Author: Maureen Armstrong
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Meet Carole and Sylvii; together they research their own new fresh truths. Carole, a recent widow, suffers financial and personal family betrayals with her husband’s death. Sylvii, their suburban friend, stays beside Carole and assists with reporting to the police and agencies. Traveling interstate Carole returns to familiar places to replenish her optimism, and while keeping in touch with Sylvii defines themselves with loyalty. News of her friend’s husband’s death and experiences with their friends’ children become known to Sylvii, who brings Carole’s details to others throughout Missouri. Carole’s nightmare awaits in her return to her native state, Nebraska, and for memories of family, past hopes and her future. Finding abandoned acreage creates an opportunity for Carole with previous financial planning. Her venture onto her new land Carole referred to as the Olde Homestead, while clearing up this abandoned property Carole writes in her diary of details for July’s Dream, and Carole begins to design with planning to create her own future.

Author: Katherine Applegate
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141696133X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 736

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Previously published as a six-book series by a "New York Times"-bestselling author, the Summer series, starring Summer Smith, is now compiled into two volumes.

Author: Tim O'Brien
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547523726
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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A “perceptive, affectionate, and often very funny” novel about old college friends at a thirty-year reunion, by the author of The Things They Carried (Boston Herald). From a National Book Award winner who’s been called “the best American writer of his generation” (San Francisco Examiner), July, July tells the story of ten old friends who attended Darton Hall College together back in 1969, and now reunite for a summer weekend of dancing, drinking, flirting, reminiscing—and regretting. The three decades since graduation have brought marriage and divorce, children and careers, hopes deferred and replaced. This witty, heart-rending novel about men and women who came into adulthood at a moment when American ideals and innocence began to fade, a New York Times Notable Book, is “deeply satisfying” (O, the Oprah Magazine) and “almost impossible to put down” (Austin American-Statesman). “A symphony of American life.” —All Things Considered, NPR

Author: Dennis Nolan
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596434708
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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A wordless picture book featuring a sandcastle that takes on a life of its own.

Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340978504
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Author: Olivia Newport
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441237542
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Lucy Banning may live on the exclusive Prairie Avenue among Chicago's rich and famous, but her heart lies elsewhere. Expected to marry an up-and-coming banker from a respected family, Lucy fears she will be forced to abandon her charity work--and the classes she is secretly taking at the newly opened University of Chicago. When she meets an unconventional young architect who is working on plans for the upcoming 1893 World's Fair, Lucy imagines a life lived on her own terms. Can she break away from her family's expectations? And will she ever be loved for who she truly is? Readers will love being swept away into a world of mansions, secrets, and romance as they follow Lucy through the streets of the Windy City during one of the most exciting times in the city's history. From opulent upper-class homes to the well-worn rooms of an orphanage, Olivia Newport breathes life and romance into the pages of history--and everyone is invited.

Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1114

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Author: Tony Tian-Ren Lin
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469658968
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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In this immersive ethnography, Tony Tian-Ren Lin explores the reasons that Latin American immigrants across the United States are increasingly drawn to Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism, a strand of Protestantism gaining popularity around the world. Lin contends that Latinos embrace Prosperity Gospel, which teaches that believers may achieve both divine salvation and worldly success, because it helps them account for the contradictions of their lives as immigrants. Weaving together his informants' firsthand accounts of their religious experiences and everyday lives, Lin offers poignant insight into how they see their faith transforming them both as individuals and as communities. The theology fuses salvation with material goods so that as these immigrants pursue spiritual rewards they are also, perhaps paradoxically, striving for the American dream. But after all, Lin observes, prosperity is the gospel of the American dream. In this way, while becoming better Prosperity Gospel Pentecostals they are also adopting traditional white American norms. Yet this is not a story of smooth assimilation as most of these immigrants must deal with the immensity of the broader cultural and political resistance to their actually becoming Americans. Rather, Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism gives Latinos the logic and understanding of themselves as those who belong in this country yet remain perpetual outsiders.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1564

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Author: Fred Erisman
Publisher: TCU Press
ISBN: 9780875653303
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Setting the stage : technology and the series book -- Birdmen and boys, 1905-1915 -- Aces and combat : World War I and after, 1915-1935 -- Interlude : Charles A. Lindbergh and Atlantic flight, 1927-1929 -- The golden age, I : the Lindbergh progeny, 1927-1939 -- The golden age, II : the air-minded society, 1930-1939 -- World War II and modern aviation, 1939-1945 -- Aftermath : a-bombs, rockets, and space flight, 1945-1950.