Michael Farris: 14 books

For graduates whose foremost question is likely, "What comes next?" esteemed educator and constitutional lawyer Michael Farris gathers historic commencement speeches from the early days of America, an era marked by great dreams and much uncertainty. "I believe that these speeches...

" De temps à autre apparaît un auteur amoureux de son art, du langage écrit et des grands mystères qui résident de l'autre côté du monde physique. Il y avait William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy ou Annie Proulx. Vous pouvez maintenant ajouter Michael Farris Smith à la liste. " James...

Une prose intense, lyrique pour le portrait d'une Amérique exsangue et désespérée. Plongez avec le nouveau roman de Michael Farris Smith au coeur du delta du Mississipi Abandonné à la naissance, Jack est passé d'orphelinats en foyers, avant que Maryann, une lesbienne mise à l'écart par la...

In this short story prequel to Michael Farris Smith’s widely acclaimed novel Rivers (a Best Book of 2013 in BookRiot, Daily Candy, and Hudson Booksellers), a series of catastrophic hurricanes along the Gulf Coast prompts the government to institute “The Line,” a boundary between the coastal...

A Clarion-Ledger Top Reads of 2018 One of More 2 Read's Best Fiction of 2018 A Writer's Bone Best Book of 2018 One of Raven Crime Reads Top 10 of 2018 A Kirkus Review Must Read Short Novel One of BookPage's Top Summer Mysteries and Thrillers Named a Best Summer...

This powerful and important book encourages and guides men in becoming the dads they want to be. A father of six daughters, Michael Farris addresses issues common in all families with daughters: friends, dating, personal appearance, and preparing for the roles she'll have as a woman. Filled with personal...

Entre Mad Max 2 et La Route : le nouveau chef-d'œuvre post-apocalyptique. "De temps à autre apparaît un auteur amoureux de son art, du langage écrit [...] et des grands mystères qui résident de l'autre côté du monde physique. Il y avait William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy ou Annie...

In the vein of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone and the works of Ron Rash, a novel set in a tough-and-tumble Mississippi town where drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect. An Amazon Best Book of the Month An Indie Next Pick A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick A Southern...

For fans of Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx, “a wonderfully cinematic story” (The Washington Post) set in the post-Katrina South after violent storms have decimated the region. It had been raining for weeks. Maybe months. He had forgotten the last day that it hadn’t rained, when the...

Early American advocates of freedom did not believe in religious liberty in spite of their Christianity, but explicitly because of their individual faith in Christ, which had been molded and instructed by the Bible. The greatest evidence of their commitment to liberty can be found in their willingness...

Two families find themselves on the brink of the unimaginable - removal of their children from their care - as the UN makes them the test case for the recently ratified Rights of the Child.

Two families find themselves on the brink of the unimaginable - removal of their children from their care - as the UN makes them the test case for the recently ratified Rights of the Child.

As the Civil War unfolded, Murfreesboro became hotly contested by Confederate and Union forces. Both sides occupied the town for significant periods, with power changing hands as the fighting raged. Punctuated by events like Nathan Bedford Forrest�s raid on Union forces in July 1862, Jefferson Davis�s...

This book explores the challenges of an academic teaching career. The authors discuss the issues that may arise in the tenure process, scholarship activities, publishing, and providing service to their academic communities as well as how to keep teaching lessons relevant and fresh.