Author: Mirela Gasan Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 164701039X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 155
Book Description
Every time Mirela was asked about her past, over dinner conversation or coffee, people would tell her she should write it all down. Her story is unique and very different to the lives of the circle of friends she has here in the Western world, but for anyone born in Eastern Europe, the events in this book will feel familiar. Her story could be anyone's, but unlike anyone else's life in Eastern Europe, Mirela had the opportunity to leave Romania at a relatively young age. She met many wonderful people along the way that have helped her achieve a new life in the US and to become the woman she is today. This book shows the differences between the two worlds.
Author: David Pietrusza Publisher: Church & Reid Books ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 283
Book Description
A sardonic expedition into a small-town ethnic childhood and post-World War II America—and how to survive Rust Belt hard times. At last . . . a memoir finally worthy of comparison to the uproariously funny fiction of the great Jean Shepherd, author and narrator of the beloved A Christmas Story. Only . . . it’s all true. Sometimes . . . sadly true. Award-winning presidential historian and baseball scholar David Pietrusza’s witty and wise tale of growing up in the 1950s and 60s, Too Long Ago is no Leave It to Beaver or Father Knows Best episode. It’s a unique glimpse into an unjustly ignored and forgotten immigrant experience—Eastern European and devoutly pre-Vatican II Catholic. A tale of a tight-knit Polish community, transplanted from tiny, impoverished Hapsburg-ruled villages to a hardscrabble, hardworking, hard-drinking Upstate New York mill town. It’s how the first rust corroded the Rust Belt, sidetracking dreams but not hope. It’s a lively saga of secrets and hard times, of insanity, of manslaughter and murder, of war and postwar, Depression and Recession, racetracks and religions, books and bar rooms, unforgettable personalities and vastly unpronounceable names, of characters and character, of homelessness, of immigration—first to America and then from Rust Belt to Sun Belt—of vices and virtues, and how a sickly, bookwormish boy who loved history and the presidents finally discovered a national pastime and made it his own. Meet Too Long Ago’s mesmerizing cast of characters: Depression-ravaged Felix and Agnes Marek, Corporal Danny Pietrusza and his wartime adventures, Uncle Tony Lenczewski and his raided saloon, brutal serial-killer Lemuel Smith, the high-kicking weather-prophet “Cousin George” Casabonne, carpet heiress and OSS operative Gertie Sanford, caught behind-enemy-lines Mary Zaklukiewicz, and the homeless (but not hopeless) Uncle Leo Zack. Alternately sharp-edged and warm-hearted—sometimes shocking and always surprising—Too Long Ago is a poignant tour-de-force, a no-stopping-for-breath, coming-of-age narrative, akin to cross-breeding Jean Shepherd’s boisterous A Christmas Story with Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo’s gritty semi-autobiographical novel Mohawk (set mere miles from Too Long Ago) and presenting the genre-bending result in the mesmerizing form of a decidedly non-WASPY rendition of an epic Spalding Gray monolog.
Author: Emily Sinkinson Publisher: ISBN: 9781709119897 Category : Languages : en Pages : 43
Book Description
David is a young boy living with his family and friends. He loves his life and is a happy boy when he and his siblings are suddenly taken away to a residential school for the next few years. The only question is, will David ever find his way back home? Will he ever see his family and friends again? Find out in Not Too Long Ago.
Author: United States. Congress Publisher: ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 1460
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Author: Lulu Rice Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1156
Book Description
Nu Erth is a creature birthed all alone on a world that he knows nothing about, given a quest by a strange voice to name every creature and thing that Nu Erth sees. Nu Erth takes off on adventures to do the quest given to him by this strange voice from a sphere of light. Along with the quest, Nu Erth is also given the ability to use knowledge of any and all magic by the strange voice. Yet Nu Erth must discover what magic is first. Oh, and did we forget to mention that Nu Erth is the only hatchling dragon of his kind on the new world where he is birthed? Being the only hatchling dragon of his kind on this new world, What awaits Nu Erth as he begins his adventures to do the quest given to him by the strange voice from the sphere of light? Does Nu Erth make any friends along his adventures? Does Nu Erth meet other hatchling dragons or even dragons of his own kind? Only Nu Erth Adventures can tell you that and what awaits our hatchling dragon.
Author: Mirela Gasan
Author: David Pietrusza
Author: Emily Sinkinson
Author: Mary Cowden- Clarke
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Author: United States. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Author: Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture and Food
Author: United States. Congress
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Author: Lulu Rice