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Author : Norman Winter
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Flowers
ISBN : 1617035238
Author : Clarence Robert Haywood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000048017341
By reputation, Kansas isn't the funniest place on earth. But it has its share of humor. In this book Robert Haywood reveals the lighter side of a state that's too often pegged a collection of sober-minded moralists struggling to find Utopia among the stars. He explores what has passed for humor in good times and bad and divulges what makes Kansans laugh.
Author : F. Tennyson Jesse
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473350762
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Robert Thacker
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771084683
This is the book about one of the world’s great authors, Alice Munro, which shows how her life and her stories intertwine. For almost thirty years Robert Thacker has been researching this book, steeping himself in Alice Munro’s life and work, working with her co-operation to make it complete. The result is a feast of information for Alice Munro’s admirers everywhere. By following “the parallel tracks” of Alice Munro’s life and Alice Munro’s texts, he gives a thorough and revealing account of both her life and work. “There is always a starting point in reality,” she once said of her stories, and this book reveals just how often her stories spring from her life. The book is chronological, starting with her pioneer ancestors, but with special attention paid to her parents and to her early days growing up poor in Wingham. Then all of her life stages—the marriage to Jim Munro, the move to Vancouver, then to Victoria to start the bookstore, the three daughters, the divorce, the return to Huron County, and the new life with Gerry Fremlin—leading to the triumphs as, story by story, book by book, she gains fame around the world, until rumours of a Nobel Prize circulate . . .
Author : Edward G. Agran
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610754309
For fifty years, William Allen White, first as a reporter and later as the long-time editor of the Emporia Gazette, wrote of his small town and its Mid-American values. By tailoring his writing to the emerging urban middle class of the early twentieth century, he won his “gospel of Emporia” a nationwide audience and left a lasting impact on he way America defines itself. Investigating White’s life and his extensive writings, Edward Gale Agran explores the dynamic thought of one of America’s best-read and most-respected social commentators. Agran shows clearly how White honed his style and transformed the myth of conquering the western frontier into what became the twentieth-century ideal of community building. Once a confidante of and advisor to Theodore Roosevelt, White addressed, and reflected in his work, all the great social and political oscillations of his time—urbanization and industrialism, populism, and progressivism, isolationism internationalism, Prohibition, and New Deal reform. Again and again, he asked the question “What’s the matter?” about his times and townspeople, then found the middle ground. With great care and discernment, Agran gathers the man strains of White’s messages, demonstrating one writer’s pivotal contribution to our idea of what it means to be an American.
Author : Margaret Clough
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781920397852
At Least the Duck Survived offers a series of lyrical observations about old age, retirement and approaching death; about Tai Chi classes, dogs, lesbian aunts, grandchildren, bicycles and symphony concerts. In its unassuming charm, perfect understatement, succinctness, attentiveness, generosity and wry humour, Margaret Clough's poetry proves Virginia Woolf's dictum that 'Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Author : H. Craig Miner
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004637282
Chronicles the history of Kansas from 1854 to 2000, discussing how specific people and events shaped the culture of the state.
Author : Derina McLaughlin
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781035812721
1836 - A young woman becomes a Governess to Count Vorontsov in a palace on the Black Sea, where she falls in love with the palace gardener. Only when she is forced to flee from the brewing Crimean War does she become truly aware of the lurking malevolence that has ebbed beneath the tranquil veneer of palace life. Mary-Ann and James are forced by Mary-Ann’s Governess contract to postpone their marriage, in an atmosphere tainted by jealous rivalries.
