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Author : Faith Moulin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0956374727
Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 019974369X
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Author : J. B. S. Haldane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Magicians
ISBN : 1903252199
Author : Leigh Hatts
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781783624614
This guidebook details the Pilgrims' Way, an historic pilgrimage route to Canterbury Cathedral in Kent, home of the shrine of the martyred archbishop, St Thomas Becket. The route is described both from Winchester in Hampshire (138 miles) and London's Southwark Cathedral (90¼ miles), with an optional spur to Rochester Cathedral. With relatively easy walking on ancient byways, the route from Winchester is presented in 15 stages of 5-14 miles: it can be comfortably completed in under a fortnight. It follows a major chalk ridge through scenic countryside, taking in characterful towns and villages and historic churches. The route from Southwark is described in 10 stages and includes a visit to the ruined Lesnes Abbey. Detailed route description is accompanied by 1:50,000 OS mapping, advice on making the most of a trip and information on the historical background to the pilgrimage, key historical figures and local points of interest. Accommodation listings and details of facilities and transport links can be found in the appendices. Pilgrimages to Becket's shrine began within a few years of the his death in 1170, although Canterbury was a popular destination even before this time due to the nearby shrine of St Augustine. The route has featured in literature, drama and film, and forms the setting for Geoffrey Chaucer's famous Middle English work, The Canterbury Tales.
Author : Jerry Spinelli
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780440416777
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A modern-day classic from Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli, this beloved celebration of individuality is now an original movie on Disney+! And don't miss the author's highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday! Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of “Stargirl, Stargirl.” She captures Leo Borlock’ s heart with just one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revolution with just one cheer. The students of Mica High are enchanted. At first. Then they turn on her. Stargirl is suddenly shunned for everything that makes her different, and Leo, panicked and desperate with love, urges her to become the very thing that can destroy her: normal. In this celebration of nonconformity, Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense, emotional tale about the perils of popularity and the thrill and inspiration of first love. Don’t miss the sequel, Love, Stargirl, as well as The Warden’s Daughter, a novel about another girl who can't help but stand out. “Spinelli is a poet of the prepubescent. . . . No writer guides his young characters, and his readers, past these pitfalls and challenges and toward their futures with more compassion.” —The New York Times
Author : Shirley Jackson
Publisher : Lightyear Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cousins
ISBN : 0899685323
Merricat Blackwood protects her sister, Constance, from the curiosity and hostility of the villagers after murders occur on the family estate.
Author : Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780618724833
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns muchof value about the world he lives in.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1628 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112007935841
Author : George W. Cable
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734019364
Reproduction of the original: Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George W. Cable
Author : Catherynne Valente
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553906295
In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most secret fantasies begins with a stranger’s kiss.… Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse—a voyage permitted only to those who’ve always believed there’s another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers: Oleg, a New York locksmith; the beekeeper November; Ludovico, a binder of rare books; and a young Japanese woman named Sei. They’ve each lost something important—a wife, a lover, a sister, a direction in life—and what they will find in Palimpsest is more than they could ever imagine.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : London (England)
ISBN : UOM:39015066472278
Author : Anonim
Publisher : North Vancouver, B.C. : Whitecap Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1552854582
Five Roses: A Guide to Good Cooking is published by Whitecap Books.
Author : Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061804816
New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.
Author : Nathaniel Willis,Daniel Sharp Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Children's periodicals
ISBN : UIUC:30112117958741
Includes music.
Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547720898
A Book of Ghosts is a collection of occult stories and gothic tales of ghosts and other supernatural creatures that haunt minds and houses of people since the dawn of time. Table of Contents: Jean Bouchon Pomps and Vanities McAlister The Leaden Ring The Mother of Pansies The Red-haired Girl A Professional Secret H. P. Glámr Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story The Merewigs The "Bold Venture" Mustapha Little Joe Gander A Dead Finger Black Ram A Happy Release The 9.30 Up-train On the Leads Aunt Joanna The White Flag