Dear Editor And Friends

Author : Norah L. Lewis
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780889207325

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Dear Editor and Friends by Norah L. Lewis Pdf

How did women in the early twentieth century, newly arrived in North-West Canada, cope with their strange new lives — so very different from the lives they used to lead? How did they see themselves and their role in frontier life? In the early twentieth century, drawn west by the promise of free land, economic success or religious and political freedom, women moved from eastern Canada and overseas to farms and ranches in North-West Canada. They discovered that it was not the utopia touted by government propaganda or land agents. They also discovered that there was a select but diverse group of rural women who shared their common experiences of isolation, of hard work and duty, of poverty and neglect. But, more importantly, they shared knowledge of independence and self-reliance and of pride in what they had accomplished. Through letters written to the women’s pages in agricultural newspapers, they forged a vital network that supported, encouraged and educated women in ways to improve their rural lives. Their letters show how these rural women made significant and vital contributions to the settlement and development of the Canadian North-West.

Author : Amy Newman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393245677

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Dear Editor: Poems by Amy Newman Pdf

"Amy Newman is one of the most gifted and original poets writing in America today."—Martha Collins Each prose poem in this extraordinary volume is an impassioned letter to a nameless editor from a poet seeking publication for her collection about chess, sainthood, and the poet's lonely childhood. Taken individually, the poems display a dazzling originality; together, they form an exquisite exploration of memory and longing.

Author : Annie F. Downs
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310337935

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Let's All Be Brave by Annie F. Downs Pdf

How often does fear hold you back from living your life to the fullest? Join New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and speaker Annie F. Downs as she shares a call to embrace the God-given courage living inside you. Annie is the first to admit that she's not exactly the bravest woman in the world. Even now, she still cries sometimes when she leaves her parents' home in Georgia, she's never jumped out of a plane, and she only rides roller coasters to impress guys. But Annie knows that courage resides inside each one of us, and she's on a mission to conquer her own fears while encouraging you to do the same. Let's All Be Brave is more than a book; it's a battle cry. Annie uses honest and often humorous illustrations from her own life, contemporary real-life examples from the lives of others, and fascinating biblical stories to challenge you to: Discover God's surprising answers to overcoming fear, uncertainty, and anxiety Let go of the things that hold you back--relationships, comfort zones, expectations, and more Say yes to both small and big things Live boldly and sacrificially for God and others Hold on to hope, trust God, and be brave no matter your circumstances This book is your call to step into those places that require courage, giving you the help you need to take the next step forward—even when it's scary. Praise for Let's All Be Brave: "There are certain types of people who are capable of nudging us toward courage without making us feel small or insignificant, and Annie is at the front of the line. She has done that with Let's All Be Brave, and before you even mean to, you are putting your YES on the table." --Jen Hatmaker, New York Times bestselling author of For the Love and Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1640 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555025211

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The Primitive Methodist Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ann Jane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555009715

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The Mothers' friend, ed. by Ann Jane by Ann Jane Pdf

Author : Yiyun Li
Publisher : Random House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780399589119

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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li Pdf

In her first memoir, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li offers a journey of recovery through literature: a letter from a writer to like-minded readers. “A meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life.”—Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead “What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance?” Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is a luminous account of a life lived with books. Written over two years while the author battled suicidal depression, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living. Yiyun Li grew up in China and has spent her adult life as an immigrant in a country not her own. She has been a scientist, an author, a mother, a daughter—and through it all she has been sustained by a profound connection with the writers and books she loves. From William Trevor and Katherine Mansfield to Søren Kierkegaard and Philip Larkin, Dear Friend is a journey through the deepest themes that bind these writers together. Interweaving personal experiences with a wide-ranging homage to her most cherished literary influences, Yiyun Li confronts the two most essential questions of her identity: Why write? And why live? Praise for Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life “Li has stared in the face of much that is beautiful and ugly and treacherous and illuminating—and from her experience she has produced a nourishing exploration of the will to live willfully.”—The Washington Post “Li’s transformation into a writer . . . is nothing short of astonishing.’”—The New York Times Book Review “An arrestingly lucid, intellectually vital series of contemplations on art, identity, and depression.”—The Boston Globe “Li is an exemplary storyteller and this account of her journey back to equilibrium, assisted by her closest companion, literature, is as powerful as any of her award-winning fiction, with the dark fixture of her Beijing past at its centre.”—Financial Times “Every writer is a reader first, and Dear Friend is Li’s haunted, luminous love letter to the words that shaped her. . . . Her own prose is both lovely and opaque, fitfully illuminating a radiant landscape of the personal and profound.”—Entertainment Weekly “Yiyun Li’s prose is lean and intense, and her ideas about books and writing are wholly original.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Diplomatic and consular service
ISBN : MSU:31293012858639

