Author: Martha Finley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Mildred Keith
Author: Martha Finley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Mildred at Roselands
Author: Martha Finley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Mildred's Boys and Girls
Author: Martha Finley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Landreths and their relatives survive the horrors of the civil war.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Landreths and their relatives survive the horrors of the civil war.
Mildred's New Daughter
Author: Martha Finley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Two Elsies
Author: Martha Finley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Millie's Courageous Days
Author: Martha Finley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781928749424
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
The A Life of Faith: Millie Keith novels follow the exciting life and times of Millie Keith, a girl of strong Christian faith growing up on the Indiana frontier in the mid-1800s. Adapted from Martha Finley's 1876 sequel to the popular Elsie Dinsmore novels, these revised and updated, modern-language books introduce readers to yet another delightful Christian heroine.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781928749424
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
The A Life of Faith: Millie Keith novels follow the exciting life and times of Millie Keith, a girl of strong Christian faith growing up on the Indiana frontier in the mid-1800s. Adapted from Martha Finley's 1876 sequel to the popular Elsie Dinsmore novels, these revised and updated, modern-language books introduce readers to yet another delightful Christian heroine.
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
Author: Rebecca Donner
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031656172X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The INSTANT New York Times Bestseller Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award Winner of the Chautauqua Prize Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist for the Plutarch Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2021 A New York Times BookReview Editors’ Choice A New York Times Critics' Top Pick of 2021 Wall Street Journal 10 Best Books of 2021 Time Magazine 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 Publishers Weekly Top Ten Books of 2021 An Economist Best Book of the Year A New York Post Best Book of the Year A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of the Year Oprah Daily Best New Books of August A New York Public Library Book of the Week In this “stunning literary achievement,” Donner chronicles the extraordinary life and brutal death of her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, the American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany during WWII—“a page-turner story of espionage, love and betrayal” (Kai Bird, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography) Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment—a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. Her coconspirators circulated through Berlin under the cover of night, slipping the leaflets into mailboxes, public restrooms, phone booths. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired, she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16, 1943, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. Historians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now. Harnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany, Russia, England, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to produce this astonishing work of narrative nonfiction. Fusing elements of biography, real-life political thriller, and scholarly detective story, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, survivors’ testimony, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful, epic story, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031656172X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The INSTANT New York Times Bestseller Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award Winner of the Chautauqua Prize Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist for the Plutarch Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2021 A New York Times BookReview Editors’ Choice A New York Times Critics' Top Pick of 2021 Wall Street Journal 10 Best Books of 2021 Time Magazine 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 Publishers Weekly Top Ten Books of 2021 An Economist Best Book of the Year A New York Post Best Book of the Year A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of the Year Oprah Daily Best New Books of August A New York Public Library Book of the Week In this “stunning literary achievement,” Donner chronicles the extraordinary life and brutal death of her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, the American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany during WWII—“a page-turner story of espionage, love and betrayal” (Kai Bird, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography) Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment—a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. Her coconspirators circulated through Berlin under the cover of night, slipping the leaflets into mailboxes, public restrooms, phone booths. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired, she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16, 1943, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. Historians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now. Harnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany, Russia, England, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to produce this astonishing work of narrative nonfiction. Fusing elements of biography, real-life political thriller, and scholarly detective story, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, survivors’ testimony, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful, epic story, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history.
Millie's Unsettled Season
Author: Martha Finley
Publisher: Zonderkidz
ISBN: 9781928749097
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Millie Keith is moving from Ohio to Indiana with her family and her Christian faith must sustain her through the journey.
Publisher: Zonderkidz
ISBN: 9781928749097
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Millie Keith is moving from Ohio to Indiana with her family and her Christian faith must sustain her through the journey.
Mildred and Elsie
Author: Martha Finley
Publisher:
ISBN: 3752394919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Mildred and Elsie by Martha Finley
Publisher:
ISBN: 3752394919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Mildred and Elsie by Martha Finley
Excellent Women
Author: Barbara Pym
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101666250
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Excellent Women is probably the most famous of Barbara Pym's novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Cecil as one of 'the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years,' helped launch the rediscovery of the author's entire work. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a spinster in the England of the 1950s, one of those 'excellent women' who tend to get involved in other people's lives - such as those of her new neighbor, Rockingham, and the vicar next door. This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101666250
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Excellent Women is probably the most famous of Barbara Pym's novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Cecil as one of 'the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years,' helped launch the rediscovery of the author's entire work. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a spinster in the England of the 1950s, one of those 'excellent women' who tend to get involved in other people's lives - such as those of her new neighbor, Rockingham, and the vicar next door. This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest.