Download or read book House Don t Fall on Me written by Maidhc Dainín Ó Sé and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a young boy growing up in the West Kerry Gaeltacht in the 1940s and 1950s. It describes the fun and games of his schooldays, his accordion playing for ceilis as a teenager, his emigration to London unknown to his parents, his meeting up with his brother and working there, his further emigration to Chicago and his marriage and eventual return to Ireland. Maidhc Dainin describes how the musicians he played with in Chicago lost their hearts and minds in the music. He describes piano playing, accordion playing and fiddle playing and the music (and the craic!) is resonant from his descriptions. Maidhc Dainin's Irish is colloquial, conversational and without any airs and graces.
Download or read book A Book for Kids written by C. J. Dennis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Book for Kids" by C. J. Dennis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Trailsman 260 Blood Wedding written by Jon Sharpe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-06-03 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skye Fargo vows to unveil a killer at a Kansas wedding… Skye Fargo likes a wedding just fine, as long as it isn’t his own. And his friend, Jeb, sure knows how to throw a good party, with plenty of sousing and carousing. But just when the party kicks into a full gallop, the Murray family gang comes riding in hard, stirring up trouble. When the smoke clears, Murray’s son is dead. But so is Jeb, and his weeping widow wants revenge. The Murrays will be back—and this time, they’ll be coming after the missus. But what this ragtag gang doesn’t know is that strength in numbers doesn’t count for much against the Trailsman...
Download or read book Astride the Pineapple Couch written by Ann Burrus and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abby has survived living with her brutal, womanizing husband for many years but realizes that now she is in real danger and decides to take a hand in her own personal destiny. Forced to consult a psychiatrist, she finds herself leaning on him the way she has never before been able to lean on any male. Gaining strength from her analysis, she remakes herself physically and mentally in preparation for what she expects to be the end game.
Download or read book Folklife Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hallucinating Humans in Hypothetical Houses written by Linda Ahmed and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes I convince myself most of my memories are fake. I read once of people who were in their thirties who found out they were actually in their forties. I wonder if I have been lied to about my age. You might call me paranoid, but your memory doesn’t fully kick in until you’re about three, and even after that your thoughts still aren’t coherent. So it is very much possible to not know your own true age. Sometimes I speak to you just to say things out loud, and I think you realize because you won’t respond. Since we’ve moved into this house, I can’t tell if things have become more or less clear. I don’t know if I know what is going on any more than I did before I met you. Most of my life right now is spent in a comfortable confusion, with you as a lurking constant. I was told to pick up writing, so I’d be able to read over what I wrote and decide what’s real and what isn’t. I’d be able to find out what’s really going on. But the thing is, when I read over it, I’m not sure what happened in real life and what I made up. This is the story of us—you and me. We are unwell, and our fates are undecided. I found you on the side of the road however many years ago, and here we are. Between my hallucinations and yours, reality has become a joke, but we’ll laugh at it together.
Download or read book The Reaction Animorphs 12 written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel's got some pretty strange stuff happening. She can't control her morphing. One minute, she's doing homework. The next, she's morphing a full-grown crocodile, and -- without returning to human form -- she becomes an elephant. That's when the floor gives way and Rachel finds herself looking up at what used to be the kitchen ceiling.What's going on? No one's sure, but Rachel and the other Animorphs have to figure it out -- quickly. Because if someone sees Rachel's out-of-control morphing, the other Animorphs are in for some serious trouble.
Download or read book Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti written by Mark Schuller and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2010 earthquake in Haiti was one of the deadliest disasters in modern history, sparking an international aid response—with pledges and donations of $16 billion—that was exceedingly generous. But now, five years later, that generous aid has clearly failed. In Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti, anthropologist Mark Schuller captures the voices of those involved in the earthquake aid response, and they paint a sharp, unflattering view of the humanitarian enterprise. Schuller led an independent study of eight displaced-persons camps in Haiti, compiling more than 150 interviews ranging from Haitian front-line workers and camp directors to foreign humanitarians and many displaced Haitian people. The result is an insightful account of why the multi-billion-dollar aid response not only did little to help but also did much harm, triggering a range of unintended consequences, rupturing Haitian social and cultural institutions, and actually increasing violence, especially against women. The book shows how Haitian people were removed from any real decision-making, replaced by a top-down, NGO-dominated system of humanitarian aid, led by an army of often young, inexperienced foreign workers. Ignorant of Haitian culture, these aid workers unwittingly enacted policies that triggered a range of negative results. Haitian interviewees also note that the NGOs “planted the flag,” and often tended to “just do something,” always with an eye to the “photo op” (in no small part due to the competition over funding). Worse yet, they blindly supported the eviction of displaced people from the camps, forcing earthquake victims to relocate in vast shantytowns that were hotbeds of violence. Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti concludes with suggestions to help improve humanitarian aid in the future, perhaps most notably, that aid workers listen to—and respect the culture of—the victims of catastrophe.
