Bits And Pieces Of Way Back When

Author : Joan Ostrander
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440110263
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bits and Pieces of Way Back When written by Joan Ostrander and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major world events played a large role in shaping the full lives of authors Joan and Ivan Ostrander. In Bits and Pieces of Way Back When, they describe how they lived, how they pictured the world, and how those times contributed to who they are today. Reminisce over their plethora of fascinating events, as they tell unique stories of growing up during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, Ivan being deployed to the South Pacific as a radio-gunner on a B-24 bomber and Joan to Europe during World War II, serving in the Army Nurse Corps, and raising five children during the Cold War era. The stories include tales of marriage, rearing a family, managing a career, and enjoying the retirement years. Eventful and sometimes tragic and complex, this compilation of events and observations that span the years were penned by two octogenarians with good memories. This memoir encompasses a large volume of history that should not be forgotten.

Author : Sarah Cart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1637632525
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On My Way Back to You written by Sarah Cart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Cart’s On My Way Back to You is a first-hand account of the rollercoaster world of lifesaving transplants and the unimaginable challenges Sarah faced as she struggled to manage her husband’s devastating illness and to save his life, their marriage, and her own sanity. Throughout her 42-year marriage, writer Sarah Cart has enjoyed a life of “gloriously controlled chaos,” as she and her husband Ben, a successful entrepreneur and seasoned outdoorsman, embarked on numerous adventures with their four active sons. Then the unthinkable happened. In suspenseful and heartrending detail, Cart shares how Ben developed an incurable autoimmune condition that was manageable and under control one minute and threatened to kill him the next, landing him in the ICU as the Covid pandemic closed the world down. Thrust into the role of nurse and caregiver, Sarah joined the ranks of 39 million Americans who champion and care for an ailing loved one. In addition to confronting doubts, fears, and endless setbacks, aggravations, and red tape, she also had to consent to daunting procedures on Ben’s behalf. Too, there were the months-long Covid-era restrictions on hospital visitations and the post-surgery snafus with home healthcare personnel. Thank goodness for the heartfelt communiques with family and friends, all of which reflect the faith, fortitude, grit, and grace that sustained her. While readers will identify with Sarah’s anxieties and be moved by hers and Ben’s strength, they will also learn the questions to ask, the notes to take, the signs to never overlook, and the self-care necessary should they ever find themselves in her shoes. On My Way Back to You is a profoundly inspirational account of one couple’s medical odyssey and the patience, determination, and love that ultimately helped them find their way back to one another.

Author : Kenneth B. McAlpine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190496096
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bits and Pieces written by Kenneth B. McAlpine and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bits and Pieces tells the story of chiptune, a style of lo-fi electronic music that emerged from the first generation of video game consoles and home computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Through ingenuity and invention, musicians and programmers developed code that enabled the limited hardware of those early 8-bit machines to perform musical feats that they were never designed to achieve. In time, that combination of hardware and creative code came to define a unique 8-bit sound that imprinted itself on a generation of gamers. For a new generation of musicians, this music has currency through the chipscene, a vibrant musical subculture that repurposes obsolete gaming hardware. It's performative: raw and edgy, loaded with authenticity and driven by a strong DIY ethic. It's more punk than Pac-Man, and yet, it's part of that same story of ingenuity and invention; 8-bit hardware is no longer a retired gaming console, but a quirky and characterful musical instrument. Taking these consoles to the stage, musicians fuse 8-bit sounds with other musical styles - drum'n'bass, jungle, techno and house - to create a unique contemporary sound. Analyzing musical structures and technological methods used with chiptune, Bits and Pieces traces the simple beeps of the earliest arcade games, through the murky shadows of the digital underground, to global festivals and movie soundtracks.

Author : Charissa Dufour
Publisher : Charissa Dufour
ISBN 13 : 0463433823
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bits and Pieces written by Charissa Dufour and published by Charissa Dufour. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When are we accountable for our actions? When we know the difference between right and wrong? When we are free enough to act upon that knowledge? Bit struggles when she faces her first chance to decide for herself between what is right and what she wants. At the same time, Jack fights to unify the old crew of the Lenore with the new men and women of the Caprice all while under the looming deadline of a population growing without a place to settle. If Bit can stay out of trouble, and if Jack can build a team, they will soon race toward distant stars in search of a new home for the ever-growing human race.