Author : Richard Moore
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781408171103
'A captivating and detailed account ... it reads like a thriller, which is exactly the right tone to adopt by author Richard Moore for a story dripping with skulduggery and intrigue ... compelling' The Sunday Express The 1988 Seoul Olympics played host to what has been described by some as the dirtiest race of all time, by others as the greatest. The final of the men's 100 metres at those Olympics is certainly the most infamous in the history of athletics, and more indelibly etched into the consciousness of the sport, the Olympics, and a global audience of millions, than any other athletics event before or since. Ben Johnson's world-record time of 9.79 seconds – as thrilling as it was – was the beginning rather than the end of the story. Following the race, Johnson tested positive, news that generated as many – if not more – shockwaves as his fastest ever run. He was stripped of the title, Lewis was awarded the gold medal, Linford Christie the silver and Calvin Smith the bronze. More than two decades on, the story still hadn't ended. In 1999 Lewis was named Sportsman of the Century by the IOC, and Olympian of the Century by Sports Illustrated. Yet his reputation was damaged by revelations that he too used performance-enhancing drugs, and tested positive prior to the Seoul Olympics. Christie also tested positive in Seoul but his explanation, that the banned substance had been in ginseng tea, was accepted. Smith, now a lecturer in English literature at a Florida university, was the only athlete in the top five whose reputation remains unblemished – the others all tested positive at some stage in their careers. Containing remarkable new revelations, this book uses witness interviews - with Johnson, Lewis and Smith among others - to reconstruct the build-up to the race, the race itself, and the fallout when news of Johnson's positive test broke and he was forced into hiding. It also examines the rivalry of the two favourites going into it, and puts the race in a historical context, examining its continuing relevance on the sport today, where every new record elicits scepticism.
Author : Raven McAllan
Publisher : Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781839434976
FROM POPULAR ROMANCE AUTHOR RAVEN MCALLAN A Love's Bloom story Life is what you make it. Daisy has to decide—stay with the same old, same old, or take a leap of faith and move on. What with a hippy mum, a free-wheeling dad and ditching a loser for a boyfriend, is it any wonder Daisy is wary of what life holds in store? Then there's the so-called Cave of the Dragon, an inquisitive reporter, the wedding of her best mate and a hot as Hades, arsy-as-hell best man. Daisy has her hands full. But life is what you make of it... Is Daisy ready to take a leap into the unknown and go with the flow? Chance her luck, have faith in Callum and see what the future brings? Or will she decide to ignore everything that shouts &‘go for it', and opt for a quiet—but boring—life instead?
Author : Neal Punchard
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Air guns
ISBN : 9780760313336
Arranged by product type, this book features 300 close-up photos celebrating not only the BB guns, but also the water pistols, cork guns, and accessories that were deemed essential by young marksmen. Every item is accompanied by an informative capsule history that details its design, constsruction, notable features, and an assessment of its place in Daisy history.
Author : Geoffrey Witts
Publisher : Authorhouse UK
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481789691
This is the story of John Cox's search for the elusive Daisy Chain necklace, worth $1 million, hidden in one of thirty-four caves in Rio Branco, South America. He is not the only one looking for the prize. Follow his journey from jail to freedom in his quest to find the prize.
Author : Don Burke
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 1114 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 1740457390
A collection of around 2000 of the most informative and entertaining fact sheets from Burke's Backyard. This is an enormous compendium, blooming with ideas for outdoor areas large and small. Featuring detailed projects and information such as gardening, landscaping, pet road tests and care, native flowers and fauna, international trends and astounding facts, this is a book that will appeal to both the novice and experienced gardener alike. This is an all encompassing, practical gardening and lifestyle book written for Australian conditions by an Australian outdoor guru.
Author : Mike Owens
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781509219988
Nothing left to live for…that's how eighteen-year-old Daisy Sugarbush feels after an explosion inflicts deep burns over seventy percent of her body, condemning her to six excruciating months in the hospital, where her pleas to stop treatment are ignored. Blind and horribly disfigured, she wishes only to end her wretched life as soon as possible. Starvation should push her ruined body over the edge—the doctors told her as much—which becomes her game plan. Then a new therapist, Arthur, enters her life with other ideas, but can he succeed where so many others have failed?
Author : Sarah Miller
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780593119723
From the author of The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets and The Borden Murders comes the absorbing and compulsively readable story of Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins who were the sensation of the US sideshow circuits in the 1920s and 1930s. On February 5, 1908, Kate Skinner, a 21-year-old unmarried barmaid in Brighton, England, gave birth to twin girls. They each had ten fingers and ten toes, but were joined back to back at the base of the spine. Freaks, monsters--that's what they were called. Mary Hilton, Kate's employer and midwife, adopted Violet and Daisy and promptly began displaying the babies as "Brighton's United Twins." Exhibitions at street fairs, carnivals, and wax museums across England and Scotland followed. At 8 years old, the girls came to the United States, eventually becoming the stars of sideshow, vaudeville, and burlesque circuits in the 1920s and 1930s. In a story loaded with questions about identity and exploitation, Sarah Miller delivers a completely compelling, empathetic portrait of two sisters whose bonds were so sacred that nothing — not even death— would compel Violet and Daisy to break them.
