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Stories in the Grove

2014-04-30 History
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Release : 2014-04-30
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Stories in the Grove by : Phillip J. Nuxhall

Download or read book Stories in the Grove written by Phillip J. Nuxhall. This book was released on 2014-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phil Nuxhall has been having a love affair with Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum since 2001 when he became its very first historian. After digging into historical records for several years, his knowledge of Spring Grove deepened and broadened. He began giving private tours, then educated docents to give public tours, then added a tram for long-winded tours (and short-winded tourists ). As a follow up to Nuxhall's successful photography book, Beauty in the Grove: Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum, his latest book, Stories in the Grove, tells the little known narratives behind those who are buried there, and often why. From famous to infamous; from rich to poor; from spouse to lover; you'll never again think of Spring Grove as just a pretty place to walk, to jog, to bike or to bury. Nuxhall immortalizes 115 of his favorite stories in this collection that fascinates, educates, immortalizes, and entertains.

Women in the Grove

2004 Fiction
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Release : 2004
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Women in the Grove by : Paula W. Peterson

Download or read book Women in the Grove written by Paula W. Peterson. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paula Peterson's memoir, Penitent, with Roses, was an unflinching account of her life as a woman and mother after being diagnosed as HIV positive. All the stories in this striking first collection of short fiction feature female heroines living with HIV infection. Shot through with humor, warmth, and insight, a collection that has already received extraordinary advance praise, Peterson's stories succeed in bringing us into a radically new understanding of life with AIDS. Lucinda, of "A Miracle," is visited by a red-haired man in a pinstriped suit who turns out to be God-- somewhat shy and insecure, but the only savior she's likely to encounter. Russian emigre Olga, "The Woman in the Long Green Coat," bewitches her doctor by inhabiting his dreams and awakening his long-dormant imagination. Cherry physically battles the ghost of her ex-boyfriend, Duane, which appears in her house every night to torment her. "The Affecteds and the Infecteds" are teenagers who live with AIDS and find adolescence complicated by their proximity to illness and death. In the penultimate story of the nine collected here, a woman watches her son visiting an AIDS memorial park to sprinkle wildflowers on her name inscribed in the stones.

Devil in the Grove

2012-03-06 History
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Release : 2012-03-06
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Devil in the Grove by : Gilbert King

Download or read book Devil in the Grove written by Gilbert King. This book was released on 2012-03-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York Times Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost him his life. In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming, and citrus barons got rich on the backs of cheap Jim Crow labor with the help of Sheriff Willis V. McCall, who ruled Lake County with murderous resolve. When a white seventeen-year-old girl cried rape, McCall pursued four young black men who dared envision a future for themselves beyond the groves. The Ku Klux Klan joined the hunt, hell-bent on lynching the men who came to be known as "the Groveland Boys." Associates thought it was suicidal for Marshall to wade into the "Florida Terror," but the young lawyer would not shrink from the fight despite continuous death threats against him. Drawing on a wealth of never-before-published material, including the FBI's unredacted Groveland case files, as well as unprecedented access to the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund files, Gilbert King shines new light on this remarkable civil rights crusader.

In a Grove (竹林中)

2011-10-15 Foreign Language Study
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Release : 2011-10-15
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Book Synopsis In a Grove (竹林中) by : Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Download or read book In a Grove (竹林中) written by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. This book was released on 2011-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Grove Book of Hollywood

2007-12-01 Performing Arts
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Release : 2007-12-01
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis The Grove Book of Hollywood by : Christopher Silvester

Download or read book The Grove Book of Hollywood written by Christopher Silvester. This book was released on 2007-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “treasure trove” of insider accounts of the movie business from its earliest beginnings to the present day—“exceedingly savvy . . . astute and entertaining” (Variety). The Grove Book of Hollywood is a richly entertaining anthology of anecdotes and reminiscences from the people who helped make the City of Angels the storied place we know today. Movie moguls, embittered screenwriters, bemused outsiders such as P. G. Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh, and others all have their say. Organized chronologically, the pieces form a history of Hollywood as only generations of insiders could tell it. We encounter the first people to move to Hollywood, when it was a dusty village on the outskirts of Los Angeles, as well as the key players during the heyday of the studio system in the 1930s. We hear from victims of the blacklist and from contemporary players in an industry dominated by agents. Coming from a wide variety of sources, the personal recollections range from the affectionate to the scathing, from the cynical to the grandiose. Here is John Huston on his drunken fistfight with Errol Flynn; Cecil B. DeMille on the challenges of filming The Ten Commandments; Frank Capra on working for the great comedic producer Mark Sennett; William Goldman on the strange behavior of Hollywood executives in meetings; and much more. “A masterly, magnificent anthology,” The Grove Book of Hollywood is a must for anyone fascinated by Hollywood and the film industry (Literary Review, London).

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