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Download or read book The Souvenir written by Louise Steinman and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After finding a box containing letters her father had written to her mother during World War II, as well as a Japanese flag bearing a profound inscription, the author embarks on a mission to discover what happened to her father and the men of his Twenty-fifth Infantry, which takes her all the way to Japan to return the flag to its rightful owner, where she forms a bond with the surviving family and ultimately discovers a side of her father she never knew.
Book Synopsis The Souvenir Museum by : Elizabeth McCracken
Download or read book The Souvenir Museum written by Elizabeth McCracken and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of my favourite writers' Nick Hornby One of the most acclaimed writers of our day, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to date. A recent widower and his adult son ferry to a craggy Scottish island in search of puffins. An actress who plays a children's game-show villainess ushers in the New Year with her deadbeat half-brother. And on a trip to a water park with their son, two fathers each confront a deep-rooted personal fear. With sentences that crackle and spark and showcase her trademark wit, McCracken shows how the mysterious bonds of family are tested, transformed, fractured, and fortified. 'McCracken has a gift for spotting the comic potential in situations many of us have endured... Her prose is stippled with just-so observations' Observer 'McCracken is a totally assured performer: even seemingly throwaway perceptions are often memorably poetic, and there is a hint of melancholy under the comedy' Sunday Times 'This incisive, warm-blooded collection of stories is populated by outsiders... McCracken illuminates qualities of human nature through fragments of her characters' lives' New Yorker
Download or read book Souvenir written by Rolf Potts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For as long as people have traveled to distant lands, they have brought home objects to certify the journey. More than mere merchandise, these travel souvenirs take on a personal and cultural meaning that goes beyond the object itself. Drawing on several millennia of examples-from the relic-driven quests of early Christians, to the mass-produced tchotchkes that line the shelves of a Disney gift shop-travel writer Rolf Potts delves into a complicated history that explores issues of authenticity, cultural obligation, market forces, human suffering, and self-presentation. Souvenirs are shown for what they really are: not just objects, but personalized forms of folk storytelling that enable people to make sense of the world and their place in it.' Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. Souvenir features illustrations by Cedar Van Tassel
Download or read book Souvenir written by Therese Fowler and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fowler's debut is the heartbreaking story of a woman who made what she thought was a responsible decision, only to have to live with the consequences...When Meg discovers she has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), she knows she has only one chance to make peace with the past and give her daughter hope for the future. The choices made by Meg and Savannah may be controversial with some readers, but, nevertheless, this outstanding debut is recommended for all public libraries. —Library Journal (starred review) “Souvenir is tender, touching, and completely compelling. I cared so much about these characters, couldn’t put the novel down, read through the night. Therese Fowler writes with such wisdom about young love, intense and impossible choices, and the way one decision can affect an entire life.” –Luanne Rice In this powerful fiction debut, Therese Fowler combines the emotional resonance of Nicholas Sparks with the intense, true-to-life richness of Jodi Picoult to create a stunning and dramatic novel all her own. Meg Powell and Carson McKay grew were raised side by side on their families’ farms, bonded by a love that only deepened. Everyone in their small rural community in northern Florida thought that Meg and Carson would always be together. But at twenty-one, Meg was presented with a marriage proposal she could not refuse, forever changing the course of her life. Seventeen years later, Meg’s marriage has become routine, and she spends her time juggling the demands of her medical practice, the needs of her widowed father, and the whims of her rebellious teenage daughter, Savannah, who is confronting her burgeoning sexuality in a dangerous manner, and pushing her mother away just when she needs her most. Then, after a long absence, Carson returns home to prepare for his wedding to a younger woman. As Carson struggles to determine where his heart and future lie, Meg makes a shocking discovery that will upset the balance of everyone around her. Unfolding with warmth and passion, Therese Fowler’s vibrant and moving debut illuminates the possibility of second chances, the naïve choices of youth, the tensions within families, and the wondrous designs of fate. A searing yet redemptive novel, Souvenir is an unforgettable tale about the transforming power of love. From the Hardcover edition.
Author :Nat'l Museum African American Hist/Cult Publisher :Smithsonian Institution ISBN 13 :158834570X Total Pages :66 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (883 download)
Book Synopsis National Museum of African American History and Culture by : Nat'l Museum African American Hist/Cult
Download or read book National Museum of African American History and Culture written by Nat'l Museum African American Hist/Cult and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This souvenir book showcases some of the most influential and important treasures of the National Museum of African American History and Culture's collections. These include a hymn book owned by Harriet Tubman; ankle shackles used to restrain enslaved people on ships during the Middle Passage; a dress that Rosa Parks was making shortly before she was arrested; a vintage, open-cockpit Tuskegee Airmen trainer plane; Muhammad Ali's headgear; an 1835 Bill of Sale enslaving a young girl named Polly; and Chuck Berry's Cadillac. These objects tell us the full story of African American history, of triumphs and tragedies and highs and lows. This book, like the museum it represents, uses artifacts of African American history and culture as a lens into what it means to be an American.
