Author: Ludvík Vaculík
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810107267
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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The Guinea Pigs is a chilling fable about dehumanization and alienation representing Vaculik's vision of the menace of Soviet domination in the wake of the 1969 invasion. Written in 1970, it is a sweeping condemnation of totalitarianism, embedded in a rich, imaginative, highly experimental narrative. In the words of the New York Review of Books it is "one of the major works of literature produced in postwar Europe."
Author: Pat Murphy
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 0142412457
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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It?s 1972. Twelve-year-old Joan is sure that she is going to be miserable when her family moves. Then she meets a most unusual girl. Sarah prefers to be called ?Fox,? and lives with her author dad in a rundown house in the middle of the woods. The two girls start writing their own stories together, and when one wins first place in a student contest, they find themselves recruited for a summer writing class taught by the equally unusual Verla Volante. The Wild Girls brilliantly explores friendship, the power of story, and how coming of age means finding your own answers.
Author: Judy Blankenship
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292748728
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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While many baby boomers are downsizing to a simpler retirement lifestyle, photographer and writer Judy Blankenship and her husband Michael Jenkins took a more challenging leap in deciding to build a house on the side of a mountain in southern Ecuador. They now live half the year in Cañar, an indigenous community they came to know in the early nineties when Blankenship taught photography there. They are the only extranjeros (outsiders) in this homely, chilly town at 10,100 feet, where every afternoon a spectacular mass of clouds rolls up from the river valley below and envelopes the town. In this absorbing memoir, Blankenship tells the interwoven stories of building their house in the clouds and strengthening their ties to the community. Although she and Michael had spent considerable time in Cañar before deciding to move there, they still had much to learn about local customs as they navigated the process of building a house with traditional materials using a local architect and craftspeople. Likewise, fulfilling their obligations as neighbors in a community based on reciprocity presented its own challenges and rewards. Blankenship writes vividly of the rituals of births, baptisms, marriages, festival days, and deaths that counterpoint her and Michael’s solitary pursuits of reading, writing, listening to opera, playing chess, and cooking. Their story will appeal to anyone contemplating a second life, as well as those seeking a deeper understanding of daily life in the developing world.
Author: Anne Broyles
Publisher: Charlesbridge
ISBN: 1607341050
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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A young African American girl is sold away from her mother as a slave, and then later is sold to a Cherokee Indian, but eventually she is bought by a white man who not only sets her free, but adopts her into his family of fifteen children. Based on a true story; includes instructions for making a hollyhock doll.
Author: Isabela Figueiredo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981458038
Category : Portugal
Languages : en
Pages :
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"Isabela Figueiredo's literary memoir Notebook of Colonial Memories was originally published in Portugal in 2009 as Caderno de Memórias Coloniais. It traces the author's growing up in the 1960s and 70s in Mozambique, which was then still a Portuguese colony, and her "return" at the age of thirteen to Portugal (a country she had never seen) following Mozambique's independence. It offers an uncommonly candid and unsparing perspective on the realities of late Portuguese colonialism in Africa and on the political climate surrounding the "repatriation" to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of former colonial settlers, mainly from Angola and Mozambique. The critical introduction by Anna Klobucka and Phillip Rothwell describes these historical circumstances and contextualizes Figueiredo's text for the English-language reader, as well as commenting on the writer's complex exercise of remembrance, reconstruction and fictionalization of her experience in both Mozambique and Portugal. Keywords: Portuguese colonialism, Mozambique, decolonization, postcolonialism, memoir" --
Author: Ursula Zinko
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alternative toxicity testing
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Author: Liam Llewellyn
Publisher: L.L. Press
ISBN: 0999843249
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
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Since burning down under mysterious circumstances in 1971, the Hotel New Mexico is reputed to be one of the most haunted hotels in the world. Which is what attracts horror junkie Abby and her friend, Georgia, to it one late snowy night. The hotel is under the ownership of cult horror movie icon Corbin Burke, and Abby wants to write a book about Burke, the hotel, and its shocking history. Soon after arriving, the hotel bares all: it's certainly haunted, but not by ghosts or anything
Author: Anne Broyles
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
ISBN: 9780884482185
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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When their father gets sick and cannot take them out trick or treating on their first Halloween in their new country, Anya and her sisters and brother are surprised when their shy mother agrees to accompany them.
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Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 2066
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Author: Jonathan L. Goldman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780470373309
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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