Author: Drude Krog Janson
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801868818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
With this edition of A Saloonkeeper's Daughter, an important and prescient work of American fiction is finally available in English.
A Saloonkeeper's Daughter
Author: Drude Krog Janson
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801868818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
With this edition of A Saloonkeeper's Daughter, an important and prescient work of American fiction is finally available in English.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801868818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
With this edition of A Saloonkeeper's Daughter, an important and prescient work of American fiction is finally available in English.
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Author: Kim Edwards
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101010940
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A #1 New York Times bestseller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love Kim Edwards’s stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964 in Lexington, Kentucky, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century—in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that winter night long ago. A family drama, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter explores every mother's silent fear: What would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? It is also an astonishing tale of love and how the mysterious ties that hold a family together help us survive the heartache that occurs when long-buried secrets are finally uncovered.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101010940
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A #1 New York Times bestseller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love Kim Edwards’s stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964 in Lexington, Kentucky, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century—in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that winter night long ago. A family drama, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter explores every mother's silent fear: What would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? It is also an astonishing tale of love and how the mysterious ties that hold a family together help us survive the heartache that occurs when long-buried secrets are finally uncovered.
Horizons of Enchantment
Author: Lene Johannessen
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611680131
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
A unique and original reading of the American imaginary
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611680131
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
A unique and original reading of the American imaginary
A Souvenir Selection of the Anti-saloon Addresses Delivered at the Annual Congress of the Ohio Anti-saloon League at Columbus, Dec. 11-13, 1894
Author: John A. Watterson (bp. of Columbus.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
... The Curse of Drink
Author: Elton Raymond Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholics
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholics
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The Sea Keeper's Daughters
Author: Lisa Wingate
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414388276
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
From the #1 New York Times author of Before We Were Yours. From modern-day Roanoke Island to the sweeping backdrop of North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains and Roosevelt's WPA folklore writers, past and present intertwine to create an unexpected destiny. Restaurant owner Whitney Monroe is desperate to save her business from a hostile takeover. The inheritance of a decaying Gilded Age hotel on North Carolina's Outer Banks may provide just the ray of hope she needs. But things at the Excelsior are more complicated than they seem. Whitney's estranged stepfather is entrenched on the third floor, and the downstairs tenants are determined to save the historic building. Searching through years of stored family heirlooms may be Whitney's only hope of quick cash, but will the discovery of an old necklace and a Depression-era love story change everything?
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414388276
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
From the #1 New York Times author of Before We Were Yours. From modern-day Roanoke Island to the sweeping backdrop of North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains and Roosevelt's WPA folklore writers, past and present intertwine to create an unexpected destiny. Restaurant owner Whitney Monroe is desperate to save her business from a hostile takeover. The inheritance of a decaying Gilded Age hotel on North Carolina's Outer Banks may provide just the ray of hope she needs. But things at the Excelsior are more complicated than they seem. Whitney's estranged stepfather is entrenched on the third floor, and the downstairs tenants are determined to save the historic building. Searching through years of stored family heirlooms may be Whitney's only hope of quick cash, but will the discovery of an old necklace and a Depression-era love story change everything?
A Girl of the Klondike
Author: Victoria Cross
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465532528
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465532528
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Free to Wander
Author: Dale A. Smith
Publisher: Abbott Press
ISBN: 1458215792
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
In 1861, Jimmy Carl Gray and Lew McManus travel west to escape the horrors of the American Civil War and to seek silver, wealth, and peace. Their plans are changed, however, when the Texas Brigade invades the New Mexico Territory. The ambitious miners are forced to join the Confederate Army, unable to avoid the war they left behind. Although mired in violence, Jimmy and Lew make the acquaintance of several intriguing characters. They meet a Mescalero Apache healer named Rodrigo Red Water, an unforgettable Colorado gold miner named Dirt Bradshaw, and even Wild Bill Hickock before he became a legend. The Southwest is a wild place, full of diverse people, who face battles and other struggles as their various stories unfold. In this wild and colorful journey through their lives, these characters discover love, fear, greed, and the thirst for revenge as they struggle to live through a war that tore a country apart.
Publisher: Abbott Press
ISBN: 1458215792
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
In 1861, Jimmy Carl Gray and Lew McManus travel west to escape the horrors of the American Civil War and to seek silver, wealth, and peace. Their plans are changed, however, when the Texas Brigade invades the New Mexico Territory. The ambitious miners are forced to join the Confederate Army, unable to avoid the war they left behind. Although mired in violence, Jimmy and Lew make the acquaintance of several intriguing characters. They meet a Mescalero Apache healer named Rodrigo Red Water, an unforgettable Colorado gold miner named Dirt Bradshaw, and even Wild Bill Hickock before he became a legend. The Southwest is a wild place, full of diverse people, who face battles and other struggles as their various stories unfold. In this wild and colorful journey through their lives, these characters discover love, fear, greed, and the thirst for revenge as they struggle to live through a war that tore a country apart.
Graceland Cemetery
Author: Adam Selzer
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252053427
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
One of Chicago’s landmark attractions, Graceland Cemetery chronicles the city’s sprawling history through the stories of its people. Local historian and Graceland tour guide Adam Selzer presents ten walking tours covering almost the entirety of the cemetery grounds. While nodding to famous Graceland figures from Marshall Field to Ernie Banks to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Selzer also leads readers past the vaults, obelisks, and other markers that call attention to less recognized Chicagoans like: Jessie Williams de Priest, the Black wife of a congressman whose 1929 invitation to a White House tea party set off a storm of controversy; Engineer and architect Fazlur Khan, the Bangladeshi American who revived the city's skyscraper culture; The still-mysterious Kate Warn (listed as Warn on her tombstone), the United States’ first female private detective. Filled with photographs and including detailed maps of each tour route, Graceland Cemetery is an insider's guide to one of Chicago's great outdoor destinations for city lore and history.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252053427
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
One of Chicago’s landmark attractions, Graceland Cemetery chronicles the city’s sprawling history through the stories of its people. Local historian and Graceland tour guide Adam Selzer presents ten walking tours covering almost the entirety of the cemetery grounds. While nodding to famous Graceland figures from Marshall Field to Ernie Banks to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Selzer also leads readers past the vaults, obelisks, and other markers that call attention to less recognized Chicagoans like: Jessie Williams de Priest, the Black wife of a congressman whose 1929 invitation to a White House tea party set off a storm of controversy; Engineer and architect Fazlur Khan, the Bangladeshi American who revived the city's skyscraper culture; The still-mysterious Kate Warn (listed as Warn on her tombstone), the United States’ first female private detective. Filled with photographs and including detailed maps of each tour route, Graceland Cemetery is an insider's guide to one of Chicago's great outdoor destinations for city lore and history.
My Summer with Molly
Author: Larry L. Meyer
Publisher: Calafia Press
ISBN: 9780942273045
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher: Calafia Press
ISBN: 9780942273045
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description