Download or read book Safe House written by Jo Jakeman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's paid the price for giving her ex a false alibi, and now she's moved to a seaside village to escape her past--but more than her lie follows her there in this chilling and twisty psychological thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Exes' Revenge. One day, a woman turns up in a remote coastal village. She's bought a crumbling, long-vacant cottage and calls herself Charlie Miller. Charlie keeps to herself, reluctant to integrate with the locals. If they ever find out who she really is, and what she's done, she'll lose what little she has left. Charlie served two years in prison for providing a false alibi for a murderer. It was the mistake of a woman in love, a woman who couldn't believe her boyfriend was guilty--or lying to her. All she desperately wants now is a fresh start. As Charlie slowly lets down her guard and becomes friendly with her neighbors, she can't shake the feeling that someone is watching her, someone who knows what she did. When one of her new friends suddenly disappears, Charlie's worst fears are confirmed. She must confront her past head-on, but as she knows all too well, everything is far more dangerous than how it appears.
Download or read book Youth and Popular Culture in 1950s Ireland written by Eleanor O’Leary and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on a decade in Irish history which has been largely overlooked, Youth and Popular Culture in 1950s Ireland provides the most complete account of the 1950s in Ireland, through the eyes of the young people who contributed, slowly but steadily, to the social and cultural transformation of Irish society. Eleanor O'Leary presents a picture of a generation with an international outlook, who played basketball, read comic books and romance magazines, listened to rock'n'roll music and skiffle, made their own clothes to mimic international styles and even danced in the street when the major stars and bands of the day rocked into town. She argues that this engagement with imported popular culture was a contributing factor to emigration and the growing dissatisfaction with standards of living and conservative social structures in Ireland. As well as outlining teenagers' resistance to outmoded forms of employment and unfair work practices, she maps their vulnerability as a group who existed in a limbo between childhood and adulthood. Issues of unemployment, emigration and education are examined alongside popular entertainments and social spaces in order to provide a full account of growing up in the decade which preceded the social upheaval of the 1960s. Examining the 1950s through the unique prism of youth culture and reconnecting the decade to the process of social and cultural transition in the second half of the 20th century, this book is a valuable contribution to the literature on 20th-century Irish history.
Download or read book Dont Breakdown Breakthrough A Guide To Breaking Through Life s Challenges written by Dr. Todd Ary and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book it it is a means toward not breaking down but breaking through. That you do not sink and hide out in your cave. If this is you this book is the key to your breakthrough. As you will see that when God says no it is not necessarily no. But just it is not time yet. If you are looking for God to show you the direction need for your life this book is the key. That you will also see that God is able to do all things if you have the faith. Are you looking for a shift. If this is you and you are looking to shift in this season. But it will aide in showing you what to focus on that will equip and encourage you to keep pushing forward. That will show and reveal that you are not coming to come down off of the work and purpose that God has for your life. That will reveal that in achieve this it has a requirement of working together to get it done. As you will see and remember that we fall down but God gives you the option to get back up. That will aide you in breaking through life challenges.
Download or read book Born of the Crucible written by Charles Cleveland Cohan and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Negro Songs written by John W. Work and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative study traces the African influences and lyric significance of such songs as Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and John Henry, and gives words and music for 230 songs. Bibliography. Index of Song Titles.
Download or read book American Negro Songs written by John Wesley Work and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative study traces the African influences and lyric significance of such songs as Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and John Henry, and gives words and music for 230 songs. Bibliography. Index of Song Titles.
Download or read book Bamboo Promise written by Vicheara Houn and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the autobiography of a woman who grew up as the sheltered and privileged only child of a wealthy, prominent Cambodian family. In her young life, she was oblivious of the impoverished lives of the underclass in Cambodia, and of the politics and world events that were sweeping her and her country toward one of the great catastrophes of the 20th century. The rich Cambodian culture and all the competing Western influences are vividly displayed in her descriptions of her life with her father as he tries to mold her into a highly educated and independent woman who still exemplifies all the virtues of the idealized, traditional Cambodian woman. The political tides that enveloped Southeast Asia in the 1970s began to become real to Vicheara when her fathers responsibilities in the Lon Nol government caused him to personally negotiate with a group of Khmer Rouge insurgents, including inviting them to a dinner at his home. On April 17, 1975, Pol Pot - the monstrous leader of the communist guerrilla organization transformed Cambodia, the country of his birth, into a Prison Without Walls. This was one week before the fall of Saigon, Vietnam. This extreme form of radical communism eliminated religion, culture, currency, personal property, hospitals, schools, the banking system, and every other vestige of modern urban life. They committed class genocide against Cambodians educated urban citizens through starvation, execution, and forced labor. Nearly half the population of Cambodia died in the four years that followed, many in the Killing Fields, and as Toul Sleng Prison, the slaughterhouse in Phnom-Penh. When Vicheara, near death from starvation, staggered out of the Pol Pot Time in 1979, she was alone, an orphan, a stranger in a world forever changed. The Cambodia of her childhood was gone as were most of her family and friends. Her journey through horror, privation and humiliation finally led her to the United States in 1984.
Download or read book Seven Kinds of Ordinary Catastrophes written by Amber Kizer and published by Ember. This book was released on 2012 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her boyfriend makes a confession that puts their relationship in jeopardy, Gert must also deal with working a job as a donut filler, and coping with her father's health scare in the midst of trying to stay focused at school in order to get into college.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
