My Grandfathers House

Author : Robert Clark
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312243142
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Grandfather's House written by Robert Clark and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-10-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Augustine's "Confessions", Robert Clark tells the story of his return to the Catholic Church through the prism of the religious history of his ancestors.

Author : Charles Ritchie
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551996812
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Grandfather's House written by Charles Ritchie and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Charles Ritchie looks back at some of the characters that peopled his childhood and youth, in the years before his brilliant career in Canada’s diplomatic corps began. In these essays we are introduced to his uncles, Harry “Bimbash” Stewart and the dashing, doomed Charlie Stewart; to his indomitable mother; to his mad cousin Gerald; to the newspaper tycoon Lord Beaverbrook; to his college friend Billy Coster, who threw away wealth and a secure future; and to a host of others. With his usual unerring eye and elegant prose, Charles Ritchie brings them all to life again, with affection and wit.

Author : Jon Athan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781986437820
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grandfather's House written by Jon Athan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a prank lands him in serious trouble, Malcolm Hernandez, a sixteen-year-old boy, is shipped off to live with his grandparents while his mother attempts to save him from expulsion and criminal charges. Malcolm believes the stay will be easy-a vacation with milk and cookies and tales from the past. His hopes, however, are shattered when he bumps heads with his grandfather, Ronald O'Donnell-a stern, violent man with a sinister past. Ronald plans on disciplining his grandson in order to 'save' him from himself. He is not afraid of abusing him, either. He will physically, emotionally, and mentally break him. Jon Athan, the author of The Abuse of Ashley Collins, invites you to stay at grandfather's house to witness true human horror. WARNING: This book contains scenes of graphic violence, including violence towards children. This book is about abuse-emotional, physical, and mental. This book does not contain any explicit sex scenes, but it does discuss sexual abuse. This book is not intended for those easily offended or appalled.

Author : Bruce Coville
Publisher : Troll Communications
ISBN 13 : 9780816738052
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Grandfather's House written by Bruce Coville and published by Troll Communications. This book was released on 1997-05 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the child feels the cool, smooth fingers of his dead grandfather, he finally understands that Grandpa no longer lives in the house which was his body.

Author : Sasha Abramsky
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681371138
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Twenty Thousand Books written by Sasha Abramsky and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tender and compellling memoir of the author's grandparents, their literary salon, and a way of life that is no more. The House of Twenty Thousand Books is the story of Chimen Abramsky, an extraordinary polymath and bibliophile who amassed a vast collection of socialist literature and Jewish history. For more than fifty years Chimen and his wife, Miriam, hosted epic gatherings in their house of books that brought together many of the age’s greatest thinkers. The atheist son of one of the century’s most important rabbis, Chimen was born in 1916 near Minsk, spent his early teenage years in Moscow while his father served time in a Siberian labor camp for religious proselytizing, and then immigrated to London, where he discovered the writings of Karl Marx and became involved in left-wing politics. He briefly attended the newly established Hebrew University in Jerusalem, until World War II interrupted his studies. Back in England, he married, and for many years he and Miriam ran a respected Jewish bookshop in London’s East End. When the Nazis invaded Russia in June 1941, Chimen joined the Communist Party, becoming a leading figure in the party’s National Jewish Committee. He remained a member until 1958, when, shockingly late in the day, he finally acknowledged the atrocities committed by Stalin. In middle age, Chimen reinvented himself once more, this time as a liberal thinker, humanist, professor, and manuscripts’ expert for Sotheby’s auction house. Journalist Sasha Abramsky re-creates here a lost world, bringing to life the people, the books, and the ideas that filled his grandparents’ house, from gatherings that included Eric Hobsbawm and Isaiah Berlin to books with Marx’s handwritten notes, William Morris manuscripts and woodcuts, an early sixteenth-century Bomberg Bible, and a first edition of Descartes’s Meditations. The House of Twenty Thousand Books is a wondrous journey through our times, from the vanished worlds of Eastern European Jewry to the cacophonous politics of modernity. The House of Twenty Thousand Books includes 43 photos.

Author : Rien Poortvliet
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 9780810911260
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In My Grandfather's House written by Rien Poortvliet and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1988 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The illustrator of "Gnomes" imaginatively captures his own heritage in a stunning visual recreation of his family, ranging from an eight-year-old cowherd in the 1600s up through the present day

Author : Edward Swift
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820321004
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Grandfather's Finger written by Edward Swift and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his youth in the Big Thicket region of eastern Texas during the 1940s and 1950s, and describes the distinctive way of life in the area and some of the people that lived there.

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780099254911
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Grandfather's House written by Rumer Godden and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1994 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keiko is not happy to be staying in her great grandfather's house while her parents are away. But she discovers that there is far more to life in the countryside than she first thought: walnut sailboats, straw snowboots, great grandfather's stories and the magic of New Year.

Author : Clarence Thomas
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063235927
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Grandfather's Son written by Clarence Thomas and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly honest, My Grandfather's Son is the story of one of America's most remarkable and controversial leaders, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told in his own words. Thomas speaks out, revealing the pieces of his life he holds dear, detailing the suffering and injustices he has overcome, including the polarizing Senate hearing involving a former aide, Anita Hill, and the depression and despair it created in his own life and the lives of those closest to him. In this candid and deeply moving memoir, a quintessential American tale of hardship and grit, Clarence Thomas recounts his astonishing journey for the first time.

Author : Harry Devlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Grandfather's House We Go written by Harry Devlin and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: