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Book News of Our Loved Ones

    Book Details:
  • Author : Abigail DeWitt
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2018-10-02
  • ISBN : 0062834738
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book News of Our Loved Ones written by Abigail DeWitt and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in France and America, News of Our Loved Ones is a haunting and intimate examination of love and loss, beauty and the cost of survival, witnessed through two generations of one French family, whose lives are all touched by the tragic events surrounding the D-Day bombings in Normandy. What if your family’s fate could be traced back to one indelible summer? Over four long years, the Delasalle family has struggled to live in their Nazi occupied village in Normandy. Maman, Oncle Henri, Yvonne, and Françoise silently watched as their Jewish neighbors were arrested or wordlessly disappeared. Now in June 1944, when the sirens wail each day, warning of approaching bombers, the family wonders if rumors of the coming Allied invasion are true—and if they will survive to see their country liberated. For sixteen-year-old Yvonne, thoughts of the war recede when she sees the red-haired boy bicycle past her window each afternoon. Murmuring to herself I love you, I love you, I love you, she wills herself to hear the whisper of his bicycle tires over the screech of Allied bombs falling from the sky. Yvonne’s sister, Geneviève, is in Paris to audition for the National Conservatory. Pausing to consider the shadow of a passing cloud as she raises her bow, she does not know that her family’s home in Normandy lies in the path of British and American bombers. While Geneviève plays, her brother Simon and Tante Chouchotte, anxiously await news from their loved ones in Normandy. Decades later, Geneviève, the wife of an American musician, lives in the United States. Each summer she returns to her homeland with her children, so that they may know their French family. Geneviève’s youngest daughter, Polly, becomes obsessed with the stories she hears about the war, believing they are the key to understanding her mother and the conflicting cultures shaping her life. Moving back and forth in time, told from varying points of view, News of Our Loved Ones explores the way family histories are shared and illuminates the power of storytelling to understand the past and who we are.

Book Genealogical and Family History of Central New York

Download or read book Genealogical and Family History of Central New York written by William Richard Cutter and published by New York : Lewis Historical Publishing Company. This book was released on 1912 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bill DeWitt  Sr

Download or read book Bill DeWitt Sr written by Burton A. Boxerman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1954, one year after Baltimore bought the St. Louis Browns, the New York Yankees hired former Browns executive and owner William O. DeWitt as assistant to general manager George Weiss. "DeWitt," the news announced, "was considered an astute baseball man who would have a definite role to play with the Yankees." Baseball fans had assumed that once the Browns were no longer the American League's doormats, DeWitt would quietly retire. But for DeWitt, a shrewd protege of Branch Rickey, his years with the Browns began a long and fascinating career, including his years as owner and general manager of the Cincinnati Reds. This first ever biography focuses on the career of a baseball executive who contributed greatly to America's pastime.

Book De Witt Clinton and the Rise of the People s Men

Download or read book De Witt Clinton and the Rise of the People s Men written by Craig Hanyan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1824 the People's party, the first popular reform movement in the American republic, elected most of its candidates for the Senate and Assembly of New York, the new nation's most populous state. Craig Hanyan and Mary Hanyan examine the development of this influential movement and the role of De Witt Clinton, its chief beneficiary.

Book Workman Family History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thelma Chidester Anderson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1962
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 872 pages

Download or read book Workman Family History written by Thelma Chidester Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a record of the Workmans from 1534 in England.

Book Just a Family History

Download or read book Just a Family History written by Glenn L. Bower and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Paul Baür was born in 1795 in Roigheim, Germany. He married Mary Elizabeth Pfeiffer in 1822. hey had six sons. They emigrated in 1833 and settled in Ohio. He died in 1867.

Book The O Neal  Dunbar  Lincoln  Edwards  Dewitt  Hodge  Bostic Families

Download or read book The O Neal Dunbar Lincoln Edwards Dewitt Hodge Bostic Families written by Ann DeWitt and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2014 composition documents the initial findings of genealogical material for Betsy O'Neal, her immediate family and collateral relatives. Family Tree DNA mtDNA Full Sequence results confirm Haplogroup J1c2c for a maternal line descendant of Mrs. Betsy O'Neal. ScienceNews Magazine on March 9, 2013 announced that King Richard III's mtDNA signature was J1c2c. However, scientists are unaware if Betsy is a collateral descendant of King Richard III. Even though Betsy's maternal line is of European descent, regional archivists and genealogists conclude that Betsy and her family group were enumerated as Mulatto on the 1860 United States Slave Schedule, Darlington, South Carolina for Griffin O'Neal. In the book, the birth years covered range from 1814 to 1918. Family research citations are derived from state/county vital records, census records, cemetery surveys, and military records, to name a few. Each descendant includes name (first/last), occupation, year of birth, year of death, a photo, and genealogical citations. If made available, additional supporting documents are presented to provide a sense of the major accomplishments for a few of Betsy's descendants. Though this book neither includes all descendants nor every possible record, the research indeed aims to save family members, curators, librarians, educators and genealogists precious time in locating genealogical sources for the O'Neal, Dunbar, Lincoln, Edwards, DeWitt, Hodge, Bostic families, primarily of Darlington, Florence, Marion, Lee, Chesterfield, and Marlboro Counties in South Carolina. Future editions of this book will include deeds, plats and much more.

