Download or read book I Survived Swiss Boarding Schools written by Richard Rene Silvin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era when the world seems to focus on flamboyant superstars, this must-read story reintroduces us to an unusual and nearly extinct class of genuine celebrities. During a long tenure at two very different boarding schools in Switzerland in the 1950's and 1960's, Richard René Silvin rubbed elbows with Elizabeth Taylor, Marlene Dietrich, families such as the Rockefellers, Onassis and Woodwards, as well as royalty from across the globe. But, since all that glitters is definitely not gold, the reader will first be exposed to La Clairière, a tiny school for young boys. It was here that Silvin learned to escape random beatings by the headmaster, and to avoid a pedophile woodcutter. Eventually, Silvin arrived at Le Rosey, then called "the school for kings and princes," where his lack of academic training at La Clairière nearly led to his expulsion. Later, after being branded "a homo," he learned how to stand up to molestation and even to thrive beyond it. Using sport victories, he created a healthy and graceful path to forgiveness and strength. The result is a beguiling story, which creates a figurative "arc to triumph" worth emulating in any of life's challenges.
Download or read book I Survived Swiss Boarding Schools written by Richard Silvin and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era when the world seems to focus on flamboyant superstars, this must-read story reintroduces us to an unusual and nearly extinct class of genuine celebrities. During a long tenure at two very different boarding schools in Switzerland in the 1950's and 1960's, Richard René Silvin rubbed elbows with Elizabeth Taylor, Marlene Dietrich, families such as the Rockefellers, Onassis and Woodwards, as well as royalty from across the globe.But, since all that glitters is definitely not gold, the reader will first be exposed to La Clairière, a tiny school for young boys. It was here that Silvin learned to escape random beatings by the headmaster, and to avoid a pedophile woodcutter. Eventually, Silvin arrived at Le Rosey, then called "the school for kings and princes," where his lack of academic training at La Clairière nearly led to his expulsion. Later, after being branded "a homo," he learned how to stand up to molestation and even to thrive beyond it. Using sport victories, he created a healthy and graceful path to forgiveness and strength. The result is a beguiling story, which creates a figurative "arc to triumph" worth emulating in any of life's challenges.
Download or read book Snowbound in Sweetwater Ranch written by RaeAnne Thayne and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this fan-favorite by New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne, originally published as Intimate Surrender in 2004 After an unbelievable makeover gave her the confidence to strut her stuff at a charity ball, Kate Crosby went from harmless flirt to bedroom vixen. But she wasn't about to let a single night of ohsosultry passion with archenemy Peter Logan become anything more. Of course, she didn't count on seeing their liplock featured in the local paper! Finally able to track the mysterious beauty down to a remote cabin, Peter learns the truth about her identity—and that she is going to have his baby. Unable to stop thinking about Kate since the moment she walked into his life and now snowed in together at her family’s cabin, Peter needs to convince her that their onenight stand should become a forlife stand, before the plows reach the isolated mountain hideaway and Kate leaves for good.
Download or read book The Best of the Best written by Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two years, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández shared the life of what he calls the "Weston School," an elite New England boarding school. Vividly describing the pastoral landscape and graceful buildings, the rich variety of classes and activities, and the official and unofficial rules that define the school, The Best of the Best reveals a small world of deeply ambitious, intensely pressured students. For Gaztambide-Fernández, Weston is daunting yet strikingly bucolic, inspiring but frustratingly incurious, and sometimes - especially for young women - a gilded cage for a gilded age.
Download or read book Defying the Nazis written by Artemis Joukowsky and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official companion to the Ken Burns PBS film. The little-known story of the Sharps, whose rescue missions across Europe during World War II saved the lives of countless Jews, refugees, and political dissidents—for readers of The Zookeeper’s Wife. In 1939, the Reverend Waitstill Sharp, a young Unitarian minister, and his wife, Martha, a social worker, accepted a mission from the American Unitarian Association: they were to leave their home and young children in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and travel to Prague, Czechoslovakia, to help address the mounting refugee crisis. Seventeen ministers had been asked to undertake this mission and had declined; Rev. Sharp was the first to accept the call for volunteers in Europe. Armed with only $40,000, Waitstill and Martha quickly learned the art of spy craft and undertook dangerous rescue and relief missions across war-torn Europe, saving refugees, political dissidents, and Jews on the eve of World War II. After narrowly avoiding the Gestapo themselves, the Sharps returned to Europe in 1940 as representatives of the newly formed Unitarian Service Committee and continued their relief efforts in Vichy France. A fascinating portrait of resistance as told through the story of one courageous couple, Defying the Nazis offers a rare glimpse at high-stakes international relief efforts during WWII and tells the remarkable true story of a couple whose faith and commitment to social justice inspired them to risk their lives to save countless others.
Download or read book And Both Were Young written by Madeleine L'Engle and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philippa is miserable at an all girls' boarding school in Switzerland until she forms a supportive friendship with the mysterious Paul.
