The Empress Of Weehawken

Author : Irene Dische
Publisher : Picador
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312427956

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The Empress of Weehawken by Irene Dische Pdf

At the end of what is (she cannot help observing) an extraordinary life, Elisabeth Rother has decided to write her memoirs. She recounts her narrow escape with her Jewish husband from the Nazis, and the perilous voyage to the New World of New Jersey, but those, for her, are mere facts of life. For Elisabeth, bighearted and obstinate, the most bothersome and consuming subjects are the unconventional paths and waywardness of her daughter, Renate, and her granddaughter, Irene. The Empress of Weehawken is a curiously touching love letter to the difficult but sustaining love of mothers and daughters. Written in the voice of the author's very real grandmother, it is "superb . . . razor-sharp, desert-dry, and luxuriantly ironic" (The San Diego Union-Tribune).

Author : Irene Dische
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429933391

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The Empress of Weehawken by Irene Dische Pdf

At the end of what is (she cannot help observing) an extraordinary life, Elisabeth Rother has decided to write her memoirs. She brushes aside her narrow escape with her Jewish husband from the Nazis, and the perilous voyage to the New World of New Jersey. The subject that really consumes her is the waywardness of her impossible daughter, Renate, and her granddaughter, Irene. Renate performs autopsies on the bodies of politicians whom death has harvested in the nighttime arms of their mistresses. Worse, she sleeps on unironed sheets. Irene drops out of school to roam the world, refuses to correct her nose with plastic surgery, and shows alarming signs of enjoying sex. What is to be done with such women? A curiously touching love letter to the difficult but sustaining love of mothers and daughters, The Empress of Weehawken is a masterpiece of comedy with an unexpected lilt of redemption at its close.

Author : Irene Dische,Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Publisher : Image Connection
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
ISBN : 0970276834

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Esterhazy by Irene Dische,Hans Magnus Enzensberger Pdf

Chronicles the adventures of Prince Esterhazy, a rabbit who goes to Berlin to find a bride and witnesses the destruction of the Berlin Wall.

Author : Stuart Taberner,Karina Berger
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571133939

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Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic by Stuart Taberner,Karina Berger Pdf

An opening section on the 1950s - a decade of intense literary engagement with German victimhood before the focus shifted to German perpetration - provides context, drawing parallels but also noting differences between the immediate postwar period and today. The second section focuses on key texts written since the mid-1990s and examines shifts in perspectives on the Nazi past, on perpetration and victimhood, on "ordinary Germans," and on the balance between historical empathy and condemnation."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Michael Meng,Adam R. Seipp
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785337055

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Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective by Michael Meng,Adam R. Seipp Pdf

Bringing together incisive contributions from an international group of colleagues and former students, Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective takes stock of the field of German history as exemplified by the extraordinary scholarly career of Konrad H. Jarausch. Through fascinating reflections on the discipline’s theoretical, professional, and methodological dimensions, it explores Jarausch’s monumental work as a teacher and a builder of scholarly institutions. In this way, it provides not merely a look back at the last fifty years of German history, but a path forward as new ideas and methods infuse the study of Germany’s past.

Author : Emma Goldman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0486225445

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Living My Life by Emma Goldman Pdf

The autobiography of the early radical leader and her participation in communist, anarchist, and feminist activities

Author : Michael J. Davidson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781467006613

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Brothers and Lovers by Michael J. Davidson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442973695

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And The Rat Laughed (EasyRead Comfort Edition) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karen M. Rose
Publisher : Fair Winds Press (MA)
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780760371794

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The Art & Practice of Spiritual Herbalism by Karen M. Rose Pdf

The Art & Practice of Spiritual Herbalism, written by leading Black herbalist Karen Rose, addresses herbalism and medicine making from the perspective of diasporic ancestral traditions.

Author : Randy Fertel
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496801135

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The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak by Randy Fertel Pdf

The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak is the story of two larger-than-life characters and the son whom their lives helped to shape. Ruth Fertel was a petite, smart, tough-as-nails blonde, with a weakness for rogues, who founded the Ruth’s Chris Steak House empire almost by accident. Rodney Fertel was a gold-plated, one-of-a-kind personality, a railbird-heir to wealth from a pawnshop of dubious repute just around the corner from where the teenage Louis Armstrong and his trumpet were discovered. When Fertel ran for mayor of New Orleans on a single campaign promise—buying a pair of gorillas for the zoo—he garnered a paltry 308 votes. Then he purchased the gorillas anyway! These colorful figures yoked together two worlds not often connected—lazy rice farms in the bayous and swinging urban streets where ethnicities jazzily collided. A trip downriver to the hamlet of Happy Jack focuses on its French-Alsatian roots, bountiful tables, and self-reliant lifestyle that inspired a restaurant legend. The story also offers a close-up of life in the Old Jewish Quarter on Rampart Street—and how it intersected with the denizens of “Back a’ Town,” just a few blocks away, who brought jazz from New Orleans to the world. The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak is a New Orleans story, featuring the distinctive characters, color, food, and history of that city—before Hurricane Katrina and after. But it also is the universal story of family and the full magnitude of outsize follies leavened with equal measures of humor, rage, and rue.

Author : Rhonda Mason
Publisher : Titan Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783295265

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Empress Game by Rhonda Mason Pdf

The Empress Game, the tournament fought to decide the Empress Apparent, has been called and the females of the empire will stop at nothing to secure political domination for their homeworlds. The empire's elite gather to forge, strengthen or betray alliances in a dance that will determine the fate of the empire for a generation.

Author : Valerie Boyd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780684842301

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Wrapped in Rainbows by Valerie Boyd Pdf

Traces the career of the influential African-American writer, citing the historical backdrop of her life and work while considering her relationships with and influences on top literary, intellectual, and artistic figures.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Jews
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213166676

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Jewish Book World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Don McNay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0979364450

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Life Lessons from the Lottery by Don McNay Pdf

The world is an increasingly complicated place, but one rule has held true for centuries: People who have financial security control the destiny of people who don't. People who are financially secure live longer and healthier lives. They have the freedom and independence to pick what they want to do for a living, where they want to live and to create a financial legacy for their families and causes they support. So why do so many people who "have it made" run through their money and wind up broke? Why do the majority of lottery winners, injury victims, professional athletes and people who receive an inheritance run through it all so quickly? A better question: How do you keep it from happening to you? How do you protect your retirement, injury settlement or inheritance in a way that will keep you financially secure for life? In his fourth book, best-selling author and financial guru Don McNay offers concrete solutions to those questions. McNay draws upon his internationally recognized expertise on what to do when you win the lottery and his 30 years experience as a structured settlement consultant to show people how money can provide them with happiness, security and peace of mind. Although McNay has a strong academic background with two master's degrees and four financial professional designations, the book is written in a style that everyone can grasp and understand. He breaks the book into five sections, based on the five rules of thumb that he gave to lottery winners in his 2008 bestseller, Son of a Son of a Gambler: Winners, Losers and What to Do When You Win the Lottery. McNay said that his book is about financial freedom. "Real freedom means stability, security and independence," he said. "It means never running out of money. It means never having to work at a job you hate, because you can't afford to quit. It means never becoming a slave to your creditors. It means having control and stability in your life." Life Lessons from the Lottery: Protecting Your Money in a Scary World is the road map to finding that kind of freedom.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Sophie McConnell
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Jewelry
ISBN : 9780870996160

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Metropolitan Jewelry by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Sophie McConnell Pdf

This book highlights pieces of jewellery from ancient and modern cultures in every part of the globe. Of special interest are the objects that appear in paintings and other works of art: jewel-studded gowns, glittering Renaissance brooches and an Egyptian beaded collar are among the featured works from the "Metropolitan Museum"'s collection. Necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets fill this book and also included are objects of religious significance, military honours and other kinds of personal decoration. The captions relate anecdotes concerning the artists and wearers and describe the history and style of the jewellery pictured.