Download or read book And in Flew Enza written by Sherri Fuchs and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2004-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice is growing up in Cincinnati during World War I. Her life is turned upside-down when her favorite older brother enlists in the army. SheA[a¬a[s left at home with a perfect older sister who doesnA[a¬a[t understand her and a tidy, tattling younger brother whom Alice always has to take care of. At least Alice has her best friend Alex living next door. Little does she know that she will soon be fighting a war of her ownA[a¬anot against the Germans in Europe, but against a deadly disease which invades her city, the United States, and the world. Will someone so young be able to make a difference against such a killer? Will this epidemic end before it has taken the people Alice loves, or Alice herself?
Download or read book In Flew Enza written by James Gottesman and published by Jayeddy Publisher. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Flew Enza - Synopsis: An impoverished, young, Jewish woman, Sarah, from Brooklyn loses her fiancé and mother from the 1918 influenza and, having no options, answers a marriage advertisement from a small town, Protestant, widower with three children.Spring 1918 Brooklyn Sarah, from the age of 10, relies on a neighbor, Belinda Murphy. Sarah's life turns for the better with an engagement to Jacob Silverman. The Spanish Flu strikes, killing her mother, brother, and fiancé on the same day in November 1918. About to be evicted, Sarah answers an ad from a small town widower with a newborn who seeks a wife.She finds that the widower, Oliver Tipton, has two older boys, 5 and 3, in addition to the baby. Ollie admits that if Sarah fails, he will give up his successful store. Sarah stays but remains hounded by post-traumatic depression and wants to return to Brooklyn.Behind the scenes, Reggie Harrington, Ollie's attorney, needs Sarah to fail so he can sell Ollie's lands to the A&P grocery chain for profit. Ollie and Sarah marry, but Sarah won't consummate the marriage. Sarah realizes the boys need her and she vows to love Ollie. She consummates the marriage, slowly sheds her past, and falls in love.Sarah receives a letter from the Midwest that her father committed suicide in a frozen river. His body is not found.Attempting to discover the reasons for Reggie's actions, Sarah seeks help from Henry Silverman, the father of her deceased fiancé. Silverman discovers the A&P plans. Sarah realizes Reggie has been intercepting their mail to gain information and arranges a sting. Reggie and the postmaster are arrested, Ollie's development plans with A&P proceed with great success.A&P promotes Ollie to Vice President of development and the family moves to New Jersey, allowing Sarah to reunite with Belinda. Sarah finds out her father is alive and reunites.
Download or read book American History in Song written by Diane Holloway and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songwriters dramatically captured the details of how Americans lived, thought and changed in the first half of the twentieth century. This book examines 1033 songs about WWI and WWII wars, presidents, Women’s Suffrage, Prohibition, the Great Depression, immigration, minority stereotypes, new modes of transportation, inventions, and the changing roles of men and women. America invited immigrants and went to war to ensure democracy but within its borders, lyrics display intolerant attitudes toward women, blacks, and ethnic groups. Songs covered labor strikes, communism, lynchings, women voting and working, love, sex, airships, radio, telephones, the lure of movies and new movie star role models, drugs, smoking, and the atom bomb.History books cannot match the humor, poignancy, poetry and thrill of lyrics in describing the essence of American life as we moved from a rural white male dominated society toward an urban democracy that finally included women and minorities.
Download or read book War Peace and All that Jazz written by Joy Hakim and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002-09-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the history of America from the earliest times of the Native Americans to the Clinton administration.
Download or read book Comrades on the Great Divide Or The Aztec Search written by Ralph Victor and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Long Flight Home written by Alan Hlad and published by A John Scognamiglio Book. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: September, 1940. German bombs fall on Britain, and enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. The two raise homing pigeons, and Susan's favorite is Duchess. Hatched from an egg that Susan incubated in a bowl under her grandfather's desk lamp, Duchess shares a special bond with Susan. A Maine crop-duster pilot, Ollie Evans travels to Britain to join the Royal Air Force. In the National Pigeon Service, Susan is involved in an assignment code-named Source Columba, to air-drop hundreds of homing pigeons in German-occupied France, hopefully to convey crucial information on German troop movements. Friendship between Ollie and Susan deepens, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines both know the chance of reunion is remote.
