Author: Kathleen Loftus
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312662492
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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An authentic collection of over 150 letters from a World War I soldier to his beloved, beginning with his deployment from his Chicago hometown in 1917, until the end of the war in late 1918. His very eloquent letters bring the reader inside a WWI soldier's life, from boot camp in Fort Logan, Texas, to the trenches of France. He chronicles, firsthand, many familiar historical figures and events, while depicting both the similarities and changes in American life almost a century ago. Recently, additional letters were added, provided by the soldier's family.
Author: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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In 1929, the noted French paleontologist and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin met Lucile Swan, an American sculptor at a dinner party in Peking. This first evening together began a remarkable friendship that lasted for twenty-five years and was recorded in their correspondence. This volume tells their story in their own words.
Author: Suzanne Berne
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1616200316
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315
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Even as a child, Suzanne Berne understood the source of her father’s terrible melancholy: he’d lost his mother when he was a little boy. Decades later, with her father now elderly and ailing, she decides to try to uncover the woman who continues to haunt him. Every family has a missing person, someone who died young or disappeared, leaving a legacy of loss. Aided by vintage photographs and a box of old keepsakes, Berne sets out to fill in her grandmother’s silhouette and along the way uncovers her own foothold in American history. Lucile Berne, née Kroger, was a daughter of Bernard Henry Kroger, the archetypal American self-made man, who at twenty-three established what is today’s $76 billion grocery enterprise. From her turn-of-the-century Cincinnati childhood to her college years at Wellesley, her tenure as treasurer of her father’s huge company, her stint as a relief worker in devastated France, her marriage to a professional singer, and the elusive, unhappy wealthy young matron she became, Lucile both illustrates and contradicts her times. In the process of creating this portrait, Berne discovers the function of family history: “to explain what is essentially inexplicable—how we came to be ourselves.”
Author: Lucille Ankum
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781956793970
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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I wanted to write about real life, real experiences, true journeys and raw emotions - the feelings of every day living amidst the trauma and drama of divorce.It's true that women often find themselves being put on the back burner, especially after a divorce. The fact is, no one knows what to do with us. The world quickly labels us as this or that, and I should know. I had to carry on after a divorce, and it meant dealing with that awful period of time after everything finalized. In that post-mortem moment there is no turning back, and instead we must "turn the page" and begin a new chapter. No one can tell your story like you, and within these pages I share mine.
Author: Robert Lord Lytton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385398320
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author: Cameron Dokey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141690025X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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A face revealed, and rage unleashed, old anger set upon the world. Three sisters must come together to fight or worse fates will surely be unfurled. The Bay Mirror is covering the grand reopening of Mural House, a San Francisco landmark built in the 1920s, and Phoebe invites her sisters to attend. Piper's got her hands full with P3, but Paige happily tags along to see the once-famous artists' colony that housed great art, passion, and scandal. Notable for all three is the story of the building's architect, William Lancaster, who, during the construction, fell in love with an artist, a young divorcée named Isabella Marshall. Their relationship was tumultuous at best, eventually ending in tragedy ... and in William's disappearance. The hoopla surrounding Mural House's reopening has made William and Isabella's love affair legendary. With the permission of Isabella's daughter, Lucile, Phoebe has been reprinting the couple's love letters in her column. She joins Lucile, now an elderly woman, at the gala's main event, the unveiling of a long-painted-over mural. Lucile is visibly upset when the mural is revealed; in fact, she seems horrified. Before passing out from fear, she whispers, The evil has been released.
Author: Lucile H. Brockway
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300091434
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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This widely acclaimed book analyzes the political effects of scientific research as exemplified by one field, economic botany, during one epoch, the nineteenth century, when Great Britain was the world's most powerful nation. Lucile Brockway examines how the British botanic garden network developed and transferred economically important plants to different parts of the world to promote the prosperity of the Empire. In this classic work, available once again after many years out of print, Brockway examines in detail three cases in which British scientists transferred important crop plants--cinchona (a source of quinine), rubber and sisal--to new continents. Weaving together botanical, historical, economic, political, and ethnographic findings, the author illuminates the remarkable social role of botany and the entwined relation between science and politics in an imperial era.
Author: Mark Alan Shaw
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557123267
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 113
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Author: Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton
Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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