Our Yesteryears

Author : Evelyn Stevens Gibson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 143892223X
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winds of My Yesteryears Blow Warm written by Evelyn Stevens Gibson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's account of early childhood life on a red dirt farm in Chambers County in East Central Alabama presents the struggles and victories of her parents in successfully raising five children in the 1920's and 1930's. Their solid integrity and robust faith in God brought to completion the first 18 years of their five children, all of whom were born during the 1920's. The role of faith in God, faith in family, and church and education were emphasized to the utmost in all of its ruggedness and cussedness of hard times and good times and fun times. A value system was instilled that could not be destroyed.

Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628728116
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Our Yesterdays written by Natalia Ginzburg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy” (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war. This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy from 1939 to 1944, from the anxious months before the country entered the war, through the war years, to the allied victory with its trailing wake of anxiety, disappointment, and grief. In the foreground are the members of two families. One is rich, the other is not. In All Our Yesterdays, as in all of Ms. Ginzburg’s novels, terrible things happen—suicide, murder, air raids, and bombings. But seemingly less overwhelming events, like a family quarrel, adultery, or a deception, are given equal space, as if to say that, to a victim, adultery and air raids can be equally maiming. All Our Yesterdays gives a sharp portrait of a society hungry for change, but betrayed by war. During the period described in the novel, Natalia Ginzburg was married to the writer Leone Ginzburg. Because of his underground activities, he was interned under Mussolini’s reign, along with his family, in a restricted area in the Abruzzi. When the Ginzburgs later moved to Rome, Leone was arrested and tortured by the fascists, and killed, leaving Natalia alone to raise her three children. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author : Cranford H. Burns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Yesteryears written by Cranford H. Burns and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled for the Bicentennial year this book is to honor the retired teachers and give a brief history of the development of the educational system in AL. The professional organization encouraged the teachers to submit manuscripts telling of their experiences teaching in Alabama. From these papers the history, ideas and ideals for "Our Yesteryears" was drawn.

Author : Stefan Zweig
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of Yesterday written by Stefan Zweig and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The World of Yesterday" by Stefan Zweig. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Stefan Zweig
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803252240
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of Yesterday written by Stefan Zweig and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1964-01-01 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries. In this autobiography he holds the mirror up to his own age, telling the story of a generation that "was loaded down with a burden of fate as was hardly any other in the course of history." Zweig attracted to himself the best minds and loftiest souls of his era: Freud, Yeats, Borgese, Pirandello, Gorky, Ravel, Joyce, Toscanini, Jane Addams, Anatole France, and Romain Rolland are but a few of the friends he writes about.

Author : Lee Meriwether
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Yesteryears written by Lee Meriwether and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carolyn Hambrick Hatcher
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453586016
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories of Yesteryears written by Carolyn Hambrick Hatcher and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early morning rain had stopped and a cool mist shrouded the lonesome mountainside. The smell was fresh and invigorating to me as I stood beside the old hickory tree with its new leaves, an iridescent bright green, glowing against the dreary gray sky. I stood quietly and watched a lone eagle soar above, looking for an unsuspecting prey hidden in the overgrown weeds in the long neglected fields. I had stayed away too long, now, I wanted to return to the source of my childhood.

Author : Gregor Von Rezzori
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590176537
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Snows of Yesteryear written by Gregor Von Rezzori and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine—a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population of astonishing diversity. Growing up after World War I and the collapse of the empire, Rezzori lived in a twilit world suspended between the formalities of the old nineteenth-century order which had shaped his aristocratic parents and the innovations, uncertainties, and raw terror of the new century. The haunted atmosphere of this dying world is beautifully rendered in the pages of The Snows of Yesteryear. The book is a series of portraits—amused, fond, sometimes appalling—of Rezzori’s family: his hysterical and histrionic mother, disappointed by marriage, destructively obsessed with her children’s health and breeding; his father, a flinty reactionary, whose only real love was hunting; his haughty older sister, fated to die before thirty; his earthy nursemaid, who introduced Rezzori to the power of storytelling and the inevitability of death; and a beloved governess, Bunchy. Telling their stories, Rezzori tells his own, holding his early life to the light like a crystal until it shines for us with a prismatic brilliance.

Author : Monica Baker
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490831878
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kaleidoscope written by Monica Baker and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "God transformed Monica's story, and helped her to see the beauty in the kaleidoscope of her broken life, and now she shares her message of hope all around the world. Monica relates God's healing power in a manner that is simple yet profound. She urges survivors to dump their emotional baggage and allow God's glory to reveal the essence of their broken lives. Her simple theology is that if Jesus can heal her pain and bind her brokenness, He will do the same for you. Monica is an expert in her chosen profession; she is the founder of a fast-growing international Christian outreach program (profession and organization name withheld to promote anonymity)."--Page 4 of cover

Author : Amy Meyerson
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488078734
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bookshop of Yesterdays written by Amy Meyerson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look for Amy Meyerson’s new novel The Imperfects, a captivating literary page-turner. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Best Books of Summer 2018 Selection by Philadelphia Inquirer and Library Journal “Part mystery and part drama, Meyerson uses a complex family dynamic in The Bookshop of Yesterdays to spotlight the importance of truth and our need for forgiveness.” —Associated Press A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut about family, forgiveness and a love of reading. Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric Uncle Billy’s bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. But on Miranda’s twelfth birthday, Billy has a mysterious falling-out with her mother and suddenly disappears from Miranda’s life. She doesn’t hear from him again until sixteen years later when she receives unexpected news: Billy has died and left her Prospero Books, which is teetering on bankruptcy—and one final scavenger hunt. When Miranda returns home to Los Angeles and to Prospero Books—now as its owner—she finds clues that Billy has hidden for her inside novels on the store’s shelves, in locked drawers of his apartment upstairs, in the name of the store itself. Miranda becomes determined to save Prospero Books and to solve Billy’s last scavenger hunt. She soon finds herself drawn into a journey where she meets people from Billy’s past, people whose stories reveal a history that Miranda’s mother has kept hidden—and the terrible secret that tore her family apart. Bighearted and trenchantly observant, The Bookshop of Yesterdays is a lyrical story of family, love and the healing power of community. It’s a love letter to reading and bookstores, and a testament to how our histories shape who we become.