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| Author | : George Sessions Perry |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 1949 |
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In fond homage, this is a portrait of one of the more forceful figures in the family album, Mrs. Male Van de Venter-his Granny Van, with whom George Sessions Perry was in particularly close if not always harmonious relationship. With her irreproachable rightness, her will to power and overpower, her retreats- only when necessary- into martyrdom, Granny Van dominated successfully -- first his parents, and then at their death when he was a boy, young George. This recapitulates her stormy passages at arms with Kate, the maid, with Uncle Harry, their only other relative, with her neighbor and with all tradesmen. It also follows her sharp interest in medication-particularly laxatives, and later- at eighty- in alcohol as from an unacknowledged nip she worked her way up to a gallon a fortnight. And all in all, this catches much of the spirit of an indomitable she-devil who was hard to live with, easy to love.
| Author | : Garna L. Christian |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2009-06-16 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1469100789 |
George Sessions Perry: The Man and His Words is the first biography of the Texas novelist, short story writer, and war correspondent in a generation and the first to use his personal letters and files to allow his words to tell the story. The story is an intriguing one, of a talented but troubled man from Rockdale, Texas who won the National Book Award for Hold Autumn in Your Hand and became one of the most widely read writers in the nation before his untimely demise by drowning in 1956. The biography commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of Perrys birth.
| Author | : Steve Edwards |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2010-10-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0803267959 |
In 2001 Steve Edwards won a writing contest. The prize was seven months of “unparalleled solitude” as the caretaker of a ninety-two-acre backcountry homestead along the Rogue National Wild and Scenic River in southwestern Oregon. Young, recently divorced, and humbled by the prospect of so much time alone, he left behind his job as a college English teacher in Indiana and headed west for a remote but comfortable cabin in the rugged Klamath Mountains. Well aware of what could go wrong living two hours from town with no electricity and no neighbors, Edwards was surprised by what could go right. In prose that is by turns lyrical, introspective, and funny, Breaking into the Backcountry is the story of what he discovered: that alone, in a wild place, each day is a challenge and a gift. Whether chronicling the pleasures of a day-long fishing trip, his first encounter with a black bear, a lightning storm and the threat of fire, the beauty of a steelhead, the attacks of 9/11, or a silence so profound that a black-tailed deer chewing grass outside his window could wake him from sleep, Edwards’s careful evocation of the river canyon and its effect on him testifies to the enduring power of wilderness to transform a life.
| Author | : William Davis Gallagher |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 508 |
| Release | : 1838 |
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| Author | : Harriet Anna Cheever |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 1898 |
| Genre | : Abandoned children |
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| Author | : Doris Haddock |
| Publisher | : Villard |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 2001-06-12 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0375506756 |
"There's a cancer, and it's killing our democracy. A poor man has to sell his soul to get elected. I cry for this country." On February 29, 2000, ninety-year-old Doris “Granny D” Haddock completed her 3,200-mile, fourteen-month walk from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. She walked through 105-degree deserts and blinding blizzards, despite arthritis and emphysema. Along her way, her remarkable speeches — rich with wisdom, love, and political insight — transformed individuals and communities and jump-started a full-blown movement. She became a national heroine. On her journey, Haddock kept a diary — tracking the progress of her walk and recalling events in her life and the insights that have given her. Granny D celebrates an exuberant life of love, activism, and adventure — from writing one-woman feminist plays in the 1930s to stopping nuclear testing near an Eskimo fishing village in 1960 to Haddock’s current crusade. Threaded throughout is the spirit of her beloved hometown of Dublin/Peterborough, New Hampshire — Thornton Wilder’s inspirations for Grovers Croner in Out Town — a quintessentially American center of New England pluck, Yankee ingenuity and can-do attitude. Told in Doris Haddock’s distinct and unforgettable voice, Granny D will move, amuse, and inspire readers of all ages with its clarion message that one person can indeed make a difference.
| Author | : Mary Mapes Dodge |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 654 |
| Release | : 1916 |
| Genre | : Children's literature |
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| Author | : Mark Twain |
| Publisher | : e-artnow |
| Total Pages | : 8811 |
| Release | : 2021-05-07 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
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Musaicum Books presents to you a unique Christmas Collection of the greatest Christmas novels, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the poems dedicated to this one and only holiday: Mr. Pickwick's Christmas (Charles Dickens) The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) Christmas At Sea (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman (Emily Dickinson) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Shakespeare's Christmas Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As Joseph Was A-Walking The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter) Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy) The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) A Christmas Carol (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky) The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) The First Christmas Of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe) Christmas in the Olden Time (Walter Scott) Christmas In India (Rudyard Kipling) A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) The Twelve Days of Christmas The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) Ring Out, Wild Bells (Alfred Lord Tennyson) Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Granny's Wonderful Chair (Frances Browne) The Romance of a Christmas Card (Kate Douglas Wiggin) Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) The Wonderful Life - Story of the life and death of our Lord (Hesba Stretton) The Christmas Angel (A. Brown) Christmas at Thompson Hall (Anthony Trollope) Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells) The Lost Word (Henry van Dyke) The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann) The Little Match Girl The Elves and the Shoemaker Mother Holle The Star Talers Snow-White The Christmas Hirelings The Blue Carbuncle An Exciting Christmas Eve The Spirit of Christmas…
| Author | : William V. Reynolds |
| Publisher | : Double Eagle Enterprises, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2001-10 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780970032010 |
This historical fictional account of incidents that occur in south central Georgia between 1920 and 1945 is basically the story of Eva Hester Reynolds Leggett, the widow of Gus Reynolds from River Pilot. It is the story of a family's survival of the Great Depression.
| Author | : San Francisco Public Library |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 1919 |
| Genre | : Libraries |
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