Download or read book Souvenir written by Michael Bracewell and published by White Rabbit. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s' Neil Tennant 'I loved Souvenir . . . it rescued some things for me - a certain aesthetic, a philosophical engagement with time and poignant beauty and lived history that I have found myself looking for, and not finding, elsewhere in recent years . . . the book gave me new hope' John Burnside 'A suspended act of retrieval, a partisan recall; a sustained, subtle summary of our recent past, and an epitaph for a future we never had' Philip Hoare 'Michael Bracewell proves himself to be nothing less than the poet laureate of late capitalism' Jonathan Coe A vivid eulogy for London of the late 1970s and early 80s - the last years prior to the rise of the digital city. An elliptical, wildly atmospheric remembrance of the sites and soundtrack, at once aggressively modern and strangely elegiac, that accompanied the twilight of one era and the dawn of another. Haunted bedsits, post-punk entrepreneurs in the Soho Brasserie, occultists in Fitzrovia, Docklands before Canary Wharf, frozen suburbs in the winter of 1980...
Book Synopsis Trading Identities by : Ruth Bliss Phillips
Download or read book Trading Identities written by Ruth Bliss Phillips and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indians in northeastern North America produced a variety of art objects for sale to travelers and tourists during the 18th and 19th centuries. This art is of high quality and great aesthetic interest, but has been largely ignored by scholars. This study combines fieldwork, art historical analysis,
Book Synopsis Tourism Art and Souvenirs by : David Hume
Download or read book Tourism Art and Souvenirs written by David Hume and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between art and tourism through the study of the material culture of tourism: tourist art and souvenirs. It thoroughly examines how to categorise the material culture of tourism within the discourses of contemporary art and cultural anthropology, and demonstrates that tourist art is a unique expression of place and genuine artistic style. The first investigation to consider the activity of souvenirs from both indigenous and settler tourist sites, it brings a unique addition to the existing, dated, research in the area. Working initially from Graburn’s definition of tourist art, as the art of one culture made specifically for the consumption of another, Tourism Art and Souvenirs sheds light on important aspects of the souvenir that have not been widely discussed. The most recent research is used to consider how the souvenir is designed and consumed, consumer expectations and influence on the character of the souvenir, how the souvenir maker is consumed by the tradition of heritage and how products become successful as souvenirs. The title also investigates the language involved in the representation of place and the recording of experience through the souvenir, developing a method that expresses the descriptive data of individual souvenir artefacts graphically so the patterns of language may be analysed. Enhancing the understanding of material culture in tourism and therefore adding to future tourism development this volume will be of interest to upper level students, researchers and academics in tourism, culture, heritage and sustainability.
Book Synopsis Everything Is Cinema by : Richard Brody
Download or read book Everything Is Cinema written by Richard Brody and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Jean-Luc Godard, exemplary director of the French New Wave, wed the ideals of filmmaking to the realities of autobiography and current events, he changed the nature of cinema. Among the greatest cinematic innovations, Godard's films shift fluidly from fiction to documentary, from criticism to art. Similarly, his persona projects shifting images - cultural hero, impassioned loner, shrewd businessman. Hailed by filmmakers as a - if not the - key influence, Godard has entered the modern canon, a figure as mysterious as he is indispensable." "In Everything is Cinema, critic Richard Brody has amassed hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and collaborators to demystify the elusive director and paint the fullest picture yet of his life and work. Paying as much attention to Godard's revolutionary technical inventions as to the political and emotional forces of the postwar world, Brody traces an arc from the director's early critical writing, through his popular success with Breathless and Contempt, to the grand vision of his later years. He vividly depicts Godard's wealthy, conservative family, his fluid and often disturbing politics, his tumultuous dealings with fellow filmmakers, and his troubled relations with women."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis The Royal Baby Book by : Royal Collection Royal Collection Trust
Download or read book The Royal Baby Book written by Royal Collection Royal Collection Trust and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From baby's first shoes, embroidered with tiny crowns, to golden rattles and miniver-trimmed short coats, this new book, the latest in Royal Collection Trust's best-selling series of Souvenir Albums, tells the story of eight royal babies, from Queen Victoria to the new prince. Using a wealth of previously unpublished items and documents from the Royal Collection and Royal Archives, it details the lives of seven of these royal babies from infancy and babyhood to first steps, and on to first days at school. Here are the dolls and teddy-bears, the prams and cots and tricycles, the lost teeth and locks of hair that all parents know and treasure, together with the little notes in childish scrawl, the family photographs, and the first dainty sets of 'best clothes'. And where else could such a celebration of baby- and childhood end, but with a chapter devoted to our new Prince, to bring this happy history up to the present day.
