Homeless Tongues: Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora by Monique BalbuenaRequirements: .PDF reader, 14.49 mbOverview: This book examines a group of multicultural Jewish poets to address the issue of multilingualism within a context of minor languages and literatures, nationalism, and diaspora. It introduces three writers working in minor or threatened languages who challenge the […]
Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora by Saraciea J. Fennell (Editor)Requirements: .ePUB Reader, 3.1 MBOverview: Edited by The Bronx Is Reading founder Saraciea J. Fennell and featuring an all-star cast of Latinx contributors, Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed is a ground-breaking anthology that will spark dialogue and inspire hope In […]
Savage Tongues by Azareen Van der Vliet OloomiRequirements: .ePUB reader, 900 KB | RetailOverview: It’s summer when Arezu, an Iranian American teenager, goes to Spain to meet her estranged father at an apartment he owns there. He never shows up, instead sending her a weekly allowance, care of his step-nephew, Omar, a forty-year-old Lebanese man. […]
The Gift of Tongues: What It Is, What It Isn’t and Why You Need It by Robert HendersonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1 MBOverview: Is the gift of tongues for today? Does God want me to have the gift of tongues? Should I ask for the gift of tongues? Believers have asked these questions and many others […]
A Strife of Tongues: The Compromise of 1850 and the Ideological Foundations of the American Civil War by Stephen E. MaizlishRequirements: .ePUB reader, 6 MBOverview: Near the end of a nine-month confrontation preceding the Compromise of 1850, Abraham Venable warned his fellow congressmen that “words become things.” Indeed, in politics—then, as now—rhetoric makes reality. But […]