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Book Synopsis Harold and Joan: Life Before We Got Modern by : Alison Dear
Download or read book Harold and Joan: Life Before We Got Modern written by Alison Dear and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The words ‘Second World War’ evoke strong images of a time that very few of us have experienced directly. But these images are shaped by the thousands of TV programmes, films and books that document this time from an adults perspective.
Book Synopsis HAROLD AND JOAN: LIFE BEFORE WE GOT MODERN by : Alison Dear
Download or read book HAROLD AND JOAN: LIFE BEFORE WE GOT MODERN written by Alison Dear and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The words ‘Second World War’ evoke strong images of a time that very few of us have experienced directly. But these images are shaped by the thousands of TV programmes, films and books that document this time from an adults perspective. Children, unless they were directly involved in momentous events such as the evacuation or the blitz, are rarely heard especially if they lived in the country rather than towns or cities.My dad Harold is one of those unheard children whose perspective on the war was very different. Rather than sadness and hardship, it brought fun and excitement. These are his memories from Ampney Crucis, a small village in South Gloucestershire that few people of heard of and fewer can spell. It describes a life with Lords of the Manor and the power they had over the community as well and the lives of his own family who have lived in the village for hundreds of years. Events of the war, the attacks, crashes and victory celebrations are described from his perspective as are the daily pre-occupations of a child school, food and fun. After the war he ‘Harold’ became ‘Harold and Joan’ and together they describe how the social changes of the 1950s and 60s allowed them to use their skills to break away from tied cottages and build their own home. Along the way they recall the how the village has changed, highlighting what we have gained now in our modern life but also what we have lost.
Download or read book Women Up to No Good written by Pat Murphy and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do women want? Well, if Pat Murphy is to be trusted (and we’re not saying she is), women are looking for trouble. And in this collection of powerful stories, they find it — at an archeological dig in the Southwest, in the urban alleys, in California suburbs, in the old West, in ironic fantasy settings. Over the past 25 years, Pat Murphy has been writing stories that garner critical attention and win awards. Her work is difficult to categorize, living on the boundaries between genres. But her characters are easy to recognize. They are troublemakers, every last one of them.
Download or read book The Happy Ending written by Ian Hay and published by London : S. French Limited. This book was released on 1927 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoria Academia 1960 - 1976 by : Lucia Adams
Download or read book Memoria Academia 1960 - 1976 written by Lucia Adams and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir consists of journals and recollections of academic life during turbulent and tempestuous times. From Madison, Wisconsin, to Princeton, Paris, Cambridge, England, and the University of Lancaster near England's Lake District, it includes political assassinations, the beginning and end of the Vietnam War, Black Power, civil rights, campus unrest, strikes, boycotts, demonstrations, occupations, student and staff rebellions, and feminism come to life.
Book Synopsis The Hired Girl by : Laura Amy Schlitz
Download or read book The Hired Girl written by Laura Amy Schlitz and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force. Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself—because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of—a woman with a future. Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz relates Joan’s journey from the muck of the chicken coop to the comforts of a society household in Baltimore (Electricity! Carpet sweepers! Sending out the laundry!), taking readers on an exploration of feminism and housework; religion and literature; love and loyalty; cats, hats, and bunions.
Download or read book Winged Pharaoh written by Joan Grant and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, the astonishing Joan Grant became aware of her uncanny "Far Memory," the ability to recall past incarnations who had lived in long-ago times and far-flung places. Her seven historical novels stand out for their vividness and rich detail. For Joan, these books were not works of the imagination but personal recollections of her previous lives. In Winged Pharaoh, Joan Grant tells the story of Sekeeta, the Pharaoh's daughter. The ancient Egyptians reserved the title of "Winged Pharaoh" for ruler-priests who possessed extra-sensory powers. When Sekeeta demonstrates psychic abilities, she is sent to the temple and trained to recall past lives. Upon the death of her father, she becomes a "Winged Pharaoh" - both priestess and Pharaoh - and leads her country with enlightenment. The most famous of Joan Grant's "Far Memory" novels, this book brings the grandeur, beauty, and mystery of ancient Egypt to life. Upon Winged Pharaoh's original publication in 1937, the New York Times called it "an unusual book that shines with fire."
