Lilacs In The Dust Bowl

Author : Diana Stevan,Jocelyn Reekie
Publisher : Peregrin Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1896402151

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Lilacs in the Dust Bowl by Diana Stevan,Jocelyn Reekie Pdf

Author Diana Stevan's sequel to the award-winning Sunflowers Under Fire. Lukia's story continues in Lilacs in the Dust Bowl, an inspirational family saga about love and heartache during the Great Depression. In 1929, when Lukia Mazurets, a widow and a Ukrainian peasant farmer, immigrates to Canada with her four children, she has no idea the stock market is about to crash and throw the world into a deep depression. Falling grain prices, the ravages of nature, and unexpected family conflicts threaten to smash her dreams of family unity in a strange land. And when love knocks on her door again, awakening desire she thought was long gone, Lukia has to choose between having a man in her life or the children she's sacrificed everything for.

Author : Diana Stevan
Publisher : Peregrin Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781896402178

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Lilacs in the Dust Bowl by Diana Stevan Pdf

Author Diana Stevan's sequel to the award-winning Sunflowers Under Fire. Lukia's story continues in Lilacs in the Dust Bowl, an inspirational family saga about love and heartache during the Great Depression.

In 1929, when Lukia Mazurets, a widow and a Ukrainian peasant farmer, immigrates to Canada with her four children, she has no idea the stock market is about to crash and throw the world into a deep depression. Falling grain prices, the ravages of nature, and unexpected family conflicts threaten to smash her dreams of family unity in a strange land. And when love knocks on her door again, awakening desire she thought was long gone, Lukia has to choose between having a man in her life or the children she’s sacrificed everything for.

Diana Stevan is also the author of the novels, A Cry from The Deep and The Rubber Fence and the novelette The Blue Nightgown. A former family therapist, she is the mother of two daughters and lives with her husband Robert in West Vancouver and on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Author : Diana Stevan
Publisher : Diana Stevan
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780994040107

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A CRY FROM THE DEEP by Diana Stevan Pdf

A Romantic Mystery and Adventure of a Love So Powerful It Spans Several Lifetimes. “Catherine is all the things I look for in a heroine.”—Author, Margaret Conway “Has all the elements of a great escape novel.”—Author Peggy Morehouse Strack Catherine Fitzgerald, an underwater photographer, is about to go on a hunt for an old Spanish ship. Heading the dive team is a notorious salvager who’ll stop at nothing to get what he wants. As if that isn’t trouble enough, Catherine buys an old Claddagh ring and begins to have nightmares of a woman from another time. Who she is and why she’s haunting Catherine becomes as compelling as the hunt itself. While unraveling the mystery, Catherine questions her own struggle to find true love. Will it be her ex, a psychiatrist, who still loves her, or the handsome but unavailable marine archaeologist on the dive team? Or is she destined to be alone? Set in Provence, Manhattan, and Ireland, this time-slip novel exposes not only two women’s longings, but also the beauty of the deep, where buried treasures tempt salvagers to break the law.

Author : Donald Worster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195174887

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Dust Bowl by Donald Worster Pdf

Personal recollections recreate experiences of two Dust Bowl communities

Author : Diana Stevan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1988180023

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The Rubber Fence by Diana Stevan Pdf

When Dr. Joanna Bereza, a passionate intern, challenges Dr. Myron Eisenstadt, her supervising psychiatrist, on his aggressive use of shock treatment, she risks not only her career but also her marriage. It doesn't help that she's working alongside a seductive intern, who looks more like a rock musician than an aspiring shrink.

Author : Lisa Gammon Olson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1632330768

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Dust Flowers by Lisa Gammon Olson Pdf

During one of the most trying periods in American history, the Dust Bowl Era, a little girl nurtures a courageous seedling she found. She knows the blooms would bring a smile to her Mama's tired face, as she has heard stories of her former gardens. What she doesn't know is that the little flower promises something even more precious: Hope.

Author : Diana Stevan
Publisher : Island House Publishing
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781988180069

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Sunflowers Under Fire by Diana Stevan Pdf

Finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Awards, Semi-finalist for 2019 Kindle Book Awards, Literary Fiction, and Honorable Mention 2020 Writers' Digest Self-Published Book Awards. In this family saga, love and loss are bound together by a country always at war During WWI, Lukia Mazurets, a Ukrainian farmwife, delivers her eighth child while her husband is serving in the Tsar’s army. Soon after, she and her children are forced to flee the invading Germans. Over the next fourteen years, Lukia must rely on her wits and faith to survive life in a refugee camp, the ravages of a typhus epidemic, the Bolshevik revolution, unimaginable losses, and one daughter’s forbidden love. Sunflowers Under Fire is a heartbreakingly intimate novel that illuminates the strength of the human spirit. Based on the true stories of her grandmother’s ordeals, author Diana Stevan captures the voices of those who had little say in a country that is still being fought over.

Author : Frank King
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595181537

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The Sweet Cherry Ranch by Frank King Pdf

The Sweet Cherry Ranch is an earthy, tough, and moving account of Frank King's continuing recovery from alcholism. The family addiction skipped one generation, then hit Frank, and his youngest brother Tony, with a sucker punch. Both have been sober for many years, Frank for more than 30. In his drinking years Frank King was a World War II Marine, a radioman-gunner in dive bombers; a radio operator, a civilian air traffic controller, a writer, a public relations manager, and Super Dad. A successful, funcitoning alcoholic, he was married three times. When his beloved second wife, June, died in childbirth, his drinking accelerated. He sobered up only when he couldnt stand looking at himself in the mirror. His story is about a wonderful childhood, finding booze, drinking, loss, hitting bottom, giving up, discovcery, finding faith, and sobriety.

