Author: Rod Campbell Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books ISBN: 9781447261551 Category : Christmas stories Languages : en Pages : 20
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A letter to Santa starts off a merry chain of gift-wrapping, but nothing is quite right and each time Santa thinks better of his choice. Lift the flaps to unwrap each present and find out what Santa chooses as the perfect present in the end!
Author: Carolyn Hart Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780425198827 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 276
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WINNER OF THE AGATHA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL “Bittersweet...Set in a small-town America that lives only in memory, this artfully narrated whodunit observes the residents of an unnamed Oklahoma hamlet over the hot and dusty summer of 1944 as they ration their food, count their war dead and turn on their neighbors.”—TheNew York Times Book Review World-renowned journalist G.G. Gilman does her best not to think of the past. But one day she gets a letter—sent from the small Oklahoma town where she grew up—that brings it all back. Memories of people she had once known and loved dearly—and of the sultry summer when her life changed forever...
Author: Dankwart Koehler Publisher: BookPros, LLC ISBN: 1934454419 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 346
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Growing up in the 1930s, Dankwart Koehler was a typical German boy. But his youth came to an abrupt halt with the advent of World War II. He served as a German soldier, eventually becoming a prisoner of war. Koehler tells his story¿from working as a lumberjack while a POW to building a home in the American suburbs.
Author: Valgene Dunham Publisher: Syracuse University Press ISBN: 0815652054 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 282
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On September 7, 1864, William Whitlock, aged thirty-five, left his wife and four children in Allegany, New York, to join the Union army in battle. More than 100 years later, his unpublished letters to his wife were found in the attic of a family home. These letters serve as the foundation for Allegany to Appomattox, giving readers a vivid glimpse into the environment and political atmosphere that surrounded the Civil War from the perspective of a northern farmer and lumberman. Whitlock’s observations tell of exhausting marches, limited rations, and grueling combat. In plainspoken language, the letters also reveal a desperate homesickness, consistently expressing concern for the family’s health and financial situation and requesting news from home. Dunham’s detailed descriptions of the war’s progress and specific battles provide a rich context for Whitlock’s letters, orienting readers to both the broad narrative of the Civil War and the intimate chronicle of one soldier’s impressions.
Author: Katherine Chance Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 059514800X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 262
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“We just filed out and walked in through a door that had a big sign over it which read: "Through these doors pass the future of the United States Army." It gave me goosebumps. Once inside, we lined up in a big room. Thirty or so of us were on the bus. We were told to go single file into the "Amnesty Room" and dump everything we shouldn’t have. It was a long list. It’s almost like we were going to prison.”- from “Letters Home”
Author: Philip Larkin Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571335616 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 671
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Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help tell the story of how Larkin came to be the writer and the man he was: to his father Sydney, a 'conservative anarchist' and admirer of Hitler, who died relatively early in Larkin's life; to his timid depressive mother Eva, who by contrast, lived long, and whose final years were shadowed by dementia; and to his sister Kitty, the sparse surviving fragment of whose correspondence with her brother gives an enigmatic glimpse of a complex and intimate relationship- But it was the years during which he and his sister looked after their mother in particular that shaped the writer we know so well: a number of poems written over this time are for her, and the mood of pain, shadow and despondency that characterises his later verse draws its strength from his experience of the long, lonely years of her senility. One surprising element in the volume, however, is the joie de vivre shown in the large number of witty and engaging drawings of himself and Eva, as 'Young Creature' and 'Old Creature', with which he enlivens his letters throughout the three decades of her widowhood.This important edition, meticulously edited by Larkin's biographer, James Booth, is a key piece of scholarship that completes the portrait of this most cherished of English poets.
Author: Lore Segal Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1497654971 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 255
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With a foreword by Cynthia Ozick, this semiautobiographical novel of a Jewish girl forced away from home in the face of Nazi persecution is an extraordinary tale of fortitude and survival On a December night in 1938, a ten-year-old girl named Lore is put on the Kindertransport, a train carrying hundreds of Jewish children out of Austria to safety from Hitler’s increasingly alarming oppression. Temporarily housed at the Dover Court Camp on England’s east coast, Lore will find herself living in other people’s houses for the next seven years: the Orthodox Levines, the Hoopers, the working-class Grimsleys, and the wealthy Miss Douglas and Mrs. Dillon. Charged with the task of asking “the English people” to get her parents out of Austria, Lore discovers in herself an impassioned writer. In letters to potential sponsors, she details the horrors happening back at home; in those to her parents, she notes the mannerisms and reactions of the new families around her as she valiantly tries to master their language. And the closer the world comes to a new war, the more resolute Lore becomes to survive. As powerful now as when it was first released fifty years ago, Other People’s Houses is a poignant tale about the creation of a new life in the face of hopelessness and fear—a hallmark of the postwar immigration experience.
Author: Thomas Lindholtz Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1312456477 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 245
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A story of World War I from the perspective of, and through letters of Thomas Lindholtz. He went on active duty in April, 1918, and got home in May, 1919. He wrote over 60 letters and postcards home during that time. His letters give a warm and charming insight into his character and relationships. They provide a unique first person account of a world now long gone. It gives a broad brush history of events in Europe, events in America, particularly immigration, and the specific events of immigration and early life to introduce my grandfather and his family. An overview follows of the major events of the war from 1914-18, that would have been headline news in America. The rest of the book is his letters interwoven with the events of life in America and events of the war on a daily basis. It closes with a brief epilogue about the war's effects in Europe and a brief history of my grandfather's life until his death in 1944.
Author: Mary Ward Publisher: Mary Ward ISBN: 9780976017202 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 162
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A memoir of war from a mother's perspective. From the time her son, PFC Sean Ward of the 3rd Infantry Division (mechanized) enlisted in the Army as an infantryman she knew it was how he chose to express his citizenship after 9/11. She shares his letters from basic training through the war. The letters illustrate the evolution of a teenage boy to the maturity of a young man in less than a years time. At the same time she opens the window to her family's heart and soul while life continues for them bringing other issues they must address.
Author: Willa Cather Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0804172277 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 754
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Time Magazine's 10 Top Nonfiction Books of the Year • Willa Cather’s letters—withheld from publication for more than six decades—are finally available to the public in this fascinating selection. The hundreds collected here range from witty reports of life as a teenager in Red Cloud in the 1880s through her college years at the University of Nebraska, her time as a journalist in Pittsburgh and New York, and her growing eminence as a novelist. They describe her many travels and record her last years, when the loss of loved ones and the disasters of World War II brought her near to despair. Above all, they reveal her passionate interest in people, literature, and the arts. The voice is one we recognize from her fiction: confident, elegant, detailed, openhearted, concerned with profound ideas, but also at times sentimental, sarcastic, and funny. A deep pleasure to read, this volume reveals the intimate joys and sorrows of one of America’s most admired writers.
Author: Rod Campbell
Author: Carolyn Hart
Author: Dankwart Koehler
Author: Valgene Dunham
Author: Katherine Chance
Author: Philip Larkin
Author: Lore Segal
Author: Thomas Lindholtz
Author: Mary Ward
Author: Willa Cather