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Book Synopsis Nothing Ever Happens in Geneva, Does It? by : Holly Burr
Download or read book Nothing Ever Happens in Geneva, Does It? written by Holly Burr and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community folklore project representing a collaborated effort between the Geneva City Schools' Project Promise program's fifth graders and the Geneva Historical Society.
Book Synopsis Geneva by : Geneva Historical Society
Download or read book Geneva written by Geneva Historical Society and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-10 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many American towns, Geneva changed dramatically in the mid20th century. Geneva: 19401970 examines events that influenced the city, among them the influx of sailors and workers at the nearby Sampson Naval Training Station during World War II and the construction of the Routes 5 and 20 bypass in the 1950s. Many factories ceased operation during this time, and downtown businesses began feeling pressure from a new shopping plaza and stores on the edge of town. The book also captures the social life of the community and notable people who visited Geneva, such as Bobby Kennedy and Jane Russell, and those who grew up here, such as legendary jazz bassist Scott LaFaro.
Book Synopsis Nothing Ever Happens by : Alwyn M. Thurber
Download or read book Nothing Ever Happens written by Alwyn M. Thurber and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rue's Helps by : Mrs. Nathaniel Conklin
Download or read book Rue's Helps written by Mrs. Nathaniel Conklin and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Daybreak and Redemption by : Melchor Moore
Download or read book Daybreak and Redemption written by Melchor Moore and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote Daybreak and Redemption in the early 2000's. It's a self-published novel about the end of a decade in Las Vegas, when crime and money were rampant. I'm sure they still are, but I've left the city long ago and have only been back for short visits. This novel adds a bit of poetry to the lives that I saw destroyed by petty criminal behavior, and seduced by debauchery and jet set. I hope you love every minute of it. It's meant to be read like a roller coaster, so sit down on a rainy day when you're trapped in your motor home, while camping, and read the thing in one sitting. Enjoy.
Download or read book In My Time written by Robert Strausz-Hupe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In My Time is a vivid account of the fascinating life of Robert Strausz-Hupe, who served American presidents for twenty years in a variety of diplomatic posts. It is a life filled with both excitement and tragedy. In this autobiography, Strausz-Hupe covers a wide range of topics, including his youth in Vienna, his familial background, and his schooling. The author also discusses his emigration to the United States, describing his initial impressions of the country as well as how he viewed the changes that were occurring in American society and culture. Strausz-Hupe has written a poignant introduction for the republication of this volume. He explains how he reaches out to history for an explanation of who he is as an individual. Just as entire nations should learn from history, so should individuals, as Strausz-Hupe has attempted to do in his autobiography. Robert Strausz-Hupe is one of those increasingly rare, universally educated men whose minds conform only to their own beliefs and findings. His views of events such as the rise of German Nazism, or Chinese Communism, or the world of the theater in Europe between the two world wars are always fresh, exciting, and informed. In My Time will be enjoyed by all who read it, especially historians, political theorists, and policymakers.
Book Synopsis Now Silence by : Tori Warner Shepard
Download or read book Now Silence written by Tori Warner Shepard and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this superbly researched WWII novel, award-winning writer, Tori Warner Shepard, captures the mood of remote Santa Fe, New Mexico as it waits out WWII for the return of her men held in Japanese prison camps. POW Melo Garcia has survived the Bataan Death March in the Philippines but his brother and father have not. Along with 1,500 other American prisoners, he is diseased, tortured, starved, and used as slave labor in a condemned coal mine outside of Nagasaki, Japan. Melo is the last living hope to continue his family's centuries old line for his war-widowed mother, Nicasia, who prays for his return alongside his sweetheart, LaBelle. They have received no reliable news since the surrender to the enemy in 1942. The novel is as much a story of the men's heroism as it is of their Hispanic community which after Pearl Harbor was a distant and a safe refuge from the war, sought out by the US Government as an internment camp for 2,000 Japanese “Isseii” barely a mile from the office of the top-secret Manhattan Project that was developing the atomic bomb to be dropped 20 miles from Melo's prison camp. Add to the mix FBI and counter-intelligence agents, Gringo fanatics opposed to Roosevelt, Melo's “novia” LaBelle and Phyllis, the redheaded bombshell, who challenges her. And Melo himself with his mother who embodies “gracia,” a word that does not translate. This gripping exposition of the Japanese atrocities is even-handed and the characters and personalities on the home front will haunt your memory. TORI WARNER SHEPARD grew up in post-war Japan and since moving to Santa Fe over thirty-five years ago has been absorbed by the story of the POWs, their welcome home, and the effects of the war on a tight isolated community. She has an M.A. in Creative Writing which she has taught, and has published poetry, articles and short stories. Winner of the Mountainland Award for Contemporary Fiction, she has three grown children and lives with her husband in an old adobe.
Download or read book Clearharbour written by Suzanne Morris and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-09-07 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Emelye opened the lap drawer of the desk, the strong odor of ink, and cedar wood long sealed up, flooded her nostrils. She was surprised to find Elizabeth had left behind the note paper engraved with her name, and the silver blotter and letter opener that appeared in a package with her name on it under the Christmas tree one year. Surely she didn't know even before she left that she was about to change her identity. An image of Elizabeth walking down a train platform all alone, carrying her small suitcase, gripped Emelye suddenly. Her eyes filled. Oh, Elizabeth, why'd you have to go away and become somebody else? Clearharbour, the final volume of the Clearharbour Trilogy, carries the story of the Selby family into the third generation. Having survived two world wars, Geneva and Tony Selby and their children must come to terms with old secrets and unresolved issues that threaten to destroy the family. Packed with compelling, complicated characters and captivating imagery, Clearharbour is a stunning finale to this beautiful and haunting trilogy.
