Download or read book Passions of a Mighty Heart Selected Letters of G W L Marshall Hall written by Suzanne Robinson and published by Lyrebird Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning two decades of the cultural life of Melbourne, from 1891 until the start of World War I, this collection of the letters of the composer, conductor and critic G.W.L. Marshall-Hall samples the scandal, disappointments, achievements and camaraderie of those years. Sometimes caustic and often opinionated, the letters expose their author's infectious enthusaism for Art as well as his tendency to rile his enemies. Gathered here from public and private archives in Australia and Britain are 249 of the extant letters, each of which offers a vivid portrait of a man many described as a musical genius.
Download or read book Letters from Cuba written by Ruth Behar and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pura Belpré Award Winner Ruth Behar's inspiring story of a Jewish girl who escapes Poland to make a new life in Cuba, where she works to rescue the rest of her family The situation is getting dire for Jews in Poland on the eve of World War II. Esther's father has fled to Cuba, and she is the first one to join him. It's heartbreaking to be separated from her beloved sister, so Esther promises to write down everything that happens until they're reunited. And she does, recording both the good--the kindness of the Cuban people and her discovery of a valuable hidden talent--and the bad: the fact that Nazism has found a foothold even in Cuba. Esther's evocative letters are full of her appreciation for life and reveal a resourceful, determined girl with a rare ability to bring people together, all the while striving to get the rest of their family out of Poland before it's too late. Based on Ruth Behar's family history, this compelling story celebrates the resilience of the human spirit in the most challenging times.
Download or read book The Healer s Heart written by Diane Komp and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2010-03-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary look at the spiritual journey of a doctor named Luke that thoughtfully brings the Gospel physician into our 21st-century world. If you have no cause worth dying for, do you have a reason to live? While sorting through family papers following his father’s massive stroke, Dr. Luke Tayspill, Yale Medical School’s top infectious disease specialist, stumbles across a manuscript written decades earlier by his beloved grandfather. The book bears an ominous title, The Deaths of Lukas Tayspill—not death, but deaths. A closer inspection reveals that the book is about three characters with the same name. The first two Lucas Tayspills were 19th century Quakers who suffered martyrs’ deaths. The third story—set in the future—ends abruptly with the arrival of a Dr. Lucas Tayspill in a plague-ridden, war torn African land. Was his grandfather foretelling Luke’s own life story—and prophesying his death? Luke sets out on a deeply personal journey to Sierra Leone. But his pilgrimage to understand death leads to a powerful and unexpected encounter with the essence of life. Will Luke fulfill his grandfather’s vision?
Download or read book How Dear to My Heart written by Emily Kimbrough and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, written with Cornelia Otis Skinner, Emily Kimbrough was one of the most popular writers of this century. How Dear to My Heart, first published in 1944, is her tribute to a happy childhood spent in Muncie, Indiana, a humorous glance over her shoulder at the way things used to be. "This is more than a funny book, a period piece. Dignity and love are never quaint. They were the essence of this civilization. They are the essence of a book which is going to be dear to a lot of hearts besides the author." --Boston Globe (on the original publication) " . . . poignant, evocative, humorous." --Indiana Magazine of History
Download or read book Winning the Teacher s Heart written by Jean C. Gordon and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hometown Reunion Single mom Becca Norton is surprised to discover her high school crush Jared Donnelly is back in town. The motocross champion hasn't been home in years, but the former bad boy is as gorgeous as she remembers. And his kindness toward her kids melts her heart. But when she learns his true purpose in town is to build a motocross school on land near her home, she has to put on the brakes. Her children's welfare is her priority, and her former in-laws have made it clear they don't approve of Jared or his plans. Soon Becca may have to choose between her heart...and her home.
Download or read book Key to the Single Dad s Heart written by Julie Danvers and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inheriting an obstetrics practice was enough of a shock…until she meets her irresistible new business partner! Dive into this Harlequin Medical Romance novel from Julie Danvers. Is she the one… who can unlock their future? Arriving in Key West to claim her inherited obstetrics practice, Dr. Olivia is stunned by her instant annoyance—and connection!—with her new partner, widowed single dad Dr. Hunter. Raised in foster care, Olivia can’t rely on anyone. Especially a man whose heart is locked up tight. As they grow closer, she’s tempted to lower her guard for the first time. But after everything he’s lost, can Hunter do the same? From Harlequin Medical: Life and love in the world of modern medicine.
Download or read book The Best Letter Book Ever written by Marya W. Holcombe and published by Round Lake Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clarke Kellogg written by Nellie Clarke King and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Turtle s Beating Heart written by Denise Low and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end,” Denise Low says, “as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we see as grandchildren is like a garden covered by snow, just outlines visible.” Low brings to light deeply held secrets of Native ancestry as she recovers the life story of her Kansas grandfather, Frank Bruner (1889–1963). She remembers her childhood in Kansas, where her grandparents remained at a distance, personally and physically, from their grandchildren, despite living only a few miles away. As an adult, she comes to understand her grandfather’s Delaware (Lenape) legacy of persecution and heroic survival in the southern plains of the early 1900s, where the Ku Klux Klan attacked Native people along with other ethnic minorities. As a result of such experiences, the Bruner family fled to Kansas City and suppressed their non-European ancestry as completely as possible. As Low unravels this hidden family history of the Lenape diaspora, she discovers the lasting impact of trauma and substance abuse, the deep sense of loss and shame related to suppressed family emotions, and the power of collective memory. Low traveled extensively around Kansas, tracking family history until she understood her grandfather’s political activism and his healing heritage of connections to the land. In this moving exploration of her grandfather’s life, the former poet laureate of Kansas evokes the beauty of the Flint Hills grasslands, the hardships her grandfather endured, and the continued discovery of his teachings.
