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Book People of Windsor Mountain

Download or read book People of Windsor Mountain written by Rick Goeld and published by . This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "People of Windsor Mountain" captures the flavor of liberal-progressive boarding school life in America in the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Windsor Mountain, located in Lenox, Massachusetts, was a progressive boarding school that was socially liberal and politically left-wing. What was unique about Windsor was its people. Faculty and students were an eclectic bunch of artists, scholars, beatniks, hippies, nerds, misfits, and children of the famous and almost-famous. Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier sent their children there. Dr. Max Jacobson, the infamous "Dr. Feelgood," sent his daughter there. All these children, and many more, are interviewed in this book. About the Author: Rick Goeld is the author of the non-fiction People of Windsor Mountain, and novels "Sex, Lies, and Soybeans" and "Searching for Steely Dan. People of Windsor Mountain is a unique look into life at a liberal-progressive boarding school in the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Goeld attended Windsor Mountain, located in Lenox, Massachusetts, from 1961-63. The book combines a history of the school with the personal stories of dozens of alumni and former faculty, including the children of Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, and Dr. Max Jacobson, the infamous Dr. Feelgood. Goeld';s novels reflect his interests in a broad range of offbeat subjects. Sex, Lies, and Soybeans is a sexy techno-romp with timely messages about genetically-engineered foods and the abuse of corporate power. This story takes place in a near-future where soy has become the world's primary source of protein. When a beautiful Texas State Senator blocks soy-industry-sponsored legislation, lobbyists decide to twist a few arms - or worse - to change her mind."Searching for Steely Dan, is a compelling coming-of-age story that sprung from Goeld's own near-obsession with the rock group Steely Dan. Protagonist Eddie Zittner is a 29-year-old Jersey boy with no job, no ambition, and a failing marriage. His obsessive behavior prompts his wife to dump him, and he takes to the sidewalks of Manhattan, searching for answers, searching for inspiration, searching for . Goeld was born in New York City, and grew up in Miami, Florida. After graduating from Windsor Mountain, he earned engineering degrees at MIT and Northeastern and had a long career in the high-tech electronics industry. Now semi-retired, he and his wife live in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Book Windsor Mountain School

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roselle Kline Chartock
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2014-10-21
  • ISBN : 1625849761
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Windsor Mountain School written by Roselle Kline Chartock and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When their Jewish heritage and progressive philosophies made the Bondy family a target of the Nazi regime, they were forced to sell their school and start anew in America. Max and Gertrud Bondy first opened their innovative school in Windsor, Vermont, and moved the campus to Lenox, Massachusetts, in 1944. Windsor Mountain School was ahead of its time--the faculty honored diversity, and it became the first co-ed integrated boarding school in Berkshire County. Families like the Belafontes, Poitiers and Campanellas were attracted to the school for its multicultural and international curriculum. From its golden age to the rock-and-roll era, Windsor Mountain strived to stay true to its mission until hard financial times forced the school to close in 1975. Roselle Kline Chartock captures the spirit of this Berkshire boarding school that still lives on in the hearts of its alumni.

Book Just a Berkshire Kid

    Book Details:
  • Author : Terry a La Berry
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-04-10
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Just a Berkshire Kid written by Terry a La Berry and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just a Berkshire Kid is a collection of memories of my life growing up in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. I believe that the opportunities to be involved in the Arts and the interesting and colorful people that I was able to meet and interact with while growing up were influenced by my surroundings. In this book, I chronicle my musical and theatrical evolution from student to professional musician touring with Legendary Folk artist, Arlo Guthrie, and everything in between.

Book Healer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Linda Windsor
  • Publisher : David C Cook
  • Release : 2010-06-01
  • ISBN : 0781404495
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Healer written by Linda Windsor and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixth-century Scotland—in the time of Arthur…. “The Gowrys’ seed shall divide your mighty house and bring a peace beyond the ken of your wicked soul.” Her mother’s dying prophecy to the chieftain Tarlach O’Byrne sentenced Brenna of Gowrys to twenty years of hiding. Twenty years of being hunted—by the O’Byrnes, who fear the prophecy, and by her kinsmen, who expect her to lead them against their oppressors. But Brenna is a trained and gifted healer, not a warrior queen. So she lives alone in the wilderness with only her pet wolf for company. When she rescues a man badly wounded from an ambush, she believes he may be the answer to her deep loneliness. Healing him comes as easy as loving him. But can their love overcome years of bitterness and greed…and bring peace and renewed faith to the shattered kingdom?

