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Author : Rundy PurdyISBN : 0986446904
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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When Rundy Purdy was twenty-four he began caring for his grandfather who was sick with Alzheimer's. This started a three year battle against inevitable decline, a journey across confused days and long nights. With compassion, hope, and a strong dose of gritty realism, The Sea is Wide: A Memoir of Caregiving tells the story of how a grandfather and his grandson crossed the wide sea of Alzheimer's. It is a tale of losses, but even more of things found in spite of what is lost. It is about giving bedtime stories, hugs, and a lot of coffee. It is a story of laughter even in the presence of sadness. The sea of Alzheimer's is wide, but it can be crossed. In writing that is by turns uplifting and poignant, Rundy shares his journey of perseverance and love. "I laughed and cried my way through [...] it echoed things I went through with my mother and her dementia." - Alice Janice, Caregiver
A Memoir Delivering Health Care In Cambodian Refugee Camps 1979 1980
Author : Charlotte J. KnaubISBN : 9781452519357
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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People would rather forget. The years of United States involvement in Southeast Asia, the Viet Nam years, ended for most Americans in 1975. For the Cambodian people, whose history seems an endless succession of wars, occupations, and sufferings, 1975 marked the beginning of an era of terror unknown in previous times. Khmer Rouge soldiers overthrew the corrupt regime of Lon Noi. Literally overnight, whole populations of Cambodian cities were ordered to move to the countryside, under the ruse that America was going to bomb them. The Khmer Rouge tortured and starved the people. Death from disease, malnutrition, and execution were rampant in what became known as the killing fields. When the horrors of Pol Pot and his regime were followed by the Vietnamese invasion, thousands of surviving Khmers, rather than live under the rule of their traditional enemies, fled and crossed Thailand’s borders. In 1979, Charlotte J. Knaub was a public health nursing consultant with the Montana State Department of Health when she was offered a three-month contract to work in Thailand’s refugee camps. As she became aware that the relief operations reflected the unique opportunity for people around the world to join together in relieving the suffering and meeting the desperate needs of the Cambodian refugees, she determined to remain a part of it. Her three-month assignment was extended to thirteen months. This is a memoir of those life-changing events.
Memoir Of Half A Banana
Author : Fay ChouISBN : 9781543749571
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Born in Taiwan but gone to a junior high school in America, then back to Taiwan for college, and immigrated to America again, the author paints vivid pictures of postwar Taiwan and America in the sixties, and compares the Chinese and American cultures through education systems, the business world, and life in general. The author touches on growing pains; disillusionment; the wear and tear of marriage, parenting, and relationships; challenges and betrayal in the business world; finding herself at fifty-five; and her extraordinary and otherworldly encounters. She reveals complicated Chinese cultural traditions and recounts the Second Sino-Japanese War through her father’s recollections. From working at a Buddhist organization and from taking care of her father, she comes to understand birth, aging, sickness, and death. The author considers herself “half a banana”—yellow on the outside but a bit white on the inside. Having lived in the States for forty-three years, she understands both Chinese and American cultures well and shows how the two cultures, especially the fundamental difference between them, have molded her life. Dotted with well-known Chinese sayings and anecdotes, Memoir of Half a Banana offers an interesting and truthful glimpse into the Chinese people and ideology.
Memoirs Of The Rev Walter M Lowrie
Author : Walter Macon LowrieISBN : STANFORD:36105039351643
Genre : Evangelists
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The Versions Of Us
Author : Laura BarnettISBN : 9781474600187
Genre : Fiction
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A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK AND NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER What if you had said yes . . . ? Eva and Jim are nineteen, and students at Cambridge, when their paths first cross in 1958. Jim is walking along a lane when a woman approaching him on a bicycle swerves to avoid a dog. What happens next will determine the rest of their lives. We follow three different versions of their future - together, and apart - as their love story takes on different incarnations and twists and turns to the conclusion in the present day. The Versions of Us is an outstanding debut novel about the choices we make and the different paths that our lives might follow. What if one small decision could change the rest of your life? Laura's Barnett's new book GREATEST HITS is available for pre-order now.
