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  Last Stand of the Louisiana...

  Emma Christopher Lirette

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  In recent years, shrimpers on the Louisiana coast have faced a historically dire shrimp season, with the price of shrimp barely high enough to justify trawling. Yet, many of them wouldn't consider leaving shrimping behind, despite having transferrable skills that could land them jobs in the oil and gas industry. Since 2001, shrimpers have faced increasing challenges to their trade: an influx of shrimp from southeast Asia, several traumatic hurricane seasons, and the largest oil spill at sea in American history.
  
  In Last Stand of the Louisiana Shrimpers, author Emma Christopher Lirette traces how Louisiana Gulf Coast shrimpers negotiate land and blood, sea and freedom, and economic security and networks of control. This book explores what ties shrimpers to their boats and nets. Despite feeling trapped by finances and circumstances, they have created a world in which they have agency.
  
  Lirette provides a richly textured view of the shrimpers of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, calling upon ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, interdisciplinary scholarship, and critical theory. With evocative, lyrical prose, she argues that in persisting to trawl in places that increasingly restrict their way of life, shrimpers build fragile, quietly defiant worlds, adapting to a constantly changing environment. In these flickering worlds, shrimpers reimagine what it means to work and what it means to make a living.

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  Classic Rock & Rock Radio...

  Various Authors

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  This fascinating audio program includes actual radio commercials from the 1960s for the following bands: Blind Faith, Bee Gees, Iron Butterfly, Johnny Rivers, Neil Diamond, The Ventures, Jan & Dean, and The Stooges.

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  Part of the Family - A journey...

  Jan Garsden

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  An inspiring story of one family’s journey through the British care system, from the point of view of a foster carer. It tells of the funny, challenging, and often harrowing times of living life in an ever-changing household of temporary children. 
   
  Steering a course through the muddy waters of the care system has provided many obstacles but has overall proved to be a rewarding and heart-warming experience for the author. 
   
  Children who find themselves removed from their birth families are thrust into a system which, although trying its best, is so often lacking in the love and good quality nurturing they deserve. 
   
  As a society, we need to look at the way we deal with vulnerable children.

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  The State You're In - Florida...

  Craig Pittman

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  For more than thirty years, investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Craig Pittman has chronicled the wildest stories Florida has to offer. Featuring a selection of columns that have appeared in the Tampa Bay Times and other outlets throughout Pittman's career, this book highlights just how strange and wonderful Florida can be. 
   
   
   
  With a folksy style, an eye for the absurd, and a passion for the history and environment of his home state, Pittman describes some of Florida's oddest wildlife as well as its quirkiest people. The State You're In includes a love story involving the most tattooed woman in the world, a deep dive into the state's professional mermaid industry, and an investigation of a battle between residents of a nudist resort and the U.S. Postal Service. Pittman introduces listeners to a who's who of Florida crime fiction, a what's what of exotic animals, and an array of beloved places he's seen change rapidly in his lifetime. 
   
   
   
  Many of these stories are funny, some are serious, and several offer rare insights into the heart of the Sunshine State. For Pittman, Florida is both inspiring and dangerous—an "evolutionary test" for those who live in it. Together these pieces paint a complex picture of a fascinating state longing for an identity beyond palm trees and punchlines.

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  Red White & Blind - The Truth...

  Tony Brasunas

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  Why were the sordid deeds of Jeffery Epstein concealed for two decades? Why was inquiry into the origin of covid suppressed? Why are social media sites censoring scientists, doctors, journalists, and scholars? 
  Through dozens of absorbing exposés, Red White & Blind reveals the corporate media's deliberate lies, tendentious censorship, and ironic use of the term "disinformation." This deceit has driven faith in corporate news to all-time lows, but it has also birthed an independent media revolution—a New Enlightenment—enabling Americans to see through the walls of "confirmation bias" and perceive the world more directly and accurately than ever before. 
  In this book, you will learn:How the Father of Propaganda convinced Americans to love bananas, World War I, and the color green.Why the notion of "objective, professional journalism" was invented in the early 1900s.How the CIA placed agents in the media and why they likely still do.How to understand family and friends with any set of political views.Why today's social media censorship violates the First Amendment.Why "fact-checking" websites almost always fail.The meaning of "gaslighting," "shadowbanning," and "narrative management."

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  Leaves of Grass

  Walt Whitman

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  What does it mean to celebrate life in all its fullness?
  
  First published in 1855, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is one of the most influential poetry collections ever written. Bold, expansive, and deeply personal, these poems broke with tradition to embrace free verse and a radical vision of the individual, the body, nature, and democracy.
  
  Whitman's poetry sings of everyday people, physical experience, love, work, and the spiritual connection between self and world. His voice—confident, intimate, and inclusive—reshaped American literature and continues to inspire readers across generations.
  
  This eBook presents the classic poems in a clear, accessible format, allowing modern readers to experience the vitality and vision that made Leaves of Grass a literary landmark.
  
  Inside this eBook, you'll explore:
  
  Whitman's groundbreaking free-verse poetry
  
  Celebrations of individuality, nature, and the human body
  
  A poetic vision of democracy and shared humanity
  
  One of the foundational works of American literature
  
  Studied in schools and universities worldwide, Leaves of Grass remains essential reading for anyone interested in poetry, self-expression, and the American literary tradition.
  
  Hear the voice that changed poetry forever. Buy now and experience one of the greatest collections in literary history.

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