Leaving and Waving
Title | Leaving and Waving PDF eBook |
Author | Deanna Dikeman b. 1954 |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9780982250723 |
The Sense of an Ending
Title | The Sense of an Ending PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Barnes |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2011-10-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307957330 |
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Encampment, Wyoming
Title | Encampment, Wyoming PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole Jean Hill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN | 9789490119898 |
‘Encampment, Wyoming: Selections from the Lora Webb Nichols Archive 1899- 1948’ features Nichols’ own work and the images by amateur photographers she collected in the early 20th century as the proprietor of a photofinishing business in southern Wyoming. Culled from over 24,000 photographs, the book provides a dynamic visual window into the social, domestic, and economic aspects of the American Western frontier and captures an elusive sense of place through the images of this community of friends, families, and strangers -- Provided by the publisher.
Behind Closed Doors
Title | Behind Closed Doors PDF eBook |
Author | B.A. Paris |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2016-08-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1250121000 |
"First published in Great Britain by MIRA/Harlequin, HarperCollins UK"--Title page verso.
Leaving the House of Ghosts
Title | Leaving the House of Ghosts PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Streed |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2010-06-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780786481934 |
On April 17, 1975, after five years of civil war, the Khmer Rouge guerrillas invaded Cambodia's major cities and forced the residents on a mass exodus to the countryside. Their leader, Pol Pot, established a government based on terror to bring about his dream of an agrarian society where work was done by hand--without what he believed to be corruptive influences. By the time the Vietnamese captured Phnom Penh and ended this brutal experiment in communism in 1979, an estimated two million Cambodians were dead and hundreds of thousands had begun to flee the country for refugee camps in Thailand. Survivors of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge now living in the Midwest tell their stories in this work. Many of them were children during that time, unable to comprehend exactly what was happening and why, but now able to reveal the trauma they experienced. Noeun Nor and Sinn Lok recollect being wrenched from their families and put into labor camps around the age of five. Prum Nath talks about her mother encouraging her to eat the last grains of her family's rice. Sokhary You remembers giving birth on a mountain without a doctor or hospital and using rusty scissors to cut the umbilical cord.
Wave Goodbye
Title | Wave Goodbye PDF eBook |
Author | Rob Reid |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Exercise |
ISBN | 9781880000304 |
This action-packed book on different ways to say goodbye will delight young children as they discover how to wave with their entire bodies. F/c illustrations. Ages 1-6. Illustrated by Lorraine Williams.
Inside Out & Back Again
Title | Inside Out & Back Again PDF eBook |
Author | Thanhha Lai |
Publisher | Univ. of Queensland Press |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0702251178 |
Moving to America turns H&à's life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, H&à has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. H&à and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, H&à discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape, and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.