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 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 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 In Flew Enza written by Michelle M. Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Girl from Rawblood written by Catriona Ward and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An impressively hectic spin on the Gothic tradition"—Telegraph The winner of BEST HORROR NOVEL at the British Fantasy Awards by the author of The House on Needless Street! What if it's not your mansion that's haunted—it's you? Young Iris Villarca is the last of her family's line. They are haunted by "her," a curse passed down through the generations that marks each Villarca for certain heartbreak and death. For generations, the Villarcas have died young, under mysterious circumstances. But Iris dares to fall in love, and the consequences of her choice are immediate and terrifying. As the world falls apart around her, she must take a final journey back to Rawblood where it all began, and where it must all end... Perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson, Susan Hill, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Girl from Rawblood will pull readers through time into the early 1800s and 1900s, mesmerizing them with this lyrical story of cunning folk horror right until the breathtaking finish. Praise for The Girl from Rawblood: "Superb debut....Ward perfectly balances sensory richness with the chills of the uncanny." —Publishers Weekly, STARRED review "The Girl from Rawblood makes a powerful contribution to the British literature of the fantastic...There's a touch of Ted Hughes here, Emily Bronte and M.R James in this eerie and by turns moving story that spans generations...A definite book of the year for me." —Adam Nevill, award-winning author of The Ritual and No One Gets Out Alive "The Girl from Rawblood weaves a spell that both terrifies and mesmerizes. As each layer of mystery is peeled away, more haunting truth is revealed. The book leaves the reader breathless in its gothic tale of fear, family, blood, and love." —Simone St. James, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel

Download or read book Judge s Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book We that are Left written by Clare Clark and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivating story of two sisters born into privilege, forced to make their way in a world turned upside down by war, and the man who, against all expectation, transforms them both.

Download or read book The Aim of Art written by T. G. Colbert and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a straight soldier come home from a tour of duty in Iceland with The Works of Oscar Wilde as his cherished souvenir? The answer is the story of Michael Lenihan, an orphan with an eighth-grade education who spent the Great Depression on the bum, and Jay Gold, an art student from Chicago who takes a special interest in Michael and introduces him to the world of art and literature before going off to England and Normandy. Their friendship illustrates the Wildean aphorism from The Picture of Dorian Gray, "To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim."

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Download or read book Viruses Plagues and History written by Michael B. A. Oldstone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More people were killed by smallpox during the twentieth century--over 300 million--than by all of the wars of that period combined. In 1918 and 1919, influenza virus claimed over 50 million lives. A century later, influenza is poised to return, ongoing plagues of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis infect millions, and Ebola, Zika, and West Nile viruses cause new concern and panic. The overlapping histories of humans and viruses are ancient. Earliest cities became both the cradle of civilization and breeding grounds for the first viral epidemics. This overlap is the focus of virologist/immunologist Michael Oldstone in Viruses, Plagues and History. Oldstone explains principles of viruses and epidemics while recounting stories of viruses and their impact on human history. This fully updated second edition includes engrossing new chapters on hepatitis, Zika, and contemporary threats such as the possible return of a catastrophic influenza, and the impact of fear of autism on vaccination efforts. This is a fascinating panorama of humankind's longstanding conflict with unseen viral enemies, both human successes--such as control of poliomyelitis, measles, smallpox and yellow fever, and continued dangers--such as HIV and Ebola. Impeccably researched and accessibly written, Viruses, Plagues and History will fascinate all with an interest in how viral illnesses alter the course of human history.

Download or read book Pandemic Re Awakenings written by Guy Beiner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pandemic Re-Awakenings offers a multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, arguably the greatest catastrophe in human history. Twenty-three researchers present original perspectives by critically investigating the hitherto unexplored vicissitudes of memory in the interrelated spheres of personal, communal, medical, and cultural histories in different national and transnational settings across the globe. The volume reveals how, even though the Great Flu was overshadowed by the commemorative culture of the Great War, recollections of the pandemic persisted over time to re-emerge towards the centenary of the 'Spanish' Flu and burst into public consciousness following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapters chart historiographical neglect (while acknowledging the often-unnoticed dialogues between scientific and historical discourses), probe silences, and trace vestiges of social and cultural memories that long remained outside of what was considered collective memory.

Download or read book How the Black Death Gave Us the NHS written by Jaime Breitnauer and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world is gripped by the coronavirus pandemic, all eyes in the UK have been on our NHS heroes. But where did they come from? Why do we have such a unique free at the point of use healthcare system? How has this benefitted British society? And how does healthcare in other countries work? Going back to pre-history, we will take a look at epidemics and pandemics through the ages and how they have consistently nudged healthcare policy toward a more social model. They say a measure of civilised society is how it provides for its citizens, and the NHS has been the backbone of Great Britain for the best part of a century. As well as looking at its origins and counterparts in other countries, we will take a look at how the Covid-19 pandemic has been handled, and what the future of social healthcare might be across the globe.

Download or read book Polo in Britain written by Horace A. Laffaye and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since British soldiers returning from India in the mid-nineteenth century introduced their homeland to a fast-paced ball game on horseback, polo has remained the quintessential British sport. Although its origins lie in Asia, British pioneers are credited with both modernizing the game and spurring its spread worldwide. This volume chronicles the history of polo in the British Isles from its beginnings in the 1860s through the summer of 2011. It recounts the development of polo clubs, including the rise and fall of once mighty citadels of the game; describes the major competitions and many of the lesser tournaments in England and Ireland; and gives particular attention to international contests. Biographical sketches of top players, from early innovators to current superstars, and reflections on current issues affecting the game, including the rise of commercialism and the decrease of civility and sportsmanship, complete this vivid panorama of British polo.

Download or read book The End of Epidemics written by Dr. Jonathan D. Quick and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jonathan Quick offers a compelling and intensely readable plan to prevent worldwide infectious outbreaks. The End of Epidemics is essential reading for those who might be affected by a future pandemic—that is, just about everyone.”—Sandeep Jauhar, bestselling author of Heart: A History The 2020 outbreak of coronavirus has terrified the world--and revealed how unprepared we are for the next outbreak of an infectious disease. Somewhere in nature, a killer virus is boiling up in the bloodstream of a bird, bat, monkey, or pig, preparing to jump to a human being. This not-yet-detected germ has the potential to wipe out millions of lives over a matter of weeks or months. That risk makes the threat posed by ISIS, a ground war, a massive climate event, or even the dropping of a nuclear bomb on a major city pale in comparison. In The End of Epidemics, Duke Global Health Institute faculty member and past Chair of the Global Health Council Dr. Jonathan D. Quick examines the eradication of smallpox and devastating effects of influenza, AIDS, SARS, Ebola, and other viral diseases . Analyzing local and global efforts to contain these diseases and citing firsthand accounts of failure and success, Dr. Quick proposes a new set of actions which he has coined "The Power of Seven," to end epidemics before they can begin. These actions include: - Spending prudently to prevent disease before an epidemic strikes, rather than spending too little, too late - Ensuring prompt, open, and accurate communication between nations and aid agencies, instead of secrecy and territorial disputes - Fighting disease and preventing panic with innovation and good science Practical and urgent, The End of Epidemics is crucial reading for citizens, health professionals, and policy makers alike. “Dr. Quick’s urgent message makes one hope that this book will reach a huge audience and that its exhortations will be acted on everywhere.”—The Wall Street Journal