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Book Synopsis Walking in the New Forest by : Joan Begbie
Download or read book Walking in the New Forest written by Joan Begbie and published by Ghose Press. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Book Synopsis Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies by : Richard Allen
Download or read book Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies written by Richard Allen and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s Richard Allen's scholarship on the social gospel has broken new ground in the field of Canadian social and religious history by recovering key aspects of the tradition and its contribution to reform movements and politics. Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies collects and extends many of his classic works to present a comprehensive overview of a major thread in the fabric of the country. Observing the mutual foundations of political and religious traditions in myth and arguing that the sacred and the secular belong together in discussions of public affairs, Allen contests the view that religion is personal and isolated from the public square. He discusses a range of topics: the transition from providential to progressive thought in nineteenth-century Canada; the new spirituality of social solidarity articulated by Winnipeg college students in the 1890s; the role of the social gospel in pioneering urban reform; farmers and workers finding in radical Christianity legitimation for political revolt; Christian intellectuals in the 1930s framing a revolutionary prospectus for Depression-era Canada; the significance of Norman Bethune's religious upbringing for his life and work; strategically focused post-war ecumenical coalitions like Project North and the Latin American Working Group; and the prospects for democratic socialism at the end of the Cold War. Opening with a chapter relating the author's upbringing in a ministerial household dedicated to the Protestant ethic as the spirit of socialism, Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies represents a significant contribution to understanding the social Christian movement in Canada.
Book Synopsis Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters by : Patrick Leigh Fermor
Download or read book Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters written by Patrick Leigh Fermor and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first extensive collection of letters written by war hero and travel writing legend Patrick Leigh Fermor. Handsome, spirited, and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a wonderful friend. The letters in this collection span almost seventy years, the first written ten days before Paddy’s twenty-fifth birthday, the last when he was ninety-four, and the correspondents include Deborah Devonshire, Nancy Mitford, Lawrence Durrell, Diana Cooper, and his lifelong companion, Joan Rayner. The letters exhibit many of Fermor’s most engaging characteristics: his lust for life, his unending curiosity, his lyrical descriptive powers, his love of language, his exuberance, and his tendency to get into scrapes—particularly when drinking and, quite separately, driving. Here are plenty of extraordinary stories: the hunt for Byron’s slippers in one of the remotest regions of Greece; an ignominious dismissal from Somerset Maugham’s Villa Mauresque; and hiding behind a bush to dub Dirk Bogarde into Greek during the shooting of Ill Met by Moonlight. The letters radiate warmth and gaiety; many are enhanced with witty illustrations and comic verse, while others contain riddles and puns. Every one of them entertains.
Download or read book The Sketch written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship by : Ann W. Astell
Download or read book Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship written by Ann W. Astell and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A host of modern authors have portrayed Joan of Arc as a heroine. Identifying with the medieval saint and martyr as a figure of the artist, they tell her story as a way of commenting on their own situation in a world where the power of art has decreased. Blending the theoretical insights of Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes and Rene Girard, Ann W. Astell persuasively argues that many modern authors have seen their own artistic vocation in the visions and voices that inspired Joan.
Book Synopsis The Women of Warner Brothers by : Daniel Bubbeo
Download or read book The Women of Warner Brothers written by Daniel Bubbeo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives and careers of Warner Brothers' screen legends Joan Blondell, Nancy Coleman, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Glenda Farrell, Kay Francis, Ruby Keeler, Andrea King, Priscilla Lane, Joan Leslie, Ida Lupino, Eleanor Parker, Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith, and Jane Wyman are the topic of this book. Some achieved great success in film and other areas of show business, but others failed to get the breaks or became victims of the studio system's sometimes unpleasant brand of politics. The personal and professional obstacles that each actress encountered are here set out in detail, often with comments from the actresses who granted interviews with the author and from those people who knew them best on and off the movie set. A filmography is included for each of the fifteen.
Book Synopsis A Time to Dream by : George Friedman
Download or read book A Time to Dream written by George Friedman and published by . This book was released on 2002-03-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick Malcolm describes a suicide in his prize winning short story which brings him to the attention of Duluth police who are investigating a suspicious suicide. Under hypnosis Dick reveals facts about the victim that lead to the arrest of the persons responsible for the suicide.
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Download or read book Baltimore County Police, 1874-1999 written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Others written by Matthew Rohrer and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping, eerie, and hilarious novel-in-verse from poet Matthew Rohrer. In a Russian-doll of fictional episodes, we follow a midlevel publishing assistant over the course of a day as he encounters ghost stories, science fiction adventures, Victorian hashish eating, and robot bigfoots. Rohrer mesmerizes with wildly imaginative tales and resonant verse in this compelling love letter to storytelling. this night they all seemed asleep for a while the stark shadows held me only my mind moved wildly behind my eyes until I heard a tiny song coming from the driver song of a bandit’s broken heart, song of his betrayal I slept and dreamed I was awake Matthew Rohrer is the author of Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books, 2015), Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books, 2011), A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press, 2002), and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at NYU.