Book Synopsis Collectible Souvenir Spoons by : Wayne Bednersh
Download or read book Collectible Souvenir Spoons written by Wayne Bednersh and published by . This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 2,000 spoons are featured in approximately 500 clear, crisp black and white photographs, several pages of color photos, and vintage catalog ads. This book places heavy emphasis on souvenir spoons in the Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Arts and Crafts style. It contains in-depth information on spoons from South America, Mexico, and Asia. Over a thousand spoons from around the world never before published in any collectible spoon book are featured. 8.5 x 11.
Download or read book The Souvenir written by Emma Nichols and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Emma Nichols presents a new adult contemporary romance fans and critics are comparing to works of Jennifer Weiner. Snark and heart make The Souvenir a novel that will leave readers desperate for more.WrenI fell hard and fast for Brady Conner, even though I knew in my heart that he wasn't ready for me. Sure enough, he messed up. And I did too. I wanted to make him regret what he'd lost. Hence the break up sex. It was an impulsive move for someone who failed to consider the consequences, or practice safe sex. That's how I ended up with a souvenir. And that's why, as much as I wanted to, I had to be even more careful about giving bad boy Brady a second chance.BradyI wasn't ready for Wren Jacobs, even though she was the best thing to happen to an ass like me. No wonder I cracked under pressure. She'd warned me. She'd predicted this. And she promised me just one chance. Still, I wanted more. I wanted all of her for always. Too bad I figured that part out too late. She moved out. And from the looks of the guy hanging around her apartment, she'd also moved on. I couldn't blame her, but I also couldn't let her go without trying harder and proving I could be the man I should've been all along. Then I'd move her back in and it would be just the two of us, like it was before. Only this time, I'd make sure we were forever.Follow Wren and Brady as they navigate through the tricky dating scene in this touching romantic comedy, and fall in love with the souvenir of their relationship.
Book Synopsis Max, Mia and Toby's Adventures Around the World by : Little Passports
Download or read book Max, Mia and Toby's Adventures Around the World written by Little Passports and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow best friends Max and Mia as they embark on worldwide adventures with their dog Toby. Included in the book are 7 souvenirs from Max, Mia and Toby's adventures. Children will learn about different countries and cultures.
Download or read book Mary Poppins written by Brian Sibley and published by Disney Editions. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two veteran writers collaborate on this fascinating behind-the-scenes account of the journey that took the “practically perfect” nanny from the pages of P. L. Travers’s beloved novels to the stage. Well-known British writer and radio personality Brian Sibley tells Mary Poppins’s story, from her obscure origins in Travers’s Australian childhood and her progress through the series of books Travers began to write in 1934, to her incarnation by Julie Andrews in one of the most successful Disney films of all time, to her long-awaited landing onstage in London’s West End. A long-time friend of Travers and co-writer with her of an unproduced sequel to the film, Sibley offers unique insights into the idiosyncratic author’s complex relationship to her heroine, and the decades-long series of proposals and negotiations that finally resulted in Disney Theatrical Productions joining forces with the Cameron Mackintosh Theatrical Group to realize Travers’s stories as a spectacular work of musical theater. Sibley’s details the entire development process of the show’s script, music, choreography, and design, culminating in a glorious opening night on December 15, 2004 in London’s Prince Edward’s Theatre, as Mary Poppins is met by cheering sold-out houses and critical raves. In the book’s second half, Michael Lassell gives a fascinating backstage account of the show’s transfer to Broadway, including the show’s American casting and important changes to its book, lyrics, and designs, as the creative team strives to “plus” Poppins to perfection.
Download or read book The Souvenir written by Louise Steinman and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945, an American G.I. mailed home a Japanese flag. Fifty years later, his daughter unfolded the past. Weaving together her father's raw, poignant letters with her own journey, Steinman presents a powerful view of how war changed one generation and shaped another.
Book Synopsis Field of Dreams Movie Site Official Souvenir Program by : Nick Vetter
Download or read book Field of Dreams Movie Site Official Souvenir Program written by Nick Vetter and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Field of Dreams Official Souvenir Program answers all your questions and provides insight into this world famous baseball landmark. 36-pages full of color photos and unique editorial content. Great collector item.
Book Synopsis The Tale of the Souvenir Shop by : Alice Eve Cohen
Download or read book The Tale of the Souvenir Shop written by Alice Eve Cohen and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emil and Julianna are trapped in a winter wonderland--inside a giant snow globe! Cover glows in the dark.
