Download or read book Letters Home written by Sylvia Plath and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters Home represents Sylvia Plath's correspondence from her time at Smith College in the early 1950s, through her meeting with, and subsequent marriage to, the poet Ted Hughes, up to her death in February 1963. The letters are addressed mainly to her mother, with whom she had an extremely close and confiding relationship, but there are also some to her brother Warren and her benefactress Mrs Prouty. Plath's energy, enthusiasm and her passionate tackling of life burst onto these pages, providing us with a vivid and intimate portrait of a woman who has come to be regarded as one of the greatest of twentieth-century poets. In addition to her capacity for domestic and writerly happiness, however, these letters also hint at Plath's potential for deep despair, which reached its crisis when she holed up in a London flat for the terrible winter of 1963.

Download or read book Letters Home written by Fergal Keane and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up to Letters to Daniel, this collection of pieces is largely taken from Fergal Keane's broadcasts and columns from some of the most horrific warzones he has visited in 1999: Sierra Leone, Kosovo and Rwanda.

Download or read book Letters Home written by Jennifer Wong and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters Home, Jennifer Wong's remarkable and vivid third collection of poems, unravels the complexities of being between nations, languages and cultures. Travelling across multiple borders of history and place, these poems examine what it means to be returning home, and whether it is a return to a location, a country or to a shared dream or language. "There are poems of homesickness, nostalgia, but also humour, hope and optimism - all depicted in Wong's distinctive, intelligent style... This is a remarkable collection, which makes a new and bold contribution to the genre of diaspora literature." - Hannah Lowe "Jennifer Wong's voice is captivating, compassionate, her poems full of insight, as she questions the complex relationship between culture and identity and what it means to leave a place to become defined by another." - Rebecca Goss

Download or read book Letters from Home written by Kryon (Spirit) and published by Kryon. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last book before the new millennium, and the entire subject is change. Letters From Home talks about who we are, explaining the big picture and the meaning of life.

Download or read book Letters Home written by Ary Vreeken and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1999 Ary Vreeken accepted a position as an International Development Worker for a project in Niger, with a Canadian church group. With extensive experience in both agriculture and community development in Canada and West Africa, his mission was to work with a local association of Nigerièn Christians seeking ways to improve food security in the region. Told with great insight, compassion, and wit, Letters Home: Pictures from Niger is a fascinating collection of short “vignettes” based on letters sent to family back in Canada during the seven years the author, his wife, Joanna, and their four children lived in Niamey, Niger’s capital city. These vignettes—in turn, heartfelt, informative, funny, and poignant—touch upon everything from agricultural innovation and dust storms to the author’s relationship with his Nigerièn colleagues, and from the unending challenge of learning French and local languages to a Kafkaesque saga of repairing a washing machine. The experience of cross-cultural living led to the internalization of new norms and values and a very different, and much deeper, understanding of both foreign aid and the true meaning of spirituality.

Download or read book Letters Home written by Charlotte E. Thompson, M.D. and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005-06-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm, loving glimpse into the lives and journeys of a divorced mother and her two children. Letters, poetry and drawings.

Download or read book Letters Home written by Maggie Stephens-Dykes and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters Home is the heart tugging second rendition of Maggies plight to find inner peace. This installment focuses on how she believes her mothers alcoholism shaped the lives of her siblings, both individually and collectively. The cleverly written story intermingles, thoughtful observations, with humorous stories of over coming insurmountable odds. The author discusses the strong bond of siblinghood, how it was strengthened while battling the scars that the addiction left behind, and letting go of the past. This second hand account will have booklovers of all ages and races, laughing out loud one moment, and crying the next. From the beginning of the book to the final sentence, it will ultimately leave readers with a different outlook on life, love of family, and forgiveness.

Download or read book Letters Home written by Harold M. Coons and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters from Harold M. Coons to his mother during his training and service with the U.S. Army's 66th Division.