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State by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Society of Friends
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6IB6

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The British Friend by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas E. Ricks
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698164543

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Churchill and Orwell by Thomas E. Ricks Pdf

A New York Times bestseller! A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's—Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that by the end of the 20th century they would be considered two of the most important people in British history for having the vision and courage to campaign tirelessly, in words and in deeds, against the totalitarian threat from both the left and the right. In a crucial moment, they responded first by seeking the facts of the matter, seeing through the lies and obfuscations, and then they acted on their beliefs. Together, to an extent not sufficiently appreciated, they kept the West's compass set toward freedom as its due north. It's not easy to recall now how lonely a position both men once occupied. By the late 1930's, democracy was discredited in many circles, and authoritarian rulers were everywhere in the ascent. There were some who decried the scourge of communism, but saw in Hitler and Mussolini "men we could do business with," if not in fact saviors. And there were others who saw the Nazi and fascist threat as malign, but tended to view communism as the path to salvation. Churchill and Orwell, on the other hand, had the foresight to see clearly that the issue was human freedom—that whatever its coloration, a government that denied its people basic freedoms was a totalitarian menace and had to be resisted. In the end, Churchill and Orwell proved their age's necessary men. The glorious climax of Churchill and Orwell is the work they both did in the decade of the 1940's to triumph over freedom's enemies. And though Churchill played the larger role in the defeat of Hitler and the Axis, Orwell's reckoning with the menace of authoritarian rule in Animal Farm and 1984 would define the stakes of the Cold War for its 50-year course, and continues to give inspiration to fighters for freedom to this day. Taken together, in Thomas E. Ricks's masterful hands, their lives are a beautiful testament to the power of moral conviction, and to the courage it can take to stay true to it, through thick and thin. Churchill and Orwell is a perfect gift for the holidays!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : MSU:31293016404844

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State Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph Parisi,Stephen Young
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393050929

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Dear Editor: Poems by Joseph Parisi,Stephen Young Pdf

Collects more than six hundred letters to and from the editors of Poetry that were written about and by such figures as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Wallace Stevens. 10,000 first printing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Jorg Aadahl
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781301967063

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Dear Editor by Anonim Pdf

Progressive, opinionated published and unpublished letters to editors, free to be copied and/or modified and re-published. Gun control, politics, religion, LGBT, War on Women, torture, Islam, terrorism, 9/11, healthcare, Planned Parenthood, taxation, job creation, human rights, circumcision, supreme court, secularism, US secular Constitution, Social security, patriotism, Obamacare, presidential qualifications, Pat Tillman assassination, has GOP any future?

Author : Wendell Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Antislavery movements
ISBN : OCLC:1039441004

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Letter to Dear Friend & 1/3 of an Editor by Wendell Phillips Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Society of Friends
ISBN : IND:30000115855268

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The American Friend by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tim Hanley
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781613732472

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Investigating Lois Lane by Tim Hanley Pdf

In a universe full of superheroes, Lois Lane has fought for truth and justice for over 75 years on page and screen without a cape or tights. From her creation by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1938 to her forthcoming appearance in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016, from helming her own comic book for twenty-six years to appearing in animated serials, live-action TV shows, and full-length movies, Lois Lane has been a paragon of journalistic integrity and the paramour of the world's strongest superhero. But her history is one of constant tension. From her earliest days, Lois yearned to make the front page of the Daily Planet, but was held back by her damsel-in-distress role. When she finally became an ace reporter, asinine lessons and her tumultuous romance with Superman dominated her storylines for decades and relegated her journalism to the background. Through it all, Lois remained a fearless and ambitious character, and today she is a beloved icon and an inspiration to many. Though her history is often troubling, Lois's journey, as revealed in Investigating Lois Lane, showcases her ability to always escape the gendered limitations of each era and of the superhero genre as a whole.