Mama Makes Up Her Mind

Author : Bailey White
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306818028
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mama Makes Up Her Mind written by Bailey White and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the unique world of Bailey White. Her aunt Belle may take you to see her bellowing pet alligator. Her uncle Jimbuddy may appall you with his knack for losing pieces of himself. Most of all, you may succumb utterly to the charms of Bailey's mama, who will take you to a juke joint so raunchy it scared Ernest Hemingway or tuck you into her antique guest bed that has the disconcerting habit of folding up on people while they sleep. White's indelible vignettes of Southern eccentricity have entranced millions who have heard her read them on NPR. Mama Makes Up Her Mind is as sweetly intoxicating as a mint julep and as invigorating as a walk in White's own overgrown garden.

Author : Bailey White
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786745401
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mama Makes Up Her Mind written by Bailey White and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the unique world of Bailey White. Her aunt Belle may take you to see her bellowing pet alligator. Her uncle Jimbuddy may appall you with his knack for losing pieces of himself. Most of all, you may succumb utterly to the charms of Bailey's mama, who will take you to a juke joint so raunchy it scared Ernest Hemingway or tuck you into her antique guest bed that has the disconcerting habit of folding up on people while they sleep. White's indelible vignettes of Southern eccentricity have entranced millions who have heard her read them on NPR. Mama Makes Up Her Mind is as sweetly intoxicating as a mint julep and as invigorating as a walk in White's own overgrown garden.

Author : Bailey White
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439121281
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nothing with Strings written by Bailey White and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a decade, Bailey White has delivered a story each Thanksgiving to National Public Radio's All Things Considered listeners. Long awaited by her many fans, Nothing with Strings is the entire collection of these Thanksgiving stories, published together for the first time. With wit and charm, Bailey White writes about an almost-gone little town where a spoon player is a guardian angel, an old woman fears that John James Audubon is living in her attic, and a homely governess wins a baby bull in a raffle and loses her heart. It's the kind of place where Heavenly Blue morning glories grow in through the windows of old houses and funeral food is shared on a Greyhound bus on a fall afternoon. You may not have ever been there, but you will feel right at home in these pages. Bailey White's beautifully written stories, teetering on the edge of the unreal, are sure to bring back memories you don't really have.

Author : Bailey White
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679770151
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sleeping at the Starlite Motel written by Bailey White and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1996-04-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has read her bestseller Mama Makes Up Her Mind--or who has heard her on National Public Radio--knows that Bailey White is one of the keenest observers of Southern eccentricity since Mark Twain. Sleeping at the Starlite Motel revives White's reputation as a master storyteller, Southern division, as it catalogs the oddities of the Georgia town she knows so well.

Author : Elrena Evans
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813543185
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mama, PhD written by Elrena Evans and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, American universities publish glowing reports stating their commitment to diversity, often showing statistics of female hires as proof of success. Yet, although women make up increasing numbers of graduate students, graduate degree recipients, and even new hires, academic life remains overwhelming a man's world. The reality that the statistics fail to highlight is that the presence of women, specifically those with children, in the ranks of tenured faculty has not increased in a generation. Further, those women who do achieve tenure track placement tend to report slow advancement, income disparity, and lack of job satisfaction compared to their male colleagues. Amid these disadvantages, what is a Mama, PhD to do? This literary anthology brings together a selection of deeply felt personal narratives by smart, interesting women who explore the continued inequality of the sexes in higher education and suggest changes that could make universities more family-friendly workplaces. The contributors hail from a wide array of disciplines and bring with them a variety of perspectives, including those of single and adoptive parents. They address topics that range from the level of policy to practical day-to-day concerns, including caring for a child with special needs, breastfeeding on campus, negotiating viable maternity and family leave policies, job-sharing and telecommuting options, and fitting into desk/chair combinations while eight months pregnant. Candid, provocative, and sometimes with a wry sense of humor, the thirty-five essays in this anthology speak to and offer support for any woman attempting to combine work and family, as well as anyone who is interested in improving the university's ability to live up to its reputation to be among the most progressive of American institutions.

Author : Bren McClain
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611177472
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Good Mama Bone written by Bren McClain and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mama cow’s devotion to her calf provides lessons in motherhood to a poor Southern woman in this novel of family, survival, and human-animal bonds. South Carolina, 1950s. Homemaker Sarah Creamer has been left to care for young Emerson Bridge, the product of an affair between Sarah’s husband and her best friend. But beyond the deep wound of their betrayal, Sarah is daunted by the prophecy of her mother’s words, seared in her memory since childhood: “You ain’t got you one good mama bone in you, girl.” When Sarah finds Emerson a steer to compete at an upcoming cattle show, the young calf cries in distress on her farm. Miles away, his mother breaks out of a barbed-wire fence to find him. When Sarah finds the young steer contently nursing a large cow, her education in motherhood begins. But Luther Dobbins is desperate to regain his championship cattle dynasty, and he will stop at nothing to win. Emboldened by her budding mama bone, Sarah is committed to victory even after she learns the winning steer’s ultimate fate. Will she too stop at nothing, even if it means betraying her teacher? One Good Mama Bone explores the strengths and limitations of parental love and the ethical dilemmas of raising animals for food.

Author : Bailey White
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679764925
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quite a Year for Plums written by Bailey White and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999-04-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has read the best-selling Mama Makes Up Her Mind or listened to Bailey White's commentaries on NPR knows that she is a storyteller of inimitable wit and charm. Now, in her stunningly accomplished first novel, she introduces us to the peculiar yet lovable people who inhabit a small town in south Georgia. Meet serious, studious Roger, the peanut pathologist and unlikely love object of half the town's women. Meet Roger's ex-mother-in-law, Louise, who teams up with an ardent typographer in an attempt to attract outer-space invaders with specific combinations of letters and numbers. And meet Della, the bird artist who captivates Roger with the sensible but enigmatic notes she leaves on things she throws away at the Dumpster ("This fan works, but makes a clicking sound and will not oscillate"). Heartbreakingly tender, often hilarious, Quite a Year for Plums is a delectable treat from a writer who has been called a national treasure.

Author : Andrea J. Buchanan
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580051583
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Mama written by Andrea J. Buchanan and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry which celebrates motherhood.

Author : Deborah Sharp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781410411952
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mama Does Time written by Deborah Sharp and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mama's antics - especially her penchant for finding trouble - drive her daughters Mace, Maddie, and Marty to distraction. One night, while settling in to look for ex-beaus on COPS, Mace gets a frantic call from her mother. This time, the trouble is real: Mama found a body in the trunk of her turquoise convertible and the police think she's the killer.

Author : Robb White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781891369834
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flotsam and Jetsam written by Robb White and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificent omnibus of all the nautical writings of Robb White.