Your Fondest Annie
Title | Your Fondest Annie PDF eBook |
Author | Annie O'Donnell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Annie O'Donnell left her native Galway for America in 1898, one of 15,175 Irish women who left that year; they far outnumbered the men, and most of them went into domestic service. She became friends with Jim Phelan on the ship to Philadelphia. He was a 22-year-old farmer from Co. Kilkenny who had run away from home during Sunday mass to join his uncle, a tilesetter in Indianapolis. Annie went to work as a children's nurse for the W. L. Mellon family of Pittsburgh. Her letters to Jim Phelan, published here for the first time, are a unique contribution to the growing literature on women's emigration: they provide a sustained three-year narrative of her life as a children's nurse. Annie O'Donnell had been well educated in Ireland and her letters are lively and enjoyable to read. Maureen Murphy has provided an introduction and notes to the letters.
Dear Fahrenheit 451
Title | Dear Fahrenheit 451 PDF eBook |
Author | Annie Spence |
Publisher | Icon Books |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2018-02-08 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 1785783106 |
Have you ever wished you could tell your favourite books just what they mean to you? Or wanted to give a piece of your mind to the 'must-read' book that you wish you hadn't? Librarian Annie Spence has done just that, writing letters to the books under her care, from love letters to Matilda and The Goldfinch, to snarky break-up notes to Fifty Shades of Grey and The Hobbit. Annie's letters will make you laugh, remind you why you love your favourite books, and give you lots of new entries for your reading list. She's also on-hand to help out with your bookish dilemmas: recommendations for lazy readers; excuses to tell your friends when you'd rather stay home reading; and how to turn your lover into a reader. Hilarious, compassionate and smart, Dear Fahrenheit 451 is the consummate book-lover's book.
The Life and Letters of Annie Leake Tuttle
Title | The Life and Letters of Annie Leake Tuttle PDF eBook |
Author | Marilyn Färdig Whiteley |
Publisher | Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0889205590 |
Annie Leake Tuttle was born in Nova Scotia in 1839 and died there in 1934, yet her search for education and self-support took her far afield. During her life she filled important positions from Newfoundland to British Columbia, as an educator of teachers and as the matron of a Methodist rescue home for Chinese immigrant women who had worked as prostitutes. Her autobiography paints a vivid picture of the joys and hardships of growing up on a pioneer farm and documents her spiritual and educational quests and conquests. In addition, readers see the independence and strength of character that enable Annie Tuttle to take on family obligations that fall to an unmarried daughter and sister, and to meet the challenges of step-motherhood, the adjustments of aging and ultimately the prospect of death. Marilyn Färdig Whiteley gently frames Tuttle’s autobiography by placing it into social and historical context. She delineates the way in which Annie claimed her identity as she began to record her life story and demonstrates how her evangelical faith enabled her to show, in her narrative, that “One above” was always “working for the best,” helping her in the work she was intended to do. In The Life of Annie Leake Tuttle: Working for the Best, we find a rich collection of the writings of an articulate woman who shows herself to be both ordinary and extraordinary. It is a fascinating chronicle of the spiritual and secular life of an independent and spirited woman in early Canada.
Letters to Annie
Title | Letters to Annie PDF eBook |
Author | Monika B. Hilder |
Publisher | FriesenPress |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2022-04-27 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1039132987 |
What do we love about fairy tales? How do they, along with Narnian and other fantasy stories, speak to us at any age? In the fictional voice of a grandmother writing to her granddaughter over the first twenty-five years of her life, Letters to Annie: A Grandmother’s Dreams of Fairy Tale Princesses, Princes, & Happily Ever After inspires us to live into our deepest life questions. With a wealth of spiritual and literary insights, these thirty-three letters leave us richer and more able to navigate the challenges, sorrows, and joys of life with wisdom, courage, and love.
Dear Annie
Title | Dear Annie PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Caseley |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1994-08-25 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780688135751 |
"My grandpa is my pen pal." Annie tells her class at show-and-tell one day. It's true. Annie and Grandpa have written each other letters since the day Annie was born. When Annie was a baby, her mother answered Grandpa's letters. When she got a little older, Annie told her mother what to write. But now that she is in school, Annie can read Grandpa's letters herself -- and answer them, too.
Letters to Leo
Title | Letters to Leo PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Hest |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2012-03-27 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0763636959 |
In a series of letters to her new dog, fourth-grader Annie Rossi relates her daily exploits and remembers her mother.
Letters from the Heart
Title | Letters from the Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Annie Bryant |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2008-06-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1439159599 |
Meet the Beacon Street Girls... They're real, they're fun - they're just like you! A family history project for school is giving the Beacon Street Girls a lot to think about -- especially Avery. She's got three families: her mother and brothers at home, her father in Colorado, and the birth mother she never really knew. But family is an uncomfortable subject for Maeve. Her parents have just separated, and she doesn't want to talk about it to anyone, not even her best friends in the world, the BSG. Can a bundle of old letters make Maeve see her family in a new light and give her something to share with the Beacon Street Girls?