Author: Richard H. Grabmeier
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595157440
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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America is a land of promise, filled with adventure and overflowing with riches, thought young Peter Olaf. So in 1895, at the age of seventeen, he left his family and girlfriend to board a ship for the new world. In the next ten years Peter mutated from a naive, young, Swedish immigrant, swinging an axe in a logging camp, to a man of wealth and prestige. Along the way he encountered and overcame fearsome challenges and tragedies and the deepest personal losses and betrayals. But he also built wonderfully strong friendships and family relationships. He experienced loves that were sometimes intensely passionate, sometimes gentle or bittersweet, but only one would last a lifetime. Peter Olaf engages a rich blend of characters to carry Peter’s story from Sweden to Minnesota and back, and even to a Louisiana prison. The personalities are vivid and strong, from lumberjack to Indian healer, flirtatious boss’s daughter to gentle half-breed girl, businessman mentor to formidable police inspector. Peter Olaf is an account of a young immigrant’s early life, but it is also a study of the hardy people who worked and loved in an earlier time of our nation.
Author: Alexander M. Bruce
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780815339045
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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In a society where a comic equates with knockabout amusment for children, the sudden pre-eminence of adult comics, on everything from political satire to erotic fantasy, has predictably attracted an enormous amount of attention. Adult comics are part of the cultural landscape in a way that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. In this first survey of its kind, Roger Sabin traces the history of comics for older readers from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. He takes in the pioneering titles pre-First World War, the underground 'comix' of the 1960s and 1970s, 'fandom' in the 1970s and 1980s, and the boom of the 1980s and 1990s (including 'graphic novels' and Viz.). Covering comics from the United States, Europe and Japan, Adult Comics addresses such issues as the graphic novel in context, cultural overspill and the role of women. By taking a broad sweep, Sabin demonstrates that the widely-held notion that comics 'grew up' in the late 1980s is a mistaken one, largely invented by the media. Adult Comics: An Introduction is intended primarily for student use, but is written with the comic enthusiast very much in mind.
Author: Albert O. Grender
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Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Category : Kandiyohi County (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Category : Mormons
Languages : en
Pages : 872
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Author: United States. Patent and Trademark Office
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1464
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Author: Andrew Anderson Veblen
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Category : Manual
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Chapters: Description of Valders, Norway; Bygdelag Movement, The Valdris Samband, Member of the Valdris Samband, Valdrises in the World War, Some document and selections by members in America.
Author: Mary Gillies
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Author: Newton S. Gordon
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Category : Barron County (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1770
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Author: Connecticut
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
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