Download or read book Letters Home written by Charlton G. Holland Jr. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-09-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At some point in WWII, the Armed Forces of the United States realized that many citizens drafted were mentally unfit for service. So, Dr. Charlton Gilmore Holland, Jr. (“Gilly”), a young assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia, was drafted into the Army. He was sent to Australia, New Guinea, and finally to the Philippines. His assignment was to determine whether soldiers were mentally fit for combat either by the use of traditional psychiatric interviews or through the use of an electrocardiogram. He also practiced general medicine. He wrote letters home to his wife Louise and son as frequently as he could, about his patients, working as a physician under combat conditions, and dealing with his colleagues and the Army bureaucracy. A must read for those interested in the war in the South Pacific. “I noticed the Filipinos on the shore seemed to be waving to us just before we beached in the shallow water. I looked a second time, and knew they were warning us to get low in the Alligator. Just after I dropped below the sides of the Alligator and looked up, I saw this infantryman’s shirt turn red at his left shoulder, and I heard the spatter of machine gun bullets hitting the sides of the Alligator. We pulled on shore in the lee of a small hillock, I removed the ammo while ducking bullets.”

Download or read book Letters to Parents in Reading written by Anthony D. Fredericks and published by Good Year Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educational resource for teachers, parents and kids!

Download or read book Letters Home from Stanford written by Alison Carpenter Davis and published by . This book was released on 2024-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters Home from Stanford, a collection of the hand-written and electronic correspondence of generations of Stanford students, recalls the common human experience of breaking out and trying to find our way as we observe the world around us and look over a shoulder toward home. From first letters home freshman year and firsthand accounts of historical events, to questions about self and questions about laundry, these letters, emails, and texts evoke a sense of the heritage, history, and shared experience common to college students everywhere, and Stanford students in particular. Walk the Quad with Lucy, member of the pioneer Class, who headed west to Stanford in 1891, and Laine, feisty member of the Class of 2016. Live history as Hope celebrates the end of World War I, throw snowballs in the Quad with Elaine in 1962, celebrate with Burnham when he makes the newspaper staff on his second try in 1923, root for the Cardinal-er, Trees?-at yet another Big Game, name the year. From desks, benches, and patches of grass across campus and the decades, Stanford's students challenge, engage, and inspire you-just like the gang back in the dorm. One person's correspondence tells one Stanford story. Together, they tell all of ours.

Download or read book Dear America written by Bernard Edelman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-06-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 25 years after the official end of the Vietnam War, "Dear America" allows readers to witness the war firsthand through the eyes of the men and women who served there. Excerpt in "Time" magazine.

Download or read book A Southern Soldier s Letters Home written by Samuel Augustus Burney and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel A. Burney, born in April 1840, was the son of Thomas Jefferson Burney and Julia Shields Burney. He graduated from Mercer University (then at Penfield, Georgia) in 1860. He joined the Panola Guards, an infantry component of Thomas R. R. Cobb's Georgia Legion, in July 1861. For the next four years he served in the Army of Northern Virginia both in Virginia and in Tennessee. Burney was wounded at Chancellorsville in May 1863, and as a result of his wound he was placed in disability in March 1864 and served the remainder of the war on commissary duty in southwest Georgia. After the war, Burney returned to Mercer's school of theology, was ordained into the Baptist ministry, and served as pastor of several churches in Morgan County. He was pastor of the Madison Baptist Church until shortly before his death in 1896. These letters of a college graduate written to his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Shepherd Burney are lyrical and beautifully written. Burney describes battles, camp life, theology, and the day-to-day dreariness of life in the army. This is an astounding collection of letters for anyone interested in the Civil War, or the South.

