The Story of Old Ste. Genevieve
Author : Gregory M. Franzwa
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780935284867
Author : Gregory M. Franzwa
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780935284867
Author : Carl J. Ekberg
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 26,80 MB
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0809333805
Dr. Ekberg's masterwork on the old French town south of St. Louis brings into sharp focus life in colonial America. Ekberg has rendered a rich portrait of community life on the most fascinating of American frontiers, the composite world of French Creoles and American Indians in the Mississippi Valley. This is an important book and a good read to boot. That's how Yale University's John Mack Faragher praised this book.
Author : Gregory M. Franzwa
Publisher :
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 1997-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781880397244
Author : Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 082343799X
In this companion to the Newbery Honor-winning Lily's Crossing, thirteen-year-old Genevieve risks everything to defy the Nazis and join the French Resistance. Winner of the Christopher Award! It's not always thinking of being happy. Doing the right thing will make you happy. Despite the farm-work and her irritable grandmother Memé, Genevieve thinks she may have found a new home in Alsace, France, where she spent the summer of 1939. Without much to return to in New York, Gen is ready to see if this new life will make her happy. But then World War II erupts. The Nazis conquer France. Now everyone in Alsace must speak German, act German, and think German--or else. Even worse, a cold Nazi officer has commandeered a room in Memé's farmhouse--and he can tell that Gen and her grandmother aren't loyal to the Reich. But Gen won't be cowed. And when her friend Rémy commits an act of sabotage, she hides him in the last place the Germans will look--in the attic, right above the Nazi's head. For more thrilling historical fiction, don't miss Island War, a survival story set in the remote Aleutian Islands, occupied by the Japanese during World War II, and A Slip of a Girl, a novel in verse about the Irish Land War of the late 19th century.
Author : Kristan Higgins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 045148942X
“A heart-wrenching page-turner told with warmth and humor.”—People Magazine (Pick of the Week) “A rich testament to the power of second chances.”—Women’s World A Publishers Weekly and USA Today Bestseller! From the New York Times bestselling author of Good Luck with That comes a new novel about a blue-blood grandmother and her black-sheep granddaughter who discover they are truly two sides of the same coin. Emma London never thought she had anything in common with her grandmother Genevieve London. The regal old woman came from wealthy and bluest-blood New England stock, but that didn't protect her from life's cruelest blows: the disappearance of Genevieve's young son, followed by the premature death of her husband. But Genevieve rose from those ashes of grief and built a fashion empire that was respected the world over, even when it meant neglecting her other son. When Emma's own mother died, her father abandoned her on his mother's doorstep. Genevieve took Emma in and reluctantly raised her--until Emma got pregnant her senior year of high school. Genevieve kicked her out with nothing but the clothes on her back...but Emma took with her the most important London possession: the strength not just to survive but to thrive. And indeed, Emma has built a wonderful life for herself and her teenage daughter, Riley. So what is Emma to do when Genevieve does the one thing Emma never expected of her and, after not speaking to her for nearly two decades, calls and asks for help?
Author : Geneviève Castrée
Publisher : Drawn and Quarterly
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1770463216
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Author : Genevieve Graham
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 198212895X
The Home for Unwanted Girls meets Orphan Train in this unforgettable novel about a young girl caught in a scheme to rid England’s streets of destitute children, and the lengths she will go to find her way home—based on the true story of the British Home Children. 2018 At ninety-seven years old, Winnifred Ellis knows she doesn’t have much time left, and it is almost a relief to realize that once she is gone, the truth about her shameful past will die with her. But when her great-grandson Jamie, the spitting image of her dear late husband, asks about his family tree, Winnifred can’t lie any longer, even if it means breaking a promise she made so long ago... 1936 Fifteen-year-old Winny has never known a real home. After running away from an abusive stepfather, she falls in with Mary, Jack, and their ragtag group of friends roaming the streets of Liverpool. When the children are caught stealing food, Winny and Mary are left in Dr. Barnardo’s Barkingside Home for Girls, a local home for orphans and forgotten children found in the city’s slums. At Barkingside, Winny learns she will soon join other boys and girls in a faraway place called Canada, where families and better lives await them. But Winny’s hopes are dashed when she is separated from her friends and sent to live with a family that has no use for another daughter. Instead, they have paid for an indentured servant to work on their farm. Faced with this harsh new reality, Winny clings to the belief that she will someday find her friends again. Inspired by true events, The Forgotten Home Child is a moving and heartbreaking novel about place, belonging, and family—the one we make for ourselves and its enduring power to draw us home.
Author : Deja King
Publisher : King Productions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,2 MB
Release : 2009-02
Category : African American fiction
ISBN : 9780975581179
Tierra Thompson has a chip on her shoulder and an ax to grind. She was born in the hood, and at twenty-one she's grown tired of calling it home. After hustling and being hustled by the dealers around the way, the hard truth is setting in and Tierra has to decide if she's willing to sell her soul to escape the grittiness of the streets. Nichelle Martin has been Tierra's best friend since childhood and used to be her partner in crime until she lucked up and became wifey to Renaldo "Renny" O'Neal. Renny is known in the borough of Queens, as being the man who's making all the paper. With Nichelle's new upgraded status, her lifestyle is in stark contrast to the one formerly shared with her best friend Tierra. Escaping the grimy projects that her man now reigns over is proving to be bittersweet for Nichelle.
Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : US History Publishers
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 25,47 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Missouri
ISBN : 1603540245
Author : Genevieve Cote
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 2011-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1554536200
Two friends, a rabbit and a pig, have a quarrel until they discover that they have more fun together than alone.