann Burk Carver dared to be great in America and, in the end, both paid a terrible price. 'It's an amazing life, an amazing life,' Raymond Carver once said. Indeed it was. And it will break your heart because, like all great stories, it is true." --Diane Smith, author of Letters from Yellowstone and Pictures from an Expedition "Raymond Carver is one of the very best writer's of the late 20th century. He met his first wife, Maryann Burk, when he was sixteen and she was fourteen. Her memoir of their nearly twenty-five years together is an incredible account not only of their relationship, but also of Carver's development as a writer. It is indispensable to anyone who cares about Carver's work." --Stephen Dobyns

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What It Used to Be Like

A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver

By: Maryann Carver

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A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver

By: Maryann Carver

Maryann Burk Carver met Raymond Carver in 1955, when she was fifteen years old and he was seventeen. In What It Used to Be Like, she recounts a tale of love at first sight in which two teenagers got to know each other by sharing a two-year long-distance correspondence that soon after found them married and with two small children. Over the next twenty-five years, as Carver's fame grew, the family led a nomadic life, moving from school to school and teaching post to teaching post. In 1972, they settled in Cupertino, California, where Raymond Carver gave his wife one of his sharpened pencils and asked her to write an account of their history. The result is a memoir of a marriage, replete with an intimacy of detail that fully reveals the talents and failings of this larger-than-life man, his complicated relationships, and his profound loves and losses. What It Used to Be Like brings to light for the first time Raymond Carver's lost years and the "stories behind the stories" of this brilliant writer.

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What It Used to Be Like

A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver

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Great American Artists for Kids

Hands-On Art Experiences in the Styles of Great American Masters

By: MaryAnn F Kohl,Kim Solga

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Great American Artists for Kids

Hands-On Art Experiences in the Styles of Great American Masters

By: MaryAnn F Kohl,Kim Solga

Fun and easy art-appreciation activities abound in this resource that features 75 American artists from colonial times to the present. A brief biography for each artist tells why his or her work is important, and a kid-tested art activity tries out the artist's approach. For Georgia O'Keeffe, children will explore the concept of distance and foreground in a desert painting. To understand Frederic Remington's sculptures, they will create a face cast. Leroy Nieman will inspire a sketch of athletes. And for James Whistler, children will explore portraiture. Projects stress the creative process and encourage kids to try unusual techniques such as block printing, soak-stain, and stone carving as they learn about architecture, drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture. Great American Artists for Kids includes easy-to-follow icons to indicate the experience, preparation, and materials necessary for each project, as well as guides to the style, movement, or era of each artist. Resources include websites for further research or artworks, a glossary, and a list of artists by style.

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Chicago Review Press

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1641601736

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Get People to Do What You Want

How to Use Body Language and Words to Attract People You Like and Avoid the Ones You Don‘t

By: Gregory Hartley,Maryann Karinch

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Get People to Do What You Want

How to Use Body Language and Words to Attract People You Like and Avoid the Ones You Don‘t

By: Gregory Hartley,Maryann Karinch

In business, school, romance, or your neighborhood, it is valuable to know what attracts people, what repels them, and what makes them tick. How do people see you? And how do you see others? In Get People to Do What You Want, you'll find the practical answers to these questions and in the process, discover how to win people over. You will gain an upper hand in your interaction with others that translates into higher starting salaries, greater productivity, and better relationships in which you are never the victim. You'll learn about: *One-on-one interaction. *Group dynamics. *The projection of leadership. *Instinctual trust and mistrust of others. *Other elements of human behavior that must be understood to win people over for more than a few moments. Get People to Do What You Want is the perfect, modern complement to Dale Carnegie's 1937 classic work on the topic. In fact, you might think of them as the Old and New Testaments of interpersonal skills. Interrogation is about getting people who do not like you (the enemy) to side with you long enough to get your desired outcome. It means motivating human behavior to create a bond that allows someone who may dislike you to feel obliged to cooperate with you. This book teaches you skills honed in years of interrogation and expanded by use in the business world. By combining these skills with your unique background, you will easily attract the people you want and get rid of the ones you don't.

