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"Like an experimentally inclined Annie Proulx, Saterstrom tersely
renders the effects of social violence on individual lives . . .
the effect is shattering and transcendent."-Modern Times Bookstore
newsletter In lyric, diamond-cut prose, Selah Saterstrom revisits
the mythic, dead-end Southern town of Beau Repose. This time, the
story follows a strung-out American teenager influenced by heavy
metal, inspired by Ginger Rogers, hell-bent on self-destruction,
and more intelligent than anyone around her realizes. She is forced
into rehab and private school, and her life, at least on the
surface, changes course, eventually leading to theology studies in
Scotland. But as the feverish St. Vitus's dance of her adolescence
morphs into slow-motion inertia abroad, an illness brings her home
again-to face the legacy of pain she left behind and to find a way
to become the lead in a dance of her own creation. An heir to
William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, Saterstrom soars above the
traditional boundaries of the American novel with "exquisite,
cut-to-the-quick language" (Raleigh News & Observer) that makes
her novels "impossible to put down." Spare, raw, and transcendent,
Saterstrom's unflinching examination of modern-day Dixie and
contemporary adolescence lights up the dark corners of the American
experience. Selah Saterstrom is the author of The Pink Institution,
a debut novel praised across the country for "letting gusts of
fresh, tart air blow into the old halls of Southern Gothic" (The
Believer). A Mississippi native, she is currently on the faculty of
the University of Denver's Creative Writing Program. Visit her
website at www.selahsaterstrom.com.
Interweaving visceral, atmospheric prose with historical
photographs, images and texts, "The Pink Institution traces four
generations of Mississippi women from their run-down, post-Civil
War plantations to the modern-day trailer parks that house the
youngest generations. As the impoverished decay of the Deep South
expresses itself through their bloodlines, a new impression of
Southern history and heritage emerges. The lyrical gravity and
singular style of this unforgettable debut novel will transform the
reader in its wake.
Selah Saterstrom's writing has appeared in "3rd Bed" and "Pitkin
Review." She is the editor of "Soul Collections," a collection of
prose and poetry written by at-risk teenagers in North Carolina.
Born in Mississippi in 1974, she now lives in Asheville, North
Carolina, where she teaches at Warren Wilson College.
"Here's How to Teach Voice and Communication Skills to Transgender
Women'' is a detailed guide to help speech-language pathologists
provide intervention for Male-to-Female (MtF) trans clients during
the transition process. The empirically supported program guides
SLPs to safely modify a MtF trans individual's voice through
behavioral modification therapy. SLPs can teach this population how
to safely modify their voice through good vocal hygiene, vocal
relaxation, breathing support, pitch, resonance, breathiness, and
verbal and nonverbal communication. This text presents the Voice
and Communication Program for Transgender Women (VCMtF), which was
developed to train graduate speech-language pathology students how
to deliver voice and communication services. The purpose of this
text is to share the VCMtF Program with other speech-language
pathologists who will provide voice and communication services to
transgender women. The VCMtF Program is unique because it is an
easy to use, manualized program that systematically targets voice
and verbal and nonverbal communication. Included in this text are
resources for the clinician, an introduction to the VCMtF Program,
methods and materials for assessment, and step-by-step program
sessions. The VCMtF Program is divided into eight sessions with
step-by-step instructions for every exercise. Each session is
organized using material lists, approximate times, teaching
methods, check-ins, feedback, and homework. There are check boxes
to mark off the completion of exercises in each area of the program
and there is space for the SLP to make clinical observations.
Exercises and targets are set up within a hierarchy so that the
level of difficulty may be tailored to each client's abilities and
how far they have advanced in the program. Also included is a
PluralPlus companion website with videos to support the exercises
used in the program.
First published in 1881, East of the Jordan recounts the results of
an archaeological expedition organised by the American Palestine
Exploration Society in 1875-77. In two years the expedition members
covered much of the region between Lake Tiberias (sea of Galilee)
and the Dead Sea, in the upper and lower Jordan Valley. Along with
meticulous descriptions of the major towns and sites of
archaeological interest, the author also records details of the
everyday lives of the inhabitants. These seemingly incidental
occurrences, combined with the exquisite illustrations, endow the
work with a quality of lasting interest, and great historical
value.Selah Merrill (1837-1909), leader of the expedition, was an
American Congregational clergyman who combined a love of travel
with authorship of a number of works on the Middle East. He later
became American Consul at Jerusalem.
Although she is best known for her time on the mission field in
Ecuador, Elisabeth Elliot went on to become a vibrant role model
for valiant, godly women all over the world. Follow her journey
from the jungles of the Amazon, where she faced the tragic death of
her first husband, to the lecture halls and radio shows of the
culture wars, where she stood as a strong defender of God's Word.
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Slab (Paperback)
Selah Saterstrom
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R345
Discovery Miles 3 450
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On a slab that's all Katrina left of her Mississippi home, Tiger
tells her story, and it is as American as Horatio Alger, Schwab's
Pharmacy, and a tent revival. She was a stripper, but is she now a
performance artist and best-selling author, and it is really
Barbara Walters she's narrating this tale to? We're too dazzled to
know more than that this is about how a girl ends up in the
backwash of decadence and sin and how out of the flotsam and jetsam
she might construct a story of herself and the South to carry her
to salvation. Serial killers, preachers, and prison
flower-arranging classes. Bikers, bad boyfriends, and a stripper
who performed as a Trans Am. Tiger has seen it all and as she sits
on her slab, identifying anecdotes as they go by, we witness Selah
Saterstrom at her greatest-funny, bawdy, and steeped in the
landscape and all the devastation it has created and absorbed.
Selah Saterstrom is the author of the novels The Pink Institution,
The Meat and Spirit Plan, and Slab, all published by Coffee House
Press. She is also the author of Tiger Goes to the Dogs, a limited
edition letterpress project published by Nor By Press. Her prose,
poetry, and interviews can be found in publications such as The
Black Warrior Review, Postroad, Tarpaulin Sky, Fourteen Hills, and
other places. She is the director of the PhD program in creative
writing at the University of Denver and teaches and lectures
throughout the United States.
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The Stowaway (Paperback)
Selah Bieda; Illustrated by Linette Cox
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R343
Discovery Miles 3 430
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The Stowaway (Hardcover)
Selah Bieda; Illustrated by Linette Cox
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R489
Discovery Miles 4 890
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Auntie Adeline (Paperback)
Selah Greer; Illustrated by Selah Greer
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R250
R202
Discovery Miles 2 020
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