Golden Windmill & Other Stories [a Whisky Priest Book].
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File Size : 34,74 MB
Release : 2011
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ISBN : 9781446610831
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File Size : 34,74 MB
Release : 2011
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ISBN : 9781446610831
Author : Stacy Aumonier
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 12,5 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
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ISBN : 9781290855273
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439144125
Ursula Hegi returns with a luminous epic of a bicultural family filled with passion and aspirations, tragedy, and redemption. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Stefan Blau, whom readers will remember from Stones from the River, flees Burgdorf, a small town in Germany, and comes to America in search of the vision he has dreamed of every night. The novel closes nearly a century later with Stefan's granddaughter, Emma, and the legacy of his dream: the Wasserburg, a once-grand apartment house filled with the hidden truths of its inhabitants both past and present. The Vision of Emma Blau illustrates a fascinating picture of immigrants in America, including their dreams and disappointments, the challenges of assimilation, the frailty of language and its transcendence, the love that bonds generations and the cultural wedges that drive them apart.
Author : Paul Elie
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 2004-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374529215
Elie tells the story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God: Thomas Merton; Dorothy Day; Walker Percy; and Flannery OConnor.
Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 981 pages
File Size : 16,90 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 : Sidney Sheldon
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 20,17 MB
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0759567328
Author of over a dozen bestsellers, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and creator of some of television's greatest hits, Sheldon has seen and done it all, and now in this candid memoir, he shares his story for the first time.
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 2023-12-20
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ISBN : 9180944264
In the late 19th century, orphaned Jim Burden is sent to the wilderness in Nebraska to live with his grandparents. He arrives at the same time as the Shimerda family, including the eldest daughter Ántonia, who becomes his closest neighbors. Life in the American West is tough, especially for the impoverished Shimerda family, and pioneers must struggle for survival. A friendship blossoms between Jim and Ántonia as they explore nature and have adventures together, a friendship that will last a lifetime. My Ántonia became an immediate success when first published and is today considered Willa Cather's first masterpiece. It is praised for its depiction of the American West and its ability to highlight the aspirations of ordinary, poor people in a time when it was customary to write about the elite. WILLA CATHER [1873-1947] was an American author. After studying at the University of Nebraska, she worked as a teacher and journalist. Cather's novels often focus on settlers in the USA with a particular emphasis on female pioneers. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours, and in 1943, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Author : Bill W.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0698176936
A 75th anniversary e-book version of the most important and practical self-help book ever written, Alcoholics Anonymous. Here is a special deluxe edition of a book that has changed millions of lives and launched the modern recovery movement: Alcoholics Anonymous. This edition not only reproduces the original 1939 text of Alcoholics Anonymous, but as a special bonus features the complete 1941 Saturday Evening Post article “Alcoholics Anonymous” by journalist Jack Alexander, which, at the time, did as much as the book itself to introduce millions of seekers to AA’s program. Alcoholics Anonymous has touched and transformed myriad lives, and finally appears in a volume that honors its posterity and impact.
Author : Paul De Kruif
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Bacteriologia
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First published in 1927.
Author : Sidney Sheldon
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007380917
Sidney Sheldon’s eighth novel, now available in ebook format.