Author : Corinne Jeffery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Depressions
ISBN : 0986943576
Thriving, 1920-1939
Corinne Jeffery
Thriving 1920 1939
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Thriving: 1920–1939
Corinne Jeffery
Author : Corinne Jeffery
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781525530319
Thriving: 1920–1939 by Corinne Jeffery Pdf
Thriving, book two of Corinne Jeffery’s Understanding Ursula series, continues the story of the challenges of the intriguing and contentious Werners, a family of German Lutheran homesteaders on the Saskatchewan prairie. Become reacquainted with their dynamic lives as they try to keep pace with the flourishing new decade and later discover innovative ways to endure the hardships of the Great Depression. With the return of prosperity to the Canadian prairies, Gustav Werner resumes his insatiable quest to acquire more prime farmland. Still, no one is more surprised than he when his hand is forced and his future reshaped by increasing drama and secrets. He wonders why he is persistently entangled in compromising family relationships, and then tragedy, until he begins to doubt his faith. When Mother Nature, in which he has always found peace and solace, too becomes his enemy—sending drought, grasshoppers, hail, and fierce winds that lift the rich topsoil off his land—he starts to despair. Steadily, though, his sorrow and despondency give way to a deepening awareness of his inner strengths and a heightening of his resolve to push onward for all those who count on him.
Historic Photos of Memphis
Gina Cordell,Patrick O'Daniel
Author : Gina Cordell,Patrick O'Daniel
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : 9781596522619
Historic Photos of Memphis by Gina Cordell,Patrick O'Daniel Pdf
HISTORIC PHOTOS OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE captures the remarkable journey of this city and her people with still photography from the finest archives of city, state and private collecions. From the Civil War through Reconstruction, the rise of industry, World Wars and into the modern era, Memphis has remained a city of change and innovation. With hundreds of archival photos reproduced in stunning duotone on heavy art paper, this book is the perfect addition to any historican's collection.
Lords and Lepers
Corinne Jeffery
Author : Corinne Jeffery
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781525518225
Lords and Lepers by Corinne Jeffery Pdf
Six-year-old Francine Stonehenge lives with her parents near the ocean in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island when the unthinkable happens: both her parents drown. Her aging uncles, whom she has never met, take her by bus, ferry, and train to live with them on their sheep farm in Manitoba. As she settles into her new home, Francine remains traumatized by the death of her parents, for which she feels responsible. Even the pristine peace and stillness of the prairies doesn’t keep her recurring nightmares at bay. With the loving support of her uncles and new stepmother, Francine builds friendships and before long, becomes one of a foursome with Cassandra Jamison, Jessica Yang, and Hope Harding. This epic prairie saga tells stories of bullying, elopement, prodigious talent, fraudulent greed, heartbreak, death, joy, and deep love. As the girls lose their innocence and mature into young women, they forge lifelong friendships; share the pinnacles of success; the depths of despair; and, experience how all too often people are valued for what they have or what they do, rather than for who they are.
Choosing
Corinne Jeffery
Author : Corinne Jeffery
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781525529825
Choosing by Corinne Jeffery Pdf
Choosing, book three of Corinne Jeffery’s Understanding Ursula series, concludes the heart-wrenching story of five generations of the controversial and secretive Warner family. Become reunited with Amelia and Gustav, meet their many descendants, and follow them across the Canadian prairies from Saskatchewan to Manitoba and finally to Alberta. In spite of relentless ambition and increasing prosperity, at every turn Gustav Warner is cursed by strife, upheaval, and tragedy. His own children seem determined to disobey him. He is still grappling with his eldest son's defiance that strikes at the very foundation of his beliefs, when his daughter Ursula dumbfounds him. Must he forever endure hardships that might break the spirit of ordinary men? Gustav's inexorable decision and unyielding influence over Ursula ultimately prove so powerful that she becomes her own worst enemy in order to take her secret to her grave. Still, it is not until his children's demands steadily compromise Amelia's peace of mind, and eventually her health, that Gustav is forced to make a choice that astounds them all, and no one more than his beloved wife.
The Other Path
Corinne Jeffery
Author : Corinne Jeffery
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781039167261
The Other Path by Corinne Jeffery Pdf
Alyssa Rainer is on the cusp of graduating as a registered nurse and has her whole life ahead of her. Yet she is torn between two alluring opportunities: starting her career while continuing her studies in Saskatoon, or relocating from Brandon to Winnipeg, where a whirlwind romance tempts her to abandon her long-held plans. Should Alyssa follow her heart or her mind? Set in the mid-1960s, Alyssa’s young life is scarred by the death of her brother, her father’s racism, her mother’s abuse, and her parents’ tumultuous marriage, which make her eager to venture off on her own. But the ghosts of the past haunt her and despite Alyssa’s successes, the future she had envisioned does not unfold as anticipated. Decades later, Alyssa reflects on the tough choices she made during her life, wondering, What if? What if she had taken a different path, like the doppelgänger she has been mistaken for over the years who appears to be living a parallel life—perhaps the one meant for Alyssa?
