Author : Uri Shulevitz
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 38,11 MB
Release : 2009-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0374347492
A young child spends the day imagining himself to be a sailor on a grand adventure.
Author : Eugenie Fraser
Publisher : Random House
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1845969855
The House by the Dvina is the riveting story of two families separated in culture and geography but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage. It includes episodes as romantic and dramatic as any in fiction: the purchase by the author's great-grandfather of a peasant girl with whom he had fallen in love; the desperate sledge journey in the depths of winter made by her grandmother to intercede with Tsar Aleksandr II for her husband; the extraordinary courtship of her parents; and her Scottish granny being caught up in the abortive revolution of 1905. Eugenie Fraser herself was brought up in Russia but was taken on visits to Scotland. She marvellously evokes a child's reactions to two totally different environments, sets of customs and family backgrounds, while the characters are beautifully drawn and splendidly memorable. With the events of 1914 to 1920 - the war with Germany, the Revolution, the murder of the Tsar and the withdrawal of the Allied Intervention in the north - came the disintegration of Russia and of family life. The stark realities of hunger, deprivation and fear are sharply contrasted with the adventures of childhood. The reader shares the family's suspense and concern about the fates of its members and relives with Eugenie her final escape to Scotland. In The House by the Dvina, Eugenie Fraser has vividly and poignantly portrayed a way of life that finally disappeared in violence and tragedy.
Author : Jesse Helms
Publisher : Jesse Helms Center
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780375508844
The first Republican elected to the Senate from North Carolina since Reconstruction, Helms was both a bane and a boon to presidents for 30 years. He chronicles the inside story of his rise to power and all those who defended or fought him, from Nixon and Reagan to Kennedy and Clinton.
Author : Charles Farkas
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1438447590
Germany's invasion of Hungary in 1944 marked the end of a culture that had dominated Central Europe from the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. In this poignant memoir, Charles Farkas offers a testament to this vanished way of life—its society, morality, personal integrity, wealth, traditions, and chivalry—as well as an eyewitness account of its destruction, begun at the hands of the Nazis and then completed under the heel of Soviet Communism. Farkas's recollections of growing up in Budapest, a city whose grandeur embraced—indeed spanned—the Danube River; his vivid descriptions of everyday life in Hungary before, during, and after World War II; and his ultimate flight to freedom in the United States remind us that behind the larger historical events of the past century are the stories of the individual men and women who endured and, ultimately, survived them.
Author : Gaileene Bogany
Publisher : Author House
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1477266267
Gaileene Bogany was no saint, as you will read. She was merely a woman who was trying to find love in all the wrong places. Growing up, you will find she was in a totally strict environment, closed in a box that had a great impact on her life. There werent many choices at the time. It was going to be one-way and that way was the way of Church rd. Gaileene was given a gift at the age of nine to play the piano. She began playing her first piano chords, at the age of eleven. Eventually she had become good enough to play for the local church, in her neighborhood, which held twenty church members. Her parents: Olean and Cleavin Davis knew she had a gift of playing therefore, they sent her to Idlebird School of Music, were she learned how to play the piano skillfully. Nevertheless, It was within her to be a great musician. She was raised in Houston, Texas, born with ambition that launched her to write about her life adventure. Today, She is a musician, producer; stage play writer and can now add to her book of memoirs, an author.
Author : Alan Neff
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1425932002
Alan Neff wrote movie and book reviews and interviewed Hollywood stars for the Seattle Gay News from 1983-1993; he has been published in the Advocate. Movies, Movie Stars, and Me boasts Jim Henson, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Spike Lee, Lily Tomlin, John Waters, Pauline Kael, Rita Mae Brown, and other exciting personalities caught unguarded and exposed. Reviews of Labyrinth, Top Gun, No Way Out, Dirty Dancing, The Whales of August, Pretty Woman, The Grifters, Switch, George Cukor: A Double Life, Tales of the City, (and much more!), are lively reading and can be used for reference or as a guide to picking videos. And included in this format are Alan Neff's politically-charged "letters-to-the-editor," re-printed from major periodicals.
Author : William Farmer Sr
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1456765965
"Teenage Warrior is primarily about the effect WWII had on 'baby brothers' who watched older brothers leave home to serve their country. Being left behind, feeling useless, and all the normal frustrations of early teens. Bill became a 'teenage delinquent' before the term was coined. He wrangled his way into the Navy at 15 and soon had doubts that he could handle it. Remembering his Dad's words, 'I'll help you get in but won't help you get out', he served 32 months during the war. 26 months were spent at sea and 12 months were spent in combat zones. The WWII tales in this book vary from "serious" to humorous. Bill survived the explosion of the Chicago Naval Ammunition Depot, hurricane Cobra, a surprise Japanese 'Betty' bombing of B29's at Tinian, and a "psycho ward" on Roi Namur Island. The book is full of surprises as Bill remembers some of the good times he had even in the face of battle. Bill became a WWII Veteran, same as his four older brothers."--Back cover.
Author : Paul Lippok
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 30,2 MB
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1499094108
I was born in 1926 in a town in Silesia, Germanys south eastern Province bordering Poland to the east and Czechoslovakia to the south. That is how it was for 2000 years until 1945 when Hitlers war ended, and our Heimat Schlesien no longer existed. The peace treaty demanded that Silesia be annexed to Poland meaning the eviction of our people. Six months after my 17th birthday, shortly before Christmas 1943, I was called up to military service and after my training sent to Italy, where five months later, on Sunday 4th June 1944 I was captured by the U.S. Army just outside Rome. They brought us to Norfolk Virginia from where a train journey took us to a POW camp in Oklahoma, moving soon to Fort Bliss, El Paso. In autumn 1945 fifty POWs travelled by bus to the Napa Valley to pick tomatoes, prunes, and work in the vineyards, and after New Year 1946 south to pick cotton. In early March 1946 we received black-dyed U.S. Army uniforms, boarded a troop ship in Oakland and were sent back to Europe via the Panama Canal, to arrive three weeks later in Liverpool, UK. From there we travelled by train to the north of Scotland where now over sixty years later, I continue to live. My book will tell my journey.
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Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Literature
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Author : Eugene Kaellis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 12,34 MB
Release : 2010-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0557052300
"This book '¦ consists of twenty-six tales and fables that provide, through depicting inevitable frustrations, dilemmas, and personal tragedies, a modicum of staidness instead of stimulation.I have no pretensions that reading these tales and fables will bring anybody any closer to conclusions, or teach anybody anything, or'certainly not'amuse. I am, evidently, not big on amusement. My intention is to spread holy insecurity, promote festering doubt, and incite a pervasive sense of gnawing agony. Hence, the title."'Eugene Kaellis, author