Book Undermajordomo Minor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick deWitt
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2015-09-15
  • ISBN : 0062281232
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Undermajordomo Minor written by Patrick deWitt and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling, Man Booker–short-listed author of The Sisters Brothers comes a brilliant and boisterous novel that reimagines the folk tale A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitt's long-awaited follow-up to the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Sisters Brothers. Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for producing brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the Majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as Undermajordomo, Lucy soon discovers the place harbors many dark secrets, not least of which being the whereabouts of the castle's master, Baron Von Aux. He also encounters the colorful people of the local village—thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and Klara, a delicate beauty for whose love he must compete with the exceptionally handsome soldier Adolphus. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery, and cold-blooded murder in which every aspect of humanity is laid bare for our hero to observe. Undermajordomo Minor is an adventure, a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behavior, but above all it is a love story—and Lucy must be careful, for love is a violent thing.

Book Prominent Families of New York

Download or read book Prominent Families of New York written by Lyman Horace Weeks and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tierck Clafsen DeWitt and Descendants of His Son Luycas DeWitt

Download or read book Tierck Clafsen DeWitt and Descendants of His Son Luycas DeWitt written by Vona (DeWitt) Smith and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DeWitt genealogy is a fascinating study of 26 generations of the family from 1293 to the present. This work is the collaboration of descendants of the three children of Leucas, ninth child of Tierck Clafsen DeWitt. American Ambassador Lester DeWitt Ballor of UEL descent obtained a copy from The Royal Library of the Hague of Beschayving DerStad Dordrecht by Mattys Balen, Jans Zoon published in 1677. This information provided the first thirteen generations in Holland. He also received a 32-page copy of a lawsuit in 1684 by Jan DeWitt on behalf of his brother Tierck for rent owned by Pieter Janz, their sister Faelde's husband. The property was land inherited by Tierck from his father Nicholaas. It provided information on her mother Taetje Cornelisz, her father, brothers and their shipyard.

Book A Complement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress

Download or read book A Complement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published by Magna Carta, Baltimore. Published as a set by Genealogical Publishing with the two vols. of the Genealogies in the Library of Congress, and the two vols. of the Supplement. Set ISBN is 0806316691.

Book A Mckenzie Family History

Download or read book A Mckenzie Family History written by William E. Barrineau and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Mckenzie was born in about 1756 in South Carolina. He married Rebecca and they had six children.

Book A Davis Family History

Download or read book A Davis Family History written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesse Davis (ca. 1779-1849), the son of Edward and Sarah Davis, was probably born at or near Birmingham, Warwick, England. He married Charlotte Manns at Birmingham in 1806. They had at least five children, 1807-1816, born at Bix, Oxford, England. He immigrated to the United States, probably after the death of his wife, with one of his married daughters. He died at the home of his daughter, Emily Davis Crawford, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Descendants listed lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, Michigan, and elsewhere.

Book Some Trick

    Book Details:
  • Author : Helen DeWitt
  • Publisher : New Directions Publishing
  • Release : 2019-10-29
  • ISBN : 0811227839
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book Some Trick written by Helen DeWitt and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed a “Best Book of the Year” by NPR, Publishers Weekly, Vulture, and the New York Public Library, Some Trick is now in paperback Finalist for the Saroyan Prize for Fiction For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most far-reaching dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art world’s piranha tank, games of chance and games of skill, the travails of publishing, or success. “Look,” a character begins to explain, laying out some gambit reasonably enough, even in the face of situations spinning out to their utmost logical extremes, where things prove “more complicated than they had first appeared” and “at 3 a.m. the circumstances seem to attenuate.” In various ways, each tale carries DeWitt’s signature poker-face lament regarding the near-impossibility of the life of the mind when one is made to pay to have the time for it, in a world so sadly “taken up with all sorts of paraphernalia superfluous, not to say impedimental, to ratiocination.”

Book The Last Samurai

    Book Details:
  • Author : Helen DeWitt
  • Publisher : New Directions Publishing
  • Release : 2016-05-31
  • ISBN : 0811225518
  • Pages : 371 pages

Download or read book The Last Samurai written by Helen DeWitt and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called “remarkable” (The Wall Street Journal) and “an ambitious, colossal debut novel” (Publishers Weekly), Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai is back in print at last Helen DeWitt’s 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was “destined to become a cult classic” (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so “Why not just, ‘destined to become a classic?’” (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it has nothing to do with Tom Cruise? Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J. S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. (Is he a prodigy, a genius? Readers looking over Ludo’s shoulder find themselves easily reading Greek and more.) Lacking male role models for a fatherless boy, Sibylla turns to endless replays of Kurosawa’s masterpiece Seven Samurai. But Ludo is obsessed with the one thing he wants and doesn’t know: his father’s name. At eleven, inspired by his own take on the classic film, he sets out on a secret quest for the father he never knew. He’ll be punched, sliced, and threatened with retribution. He may not live to see twelve. Or he may find a real samurai and save a mother who thinks boredom a fate worse than death.