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Download or read book Happy Valley written by Nicholas Best and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 1979 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the English in Kenya began in 1883 when the Scottish explorer Joseph Thomson reached the shores of Lake Victoria, discovering Mount Kenya on the way. It continued with the building of the Monbassa railway; the settling of the White Highlands; and the Mau Mau emergency. Mau Mau was destroyed, but within a few years Kenya became independent under the premiership of Kenyatta. However, the late Kenyatta's plea for tolerance has been heeded and today Kenya has a truly multi-racial society.
Download or read book Happy Valley written by Phillip Naugle and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no other book like this one. style='letter-spacing:-.05pt'>Happy style='letter-spacing:-.05pt'>-.05pt'>Valley -.05pt'>is a true story about the life and experiences of a real life private investigator, who moved to Utah from rural Kansas, to find Zion. What he found was something quite different! Follow this tale of intrigue and suspense from Kansas to style='letter-spacing:.05pt'>Utah style='letter-spacing:.05pt'>, style='letter-spacing:.05pt'>Las Vegas style='letter-spacing:.05pt'>and more! There is no other read to take you behind the scenes of the most unique culture in the world. The "Dukes of Hazard" have nothing over the Good Ole Boys of Utah County. This book dissolves the "squeaky clean" image as portrayed by the church's billion dollar PR machine. Real case histories of murder, the mafia, and of course, the Mormons, are brought to life as Naugle style='letter-spacing:.05pt'>exposes the mobs' way of doing business in style='letter-spacing:.05pt'>Las Vegas style='letter-spacing:.05pt'>. You won't want to miss how it style='letter-spacing:-.05pt'>all connects to style='letter-spacing:-.05pt'>Happy style='letter-spacing:-.05pt'>-.05pt'>Valley -.05pt'>. style='letter-spacing:.05pt'>Happy style='letter-spacing:.05pt'>.05pt'>Valley .05pt'>is a unique place, with unique people, who live under unique circumstances. A "Shangri-La," which allows those with evil intent, to maintain control. A place where hard working, honest people, unknowingly become pawns in a struggle for salvation. class=GramE>A "hard to put down" tale of some of the nation's highest profile cases.
Book Synopsis Happy Valley: Text Classics by : Patrick White
Download or read book Happy Valley: Text Classics written by Patrick White and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick White's magnificent debut novel - first published 1939, long out of print and now a Text Classic. Based on Patrick White's own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro, near Adaminaby in south-eastern New South Wales, Happy Valley paints a portrait of a community in a desolate landscape. It is a jagged and restless study of small-town and country life. White was twenty-seven when Happy Valley was published by George C. Harrop in London. This mesmerising first novel gives us a prolonged glimpse of literary genius in the making. It won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1941, but White did not allow the novel to be republished in English in his lifetime. Its appearance now in the Text Classics series is a major literary event. Happy Valley is the missing piece in the extraordinary jigsaw of White's work. Patrick White was born in England in 1912 and taken to Australia, where his father owned a sheep farm, when he was six months old. He was educated in England and served in the RAF, before returning to Australia after the war. He was the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1973. He died in 1990. Peter Craven is one of Australia's best-known literary critics. He was founding editor of Scripsi, Quarterly Essay and the Best of anthologies. '[Patrick White] was a prophet, and from his sublime mountaintop, he sent down lightning bolts on our callow heads. Some of these bolts are vivid in Happy Valley, his first novel, published in 1939 and now reissued...The novel stands up well in the high company of its later brethren. It prefigures the greatness to come, and is a more adventurously wrought than many of our own age. White is a mesmerising narrator whose prose illuminates the most ordinary object and event in new and gripping ways.' Thomas Keneally, Guardian 'Happy Valley will be a joy for any fan. Here we see a sensibility not so much forming as finding, and owning, itself.' Weekend Australian 'This is a remarkable first novel, already discernible as the performance of a master whose apprentice work cannot be glimpsed. We are fortunate indeed that Text has reopened the front door in the house of Patrick White's fiction.' Canberra Times 'My favourite Australian novel was by a newcomer - well, a newcomer in 1939. A sardonic, grotesque, oddly moving ensemble of piece about thwarted lives in a dismal country town, Happy Valley presages the later Patrick White, but is also refreshingly original and feels as contemporary as the latest bestseller.' Jane Sullivan, Australian Book Review 'Happy Valley is a harsh and unsparing picture of a prematurely exhausting, life-denying Australia. It's a world full of violence, adultery and financial ruin, in which nothing will ever change. White's main focus, as in his great later novels, is the thwarted spiritual yearning of his characters. But this is also a superb anatomy of Australian society.' Metro (NZ)
Book Synopsis The Happy Valley Mystery by : Kathryn Kenny
Download or read book The Happy Valley Mystery written by Kathryn Kenny and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While vacationing at her uncle's sheep ranch, Trixie and the Bob-Whites track down the thieves who are behind the mysterious disappearance of several sheep.
