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Book Vinegar Hill

    Book Details:
  • Author : A. Manette Ansay
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2009-10-13
  • ISBN : 0061760250
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Vinegar Hill written by A. Manette Ansay and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field, Wisconsin. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen has brought her two children into the home of her in-laws on Vinegar Hill--a loveless house suffused with the settling dust of bitterness and routine--where calculated cruelty is a way of life preserved and perpetuated in the service of a rigid, exacting and angry God. Behind a facade of false piety, there are sins and secrets in this place that could crush a vibrant young woman's passionate spirit. And here Ellen must find the straight to endure, change, and grow in the all-pervading darkness that threatens to destroy everything she is and everyone she loves.

Book Vinegar Hill

    Book Details:
  • Author : Colm Tóibín
  • Publisher : Beacon Press
  • Release : 2022-04-12
  • ISBN : 0807006548
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Vinegar Hill written by Colm Tóibín and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times best-selling author of Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín’s first collection of poetry explores sexuality, religion, and belonging through a modern lens Fans of Colm Tóibín’s novels, including The Magician, The Master, and Nora Webster, will relish the opportunity to re-encounter Tóibín in verse. Vinegar Hill explores the liminal space between private experiences and public events as Tóibín examines a wide range of subjects—politics, queer love, reflections on literary and artistic greats, living through COVID, and facing mortality. The poems reflect a life well-traveled and well-lived; from growing up in the town of Enniscorthy, wandering the streets of Dublin, and crossing the bridges of Venice to visiting the White House, readers will travel through familiar locations and new destinations through Tóibín’s unique lens. Within this rich collection of poems written over the course of several decades, shot through with keen observation, emotion, and humor, Tóibín offers us lines and verses to provoke, ponder, and cherish.

Book Vinegar Hill  The Last Stand of the Wexford Rebels of 1798

Download or read book Vinegar Hill The Last Stand of the Wexford Rebels of 1798 written by Ronan O'Flaherty and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 21 June 1798, 20,000 men, women and children found themselves trapped on a hill outside Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, facing a Crown force of some 15,000 troops led by no less than four generals and 16 general officers. It was the dying days of a rebellion that had shaken British rule in Ireland to its core. The army that now surrounded the hill was determined that none should escape. Now a multi-disciplinary research programme involving archaeologists, historians, folklorists, architectural historians and military specialists provides startling new insight into what actually happened at Vinegar Hill on that fateful day in June 1798. Using cutting-edge technology and traditional research, the sequence of the battle jumps sharply into focus, beginning with the 'shock-and awe' bombardment at dawn, the attack on Enniscorthy and the hill, and the critical defence of the bridge across the Slaney that allowed so many of the defenders on the hill to escape.

Book Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville  Virginia

Download or read book Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville Virginia written by James Robert Saunders and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1920s through the 1950s, the center of black social and business life in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the area known as Vinegar Hill. But in 1960, noting the prevalence of aging frame houses and "substandard" conditions such as outdoor toilets, voters decided that Vinegar Hill would be redeveloped. Charlottesville's black residents lost a cultural center, largely because they were deprived of a voice in government. Vinegar Hill's displaced residents discuss the loss of homes and businesses and the impact of the project on black life in Charlottesville. The interviews raise questions about motivations behind urban renewal.

Book The Battle of Vinegar Hill 1804

Download or read book The Battle of Vinegar Hill 1804 written by Lynette Ramsay Silver and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Vinegar Hill is the story of botched mini-rebellions, failed escape attempts, mutiny, wild rumours, conspiracies, betrayals, and personal tragedy. In this book, the author reveals the lives of the key rebels and their enemies against a background of Irish politics in the colonial period.

Book Sig Byrd s Houston

Download or read book Sig Byrd s Houston written by Sigman Byrd and published by Viking. This book was released on 1955 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very funny book. The marvelous stories it tells with such economy and force could be the basis for many novels, motion pictures and folk song.

Book In the Streets of Vinegar Hill

Download or read book In the Streets of Vinegar Hill written by William A. James (Sr.) and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an African American man reports seeing a University of Virginia student murdered by hoodlums from the Vinegar Hill area, he watches as the city demolishes the entire Vinegar Hill area in retaliation for the murder.

