Guests on Earth

2013-10-15 Fiction

Author : Lee Smith
Release : 2013-10-15
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 463/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Guests on Earth written by Lee Smith. This book was released on 2013-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reading Lee Smith ranks among the great pleasures of American fiction . . . Gives evidence again of the grace and insight that distinguish her work.” —Robert Stone, author of Death of the Black-Haired Girl It’s 1936 when orphaned thirteen-year-old Evalina Toussaint is admitted to Highland Hospital, a mental institution in Asheville, North Carolina, known for its innovative treatments for nervous disorders and addictions. Taken under the wing of the hospital’s most notable patient, Zelda Fitzgerald, Evalina witnesses cascading events that lead up to the tragic fire of 1948 that killed nine women in a locked ward, Zelda among them. Author Lee Smith has created, through a seamless blending of fiction and fact, a mesmerizing novel about a world apart--in which art and madness are luminously intertwined.

Earth's Wild Music

2021-02-16 Nature

Author : Kathleen Dean Moore
Release : 2021-02-16
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 680/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Earth's Wild Music written by Kathleen Dean Moore. This book was released on 2021-02-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once joyous and somber, this thoughtful gathering of new and selected essays spans Kathleen Dean Moore's distinguished career as a tireless advocate for environmental activism in the face of climate change. In this meditation on the music of the natural world, Moore celebrates the call of loons, howl of wolves, bellow of whales, laughter of children, and shriek of frogs, even as she warns of the threats against them. Each group of essays moves, as Moore herself has been moved, from celebration to lamentation to bewilderment and finally to the determination to act in defense of wild songs and the creatures who sing them. Music is the shivering urgency and exuberance of life ongoing. In a time of terrible silencing, Moore asks, who will forgive us if we do not save nature's songs?

Churchill's Unexpected Guests

2010-10-04 History

Author : Sophie Jackson
Release : 2010-10-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 808/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Churchill's Unexpected Guests written by Sophie Jackson. This book was released on 2010-10-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War over 400,000 Germans and Italians were held in prison camps in Britain. These men played a vital part in the life of war-torn Britain, from working in the fields to repairing bomb-damaged homes. Yet despite the role they played, today it is almost forgotten that Britain once held POWs at all. For those who worked, played or fell in love with the enemies in their midst, despite restrictions and the opinions of their peers, those times remain vivid. Whether they took tea on the lawn with Italians or invited a German for Christmas dinner, the POWs were a large part of their lives. This book is the story of those men who were detained here as unexpected guests. It is about their lives within the camps and afterwards, when some chose to stay and others returned to a country that in parts had become a hell on earth.

The Happiest People on Earth

2006 Evangelists

Author : Demos Shakarian
Release : 2006
Genre : Evangelists
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Book Rating : 792/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Happiest People on Earth written by Demos Shakarian. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing life of the Armenian dairyman who founded the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International, a unique ministry to men and women in the business world. It is a story to make you laugh, to make you cry and to build faith. Today, with several thousand chapters around the world, the Fellowship reaches more than a billion people a year with the life-changing message of Christ's love. This book brings the story of its founder and those around him into vivid colour and will inspire all those who read it.

Fair and Tender Ladies

2011-07-05 Fiction

Author : Lee Smith
Release : 2011-07-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 488/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Fair and Tender Ladies written by Lee Smith. This book was released on 2011-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A tour de force." LOS ANGELES TIMES Ivy Rowe may not have much education, but her thoughts are classic, and her experiences are fascinating. Born near the turn of the century in the Virginia Mountains, Ivy's story is told completely through letters she is forever writing, and that you will forever want to read.... "Few readers will be dry-eyed as they watch this extraordinary woman disappear around that last bend in the road." CHICAGO TRIBUNE

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