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Author : Gary B. Borders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Essays
ISBN : 1571688536
Author : Gerri Hill
Publisher : Bella Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594937545
Jacqueline Keys was ostracized from her small hometown of Pine Springs, Texas when she was seventeen, sent away because she was gay. Her family was the largest employer in the county, owning Pine Springs Lumber, and her father was mayor of this small town. Her mother could not accept the fact that her only child was gay, could not tolerate the gossip about her family. So, with a hundred dollars in her pocket and a one-way bus ticket out of town, Jacqueline was told not to come back until she had come to her senses. And that included being prepared to marry the son of a business associate of the family. Fifteen years later—long after she'd hitch-hiked to Los Angeles, long after she'd worked nights to put herself through college, and long after she'd written her first best seller, No Place For Family—Jacqueline is persuaded to go back to the tiny town of Pine Springs after her father's death. The quick trip she'd envisioned for the funeral turns into weeks as she learns her father's business is suddenly hers to manage. And she is also again face-to-face with the woman who, as a teen, had been Jackie's first crush. She and Kay had been inseparable as kids, and later as teens. They find themselves falling back into their old habits, and Jackie is soon fighting the same feelings she'd had when she was seventeen. But living behind the pine curtain, Kay is afraid of her love for Jackie, afraid of what her family will say, afraid of how the town will react. Jackie refuses to hide, refuses to crawl back into the closet, so once again, she leaves Pine Springs...alone.
Author : Thomas B. Hargrave Jr.
Publisher : Author House
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781481718134
Buoyed by his remarkable extended family, Thomas B. Hargrave, Jr., came of age during the turbulent decades of the Great Depression and World War II. He attended nine segregated public schools, served in a segregated Air Force, and ultimately graduated from college in 1951. He confronted the barriers of racism, intolerance, and injustice, earning his membership in the vanguard of the Civil Rights movement. In his memoirs, he shares honest recollections of the segregated society of his youth and how his early experiences shaped his outlook on life. Behind the Magnolia Curtain serves as his legacy to a new generation who will continue the quest for justice.
Author : Claudio Magris
Publisher : Random House
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446475294
Early this century Enrico, a young intellectual, leaves the city of Gorizia with its abundant population and culture, to spend several years living on the Patagonian pampas, alone with his ancient Greek texts, his flocks and, every now and then, a woman. He has been taught by his closest friend, Carlo, a philosopher/poet who commits suicide in his early twenties, to search for an authentic life, free of social falsehoods. But in his search for this unattainable goal, Enrico destroys every chance he has of a normal existence. This is portrait of a world in ferment, a decaying empire shaken by war and revolution, and a life-long search for meaning.
Author : G. L. Steer
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571281015
The Tree of Gernika: a Field Study of Modern War was published in 1938. It is G. L. Steer's masterpiece. Martha Gellhorn famously wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt: 'You must read a book by a man names Steer: it is called The Tree of Gernika. It is about the fight of the Basques - he's the London Times man - and no better book has come out of the war and he says well all the things I have tried to say to you the times I saw you, after Spain. It is beautifully written and true, and few books are like that, and fewer still deal with war. Pleas get it.' As Paul Preston says in his We Saw Spain Die, 'Martha Gellhorn's judgement has more than stood the test of time.' In his introduction, Nick Rankin writes.' The Tree of Gernika tells how Euzkadi, the democratic republic that the Basques created in their green homeland by the Bay of Biscay, fought for freedom and decency in an atrocious civil war. After a year of struggle, blockaded by sea, bombed from the air, fighting against overwhelming odds in their own hill, the Basques in the end lost to Franco's forces - but they lost honourably, without resorting to murder, torture and treachery.' It was Steer who alerted the world to the destruction of Gernika (Basque spelling), Guernica (Spanish spelling). It was the most important dispatch of his life, run by both The Times and The New York Times. Nick Rankin rightly describes The Tree of Gernika as 'a masterpiece of narrative history and eyewitness reporting by someone close to the key events . . .'
Author : Olivia Kidron
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781398424395
“They tried siege ladders last night, but we were warned and shot naphtha flares into the city. The archers kneel behind the upper rampart and, as the Lady Im’Annas, our Seer, walks past, they rise up and shoot over her head. The Parthians are too superstitious to even try to shoot at her...” The prophetess, Serah, daughter of Asher, arrives at the temple in AD 70, so does the Roman general, Pompey, but unlike him, she does not leave.
Author : Imogen Herrad
Publisher : Seren
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781854116093
Beyond the Pampas is an exploration of the lives of the descendents of nineteenth century Welsh settlers in Argentina. Herrad discovers a fascinating melding of Welsh and Spanish language cultures through which she explores the nature of heritage and identity. Her expectations are further challenged by the plight of Patagonia's indigenous peoples - the Tehuelche and Mapuche - with the land-related cultures and oppression by European settlers. This is an additional prism through which to view history, as is the difference Herrad discovers between metropolitan Buenos Aires and the rural hinterland. And the whole is underpinned by Herrad's personal journey of self-discovery, from an abusive childhood in Germany to acceptance in the communities of Wales and Patagonia. Herrad's openness to new experience and her wonder at the natural world result in a rich and evocative depiction of the exotic places in which she finds herself, from camping under the stars in the Andes to whale-watching on the Atlantic coast, and from the Welsh-speaking tea rooms of Chubut to the museums of lost Indian peoples.