Author : Matthew Scott Phillips
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015066859698

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Theatre, War and Propaganda by Matthew Scott Phillips Pdf

A focus on theater as conflict. The most extreme human conflict is war. War itself is spoken of as being conducted in "theaters" and is now fully dramatized on television, the ultimate reality program and spectator sport for armchair combatants. Selected from papers presented at the April 2005 Southeastern Theatre Conference's annual symposium, these essays probe the relationships between theater, war, and propaganda by examining theatrical responses to World War II, Vietnam, and the aftermath of 9/11. In the collection's first section, Bruce A. McConachie deconstructs standard notions concerning Bertolt Brecht's position on spectator empathy, while Alan Woods explores a post-WWII European tour of Porgy and Bess as an example of American Cold War diplomacy. Anne Fletcher, kb saine, and Claudia Wilsch Case investigate the different means by which the theatre is uniquely equipped to define and perpetuate the national mythologies indispensable to a nation at war. Other essays tackle, in turn, Vietnam-era protest drama, and theatrical responses to 9/11 and the war in Iraq. Kate Bredeson documents the explosive reaction in Avignon during the summer of 1968 when authorities banned a production of Gérard Gelas's La Paillasse aux seins nus. Evan Bridestine, meanwhile, posits the notion of a dual wave of plays in the wake of 9/11: the first comprised of highly visceral responses, followed by a second wave of more cerebral dramas addressing the conflicts between individuals and their positions as members of a national or cultural group. Finally, Diana Calderazzo explores the critical reactions to Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, both in the U.S. and abroad, as informed by events as varied as the first Gulf War, 9/11, and the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Author : David J. Wishart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803247877

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Encyclopedia of the Great Plains by David J. Wishart Pdf

"Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a region that has traditionally been poorly defined,' and they have

Author : Ruth Ann Musick
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780813128276

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The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales by Ruth Ann Musick Pdf

" West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens of death, these tales reflect the inner lives—the hopes, beliefs, and fears—of a people. Like all folklore, these tales reveal much of the history of the region: its isolation and violence, the passions and bloodshed of the Civil War era, the hardships of miners and railroad laborers, and the lingering vitality of Old World traditions.

Author : Stephen Fender
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136632273

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Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature by Stephen Fender Pdf

Working through close rhetorical analysis of everything from fiction and journalism to documents and documentaries, this book looks at how popular memory favors the country Depression over the economic crisis in the nation’s cities and factories. Over eighty years after it happened, the Depression still lives on in iconic images of country poor whites – in the novels of John Steinbeck, the photographs of Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein, the documentary films of Pare Lorenz and the thousands of share-croppers’ life histories as taken down by the workers of the Federal Writers’ Project. Like the politicians and bureaucrats who accomplished the New Deal’s radical reforms in banking, social security and labor union law, the artists, novelists and other writers who supported or even worked for the New Deal were idealists, well to the left of center in their politics. Yet when it came to hard times on the American farm, something turned them into unwitting reactionaries. Though they brought these broken lives of the country poor to the notice and sympathy of the public, they also worked unconsciously to undermine their condition. How and why? Fender shows how the answer lies in clues overlooked until now, hidden in their writing -- their journalism and novels, the "life histories" they ghost wrote for their poor white clients, the bureaucratic communications through which they administered these cultural programs, even in the documentary photographs and movies, with their insistent captions and voice-overs. This book is a study of literary examples from in and around the country Depression, and the myths on which they drew.

Author : Jane Kirkpatrick
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400074303

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Where Lilacs Still Bloom by Jane Kirkpatrick Pdf

One woman, an impossible dream, and the faith it took to see it through, inspired by the life of Hulda Klager German immigrant and farm wife Hulda Klager possesses only an eighth-grade education—and a burning desire to create something beautiful. What begins as a hobby to create an easy-peeling apple for her pies becomes Hulda’s driving purpose: a time-consuming interest in plant hybridization that puts her at odds with family and community, as she challenges the early twentieth-century expectations for a simple housewife. Through the years, seasonal floods continually threaten to erase her Woodland, Washington garden and a series of family tragedies cause even Hulda to question her focus. In a time of practicality, can one person’s simple gifts of beauty make a difference? Based on the life of Hulda Klager, Where Lilacs Still Bloom is a story of triumph over an impossible dream and the power of a generous heart. “Beauty matters… it does. God gave us flowers for a reason. Flowers remind us to put away fear, to stop our rushing and running and worrying about this and that, and for a moment, have a piece of paradise right here on earth.”

Author : Prinnie McCourt
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781329511569

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Seriously? by Prinnie McCourt Pdf

Seriously? In this, her sixth book of poetry, Prinnie's subjects range from: ingrown toenails, Turkish delights, lilacs, blue rocks, football, a snow goose, the dust bowl, orioles, ambition, mortality, seduction, and so much more. Seriously? Oh, yes!

Author : A. K. Henderson
Publisher : CCB Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781926918716

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Lilacs in the Snow: A Novel by A. K. Henderson Pdf

Lilacs in the Snow chronicles Caasi's passage from desolate childhood to impetuous adolescence to a shaken, yet solid adulthood, and is intertwined with the similarly volatile political, socio-economic, and racial climate of the mid-twentieth century. The story begins when an adult Caasi returns to Montréal and visits her estranged father. The encounter rekindles fragments of her childhood chaos, and she takes the reader on a gripping journey through the world of her collected memories, which are illuminated by flashes of sensitivity, poignancy, budding sensuality, resilience, humor, and abidi.