Book Ascent of the Mountain  Flight of the Dove

Download or read book Ascent of the Mountain Flight of the Dove written by Michael Novak and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essence of Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove remains intact: its vision of religious studies as sustained refl ection on our lifelong voyage to discover who we are. The story we choose for ourselves, the story we live, can sacralize or secularize our lives and our world by the way in which we choose to relate to it. With this awareness of the story dimension of life, Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove opens us to awe, reverence, and wonder at the risks and possibilities of human freedom. This book is even more important than it was thirty years ago. We need religion to strike deeply into the self, away from public glare. Unless Americans become more sophisticated about the language of the self, inner life will shrivel. In addition, our people will continue to be vulnerable to fundamentalist movements. Such movements take over too many innocents. Th ey promise, and sometimes deliver, a touching happiness. But they do so by closing the spirit in a powerful and dangerous way. Families and schools do not provide a large and critical vocabulary by which to express the inner longings of the spirit. The souls of many are parched and they gladly accept water, any water, from those who off er it. Th e liberation of the religious spirit from trivial, closed, and simplistic systems of thought can only be achieved through the development of a critical language, exercises, and disciplines that open rather than close the mind, that lead to higher viewpoints, breakthroughs, and new syntheses, in a constant enlargement of spirit. Novak's book leads us to that place.

Book Beyond the Mountains of the Damned

Download or read book Beyond the Mountains of the Damned written by Matthew McAllester and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist examines the war in Kosovo.PW Best Book of the Year - Nonfiction, 2002

Book Enchantment and Exploitation

Download or read book Enchantment and Exploitation written by William DeBuys and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unusual book is a complete account of the closely linked natural and human history of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, a region unique in its rich combination of ecological and cultural diversity.

Book The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

Download or read book The Boy at the Top of the Mountain written by John Boyne and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful, unforgettable new novel from the bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, for ages 12+. When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast approaching; and this is no ordinary house, for this is the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler. Quickly, Pierrot is taken under Hitler's wing, and is thrown into an increasingly dangerous new world: a world of terror, secrets and betrayal, from which he may never be able to escape.

Book Chasing the Mountain of Light

Download or read book Chasing the Mountain of Light written by Kevin Rushby and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Koh-i-Noor diamond known as the Mountain of Light, the world's largest diamond, was found in India, traveled from Golconda to the Mughal palaces in the north. Fought over, cursed at and occasionally lost, it finally reached the Sikhs in the Punjab, only to be seized by British agents eager to please young Queen Victoria. It now lies in the Tower of London where some say its curse controls the fate of the Windsor family. In Chasing the Mountain of Light, Kevin Rushby pursues the dramatic career of the Koh-i-Noor on a journey to the heart of Indian culture meeting dealers, smugglers, and petty crooks along the way. It's another adventure from Rushby whom the Washington Post recently compared to William S. Burroughs and Arthur Rimbaud.

Book Snowbird Cherokees

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sharlotte Neely
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 0820313270
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book Snowbird Cherokees written by Sharlotte Neely and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first ethnographic study of Snowbird, North Carolina, a remote mountain community of Cherokees who are regarded as simultaneously the most traditional and the most adaptive members of the entire tribe. Through historical research, contemporary fieldwork, and situational analysis, Sharlotte Neely explains the Snowbird paradox and portrays the inhabitants' daily lives and culture. At the core of her study are detailed examinations of two expressions of Snowbird's cultural self-awareness--its ongoing struggle for fair political representation on the tribal council and its yearly Trail of Tears Singing, a gathering point for all North Carolina and Oklahoma Cherokees concerned with cultural conservation.

Book Red  White   Royal Blue

    Book Details:
  • Author : Casey McQuiston
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
  • Release : 2019-05-14
  • ISBN : 1250316782
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Red White Royal Blue written by Casey McQuiston and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller * * GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER for BEST DEBUT and BEST ROMANCE of 2019 * * BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR* for VOGUE, NPR, VANITY FAIR, and more! * What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius—his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations and begs the question: Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we are meant to be? And how can we learn to let our true colors shine through? Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue proves: true love isn't always diplomatic. "I took this with me wherever I went and stole every second I had to read! Absorbing, hilarious, tender, sexy—this book had everything I crave. I’m jealous of all the readers out there who still get to experience Red, White & Royal Blue for the first time!" - Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners "Red, White & Royal Blue is outrageously fun. It is romantic, sexy, witty, and thrilling. I loved every second." - Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six

Book Bad Blood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Casey Sherman
  • Publisher : UPNE
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 1584658835
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Bad Blood written by Casey Sherman and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a deadly feud in New England's north country

Book Rocky Mountain Cook Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Caroline Trask Norton
  • Publisher : Applewood Books
  • Release : 2008-06
  • ISBN : 1429090189
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Rocky Mountain Cook Book written by Caroline Trask Norton and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1903, Caroline Trask Norton's cookbook aimed to provide Denver cooks with simple recipes adapted for those living at higher altitudes. The recipes are designed for the average home cook and call for widely available ingredients and basic cooking methods.