Author : George Moorad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Russia
ISBN : UCAL:$B527731
Author : Carl Gellert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : UOM:39015078958868
Author : George Getschow
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477327876
"Larry McMurtry is the author of dozens of novels (Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show), screenplays (Brokeback Mountain, Terms of Endearment), and essays ("Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen"), among other writings. He won the Pulitzer Prize, Oscars, and Emmys, among other honors. When he died in March 2021, he was possibly Texas's best-known and best-loved writer, an honor he famously dismissed with a t-shirt that read "minor regional novelist." George Getschow worked with McMurtry through the Archer City Writer's Workshop, an annual three-day event in McMurtry's hometown that pairs emerging and established writers. He's leveraged that network to build this collection of essays paying homage to McMurtry, only a handful of which have been previously published. The pieces in the volume pay tribute to McMurtry in a variety of ways. Stephen Graham Jones captures the thrill of seeing the legendary author prowling the stacks in his used-book store, wondering if his own books might one day be on those same shelves. Sarah Bird talks about McMurtry's "messy but mythic west" that made Texas appealing to her. Elizabeth Crook talks about how difficult it is to let go of McMurtry's characters, particularly those from Lonesome Dove, a book Geoff Dyer also found himself surprisingly unable to ignore despite everything he knew about it (it's long, slow to develop, etc.). Greg Curtis recalls McMurtry as a fellow student at Rice, and Charlie McMurtry, Larry's brother, writes about growing up with him in excerpts from his dissertation. Stephanie Elizondo Griest is enamored and perplexed by a shelf of books in McMurtry's private collection that he called his "runaways," travel accounts by 19th-century women. Diana Ossana, McMurtry's longtime screenwriting partner and one of his dearest friends, writes movingly about their friendship and many collaborations. Getschow has written an introduction that sketches the contours of McMurtry's life"--
Author : Lucy Maud Montgomery
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 3805 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : EAN:8596547809005
This carefully crafted ebook: "LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY - The Woman Behind The Books: Autobiography & Private Letters (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy & The Blue Castle)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Alpine Path is an autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery and, though factual, the story is as charming as her novels. Montgomery shares details of her life she feels are important and relative to her career, providing numerous anecdotes and sources for her inspiration. This collection also contains series of L. M. Montgomery's letters, written to her pen friend Ephraim Weber, writer and teacher from Alberta, with whom Montgomery started to correspond by a fan letter, without meeting ever before. Furthermore, this collection is enriched with author's best known and semi-autobiographical novels, including the famous Anne of Green Gables series, a trilogy about Emily Starr and a thrilling romance novel The Blue Castle. Table of Contents: Autobiography The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career Collected Letters Anne of Green Gables Series Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea Anne of the Island Anne of Windy Poplars Anne's House of Dreams Anne of Ingleside Rainbow Valley Rilla of Ingleside Complete Chronicles of Avonlea Emily Starr Trilogy Emily of New Moon Emily Climbs Emily's Quest Other Novels The Story Girl The Golden Road Jane of Lantern Hill ... Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels with Anne of Green Gables, an orphaned girl, mistakenly sent to a couple, who had intended to adopt a boy. Anne novels made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays. Most of the novels were set in Prince Edward Island, and locations within Canada's smallest province became a literary landmark and popular tourist site.
Author : Kathleen Kent
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316311069
Brooklyn's toughest female detective takes on Dallas in this "violent, sexy, and completely absorbing" Edgar Award nominee, the first novel in the acclaimed Betty Rhyzyhk series (Kirkus Reviews). Dallas, Texas is not for the faint of heart. Good thing for Betty Rhyzyk she's from a family of take-no-prisoners Brooklyn police detectives. But her Big Apple wisdom will only get her so far when she relocates to The Big D, where Mexican drug cartels and cult leaders, deadbeat skells and society wives all battle for sunbaked turf. Betty is as tough as the best of them, but she's deeply shaken when her first investigation goes sideways. Battling a group of unruly subordinates, a persistent stalker, a formidable criminal organization, and an unsupportive girlfriend, the unbreakable Detective Betty Rhyzyk may be reaching her limit. Combining the colorful pyrotechnics of Breaking Bad with the best of the gritty crime genre, The Dime is Kathleen Kent's brilliant mystery debut and the launch of a sensational new series. "Only a fan blowing in the right direction could flip the pages of this lightning-paced tale any faster." --Minneapolis Star Tribune
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Financial Institutions
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Bank holding companies
ISBN : UCR:31210019148574
Considers S. 2353 and related bills, to amend the Bank Holding Company Act by redefining "bank holding company" and by eliminating the one-bank exemption for bank ownership by non-banking concerns.
Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2252 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104264868
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006284785
