Growing Up In Little Egypt

Author : Linda Lee Ream
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781475901740

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Growing up in Little Egypt by Linda Lee Ream Pdf

Before Eldon Lee died at the age of ninety-six, he told his daughter about his lifes many adventures. These adventures begin in Little Egypt, deep in southern Illinois. His stories blend family history with tales of farming, school, hometown life, courtship, and entrepreneurial endeavors. He also recalls the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, the 1925 Tristate Tornado, working at the 193334 Century of Progress Exposition, dancing in Windy City ballrooms, becoming a family man, and serving in World War II. Eldons daughter, Linda Lee Ream, continues the memoir, drawing upon her vivid memories of her father returning from the war and trying to find a job. He gets his first big break in 1949 when he becomes the manager of a lumberyard, and he works steadfastly to support his family through the golden era of the fifties and beyond. Growing Up in Little Egypt extends beyond family and local history interest to provide a century-wide example of an American life well-lived and thoroughly enjoyed by a special man.

Author : Rosalie David,Dr Rosalie David
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01
Category : History
ISBN : 078571703X

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Growing Up in Ancient Egypt by Rosalie David,Dr Rosalie David Pdf

Describes daily life in ancient Egypt, discussing life in the city, life in the country, pets and toys, meals, and other aspects.

Author : Darcy O'Brien
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781497658653

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Murder in Little Egypt by Darcy O'Brien Pdf

New York Times Bestseller: The “fascinating” true story of John Dale Cavaness, a much-admired Illinois doctor—and the cold-blooded killer of his own son (The Washington Post). Fusing the narrative power of an award-winning novelist and the detailed research of an experienced investigator, author Darcy O’Brien unfolds the story of Dr. John Dale Cavaness, the southern Illinois physician and surgeon charged with the murder of his son Sean in December 1984. Outraged by the arrest of the skilled medical practitioner who selflessly attended to their needs, the people of Little Egypt, as the natives call their region, rose to his defense. But during the subsequent trial, a radically different, disquieting portrait of Dr. Cavaness would emerge. Throughout the three decades that he enjoyed the admiration and respect of his community, Cavaness was privately terrorizing his family, abusing his employees, and making disastrous financial investments. As more and more grisly details of the Cavaness case come to stark Midwestern light in O’Brien’s chilling account, so too does the hidden gothic underside of rural America and its heritage of violence and blood. “A meticulous account . . . An implicit indictment of a culture that condones and encourages violent behavior in men.” —The New York Times Book Review “A fascinating story, and Darcy O’Brien does a great job of structuring it for suspense.” —The Washington Post “Riveting.”—Publishers Weekly “A terrifying story of family violence and the community that honored the perpetrator.” —Kirkus Reviews “Stunning material . . . Handled with justice and fastidiousness by a natural storyteller.” —Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize

Author : Nancy Scott
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1462062776

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So Long, Little Egypt by Nancy Scott Pdf

Though outwardly successful, young Anne Christies prominent midwestern coal-mining family is deeply troubled Anne especially. While growing up during the late 1950s, Anne becomes convinced that her mother hates her. Emotionally isolated at home, she seeks love and approval in the arms of the many men who pursue her. As she embarks on a journey that will take her to New York in pursuit of a modeling career, Anne doesnt dream that one day her past will come back to haunt her. When Anne meets and marries Billy Kane, a jazz musician with an explosive personality, her mother makes it known that she does not approve. Anne and Billy move to the suburbs with their young children, but when Anne discovers that there are other women in Billys life, the marriage disintegrates. Seeking a new romantic attachment in 1970, Anne immerses herself in Manhattans wild singles scene. After two years she tires of this lifestyle and comes home to her children and the young man she will eventually marry. But though Anne works hard to create a stable life for her family, her painful relationship with her mother keeps interfering. As she attempts to unearth her true identity, Anne explores love, motherhood, and middle age and finds a new life at the center of a series of personal losses.

