Download or read book Pleasantview written by CELESTE. MOHAMMED and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these and other sunny images are all they know about life in the Caribbean. However, if you want to learn how the locals truly live and experience the dark and often harrowing truths that lurk behind the idyllic imagery of Caribbean culture, then come visit the town of Pleasantview. Come during election season, and see how one candidate sets out to slaughter endangered turtles - just for fun. Or come on the day the other candidate beats his "outside-woman," so badly she ends up losing their baby. Then come on the night of the political rally, where this grieving woman exacts a very public revenge. Stay a while, and see how this single event has a trajectory far beyond the lives of the immediate actors, with often tragic and heartbreaking consequences. Written in a remarkable combination of Standard English and Trinidad Creole, Plesantview showcases the entrenched political, racial, and class dichotomies of life in Trinidad: the generosity (yet cruelty) of the average Trini; the sense of optimism (and yet, despair) which permeates everyday interaction; and the musicality of Caribbean creole (kriol) expression that masks an ingrained and frequently violent patriarchy. Merging the vibrancy and darkness of recent Caribbean writers such as Ingrid Persaud and Claire Adam with the linguistic experimentation of Marlon James's A Brief History of Seven Killings. Pleasantview is a landmark work in international fiction.
Download or read book LETTERS FROM PLEASANT VIEW LUTHERAN CHURCH written by DAVE ALAN NERDIG and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Letters from Pleasant View Lutheran Church tells the stories of fifteen Christmases as they unfold in the lives of those who worship at the white framed church planted firmly in the snow swept plains of South Dakota. With humor, bite and grace its characters struggle with what it means to live in a community that is a bit too human but never the less richly blest with God's unconditional love."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Shelby County Indiana History Families written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Action and Organizational Change written by Brenton D. Faber and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faber (technical communications, Clarkson U.) examines issues relating to the process of organizational change and the process of researching such change, including how people cope with, create, adapt to, and resist change; how people research and talk about it, and the links created and severed between theory and practice, the researcher and the researched, and the academic and the community. The text combines theoretical discussions of these issues--drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, Anthony Giddens, and Pierre Bourdieu--with Faber's firsthand experiences in the study and implementation of change. For academics, businesspeople, not-for-profit organizations, and community action groups interested in a sustained examination of change. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Some Pleasant Daydream written by Bill U'Ren and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing where Winter in Tirane leaves off, SOME PLEASANT DAYDREAM features six stories by the enigmatic Jiri Kajane. The collection follows the adventures of the Deputy Minister of Slogans and his best friend Leni. By turns hilarious and poignant, the stories examine what it means to be immersed in a culture of propaganda and doublespeak in which what one says and what one means are often two very different things.
Download or read book Huntington written by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huntington, West Virginia, is a city rich in cultural history. Rising from the ashes of the Civil War, this jewel city of the upper South became an important focus of the nation's industrial elite. With the Industrial Revolution, Huntington evolved into a major shipping port for the boundless reserves of coal, virgin timber, and natural gas found in the local mountains. The great railroad scion Collis P. Huntington, who had just completed the Transcontinental Railroad, became obsessed with creating a new city-one that bears his name today. Images of America: Huntington conveys the opulence of the Gilded Age (1870-1915) in the stunning architecture and the graceful, elegant lifestyles of the time. Many of the wealthy families of Huntington contributed to the development of education and the community by building universities and public schools, as well as hospitals, libraries, churches, museums, and government buildings. This photographic journal offers an engaging history of the early families and that made Huntington one of the architectural gems of America.
Download or read book The Story Of An Hour written by Kate Chopin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs. Louise Mallard, afflicted with a heart condition, reflects on the death of her husband from the safety of her locked room. Originally published in Vogue magazine, “The Story of an Hour” was retitled as “The Dream of an Hour,” when it was published amid much controversy under its new title a year later in St. Louis Life. “The Story of an Hour” was adapted to film in The Joy That Kills by director Tina Rathbone, which was part of a PBS anthology called American Playhouse. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
Download or read book Surviving Hitler written by Andrea Warren and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the story of the Holocaust survivor who at fifteen was placed in a Nazi concentration camp and was forced to overcome intolerable conditions in order to not become a victim of Hitler's Final Solution.
Download or read book Children of the Storm written by Ariana Harner and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of twenty schoolchildren on the southeastern plains of Colorado, fighting for lives that had just begun...Imagine being one of twenty children, ages seven to fourteen, stranded in a makeshift school bus for thirty-three hours, during the worst blizzard to hit Colorado in over fifty years. The gripping narrative of CHILDREN OF THE STORM leads you through this haunting experience.The morning of March 26, 1931, began with sixty-degree weather and students excitedly running to board Carl Miller's bus for their routine ride to the Pleasant Hill School. By the time they arrived at the pair of forlorn one-room schoolhouses, it was dark, windy, and cold— obvious signs of a spring snowstorm. Soon after, following the teachers' orders to drive the children to a nearby home for safety, Miller lost his sense of direction in the ensuing whiteout and lodged the bus in a ditch. When rescuers found the survivors a day and a half later, the blizzard had taken its deadly toll.