Download or read book From a Father s Heart written by Dan Reiland and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1999 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty well-known Christian men pass along some of life's more important lessons to the next generation through loving letters written straight from the heart. Full color.
Download or read book Half hours with the Best Letter writers and Autobiographers written by Charles Knight and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journey to a Nineteenth Century Shtetl written by Yekhezkel Kotik and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-09 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first annotated English edition of a classic early-twentieth-century Yiddish memoir that vividly describes Jewish life in a small Eastern European town. Originally published in Warsaw in 1913, this beautifully written memoir offers a panoramic description of the author’s experiences growing up in Kamieniec Litewski, a Polish shtetl connected with many important events in the history of nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewry. Although the way of life portrayed in this memoir has disappeared, the historical, cultural, and folkoric material it contains will be of major interest to historians and general readers alike. Kotik’s story is the saga of a wealthy and influential family through four generations. Masterfully interwoven in this tale are colorful vignettes featuring Kotik’s family and neighbors, including rabbis and zaddikim, merchants and the poor, hasidim and mitnaggedim, scholars and illiterates, believers and heretics, matchmakers and informers, and teachers and musicians. Stories of personal warmth and despair intermingle with descriptions of the rise and decline of Jewish communal institutions and descriptions or the relationships between Jews, Russian authorities, and Polish lords. Such events as the brutal decrees of Tsar Nicholas I, the abolishment of the Jewish communal board known as the Kahal, and the Polish revolts against Russia are reflected in the lives of these people. The English edition includes a complete translation of the first volume of memoirs and contains notes elucidating terms, names, and customs, as well as bibliographical references to the research literature. The book not only acquaints new readers with the talent of a unique storyteller but also presents an important document of Jewish life during a fascinating era.
Download or read book My Ear at His Heart written by Hanif Kureishi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described in a recent New York Times Magazine profile as a "postcolonial Philip Roth," Hanif Kureishi first captured the attention of audiences and critics in the 1980s with the award-winning novel The Buddha of Suburbia and the films My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. In three decades of acclaimed work, Kureishi has written fiction and films exploring a series of interconnected themes about identity and desire—from Islamic radicalism to kinky sex, and from psychoanalysis to the relationships of fathers and sons. After discovering an abandoned manuscript of his father’s, hidden for years, Kureishi was compelled to turn his "unflinching perspective" (Time Out) onto his own history. Like Roth, Martin Amis and Geoffrey Wolfe, who also have written books about their fathers, Kureishi wanted to understand and perhaps to reconcile. My Ear at His Heart offers remarkable insight into the birth of a writer, chronicling how Kureishi’s own literary calling emerged from the ashes of his father’s aspirations. And so begins a journey that takes Kureishi through his father’s privileged childhood by the sea in Bombay, through the turbulent birth of Pakistan and to his modest adult life in England—his days spent as a civil servant, his nights writing prose, hopeful of one day receiving literary recognition. "A beguiling and complex tale of fact, fiction and family tensions" (The Guardian), My Ear at His Heart was published to great acclaim in the United Kingdom in 2004 and went on to win the prestigious Prix France Culture Etranger. Now, this profound work from one of the most compelling artists of our time is at last available in a Scribner edition.
Download or read book Fathers and Forefathers written by Martin Robb and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on fathers and fatherhood has blossomed in recent years, focusing, for the most part, on present-day fathering experiences but also beginning to uncover hidden narratives of past fatherhood. This collection aims to add something new to this expanding field by exploring the dynamic relationship between present and past fatherhoods. The popular understanding of fathers in past generations, as being detached and uninvolved in the lives of their children, can be said to play a significant part in the construction of modern fathering identities, with ideas of “new” fatherhood being played off against notions of historical fathering practices. However, research has begun to show that these popular myths often misremember the past, judging it by current standards and obscuring the diverse nature of fathering practices in the recent and distant past. A genealogical approach is able to critically examine these intergenerational constructions of fatherhood and more positively illuminate the ways in which experiences of fathering and being fathered are passed on between generations. The contributions to this collection use a genealogical approach (broadly defined) to fathering and fatherhood as a way of defamiliarizing accepted narratives and suggesting new ways of thinking about men and their relationships with their children.
Download or read book Sarat Chandra Bose 1889 1989 written by Sisir Kumar Bose and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Sarat Chandra Bose, 1889-1950, Indian freedom fighter and political activist.
Download or read book Bond in The Spiritual Heart written by Lee Ann Leggett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amelia is a woman living the military life on a path to find solace. She turns to God in her desperate time of need, resulting in her encounter with Wanda, her best friend. Constantly being tested, these two friends rely on their strength and faith in God to keep them together. The girls are eventually separated for awhile, but in the meantime, Amelia meets the love of her life. After graduation, she was given a choice: her family or Charles. Even though her father told her to stay away from Charles, she believes they are a match made in heaven. The challenges for both of them await.
Download or read book McClure s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