Author : Rosalind M. Janssen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Children
ISBN : OCLC:1310739629

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Growing up in ancient Egypt by Rosalind M. Janssen Pdf

Author : Thomas McMahon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226561134

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Loving Little Egypt by Thomas McMahon Pdf

In the early 1920s, nearly blind physics prodigy Mourly Vold finds out how to tap into the nation's long distance telephone lines. With the help of Alexander Graham Bell, Vold tries to warn the phone companies that would-be saboteurs could do the same thing, but they ignore him. Unfortunately, his taps do catch the notice of William Randolph Hearst, who hires Thomas Edison to get to the bottom of them—and the chase is on!

Author : Lynn Siefert
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822213389

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Little Egypt by Lynn Siefert Pdf

THE STORY: Faye Waltz has her hands full with her unmarried, sexpot daughter Bernadette; but when her other daughter, Celeste, moves back home as a thirtysomething, college-educated bookworm, Faye's situation is worse than before. She suspects ther

Author : James Varga
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781666738582

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Tombs of Little Egypt by James Varga Pdf

Grave robbers turn a Southern Illinois town upside down. Lou and Duke, drifting ex-cons, are arrested and prosecuted for the crimes. Retired Sheriff Sam Carter records a chronicle of events to keep his town, Greens Point, in a good light for the history books. Media covering the notorious crimes and trial pumps unforeseen money into this once sleepy town. From postarrest statements, Sheriff Carter learns about the defendants’ lives. From the witness stand, Lou yells at the jurors and spectators and shouts that they are the gold diggers. The shift to the criminals' perspectives gnaws at Sheriff Carter. Betsy, his wife, asks him a question from the book of John: do you know what Lazarus said after he was raised from the tomb? The question haunts him until the end of the ordeal—Betsy must tell him the answer. Beneath the retired sheriff’s wry narration of the investigation, arrests, and trial lies a fundamental question bound by neither place nor time. The truly good person is not the accuser but the accused, not the historian but the criminal, condemned between the pages of history in a tomb void of the dreams and hope of tomorrow.

Author : Robert Gordon
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781623682262

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"Then Bowa Said to Schmidt. . ." by Robert Gordon Pdf

The ultimate reference book for any “Phillie phanatic,” this book provides a behind-the-scenes peek into the private world of the players, managers, broadcasters, and executives, taking readers into the clubhouse and onto the field. Author Robert Gordon takes fans inside the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies' run to the World Series, when first baseman John Kruk once told a fan, “I ain't an athlete, lady, I'm a baseball player;” back to 1980, when Mike Schmidt, Steve Carlton, and Larry Bowa delivered the team's first World Series title; and to 2008, when a new generation experienced the ecstasy of a World Series win. Written for every fan who follows the Phillies, this unique book captures the memories and great stories from more than a century of the team's history.

Author : Amedee Baillot de Guerville
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : History
ISBN : 9783849678463

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New Egypt by Amedee Baillot de Guerville Pdf

De Guerville, the author of “New Egypt,” is able to break through the hedges that surround the divinely-appointed affairs of many foreign places. In his own words he obtained his intormation about the new Egypt from “ highly placed personages in the Egyptian world, English, French, natives, and others; these men, keen and talented, who in palaces, ministries, legations, schools, hospitals, bands, or large industrial concerns, are working without ceasing for the regeneration of Egypt.” Not for a long time has there been a book of travel that is so very interesting and refreshingly instructive. The author took the trip from Alexandria to Cairo, thence to Luxor, Karnac, Assouan, Khartoum, and Fashoda - now called Kodok. His account of these places is interspersed with facts relative to the French in Egypt, the pleasures of Cairo, Ismail and his reign, the commercial and industrial life of the land, and the social, religious, and political conditions in this rapidly changing country

Author : Chloe Perkins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781481497145

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Living in . . . Egypt by Chloe Perkins Pdf

Discover what it’s like to grow up in Egypt in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read, part of a series all about kids just like you in countries around the world! Ahlan! My name is Amira, and I’m a kid just like you living in Egypt. Egypt is a country filled with big cities, beautiful deserts, and some of the coolest ancient monuments in the world! Have you ever wondered what Egypt is like? Come along with me to find out! Each book in our Living in… series is narrated by a kid growing up in their home country and is filled with fresh, modern illustrations as well as loads of history, geography, and cultural goodies that fit perfectly into Common Core standards. Join kids from all over the world on a globe-trotting adventure with the Living in… series—sure to be a hit with children, parents, educators, and librarians alike!

Author : Russ Cheatham
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781628467444

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Bad Boy of Gospel Music by Russ Cheatham Pdf

“I messed up,” Calvin Newton lamented, after wasting thirty years and doing time in both state and federal prisons for theft, counterfeiting, and drug violations. “These were years of my life that I could have been singing gospel music.” During his prime, he was super-handsome, athletic, and charged with sexual charisma that attracted women to him like flies to honey. Atop this abundance was his astounding voice, “the voice of an angel.” This book is his prodigal-son story. Audacious, Newton never turned down a dare, even if it meant climbing on the roof of a speeding car or wading into a freezing ocean. As a boy boxer, he was a Kentucky Golden Gloves champ who k.o.’ed his opponent in twenty-three seconds. By his late teens he had been recruited by the Blackwood Brothers, the number-one gospel quartet in the world. In his mid-twenties while he was singing Christian songs with the Oak Ridge Quartet, Newton’s mighty talent and movie-star looks took him deep into hedonism--reckless driving, heavy romancing, and addictive pill popping. As 1950s rock ‘n’ roll began its invasion of gospel, he and two partners formed the Sons of Song, the first all-male gospel trio. Long before the pop sound claimed contemporary Christian music, the Sons of Song turned gospel upside down with histrionic harmony, high-styled tuxedos, and Hollywood verve. Their signature song, “Wasted Years,” foreshadowed Newton’s punishing fall. This biography looks back at the destructive lifestyle that wrecked a sparkling career. When well into his sixties, Newton turned his life around and was able to confront his demons and discuss his prodigal days. He talked extensively with Russ Cheatham about his self- destruction and the great personal expense of his own bad-boy choices and late redemption. In this candid biography, one of gospel’s all-stars discloses a messed-up life that vacillated between achievement and failure, fame and infamy, happiness and grief.

Author : Edgar A. Imhoff
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809318547

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Always of Home by Edgar A. Imhoff Pdf

Edgar Allen Imhoff renders a series of touching, colorful vignettes about growing up in southern Illinois during the Great Depression. He writes poignantly of his family and their struggles (including his father's exhausting but successful effort at self-education) as he revisits his early childhood years in the country and his eventual move to the town of Murphysboro, where he encountered school bullies, outstanding teachers, first love, World War II, and adolescence. Imhoff contrasts these memories of his youth with events, incidents, and thoughts from his more recent past. While writing a government check with six figures to the left of the decimal, he remembers how his mother once scrounged together thirty cents so Imhoff and his brother and sister could go to the circus with their classmates. Listening to President Carter give a speech in the Rose Garden reminds him of the contrasting elocutionary style of the Reverend William Boatman, the pastor at his country church, which was built by Imhoff's great-great-grandfather and others. Through such contrasts, Imhoff not only paints a loving picture of his past, he also comments on the alienation and emptiness that mark many lives in the United States, especially those of modern nomads. Imhoff has himself become a nomad, living far from the land of his birth, enjoying a successful and rewarding career. Yet he is drawn repeatedly to his past, his family, his childhood home, and the intricate combination of events, attitudes, values, and loyalties that influenced and molded him.

Author : Jennifer Fisher,Anthony Shay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195386691

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When Men Dance by Jennifer Fisher,Anthony Shay Pdf

'When Men Dance' explores the intersection of dance and perceptions of male gender and sexuality across history and different cultural contexts. Its scholarly essays tackle the history and dilemmas that revolve around dance and notions of masculinity from a variety of dance studies perspectives.

Author : Ann Rosalie David
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 1855110598

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Growing Up in Ancient Egypt by Ann Rosalie David Pdf

Describes daily life in ancient Egypt, discussing life in the city, life in the country, pets and toys, meals, and other aspects.