Download or read book Nearing Eighty written by Carolyn Schwartz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-01-30 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple autobiography that records, so far, a few of the authors joys, disappointments, insecurities, triumphs, and turning points that collectively became the nuts and bolts of her life and which she wrote with the sole intent that it would inform, intrigue, and perhaps inspire some of her future descendants to become writers themselves. An old-fashioned reminiscence and an affectionate evocation of the authors ongoing satisfaction with her life.
Download or read book Unexpectedly Eighty written by Judith Viorst and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith Viorst returns with more poems in her “Decades” poetry series detailing the highs and lows of being an octogenarian. Continuing the comedic insight from I’m Too Young to be Seventy, these verses of memories and advice from eighty years of love, marriage, and grandchildren are sure to bring laughs. What does it mean to be eighty? In her wise and playful poems, Judith Viorst discusses love, friendship, grand parenthood, and all the particular marvels—and otherwise—of this extraordinary decade. She describes the wonder of seeing the world with new eyes—not because of revelation but because of a successful cataract operation. She promises not to gently fade away, and not to drive after daylight’s faded away either. She explains how she’s gotten to be a “three-desserts” grandmother (“Just don’t tell your mom!”), shares how memory failure can keep you married, and enumerates her hopes for the afterlife (which she doesn’t believe in, but if it does exist, her sister-in-law better not be there with her). As Viorst gleefully attests, eighty is not too old to dream, to flirt, to drink, and to dance. It’s also not too late to give up being cheap or to take up with a younger man of seventy-eight. Zesty, hopeful, and full of the pleasures of living, Viorst’s poems speak to her legions of readers, who recognize themselves in her knowing observations, in her touching reflections, and in her joyful affirmations. Funny, moving, inspirational, and true—the newest in Judith Viorst’s beloved “decades” series extols the virtues, victories, frustrations, and joys of life.
Download or read book Nearing Ninety written by Judith Viorst and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest illustrated poetry collection in beloved author Judith Viorst’s “decade” series (from It’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty to Unexpectedly Eighty), exploring, with her signature savvy and humor, what it means to be an impending nonagenarian. In Nearing Ninety, bestselling author Judith Viorst candidly shares the complicated joys and everyday tribulations that await us at the age of ninety, all with a large dose of humor and an understanding that nothing—well, almost nothing—in life should be taken too seriously. While she struggles to make it to midnight on New Year's Eve, while she’s starting to hear more eulogies than symphonies, while she’ll forever be disheartened by what she weighs (and forever unable to stop weighing herself), there is plenty to cherish at ninety: hanging out with the people she loves. Playing a relentless game of Scrabble. And still sleeping tush-to-tush with the same man to whom she’s been married for sixty years. Accompanied by Laura Gibson’s whimsical illustrations, Nearing Ninety’s amusing and touching reflections make this collection relatable to readers of all ages. With the wisdom and spunk of someone who’s seen it all, Viorst gently reminds us that everybody gets old, and that the best medicine at any age is laughter.
Download or read book A Carnival Of Losses written by Donald Hall and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall’s final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, once again “alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny.”* *(New York Times) “Why should a nonagenarian hold anything back?” Donald Hall answers his own question in these self-knowing, fierce, and funny essays on aging, the pleasures of solitude, and the sometimes astonishing freedoms arising from both. Nearing ninety at the time of writing, he intersperses memories of exuberant days in his youth, with uncensored tales of literary friendships spanning decades—with James Wright, Richard Wilbur, Seamus Heaney, and other luminaries. Cementing his place alongside Roger Angell and Joan Didion as a generous and profound chronicler of loss, this final work is as original and searing as anything Hall wrote during his extraordinary literary lifetime.
Download or read book Blown to Bits written by Leon Cooper and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of twenty-four American aviators became forever intertwined in the skies over Ploesti, Rumania, in 1944, when a pair of bomber crews, an aerial photographer, and a fighter pilot engaged in some of the deadliest air battles the world had ever known. The odds of surviving these almost-daily encounters were somewhere between slim and none. Yet, by some miracle, many of these brave and courageous airmen lived through the horrific campaigns and returned home as conquering heroes. Blown to Bits: 20,000 Feet over Ploesti shares the story of these two dozen American aviators who were shot out of the skies over Nazi-occupied Europe. Considerable material was extracted from national archives in order to document the individual accounts. Author Leon Cooper traveled across the country to interview the remaining survivors and also communicated with family members of the others, who provided a wealth of photos, documents, and stories. Discover an amazing chapter in American history through the firsthand accounts of the men who lived through these harrowing events. Their story is intriguing, tragic, and exciting, but the ending is nothing less than miraculous!
Download or read book Journey Of Revenge written by David Z. Price and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We must be very careful of how we raise our children. If the wrong message is sent to the child, the end result can be tragic. Children are very impressionable and are born with the desire to please their parents. It is a parent’s responsibility to raise the child into adulthood in a proper manner. There are no good templates to follow or precise instructions for the creation of a well-rounded child. That would be far too simple. Parents must remember that a perfect child does not exist. They also must remember that a child needs to be a child. Each child is very different and each child requires special attention that can only be given by loving parents. If but one parent or future parent reads this book and realizes the potential effect of their actions on a child, and changes their parenting approach, then I have done my job. This novel reflects the effect of an overbearing abusive parent on a child. The child, Zeke, possesses the ability to fully remember everything since he was three years old. Zeke is both physically and mentally abused by a controlling mother, Marie, who is relentless in her quest to prove to the boy that he is evil and worthless. Zeke grows up through childhood to believe that he is really the monster that his mother makes him out to be. Zeke is driven to seclusion early in life by Marie. He only feels safe when he is alone where nobody can see or touch him. He is safe only in a world where he is the one in control and he makes the decisions. Zeke’s father, James, is a workaholic and is seldom around to realize the abuse that goes on during his absence. Marie uses James to administer punishment to the boy for infractions that are blown out of proportion by her anger toward the child. The reality is that Marie never wanted the child and she blames James for the existence of the boy. The truth is that James fears being at home with Marie as much as Zeke does. The control and abuse doesn’t stop with Zeke, it also filters down to James. The story follows Zeke through school where he is constantly in trouble with other children and school officials. His punishment for his behavior is severe and his anger toward the world increases as each day passes. In each case where he is wronged, he must retaliate. Zeke fully understands right from wrong, but he can’t control his anger and hatred. He won’t even try, why should he? His only friend in life, Tony, suffers a tragic death at a very young age and Zeke blames himself for not being able to save him. He feels that if he had only listened to Tony that he could have saved him. That guilt follows Zeke for the rest of his life. He has his first romantic interlude at an early age with a young female neighbor. His trust and ability to care about females is further damaged by the actions of this young lady. Marie has laid the groundwork for Zeke to possess the power to hate when he is rejected. He will not be controlled by anyone. He will be the one who controls each situation. Only Zeke’s feelings matter anymore. Zeke begins to suffer from reoccurring nightmares that haunt him almost daily. He can’t escape them and they continue to burn their way into his mind. A faceless demon with a blood dripping dagger chases him relentlessly in his nightmares. The nightmare intensifies over the years until one day he sees the face of the demon clearly. During the story Zeke’s life crosses the path of an undesirable vagrant named Whitey. He proves to be an individual that needs to be dealt with. Whitey is just another person who tries to control and abuse Zeke. Zeke’s quest to get even with Whitey takes him to a place in his mind that he will travel numerous times in the future. Many chose to cross Zeke during his life and he comes up with unique ways to deal with these individuals. Zeke believes that those who wrong him deserve to be punished and no punishment is too great for those who betray him. Zeke escapes his life at home through the help of James, only to find that life aw
Download or read book Malice written by Lisa Jackson and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Jackson comes a gripping, edge-of-the-seat tale of deception and betrayal, as New Orleans detective Rick Bentz is forced to confront the ghosts of his past--and a killer's twisted vengeance.
Download or read book The Christian Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old and New World Highland Bagpiping written by John Graham Gibson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old and New World Highland Bagpiping provides a comprehensive biographical and genealogical account of pipers and piping in highland Scotland and Gaelic Cape Breton.The work is the result of over thirty years of oral fieldwork among the last Gaels in Cape Breton, for whom piping fitted unself-consciously into community life, as well as an exhaustive synthesis of Scottish archival and secondary sources. Reflecting the invaluable memories of now-deceased new world Gaelic lore-bearers, John Gibson shows that traditional community piping in both the old and new world Gàihealtachlan was, and for a long time remained, the same, exposing the distortions introduced by the tendency to interpret the written record from the perspective of modern, post-eighteenth-century bagpiping. Following up the argument in his previous book, Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945, Gibson traces the shift from tradition to modernism in the old world through detailed genealogies, focusing on how the social function of the Scottish piper changed and step-dance piping progressively disappeared. Old and New World Highland Bagpiping will stir controversy and debate in the piping world while providing reminders of the value of oral history and the importance of describing cultural phenomena with great care and detail.
