Working Days

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140144574
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (445 download)

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Book Synopsis Working Days by : John Steinbeck

Download or read book Working Days written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990-12-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath during an astonishing burst of activity between June and October of 1938. Throughout the time he was creating his greatest work, Steinbeck faithfully kept a journal revealing his arduous journey toward its completion. The journal, like the novel it chronicles, tells a tale of dramatic proportions—of dogged determination and inspiration, yet also of paranoia, self-doubt, and obstacles. It records in intimate detail the conception and genesis of The Grapes of Wrath and its huge though controversial success. It is a unique and penetrating portrait of an emblematic American writer creating an essential American masterpiece.

The Life and Diary of David Brainerd

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Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1598560530
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Diary of David Brainerd written by David Brainerd and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He was one of distinguished natural abilities, as all are sensible who had acquaintance with him. As a minister of the gospel, he was called to unusual services in that work; and his ministry was attended by very remarkable and unusual events ... He had a peculiar opportunity of acquaintance with the false appearances and counterfeits of religion; was the instrument of a most remarkable awakening ...In the following account, the reader will have an opportunity to see not only what were the external circumstances and remarkable incidents of the life of this person, and how he spent his time from day to day, as to his external behavior; but also what passed in his own heart." --Jonathan Edwards David Brainerd, an early missionary to the American Indians in New York, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania, died in 1747 at the age of twenty-nine at the home of his long-time friend and supporter, the eminent Puritan theologian and preacher Jonathan Edwards. It is thanks to Edwards' careful preservation and thoughtful editing of his friend's Diary and Journal that Brainerd has influenced Christians all over the world for over 250 years. As he labored in what was still the untamed American frontier to bring the Gospel to the Indians, Brainerd faced many challenges, including depression, loneliness, and physical illness. Yet his genuine piety and single-minded devotion to God, both in heart and in practice, form a consistent backdrop to his turbulent inner world. This compilation offers a rare glimpse into the life of a man compelled by God to share His love with others in the most difficult of circumstances.

Through No Fault of My Own

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452931348
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Book Synopsis Through No Fault of My Own by : Coco Irvine

Download or read book Through No Fault of My Own written by Coco Irvine and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Christmas Day, 1926, twelve-year-old Clotilde “Coco” Irvine received a blank diary as a present. Coco loved to write—and to get into scrapes—and her new diary gave her the opportunity to explain her side of the messes she created: “I’m in deep trouble through no fault of my own,” her entries frequently began. The daughter of a lumber baron, Coco grew up in a twenty-room mansion on fashionable Summit Avenue at the peak of the Jazz Age, a time when music, art, and women’s social status were all in a state of flux and the economy was still flying high. Coco’s diary carefully records her adventures, problems, and romances, written with a lively wit and a droll sense of humor. Whether sneaking out to a dance hall in her mother’s clothes or getting in trouble for telling an off-color joke, Coco and her escapades will captivate and delight preteen readers as well as their mothers and grandmothers. Peg Meier’s introduction describes St. Paul life in the 1920s and provides context for the privileged world that Coco inhabits, while an afterword tells what happens to Coco as an adult—and reveals surprises about some of the other characters in the diary.

Nicole Brown Simpson

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ISBN 13 : 9780787103392
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis Nicole Brown Simpson by : Faye D. Resnick

Download or read book Nicole Brown Simpson written by Faye D. Resnick and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate account of Nicole Brown Simpson's marriage, her husband's abuse, and events leading up to her death, as told by her best friend.

A Midwife's Tale

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307772985
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis A Midwife's Tale by : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Download or read book A Midwife's Tale written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar to our own" (The New York Times Book Review). Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine. On the basis of that diary, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich gives us an intimate and densely imagined portrait, not only of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard but of her society. At once lively and impeccably scholarly, A Midwife's Tale is a triumph of history on a human scale.

