Author: Kate Wood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Elizabeth Williams Champney
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Category : Boarding schools
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Author: Kate Wood
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Author: J. P. Coman
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ISBN: 9781944644055
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 187

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The writing team of J P Coman consists of a married couple who have raised three children and use their experiences to create characters and situations that people can identify with. J is past president of the West Texas Writers of Midland, Texas, and has been the editor for multiple Texas and Louisiana newsletters. He has been writing poems since age 6 and has written comic strips, stories, puppet theater, plays, screenplays, and now his second book. Among his many interests are music, videography, theater, TED talks, Catholic bible studies, science fiction, and enjoying audiobooks. He is married to P, the co-author of the Troll story. Her interests include church ministry, pediatric physical therapy, spiritual writing, inspirational talks, and gourmet and Cajun cooking. They both enjoy camping, cruising, and outdoor grilling. And apparently his dishwashing skills are beyond compare. AUTHOR HOME: Lafayette, LA

Author: Kristy J. Walker
Publisher: Kristy J. Walker
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 59

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It was just one weekend. One weekend altered everything! He was the governor's son and a rising figure in business. He had everything at his feet. She was a struggling college student who worked two jobs. Beautifully independent and uncompromising. So, how did one weekend affect everything? What will happen when the secret is revealed? This story contains plenty of drama, secrets, and lies. Get ready, readers! MATURE CONTENT: PLEASE CONSIDER BEFORE READING THIS BOOK SINCE SOME SCENES WOULD BE ONLY APPROPRIATE FOR 18+ AND ADULTS.

Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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♥♥ The Secret Agent: Bestseller Mystery & Thriller by Joseph Conrad ♥♥ The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is set in London in 1886 and follows the life of Mr. Verloc, a secret agent. It is notable for being one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring. ♥♥ The Secret Agent: Bestseller Mystery & Thriller by Joseph Conrad ♥♥ Set in London in 1886, the novel follows the life of Adolf Verloc, a secret agent. Verloc is also a businessman who owns a shop which sells pornographic material, contraceptives and bric-a-brac. ♥♥ The Secret Agent: Bestseller Mystery & Thriller by Joseph Conrad ♥♥ He lives with his wife Winnie, his mother-in-law, and his brother-in-law, Stevie. Stevie has a mental disability, possibly autism, which causes him to be excitable; his sister, Verloc's wife, attends to him, treating him more as a son than as a brother. ♥♥ The Secret Agent: Bestseller Mystery & Thriller by Joseph Conrad ♥♥ Verloc's friends are a group of anarchists of which Comrade Ossipon, Michaelis, and "The Professor" are the most prominent. Although largely ineffectual as terrorists, their actions are known to the police. The group produces anarchist literature in the form of pamphlets entitled F.P., an acronym for The Future of the Proletariat.

Author: Gayreen Lyngdoh
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 1482857952
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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To journey into the pages of this book is to journey into the colourful world of Chinese and Chinese-American culture, into slivers of history, into gender politics, into myth and, perhaps, even into ourselves. In the private struggles and triumphs of Pearl S. Bucks and Amy Tans women characters, in their quest to re-frame and re-define themselves and their lives, echo the universal experience of women in time and space: the stories of love and loss, the yearnings and heartaches, the joys and sorrows, the laughter and the tears and, above all, their quiet strength and resilience in the face of great odds and injustices that, more often than not, have marked the female experience through generations. The book will, no doubt, strike a chord in the hearts of the readers and offer a fascinating insight into the heart of a womans world and, what it is to be a woman. Pearl S. Buck and Amy Tan, the two authors revisited in this book, may both be described as writers who have, in their own ways, written about the lives of women. Through their work, they challenged patriarchal assumptions about women, by attempting to fashion a distinctive feminine voice that allows for the articulation of womens experiences in their own voices, and /or through the female perspective. This book takes a re-look at the women characters in select novels of these two writers, examining and analysing their experiences and subjectivities as they journey in quest of the self. Special attention is drawn to the role of stories/storytelling as a potent means of female expression and of bridging multifarious human divides. The urgency of reframing and reinterpreting popular myths as a way of critiquing and changing mindsets (where these need to be changed), is also explored in depth. The book is, therefore, a critical and insightful study of the works of two women that, although written in different periods, yet, intersect in these pages. The novels studied are those relating specifically to China and the Chinese/Chinese-American experience, the main subject being the Chinese woman, both in her own local space as well as outside of it. Storytelling enables the transmission and perpetuation of values, culture and history which, [as depicted here], are crucial to self-knowledge, and to an understanding of ones place and identity in the universe . The self that is represented in these novels [therefore], is not a self in isolation, but a self that is a part and parcel of the human tapestry where race, gender, culture and history meet and intersect.

Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783195401
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 59

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Secret terror cells, political conspiracy, police bungling, state-sponsored bomb plots... This is London, 1896. Inspired by Joseph Conrad's classic novel, The Secret Agent is theatre O's heartbreaking and hilarious chronicle of passion, betrayal and terrorism. Set at a time of social upheaval and growing disparity between rich and poor, at the heart of this tale is a woman fighting to protect her young brother from exploitationand violence. In their trademark highly imaginative style, described by The New York Times as, "vivid, enlightening, inventive and compelling", music halland early cinema collide in theatre O's return to the stage after five years away

Author: Heath Hardage Lee
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1612346383
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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Varina Anne ôWinnieö Davis was born into a war-torn South in June of 1864, the youngest daughter of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his second wife, Varina Howell Davis. Born only a month after the death of beloved Confederate hero General J.E.B. Stuart during a string of Confederate victories, WinnieÆs birth was hailed as a blessing by war-weary Southerners. They felt her arrival was a good omen signifying future victory. But after the ConfederacyÆs ultimate defeat in the Civil War, Winnie would spend her early life as a genteel refugee and a European expatriate abroad. After returning to the South from German boarding school, Winnie was christened the ôDaughter of the Confederacyö in 1886. This role was bestowed upon her by a Southern culture trying to sublimate its war losses. Particularly idolized by Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Winnie became an icon of the Lost Cause, eclipsing even her father Jefferson in popularity. Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause is the first published biography of this little-known woman who unwittingly became the symbolic female figure of the defeated South. Her controversial engagement in 1890 to a Northerner lawyer whose grandfather was a famous abolitionist, and her later move to work as a writer in New York City, shocked her friends, family, and the Southern groups who worshipped her. Faced with the pressures of a community who violently rejected the match, Winnie desperately attempted to reconcile her prominent Old South history with her personal desire for tolerance and acceptance of her personal choices.

Author: Sir John Young Walker MacAlister
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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