Book Synopsis Way Out There In the Blue by : Frances FitzGerald
Download or read book Way Out There In the Blue written by Frances FitzGerald and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-02-21 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Way Out There in the Blue is a major work of history by the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Fire in the Lake. Using the Star Wars missile defense program as a magnifying glass on his presidency, Frances FitzGerald gives us a wholly original portrait of Ronald Reagan, the most puzzling president of the last half of the twentieth century. Reagan's presidency and the man himself have always been difficult to fathom. His influence was enormous, and the few powerful ideas he espoused remain with us still -- yet he seemed nothing more than a charming, simple-minded, inattentive actor. FitzGerald shows us a Reagan far more complex than the man we thought we knew. A master of the American language and of self-presentation, the greatest storyteller ever to occupy the Oval Office, Reagan created a compelling public persona that bore little relationship to himself. The real Ronald Reagan -- the Reagan who emerges from FitzGerald's book -- was a gifted politician with a deep understanding of the American national psyche and at the same time an executive almost totally disengaged from the policies of his administration and from the people who surrounded him. The idea that America should have an impregnable shield against nuclear weapons was Reagan's invention. His famous Star Wars speech, in which he promised us such a shield and called upon scientists to produce it, gave rise to the Strategic Defense Initiative. Reagan used his sure understanding of American mythology, history and politics to persuade the country that a perfect defense against Soviet nuclear weapons would be possible, even though the technology did not exist and was not remotely feasible. His idea turned into a multibillion-dollar research program. SDI played a central role in U.S.-Soviet relations at a crucial juncture in the Cold War, and in a different form it survives to this day. Drawing on prodigious research, including interviews with the participants, FitzGerald offers new insights into American foreign policy in the Reagan era. She gives us revealing portraits of major players in Reagan's administration, including George Shultz, Caspar Weinberger, Donald Regan and Paul Nitze, and she provides a radically new view of what happened at the Reagan-Gorbachev summits in Geneva, Reykjavik, Washington and Moscow. FitzGerald describes the fierce battles among Reagan's advisers and the frightening increase of Cold War tensions during Reagan's first term. She shows how the president who presided over the greatest peacetime military buildup came to espouse the elimination of nuclear weapons, and how the man who insisted that the Soviet Union was an "evil empire" came to embrace the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, and to proclaim an end to the Cold War long before most in Washington understood that it had ended. Way Out There in the Blue is a ground-breaking history of the American side of the end of the Cold War. Both appalling and funny, it is a black comedy in which Reagan, playing the role he wrote for himself, is the hero.
Book Synopsis The Gustav Sonata: A Novel by : Rose Tremain
Download or read book The Gustav Sonata: A Novel written by Rose Tremain and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction A poignant tale about the enduring friendship between two men under the shadow of the Second World War. Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he lives alone with Emilie, the mother he adores but who treats him with bitter severity. He begins an intense friendship with a Jewish boy his age, talented and mercurial Anton Zweibel, a budding concert pianist. The novel follows Gustav’s family, tracing the roots of his mother’s anti-Semitism and its impact on her son and his beloved friend. Moving backward to the war years and the painful repercussions of an act of conscience, and forward through the lives and careers of the two men, one who becomes a hotel owner, the other a concert pianist, The Gustav Sonata explores the passionate love of childhood friendship as it is lost, transformed, and regained over a lifetime. It is a powerful and deeply moving addition to the beloved oeuvre of one of our greatest contemporary novelists.
Book Synopsis Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set by : Philippa Gregory
Download or read book Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set written by Philippa Gregory and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 3436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The six-book bosed set of the bestselling Tudor Court novels by Philippa Gregory, #1 New York Times bestselling author and "the queen of royal fiction" (USA TODAY): The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen.
Book Synopsis Why Switzerland? by : Jonathan Steinberg
Download or read book Why Switzerland? written by Jonathan Steinberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-28 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Switzerland is a special and fascinating place. Its unique institutions, its direct democracy, multi-member executives, absence of strikes, communal autonomy, its universal military service, its wealth, and four national languages make it interesting in itself. But it has wider significance, in representing the 'Europe that did not happen', the Europe that escaped the centralisation of state and economy associated with the modern world. Today, there is a new special feature. Switzerland is an island surrounded by the European Union, and resists membership. Why Switzerland? attempts to answer three related questions: why has such an exception to European norms survived? Why should outsiders notice its peculiarities and what can they learn from them? Finally, can so unusual a society continue to exist when many of the conditions in which it evolved have disappeared?
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Book Synopsis Foreign Assistance Legislation for Fiscal Years 1984-85: Overview of security supporting assistance programs by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Download or read book Foreign Assistance Legislation for Fiscal Years 1984-85: Overview of security supporting assistance programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Foreign Assistance Legislation for Fiscal Year ... by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Download or read book Foreign Assistance Legislation for Fiscal Year ... written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Press written by Geneva Overholser and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the guidance of editors Geneva Overholser and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, this superb collection of essays--written by the nation's leading authorities on journalism--illuminates the role of the press in a democracy, investigating alternative models used throughout world history to better understand how the American press has evolved into what it is today. The book also examines the history, identity, roles, and future of the American press, with an emphasis on topics of concern to both practitioners and consumers of American media.
Book Synopsis Justice in Paradise by : Bruce A. Clark
Download or read book Justice in Paradise written by Bruce A. Clark and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a newsmaker, Bruce Clark is infamous - not for his discussions of the finer points of the law in relation to Aboriginal rights but for being dragged away by the police at the Native standoff at Gustafsen Lake, British Columbia. Now he is challenging the United States' ownership of Liberty Island and the rest of the Hudson River drainage basin - the site of the world's most potent symbol of freedom, the Statue of Liberty.