Author : Christine Emmerich
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465315101
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Willing My Way Back written by Christine Emmerich and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-06-02 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two years of gathering essential information from my family, friends, speech therapist and others, I was finally able to piece together a puzzle of a few confusing months in my life. I only remembered bits and pieces of what happened. I needed the support and recollection of my loved ones to help me better understand it, in order to allow myself closure on such a tragic ordeal. In some ways, I could relate my experience to Humpty Dumpty, as if I had fallen, broken apart and needed help being put back together again. Willing My Way Back is a non-fiction story based on my experiences of enduring brain surgery, in my early 20s, and the full recovery process as I understood it as well as how others observed it through their own eyes. Willing My Way Back has received compliments from individuals who have already had the opportunity to read it. Some examples include "inspirational", "easy to read", "flows smoothly", "should be a resource available at the hospital for parents to read", and "I learned a lot about you". I too have learned a lot about myself throughout the past two years including accomplishments I never imagined I would complete, such as writing this book. I look forward to fulfilling more noteworthy accomplishments throughout my life and I hope others will appreciate them as much as they have appreciated the written words of Willing My Way Back.

Author : Marilyn DeMars
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595291724
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Way Back written by Marilyn DeMars and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jody gets a tip as to the whereabouts of her long-lost brother, Don. Ever since he took off eight years ago, when he was nineteen and she fourteen, she's missed him and worried about him incessantly. Finding him now and bringing him back to their home in Winona, Minnesota becomes her obsession. She persuades her boss, Elliot, to take a break from his failing motel business and go with her on the up-north trip. Due to some unexpected circumstances, a simple plan turns desperate and crazy. Returning home does not prove to be everyone's solace. Besides the brother and sister each having a nagging past that won't leave them alone, and an uncertain future to face, Jody struggles to reestablish their once close sibling relationship. Unusual obstacles work in strange ways toward keeping all of them, Jody, Don, and Elliot, searching for resolutions toward stable and meaningful lives.

Author : Hugo Pinksterboer
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781423465270
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tipbook Trumpet and Trombone, Flugelhorn and Cornet written by Hugo Pinksterboer and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces trumpets, trombones, flugelhorns, and cornets, offers advice on purchasing an instrument, demonstrates fingering patterns, and defines jargon.

Author : David Malouf
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307483215
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Stories written by David Malouf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunning collection, internationally acclaimed writer David Malouf gives us bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse. These are their stories, whole lives brought dramatically into focus and powerfully rooted in the vividly rendered landscape of the vast Australian continent. Malouf writes about men and women looking for something they seem to have missed, or missed out on, puzzling over not only their own lives but also the place they have come to occupy in the lives of others. This single volume gathers both a new collection of Malouf's short fiction, Every Move You Make, and all of his previously published stories.

Author : Hugo Pinksterboer
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1423465245
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tipbook Clarinet written by Hugo Pinksterboer and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The complete guide to your instrument!"--Cover.

Author : Patricia Joy MacKay
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 1927527376
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drugstore Cowgirl written by Patricia Joy MacKay and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1964, Patricia MacKay immigrated to Canada from England in search of the wild-open lands and cowboy culture that captivated her as a child. In the 1960s, the Wild West was still alive and kicking in the Cariboo-Chilcotin, although it had been tamed--a little. Old-time hospitality and helping anyone in need was the acknowledged way of life. Pat learned the Cariboo-Chilcotin way of life first hand by spending her summers working on guest ranches and finding other jobs to keep her occupied during the winter. From learning how to cook on the job to kitchen disasters and successes, roundups, branding, square dances and falling in love, she slowly gained acceptance into the tight-knit communities of BC's Interior. Ranching meant long hours, hard work, and a lifestyle all its own. Entertainment was homemade. There were rodeos, dances, and music around campfires in the summer and ice hockey, tobogganing, and parties in the winter. Sadly, that way of life is gradually disappearing, but this book relives the way things were between 1964 and 1976; it tells of a unique brand of people from a variety of backgrounds who made this part of the west their home.