memoir of elizabeth t king with extracts from her letters

The Laundress Catches Her Breath

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Corso, Paola, PUBLISHER: CavanKerry Press, This powerful collection of poetry features a chain-smoking, working-class Italian American woman struggling to support herself and find meaningful work in a depressed mill town. She endures the indignity of a low-paid job that she can't afford to leave. The poems follow her tumultuous relationship with her father, a retired mill worker, her love for her educated uncle dying of cancer, and her escape from this soiled life through her ritual of doing laundry.

Love Live! Sunshine! Nendoroid Action Figure Kanan Matsuura

From the popular anime series,LoveLive!Sunshine!, comes a Nendoroid of the Aqours member Kanan Matsuura wearing her outfit from the song,Aozora Jumping Heart,! She comes with both a cheerful face plate as well as an embarrassed face plate for when others make fun of her!A selection of different parts are also included which allow you to pose her in different dance poses from the opening theme of the anime series! Be sure to enjoy her together with the other members of Aqours!

If We Must Dance, Then I Will Lead: A Memoir of Breast

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jane Rudden, Rudden, PUBLISHER: iUniverse, The first book on the subject of breast cancer survival from the point of view of a woman who has the support of seven sisters, If We Must Dance, Then I Will Lead combines memoir and science writing. A fresh voice tells a story of surviving a labyrinth of knives, needles, and radiation beams. Jane and her sisters were cut from the same cloth. The nuns told them, "Take it on the chin;" Mom said, "Offer it up for the poor souls in purgatory;" Daddy said, "Mind your mother." There they were, grounded in acquiescence, long-suffering, and obedient when the beast tapped her on the shoulder and asked, "Shall we dance?" If We Must Dance, Then I Will Lead is laced with humor to soften the starkness of medical terminology. Julie, the certified cranial prosthesis fitter, sets Jane up with a wig that gives her a hairstyle that looks like the ladies at Thursday night Bingo. Esther, the breast prosthesis fitter, insists that she's a D cup when she's been a 36B since high school and doesn't like the look of a rubber nipple showing through her sweater This memoir will encourage women to advocate for themselves in the scary world of oncology.

Loving God with All Your Mind

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: George, Elizabeth, PUBLISHER: Harvest House Publishers, More than thoughts pass through our minds each day. Wouldn't you like all of those thoughts to please God? From her past struggles, George shares how you can know the inner joy that comes from focusing on what is true, pure, lovely, and good.

Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bashir, Halima / Lewis, Damien, PUBLISHER: One World, Born into the Zaghawa tribe in the Sudanese desert, Halima Bashir received a good education away from her rural surroundings (thanks to her doting, politically astute father) and at twenty-four became her village's first formal doctor. Yet not even Bashir's degree could protect her from the encroaching conflict that would consume her homeland. Janjaweed Arab militias savagely assaulted the Zaghawa, often with the backing of the Sudanese military. Then, in early , the Janjaweed attacked Bashir's village and surrounding areas, raping forty-two schoolgirls and their teachers. Bashir, who treated the traumatized victims, some as young as eight years old, could no longer remain quiet. But breaking her silence ignited a horrifying turn of events. Raw and riveting, Tears of the Desert is the first memoir ever written by a woman caught up in the war in Darfur. It is a survivor's tale of a conflicted country, a resilient people, and an uncompromising spirit.

BEING ELIZABETH

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: BRADFORD, BARBARA T, PUBLISHER: HARPER COLLINS OMES, At age twenty-five, Elizabeth Deravenel Turner finds herself in a position few women her age could image: the head of Deravenels, a business empire that spans the globe. It's a company whose reach is wide and whose secrets are deep. Deravenels has roots that go far back in her family's history--and she knows the price that many had to pay to see it reach the success it is today. Elizabeth is the youngest executive in the company she now leads. Surrounded by rumors and disloyalty, she is aware that there are many people who would give anything to take down the company--and her with it. With her enemies circling, she finds herself at a crossroad of choices involving her mind, her heart, and her destiny. As scandal surrounds the one man she's ever loved, Elizabeth discovers how the next move she makes could have deadly and final consequences...

The coronation of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Vendo vecchio libro scritto in Inglese The coronation of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth IO Approved souvenir programme 2 Giugno

Elizabeth Baird's Favourites: 150 Classic Canadian Recipes

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Baird, Elizabeth, PUBLISHER: James Lorimer & Company, A celebration of the wealth of Canada's regional cooking styles and traditions: 150 of celebrated food writer Elizabeth Baird's favourite recipes from across the country. Gathered from celebrated chefs, humble farmers' markets and the author's own collection, the recipes in "Elizabeth Baird's Favourites" range from the hearty to the elegant, from thick chowders and buttermilk rolls to asparaus tarts and smoked whitfish pate. In addition to sophisticated urban cuisine there are dishes representing Ontario country cooking, Mennonite, Quebecois, Acadian and Prairie foodways. "Elizabeth Baird's Favourites" offers and array of delightful dishes presented in the style that has made Elizabeth's name synonymous with fine cooking.

The Unexpected Letter

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Stahl, Hilda, PUBLISHER: Tyndale Kids, This series has been popular with young girls for over two decades, and the updated series is sure to be a favorite of this generation too. Elizabeth Gail Dobbs ("Libby") is a foster child and the newest member of the Johnson family. Libby's new Christian family leads her to a relationship with God and teaches her about love. Throughout the series Libby learns about the power of prayer, how to love her enemies, and how to rely on God. In #10 "The Unexpected Letter," Libby learns that her birth mother is coming to take her away from the Johnsons, and she panics. How could God let this happen to her?

Letters Home: A Paratroopers Story

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Curtis, H. L. "Bud" / Curtis, Ed D. L. Vaughn, PUBLISHER: Ecko Publishing, Letters Home: A Paratrooper's Story is an account of a combat paratrooper, Harland "Bud" Curtis. Bud joined the paratroopers in April , and found himself assigned to the famed "517th Parachute Infantry Regiment," later to become a Parachute Regimental Combat Team, "The Battling Buzzards" (which was the only parachute regimental combat team in the European Theater of war). From , Bud wrote over 130 letters home to his mother, detailing his experiences from initial training to the eventual combat fighting in Italy, France, Belgium, and finally Germany. Bud's mother kept these letters throughout her life, and they were discovered when she passed away. Included in this third edition are more historic pictures along with pictures of the weapons used by the 517th PRCT. There are quotes from General Seitz, Colonel Boyle, Major Fraser, Merle Traver, and John Anderson from the 517th reunion in Washington, D.C., . Many historical facts from the beginning to the end are included with much information cited from Paratrooper Odyssey, Battling Buzzards, and many other references. This book is not an account of what Bud remembered, rather letters written on a specific day with documented facts of what happened on that day between . These letters are often poignant with sincere thoughts and feelings of a combat paratrooper in the middle of the most horrific battles of World War II.

Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Suleiman, Rubin / Suleiman, Susan Rubin, PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press, Can you forget the place you once called home? What does it take to make you recapture it? In this moving memoir, Susan Rubin Suleiman describes her returns to the city of her birth--where she speaks the language like a native but with an accent. Suleiman left Budapest in as a young child with her parents, fleeing communism; thirty-five years later, she returned with her two sons from a brief vacation and began to remember her childhood. Her earliest memories, of Nazi persecution in the final year of World War II, came back to her in fragments, as did memories of her first school years after the war of the stormy marriage between her father, a brilliant Talmudic scholar, and her mother, a cosmopolitan woman from a more secular Jewish family. In , after the fall of communism and the death of her mother, Suleiman returned to Budapest for six-month stay. She recounts her ongoing quest for personal history, interweaving it with the stories of present-day Hungarians struggling to make sense of the changes in their individual and collective lives. Suleiman's search for documents relating to her childhood, the lives of her parents and their families, and the Jewish communities of Hungary and Poland takes her on a series of fascinating journeys within and outside Budapest. Emerging from this eloquent, often suspenseful diary is the portrait of an intellectual who recaptures her past and comes into contact with the vital, troubling world of contemporary Eastern Europe. Suleiman's vivid descriptions of her encounters with a proud, old city and its people in a time of historical change remind us that every life story is at once unique and part of a larger history.

An Invitation from the King

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Weaver, Letrice, PUBLISHER: Xulon Press, Experience the Liberating Power of God's Truth and Discover Who You Really Are If you long to be released from the chains of your past, experience freedom from inner limitations, or if you feel completely comfortable in your walk with God, the biblical principles in An Invitation From The King will further propel you into your God-given destiny. Author Letrice Weaver is no stranger to "the pit or the palace." Learn how the liberating power of God's word and His presence enabled this author to overcome her own battles with fears, rejection, low self-esteem and guilt. As you journey with her, get ready to experience your own transformation - from victim to victor, from tragedy to triumph and from depression to delight in Him It all began with an invitation from the King, and should you accept your invitation, one thing is certain: you will never be the same A sought-after conference and retreat speaker, Rev. Letrice Weaver is an ordained Minister of the gospel and is grateful to God for using her as one of His vessels. One of her deepest and most heartfelt desires is to see the people of God set free from the bondages of fear, insecurity and low self-esteem, of which she is a living testimony. Rev. Letrice currently serves as a Women's Sunday School Teacher, an Intercessory Prayer Ministry Leader and counselor at Cornerstone Peaceful Bible Baptist Church in Upper Marlboro, MD. Her work has been published in the Atlanta News Weekly, Due Season and Say Amen Magazines.