Book Vinegar Girl

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  • Author : Anne Tyler
  • Publisher : Hogarth
  • Release : 2016-06-21
  • ISBN : 0804141274
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Vinegar Girl written by Anne Tyler and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies. Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she’s always in trouble at work – her pre-school charges adore her, but their parents don’t always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. Dr. Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research could help millions. There’s only one problem: his brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr, all would be lost. When Dr. Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, he’s relying – as usual – on Kate to help him. Kate is furious: this time he’s really asking too much. But will she be able to resist the two men’s touchingly ludicrous campaign to bring her around?

Book Amazing Apple Cider Vinegar

Download or read book Amazing Apple Cider Vinegar written by Earl Mindell and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1998-12-02 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You knew vinegar was good for dressing up a salad and for making glass sparkle, but you're about to learn a whole lot more about this miraculous liquid.

Book The Meat Hook Meat Book

Download or read book The Meat Hook Meat Book written by Tom Mylan and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buying large, unbutchered pieces of meat from a local farm or butcher shop means knowing where and how your food was raised, and getting meat that is more reasonably priced. It means getting what you want, not just what a grocery store puts out for sale—and tailoring your cuts to what you want to cook, not the other way around. For the average cook ready to take on the challenge, The Meat Hook Meat Book is the perfect guide: equal parts cookbook and butchering handbook, it will open readers up to a whole new world—start by cutting up a chicken, and soon you’ll be breaking down an entire pig, creating your own custom burger blends, and throwing a legendary barbecue (hint: it will include The Man Steak—the be-all and end-all of grilling one-upmanship—and a cooler full of ice-cold cheap beer). This first cookbook from meat maven Tom Mylan, co-owner of The Meat Hook, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is filled with more than 60 recipes and hundreds of photographs and clever illustrations to make the average cook a butchering enthusiast. With stories that capture the Meat Hook experience, even those who haven’t shopped there will become fans.

Book When Brooklyn Was Queer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hugh Ryan
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2019-03-05
  • ISBN : 1250169925
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book When Brooklyn Was Queer written by Hugh Ryan and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The never-before-told story of Brooklyn’s vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day. ***An ALA GLBT Round Table Over the Rainbow 2019 Top Ten Selection*** ***NAMED ONE OF THE BEST LGBTQ BOOKS OF 2019 by Harper's Bazaar*** "A romantic, exquisite history of gay culture." —Kirkus Reviews, starred “[A] boisterous, motley new history...entertaining and insightful.” —The New York Times Book Review Hugh Ryan’s When Brooklyn Was Queer is a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the queer women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond. No other book, movie, or exhibition has ever told this sweeping story. Not only has Brooklyn always lived in the shadow of queer Manhattan neighborhoods like Greenwich Village and Harlem, but there has also been a systematic erasure of its queer history—a great forgetting. Ryan is here to unearth that history for the first time. In intimate, evocative, moving prose he discusses in new light the fundamental questions of what history is, who tells it, and how we can only make sense of ourselves through its retelling; and shows how the formation of the Brooklyn we know today is inextricably linked to the stories of the incredible people who created its diverse neighborhoods and cultures. Through them, When Brooklyn Was Queer brings Brooklyn’s queer past to life, and claims its place as a modern classic.

Book Dr  Earl Mindell s Amazing Apple Cider Vinegar

Download or read book Dr Earl Mindell s Amazing Apple Cider Vinegar written by Earl Mindell and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2002-08-05 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long championed by folk medicine as one of nature's great healing agents, apple cider vinegar has been shown to help regulate blood pressure, fight infections, relieve arthritis pain, promote digestion, and even prevent dandruff! Written by a bestselling health author, Dr. Earl Mindell's Amazing Apple Cider Vinegar explains everything the pungent tonic can do and how you can make full use of it. The book provides documented evidence of the many benefits of making it part of a healthy diet along with numerous recipes and directions on how to make a batch of homemade apple cider and apple cider vinegar.

