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Kalpakian
Joyce Jackson’s life is dedicated to the memory of Elvis, but the state of California wants to prove she is a welfare cheat. But from Joyce, caseworker Emily Shaw learns…
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Laura Kalpakian
Thorndike Press large print basic –Title page verso.
Jack Kalpakian
This essential volume: - challenges conventional assumptions about water and conflict - displaces the state as the sole actor in violent conflict - reveals the link between conflict and identity…
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An ambitious young agent fights to protect blacklisted writers in McCarthy-era Hollywood.
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To write a memoir is to take the grains of sand-individuals and particulars- and shape them into sandcastles. To make artful narrative of experience that, in the living of it…
In 1916, rainmaker Hank Beecham agrees to return to his hometown of St. Elmo, California, to rescue it from a devastating drought and bring honor to his family’s besmirched name.
"Sacred to the Memory of Elvis," proclaims a homely, front porch memorial in a shabby neighborhood. Even years after his death, Joyce Jackson keeps the Christmas lights twinkling, and the…
You listen to me, my girl Ruth Douglass tells her daughter. You’ve got three choices in this world, and only three. A woman can be a virgin, a wife, or…
The memoir is not the story of what you know, it’s the story of how you learned it. Memory into Memoir provides a lively guide for anyone looking to wrestle…
An evocation of family love and redemption set on an island off Seattle.
FAIR AUGUSTO AND OTHER STORIES, Laura Kalpakian's first collection of short fiction shows remarkable breadth and depth. The settings, moods, themes and characters who inhabit these stories display enviable artistic…
A collection of short stories by American author Laura Kalpakian. These stories follow the lives of characters whose obsession with the past illuminates their otherwise ordinary lives.