Book God s Mountain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Yaron Z. Eliav
  • Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Release : 2009-02-02
  • ISBN : 9780801891069
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book God s Mountain written by Yaron Z. Eliav and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Theology and Religious Studies award in the Professional and Scholarly Publishing awards given by the Association of American Publishers This provocative study of Jerusalem's Temple Mount unravels popular scholarly paradigms about the origins of this contested sacred site and its significance in Jewish and Christian traditions. In God's Mountain, Yaron Z. Eliav reconstructs the early story of the Temple Mount, exploring the way the site was developed as a physical entity, religious concept, and cultural image. He traces the Temple Mount's origins and investigates its history, explicating the factors that shaped it both physically and conceptually. Eliav refutes the popular tradition that situates the Temple Mount as a unique sacred space from the earliest days of the history of Israel and the Jewish people—a sequential development model that begins in the tenth century BCE with Solomon's construction of the First Temple. Instead, he asserts that the Temple Mount emerged as a sacred space in Jewish and early Christian consciousness hundreds of years later, toward the close of the Second Temple era in the first century CE. Eliav pinpoints three defining moments in the Temple Mount's physical history: King Herod's dramatic enlargement of the mountain at the end of the first century BCE, the temple's destruction by the Roman emperor Titus in 70 CE, and Hadrian's actions in Jerusalem sixty years later. This new chronology provides the framework for a fresh consideration of the literary and archeological evidence, as well as new understandings of the religious and social dynamics that shaped the image of the Temple Mount as a sacred space for Jews and Christians.

Book Magnificent Sex

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peggy J. Kleinplatz
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-03-10
  • ISBN : 0429594941
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Magnificent Sex written by Peggy J. Kleinplatz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 SSTAR Consumer Book Award! What makes sex magnificent? What are the qualities of extraordinary erotic intimacy and what are the elements that help to bring it about? Is great sex the stuff that people remember nostalgically from the "honeymoon" phase of their relationships, or can sex improve over time? Magnificent Sex is based on the largest, in-depth interview study ever conducted with people who are having extraordinary sex. It gathers the nuggets for remarkable sex from the "experts", distilling them into an attainable blueprint for ordinary lovers who want to make erotic intimacy grow over the course of a lifetime. Looking at factors including individual and relational qualities, empathic communication and the myths and realities of magnificent sex, this book offers accessible and evidence-based guidance for lovers and therapists alike. It is replete with frank and often humorous interviews with straight and LGBTQ individuals and couples, those who are "vanilla" and "kinky", monogamous and consensually non-monogamous and healthy and chronically ill. This illuminating book explores the implications of the findings to develop a model that effectively tackles the common problems of low desire and frequency. The "cure" for low desire is to create desirable sex!

Book Hi Honey  I m Home

    Book Details:
  • Author : Linda Windsor
  • Publisher : Multnomah
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9781576735565
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Hi Honey I m Home written by Linda Windsor and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instead of finding her boss and his wife at her front door, Kathryn Sinclair finds herself face-to-face with her supposedly deceased husband! An obsessive journalist who put his job before everything else, Nick Egan was reportedly killed in a terrorist attack five years ago. But there he stands, as impressive as ever, ready to take up where they left off. Well, Kathryn isn't interested! But Nick and their precocious boys have other ideas. They're determined to prove to Kate that God has truly changed Nick's heart-no matter what it takes.

Book Preserving Old Barns

Download or read book Preserving Old Barns written by John Porter and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preserving Old Barns is a wonderful resource for barn owners to assess and care for their special structures, which also celebrates the history and beauty of old barns. This well-illustrated second edition features stunning, full-color photographs from Lowell Fewster, expanded text adding over one hundred pages of new information from author John Porter, and barn preservation techniques from timber framer Arron Sturgis. It provides a practical understanding of the history, function, and preservation of old barns.