Download or read book Their Fate Is Our Fate written by Peter Doherty and published by The Experiment + ORM. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of this book by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist and professor Peter Doherty is this striking observation: Birds detect danger to our health and the environment before we do. Following a diverse cast of bird species around the world—from tufted puffins in Puget Sound to griffon vultures in India, pigeons in East Asia, and wedge-tailed shearwaters off the islands of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef—Doherty illuminates birds’ role as an early warning system for threats to the health of our planet and our own well-being.Their Fate Is Our Fate is an impassioned call not only to attention but to action. As “citizen scientists” we can collect data, vital to cutting-edge research, that depends on the birds that are all around us. Armed with our observations, scientists will continue to uncover new ways to glimpse our future in birds—and to affirm how, truly, their fate is our fate.
Download or read book The Horseman s Last Call written by Bill Gallaher and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Horseman’s Last Call presents the closing chapters in the life of Wild Jack Strong. The story opens with Jack content on the ranch he had always dreamed of, with a loving wife and an adopted son. His good friend Jim Spencer and Jim’s family live just down the road, so life couldn’t be better. However, things take an unwanted turn when war breaks out in Europe and Jack once more feels the need to heed his country’s call. But the war changes his life in unexpected ways as he discovers that not only does loyalty sometimes go unrewarded, it can also be one-sided. The Horseman’s Last Call is the third and final volume in the Wild Jack Strong trilogy that began with The Frog Lake Massacre followed by The Luck of the Horseman. The series recounts how one man’s life is impacted by the great events of Canadian history, from the Riel rebellion in 1885, through the Anglo Boer War and World War I, to the Boxcar Rebellion of 1935.
Download or read book Chez Vicalle written by J. Blovian and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-09-22 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young male university graduate contracts an unusual marriage which results in a set of dizygotic twins and the ownership of an unusual home and life style.
Download or read book Winnie s War written by Jenny Moss and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in Winnie's sleepy town of Coward Creek, Texas, is just fine for her. Although her troubled mother's distant behavior has always worried Winnie, she's plenty busy caring for her younger sisters, going to school, playing chess with Mr. Levy, and avoiding her testy grandmother. Plus, her sweetheart Nolan is always there to make her smile when she's feeling low. But when the Spanish Influenza claims its first victim, lives are suddenly at stake, and Winnie has never felt so helpless. She must find a way to save the people she loves most, even if doing so means putting her own life at risk. Winnie's take-charge attitude will empower and inspire readers, as Jenny Moss's lyrical writing beautifully captures the big-time worries of a small-town girl.
Download or read book The Unknowns written by Patrick K. O'Donnell and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning combat historian and author of Washington’s Immortals honors the Unknown Soldier with this “gripping story” of America’s part in WWI (Washington Times). The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally constructed in 1921 to hold one of the thousands of unidentified American soldiers lost in World War I, it now receives millions of visitors each year. “With exhaustive research and fluid prose,” historian Patrick O’Donnell illuminates the saga behind the creation of the Tomb itself, and the stories of the soldiers who took part in its consecration (Wall Street Journal). When the first Unknown Soldier was laid to rest in Arlington, General John Pershing selected eight of America’s most decorated veterans to serve as Body Bearers. These men appropriately spanned America’s service branches and specialties. Their ranks include a cowboy who relived the charge of the light brigade, an American Indian who heroically breached mountains of German barbed wire, a salty New Englander who dueled a U-boat for hours in a fierce gunfight, a tough New Yorker who sacrificed his body to save his ship, and an indomitable gunner who, though blinded by gas, nonetheless overcame five machine-gun nests. In telling the stories of these brave men, O’Donnell shines a light on the service of all veterans, including the hero they brought home. Their stories present an intimate narrative of America’s involvement in the Great War, transporting readers into the midst of dramatic battles that ultimately decided the conflict.