Download or read book Admissions written by Kendra James and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sharp-witted and deeply insightful look into the storied world of elite prep schools from the first African-American legacy student to graduate from The Taft School, shedding light from the inside, while giving voice to those on the outside. Kendra James began her professional life selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for select prep schools, her job was persuading students and families to embark on the same perilous journey, attending cutthroat and largely white schools, that she had years earlier as the first African American legacy student at The Taft School. Forced to reflect on her own elite educational experience, she quickly became disillusioned by America's inequitable system. In ADMISSIONS, Kendra looks back at the three years she spent at Taft, from clashes with her lily-white roommate, unlearning the respectability politics she'd been raised, to a horrifying article in the student newspaper that accused Black and Latinxbrown students of being responsible for segregation of campus. She contemplates the benefits of the education she got from Taft, which Kendra credits as playing a role in her career's success, as well as the ways it coddled her--perhaps, she now believes, too much. Through these stories, she deconstructs the lies and half-truths she herself would later tell as an admissions professional, as well as the myths about boarding schools perpetuated by popular culture. With its combination of incisive social critique and uproarious depictions of elite nonsense, ADMISSIONS will resonate with anyone who has ever been The Only One in a room, dealt with racial micro aggressions, or even just suffered with an extreme case of homesickness.
Download or read book McCluskey Boys written by Murton McCluskey and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to be informative, interesting, sometimes humorous, and to demonstrate how a group of young Indian children survived the Federal Government's Board School period. McCluskey describes his boarding school environment and demonstrates how Indian children were able to deal with the education, discipline, food, recreation, culture and other U.S. government efforts to alter their Indian identity.
Download or read book I Survived Prep School written by Christopher A. Young and published by Wrb Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been 60 years or so since I attended Mount House. This is a tale of survival. In spite of the abuse received at Mount House, I went on to "do well" as that phrase is understood by most people. I've done my best to ensure that every detail is true, and I do maintain that my experiences there match this account. The painful memories have stayed with me for my entire life. I will not pretend that everyone who went there had the same experiences as I did, however that does not excuse the treatment that I had, or the lack of supervision over the students. I had a Headmaster who was ill-equipped to deal with children, and children should not have been placed under his care. Specific actions and systems were designed to intimidate and control us, rather than use kindness, he used force and humiliation.
Download or read book And Both Were Young written by Madeleine L'Engle and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philippa is miserable at an all girls' boarding school in Switzerland until she forms a supportive friendship with the mysterious Paul. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins written by Nell Speed and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.
Download or read book Baden Powell written by Tim Jeal and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-11 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R.S.S. Baden-Powell, who founded the Boy Scouts movement in 1908, was a British military hero during the Boer War and an author, actor, artist, spy, sportsman, and female impersonator. In this absorbing and humane account of Baden-Powell’s extraordinary life, Tim Jeal reveals for the first time the complex figure behind the saintly public mask, showing him to be a man of both dazzling talents and crippling secret fears. Reviews of the earlier edition: “Baden-Powell’s life story is as rich and engrossing as any of his memorable campfire yarns . . . a monumental biography.”—Zara Steiner, New York Times Book Review “In an age of good biographies, here is one that deserves to be called great . . . a magnificent book.”—Piers Brendon, Mail on Sunday “Jeal’s Baden-Powell is brave and self-seeking, devious and honorable, a domestic paragon whose repressed homosexuality fired his career, a soldier of genius who ultimately rejected militarism. . . . The story that Tim Jeal has to tell is epic, funny, and touching.”—Philip Oakes, New Statesman “Superb.”—Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books
Download or read book Behind Closed Doors written by Mary Fortier and published by Belleville, Ont. : Epic Press. This book was released on 2002-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Noblesse Oblige written by Richard Ren Silvin and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine being a twice-divorced woman, in her late thirties, of average looks, shunned by wealthy relatives, only to discover the most eligible bachelor in the world cannot live without you. Now imagine being that handsome, charming bachelor, educated to honor tradition and duty, in order to become a perfect King-Emperor and rule over one third of the world. Both of these extraordinary beings had the same secret dream: To breakaway from their apparent destiny and pursue what many thought was a hedonistic life, regardless of the cost and public outrage. So it was that, on December 10, 1936, Britain's new King Edward VIII abdicated his throne to marry Wallis Simpson - "the woman I love" - against the violent objection of the British royal family, the Cabinet and the Church of England. For the following thirty-six years, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor became the King and Queen of international high society. This personal account of their lives refutes history's traditional, often scurrilous portrayal of the iconic yet mysterious couple. It reveals heretofore-unknown details of their private lives, illnesses and very different deaths. Noblesse Oblige is Silvin's fictionalized, intimate description of the duchess' last valiant battle to protect her young protégée while he was running the famous American Hospital of Paris. The detailed memoir sits atop an easily absorbed history of both protagonists as the author rejects historians' claim that the Duchess of Windsor was a ruthless, conniving and superficial woman. Instead he validates Time Magazine's decision to honor her as the first Woman of the Year, of who it has been said "out-Hollywooded Hollywood," while making Greek tragedy seem trivial.
Download or read book Absent Prince written by Una Suseli O'Connell and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do we inherit the psychological as well as the material legacies of our ancestors, the hidden dynamics that influence our relationship patterns, our health and our self-image?Una's heartfelt family memoir, based on her parents' letters and diaries, follows the arc of individual lives between the years 1933 and 1997. Over a four-year period Una travelled in England, Ireland, Switzerland and the United States speaking with people who knew her parents and grandparents. Alongside painful and shameful family secrets, she discovered stories of great emotional courage, resilience and abiding love.
Download or read book Knock Wood written by Candice Bergen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published by Linden Press in 1984.
Download or read book Waking Nightmare written by Alicia Scott and published by Harlequin Books. This book was released on 1994-06-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waking Nightmare by Alicia Scott released on Jun 24, 1994 is available now for purchase.
