At least some marks represented English potteries, like the Samuel Alcock Company (1891–1910), Clementson Brothers (1865–1916), and Johnson Brothers Limited (post 1900), while others were associated with American firms like Goodwin ...
The result of ten years of research and writing, these volumes are a lively romp through history, highlighting both the good and the not-so-good discovered about the family surnames that make up this truly American family.
Dr. Frank Davis was the former superintendent of the Oklahoma State Hospital for the Feeble-Minded. There, he treated, comforted, confined, and sometimes cured his “inferior” patients by sterilizing them. Davis had caused modest heart ...
The surprise at the heart of the book? Although Dickey was sad to leave her beloved garden, she found herself thrilled to begin a new garden in a wilder, larger landscape.
Uprooted: Braceros in Hermanos Mayo Lens serves as a double introduction: first, to a photographic collection that was the pioneer of modern photojournalism in Mexico, and second, to Mexican images...
Praise for Uprooted “Uprooted has leapt forward to claim the title of Best Book I’ve Read Yet This Year. . . . Moving, heartbreaking, and thoroughly satisfying, Uprooted is the fantasy novel I feel I’ve been waiting a lifetime for.
Thank you for providing space for me to write via free babysitting , lunch and coffee , a quiet working space , and more . Thank you to Sarah and her husband , Nathan , for reading multiple iterations of these chapters with such ...
A provocative and playful exploration of the Green Man, from an exciting new talent.
Discusses the internment of Japanese American citizens during the Second World War.
In this pioneering work, Gregor Thum tells the story of how the city's new Polish settlers found themselves in a place that was not only unfamiliar to them but outright repellent given Wroclaw's Prussian-German appearance and the enormous ...
The engaging story of leaving a beloved garden and creating a new, very different garden, by one of America’s best-known and most accomplished garden writers.
Praise for Uprooted "Uprooted has leapt forward to claim the title of Best Book I've Read Yet This Year. . . . Moving, heartbreaking, and thoroughly satisfying, Uprooted is the fantasy novel I feel I've been waiting a lifetime for.
This same process is now repeating in Christian and other minority communities across the Middle East. This book assesses how well these Jews have integrated into Israel and how their struggles have been politicized.
When pregnant Esther—a young, adventurous, British-born Israeli—follows her new husband, Steve, to America, she has no idea what she’s getting herself into.
As part of her own quest to decide whether or not to return to her roots, Olmstead revisits the stories of those who, like her great-grandparents and grandparents, made Emmett a strong community and her childhood idyllic.
How could this have happened? Uprooted takes a close look at the history of racism in America and carefully follows the treacherous path that led one of our nation’s most beloved presidents to make this decision.
uprooted chronicles the lives of two young indian-american women as they navigate individual struggles with adolescence, religion, and culture against the backdrop of a modern american society. written by two high school students, uprooted ...
She thought of Marie traveling and prayed they too would be safe. A new journey was beginning, and there could be no preparation for unpredictable destruction. Many lives were to be forever uprooted.
With the shock came the realization that I was part of that late twentieth century American social phenomenon, a mobile society following their jobs from one place to another. Being uprooted has become a common occurrence in these times.
A memoir about growing up in Danzig, and becoming one of the 10,000 children who were evacuated to England to escape Nazi Germany prior to World War II. The book follows the author's life as she lives in different foster homes in England ...