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| Author | : Willem Rudolph van Tongeren |
| Publisher | : Jacqueline Boell |
| Total Pages | : 532 |
| Release | : 2021-07-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0646843583 |
'INDO' is more than a war story. It's the story of three generations, a tale of love and desertion, family loyalty, a way of life gone forever, hate and forgiveness - peace and redemption. Rudy van Tongeren's life was close to perfect. The eldest son of parents of Dutch and Indonesian descent, whose father held a prestigious job with the Dutch colonial government in Java, Rudy had just qualified as a school principal in 1939. He was 22. He was looking forward to a genteel and fulfilling life as the head of a government school who would one day become a history professor at a university. Three days after he graduated, he was conscripted into the Royal Dutch Navy. It was 1939 and the threat of war darkened skies over Europe. Two and a half years later, Japan bombed the Americans at Pearl Harbor and attacked Southeast Asia. In early 1942 Japan invaded Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies, and Rudy and his navy mates were captured and sent to brutal POW camps. He was sent to Japan to build enemy warships at Nagasaki and later witnessed the obliteration caused by the A-bomb. Rudy’s camp was liberated, he rejoined the navy and later migrated to Australia where he met and married a woman from Adelaide, built his own house in suburban Melbourne, became a teacher and raised nine children. In 1992 he went to Japan to find the prison guard who secretly gave him extra food during incarceration. He missed the guard by one year but found peace – and forgiveness.
| Author | : Erin Napier |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2022-05-24 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0316463833 |
From the nationally beloved co-host of the #1 hit show Home Town comes the quintessential celebration of home. Imagine a house's early days as a home: A young family builds a picket fence and plants flowers in its yard, children climb the magnolia tree and play the piano in the living room, and there is music inside the house for many happy years. But what will happen when its windows grow dark, its paint starts to crumble, and its boards creak in the winter wind? The house dreams of a family who will love it again...and one day, a new story will emerge from within its walls. In this modern classic, Erin Napier’s lyrical prose and Adam Trest’s warm and comforting paintings deeply evoke the soul of a house cherishing the seasons of life and discovering the joy of rebirth.
| Author | : Irene Graham |
| Publisher | : Young Writers |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780956181107 |
| Author | : Benedict Anderson |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2018-08-21 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 178663015X |
An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast Asian studies. He was expelled from Suharto’s Indonesia after revealing the military to be behind the attempted coup of 1965, an event which prompted reprisals that killed up to a million communists and their supporters. Banned from the country for thirty-five years, he continued his research in Thailand and the Philippines, producing a very fine study of the Filipino novelist and patriot José Rizal in The Age of Globalization. In A Life Beyond Boundaries, Anderson recounts a life spent open to the world. Here he reveals the joys of learning languages, the importance of fieldwork, the pleasures of translation, the influence of the New Left on global thinking, the satisfactions of teaching, and a love of world literature. He discusses the ideas and inspirations behind his best-known work, Imagined Communities (1983), whose complexities changed the study of nationalism. Benedict Anderson died in Java in December 2015, soon after he had finished correcting the proofs of this book. The tributes that poured in from Asia alone suggest that his work will continue to inspire and stimulate minds young and old.
| Author | : Piri Halasz |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 529 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Abstract expressionism |
| ISBN | : 1440123225 |
A Memoir of Creativity chronicles one woman's life journey as she derives a theory, revealing meaning in abstract painting, from varied personal and professional experiences, and tells how she locates this theory within a broader social context. In 1966, Piri Halasz became the first woman within living memory to write a cover story for Time (and not just any cover story, either: the notorious one on "Swinging London"). With wit and wisdom, she provides a glimpse into her "red-diaper" childhood, as well as reporting on her climb at Time from research to the writing staff. Vividly, she describes her controversial career as a female journalist during the sixties, offering an inside view of newsweekly rivalries during that tempestuous decade. Halasz then moves on to her initiation into the art world, her lively interaction with some of its most distinguished denizens and her immersion in graduate school. She concludes with what she has learned about art, art history, and history itself since the early eighties, applying that knowledge to better understand the twenty-first century. Through sharing her life story, Halasz encourages others to remain open to new experiences, to try different ways of seeing, and to use creativity to tackle hurdles.
| Author | : Stephen Dau |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2012-03-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 110156105X |
An exceptional debut novel about a young Muslim war orphan whose family is killed in a military operation gone wrong, and the American soldier to whom his fate, and survival, is bound. Jonas is fifteen when his family is killed during an errant U.S. military operation in an unnamed Muslim country. With the help of an international relief organization, he is sent to America, where he struggles to assimilate-foster family, school, a first love. Eventually, he tells a court-mandated counselor and therapist about a U.S. soldier, Christopher Henderson, responsible for saving his life on the tragic night in question. Christopher's mother, Rose, has dedicated her life to finding out what really happened to her son, who disappeared after the raid in which Jonas' village was destroyed. When Jonas meets Rose, a shocking and painful secret gradually surfaces from the past, and builds to a shattering conclusion that haunts long after the final page. Told in spare, evocative prose, The Book of Jonas is about memory, about the terrible choices made during war, and about what happens when foreign disaster appears at our own doorstep. It is a rare and virtuosic novel from an exciting new writer to watch.
| Author | : Elizabeth Pisani |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2014-06-23 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 0393244288 |
"A spectacular achievement and one of the very best travel books I have read." —Simon Winchester, Wall Street Journal Declaring independence in 1945, Indonesia said it would "work out the details of the transfer of power etc. as soon as possible." With over 300 ethnic groups spread across over 13,500 islands, the world’s fourth most populous nation has been working on that "etc." ever since. Author Elizabeth Pisani traveled 26,000 miles in search of the links that bind this disparate nation.
| Author | : Sylvia Acevedo |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2018-09-04 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1328526909 |
The inspiring memoir for young readers about a Latina rocket scientist whose early life was transformed by joining the Girl Scouts and who currently serves as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA. A meningitis outbreak in their underprivileged neighborhood left Sylvia Acevedo’s family forever altered. As she struggled in the aftermath of loss, young Sylvia’s life transformed when she joined the Brownies. The Girl Scouts taught her how to take control of her world and nourished her love of numbers and science. With new confidence, Sylvia navigated shifting cultural expectations at school and at home, forging her own trail to become one of the first Latinx to graduate with a master's in engineering from Stanford University and going on to become a rocket scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Simultaneously available in Spanish!
| Author | : James E. Birren |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis US |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2001-07-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780801866340 |
Birren has conducted more than twenty-five years of autobiography groups, where participants recall, write, and share their life stories. He offers "how-to" tips for organizing, complementing, and understanding oral history works. He finds that the exercise is rewarding for adults entering periods of transitions, such as the elderly population, and encourages the sharing of experiences with others on the same journey.
| Author | : Lee Gutkind |
| Publisher | : Hachette+ORM |
| Total Pages | : 339 |
| Release | : 2012-07-03 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0738215864 |
From "the godfather behind creative nonfiction" (Vanity Fair) comes this indispensable how-to for nonfiction writers of all levels and genres, "reminiscent of Stephen King's fiction handbook On Writing" (Kirkus). Whether you're writing a rags-to-riches tell-all memoir or literary journalism, telling true stories well is hard work. In You Can't Make This Stuff Up, Lee Gutkind, the go-to expert for all things creative nonfiction, offers his unvarnished wisdom to help you craft the best writing possible. Frank, to-the-point, and always entertaining, Gutkind describes and illustrates every aspect of the genre. Invaluable tools and exercises illuminate key steps, from defining a concept and establishing a writing process to the final product. Offering new ways of understanding the genre, this practical guidebook will help you thoroughly expand and stylize your work.
