memories from life in Torrington, CT, through college and including the fourteen years she spent in NYC working in the financial district as a female in a male dominated world. It also includes her research into her ancestry and the role that the potato famine in Ireland played on those relatives that came before her and as a result on her destiny.
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian science fiction novel by Edward Bellamy, a lawyer and writer from Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts; it was first published in 1887.
People are constantly asking two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry where she gets her ideas.
In this special anniversary edition, Maynard’s candid introductory reflections on the girl behind the girl who wrote Looking Back lend a new dimension to this iconic analysis of a generation.
Using family photographs and quotes from her books, the author provides glimpses into her life.
Mania Salinger was born in Radom, Poland and enjoyed a childhood blessed with love, friends, and good luck until horrors unleashed by Nazi invasion changed her life forever.
This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses.
It is a fascinating, exciting, and highly extraordinary story that is intertwined with personal experiences.
Born in 1905, Webb began keeping a journal in 1946, the same year he moved to New York and took up photography in earnest. These memoirs document not only Webb's...
Stuart, Jim, 38 Stubbs, Eddie, 260,273,274–75, 321 Stuckey, Nat, 224–25,321 “Sugar Cane County,” 227,238,284 Sugar Cane County (1969), 238,239,281 “Sugarfoot Rag,” 260 Sullivan, Amanda, 224 Sullivan, Ed, 168. See also Ed Sullivan Show ...
“Set in England’s North Country, Josephine Cox’s smoothly written Looking Back provides a sentimental journey through mid-20th-century England.” —Publishers Weekly When Molly Tattersall’s mother disappears a short time after a ...