Book Worn

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sofi Thanhauser
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2022-01-25
  • ISBN : 1524748404
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Worn written by Sofi Thanhauser and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it is made of—an unparalleled deep-dive into how everyday garments have transformed our lives, our societies, and our planet. “We learn that, if we were a bit more curious about our clothes, they would offer us rich, interesting and often surprising insights into human history...a deep and sustained inquiry into the origins of what we wear, and what we have worn for the past 500 years." —The Washington Post In this panoramic social history, Sofi Thanhauser brilliantly tells five stories—Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool—about the clothes we wear and where they come from, illuminating our world in unexpected ways. She takes us from the opulent court of Louis XIV to the labor camps in modern-day Chinese-occupied Xinjiang. We see how textiles were once dyed with lichen, shells, bark, saffron, and beetles, displaying distinctive regional weaves and knits, and how the modern Western garment industry has refashioned our attire into the homogenous and disposable uniforms popularized by fast-fashion brands. Thanhauser makes clear how the clothing industry has become one of the planet’s worst polluters and how it relies on chronically underpaid and exploited laborers. But she also shows us how micro-communities, textile companies, and clothing makers in every corner of the world are rediscovering ancestral and ethical methods for making what we wear. Drawn from years of intensive research and reporting from around the world, and brimming with fascinating stories, Worn reveals to us that our clothing comes not just from the countries listed on the tags or ready-made from our factories. It comes, as well, from deep in our histories.

Book Vinegar   Char

    Book Details:
  • Author : John T. Edge
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 0820354295
  • Pages : 129 pages

Download or read book Vinegar Char written by John T. Edge and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yes, there is barbecue, but that's just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering. The roster of contributors includes Natasha Trethewey, Robert Morgan, Atsuro Riley, Adrienne Su, Richard Blanco, Ed Madden, Nikky Finney, Frank X Walker, Sheryl St. Germain, Molly McCully Brown, and forty-five more. These poets represent past, current, and future conversations about what it means to be southern. Throughout the anthology, region is layered with race, class, sexuality, and other shaping identities. With an introduction by Sandra Beasley, a thought-provoking foreword by W. Ralph Eubanks, and luminous original artwork by Julie Sola, this collection is an ideal gift. Meant to be savored slowly or devoured at once, these pages are a perfect way to spend the hour before supper, with a glass of iced tea-or the hour after, with a pour of bourbon-and a fitting celebration of the SFA's focus and community.

Book From Hollywood with Love

Download or read book From Hollywood with Love written by Scott Meslow and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy’s modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the ’80s and the ’90s, its unfortunate decline in the 2000s, and its explosive reemergence in the age of streaming, featuring exclusive interviews with the directors, writers, and stars of the iconic films that defined the genre. No Hollywood genre has been more misunderstood—or more unfairly under-appreciated—than the romantic comedy. Funny, charming, and reliably crowd-pleasing, rom-coms were the essential backbone of the Hollywood landscape, launching the careers of many of Hollywood’s most talented actors and filmmakers, such as Julia Roberts and Matthew McConaughey, and providing many of the yet limited creative opportunities women had in Hollywood. But despite—or perhaps because of—all that, the rom-com has routinely been overlooked by the Academy Awards or snobbishly dismissed by critics. In From Hollywood with Love, culture writer and GQ contributor Scott Meslow seeks to right this wrong, celebrating and analyzing rom-coms with the appreciative, insightful critical lens they’ve always deserved. Beginning with the golden era of the romantic comedy—spanning from the late ’80s to the mid-’00s with the breakthrough of films such as When Harry Met Sally—to the rise of streaming and the long-overdue push for diversity setting the course for films such as the groundbreaking, franchise-spawning Crazy Rich Asians, Meslow examines the evolution of the genre through its many iterations, from its establishment of new tropes, the Austen and Shakespeare rewrites, the many love triangles, and even the occasional brave decision to do away with the happily ever after. Featuring original black-and-white sketches of iconic movie scenes and exclusive interviews with the actors and filmmakers behind our most beloved rom-coms, From Hollywood with Love constructs oral histories of our most celebrated romantic comedies, for an informed and entertaining look at Hollywood’s beloved yet most under-appreciated genre.

Book Here Comes Mother Goose

Download or read book Here Comes Mother Goose written by Iona Archibald Opie and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 1999-10-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents more than sixty traditional nursery rhymes, including "Old Mother Hubbard, " "I'm a Little Teapot, " and "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, " accompanied by illustrations of various animals.

Book Vinegar Hill 1963

Download or read book Vinegar Hill 1963 written by Scot French and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: