Tillys Story

Author : June Francis
Publisher : Canelo
ISBN 13 : 191159141X
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tilly's Story written by June Francis and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can she leave her troubles behind to find true happiness? In the aftermath of the Great War, many are searching for a new life. But has Tilly missed her only chance for love? Since the end of the First World War, the residents of Victoria Crescent have been slowly rebuilding their lives. For Tilly Moran, this means living under the watchful eye of her elder sister, Alice, while waiting to come of age. Unable to bear the restrictions placed upon her, Tilly flees to Liverpool for a fresh start. As Tilly enters a new line of work she meets many interesting characters, and is charmed by Leonard Parker, a shipping entrepreneur. But when Tilly becomes involved in an investigation for a private detective agency she discovers that some of her new associates aren’t what they seem. Can Tilly’s dreams of love and independence come true, or will her luck run out?

Author : Lorna Collier
Publisher : Lorna Collier
ISBN 13 : 1583480722
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tilli's Story written by Lorna Collier and published by Lorna Collier. This book was released on 2005 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I think about what I want and what makes me happy, But orderly and quietly to myself. Because my thoughts tear down fortresses and walls, My thoughts are free. -German folk song, author unknown The beautiful, safe, joyful places in young Tilli's imagination were her only refuge from the bombing that tore through the sky above her during World War II. Her thoughts were her only freedom from Hitler's Nazi tyranny, and they were her strength to survive after the war ended, when Russians invaded her tiny farming village in eastern Germany; forced her into months of hiding in a dark attic crawlspace; and took her innocence, her childhood, and nearly her life. Tilli's dreams-of a time when she could think and act freely, and travel, work, write, worship, and live however she wished-were what fueled the sixteen-year-old to courageously and single-handedly escape the terror of Stalin's harsh Communist rule and create her own happy ending in a free America. This true tale of sorrow and terror, hope and triumph, is Tilli's story-but it's also the story of the unthinkable suffering and untold bravery of countless innocent children who have lived through a war and its aftermath. A great piece of individual history from a woman who had some remarkable experiences.... Through this story, readers will come to appreciate more deeply ordinary citizens' experience of wartime and political upheaval, as well as the enormity of the decision to leave one's country and start a new life thousands of miles away. -Lisa Seidlitz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of German at Augustana College

Author : Adrian Edmondson
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141372443
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tilly and the Time Machine written by Adrian Edmondson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tilly is seven and a half - and about to make history. When Tilly's dad builds a time machine in the shed there's only one place she really wants to go: back to her sixth birthday party, when she ate too many cupcakes and her mummy was still here. But then something goes wrong! Tilly's dad gets stuck in the past and only she can save him . . . Will they make it back in time for tea?

Author : Eileen Spinelli
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780761455257
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silly Tilly written by Eileen Spinelli and published by The Rosen Publishing Group. This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A playful goose entertains her barnyard friends

Author : Monique Gray Smith
Publisher : Sono NIS Press
ISBN 13 : 9781550392098
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tilly written by Monique Gray Smith and published by Sono NIS Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kelly creates a cabin out of a huge cardboard box but has no one to share it with.

Author : Jane Godwin
Publisher : Scholastic Press
ISBN 13 : 9781760663728
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tilly written by Jane Godwin and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tillys found the perfect hiding place to keep her special treasures. No one knows about it, not even her big brothers and sister, who know everything. But one day, something happens that Tilly could never have imagined... Jane Godwin and Anna Walker have created a wistful, enchanting and timeless story about an old house, a young girl, and how the small things we hold dear stay with us always.

Author : Michael Hanagan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400707568
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contention and Trust in Cities and States written by Michael Hanagan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The catalyst for this book is the fact that noted sociologist Charles Tilly, upon his death in 2008, left one completed chapter of an unfinished manuscript entitled “Cities, States, and Trust Networks,” examining the relationships between cities and nation-states over the sweep of history, and in particular the role of trust networks in mediating this relationship. Though this was the catalyst, the book serves a broader purpose: to survey recent frontier work on cities, nation-states, and the relations between the two in historical and contemporary perspective. Essays in the book will address four main themes: city-state relations, trust networks and commitment, democracy and inequality, and the importance of historical legacies in shaping state structures, practices, and capacities. They will be global in scope, with research on the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa; a number of the pieces will be comparative. They will also be interdisciplinary, including works of geography, history, political science, sociology, urban planning. The book addresses several confluent needs of readers. One is to simply update themes addressed in earlier edited work such as Bringing the State Back In (1985). A second is to bring together current thinking about cities on the one hand and nation-states on the other, literatures that are often segregated from each other. A third is to perform those two purposes in a way that is global in scope and combines both historical and current analyses, to pull together insights from the full range of human experience.

Author : Jan Lucassen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030026299X
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Work written by Jan Lucassen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day We work because we have to, but also because we like it: from hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs. Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive history of humanity’s busy labor throughout the ages. Spanning China, India, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, Lucassen looks at the ways in which humanity organizes work: in the household, the tribe, the city, and the state. He examines how labor is split between men, women, and children; the watershed moment of the invention of money; the collective action of workers; and at the impact of migration, slavery, and the idea of leisure. From peasant farmers in the first agrarian societies to the precarious existence of today’s gig workers, this surprising account of both cooperation and subordination at work throws essential light on the opportunities we face today.

Author : Tilly (fict. name.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Tilly Found a Friend, Or, True to the Last written by Tilly (fict. name.) and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoff Eley
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472021419
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Crooked Line written by Geoff Eley and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eley brilliantly probes transformations in the historians' craft over the past four decades. I found A Crooked Line engrossing, insightful, and inspiring." --Lizabeth Cohen, author of A Consumers' Republic "A Crooked Line brilliantly captures the most significant shifts in the landscape of historical scholarship that have occurred in the last four decades. Part personal history, part insightful analysis of key methodological and theoretical historiographical tendencies since the late 1960s, always thoughtful and provocative, Eley's book shows us why history matters to him and why it should also matter to us." --Robert Moeller, University of California, Irvine "Part genealogy, part diagnosis, part memoir, Eley's account of the histories of social and cultural history is a tour de force." --Antoinette Burton, Professor of History and Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, University of Illinois "Eley's reflections on the changing landscape of academic history in the last forty years will interest and benefit all students of the discipline. Both a native informant and an analyst in this account, Eley combines the two roles superbly to produce one of most engaging and compelling narratives of the recent history of History." --Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of Provincializing Europe Using his own intellectual biography as a narrative device, Geoff Eley tracks the evolution of historical understanding in our time from social history through the so-called "cultural turn," and back again to a broad history of society. A gifted writer, Eley carefully winnows unique experiences from the universal, and uses the interplay of the two to draw the reader toward an organic understanding of how historical thinking (particularly the work of European historians) has evolved under the influence of new ideas. His work situates history within History, and offers students, scholars, and general readers alike a richly detailed, readable guide to the enduring value of historical ideas. Geoff Eley is Professor of History at the University of Michigan.