A Brief Memoir Of Maria Fox Late Of Tottenham
Author : Maria Middleton FoxISBN : PSU:000062670142
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Memoirs Of The Historical Society Of Pennsylvania
Author : Historical Society of PennsylvaniaISBN : UVA:X004332825
Genre : Bibliography
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Sea Fishing From Shore And Boat
Author : Various AuthorsISBN : 9781473343573
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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This is a comprehensive guide to sea fishing, with a focus on fishing in British waters. Including a wealth of timeless information and chapters on catching every kind of fish, "Sea Fishing from Shore and Boat" constitutes a must-read for anyone serious about fishing. Contents include: "British Sea Fish", "Sea-Fishing: Introductory", "Sea-Fishing from Boats: Mackerel Fishing", "Sea-Fishing from Boats: Pollack Fishing", "Sea-fishing from Boats: Whiting and other Fish", "Sea-fishing from Boats: Bass-Fishing", "Sea-Fishing from Boats: General Remarks", "Sea-Fishing from Fixed Positions: Fishing from Rocks", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of fishing.
Memoir Descriptive And Explanatory To Accompany The Charts Of The Atlantic Ocean; And Comprising Instructions General And Particular For The Navigation Of That Sea
Author : John PurdyISBN : EHC:148100406092Z
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Morgan Brierley A Memoir
Author : Morgan BrierleyISBN : HARVARD:HN28KK
Genre : England
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Leave Me Alone I M Reading
Author : Maureen CorriganISBN : 9780307431356
Genre : Literary Criticism
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In this delightful memoir, the book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air reflects on her life as a professional reader. Maureen Corrigan takes us from her unpretentious girlhood in working-class Queens, to her bemused years in an Ivy League Ph.D. program, from the whirl of falling in love and marrying (a fellow bookworm, of course), to the ordeal of adopting a baby overseas, always with a book at her side. Along the way, she reveals which books and authors have shaped her own life—from classic works of English literature to hard-boiled detective novels, and everything in between. And in her explorations of the heroes and heroines throughout literary history, Corrigan’s love for a good story shines.
Memoir
Author : Geological Survey of VictoriaISBN : SRLF:E0000408831
Genre : Geology
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Memoir
Author :ISBN : UCBK:C072488349
Genre : Geology
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New Zealand And The Sea
Author : Frances SteelISBN : 9780947518714
Genre : History
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As a group of islands in the far south-west Pacific Ocean, New Zealand has a history that is steeped in the sea. Its people have encountered the sea in many different ways: along the coast, in port, on ships, beneath the waves, behind a camera, and in the realm of the imagination. While New Zealanders have continually altered their marine environments, the ocean, too, has influenced their lives. A multi-disciplinary work encompassing history, marine science, archaeology and visual culture, New Zealand and the Sea explores New Zealand’s varied relationship with the sea, challenging the conventional view that history unfolds on land. Leading and emerging scholars highlight the dynamic, ocean-centred history of these islands and their inhabitants, offering fascinating new perspectives on New Zealand’s pasts. ‘The ocean has profoundly shaped culture across this narrow archipelago . . . The meeting of land and sea is central in historical accounts of Polynesian discovery and colonisation; European exploratory voyaging; sealing, whaling and the littoral communities that supported these plural occupations; and the mass migrant passage from Britain.’ – Frances Steel
The American Bookseller
Author :ISBN : NYPL:33433082244116
Genre : American literature
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Life Writing In The Posthuman Anthropocene
Author : Ina BatzkeISBN : 9783030779733
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene is a timely collection of insightful contributions that negotiate how the genre of life writing, traditionally tied to the human perspective and thus anthropocentric qua definition, can provide adequate perspectives for an age of ecological disasters and global climate change. The volume’s eight chapters illustrate the aptness of life writing and life writing studies to critically reevaluate the role of “the human” vis-à-vis non-human others while remaining mindful of persisting inequalities between humans regarding who causes and who suffers damage in the Anthropocene age. The authors in this collection not only expand the toolbox of life writing studies by engaging with critical insights from the fields of posthumanism and ecocriticism, but, in turn, also enrich those fields by offering unique approaches to contemplate the responsibility of humans for as well as their relational existence in the posthuman Anthropocene.
Good Words
Author :ISBN : UOM:39015038665611
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Good Words And Sunday Magazine
Author :ISBN : NWU:35556000746461
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Good Words
Author : DONALD MACLEOD, D.DISBN : HARVARD:32044010375228
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The Athenaeum
Author :ISBN : PRNC:32101077276473
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