Great for research This biographical book features resource material for anyone seeking to understand the plight of women in the 1940s. The author highlights the life of his stepfather, Herman, a shy WWII veteran who responds to the personal ad of a New York pianist with four children. In 1949, Barbara moves to his rural Minnesota farm with her young children, including the author.Part II of this short book includes a rare 52-page Lonely Hearts Catalogue from 1945. This book is a great resource for those researching family history and would make an intriguing text for Women's Studies programs.The Chickenhouse Chronicles is a series of cross-genre, standalone books that do not need to be read in any order.
Caught between a mentally ill mother and a stepfather with undiagnosed PTSD, Author Wendell Affield's childhood was marked by family dysfunction. In this memoir, which includes nearly 100 illustrations, he recounts growing up on an isolated farm in northern Minnesota in the 1950s.Musty letters, documents, and sixty-year-old photo negatives conjured memories as Affield pored over them.In a grainy negative beneath the magnifying glass, Affield saw his mother as the beautiful, mentally ill young woman transplanted in 1949 from her cosmopolitan New York roots. She stands beside the lilac that the author will land next to a few years later after jumping from a second story window to escape her fury.Memories of a murdered puppy and his stepfather's rage rose to the surface as Affield studied a blurred image of the corncrib the dogs were tied beneath at the farm.In another picture he discovered himself wedged between his brothers and sister in a leaky rowboat and flashed back to the summer his mother hid from her abusive husband in a cabin perched above Lake Chelan in the Cascade Mountains. Faded photos and hand-written birth dates on the backs reveal a woman who feared forgetting her children after she was committed to a mental institution, her children in foster homes.Follow along on this journey as the author researches his own childhood and uncovers brand new details about himself and his family.
BARBARA is a riches-to-rags tale about an extraordinarily talented, troubled young woman. After Barbara's death in 20 I 0, the author, Wendell Affield, discovered thousands of documents locked in a rodent-infested chickenhouse. Having spent his childhood living with his mother's mental illness, Affield studies the contents in an effort to understand his mother's life and search for clues to his biological father. BARBARA, PARTS I and II, explore Barbara's two-decade downward spiral as she struggles with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Taught by the famous pianist, Emile Bosquet at Institut Droissard, Brussels, Belgium, Barbara's natural talent blossoms. Mouse-gnawed 1939 documents reveal Barbara's impulsive engagement (and possible marriage) in Poland, and her narrow escape from the Nazi invasion. Upon her return to New York, after dropping out of juilliard School, Barbara begins a decade of running from her problems, leaving a wake of failed marriages and rendezvous resulting in four children. Feeling abandoned by her family and searching for a new start, she posts an advertisement in Cupid's Columns that is answered by a bachelor farmer in northern Minnesota. BARBARA, Part III, chronicles the author's search for his biological father and the labyrinth leading to a breakthrough. Acceptance by his new-found family is an incredible testament to the power of love.
In 1926 Wendell Phillips Dabney published his first book, Cincinnati's Colored Citizens, which was an unprecedented review of the city's most successful and important African American citizens. Never before had a publication marshaled together such an immense amount of historical, sociological, statistical, and biographical information about Cincinnati's black community. Its nine chapters, well illustrated with photographs, provided a wealth of information about black schools, churches, businesses, property owners, benevolent organizations, and much more. Cincinnati's Colored Citizens remains today an important piece of Cincinnati's rich African American heritage and a critical resource for those interested in the history of the Queen City.
The Windmills of the Mind is a collection of poems about love and regret written by Wendell Willkie Newman.Wendell has been interested in poetry ever since he memorized and recited Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee in elementary school.In his personal life, he cared for his son with cerebral palsy for the five love-filled years of his life. He has severe glaucoma which has taken most of his vision. His past twenty-five years were consumed with providing 24-7 love and care to his bedridden wife.Throughout all of this, he found the time and inspiration to write a few hundred poems. This collection contains a few of those works. He has waited his lifetime to share his gift with you and the world.At the time of publication, Wendell is 81 years old and plans to live to the ripe old age of 102.
Mayo begins his new collection with a brief tale and utterance made by an elephant trainer at a zoo: "It's said," Beasley says, "an elephant won't pass by a dead elephant without casting a branch or some dust on the body. A kind of homage, I suppose." In a variety of ways, the twelve stories that follow are tributes to characters who find themselves on the fringes, at the sides of roads. In "When the Moon Was Ours for the Taking," a man recalls a brief few days he found himself fishing with his NASA-physicist father who is otherwise preoccupied with the Space Race craze of the 1960s. In "A Mindfulness Becoming Less," an aging, out-of work Homer Lynch convinces himself he doesn't need the job and health care he needs. In "Vigil for Ammospiza nigr scens," a veteran of the Vietnam War searches for an extinct bird in the salt marshes of Florida, haunted by the North Vietnamese soldier he killed. In "Burn Barrel," Cole, a jobless college graduate, despairing that he can never pay his student loans, begins to burn all his university papers, in a strange effort to erase the debt. In these and other stories, Mayo's characters are people we think we know, in situations we think we understand-and then realize in flashes of truth we can see them-and ourselves-in new ways.
Sunlovers is wonderful book introducing the Caribbean islands in two parts. First part is written from the traveler's point of view, second part of the book is written from local person's point of view. You will learn about St. Thomas, Barbados, St. Maarten, St. Kitts, Porto Rico and in detail about Saint Lucia island via fun stories from past and present. The authors do not overwhelm their reader with names and dates, rather become master story tellers about people, places and events. Sunlovers is written for all ages.
This book has been written to give people, both within and without the Christian Church, an opportunity to take a fresh look at Jesus of Nazareth. It aims at making him "come alive" for people today. It does that through a careful analysis of the Biblical data and through the provision of exercises that challenge the reader to interact with Jesus' ideas and to respond to his claims. It puts the reader, as it were, into the shoes both of the people who followed Jesus and of those who opposed him. Sixteen first person accounts re-create Biblical history in an imaginative but accurate way. It amplifies Jesus' teaching in such a way that the meaning of what he was talking about comes through to the reader. MAN ON A MISSION: THE LIFE & WORK OF JESUS, THE CHRIST is an inspiring and creative resource for all who would like to know more about this key figure in human history.
How to Walk in Healing with God is a Daily Devotional and/or a 30 Week Commitment. The book focuses on God healing our physical bodies, while also being open to God's healing hand in all areas of our lives. This book will inspire you and encourage you to move forward in-spite of the negative weights of life trying to pull you down.
This is one of Stifter’s great epic works, a most sensitive account of the formative years in the life of Heinrich, a student of natural sciences, born into a bourgeois environment, but influenced and gently guided by a nobleman, the old Baron von Risach. It is in fact the baron’s own reminiscences which give the book its title. Comparable in some ways to Gottfried Keller’s Der grüne Heinrich this novel, nevertheless, reflects Stifter’s own moral values, his ethical thinking and his deep reverence for nature.
Der Autor zeigt anhand der Romane -Witiko-, -Die Mappe meines Urgrossvaters- und -Der Nachsommer- die verschiedenen Aspekte des Begriffes -Tadition- bei Stifter. Er versucht festzustellen, was Tradition fur den Dichter eigentlich bedeutet und kommt zu folgendem Schluss: Fur Stifter ist Tradition nicht nur Verehrung der Vergangenheit, die den Fortschritt ausschliesst. Er bejaht im Gegenteil einen langsamen, naturlichen Fortschritt. Dieser ist in der Vergangenheit verwurzelt, gewinnt dadurch einen festen Halt und bewahrt vor Chaos."
Fifteenth century Bibles - a study in bibliography is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