The Diary

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ISBN 13 : 0253046963
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis The Diary by : Batsheva Ben-Amos

Download or read book The Diary written by Batsheva Ben-Amos and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary as a genre is found in all literate societies, and these autobiographical accounts are written by persons of all ranks and positions. The Diary offers an exploration of the form in its social, historical, and cultural-literary contexts with its own distinctive features, poetics, and rhetoric. The contributors to this volume examine theories and interpretations relating to writing and studying diaries; the formation of diary canons in the United Kingdom, France, United States, and Brazil; and the ways in which handwritten diaries are transformed through processes of publication and digitization. The authors also explore different diary formats including the travel diary, the private diary, conflict diaries written during periods of crisis, and the diaries of the digital era, such as blogs. The Diary offers a comprehensive overview of the genre, synthesizing decades of interdisciplinary study to enrich our understanding of, research about, and engagement with the diary as literary form and historical documentation.

My Life as a Book

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Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466830689
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis My Life as a Book by : Janet Tashjian

Download or read book My Life as a Book written by Janet Tashjian and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summer's finally here, and Derek Fallon is looking forward to pelting the UPS truck with water balloons, climbing onto the garage roof, and conducting silly investigations. But when his parents decide to send him to Learning Camp, Derek's dreams of fun come to an end. Ever since he's been labeled a "reluctant reader," his mom has pushed him to read "real" books-something other than his beloved Calvin & Hobbes. As Derek forges unexpected friendships and uncovers a family secret involving himself (in diapers! no less), he realizes that adventures and surprises are around the corner, complete with curve balls. My Life as a Book is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Delaware Diary

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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813522838
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Book Synopsis Delaware Diary by : Frank Dale

Download or read book Delaware Diary written by Frank Dale and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history of the Delaware, this book delves into archives and newspaper files to explore the men who tried to tame this wild river. Many attempted to venture down it in a variety of vehicles due to the needs of commerce, but in recent times it has been converted to leisure activities.

It's My Life

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Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 0307564843
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis It's My Life by : Melody Carlson

Download or read book It's My Life written by Melody Carlson and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this emotional sequel to Diary of a Teenage Girl, Caitlin O'Conner faces new trials as she grows in her faith and strives to maintain the recent commitments she's made to God. As a new believer, Caitlin begins her summer job and makes preparations for a Mexico mission trip with her church youth group. Torn between new spiritual directions and loyalty to Beanie, her best friend (now pregnant), Caitlin searches out her personal values on friendship, romance, dating, life goals, and key relationships with God and family. Tough choices threaten her progress, and her year climaxes in her realization that maturity sometimes means life-impacting decisions must be made ... by faith alone.

A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1612349609
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Book Synopsis A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time by : Paula Tarnapol Whitacre

Download or read book A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time written by Paula Tarnapol Whitacre and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1862 Julia Wilbur left her family’s farm near Rochester, New York, and boarded a train to Washington, DC. As an ardent abolitionist, the forty-seven-year-old Wilbur left a sad but stable life, headed toward the chaos of the Civil War, and spent the next several years in Alexandria, Virginia, devising ways to aid recently escaped slaves and hospitalized Union soldiers. A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time shapes Wilbur’s diaries and other primary sources into a historical narrative of a woman who was alternately brave, self-pitying, foresighted, and myopic. Paula Tarnapol Whitacre describes Wilbur’s experiences against the backdrop of Alexandria, a southern town held by the Union from 1861 to 1865; of Washington, DC, where Wilbur became active in the women’s suffrage movement; and of Rochester, New York, where she began a lifelong association with Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony. Harriet Jacobs, author of Incidents of a Slave Girl, became Wilbur’s friend and ally. Together, the two women, black and white, fought social convention to improve the lives of African Americans escaping slavery by coming across Union lines. In doing so, they faced the challenge to achieve racial and gender equality that continues today. A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time is the captivating story of a woman who remade herself at midlife during a period of massive social upheaval.

