Author: Esther Royer Ayers
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873388283
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Rolling Down Black Stockings is a personal recollection of Esther Royer Ayers's youth spent in a highly restrictive and confined religious community. Her story is as much a search for identity and a longing for a mother's love as it is a tale about a totalitarian culture that led to her departure from the Old Order Mennonite religion. This poignant story is told in three books: book 1 describes her youth in a farm community on the outskirts of Columbiana, Ohio; book 2 follows the struggles of Ayers as she tries to fit in with another culture after leaving the church when her family moves to Akron, Ohio; and book 3 discusses the history and cultural dynamics of the religion. Ayers recounts how the Old Order Mennonite Church came into existence. Her personal account begins when she was eight years old, watching as her mother took care of her sick father. With intel-ligence and insight, Ayers describes how her family coped with the burden of not having enough income, which meant that the children were expected to work instead of getting an education. her Mennonite community, Ayers relates her difficulties trying to fit in at the public school and how she and her siblings were required to fall classes so that they would be expelled. It concludes with reflections on what all this meant to her. A rare and moving memoir, Rolling Down Black Stockings is also a valuable piece of social history that will appeal to historians as well as those interested in separatist communities and women's studies.
Author: Rowe Wright
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Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Author: Sharad Keskar
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477215336
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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India 1940: An army nurse gives birth to the son of a British soldier killed in Burma. The child, left on the steps of a Hindu temple, is rescued by an old woman, who names him Bal and believes he is Lord Vishnu's gift to her, but she dies, and the unwanted orphan falls to the care of a low-caste Bhil woman. Apprenticed to a herdsman, Bal and two older boys dream of a better life. They escape to Bombay, where he comes to the notice of Parsee philanthropist, Sam Dastoor, who adopts him. Bal, now Dusty, avoids an Englishman claiming to be his uncle, and opts for an army career. As a cadet, his unfortunate infatuation for a married woman hardens him. Then, on a holiday, he sees Emma and is so haunted by her beauty that, years later, when he meets her double, Kitty, he dares to woo her. Kitty recruits his help in situations within the shadow of The Lotus and the Rose. Later, they establish a school in South India, but Kitty, unable to settle down, returns to England alone. Learning she is the mother of his child, he overcomes his reluctance to cross the "blackwaters".
Author: Maryann N. Weidt
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 0761391495
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Eleanor Roosevelt is perhaps best known for her role as First Lady, wife to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But this strong-willed woman was a skilled politician in her own right, who overcame her own prejudices to fight for the rights of women, blacks and the poor. This inspiring biography tells of Eleanor Roosevelt's development from a lonely, orphaned teenager to a determined, socially conscious woman, beloved in the United States and throughout the world.
Author: Anna Godbersen
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1602862230
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
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At the height of the Cold War, Marilyn Monroe was the most infamous woman in the world. But what if she was also a secret Soviet spy? In 1947, a young, unknown Norma Jeane Baker meets a mysterious man in Los Angeles who transforms her into Marilyn Monroe, the star. Twelve years later he comes back for his repayment, and Marilyn is given her first assignment from the KGB: uncover something about JFK that no one else knows. But a simple job turns complicated when Marilyn falls in love with the bright young President, and learns of plans to assassinate Kennedy. More than anything, Marilyn wants to escape her Soviet handlers and save her love -- and herself. Desperate, ruthless and brilliant, what she does next will leave readers reeling. From New York Times bestselling author Anna Godbersen comes a whip-smart re-imagining of the life of Marilyn Monroe, set in a world of silver screen glamour and political intrigue. At once a crackling portrayal of Old Hollywood, an intimate portrait of the larger-than-life star, and a cat-and-mouse thriller, The Blonde is history rewritten as it could have -- and might have been.
Author: Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey
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Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Author: briann kearney
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329551664
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Judith Ann Thomas's diary for 1961 follows part of her short life in Brisbane, Australia as she goes to dances and parties with various Brisbane musicians like Johnny Pickering & the Planets and visiting bands and singers including Peter Allen, the Allen Bros. and Lucky Starr and is invited to Queensland's first O.B. of "Bandstand" from Lennons Broadbeach before she follows her dream as a showgirl at Chequers Nightclub with modelling.
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Author:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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