Download or read book From Harvey River written by Lorna Goodison and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Being introduced to the cast of ‘From Harvey River’ is like sitting down at the family dining table. You’ll stay for the day then on into the evening as each new character pulls up a chair. You could not be in better company.” — New York Times Book Review “Goodison’s memoir reaches back over generations to evoke the mythic power of childhood, the magnetic tug of home, and the friction between desire and duty that gives life its unexpected jolts.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[A] loving memoir.” — New York Times Book Review Paperback Row

Download or read book From Harvey River written by Lorna Goodison and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As read on Radio 4, an irresistibly joyful memoir of mothers and daughters, and the importance of home. Lorna Goodison's family made their home in the Jamaican village to which her great-grandfather gave his name: Harvey River. Her mother Doris was a big-hearted lover of big stories and raised Lorna on tales of their family's - and Jamaica's - history. Gorgeously written with unashamed joy, From Harvey River weaves together memories with island folklore to create a vivid and irresistible story of mothers and daughters, family, and the ties that bind us to home.

Download or read book Memoir of W H Harvey written by William Henry Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Compendium of History Reminiscence and Biography of Western Nebraska written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Logical Family written by Armistead Maupin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A book for any of us, gay or straight, who have had to find our family. Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers."—Neil Gaiman "I fell in love with Maupin’s effervescent Tales of the City decades ago, and his genius turn at memoir is no less compelling. Logical Family is a must read."—Mary Karr In this long-awaited memoir, the beloved author of the bestselling Tales of the City series chronicles his odyssey from the old South to freewheeling San Francisco, and his evolution from curious youth to ground-breaking writer and gay rights pioneer. Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Armistead Maupin lost his virginity to another man "on the very spot where the first shots of the Civil War were fired." Realizing that the South was too small for him, this son of a traditional lawyer packed his earthly belongings into his Opel GT (including a beloved portrait of a Confederate ancestor), and took to the road in search of adventure. It was a journey that would lead him from a homoerotic Navy initiation ceremony in the jungles of Vietnam to that strangest of strange lands: San Francisco in the early 1970s. Reflecting on the profound impact those closest to him have had on his life, Maupin shares his candid search for his "logical family," the people he could call his own. "Sooner or later, we have to venture beyond our biological family to find our logical one, the one that actually makes sense for us," he writes. "We have to, if we are to live without squandering our lives." From his loving relationship with his palm-reading Grannie who insisted Maupin was the reincarnation of her artistic bachelor cousin, Curtis, to an awkward conversation about girls with President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office, Maupin tells of the extraordinary individuals and situations that shaped him into one of the most influential writers of the last century. Maupin recalls his losses and life-changing experiences with humor and unflinching honesty, and brings to life flesh-and-blood characters as endearing and unforgettable as the vivid, fraught men and women who populate his enchanting novels. What emerges is an illuminating portrait of the man who depicted the liberation and evolution of America’s queer community over the last four decades with honesty and compassion—and inspired millions to claim their own lives. Logical Family includes black-and-white photographs.

Download or read book Breathing Again written by Rachael Valka and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breathing Again is an inspirational memoir following the stories of those whose lives intersected with the author's during the days and weeks of Hurricane Harvey. While the timeline of Hurricane Harvey anchors the movement of this memoir, the book interweaves flashbacks from the author's life with larger themes of suffering, chronic illness, and loss. Suffering, as told in this story, bears the many names of natural disasters, chronic illness, loss, brokenness, and so much more. Though suffering is an inescapable part of our common human experience, it finds redemption and hope in the bonds of charity that unite us all as children of God. Ultimately, Breathing Again is a story of faith, community, friendship, and resilience, intended to give the reader a glimmer of hope and healing out of the suffering of life's storms.

Download or read book Memoir of W H Harvey with selections from his journal and correspondence written by William Henry Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Compendium of History Reminiscence and Biography of Nebraska written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reminiscences of Court and Diplomatic Life written by baroness Georgiana Liddell Bloomfield Bloomfield and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Descendants of Elisha Harvey from 1719 to 1914 written by J. William Knappenberger and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Harvey (1617-1651) was born in Somersetshire England and came to America with his brother William to Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1636. He settled at Cohannet as per the records of Plymouth Colony Records. Thomas married Elisabeth Andrews (1614-1717) born in England. They had 3 children.

Download or read book Reminiscences of Saratoga written by Joseph Aubin Smith and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Locked Safe A Family Memoir written by Miriam E. David and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2024-06-19 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This family memoir is my back story. A Locked Safe with 5 ‘Nazi’ passports was found after my mother died in 1996. My father had died 16 years earlier. Although we knew he was a German Jewish professional engineer fleeing Nazism in 1936, we did not know the details of how his family fled. The help of my mother’s family, the Leas, was essential. They had fled from pogroms in Ukraine/Russia in the late nineteenth century. Some were also caught up with Japanese internment camps in China, illustrating the diasporic nature of my family. My father, his elder brother and father were also interned by the British in 1940-1941. I look forward to not only my generation as the so-called second generation from the Holocaust, but also the third generation, specifically my daughter Charlotte Reiner Hershman. Although we tell a unique story of one family, that story of migration, seeking asylum or refuge and being exiled is a very frequent tale nowadays. In excavating my parents’ backgrounds and their influences on me and Charlotte, we show the long term psychological and social effects on our lives and possibly on future generations.

Download or read book The Harvey Book written by Oscar Jewell Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family written by Horatio Nelson Otis and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memoir of Hayward Augustus Harvey written by Thomas William Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Early Midwestern Travel Narratives written by Robert Rogers Hubach and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1961, Early Midwestern Travel Narratives records and describes first-person records of journeys in the frontier and early settlement periods which survive in both manuscript and print. Geographically, it deals with the states once part of the Old Northwest Territory-Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota-and with Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. Robert Hubach arranged the narratives in chronological order and makes the distinction among diaries (private records, with contemporaneously dated entries), journals (non-private records with contemporaneously dated entries), and "accounts," which are of more literary, descriptive nature. Early Midwestern Travel Narratives remains to this day a unique comprehensive work that fills a long existing need for a bibliography, summary, and interpretation of these early Midwestern travel narratives.

Download or read book Genealogical memoir of the family of Montmorency styled De Marisco or Morres written by Hervey de Montmorency- Morres and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: