Download or read book Time It Was written by Karen Manners Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to live through the Sixties? The writers of these 27 memoirs offer the essence of life and youth in the period. In first-person narratives that range from poignant reminiscences to dramatic adventures, the writers convey what it felt like to land a helicopter in the middle of a firefight in Vietnam, to be beaten and jailed for trying to integrate restaurants in the American South, to run for cover when soldiers opened fire on a campus peace rally in Ohio. Other stories describe the writers' experiences organizing farm workers with Cesar Chavez, campaigning to elect Barry Goldwater, striking for Free Speech at Berkeley, living in a commune, joining the women's liberation movement, becoming caught up in a religious cult, or camping in the rain at Woodstock.
Download or read book I Never Knew What Time It Was written by David Antin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors written by Марк Твен and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors written by Mark Twain and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1900 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1601 was written during the summer of 1876 when the Clemens family had retreated to Quarry Farm in Elmira County, New York. Here Mrs. Clemens enjoyed relief from social obligations, the children romped over the countryside, and Mark retired to his octagonal study, which, perched high on the hill, looked out upon the valley below. It was in the famous summer of 1876, too, that Mark was putting the finishing touches to Tom Sawyer. Before the close of the same year he had already begun work on ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’, published in 1885. It is interesting to note the use of the title, the “Duke of Bilgewater,” in Huck Finn when the “Duchess of Bilgewater” had already made her appearance in 1601. Sandwiched between his two great masterpieces, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, the writing of 1601 was indeed a strange interlude. During this prolific period Mark wrote many minor items, most of them rejected by Howells, and read extensively in one of his favorite books, Pepys’ Diary. Like many another writer Mark was captivated by Pepys’ style and spirit, and “he determined,” says Albert Bigelow Paine in his ‘Mark Twain, A Biography’, “to try his hand on an imaginary record of conversation and court manners of a bygone day, written in the phrase of the period. The result was ‘Fireside Conversation in the Time of Queen Elizabeth’, or as he later called it, ‘1601’. The ‘conversation’ recorded by a supposed Pepys of that period, was written with all the outspoken coarseness and nakedness of that rank day, when fireside sociabilities were limited only to the loosened fancy, vocabulary, and physical performance, and not by any bounds of convention.”
Download or read book Time Was written by Ian McDonald and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian McDonald weaves a love story across an endless expanse with his science fiction novella Time Was A love story stitched across time and war, shaped by the power of books, and ultimately destroyed by it. In the heart of World War II, Tom and Ben became lovers. Brought together by a secret project designed to hide British targets from German radar, the two founded a love that could not be revealed. When the project went wrong, Tom and Ben vanished into nothingness, presumed dead. Their bodies were never found. Now the two are lost in time, hunting each other across decades, leaving clues in books of poetry and trying to make their desperate timelines overlap. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book It was a time where no time could be lost written by Donato De Renzis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his mind, then, small cracks opened, from which ancient images emerged, perhaps lost in the mass grave of those fragments of mem ories thrown there, randomly and confused with others, buried in the cemetery of lost memories. As it happens when a ray of sunshine penetrates from the dormer window, to break through the walls of the darkness of a dusty attic, so the darkness of that mass grave was pierced by the dazzling reflection of a glow of memory, which raised the dust of seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years past, that eternity had deposited there. ?Perhaps it is these ? he thought ? that appear in those strange dreams without meaning, where it happens that the door of the mass grave of those confused fragments opens and come out like the gusts of the winds of Aeolus, enclosed in the wineskin....
Download or read book It Was Not My Time written by Denise Harris and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-11-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of survival, my survival. While walking home from a resturant where we had been to bid farewell to my friend, who was going to live in Greece I was hit by a car, leaving me almost dead. I spent 8 months in hospital trying to recover from the very serious injuries that I sustained that night and it was wrote in an attempt to give hope to others who have to deal with such injuries or the families who need to be there when such a dramatic, life changing event happens
Download or read book It Was a Long Time Ago and It Never Happened Anyway written by David Satter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A veteran writer on Russia and the Soviet Union explains why Russia refuses to draw from the lessons of its past and what this portends for the future Russia today is haunted by deeds that have not been examined and words that have been left unsaid. A serious attempt to understand the meaning of the Communist experience has not been undertaken, and millions of victims of Soviet Communism are all but forgotten. In this book David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent and longtime writer on Russia and the Soviet Union, presents a striking new interpretation of Russia's great historical tragedy, locating its source in Russia's failure fully to appreciate the value of the individual in comparison with the objectives of the state. Satter explores the moral and spiritual crisis of Russian society. He shows how it is possible for a government to deny the inherent value of its citizens and for the population to agree, and why so many Russians actually mourn the passing of the Soviet regime that denied them fundamental rights. Through a wide-ranging consideration of attitudes toward the living and the dead, the past and the present, the state and the individual, Satter arrives at a distinctive and important new way of understanding the Russian experience.
Download or read book A time that was written by Philip S. Salisbury and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author worked and vacationed in Liberia and West Africa from 1962-1964. The author kept a diary of most of his stay. This book reveals the day-to-day life of a Peace Corps volunteer as well as the experiences of students and villiagers. The experiences are both diverse and unexpected. Reading these diaries results in a fair perspective on the volunteer's life and times. Furthermore, it provides many insights into Liberia, Americo-Liberian culture, life up-country, or life in the interior. This book carries the reader from experience to experience. You'll have a hard time setting it down."--Back cover.
Download or read book There Was a Time written by Alan Leeds and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behind-the-scenes look at the Chitlin’ Circuit during American’s most vital period of soul music—from the eyes and ears of a young, Jewish kid from Queens who joined the team of the hardest working man in show business and learned the art of the music business at the hand of the performer who mastered it. In the mid-’60s, Alan Leeds was a young DJ looking for his way into the music business. An interview with James Brown to promote a local show in Virginia led to an opportunity to promote one of Brown’s concerts, which then led to Brown hiring him to help run his tours. Soon Leeds was wearing many hats and traveling around the country as Brown battled a complicated web of local promoters and managers, all too willing to try to rip him off. In this riveting book—part memoir, part history—Leeds weaves a wholly new and remarkable portrait of Brown as an idiosyncratic iconoclast, determined artist, and forceful businessman. It is a rare look into a world little known to white America immediately following the Civil Rights Movement. Leeds discovers that Brown is a fascinatingly complex man and their experiences, both business and personal, range from emotional to humorous. All the while, they navigate the complicated world of popular Black music in America, told by someone who actually lived it. “Over the course of his long life in music as a tour manager, archivist, writer, and fan, Alan Leeds had a ringside seat for some of the greatest moments in soul and funk history—from James Brown in the sixties to Prince in the eighties to D’Angelo in the first years of the 21st century. His eye for detail and his abiding love for the music shine through in this affectionate, inspirational memoir. Alan is one of my all-time heroes!” —Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson “Alan Leeds is one of those cats that absorbs the situation & can recite it back to u word for word, always on point with details & graphics. That is what drew me closer to observing him, other than his big red Afro! We all started with James Brown around the same time. I didn't know what all Alan was doing at the time, but I knew if JB hired him he had to be on Heel & Toe or else u got to Blow! That was one of JB's famous expressions to me while he was laughing, but u knew he was serious. To this day, when Alan speaks about something that happened back in our JB days u can just about take it to the Bank! Thxs Mr. Leeds for helping to preserve that funky & sometimes funked up history.” —Bootsy Collins
Download or read book He Was There All The Time written by Joan Strickland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-29 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking back over the past 7 decades of life and seeing the hand of God in every moment.
Download or read book Once Upon a Time There Was a Lost Gay Little Boy written by Jo Gabriel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jos mission is to connect with any who can relate to or care about abuse on any and all levels. Jos vision is to see gaps of misunderstanding bridged between all who come in touch with victimizationwhether between victims, survivors, first responders, aggressors, perpetrators, or mere bystanders. Without those bridges, there will never be growth. Jos mission and vision continue to keep her focused on her work. It is clear to her that those bridges between peoples will only be as strong as those who are working together to build them.
Download or read book The 100th Time s the Charm She Was Executed 99 Times So How Did She Unlock Super Love Mode Volume 1 written by Yuji Yuji and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphina is falsely accused of plotting to assassinate Saint Debonaire. Time rewinds every time she’s executed for a crime she didn’t commit, but with the cruel Saint Debonaire against her, the same fate awaits Alphina ninety-nine times in a row: death by decapitation. But something different happens the hundredth time around. Just as Alphina is preparing herself for yet another execution, she discovers that she can hear people’s true feelings—and that everyone secretly loves her! Can Alphina take advantage of her newfound ability and sidestep her fate at the guillotine?
Download or read book Once Upon a Time There Was a War written by Les Kaluza and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press Memoir. Once Upon a Time There Was a War is a kaleidoscope of events. It starts with World War II seen through the eyes of a child. The author was only nine years old when the war started and he writes about his memories of horrible events like hangings and executions of innocent people; senseless killings that brought misery to so many lives. But, being only a child, he also had times of fun and play. The reality of war, however, was ever-present. Despite those dark times, Les remained an optimist; he had his dreams of becoming an animator and of going to Hollywood. He didn't know how, but he was sure that someday he would reach his goal. Les reached his goal and had a long career working for studios in Poland, as well as Disney and Hanna-Barbera in the U.S., and others. Those fascinating stories, and many more, are also in this memoir.
Download or read book He Was There All the Time written by Reverend Mary Ellen Brod and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into a large loving Catholic family, Mary Ellen’s life was happy and wonderful. When she was just 11 years old, tragedy struck with the sudden unexpected death of her beloved father. The family was devastated. Sadness, insecurity and lack of self-esteem took over Mary Ellen’s life. At the tender age of 16, desperately looking for love and acceptance, she unwittingly enters into a controlling, abusive, alcohol-fueled marriage. Over the years, this union blesses her with five wonderful children; but sadly the abuse at the hands of her husband only accelerates. Her reality of being a high-school dropout, possessing no job skills, her inability to drive a car, along with living in constant fear of her husband’s threats and violent wrath, force Mary Ellen to remain in this toxic marriage for over two decades. Though she attended Mass every week and prayed to the Virgin Mary faithfully, she felt so alone. Searching for help, she begins reading a Bible that lay in her home for many years, but not once opened. Reading God’s word was amazing and sparked a deep spiritual hunger in her soul. Through this Holy Bible, she is formally introduced to Jesus Christ, and begins her transformation and spiritual journey through His love and salvation. She is able to break free of her chains of shame and inadequacy and find strength and hope in Him. You will experience laughter, tears and inspiration as you read this very personal and candid memoir of adversity, survival and triumph through the love of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Download or read book There Was a Time for Everything written by Judith Friedland and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-12-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of her mother when she turned ten, Judith Friedland learned to be resilient. She met the expectations for upper-middle-class women in Toronto in the 1940s and 1950s, which included post-secondary education, marriage, and motherhood. While raising a family and supporting her husband’s academic career, she continued her formal education through part-time study and gradually began a journey tailored to herself as an individual. In her forties, she embarked on her own academic career, rising through the ranks to become a tenured full professor and chair of the department of occupational therapy in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. In There Was a Time for Everything, Friedland reflects on her life and the fact that over time she managed to "have it all" – just not all at once.
Download or read book For Once There Was a Time written by Danny B. Green and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book For Once There Was a Time is a poignant memoir about one man’s struggle with addiction and his journey from rock bottom to a hopeful future as a loving husband and father. Growing up in Brooklyn, Danny B. Green was surrounded by temptation in the form of drugs, alcohol, gangs, and violence. Despite his environment, Green has a successful career and makes a life for himself, but when the new highly-addictive drug crack-cocaine enters the scene, Green finds himself throwing away everything he worked for in order to get his next high. His rock bottom finds him facing felony robbery charges and seven years in prison, forcing Green to make a choice: succumb to the drug or rise above and take control of his life. About the Author Danny B. Green is a native of Brooklyn, New York. He has worked in numerous facilities helping individuals deal with disabilities like substance abuse, mental health issues, and homelessness. He enjoys helping others achieve their personal goals, and in his free time Green can be found outdoors, playing sports and chess, listening to music, and spending time with his family.
