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Author : Ken Vail
Release : 1996
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lady Day's Diary by : Ken Vail
Download or read book Lady Day's Diary written by Ken Vail. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Month-by-month chromology of singer's life.
Author : Mildred Walker
Release : 2000-01-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 230/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis If a Lion Could Talk by : Mildred Walker
Download or read book If a Lion Could Talk written by Mildred Walker. This book was released on 2000-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harriet Ryegate, the proper daughter of Massachusetts Puritans, is the first white woman to go far into the wilderness beyond the upper Missouri. With her husband, a Baptist minister, she seeks to convert the Blackfoot Indians to Christianity. But it is the Ryegates who are changed by their "journey into strangeness." Marcus Ryegate returns to Massachusetts obsessed by a beautiful Indian woman. For sermonizing about her, he pays a heavy price. ø Harriet, one of Mildred Walker?s most fully realized characters, writes in her journal about "the effect of the Wilderness on civilized persons who are accustomed to live in the world of words." If a Lion Could Talk reveals the tragic lack of communication that stretches from Massachusetts to Missouri and beyond in the years before the Civil War?and the appalling heart of darkness that is close to home.
Author : Samuel Cowan
Release : 2019-12-16
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Last Days of Mary Stuart, and the journal of Bourgoyne her physician by : Samuel Cowan
Download or read book The Last Days of Mary Stuart, and the journal of Bourgoyne her physician written by Samuel Cowan. This book was released on 2019-12-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Days of Mary Stuart by Samuel Cowan is about various political maneuvers and secret plots during the end of the reign of the Queen of Scots. Excerpt: "CHAPTER I PAGE The last act of the drama—Lord Burghley and Secretary Walsingham actively engaged against Queen Mary—Walsingham and his spies—Character of Walsingham—Plots of Elizabeth to take Mary's life—Savage, Ballard, Morgan, and Babington—Mary's pathetic appeal to Chateauneuf—Text of her first letter—Text of her second letter—Elizabeth and Sir Amias Paulet—The famous memoranda between Paulet and Wade as to how Mary was to be kidnapped and her papers seized—Paulet's official instructions to kidnap the Queen—Elizabeth's confirmation of these instructions—Elizabeth's final orders to kidnap Queen Mary 1 CHAPTER II Outline of the kidnapping scheme, and how it was carried out—Paulet requires instructions as to Nau and Curle—Queen Mary's return to Chartley—Forcible seizure of her money and cabinets by Paulet and Walsingham—Letter from Yetsweirt about Nau and Curle—Private letter of Nau to Elizabeth exonerating himself and Mary—Elizabeth's fulsome gratitude to Paulet—Letter Walsingham to Paulet—Burghley and Walsingham instruct Paulet about Fotheringay—Paulet writes Walsingham (kidnapping plot)."
Author : Sara Midda
Release : 1981-01-01
Genre : Gardening
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 938/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis In and Out of the Garden by : Sara Midda
Download or read book In and Out of the Garden written by Sara Midda. This book was released on 1981-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sara Midda's richly illustrated In and Out of the Garden has delighted readers and critics alike: "This is the most gentle of books, a peaceful pastime. The delicacy of Sara Midda's art is enchanting. Anyone who is a gardener, or who has worked with plants in nature, will respond to what she has put forth so exquisitely," wrote Joan Lee Faust, Garden Editor of The New York Times. Diana Vreeland praised it as "delightful and delicious," Time magazine as "Cause for revel," and Laura Ashley called it "pure inspiration." In scores and scores of delicate illustrations and tender reflections, the author recalls the English gardens her childhood and the gardens she tends now, to reveal surprises both dainty and daring. The colorings and imaginings make the fancy soar with pleasure, as she creates the most elegant and subtle of books to give and to have, a book to cherish as dearly as a volume of treasured poetry. Sara Midda's garden is sown with glorious images. Ruby-red radishes are the jewels of the underworld. Myriad colors fall upon warm green moss. Brown leaves drift with sweet scent. And "in the beeman's garden, a host of hives and a swarm of bees bring sticky honey for your teas." Vegetable gardens, herb gardens, flower gardens are illustrated. The pleasures of the orchard are celebrated. Recipes are shared for lotions and potions to cheer the heart and delight the senses." -- Publisher.
Author : Murasaki Shikibu
Release : 1996-03-07
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 657/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Diary of Lady Murasaki by : Murasaki Shikibu
Download or read book The Diary of Lady Murasaki written by Murasaki Shikibu. This book was released on 1996-03-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of vignettes, it offers revealing glimpses of the Japanese imperial palace - the auspicious birth of a prince, rivalries between the Emperor's consorts, with sharp criticism of Murasaki's fellow ladies-in-waiting and drunken courtiers, and telling remarks about the timid Empress and her powerful father, Michinaga. The Diary is also a work of great subtlety and intense personal reflection, as Murasaki makes penetrating insights into human psychology - her pragmatic observations always balanced by an exquisite and pensive melancholy.
