Book Description
In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family.
Author : Barry Denenberg
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439555067
In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family.
Author : Margaret J. Wheatley
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1609945360
Wheatley provides encouraging maps for how to design organizations based on living systems' capacity for creativity, change, and adaptation. But in the 20 years since the first publication, she's seen that in spite of our best efforts the world that's emerged is on a destructive trajectory.
Author : Ann Knope & Krystyna Stachowicz Farley
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 31,73 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1491708808
A first hand account of a Polish family's experience during the deconstruction of Poland by Hitler and Stalin as seen through the eyes of a feisty 14 year old girl, Krystyna Stachowicz. Krystyna is a living witness to the unraveling of the Second Polish Republic when they were left to face alone the Nazi and Communist threat to the free world, while the rest of the world looked the other way.
Author : Judith Berlowitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1647423767
A fictional diary set in interwar Germany and Spain allows us to peek into the life of Klara Philipsborn, the only Communist in her merchant-class, German-Jewish family. Klara’s first visit to Seville in 1925 opens her eyes and her spirit to an era in which Spain’s major religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, shared deep cultural connections. At the same time, she is made aware of the harsh injustices that persist in Spanish society. By 1930, she has landed a position with the medical school in Madrid. Though she feels compelled to hide her Jewish identity in her predominantly Christian new home, she finds that she feels less “different” in Spain than she did in Germany, especially as she learns new ways of expressing her opinions and desires. And when the Spanish Civil War erupts in 1936, Klara (now “Clara”) enlists in the Fifth Regiment, a step that transports her across the geography of the embattled peninsula and ultimately endangers a promising relationship and even Clara’s life itself. A blending of thoroughly researched history and engrossing fiction, Home So Far Away is an epic tale that will sweep readers away.
Author : Robert Kane
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,78 MB
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1603063706
During World War II, the US Army Air Forces (AAF) trained over 21,000 aircrew members from 29 Allied countries. The two largest programs, 79 percent of those trained, were for Britain and France. The Royal Air Force (RAF), fully engaged against the German Air Force by December 1940, was not able to train new aircrews. The British government asked the United States to train new pilots until it could get its own flight training program underway. Lieutenant General Henry "Hap" Arnold, chief of the Army Air Corps, authorized the training of RAF pilots at select airfields in the southeast United States, including at Maxwell and Gunter fields near Montgomery, Alabama. Between June 1941 and February 1943, when the RAF terminated what became known as the Arnold Plan, 4,300 of more than 7,800 RAF cadets sent to the United States completed the three-phase AAF flight training program. Within three months, some of the same schools, including the phase 2 school at Gunter Field, began training Free French Air Force flight cadets. By November 1945, when the US government terminated the French training program, 2,100 French flight cadets out of the 4,100 who came to the United States had received their wings. This book tells for the first time the story of the RAF and Free French flight training programs in central Alabama, covering the origins, the issues, and the problems that occurred during the training programs, and the results and lessons learned.
Author : Naomi Shmuel
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1541591526
"There's an Ethiopian; there's an Ethiopian!" I heard them shouting. I looked behind me, but I couldn't see any Ethiopian. Children began crowding round me, and I still didn't realize that they meant me, I was the Ethiopian. Meskerem was born in a small town in the Golan Heights of Israel, to an Ethiopian mother and an American father. Soon after Operation Solomon, when several thousand Ethiopian immigrants were brought to Israel, Meskerem's parents decided to move to the center of the country, to the town of Herzelia. Meskerem comes face-to-face with the ignorance and prejudices of her new classmates, many of whom are meeting someone dark-skinned for the first time. With the help of her Ethiopian grandmother, who remained in Kazerin, Meskerem comes to terms with who she is and finds strength in belonging to three different cultures.
Author : Anita Lobel
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
In this original alphabet book with an international flavor, the acclaimed author/artist takes her characters and her audience on a whirlwind tour of the world's wonders. From Adam arriving in Amsterdam to Zachary zigzagging in Zaandam, magnificent illustrations entice young readers to linger on every page.
Author : Lorelie Brown
Publisher : Riptide Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 32,31 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1626494517
**The marriage was of convenience. The feelings? Not so much.** My name is Rachel. I'm straight ... I think. I also have a mountain of student loans and a smart mouth. I wasn't serious when I told Pari Sadashiv I'd marry her. Except Pari needs a green card, and she's willing to give me a breather from drowning in debt."
Author : Sarah Parker Rubio
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Picture books for children
ISBN : 1496436733
A small boy has to leave his home suddenly, leaving his extended family and most of his possessions behind. In the middle of a very trying journey, a kind stranger tells the boy the story of Jesus' escape to Egypt.
Author : Glenn J. Farris
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 2019-08-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781532395031