Author: Howe Benning
Publisher: Curiosmith
ISBN: 1941281338
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Fourteen year old Essie was proud and envious and she often compared herself to her schoolmates. But when she visited relatives she was given helpful advice: “If you go out into life with all these earnest aspirings centering in self, you will be only one of the many ambitious, whose lives prove but failures. If, dear Essie, you are willing to take into your heart a higher motive, and the Name above all others, then you will find rest yourself, and bring it to others. Is not this what you want?”
Essie's Journey and What She Found in It
Author: Howe Benning
Publisher: Curiosmith
ISBN: 1941281338
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Fourteen year old Essie was proud and envious and she often compared herself to her schoolmates. But when she visited relatives she was given helpful advice: “If you go out into life with all these earnest aspirings centering in self, you will be only one of the many ambitious, whose lives prove but failures. If, dear Essie, you are willing to take into your heart a higher motive, and the Name above all others, then you will find rest yourself, and bring it to others. Is not this what you want?”
Publisher: Curiosmith
ISBN: 1941281338
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Fourteen year old Essie was proud and envious and she often compared herself to her schoolmates. But when she visited relatives she was given helpful advice: “If you go out into life with all these earnest aspirings centering in self, you will be only one of the many ambitious, whose lives prove but failures. If, dear Essie, you are willing to take into your heart a higher motive, and the Name above all others, then you will find rest yourself, and bring it to others. Is not this what you want?”
The Book of Essie
Author: Meghan MacLean Weir
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525436073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
ALEX AWARD WINNER FINALIST FOR THE 2018 NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD "Both timelessly beautiful and unbelievably timely." —Chris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant Esther Ann Hicks—Essie—is the youngest child on Six for Hicks, a reality television phenomenon. She's grown up in the spotlight, idolized and despised for her family's fire-and-brimstone brand of faith. So when Essie’s mother, Celia, discovers that Essie is pregnant, she immediately arranges an emergency meeting with the show’s producers. Do they sneak Essie out of the country for an abortion? Pass the child off as Celia’s? Or do they try to arrange a marriage—and a ratings-blockbuster wedding? Meanwhile, Essie is quietly pairing herself up with Roarke Richards, a senior at her school with a secret of his own. As the newly formed couple attempt to sell their love story to the media through exclusive interviews with the infamously conservative reporter Liberty Bell, Essie finds she has questions of her own: What was the real reason for her older sister leaving home? Who can she trust with the truth about her family? And how much is she willing to sacrifice to win her own freedom?
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525436073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
ALEX AWARD WINNER FINALIST FOR THE 2018 NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD "Both timelessly beautiful and unbelievably timely." —Chris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant Esther Ann Hicks—Essie—is the youngest child on Six for Hicks, a reality television phenomenon. She's grown up in the spotlight, idolized and despised for her family's fire-and-brimstone brand of faith. So when Essie’s mother, Celia, discovers that Essie is pregnant, she immediately arranges an emergency meeting with the show’s producers. Do they sneak Essie out of the country for an abortion? Pass the child off as Celia’s? Or do they try to arrange a marriage—and a ratings-blockbuster wedding? Meanwhile, Essie is quietly pairing herself up with Roarke Richards, a senior at her school with a secret of his own. As the newly formed couple attempt to sell their love story to the media through exclusive interviews with the infamously conservative reporter Liberty Bell, Essie finds she has questions of her own: What was the real reason for her older sister leaving home? Who can she trust with the truth about her family? And how much is she willing to sacrifice to win her own freedom?
Eslanda
Author: Barbara Ransby
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1642596795
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Eslanda "Essie" Cardozo Goode Robeson lived a colorful and amazing life. Her career and commitments took her many places: colonial Africa in 1936, the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, the founding meeting of the United Nations, Nazi-occupied Berlin, Stalin's Russia, and China two months after Mao's revolution. She was a woman of unusual accomplishment—an anthropologist, a prolific journalist, a tireless advocate of women's rights, an outspoken anti-colonial and antiracist activist, and an internationally sought-after speaker. Yet historians for the most part have confined Essie to the role of Mrs. Paul Robeson, a wife hidden in the large shadow cast by her famous husband. In this masterful book, biographer Barbara Ransby refocuses attention on Essie, one of the most important and fascinating black women of the twentieth century. Chronicling Essie's eventful life, the book explores her influence on her husband's early career and how she later achieved her own unique political voice. Essie's friendships with a host of literary icons and world leaders, her renown as a fierce defender of justice, her defiant testimony before Senator Joseph McCarthy's infamous anti-communist committee, and her unconventional open marriage that endured for over 40 years—all are brought to light in the pages of this inspiring biography. Essie's indomitable personality shines through, as do her contributions to United States and twentieth-century world history.
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1642596795
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Eslanda "Essie" Cardozo Goode Robeson lived a colorful and amazing life. Her career and commitments took her many places: colonial Africa in 1936, the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, the founding meeting of the United Nations, Nazi-occupied Berlin, Stalin's Russia, and China two months after Mao's revolution. She was a woman of unusual accomplishment—an anthropologist, a prolific journalist, a tireless advocate of women's rights, an outspoken anti-colonial and antiracist activist, and an internationally sought-after speaker. Yet historians for the most part have confined Essie to the role of Mrs. Paul Robeson, a wife hidden in the large shadow cast by her famous husband. In this masterful book, biographer Barbara Ransby refocuses attention on Essie, one of the most important and fascinating black women of the twentieth century. Chronicling Essie's eventful life, the book explores her influence on her husband's early career and how she later achieved her own unique political voice. Essie's friendships with a host of literary icons and world leaders, her renown as a fierce defender of justice, her defiant testimony before Senator Joseph McCarthy's infamous anti-communist committee, and her unconventional open marriage that endured for over 40 years—all are brought to light in the pages of this inspiring biography. Essie's indomitable personality shines through, as do her contributions to United States and twentieth-century world history.
Initials and Pseudonyms
Author: William Cushing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, American
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, American
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
Author:
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Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1756
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1756
Book Description
Outlook
Author: Alfred Emanuel Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Bulletin of the Vermont Free Public Library Commission
Author: Vermont. Free Public Library Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Bulletin of the State Board of Education, Free Public Library Department
Author: Vermont. Free Public Library Dept
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature: D-G
Author: Samuel Halkett
Publisher:
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Uniform Trade List Annual
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
Book Description
With alphabetical indexes of firms and trade specialties.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
Book Description
With alphabetical indexes of firms and trade specialties.