The Private Life of the Diary

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Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783522232
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Book Synopsis The Private Life of the Diary by : Sally Bayley

Download or read book The Private Life of the Diary written by Sally Bayley and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diaries keep secrets, harbouring our fantasies and fictional histories. They are substitute boyfriends, girlfriends, spouses and friends. But in this age of social media, the role of the diary as a private confidante has been replaced by a culture of public self-disclosure. The Private Life of the Diary: from Pepys to Tweets is an elegantly-told story of the evolution – and perhaps death – of the diary. It traces its origins to seventeenth-century naval administrator, Samuel Pepys, and continues to twentieth-century diarist Virginia Woolf, who recorded everything from her personal confessions about her irritation with her servants to her memories of Armistice Day and the solar eclipse of 1927. Sally Bayley explores how diaries can sometimes record our lives as we live them, but that we often indulge our fondness for self-dramatization, like the teenaged Sylvia Plath who proclaimed herself 'The Girl Who Would be God'. This book is an examination of the importance of writing and self-reflection as a means of forging identity. It mourns the loss of the diary as an acutely private form of writing. And it champions it as a conduit to self-discovery, allowing us to ask ourselves the question: Who or What am I in relation to the world?

Country Life Diary

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Publisher : Blood Horse
ISBN 13 : 9780939049493
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (494 download)

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Book Synopsis Country Life Diary by : Josh Pons

Download or read book Country Life Diary written by Josh Pons and published by Blood Horse. This book was released on 1992 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Diary of Mattie Spenser

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312187101
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (871 download)

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Book Synopsis The Diary of Mattie Spenser by : Sandra Dallas

Download or read book The Diary of Mattie Spenser written by Sandra Dallas and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-05-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mattie Spenser and her new husband Luke start off to the west. As they live their life Mattie keeps a journal of the joys and frustrations of frontier life and marriage.

Andrew Bonar

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ISBN 13 : 9781848711839
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (118 download)

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Book Synopsis Andrew Bonar by : Andrew Alexander Bonar

Download or read book Andrew Bonar written by Andrew Alexander Bonar and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A welcome reprint, introducing us to one of the great men of God of 19th century Scotland. Best known as the biographer of M'Cheyne, Bonar's own life and ministry, bathed in prayer and blessed with recurring revivals, deserve to be known in their own right. The volume cannot but stir devotion to Christ and zeal to serve him."

An Interrupted Life

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ISBN 13 : 9780953478057
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis An Interrupted Life by : Etty Hillesum

Download or read book An Interrupted Life written by Etty Hillesum and published by . This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum (1914-43) who lived in Amsterdam that were composed in the shadow of the Holocaust, but their interest lies in the light-filled mind that pervades them and in the internal journey they chart.

Jeb and Dash

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Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jeb and Dash written by Jeb Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It occurred to me today with something of a shock how horrible it would be for this diary of mine to be pawed over and read unsympathetically after I am dead, by those incapable of understanding... And then the thought of the one thing even more dreadful and terrible than that - for my diary never to be read by the one person who would or could understand. For I do want it to be read - there is no use concealing the fact - by somebody who is like me, who would understand. Jeb Alexander was a gay man who lived in Washington, D.C., during the first half of the twentieth century. From 1918, when he was nineteen years old, until the late 1950s, he chronicled his daily life engagingly and unsparingly, leaving behind a unique record of ordinary gay life before Stonewall, a history that has remained largely hidden until now. Jeb came of age as the century did, witnessing and recording political and social change from the position of insider as an editor for the U.S. Government and outsider as a gay man. Painfully shy, and frustrated in his ambition to be a novelist by writer's block, Jeb turned to his diary as a way of expressing himself as well as recording events, creating a full emotional self-portrait and unforgettable sketches of the men who made up his lively circle of friends. Jeb and Dash also details the joy and anguish of an extraordinary on-and-off love affair between Jeb and C. C. Dasham (Dash), whom he met in college and with whom he remained friends throughout his life. A rare and important historical document, a beautifully written memoir, a love story, an ode to old Washington, D.C., Jeb and Dash is a remarkable find and an enduring literary achievement.

Thura's Diary

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Publisher : Viking Juvenile
ISBN 13 : 9780670058860
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (588 download)

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Download or read book Thura's Diary written by Thura Al-Windawi and published by Viking Juvenile. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen-year-old Thura al-Windawi traces the days leading up to the bombings in Iraq, the war, and the chaos that followed, describing her life and the reality of war for Iraqi families.