Fugitive Pieces

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Michaels, Anne, PUBLISHER: Thorndike Press, A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award In , Jakob Beer, a seven-year-old boy, bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from Nazi soldiers who have killed his family. Though he should have died with his family, he has not only survived but been rescued by a Greek geologist. With this electrifying backdrop, Anne Michaels propels us into her rapturously acclaimed novel of loss, memory, history, and redemption. Michaels lets us witness Jakob's transformation from a half-wild casualty of the Holocaust to an artis who extracts meaning from the abyss. Filled with mysterious symmetries and rendered in heart-stopping prose, Fugitive Pieces is a triumphant work. "From the Trade Paperback edition."

Elizabeth Healy's Literary Tour of Ireland: See Ireland

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Healy, Elizabeth, PUBLISHER: Wolfhound Press (IE), The age-old Irish preoccupation with place gave rise to a whole genre of Gaelic literature devoted exclusively to place-lore. That sense has permeated Irish and Anglo-Irish literature down to the present day. Intended as a practical guide to places with which poets and novelists have been associated, and some which have given rise to legends, this lovingly written and informative book will convey to the reader a sense of enchantment that comes from a knowledge of Ireland's richly textured land and literature. Enroute, readers will encounter, perhaps rediscover, some of the world's greatest literary personalities and be rewarded by the discovery of lesser-known treasures. Extracts from poems and novels accompany the text, as well as maps, illustrations, and gorgeous color photographs, plus an extensive reading list.

A Memoir of Jane Austen: And Other Family Recollections

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Austen-Leigh, James Edward / Sutherland, Kathryn, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in , over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward's two sisters, Anna Lefroy and Caroline Austen, the Memoir remains the prime authority for her life and continues to inform all subsequent accounts. These are family memories, the record of Jane Austen's life shaped and limited by the loyalties, reserve, and affection of nieces and nephews recovering in old age the outlines of the young aunt they had each known. They still remembered the shape of her bonnet and the tone of her voice, and their first-hand accounts bring her vividly before us. Their declared partiality also raises fascinating issues concerning biographical truth, and the terms in which all biography functions. This edition brings together for the first time these three memoirs, and also includes Jane's brother Henry Austen's "Biographical Notice" of and his less known "Memoir" of .

Small Island

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Levy, Andrea, PUBLISHER: Review/Headline, Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction A Picador Original Trade Paperback Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie, raised as a farmer's daughter, befriends Gilbert, and later Hortense, with innocence and courage, until the unexpected arrival of her husband, Bernard, who returns from combat with issues of his own to resolve. Told in these four voices, "Small Island "is a courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers---in short, an encapsulation of that most American of experiences: the immigrant's life.

My Life in France

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Child, Julia / Prud'homme, Alex, PUBLISHER: Anchor Books, Julia Child single handedly awakened America to the pleasures of "good "cooking with her cookbook "Mastering the Art of French Cooking "and her television show "The French Chef," but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she didn't know the first thing about cooking when she landed in France. Indeed, when she first arrived in with her husband, Paul, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself. But as she dove into French culture, buying food at local markets and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever. Julia's unforgettable story unfolds with the spirit so key to her success as as a cook and teacher and writer, brilliantly capturing one of the most endearing American personalities of the last fifty years.

Death Comes to Pemberley

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: James, P. D., PUBLISHER: Vintage Books, A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen's beloved novel "Pride and Prejudice" into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem. It is , six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together at Pemberley, Darcy's magnificent estate. Their peaceful, orderly world seems almost unassailable. Elizabeth has found her footing as the chatelaine of the great house. They have two fine sons, Fitzwilliam and Charles. Elizabeth's sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live nearby; her father visits often; there is optimistic talk about the prospects of marriage for Darcy's sister Georgiana. And preparations are under way for their much-anticipated annual autumn ball. Then, on the eve of the ball, the patrician idyll is shattered. A coach careens up the drive carrying Lydia, Elizabeth's disgraced sister, who with her husband, the very dubious Wickham, has been banned from Pemberley. She stumbles out of the carriage, hysterical, shrieking that Wickham has been murdered. With shocking suddenness, Pemberley is plunged into a frightening mystery. Inspired by a lifelong passion for Austen, P. D. James masterfully re-creates the world of "Pride and Prejudice, " electrifying it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly crafted crime story, as only she can write it. "From the Hardcover edition."

