LIBROS DEL AUTOR: marilyn nelson

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  • Papa’s Free Day Party
    Marilyn Nelson
    Johnnie wants to celebrate her Papa’s birthday, but Papa doesn’t know exactly when that special day is. Johnnie doesn’t understand how that could be. Then she learns about Papa’s childhood--how he built a new life in the all-Black town of Boley, Oklahoma. Inspired by her father’s incredible story, Johnnie decides to throw Papa a different kind of party--one to recognize her Fat...
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    22,67 €

  • The Barns of Erie County
    David Nelson / Marilyn Nelson
    For the barn lover, this book is a feast for the eyes! Contained in these pages is a collection of the incredible diversity of barns found in the Erie County area of Pennsylvania. Many of the barns you see in these pages have fallen victim to the wind and weather found off the shores of Lake Erie and no longer exist. Owning a record of them in such a beautiful format is a valua...
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    35,94 €

  • The Barns of Erie County
    David and Marilyn Nelson
    For the barn lover, this book is a feast for the eyes! Contained in these pages is a collection of the incredible diversity of barns found in the Erie County area of Pennsylvania. Many of the barns you see in these pages have fallen victim to the wind and weather found off the shores of Lake Erie and no longer exist. Owning a record of them in such a beautiful format is a valua...
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    44,83 €

  • Mrs. Nelson's Class
    Marilyn Nelson
    On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that state-sanctioned segregation of public schools is unconstitutional.   In September 1954, in an Air Force base school near Salina, Kansas, young African American teacher Mrs. Johnnie Mitchell Nelson became the teacher of a second grade class of twenty white child...
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    10,82 €

  • All We Like Sheep
    Marilyn Bay Wentz / Mildred Nelson Bay
    Two sheep-herding women invite you to laugh, cry, and contemplate as they relate stories of tending their flocks in Colorado and what sheep teach us about ourselves, others, and Creator God. Along with poignant, edifying, often humorous stories from their many decades of sheep raising, the authors offer biblical truths for reflection, grace-oriented questions to ponder, and fai...
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    14,65 €

  • Faster Than Light
    Marilyn Nelson
    Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson’s new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African American individuals ...
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    26,96 €

  • Cachoeira Tales and Other Poems
    Marilyn Nelson
    Soaring images, rhythmic language, and wry humor come together in these three narrative poems that explore travel from an African American historical and social perspective. A cab ride turns into an amazing encounter with the driver, an amateur physicist whose ideas about space and time travel spark the poet's musings on chutzpah and artistic ambition. A trip to Triolet, a ...
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    17,32 €

  • Finding Alice
    Marilyn Carlson Nelson / Melody Carlson
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    18,44 €

  • Fields of Praise
    Marilyn Nelson
    In The Fields of Praise, Marilyn Nelson claims as subjects the life of the spirit, the vicissitudes of love, and the African American experience and arranges them as white pebbles marking our common journey toward a "monstrous love / that wants to make the world right." Nelson is a poet of stunning power, able to bring alive the most rarified and subtle of experiences. A slave ...
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    38,34 €

  • Homeplace
    Marilyn Nelson / Marilyn Nelson Waniek
    A collection of poems celebrating several generations of a Southern Black family which includes such members as Great-Uncle Rufus who was born a blave, Aunt Geneva who loved a white man, and the author's father who was an Air Force navigator and part of the famed Tuskagee Airmen. ...
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    17,35 €