Author: G. T. RidlonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780804807753
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Gordon Family
Author: G. T. RidlonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780804807753
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Green Glass Sea
Author: Ellen KlagesPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 144063713X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father—but no one, not her father nor the military guardians who accompany her, will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secret government program. Over the next few years, Dewey gets to know eminent scientists, starts tinkering with her own mechanical projects, becomes friends with a budding artist who is as much of a misfit as she is—and, all the while, has no idea how the Manhattan Project is about to change the world. This book's fresh prose and fascinating subject are like nothing you've read before.
The Gordon Family
Author: Out of Left Field
Author: Ellen KlagesPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425288609
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A story about the fight for equal rights in America's favorite arena: the baseball field! Every boy in the neighborhood knows Katy Gordon is their best pitcher, even though she's a girl. But when she tries out for Little League, it's a whole different story. Girls are not eligible, period. It is a boy's game and always has been. It's not fair, and Katy's going to fight back. Inspired by what she's learning about civil rights in school, she sets out to prove that she's not the only girl who plays baseball. With the help of friendly librarians and some tenacious research skills, Katy discovers the forgotten history of female ball players. Why does no one know about them? Where are they now? And how can one ten-year-old change people’s minds about what girls can do? Set in 1957—the world of Sputnik and Leave It to Beaver, saddle shoes and "Heartbreak Hotel"—Out of Left Field is both a detailed picture of a fascinating historic period and a timelessly inspiring story about standing up for equality at any age.
The Frank Family that Survived
Author: Gordon F. SanderPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801473722
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
In 1945, after many adventures and appalling vicissitudes, they finally emerged to face the uncertainties of postwar Holland and the promise of the New World. Both a history and a memoir, [the book gives an] account of the war in Holland, the occupation, and the resistance (including the Jewish resistance) to be published for several years. Despite that resistance, and the help of the Dutch citizens who sheltered their Jewish neighbors, most of Dutch Jewry was destroyed.-Back cover.
The Gordon Family
Author: Jacob A. HoffmanWhite Sands, Red Menace
Author: Ellen KlagesPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670062355
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Living with the Gordons in their quite desert town in New Mexico in 1946, Dewey is learning a lot from her science-obsessed adoptive family, but just as she begins to settle in and get comfortable, Dewey's long-lost mother reemerges to take her away from the only stability she has ever really known in her young life. 20,000 first printing.
Gordon Parks
Author: Gordon ParksPublisher:
ISBN: 9783869306025
Category : African American photographers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967 honours the legacy and the work of late iconic artist and photojournalist Gordon Parks, who would have turned 100 on November 30, 2012. The exhibition catalogue is co-published by The Studio Museum in Harlem and The Gordon Parks Foundation and features approximately eighty black and white photographs of the Fontenelle family, whose lives Gordon Parks documented as part of a 1968 Life magazine photo essay. A searing portrait of poverty in the United States, the Fontenelle photographs provide a view of Harlem through the narrative of a specific family at a particular moment in time. Gordon Parks was born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912. An itinerant labourer, he worked as a brothel pianist and railcar porter, among other jobs, before buying a camera at a pawnshop, training himself, and becoming a photographer. In addition to his storied tenures at the Farm Security Administration, the Office of War Information (1941-1945) and Life magazine (1948-1972), Parks was a modern-day Renaissance man who found success as a film director, author and composer. The first African-American director to helm a major motion picture, he popularised the Blaxploitation genre through his film Shaft (1971). He wrote numerous memoirs, novels and books of poetry and received many awards, including the National Medal of Arts and more than fifty honorary degrees. In 1997 the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., mounted his retrospective exhibition "Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks". Parks died in 2006.
Gordon. Our Gordon Family, a Genealogical and Biographical Records
Author: Spencer GordonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780832852497
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Alexander Gordon and His Descendants
Author: Publisher: Picton Press
ISBN: 9780897253888
Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
Alexander Gordon (ca. 1630-1697), a native of Scotland, was captured at the defeat of the Scottish army at the Battle of Worchester, 1651, and deported to New England in 1652 for a period of servitude at Watertown, Massachusetts. He was released from his contract in 1663 and migrated to Exeter, New Hampshire. He married Mary Lysson/Listen there in 1663. They had eight children, 1664-1682. He died at Exeter. Descendants of his sons listed lived in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, Ohio, New York and elsewhere.