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Red Wheel/Weiser

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1601638582

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9781601638588

The Hollywood Jim Crow

The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry

By: Maryann Erigha

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The Hollywood Jim Crow

The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry

By: Maryann Erigha

The story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and the content of the leaked Sony emails which revealed, among many other things, that a powerful Hollywood insider didn’t believe that Denzel Washington could “open” a western genre film, provide glaring evidence that the opportunities for people of color in Hollywood are limited. In The Hollywood Jim Crow, Maryann Erigha tells the story of inequality, looking at the practices and biases that limit the production and circulation of movies directed by racial minorities. She examines over 1,300 contemporary films, specifically focusing on directors, to show the key elements at work in maintaining “the Hollywood Jim Crow.” Unlike the Jim Crow era where ideas about innate racial inferiority and superiority were the grounds for segregation, Hollywood’s version tries to use economic and cultural explanations to justify the underrepresentation and stigmatization of Black filmmakers. Erigha exposes the key elements at work in maintaining Hollywood’s racial hierarchy, namely the relationship between genre and race, the ghettoization of Black directors to black films, and how Blackness is perceived by the Hollywood producers and studios who decide what gets made and who gets to make it. Erigha questions the notion that increased representation of African Americans behind the camera is the sole answer to the racial inequality gap. Instead, she suggests focusing on the obstacles to integration for African American film directors. Hollywood movies have an expansive reach and exert tremendous power in the national and global production, distribution, and exhibition of popular culture. The Hollywood Jim Crow fully dissects the racial inequality embedded in this industry, looking at alternative ways for African Americans to find success in Hollywood and suggesting how they can band together to forge their own career paths.

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NYU Press

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1479886645

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9781479886647

In Code

Poems

By: Maryann Corbett

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In Code

Poems

By: Maryann Corbett

In Code was born out of Maryann Corbett’s years of work for the Minnesota Legislature, with a nonpartisan office that mandated that she maintain a public silence about politics. In poems that go from elegiac to fiery to funny, she examines behind-the-scenes legislative labor and the people who do it, the tensions of working for government in a climate hostile to government, and the buildings and grounds that put a beautiful face on a history full of ambiguities. This well-honed collection, Corbett's fifth, reflects on doublespeak and public poses; on coworkers and commutes; on legalese, courts, and elections; on news and history; and at last on retirement—through poems masterfully deployed in a dazzling array of forms: including the prose poem, the sonnet, the ghazal, the villanelle, and the canzone. Maryann Corbett is a candid, wistful, purposeful, and meditative poet in command of her craft. Of her years working for the Minnesota Legislature, Maryann Corbett writes in Rattle: "There was the frisson supplied by the constant presence of the media, the satisfaction of believing one's work served the public, the thrill of working with smart, motivated people, the pleasure of being surrounded by the striking buildings and gardens of the Capitol grounds, the sense of history. There was also the uncomfortable awareness that with every legislative session there are winners and losers, and that the same battles for justice are fought, and often lost, by the same people, year after year." In Code features poems that reflect on both those pleasures and that discomfort, as in these lines from "Seven Little Poems about Making Laws": Capitol café: German proverbs, whitewashed since 1917, are restored to view with bright applause. Old hatreds have new objects now. PRAISE FOR MARYANN CORBETT: Ned Balbo: . . . an extraordinary poet. Tony Barnstone: . . . metrical poetry infused with gorgeous imagery and the vernacular of our scientized world. Richard Wilbur: . . . accurate and delightful. Rhina P. Espaillat: . . . every section touches me and keeps calling me back. A.M. Juster: . . . wit without meanness, warmth without sentimentality, and craft without pretension. Geoffrey Brock: . . . one of the best-kept secrets of American poetry. Marilyn Taylor: . . . poignant, perceptive, exquisitely formed poems . . . a poet to be genuinely grateful for. Peter Campion: . . . a poet of the first order. Willis Barnstone: . . . a newborn Robert Frost, with a wicked eye for contemporary life. Susan McLean: . . . a stunner. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Maryann Corbett earned a doctorate in English in 1981, with a specialization in medieval literature and linguistics. She expected to be teaching Beowulf and Chaucer and the history of the English language. Instead, she spent almost thirty-five years working for the Minnesota Legislature, helping attorneys to write in plain English and coordinating the creation of finding aids for the law. She is the author of five books of poetry and is a past winner of the Richard Wilbur Award and the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. Her work is widely published in journals on both sides of the Atlantic and is included in anthologies like Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters and The Best American Poetry 2018.

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Able Muse Press

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1773490540

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Voice of Freedom

A Story about Frederick Douglass

By: Maryann N. Weidt

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Voice of Freedom

A Story about Frederick Douglass

By: Maryann N. Weidt

Traces the life and accomplishments of the famous abolitionist.

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LernerClassroom

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1575055538

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9781575055534

Fearless Feeding

How to Raise Healthy Eaters from High Chair to High School

By: Jill Castle,Maryann Jacobsen

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Fearless Feeding

How to Raise Healthy Eaters from High Chair to High School

By: Jill Castle,Maryann Jacobsen

An essential guide to understanding and improving any child's eating habits This comprehensive nutrition guide gives parents the tools for encouraging kids of any age on the path to healthy eating. Pediatric nutrition experts Castle and Jacobsen simplify nutrition information, describe how children's eating habits correspond to their stage of development, provide step-by-step feeding guidance, and show parents how to relax about feeding their kids and get healthy meals on the table fast. Prepares parents by explaining what to expect at different stages of growth, whether it be picky eating, growth spurts or poor body image Helps parents work through problems such as food allergies, nutrient deficiencies and weight management, and identifying if and when they need to seek professional help Empowers parents to take a whole-family approach to feeding including maximizing their own health and well-being Offers fun, easy recipes parents can make for, and with, kids Fearless Feeding translates complicated nutrition advice into simple feeding plans for every age and stage that take the fear out of feeding kids.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118421558

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9781118421550

Smart About the Fifty States

A Class Report

By: Jon Buller,Susan Saunders,Maryann Cocca-Leffler,Joan Holub,True Kelley

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Smart About the Fifty States

A Class Report

By: Jon Buller,Susan Saunders,Maryann Cocca-Leffler,Joan Holub,True Kelley

The kids in Ms. Brandt's class create a special report on the United States of America, with each child doing research on ten states. There's a double-spread map of the whole U.S. and a page for every state jam-packed with trivia, interesting facts, handwritten captions, and jokes. At the end of the book is a map showing how the United States grew over time, a spread on the presidents and what states they hailed from, as well as a "bibliography" of books the kids used in their research. Written by a team of well-known author/artists, this 64-page Smart About History book is a great guide for kids.

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Penguin

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0448431319

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Stateswoman to the World

A Story about Eleanor Roosevelt

By: Maryann N. Weidt

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Stateswoman to the World

A Story about Eleanor Roosevelt

By: Maryann N. Weidt

A biography of the First Lady, focusing on her fight for the rights of women, Blacks, and the poor, and her role as a peace advocate and delegate to the United Nations.

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LernerClassroom

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0876145624

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The Literacy Coachs Companion, PreK3

By: Maryann Mraz,Robert Algozzine,Brian Kissel

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The Literacy Coachs Companion, PreK3

By: Maryann Mraz,Robert Algozzine,Brian Kissel

Literacy coaches have become an increasingly important part of school literacy teams. As a result, there is a greater need for understanding the issues related to this growing position. This book addresses those issues and highlights the expanding role of literacy coaches in early and elementary literacy programs. Chapters feature user-friendly guidelines and evidence-based strategies for sustained professional development, protocols for classroom observations and teacher conferences, and vignettes offering solutions to common coaching challenges. Coaches will discover how to: Define an effective, proactive role in promoting literacy initiatives; Strengthen content knowledge and coaching skills to support teachers' efforts and students' literacy development ; Collaborate with teachers and school leaders to establish productive learning communities; [and] Communicate their changing roles to administrators."--Publisher's website.