Download or read book We Were There Too written by Phillip Hoose and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2001-08-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This may be the most exhilarating and revelatory history of our country. It is must reading for today's youth-as well as their elders." --Studs Terkel From the boys who sailed with Columbus to today's young activists, this unique book brings to life the contributions of young people throughout American history. Based on primary sources and including 160 authentic images, this handsome oversized volume highlights the fascinating stories of more than 70 young people from diverse cultures. Young readers will be hooked into history as they meet individuals their own age who were caught up in our country's most dramatic moments-Olaudah Equiano, kidnapped from his village in western Africa and forced into slavery, Anyokah, who helped her father create a written Cherokee language, Johnny Clem, the nine-year-old drummer boy who became a Civil War hero, and Jessica Govea, a teenager who risked joining Cesar Chavez's fight for a better life for farmworkers. Throughout, Philip Hoose's own lively, knowledgeable voice provides a rich historical context-making this not only a great reference-but a great read. The first U.S. history book of this scope to focus on the role young people have played in the making of our country, its compelling stories combine to tell our larger national story, one that prompts Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, to comment, "This is an extraordinary book-wonderfully readable, inspiring to young and old alike, and unique." We Were There, Too! is a 2001 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.
Download or read book Pandemic Survival written by Ann Love and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Death. Yellow Fever. Smallpox. History is full of gruesome pandemics, and surviving those pandemics has shaped our society and way of life. Every person today is alive because of an ancestor who survived--and surviving our current and future pandemics, like SARS, AIDS, bird flu or a new and unknown disease, will determine our future. Pandemic Survival presents in-depth information about past and current illnesses; the evolution of medicine and its pioneers; cures and treatments; strange rituals and superstitions; and what we're doing to prevent future pandemics. Full of delightfully gross details about symptoms and fascinating facts about bizarre superstitious behaviors, Pandemic Survival is sure to interest even the most squeamish of readers.
Download or read book The World of Coronaspeak written by John C. Maher and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concept of Coronaspeak, the language adopted by the global community as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; it involves jokes, slang, public health slogans, cliché, and coronalit (corona related literature). In Coronaspeak we see new vocabulary and coinage like solomoon (honeymoon without the honey), elbow bump or Coronafussgruss (German, ‘corona foot-greeting’), variant labelling in the Greek alphabet (omicron and delta), new drug naming (AstraZeneca), medical jargon (pathogen, R number), semi-technical (spillover, variant) and common expressions (stale air, rebound), and informal speech, dialect and nonce words (jab, jag, and ‘the lurgi’). The book highlights the capacity of words to adapt to shock and social disorder, and argues that they are part of disaster management, with entries from Italian, French, Japanese, German and Korean, taken from scholarly articles and print and internet sources.
Download or read book Get Well Soon written by Jennifer Wright and published by Henry Holt. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines "the gruesome, morbid details of some of the worst plagues in human history, as well as stories of the heroic figures who fought to ease their suffering. With her signature mix of ... research and ... storytelling, and not a little dark humor, Jennifer Wright explores history's most gripping and deadly outbreaks"--
Download or read book Of Better Blood written by Susan Moger and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenage polio survivor Rowan Collier is caught in the crossfire of a secret war against "the unfit." It's 1922, and eugenics—the movement dedicated to racial purity and good breeding—has taken hold in America. State laws allow institutions to sterilize minorities, the "feeble-minded," and the poor, while local eugenics councils set up exhibits at county fairs with "fitter family" contests and propaganda. After years of being confined to hospitals, Rowan is recruited at sixteen to play a born cripple in a county fair eugenics exhibit. But gutsy, outspoken Dorchy befriends Rowan and helps her realize her own inner strength and bravery. The two escape the fair and end up at a summer camp on a desolate island run by the New England Eugenics Council. There they discover something is happening to the children. Rowan must find a way to stop the horrors on the island...if she can escape them herself.
Download or read book 100 Questions Answers About Influenza written by Delthia Ricks and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year in the United States, on average 5% to 20% of the population becomes sick with influenza (the flu); more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from flu complications, and about 36,000 people die from flu. Some people - such as older people, young children, and people with certain health conditions - are at high risk for serious flu complications. 100 Questions and Answers About Influenza provides answers to 100 most common questions about influenza, with emphasis on new strains of the disease including the Avian Influenza.
