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A Thousand Acres is a 1991 novel by American author Jane Smiley. It won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1991 and was adapted to a 1997 film of the same name. It was premiered as an opera by the Des Moines Metro Opera during their 2022 season.
Acres of Books was the largest and oldest family-owned second-hand bookstore in California, claiming to have in stock over one million books. In 1959 Smith gave to the people of Long Beach a collection of rare books, some dating back to the 15th century.
Bob Hoskins (born April 15, 1936) is an American Christian missionary, author, and the founder of OneHope (formerly known as 'Book of Hope International') in 1987. [1] He has spent the majority of his life serving as a missionary in the Middle East, Africa, South America, Asia and Europe. [2] [failed verification]
The title of The Audacity of Hope was derived from a sermon delivered by Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.Wright had attended a lecture by Frederick G. Sampson in Richmond, Virginia, in the late 1980s, on the G. F. Watts painting Hope, which inspired him to give a sermon in 1990 based on the subject of the painting – "with her clothes in rags, her body scarred and bruised and ...
Doris Mae Akers (May 21, 1923 – July 26, 1995) [1] was an American gospel music composer, arranger and singer who is considered to be "one of the most underrated gospel composers of the 20th century [who] wrote more than 500 songs". [2]
Hope for "40 acres and a mule" specifically was prevalent beginning in early 1865. The expectation of "40 acres" came from the explicit terms of Sherman's Field Order and the Freedmen's Bureau bill. The "mule" may have been added simply as an obvious necessity for achieving prosperity through agriculture. [96] ("
The title of the book is a reference to Kligman's reaction on seeing hundreds of prisoners when he entered the prison: "All I saw before me were acres of skin"; "It was like a farmer seeing a fertile field for the first time". [2] The book discusses issues surrounding the inadequate consent procedures of the 1950s and 1960s when using prisoners.
Farley McGill Mowat, OC (May 12, 1921 – May 6, 2014) was a Canadian writer and environmentalist.His works were translated into 52 languages, and he sold more than 17 million books.
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