Download or read book The Girl in the Letter A home for unwed mothers a heartbreaking secret in this historical fiction bestseller inspired by true events written by Emily Gunnis and published by Review. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD*** 'I was gripped . . . compelling, twisty, heart-wrenching and thought-provoking. A novel that stays with you' SOPHIE KINSELLA, Sunday Times bestselling author A heartbreaking letter. A girl locked away. A mystery to be solved. 1956. When Ivy Jenkins falls pregnant she is sent in disgrace to St Margaret's, a dark, brooding house for unmarried mothers. Her baby is adopted against her will. Ivy will never leave. Present day. Samantha Harper is a journalist desperate for a break. When she stumbles on a letter from the past, the contents shock and move her. The letter is from a young mother, begging to be rescued from St Margaret's. Before it is too late. Sam is pulled into the tragic story and discovers a spate of unexplained deaths surrounding the woman and her child. With St Margaret's set for demolition, Sam has only hours to piece together a sixty-year-old mystery before the truth, which lies disturbingly close to home, is lost for ever... Read her letter. Remember her story... Perfect for fans of Philomena and Kathryn Hughes, this gripping novel of long-buried secrets, inspired by a true story, will stay with you for ever. ----- Emily Gunnis's books have captured the hearts of your favourite authors: 'A great book, truly hard to put down. Fast paced, brilliantly plotted and desperately sad at times - all hallmarks of a bestseller' LESLEY PEARSE 'Utterly gripping, taut and powerful. An emotionally charged, compulsive, moving novel' ADELE PARKS 'Captivating and suspenseful' JESSICA FELLOWES 'A truly brilliant and moving read. I loved it' KAREN HAMILTON 'What a heartfelt emotional story, made even more so because it's based on a shocking truth. I raced through it, involved, moved and gripped' FANNY BLAKE Readers ADORE The Girl in the Letter: 'A moving page turner' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'If I could give it more than 5 stars I would' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'One of the most amazing books I have read in a long while' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'This book felt almost like I could be reading a genuine life story . . . a captivating read' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'This book made me cry . . . so well written and the research is spot on' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Couldn't put it down' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Please read this book, it will resonate with you for a long time!' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ THE GIRLS LEFT BEHIND, THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM EMILY GUNNIS, IS OUT NOW

Download or read book Letters from Eden written by Julie Zickefoose and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A frequent commentator for NPR's "All Things Considered," Zickefoose now presents paintings of scenes from her beloved southern Ohio home, illuminated in well-crafted essays based on her daily walks and observations.

Download or read book Letters from Vladivostock 1894 1930 written by Eleanor L. Pray and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1894, Eleanor L. Pray left her New England home to move with her merchant husband to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. Over the next thirty-six years — from the time of Tsar Alexander III to the early years of Stalin’s rule — she wrote more than 2,000 letters chronicling her family life and the tumultuous social and political events she witnessed. Vladivostok, 5,600 miles east of Moscow, was shaped by a rich intersection of Asian cultures, and Pray’s witty and observant writing paints a vivid picture of the city and its denizens during a period of momentous social change. The book offers highlights from Pray’s letters along with illuminating historical and biographical information.

Download or read book Letters to the House Church Movement written by Rad Zdero and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real Letters. Real People. Real Issues.God is raising up the simple, organic, house church movement. And this book gives you, for the first time, a real-life inside look at the controversies, struggles, victories, and personalities emerging from within this revolution. This book is a collection of real letters to real people facing real issues. These letters challenge, persuade, and encourage. They address theological issues and practical problems. They were sent to friends, acquaintances, strangers, radicals, and critics. This book will not just satisfy your curiosity about today's house church movement, but it will propel you to complete the task to which Jesus Christ has called you."Rad is one of those that has taken the time to... give us all a sort of house church FAQ that unzips and unpacks the current revolution and makes it more tangible than ever."Wolfgang SimsonAuthor of Houses that Change the World"Rad Zdero has labored to usher in a new/old paradigm in church life... a courageous, candid, and vulnerable publication of the letters that have chronicled his journey... an important work..."David Garrison, Ph.D.Author of Church Planting Movements"I am thrilled that Rad Zdero has released this series of insightful letters into book form... a timely, biblical, poignant yet gracious response to real-life concerns... Highly recommended!"Andrew JonesBlogger and founder, Boaz ProjectRAD ZDERO has a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has been involved in the house church and small group movement since 1985. Rad is the author of The Global House Church Movement. He is also the editor of Nexus: The World House Church Movement Reader and The Starfish Files house church magazine. Rad lives just outside Toronto, Canada.