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En Route to the Great Eastern Circus and Other Essays on Circus History
Author | : William L. Slout |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2016-04-13 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1434437604 |
William L. Slout, entertainment historian par excellence, here provides five fascinating essays on the development of the American traveling circus in the post-Civil War era: "En Route to the Great Eastern Circus" (on the creation of this great show); "The Great Eastern Circus of 1872" (more details about one of P. T. Barnum's rivals); "The Not-So-Great Trans-Atlantic Circus and Menagerie" (how a show failed suddenly in a yellow fever epidemic); "What Goes Up...Comes Down" (how balloning became part of the circus environment); and "The Chicken or the Egg?" (on the first development of the double-ring act pioneered by Barnum and others). These vivid essays, highlighted by numerous contemporaneous excerpts from local newspapers, help bring a long-forgotten era alive again.
Can't See Why Not: A Collection of Essays about Road Trips, Discoveries, and the Fine Art of Letting Go
Author | : Rick Murphy |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2018-10-08 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 0359143342 |
We need spontaneous road trips. We would do well to have the agendas, routines, and plans stripped away from time to time so we can discover. Discovery is important. It is energy, inertia, and propulsion for the soul in a world that has become accustomed with fast food, microwaves, and the express lane. This does not mean we need to live willy-nilly, haphazard, and operating from the seat of our pants, but every now and then it breathes new life.
Along the Road
Author | : Aldous Huxley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Voyages and travels |
ISBN | : |
En Route
Author | : Mary Wainwright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2019-11-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781705476925 |
From her childhood in North Florida to her life as a retired college professor in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Mary Katherine Wainwright takes the reader on a journey of self-discovery. Her essays and photographs trace significant moments in her life that often intersect with the larger cultural context of the Civil Rights and Women's Movements. .Not content with a conventional life, Wainwright seeks again and again to repeat the thrill of boarding the Silver Meteor train at age 7, and to venture once again into the unknown.
Essays and Memoirs on Life and Professional Experiences
Author | : Paul Henry Rodriguez Ph.D. |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2015-07-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1503579557 |
This booklet of Essays and Memoirs describes personal, educational and professional experiences by the Author. One experience includes A Brand New University or The VERY FIRST Class Day at the new campus of the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) in June 1973! Other Memoirs relate to cultural, university teaching, research and personal experiences during four Fulbright Scholar Awards in Central America, Colombia and Peru. A visit to High School Days includes education, summer and mine work experiences in Grant County, New Mexico. Creighton Days summarizes a fine liberal education. Emphasized are Friendships, Colleagues, work experiences and unique relationships with the Creighton Jesuit Fathers and the Cornish Family in Omaha, Nebraska.
Hello (From Here)
Author | : Chandler Baker |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2021-09-07 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0593326121 |
A heartfelt, witty, and thought-provoking YA love story about two teens who fall for each other while forced apart during quarantine, written by two New York Times bestselling authors, and for fans of Five Feet Apart, Anna and the French Kiss, and My Life Next Door Maxine and Jonah meet in the canned goods aisle just as California is going into lockdown. Max’s part-time job as a personal grocery shopper is about to transform into a hellish gauntlet. Jonah’s preexisting anxiety is about to become an epic daily struggle. As Max and Jonah get to know each other through FaceTime dates, socially distanced playground hangs, and the escalating heartbreaks of the pandemic, they’re pushed apart by what they don’t share and pulled closer by what they do. As thoughtful, probing, and informed as it is buoyant, romantic, and funny, Hello (From Here) cuts across differences in class, privilege, and mental health, all thrown into stark relief by the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s a novel that looks at the first two months of the quarantine, and adds falling in love to the mess. "Hello (From Here) isn't just a book about the pandemic." —PopSugar "It's also a funny, poignant romcom about the unpredictability of love in chaotic times. . . . Excellent." —BCCB * "Satisfyingly banter-filled." —PW, starred review “Sweet . . . Effectively rendered.” —Kirkus "Realistic." —SLJ "Not your typical romantic comedy, [it's] a timely update of the genre." —Booklist "Witty, entertaining . . . endearing and relatable.” —Common Sense Media "An unputdownable story that YA readers will adore.” —Brightly “Funny, romantic, and eerily familiar.” —author Kelly Loy Gilbert “Witty, hilarious, heart-filled, and romantic.” —author Jeff Zentner "In a category of its own. . . . Wonderful.” —Postmedia
The Distance Home
Author | : Paula Saunders |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2018-08-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525508759 |
“[Paula] Saunders skillfully illuminates how time heals certain wounds while deepening others. . . . A mediation of the violence of American ambition.”—The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE “A deeply involving portrait of the American postwar family” (Jennifer Egan) about sibling rivalry, dark secrets, and a young girl’s struggle with freedom and artistic desire In the years after World War II, the bleak yet beautiful plains of South Dakota still embody all the contradictions—the ruggedness and the promise—of the old frontier. This is a place where you can eat strawberries from wild vines, where lightning reveals a boundless horizon, where descendants of white settlers and native Indians continue to collide, and where, for most, there are limited options. René shares a home, a family, and a passion for dance with her older brother, Leon. Yet for all they have in common, their lives are on remarkably different paths. In contrast to René, a born spitfire, Leon is a gentle soul. The only boy in their ballet class, Leon silently endures often brutal teasing. Meanwhile, René excels at everything she touches, basking in the delighted gaze of their father, whom Leon seems to disappoint no matter how hard he tries. As the years pass, René and Leon’s parents fight with increasing frequency—and ferocity. Their father—a cattle broker—spends more time on the road, his sporadic homecomings both yearned for and dreaded by the children. And as René and Leon grow up, they grow apart. They grasp whatever they can to stay afloat—a word of praise, a grandmother’s outstretched hand, the seductive attention of a stranger—as René works to save herself, crossing the border into a larger, more hopeful world, while Leon embarks on a path of despair and self-destruction. Tender, searing, and unforgettable, The Distance Home is a profoundly American story spanning decades—a tale of haves and have-nots, of how our ideas of winning and losing, success and failure, lead us inevitably into various problems with empathy and caring for one another. It’s a portrait of beauty and brutality in which the author’s compassionate narration allows us to sympathize, in turn, with everyone involved. “A riveting family saga for the ages . . . one of the best books I’ve read in years.”—Mary Karr “Saunders’ debut is an exquisite, searing portrait of family and of people coping with whatever life throws at them while trying to keep close to one another.”—Booklist (starred review)