Download or read book From the Door of an Orphanage written by Pastor Hal Phillips and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have a story to tell you! It is a very familiar story to me because it is my story. Please let me take you with me back in time so you can see how God has changed my life. My life was shattered and empty until I met Jesus. As you read the following pages, you will see how sin can break a family and individuals. You will also read how God can take not just one but three children, whose lives were broken, and make them apart of his family and service. This is my story.
Download or read book Mennonite Family History April 2023 written by Lois Ann Mast and published by Masthof Press & Bookstore. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue contains the following articles and [surnames]: Mast Family European Heritage Tour by Diana Mast White [Mast]; Descendants of Swiss Settlers by Joseph H. Smith; Ancestral Families of Sarah Flohr (1880-1963) Married to Norman Arthur Lind (1881-1968), Part IV: Sell, Shell, Brunner, Nold, Ziegler, Bough, and Crumpbacher by Hope Kauffman Lind [Sell, Shell, Brunner, Nold, Ziegler, Bough, Crumpbacher]; Who Was the Wife of Daniel Flohr (1790-1850)? Addendum to "Ancestral Families of Sarah Flohr (1880-1963) Married to Norman Arthur Lind (1881-1968), Parts I and II by Hope Kauffman Lind [Flohr, Rummel, Sounder]; Anabaptist Records Just Found in German Archives by Friedrich Wollmershauser [Bachmann, Wagner, Krehbuhl, Adam, Handschuh, Detweyler, Hirtzler, Maurer, Schneider, Ruth, Wanner, Rohrer, Habich, Meyer, Reinhard, Krauther, Ambsler, Hackmann, Holl, Wenger, Mast, Hostetter, Landas]; Blessed With Eight Generations - Ancestor Fan Chart of Jennifer Ellen Miller [Miller, Hostetler, Schlabach, Martin]; The Hubers from Hausen, Switzerland, to Pennsylvania by Lois Ann Mast [Huber]; Departure Ports of Our Ancestors: Rotterdam by Lois Ann Mast; Children of Bishop Jacob Mast and Magdalena Hooley: David Mast (1770-1849)—Blouse Davy, Innkeeper by Dot (Mast) Moss [Mast, Kurtz]; Four Marriages Between the Bartel, Epp, Franz, Isaac, and Wall Families by Thomas B. Mierau [Bartel, Epp, Isaac, Franz, Wall]; The Groningen Old Flemish Society of Mennonites in Poland, Prussia, and Russia by John D. Richert with contributions from Rodney D. Ratzlaff [Ratzlaff, Wedel, Schmidt, Unruh, Richert, Jantz, Sparling, Voth, Pankratz, Harms, Dirks].
Download or read book A History of the Primitive Methodist Church in the United States of America from Its Origin and the Landing of the First Missionaries in 1829 to the Present Time written by John Holmes Acornley and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Macon County Illinois from Its Organization to 1876 written by John W. Smith and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Banks of the Wyaloosing written by Loralyn Reynolds and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a family history, a collage of sketches of our history, ie. the history of Loralyn and Danny Reynolds, their descendants, and their ancestors, with funny stories of childhood thrown in, a few poems, and lessons on life and overcoming and growing. It touches the families of Reynolds-Detamore; Reynolds-Renn-Thurston; Reynolds-Cheever-Jones; Reynolds-Ziegler-Arney-Davis-Murley, and with some Mowery-Campbell- Renn history thrown in, and some of the Randall family, since Danny and I are a sub clan of the Randall family. The central story takes place on the banks of Wyaloosing Creek, where Danny and Loralyn grew up.
Download or read book History of Richardson County Nebraska written by Lewis C. Edwards and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1917 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queer Stories For Boys and Girls written by Edward Eggleston and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " In "Queer Stories for Boys and Girls" by Edward Eggleston, embark on a collection of unique and captivating tales that captivate the imaginations of both boys and girls. This diverse assortment of stories celebrates individuality, curiosity, and the power of storytelling to inspire and entertain. Through "Queer Stories for Boys and Girls," Edward Eggleston presents a tapestry of characters and situations that defy stereotypes and challenge traditional narratives. Each story offers a fresh perspective and encourages readers to embrace their own uniqueness and embrace the differences of others. Edward Eggleston's storytelling brings forth relatable characters, exciting adventures, and thought-provoking themes. From tales of friendship and bravery to stories that explore the beauty of diversity and inclusivity, this collection invites readers to expand their horizons and see the world through a new lens. Join Edward Eggleston on a journey through "Queer Stories for Boys and Girls," where you'll encounter captivating narratives that celebrate the power of imagination, promote acceptance, and ignite the joy of reading."
Download or read book A twentieth century history of Erie County Pennsylvania written by J. Miller and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1909 with total page 911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
