Author: Paula Lichtarowicz
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448134951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Brilliantly inventive and original. This debut novel tells the story of Calamity Leek: a girl who has never been allowed beyond the garden wall, until now. Lying in her hospital bed, broken, burned and scared, Calamity still believes that Aunty loved her. For as long as she can remember, Calamity, along with her sixteen sisters, lived in a Garden behind the Wall of Safekeeping. Like it said in Aunty's Appendix on the first page of the Ps: 'Everything has a purpose', and they were being trained for a very special one. In the Ns the Appendix said, 'Nosiness leads to nonsense'. As Calamity sees it, this is what led to their Garden's downfall, because when the sisters started questioning what was outside the Wall, they started questioning what was happening inside it too. But doubt is contagious. Watching your world crumble is frightening. And people who are frightened can be dangerous.
The First Book of Calamity Leek
This Great Calamity: The Great Irish Famine
Author: Christime Kinealy
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 0717155552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Great Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. In a country of eight million people, the Famine caused the death of approximately one million, while a similar number were forced to emigrate. The Irish population fell to just over four million by the beginning of the twentieth century. Christine Kinealy's survey is long established as the most complete, scholarly survey of the Great Famine yet produced. First published in 1994, This Great Calamity remains an exhaustive and indefatigable look into the event that defined Ireland as we know it today.
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 0717155552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Great Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. In a country of eight million people, the Famine caused the death of approximately one million, while a similar number were forced to emigrate. The Irish population fell to just over four million by the beginning of the twentieth century. Christine Kinealy's survey is long established as the most complete, scholarly survey of the Great Famine yet produced. First published in 1994, This Great Calamity remains an exhaustive and indefatigable look into the event that defined Ireland as we know it today.
History of the Scandinavians and Successful Scandinavians in the United States
Author: Olof Nickolaus Nelson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scandinavian Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scandinavian Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
The Speeches of the Late Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart
Author: Robert Peel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
The Speeches Delivered in the House of Commons
The Speeches of the Late Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Delivered in the House of Commons
Munsey's Magazine
The Battle for Native Industry. The Debate Upon the Corn Laws, the Corn Importation and Customs'Duties Bills, and the Other Financial Measures of the Government, in Session 1846. Reprinted by Permission, from “Hansard's Parliamentary Debates.” [Edited by A. S. O'B., I.e. Augustus Stafford O'Brien, Afterwards Augustus Stafford.]
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre
Author: Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521564441
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
"This new and updated Guide, with over 2,700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest history to the present. Entries include people, venues and companies scattered through the U.S., plays and musicals, and theatrical phenomena. Additionally, there are some 100 topical entries covering theatre in major U.S. cities and such disparate subjects as Asian American theatre, Chicano theatre, censorship, Filipino American theatre, one-person performances, performance art, and puppetry. Highly illustrated, the Guide is supplemented with a historical survey as introduction, a bibliography of major sources published since the first edition, and a biographical index covering over 3,200 individuals mentioned in the text."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521564441
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
"This new and updated Guide, with over 2,700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest history to the present. Entries include people, venues and companies scattered through the U.S., plays and musicals, and theatrical phenomena. Additionally, there are some 100 topical entries covering theatre in major U.S. cities and such disparate subjects as Asian American theatre, Chicano theatre, censorship, Filipino American theatre, one-person performances, performance art, and puppetry. Highly illustrated, the Guide is supplemented with a historical survey as introduction, a bibliography of major sources published since the first edition, and a biographical index covering over 3,200 individuals mentioned in the text."--BOOK JACKET.