The Reluctant Author
Corinne Jeffery
Author : Corinne Jeffery
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781525588341
The Reluctant Author by Corinne Jeffery Pdf
As a teen growing up in an impoverished dysfunctional home environment, Laurine Schaffer realizes that she must be pragmatic and pursue a sustainable professional career path. At seventeen, she enrols in a traditional three-year Registered Nurse training program, where she quickly realizes that her perceptions of life and people are dramatically different from many of her classmates. Although Laurine ultimately forges a successful vocation as a college professor, at age fifty-seven she admits she is not being true to herself, or to her lifelong aspiration to write the story of her German Lutheran ancestors who fled Russia in 1892. Following an epiphany in an abandoned family cemetery on the original ancestral homestead in western Canada, Laurine begins to write. As one family history book follows another and another and yet another, her writing becomes a catalyst for a personal healing journey. The Reluctant Author is essentially a prequel to her three previous family memoirs and links the past to the present with poignant clarity.
Arriving
Corinne Jeffery
Author : Corinne Jeffery
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781525518393
Arriving by Corinne Jeffery Pdf
Arriving, book one of Corinne Jeffery’s Understanding Ursula trilogy, vividly recreates the pioneer world of the Canadian prairies with a multitude of memorable characters. You’ll lose yourself between the pages as you watch them struggle to survive and flourish, always at the mercy of Mother Nature and the ever-changing seasons on the unfettered plains. On July 1, 1909, the day after his eighteenth birthday, Gustav Werner takes the inaugural ride on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway between Melville and Regina, to apply for a homestead grant at the Dominion Lands Office. He is eager to become the most thriving homesteader in the townships of Neudorf and Lemberg, Saskatchewan, set aside for Gustav’s people, the German Lutherans, by Sir Clifford Sifton in Canada’s “Last Best West” land deal. What he doesn’t realize is that beyond becoming a man and a landowner, life as he knows it is about to crumble from his grasp. Family drama and conflict plague Gustav as he learns English—the language that sparks hatred in his staunchly traditional father, Christian—and discovers that his parents have arranged his marriage to sixteen-year-old Amelia Schweitzer.
The Architecture of Pleasure
Josephine Kane
Author : Josephine Kane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317044734
The Architecture of Pleasure by Josephine Kane Pdf
The amusement parks which first appeared in England at the turn of the twentieth century represent a startlingly novel and complex phenomenon, combining fantasy architecture, new technology, ersatz danger, spectacle and consumption in a new mass experience. Though drawing on a diverse range of existing leisure practices, the particular entertainment formula they offered marked a radical departure in terms of visual, experiential and cultural meanings. The huge, socially mixed crowds that flocked to the new parks did so purely in the pursuit of pleasure, which the amusement parks commodified in exhilarating new guises. Between 1906 and 1939, nearly 40 major amusement parks operated across Britain. By the outbreak of the Second World War, millions of people visited these sites each year. The amusement park had become a defining element in the architectural psychological pleasurescape of Britain. This book considers the relationship between popular modernity, pleasure and the amusement park landscape in Britain from 1900-1939. It argues that the amusement parks were understood as a new and distinct expression of modern times which redefined the concept of public pleasure for mass audiences. Focusing on three sites - Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Dreamland in Margate and Southend's Kursaal - the book contextualises their development with references to the wider amusement park world. The meanings of these sites are explored through a detailed examination of the spatial and architectural form taken by rides and other buildings. The rollercoaster - a defining symbol of the amusement park - is given particular focus, as is the extent to which discourses of class, gender and national identity were expressed through the design of these parks.
Greenville in the 20th Century
Christopher Arris Oakley,Matthew Christian Reynolds,Dale Sauter
Author : Christopher Arris Oakley,Matthew Christian Reynolds,Dale Sauter
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738599113
Greenville in the 20th Century by Christopher Arris Oakley,Matthew Christian Reynolds,Dale Sauter Pdf
At the turn of the 20th century, Greenville was a small agricultural community located along the banks of the Tar River in eastern North Carolina. Most of the 2,600 residents were connected to the state's agricultural economy, growing cotton, tobacco, corn, and other crop staples. By the year 2000, however, Greenville had become an economically diverse city of more than 60,000. The explosion in the bright leaf tobacco industry, the establishment of a public university, the recruitment of new manufacturing interests, and the creation of a regional medical complex contributed to this growth. Greenville witnessed the effects of dramatic technological innovation, a devastating depression, two world wars, a civil rights revolution, and economic globalization. Greenville in the 20th Century explores the community's growth as the seat of Pitt County through historic images that span a century.
