The Plague And I

Author : Betty MacDonald
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062672258
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plague and I written by Betty MacDonald and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Getting tuberculosis in the middle of your life is like starting downtown to do a lot of urgent errands and being hit by a bus. When you regain consciousness you remember nothing about the urgent errands. You can’t even remember where you were going.” Thus begins Betty MacDonald’s memoir of her year in a sanatorium just outside Seattle battling the “White Plague.” MacDonald uses her offbeat humor to make the most of her time in the TB sanatorium—making all of us laugh in the process.

Author : Joanne Dahme
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458779734
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plague written by Joanne Dahme and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen year-old Nell bears an uncanny resemblance to King Edward the Third's daughter, Princess Joan. The king brings Nell and her brother George from the murky streets of 14th-century London so that Nell can be the body double for the princess in times of danger. When the plague takes the princess' life, Joan's brother, the Black Prince, forces Nell to continue in her role so he can marry her to the Prince of Castille in Joan's place. Nell, however, is determined to return to England to report the princess' death to the King.

Author : Paula Becker
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295999373
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking for Betty MacDonald written by Paula Becker and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betty Bard MacDonald (1907–1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children’s books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. Readers embraced her memoir of her years as a young bride operating a chicken ranch on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, and The Egg and I sold its first million copies in less than a year. The public was drawn to MacDonald’s vivacity, her offbeat humor, and her irreverent take on life. In 1947, the book was made into a movie starring Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, and spawned a series of films featuring MacDonald's Ma and Pa Kettle characters. MacDonald followed up the success of The Egg and I with the creation of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, a magical woman who cures children of their bad habits, and with three additional memoirs: The Plague and I (chronicling her time in a tuberculosis sanitarium just outside Seattle), Anybody Can Do Anything (recounting her madcap attempts to find work during the Great Depression), and Onions in the Stew (about her life raising two teenage daughters on Vashon Island). Author Paula Becker was granted full access to Betty MacDonald’s archives, including materials never before seen by any researcher. Looking for Betty MacDonald, a biography of this endearing Northwest storyteller, reveals the story behind the memoirs and the difference between the real Betty MacDonald and her literary persona. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lr6iVK4zWk

Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476797749
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Wake of the Plague written by Norman F. Cantor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, taking millions of lives. The author draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death as a gripping, intimate narrative.

Author : Nigel Fountain
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 184317796X
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clichés written by Nigel Fountain and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the day, when it comes to getting your head around clichés, everybody seems to be singing from the same hymn sheet. Clichés have become such a familiar part of the English language and people's everyday speech that many are now trite, meaningless and often quite irritating. This book looks at clichés in their many forms - once useful but overworked catch phrases ('move the goal posts'), worn-out sayings ('all hands on deck'), pointless phrases used to conceal a weak argument ('to be perfectly honest'), technical terms used out of context ('collateral damage'), and many others. It shows where they came from and, with examples from people who ought to know better, why they should be avoided. Entertaining and informative, this collection of clichés really is the best thing since sliced bread . . .

Author : T. Neill Anderson
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607345420
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horrors of History: People of the Plague written by T. Neill Anderson and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-researched and rich with ghastly details, this third historical fiction novel in the Horrors of History series is based on the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Actual and fictionalized victims and survivors, like the young, heroic Barium and the concerned, wise Doctor Wilmer Krusen, help weave together a gripping account of how Philadelphia coped with the outbreak.

Author : Betty Bard MacDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plague and I. written by Betty Bard MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells how the author learned that she had tuberculosis, and must enter a sanatorium for treatment.

Author : G. E. Gallas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781838224127
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plague and Doctor Caim written by G. E. Gallas and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Doctor Caim has been summoned. A village ravaged by the black death is sorely in need of his expertise. Rich and poor alike, all seek his services. As Doctor Caim concocts his cures, gathering roses and carnations, lemon balm and mint, he muses on the world around hime and the many people he treats." -- page [4] of cover

Author : Betty MacDonald
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060914289
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Egg and I written by Betty MacDonald and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1987-08-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild. With no running water, no electricity, a house in need of constant repair, and days that ran from four in the morning to nine at night, the MacDonalds had barely a moment to put their feet up and relax. And then came the children. Yet through every trial and pitfall—through chaos and catastrophe—this indomitable family somehow, mercifully, never lost its sense of humor. A beloved literary treasure for more than half a century, Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I is a heartwarming and uproarious account of adventure and survival on an American frontier.

Author : C. L. Werner
Publisher : Games Workshop(uk)
ISBN 13 : 9781844164813
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palace of the Plague Lord written by C. L. Werner and published by Games Workshop(uk). This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy-roman.