Book Synopsis The Ghosts of Happy Valley by : Juliet Barnes
Download or read book The Ghosts of Happy Valley written by Juliet Barnes and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happy Valley was the name given to the Wanjohi Valley in the Kenya Highlands, where a small community of affluent, hedonistic white expatriates settled between the wars. While Kenya's early colonial days have been immortalised by farming pioneers like Lord Delamere and Karen Blixen, and the pioneering aviator Beryl Markham, Happy Valley became infamous under the influence of troubled socialite, Lady Idina Sackville, whose life was told in Frances Osborne's bestselling The Bolter. The era culminated with the notorious murder of the Earl of Erroll in 1941, the investigation of which laid bare the Happy Valley set's decadence and irresponsibility, chronicled in another bestseller, James Fox's White Mischief. But what is left now? In a remarkable and indefatigable archaeological quest Juliet Barnes, who has lived in Kenya all her life and whose grandparents knew some of the Happy Valley characters, has set out to explore Happy Valley to find the former homes and haunts of this extraordinary and transient set of people. With the help of a remarkable African guide and further assisted by the memories of elderly former settlers, she finds the remains of grand residences tucked away beneath the mountains and speaks to local elders who share first-hand memories of these bygone times. Nowadays these old homes, she discovers, have become tumbledown dwellings for many African families, school buildings, or their ruins have almost disappeared without trace - a revelation of the state of modern Africa that makes the gilded era of the Happy Valley set even more fantastic. A book to set alongside such singular evocations of Africa’s strange colonial history as The Africa House, The Ghosts of Happy Valley is a mesmerising blend of travel narrative, social history and personal quest.
Book Synopsis Child of Happy Valley by : Juanita Carberry
Download or read book Child of Happy Valley written by Juanita Carberry and published by Charnwood Pub. This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juanita Carberry was brought up by her father's black servants and white governess. Her mother died when she was three but Juanita did not discover this until, when she was six, a cousin taunted her with the truth. At 15 Juanita became involved in the Lord Erroll affair, but didn't help the police.
Book Synopsis Hidden Valley Road by : Robert Kolker
Download or read book Hidden Valley Road written by Robert Kolker and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease. "Reads like a medical detective journey and sheds light on a topic so many of us face: mental illness." —Oprah Winfrey Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen to one family? What took place inside the house on Hidden Valley Road was so extraordinary that the Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institute of Mental Health. Their story offers a shadow history of the science of schizophrenia, from the era of institutionalization, lobotomy, and the schizophrenogenic mother to the search for genetic markers for the disease, always amid profound disagreements about the nature of the illness itself. And unbeknownst to the Galvins, samples of their DNA informed decades of genetic research that continues today, offering paths to treatment, prediction, and even eradication of the disease for future generations. With clarity and compassion, bestselling and award-winning author Robert Kolker uncovers one family's unforgettable legacy of suffering, love, and hope.
Download or read book The Happy Valley written by Ken Nicolson and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong's oldest Western cemetery garden is located in Happy Valley. This history and tour highlights the need for urgent action to conserve the built and natural heritage resources of this important cultural landscape. The author challenges the reader to reconsider the basic approach to heritage conservation adopted in Hong Kong where a false dichotomy persists between natural and built heritage conservation initiatives. The Hong Kong Cemetery provides an excellent example of a precious cultural landscape which is deteriorating because simplistic approaches to site management have failed to understand and protect the complex interrelationship between the natural (flora mid fauna - habitats) and built (monuments and Memorials) heritage resources. The first-three chapters introduce the cemetery garden concept as it evolved in early nineteenth century Europe, and was eventually established in Hong Kong by the British.-The second half of the book provides a self-guided tour of the cemetery highlighting its resources as well as explaining the main conservation problems and possible solutions to protect the cemetery.
Download or read book Happy Valley written by Lin Stepp and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Grandpa suffering a heart attack, Juliette Hollander saw little choice but to head back to their Tennessee mountain farm in Happy Valley to help out. She didn't expect, or want, to leave behind her life and work in North Carolina to return to her grandparents' home so soon. Nor did she imagine meeting, and working with, the mysterious man she met briefly last summer and never thought to see again. Walker Logan spent the last two years traveling the United States, seeing the beauty of the country and running from his past. But an old rock house he sees while hiking near Abrams Creek Campground unexpectedly calls to his soul. With danger close behind, he never stayed in one place long enough to put down roots. Yet now, with a new vision, he decides to take the risk.
Download or read book Happy Valley written by Patrick White and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just when things are looking up for thirteen-year-old Ronnie, her father dies, creating a void she and her mother have trouble filling.
Book Synopsis The Life and Death of Lord Erroll: The Truth Behind the Happy Valley Murder (Text Only Edition) by : Errol Trzebinski
Download or read book The Life and Death of Lord Erroll: The Truth Behind the Happy Valley Murder (Text Only Edition) written by Errol Trzebinski and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the life and mysterious murder of the most talked-about and glamorous member of Kenya’ s notorious Happy Valley set.
Download or read book Everywoman written by Jess Phillips and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS ‘Jess Phillips writes like she talks: brilliantly. Her humour and passion shine through every page. Loved it.’ ROBERT WEBB _____________________ If you’re thinking, ‘Jess who?’ then I’m glad that there was something about ‘Everywoman’ and ‘truth’ that caught your eye. Or you might already know me as that gobby MP who has a tendency to shout about the stuff I care about. Because I’m a woman with a cause, I have been called a feminazi witch, a murderer and threatened with rape. The internet attracts a classy crowd. So, speaking the truth isn’t always easy but I believe it’s worth it. And I want you to believe it too. The truth can be empowering, the truth can lead to greater equality, and the world would be incredibly boring if we let all of those people who allegedly know everything, say everything. By demanding to be heard, by dealing with our imposter syndrome, by being cheerleaders, doers not sayers, creating our own networks and by daring to believe that we can make a difference, we can. We’re women and we’re kick-ass. And that’s the truth. _____________________ 'Joyfully candid and very funny.' Guardian 'Jess Phillips knows the truth . . . and here she shows how scary and sad as well as joyful and liberating the answers can be.' Damian Barr 'Everywoman has all the laughs [of Lena Dunham and Caitlin Moran] with a backbone of real glinting anger . . .there were so many funny and wise things on each page that whittling them down into a review seemed impossible.' Julie Birchill, Spectator 'As fresh as mountain air amid the Westminster tumbleweed.' Metro 'Arresting.' Observer _____________________ This title now has a new cover and there is a chance that you may receive the edition with the old cover instead of the cover displayed here.
Book Synopsis The Happy Valley by : William Wakefield
Download or read book The Happy Valley written by William Wakefield and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Happy Valley College by : Dick Carlsen
Download or read book Happy Valley College written by Dick Carlsen and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-07-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happy Valley College will resonate with baby boomers that attended college during the Vietnam War and that dealt with the angst, uncertainties and challenges emanating from that crazy period in time. It is at once a feel good story about college life in the 60’s, ala “Animal House” and some of the cynicism of The Catcher in the Rye, but with a strong undercurrent of the Vietnam War and the emotions of a college student dealing with the military draft. College adventures are juxtaposed with war horrors of death and amputation. The reader will remember Dave Pedersen for his wealth and breadth of college and growing up experiences, and for the pain, frustration and anxiety while wrestling with options to meet his military service obligation in a way that preserves his relationship with a fellow college coed. Happy Valley College takes the reader on a journey of transition from the early carefree years of college to the realities of the Vietnam War and military draft. The story takes place at a small state college in northern California, far from the urban centers and large university hotbeds of anti-war activity. While unintended, the story also brings to light many similarities between the Vietnam War and the War in Iraq. Younger readers will gain an understanding and appreciation of the military draft system in place in the 1960’s, while baby boomers will experience a mix of refreshing nostalgia and quiet reflection.
Book Synopsis Hand in Hand Through the Happy Valley by : Julia Adelaide Torrey Oertel
Download or read book Hand in Hand Through the Happy Valley written by Julia Adelaide Torrey Oertel and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Book Synopsis The Lost Boys of Happy Valley College by : Dick Carlsen
Download or read book The Lost Boys of Happy Valley College written by Dick Carlsen and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Peter Pan fan, imagine yourself flying in your dreams, without Tink’s fairy dust. While flying, you “see” other kids your age also flying. The story employs that fantasy. Eight young boys meet in their Peter Pan-induced flying dreams in the 1950’s. Destiny brings them all together in 1964 at Happy Valley College, a Disneyesque Fantasyland and Adventureland campus in northern California, where they form a bond, a tight brotherhood through athletics and their share of mischief-making, so much like Peter’s “Lost Boys” on Neverland. After one such incident they are brought before the Dean of Men, also a Peter Pan fan, who judges them of 19th century English public school “good character”, and symbolically labels the group his “Lost Boys”. The Lost Boys graduate, deal with the ever-present military draft and Vietnam War, and go their eight separate ways to pursue careers and live their lives. Their remarkable careers would make the dean proud. One quasi-Lost Boy, Tim, suffers demonstrably from Peter Pan Syndrome. In 2016, almost fifty years since the Lost Boys were all together at a San Francisco Forty Niners football game in 1969, they have a “seventy-year-olds” reunion at their campus, filled with adventures, mishaps, and renewed camaraderie. The week-long reunion concludes, and heartfelt farewells dominate. Does Tim beat the Syndrome? Will there be another reunion with all eight of the Lost Boys?
Book Synopsis Happy Valley by : Anne Shannon Monroe
Download or read book Happy Valley written by Anne Shannon Monroe and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