Historic Photos of Jacksonville
Carolyn Williams
Author : Carolyn Williams
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : 9781596523111
Historic Photos of Jacksonville by Carolyn Williams Pdf
Historic Photos of Jacksonville captures the historical growth of this city in still photography from the top archives in the area. Stunning black and white pictures with most of the photographs never published before in this beautiful coffee table book. The book follows life, government, events and people important to Jacksonville history and the building of this unique late blooming city. Spanning over two centuries and two hundred photographs, this is a must have for any long-time resident or history lover of Jacksonville!
Steveston Cannery Row
Mitsuo Yesaki,Harold Steves,Kathy Steves
Author : Mitsuo Yesaki,Harold Steves,Kathy Steves
Publisher : Mitsuo Yesaki
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0968380719
Steveston Cannery Row by Mitsuo Yesaki,Harold Steves,Kathy Steves Pdf
Kamp Melbourne in the 1920s and '30s
Wayne Murdoch
Author : Wayne Murdoch
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527504363
Kamp Melbourne in the 1920s and '30s by Wayne Murdoch Pdf
Melbourne in the 1920s and ’30s had a reputation as a staid and provincial city, a respectable, Sabbath-observing town, a metropolis of quiet suburban lives. There were, however, those who did not conform to society’s rules; among them homosexual men. The members of this hidden and persecuted group formed a subculture of friendship groups, meeting places, secret signs and words which allowed them to live their lives against a backdrop of legal, social, and moral restrictions. This book is an investigation of this subculture and those men who lived within it.
The African American Theatre Directory, 1816-1960
Lena McPhatter Gore
Author : Lena McPhatter Gore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313033322
The African American Theatre Directory, 1816-1960 by Lena McPhatter Gore Pdf
A comprehensive directory of more than 600 entries, this detailed ready reference features professional, semi-professional, and academic stage organizations and theatres that have been in the forefront in pioneering most of the advances that African Americans have made in the theatre. It includes groups from the early 19th century to the dawn of the revolutionary Black theatre movement of the 1960s. It is an effort to bring together into one volume information that has hitherto been scattered throughout a number of different sources. The volume begins with an illuminating foreword by Errol Hill, a noted critic, playwright, scholar and Willard Professor of Drama Emeritus, Dartmouth College. A comprehensive directory of more than 600 entries, this detailed ready reference features professional, semi-professional, and academic stage organizations and theatres that have been in the forefront in pioneering most of the advances that African Americans have made in the theatre. It includes groups from the early 19th century to the dawn of the revolutionary Black theatre movement of the 1960s. It is an effort to bring together into one volume information that has hitherto been scattered throughout a number of different sources. The volume begins with an illuminating foreword by Errol Hill, a noted critic, playwright, scholar and Willard Professor of Drama Emeritus, Dartmouth College. Included in the volume are the earliest organizations that existed before the Civil War, Black minstrel troupes, pioneer musical show companies, selected vaudeville and road show troupes, professional theatrical associations, booking agencies, stock companies, significant amateur and little theatre groups, Black units of the WPA Federal Theatre, and semi-professional groups in Harlem after the Federal Theatre. The A-Z entries are supplemented with a classified appendix that also includes additional organizations not listed in the main directory, a bibliography, and three indexes for shows, showpeople, and general subjects. Cross referencing makes related information easy to find.
Soviet Karelia
Nick Baron
Author : Nick Baron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134383566
Soviet Karelia by Nick Baron Pdf
In 1920, Lenin authorised a plan to transform Karelia, a Russian territory adjacent to Finland, into a showcase Soviet autonomous region, to show what could be achieved by socialist nationalities policy and economic planning, and to encourage other countries to follow this example. However, Stalin’s accession to power brought a change of policy towards the periphery - the encouragement of local autonomy which had been a key part of Karelia’s model development was reversed, the state border was sealed to the outside world, and large parts of the republic's territory were given over to Gulag labour camps controlled by the NKVD, the precursor of the KGB. This book traces the evolution of Soviet Karelia in the early Soviet period, discussing amongst other things how political relations between Moscow and the regional leadership changed over time; the nature of its spatial, economic and demographic development; and the origins of the massive repressions launched in 1937 against the local population.