Children's Books in Print

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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1314

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Children's Books in Print

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Category : Children's literature
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Pages : 1314

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Hellfire

Hellfire PDF Author: Cameron Forbes
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459622103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 754

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For months during 1943 there was no night in Hellfire Pass. By the light of flares, carbide lamps and bamboo fires, men near-naked and skeletal cut a passage through stone to make way for a railway. Among these men were some of the 22,000 Australian soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War II. In camps across Asia and the Pacific, they struggled, died, and survived with a little help from their mates. 'Hellfire' was researched in Australia, Japan and across South-East Asia. It draws on 50 first-person interviews, ranging from former prisoners to an old Mon villager deep in the Burmese jungle, and from Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew to veterans of the Imperial Japanese Army. The result is a tour de force, a powerful and searing history of the prisoners of the Japanese.

Popular Reading for Children, II

Popular Reading for Children, II PDF Author: Barbara Elleman
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Highbrows, Hillbillies, and Hellfire

Highbrows, Hillbillies, and Hellfire PDF Author: Steve Goodson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820329304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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From the end of Reconstruction to the eve of the Great Depression, Atlanta was the New South's "Gate City." Steve Goodson's social and cultural history looks at the variety of public amusements available to Atlantans of the day, including theater, vaudeville, dime museums, movies, radio, and classical, blues, and country music. Revealed in the ways its people embraced or condemned everything from burlesque to opera is an Atlanta unsure of its identity and acutely sensitive of its image in the eyes of the nation. While the general populace hungered for novelty and diversion, middle-class Atlantans, white and black, saw entertainment as a source of--or threat to--status and respectability. Goodson traces the roots of this tension to the city's rapid and problematic growth, its uncomfortably diverse population, and its multiplying ties to national markets. At the same time he portrays some lively individuals who shaped Atlanta's entertainment scene. Among them are impresario Laurent DeGive, tightrope walker Professor Leon, patent-medicine salesman Yellowstone Kit, country music great Fiddlin' John Carson, and blues legends Bessie Smith and Blind Willie McTell. Goodson also brings alive the atmosphere of such venues as DeGive's resplendent Grand Opera House, George Johnson's tacky Museum of Living Wonders, the pioneering Trocadero vaudeville house, and the notorious 81 Theater on Decatur Street, an avenue whose decadent promise rivaled that of Beale in Memphis and Bourbon in New Orleans. Milestone trends and events are also showcased: performances of the play Uncle Tom's Cabin and showings of the film Birth of a Nation, visits by the Metropolitan Opera Company, the debate over Sunday entertainment, the beginning of broadcasts by "The Voice of the South"--radio station WSB--and the rise of Atlanta as the earliest capital of country and blues recording. Accepted historical views of public entertainment in America suggest that ethnicity and class would be the most pronounced forces shaping this aspect of Atlanta's popular culture. Goodson finds, however, that race and evangelical Christianity also heavily influenced the circumstances in which Atlantans went about their fun. With implications for the entire urban South, this is an engaging look at how and why its major city once grasped at sophistication and progress with one hand while pushing it away with the other.

Best Books for Children

Best Books for Children PDF Author: John Thomas Gillespie
Publisher: New Providence, N.J. : R.R. Bowker
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1438

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Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books PDF Author: University of Chicago. Center for Children's Books
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Children's Book Review Index

Children's Book Review Index PDF Author:
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Hellfire

Hellfire PDF Author: John Saul
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307767949
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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The old mill has been silent for a hundred years, its dread secrets locked from view. Still, the people of Westover, Massachusetts, remember . . . and whisper of that terrible day when horrifying flames claimed eleven innocent young lives. The day the mill's doors slammed shut--forever. But now, the last of the once-powerful Sturgess family is about to unlock those doors again . . . and unleash an elemental fury. For behind the padlocks, deep within the dark, abandoned building, a terrible vengeance waits. A vengeance conceived in HELLFIRE.

Contemporary Literary Criticism

Contemporary Literary Criticism PDF Author: Daniel G. Marowski
Publisher: Contemporary Literary Criticis
ISBN: 9780810344150
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 762

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Entries include critical commentary, brief biographical information, a portrait when available, a list of principal works, and may also include a further reading section.

Hell Fire

Hell Fire PDF Author: John Saul
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553258648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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The old mill has been silent for a hundred years, its dread secrets locked from view. Still, the people of Westover, Massachusetts, remember . . . and whisper of that terrible day when horrifying flames claimed eleven innocent young lives. The day the mill's doors slammed shut--forever. But now, the last of the once-powerful Sturgess family is about to unlock those doors again . . . and unleash an elemental fury. For behind the padlocks, deep within the dark, abandoned building, a terrible vengeance waits. A vengeance conceived in HELLFIRE.