Download or read book Skim written by A. F. Gilloti and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Tony Gould, head of international banking at the Manhattan Banking Corporation, can prod his fellow bankers to syndicate a one billion dollar loan to the African Republic of Maraka, the rewards are rich. His bank would rise to the top ranks in the New York banking world, and Tony would be one step closer to replacing Miles Vanderpane as Chairman and CEO. Tony has many obstacles to surmount: Maraka has natural resources, but is massively corrupt; its elite live like kings while most starve; and multinational corporations routinely bribe the government for a piece of the action. Closer to home, both the bank’s Risk Manager, who won’t approve the loan, and Vanderpane stand in Tony’s way. Then there are the obstacles which Tony does not anticipate, involving his wife, Maureen, and Samantha Vanderpane, the Chairman’s wife, who is a force to be reckoned with. Often satiric, Skim is a novel grounded in the real world of high-stakes banking. This absorbing story can serve as a cautionary tale as it illuminates the irresponsible behaviors underlying the near collapse of the banking system in 2008.
Download or read book Satin Pumps written by Steve Kosareff and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true crime memoir about a 1950s doctor, his girlfriend, the murder of his wife, and the 3 trials that followed, written by one of his former patients. Did the handsome, wealthy doctor and his beautiful young paramour plan to kill his glamorous socialite wife? Or did the gun accidentally discharge as he claimed? Early in the evening on July 18, 1959, Dr. Bernard Finch and his girlfriend, Carole Ann Tregoff, drove from their Las Vegas love-nest to the Finch home in the Los Angeles suburb of West Covina to speak to his wife Barbara about obtaining a speedy divorce in Nevada. But the plan went awry, and the conversation turned deadly with Barbara’s lifeless body ending up in her in-laws’ backyard next door. After a high-speed chase with police, Finch was arrested the next morning in Las Vegas and charged with Barbara’s murder. Then, during his court hearing in West Covina, Carole was arrested on the witness stand and charged as his accomplice. Soon others were named as part of a larger conspiracy. But who were they and what parts did they play in these deadly events?
Download or read book By Comparison Only A Memoir of Friendship Betrayal and Enlightenment in Three Acts written by Linette Reynolds and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""It was a secret that I harboured until the final act in my life began to unfold. It was easier to convince myself that stoics are brave characters who plod on unaided"". In this book, Linette Reynolds tells her life story. A story filled with abuse and betrayals, gut-wrenching fears and episodes of manic depression. Her life is a set of secrets that she has locked away in an attempt to sooth her soul and make meaning out of disappointment. This is a moving story of hope over challenge and personal grief over belief and love. In this book Linette reveals how other people's dishonesty and their lack of integrity cast her life's journey. She's adamant in her story that anger was not an option. She chose not to a invoke it, because she knew she needed all her energy just to survive.
Download or read book Moth and Flame written by John Morgan Wilson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest in the Lambda Literary Award-winning mystery series finds disgraced journalist Benjamin Justice discovering a link between a writer's death and a controversial condo development.
Download or read book Love Triumphs All written by Cherrill Clough and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evan Andrews, twenty-six, is a real Adonis as far as his new girlfriend, Cynthia, is concerned, as well as all the others around her. He is pleasant, extremely handsome, and a real Mr. Nice Guy, and many think he is a male model or an actor. Standing six-foot-one, with a bronze, taut body from working at the gym, he is really eye-catching attractive, but he scored a job as a courier and enjoys it very much. After six months, his boss invites him to his daughter's twenty-first birthday; and when he and Cynthia meet, the fireworks go off, and they are smitten with each other. Cynthia is brunette, beautiful, has a happy personality, has a good figure, and is the apple of her father's eye. After meeting Cynthia, Evan asked her on a date the following week, and she accepted. Her brother, Lyle, came over from Egypt, where he has been travelling and met up with his school mate, Pete, who was also invited to the party and felt he also would like to see Cynthia as she had grown up since he saw her four years ago and gone from a plain, skinny teenager to this attractive, sexy young woman. Lyle could see the jealousy coming from Pete when she accepted the date with Evan, and from then on there were problems, and on New Year's Eve, Pete decided that Cynthia is his and did something about it, which caused massive problems for the Preston and Andrews families as he abducted Cynthia, and no one knew where he had taken her. Time went by, and finally Cynthia was found and had to fight to live as she had not eaten a morsel in eighteen days, praying she would die knowing she could never be found where he had taken her. It was touch and go for her to live, and over a long time, she had to learn to live and walk again. This is a heartfelt story of what jealousy can do and how it can make someone unbalanced; how the people of Australia, thanks to the media, along with her family and friends, stood by her while she was fighting to stay alive; and how a deep, meaningful love triumphs all.
Download or read book The Howe Dynasty The Untold Story of a Military Family and the Women Behind Britain s Wars for America written by Julie Flavell and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Book Review • Editors’ Choice Finally revealing the family’s indefatigable women among its legendary military figures, The Howe Dynasty recasts the British side of the American Revolution. In December 1774, Benjamin Franklin met Caroline Howe, the sister of British General Sir William Howe and Richard Admiral Lord Howe, in a London drawing room for “half a dozen Games of Chess.” But as historian Julie Flavell reveals, these meetings were about much more than board games: they were cover for a last-ditch attempt to forestall the outbreak of the American War of Independence. Aware that the distinguished Howe family, both the men and the women, have been known solely for the military exploits of the brothers, Flavell investigated the letters of Caroline Howe, which have been blatantly overlooked since the nineteenth century. Using revelatory documents and this correspondence, The Howe Dynasty provides a groundbreaking reinterpretation of one of England’s most famous military families across four wars. Contemporaries considered the Howes impenetrable and intensely private—or, as Horace Walpole called them, “brave and silent.” Flavell traces their roots to modest beginnings at Langar Hall in rural Nottinghamshire and highlights the Georgian phenomenon of the politically involved aristocratic woman. In fact, the early careers of the brothers—George, Richard, and William—can be credited not to the maneuverings of their father, Scrope Lord Howe, but to those of their aunt, the savvy Mary Herbert Countess Pembroke. When eldest sister Caroline came of age during the reign of King George III, she too used her intimacy with the royal inner circle to promote her brothers, moving smoothly between a straitlaced court and an increasingly scandalous London high life. With genuine suspense, Flavell skillfully recounts the most notable episodes of the brothers’ military campaigns: how Richard, commanding the HMS Dunkirk in 1755, fired the first shot signaling the beginning of the Seven Years’ War at sea; how George won the devotion of the American fighters he commanded at Fort Ticonderoga just three years later; and how youngest brother General William Howe, his sympathies torn, nonetheless commanded his troops to a bitter Pyrrhic victory in the Battle of Bunker Hill, only to be vilified for his failure as British commander-in-chief to subdue Washington’s Continental Army. Britain’s desperate battles to guard its most vaunted colonial possession are here told in tandem with London parlor-room intrigues, where Caroline bravely fought to protect the Howe reputation in a gossipy aristocratic milieu. A riveting narrative and long overdue reassessment of the entire family, The Howe Dynasty forces us to reimagine the Revolutionary War in ways that would have been previously inconceivable.
Download or read book William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier written by Edward J. Cashin and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007-02-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Travels, the celebrated 1791 account of the "Old Southwest," William Bartram recorded the natural world he saw around him but, rather incredibly, omitted any reference to the epochal events of the American Revolution. Edward J. Cashin places Bartram in the context of his times and explains his conspicuous avoidance of people, places, and events embroiled in revolutionary fervor. Cashin suggests that while Bartram documented the natural world for plant collector John Fothergill, he wrote Travels for an entirely different audience. Convinced that Providence directed events for the betterment of mankind and that the Constitutional Convention would produce a political model for the rest of the world, Bartram offered Travels as a means of shaping the new country. Cashin illuminates the convictions that motivated Bartram-that if Americans lived in communion with nature, heeded the moral law, and treated the people of the interior with respect, then America would be blessed with greatness.
Download or read book Good Health written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