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Corwin Press

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1412960738

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9781412960731

Fifty Years of Meadow Brook Theatre

By: Thom F. and Maryann Foxlee

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Fifty Years of Meadow Brook Theatre

By: Thom F. and Maryann Foxlee

Meadow Brook Theatre (MBT) began in 1966 as part of a strategy to associate professional music and theatre with Oakland University's academic programs. The theater became a reality when John Fernald, an internationally acclaimed director and head of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, accepted Chancellor D.B. Varner's invitation to establish a resident professional theatre company on the university's campus. In January 1967, the curtain rose; nearly five decades later, MBT remains a key element of Oakland County's cultural fabric. Many famous actors--including William Hurt, Curtis Armstrong, and Cindy Williams--have appeared on its stage.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467114200

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9781467114202

Fighting for Equal Rights

A Story about Susan B. Anthony

By: Maryann N. Weidt

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Fighting for Equal Rights

A Story about Susan B. Anthony

By: Maryann N. Weidt

A biography of one of the foremost women in the battle for equal rights and the vote for women, Susan B. Anthony.

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Millbrook Press

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1575051818

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Grammar Clear and Simple 2 Student Book

By: John Boyd,MaryAnn Boyd

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Grammar Clear and Simple 2 Student Book

By: John Boyd,MaryAnn Boyd

A listening-based program that gently introduces grammar to beginning students through a controlled-vocabulary approach. The Grammar Clear and Simple 1 and 2 series presents a gradual step-by-step approach to help students acquire basic English skills and an understanding of basic grammatical concepts. Students using Grammar Clear and Simple: are challenged but not overwhelmed; gain insights into English grammar without lengthy explanations; and internalize structures through meaningful practice. FEATURES: Vocabulary is explicitly taught through pictures and contextualized exercises. Listening passages allow students to integrate grammar as they locate and fill in missing words. Grammar exercises require students to demonstrate comprehension. With a partner activities offer meaningful practice in real-world settings. Back of the Book notes to the teacher expand the teaching/learning potential of the text. Graphic organizersstimulate higher-order thinking skills. Activities help prepare students for standardized texts.

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180

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English as a Second Language

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0072820721

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9780072820720

Grammar Clear and Simple 1 Student Book

By: John Boyd,MaryAnn Boyd

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Grammar Clear and Simple 1 Student Book

By: John Boyd,MaryAnn Boyd

Grammar Clear and Simple Books 1 and 2 provide a simple, listening-based program for teaching English grammar to beginning students"--Page 4 of cover

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English as a Second Language

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0072820683

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9780072820683

The Heirloom

By: MaryAnn Minatra

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The Heirloom

By: MaryAnn Minatra

First there was The Tapestry, the first volume in the Alcott Legacy and an immediate success. Then the legacy continued with The Masterpiece, a topselling book for 1994. Now comes Mary Ann Minatra's high-anticipated third book, The Heirloom, an intriguing affirmation of the incredible ways God can change people's lives.

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436

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1565072359

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9781565072350

The Tapestry

By: MaryAnn Minatra

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The Tapestry

By: MaryAnn Minatra

Spectacular historical fiction by a first-time author. Beginning in the early 1800s and spanning half a century, here is the story of two brothers, separated at birth, and the people who loved them. Set on the plantations of Mississippi and the Carolina Civil War battlegrounds, Tapesty is a dramatic tale filled with intrigue and brimming with vivid characters.

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Harvest House Publishers

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1565070372

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9781565070370

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