Author: Fred S. Losch Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1462099807 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 179
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Growing up in war-torn Germany, spending over two years in a Russian prison camp can ruin a life or make it stronger. Fred Losch chose to become a stronger person and to make the most of his life. Fred left his homeland, became an American citizen, traveled the world, learned new things daily, and loved his family. He wrote the words of his life so that others might see the misery of war and strive toward understanding and cooperation.
Author: Sonya Huber Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0803216238 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 381
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It had come to this: breastfeeding her screaming three-month-old while sitting on the cigarette-scarred floor of a union hall, lying to her husband so she could attend yet another activist meeting, and otherwise actively self-destructing. Then Sonya Huber turned to her long-dead grandfather, the family nobody, for help. Huber s search for meaning and resonance in the life of her grandfather Heina Buschman was unusual insofar as she knew him only through dismissive family stories: He let his wife die of neglect . . . he used his infant son as a decoy when transporting anti-Nazi literature in a baby carriage . . . and so the stories went. What she actually discovered was that, like his granddaughter, Heina Buschman was a committed and beleaguered activist whose story echoed her own. Huber s research not only conjured her grandfather s voice in answer to many of the questions that troubled her but also found in his story a source of personal sustenance for herself. Based on extensive research and documentation, this story of Heina Buschman offers a rare look into the heart of the average socialist trying to survive the Nazis and rebuild a broken world. Alternating with his voice is Huber s own, providing a rich and moving counterpoint that makes this deeply personal exploration of family, politics, and individual responsibility a story for all of us and for all time.
Author: Opa Don Publisher: BookCountry ISBN: 1463007264 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 179
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If you are looking for terrifying tales that will have you waking up screaming from nightmares; keep looking. I’m not Stephen King, I’m just a kindly old grandfather who doesn’t dabble much in the macabre. But, if you want interesting stories which are entertaining and engaging, read on. These stories are about people interacting with other people but in these stories the people also happen to be; vampires, witches, werewolves, angels, demons and a monster I invented for this collection of stories called a slurker. What do you do if you are becoming a monster? Do you embrace it like Theo and Dustin or resist it like LaRue? What do you do if you encounter a monster? Do you attack like Miss Grant or negotiate like Father O’Shea? Maybe you would call in outside help like Scoop, Zack and Timmy did. Find out how the characters in my stories handled their monsters in these seven stories. Happy reading, Opa Don
Author: Marijane Osborn Publisher: Broadview Press ISBN: 1770482024 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 264
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In this book, Marijane Osborn translates into modern English nine lively medieval verse romances, in a form that both reflects the original and makes the romances inviting to a modern audience. All nine tales contain elements of magic: shapeshifters, powerful fairies, trees that are portals to another world, and enchanted clothing and armor. Many of the tales also feature powerful women characters, while others include representations of “Saracens.” The tales address issues of enduring interest and concern, and also address sexuality, agency, and identity formation in unexpected ways.
Author: Monika Arenth Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1469184222 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 128
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It is 1951. Life is getting back to normal in post war Germany. The Economic Miracle under Chancellor Adenauer is in full swing. People have jobs, houses are being built, food stores are replenished and the cold post war hunger years are almost forgotten. A 6 week old baby Monika is placed into the tender care of her grandparents and their extended family, which is functional but not flawless. When she is five years old, just before school begin, the family moves into a new housing development of single family homes above the medieval city of Rotenburg directly across from the towns cemetery. While her life is easy and happy within the shelter of her family, neighbors on the same street are not faring as well. People are disappearing at an alarming rate. Neighbors who joke and laugh across the fences one day , are gone the next. This book shares a look into their lives. It is a 10 year account of love, life and loss, seen through her eyes with an attempt to solve the mystery.
Author: David Syring Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292773552 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 232
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Spring-fed creeks. Old stone houses. Cedar brakes and bleached limestone. The Hill Country holds powerful sway over the imagination of Texans. So many of us dream of having our own little place in the limestone hills. The Hill Country feels just like home, even if you've never lived there. This beautifully written book explores what the Hill Country has meant as a homeplace to the author, his family, and longtime residents of the area, as well as to newcomers. David Syring listens to the stories that his aunts, uncles, and cousins tell about life in the Hill Country and grapples with their meaning for his own search for a place to belong. He also collects short stories focused around Honey Creek Church to consider how places become containers for memory. And he draws upon several years of living in Fredericksburg to talk about the problems and opportunities created by heritage tourism and the development of the town as a "home" for German Americans. These interconnected stories illuminate what it means to belong to a place and why the Texas Hill Country has become the spiritual, if not actual, home of many people.
Author: Meg Jacobs Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400843782 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
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"How much does it cost?" We think of this question as one that preoccupies the nation's shoppers, not its statesmen. But, as Pocketbook Politics dramatically shows, the twentieth-century American polity in fact developed in response to that very consumer concern. In this groundbreaking study, Meg Jacobs demonstrates how pocketbook politics provided the engine for American political conflict throughout the twentieth century. From Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon, national politics turned on public anger over the high cost of living. Beginning with the explosion of prices at the turn of the century, every strike, demonstration, and boycott was, in effect, a protest against rising prices and inadequate income. On one side, a reform coalition of ordinary Americans, mass retailers, and national politicians fought for laws and policies that promoted militant unionism, government price controls, and a Keynesian program of full employment. On the other, small businessmen fiercely resisted this low-price, high-wage agenda that threatened to bankrupt them. This book recaptures this dramatic struggle, beginning with the immigrant Jewish, Irish, and Italian women who flocked to Edward Filene's famous Boston bargain basement that opened in 1909 and ending with the Great Inflation of the 1970s. Pocketbook Politics offers a new interpretation of state power by integrating popular politics and elite policymaking. Unlike most social historians who focus exclusively on consumers at the grass-roots, Jacobs breaks new methodological ground by insisting on the centrality of national politics and the state in the nearly century-long fight to fulfill the American Dream of abundance.
Author: Fred S. Losch
Author: Sonya Huber
Author: Opa Don
Author: James Albert Pike
Author: Marijane Osborn
Author: Monika Arenth
Author: Giovanni (da Legnano)
Author: David Syring
Author: Meg Jacobs
Author: Walter Savage Landor