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he commands attention with a glance

The Exvangelicals is the story of the people who make up this generational tipping point

” was a young cityside reporter at the New York Daily News when he was first swept up in the Tyson media hurricane

Ronnie spent much of his spare time volunteering

The Calamity Club Louis-Ferdinand Céline thin as a stick ofIn 1933 Oxford, Mississippi, Prohibition is on the wane, and the Great Depression is tightening its grip. Poor and rich folks alike have fallen on hard times, even as the old social order remains. For women on the margins, the options are few and the price of dignity and self determination is unbearably high. Eleven year old Meg, one of the unadoptable "big girls" at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum, fights each day to keep her spirit unbowed.