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- What we give, what we take [audio-enabled device] a novel / by Triant, Randi,author.; Jennings, Laura,1960-narrator.; Taylor, Shea,narrator.; Findaway World, LLC.(CARDINAL)345268; Playaway Digital Audio.(CARDINAL)565887;
Read by Laura Jennings and Shea Taylor.In 1967, Fay Stonewell, a water tank escape artist in Florida, leaves for Vietnam to join the Amazing Humans--a jerry-rigged carnival there to entertain the troops--abandoning her disabled teenage son, Dickie, to the care of an abusive boyfriend. Months after Fay's departure, Dickie's troubled home life ends in a surprising act of violence that forces him to run away. He soon lands in Manhattan, where he's taken in by eccentric artist Laurence Jones. Fay, meanwhile, is also facing dangerous threats. From the night her plane jolts onto a darkened Saigon runway, she is forced to confront every bad decision she's ever made as she struggles to return to her son. But the Humans owner is hellbent on keeping her in Vietnam, performing only for war-injured children at a hospital, daily reminders of the son she's left behind. Decades later, Dickie is forty, living in a Massachusetts coastal town with a man who's dying of AIDS, and doing everything he can to escape his past. But although Spin may be giving Dickie what he's always wanted--a home without wheels--it seems that the farther Dickie runs, the tighter the past clings to him. Ultimately, What We Give, What We Take is a deeply moving story of second chances and rising above family circumstances, however dysfunctional they may be.--Provided by publisher.Adult.- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Dysfunctional families; Mothers and sons;
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- Threatening property : race, class, and campaigns to legislate Jim Crow neighborhoods / by Herbin-Triant, Elizabeth A.,author.(CARDINAL)794151;
Includes bibliographical references and index.White supremacists determined what African Americans could do and where they could go in the Jim Crow South, but they were less successful in deciding where black people could live because different groups of white supremacists did not agree on the question of residential segregation. In Threatening Property, Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant investigates early-twentieth-century campaigns for residential segregation laws in North Carolina to show how the version of white supremacy supported by middle-class white people differed from that supported by the elites. Class divides prevented Jim Crow from expanding to the extent that it would require separate neighborhoods for black and white southerners as in apartheid South Africa. Herbin-Triant details the backlash against the economic successes of African Americans among middle-class whites, who claimed that they wished to protect property values and so campaigned for residential segregation laws both in the city and the countryside, where their actions were modeled on South Africa's Natives Land Act. White elites blocked these efforts, primarily because it was against their financial interest to remove the black workers that they employed in their homes, farms, and factories. Herbin-Triant explores what the split over residential segregation laws reveals about competing versions of white supremacy and about the position of middling whites in a region dominated by elite planters and businessmen. An illuminating work of social and political history, Threatening Property puts class front and center in explaining conflict over the expansion of segregation laws into private property.- Subjects: African Americans; Discrimination in housing; Social classes;
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- Spondē : aphierōma stē mnēmē tou Giōrgou Despinē / by Delēvorrias, Angelos,editor.(CARDINAL)853959; Vikela, Evgenia,editor.(CARDINAL)853958; Zarkadas, A.(Angelos),editor.(CARDINAL)853957; Kaltsas, Nikos E.,editor.(CARDINAL)853956; Triantē, Ismēnē,editor.(CARDINAL)853955; Despinēs, Giōrgos,honoree.(CARDINAL)853954; Mouseio Benakē,publisher.(CARDINAL)134151;
Includes bibliographical references.- Subjects: Festschriften.; Despinēs, Giōrgos.; Archaeology; Sculpture, Greek;
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