Getting Started: A Memoir of the s

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Weintraub, Stanley / Weintraub, William, PUBLISHER: McClelland & Stewart, "With letters from Mordecai Richler, Mavis Gallant, and Brian Moore" "Getting Started" is a wonderful memoir, a collection of extraordinary letters, and a brilliant recreation of a time when Canadian writers were set to make their mark in the world for the first time. Writer Brian Moore emigrated from Ireland to Canada in the late s and found work at the Montreal Gazette, where he also found William Weintraub embarking upon a career as a freelance journalist. When he travelled to Paris, Weintraub saw an old friend and former Gazette writer, Mavis Gallant, who filled him in on the tribulations of the expatriate writer's life (""My room is enormous and the radiator very small indeed""). Gallant introduced Weintraub to another Montreal writer, Mordecai Richler, also pursuing a career as a novelist while living a gloriously Bohemian life. Weintraub joined Richler for a while in Ibiza (he later introduced him to Brian Moore), and later they kept in touch. (""Dear Bill: I got your highly unintellectual letter yesterday and it confirmed my suspicions that you slipped a chair under your arse in the Deux Magots as soon as you arrived in Paris and probably haven't moved since."") In these years, Gallant had her short stories published for the first time in the New Yorker, Moore methodically churned out money-making thrillers while working on "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne," and Richler wrote his first acclaimed book, "The Acrobats." Weintraub, meanwhile, returned to Montreal, where he saw published his brilliant comic novel, "Why Rock the Boat?" William Weintraub weaves together his own memories of the s with letters both to and from his literary colleagues. The letters and his recollections are always fascinating, often hilarious, and provide intimate insight into the lives and work of some of Canada's finest contemporary writers.

The Very Thought of You

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Alison, Rosie, PUBLISHER: Anchor Canada, "England, 31st of August, "The world is on the brink of war. As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, thousands of children are evacuated from London to escape the impending Blitz. Torn from her mother, eight-year-old Anna Sands is relocated with other children to a large Yorkshire estate opened up to evacuees by Thomas and Elizabeth Ashton, an enigmatic childless couple. Soon Anna gets drawn into their unravelling relationship, seeing things that are not meant for her eyes - and finding herself part-witness and part-accomplice to a love affair, with unforseen consequences. A story of longing, loss and complicated loyalties, combinging a sweeping narrative with subtle psychological observation, The Very Thought of You is not just a love story, but a story about love.

Jack London (Volume One)

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: London, Charmian, PUBLISHER: University Press of the Pacific, CONTENTS Prologue, and a Meeting Heredity Nativity Boyhood Livermore Valley Boyhood to Youth: Oakland Estuary: Inland Sailoring Cannery: Sloop "Razzle Dazzle": The Queen of the Oyster Pirates Oyster-Pirating Fish-Patrol "Sophie Sutherland": Sealing Autumn into Spring, to : Jute-Mill: Coal-Shovelling: Boy-and-Girl Love Tramping: The Road - The Sailor on Foot and Rod Tramping (Second Part): From St Joseph, Michigan, to Washington, D. C. etc. High School, University, Into Klondike, Out of Klondike, Return from Klondike: Writing - : Lily Maid Letters Cloudesley John's Correspondence Introducing Anna Strunsky, and Jack's Letters to Her; also More John's Letters Marriage to Bessie Maddern: and More Letters Letters: Cloudesley and Anna : Back to Piedmont from England, etc.

Just One Look

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Coben, Harlan, PUBLISHER: Orion Publishing Co, When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture that doesn't belong-a photo from at least twenty years ago with a man in it who looks strikingly like her husband, Jack. And though Jack denies it's him, he disappears that night, taking the photo with him. Now, to save her family from a fierce, silent killer who will stop at nothing to get the photo, Grace must confront the dark corners of her own tragic past...

Memoir of a Visionary: Antonia Pantoja

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pantoja, Antonia, PUBLISHER: Arte Publico Press, Antonia Pantoja's memoir is filled with descriptions of her life as a factory worker and lamp designer, to acclaimed social worker and principal engineer of the most enduring Puerto Rican organizations in New York City, including Aspira, the non-profit organization devoted to the education and leadership development of Puerto Rican youth.

Liberty Letters(tm): Personal Correspondence of Emma Edmonds

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: LeSourd, Nancy, PUBLISHER: Zonderkidz, Historical background of the Civil War and insights into how God works through ordinary people--for girls ages 10 and upIn the next book in the Liberty Letters series, Emma Edmonds enters the Civil War as a nurse whose first priority is to make sure each soldier she cares for knows Jesus. When a friendship sparks between her and Molly Turner, a Christian from the South who is torn by her role in the war, each is encouraged with a greater sense of duty as they correspond and contribute to the Union's war effort. Pearl Harbor,

The Dangerous Double

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Stahl, Hilda, PUBLISHER: Tyndale Kids, For more than two decades, Elizabeth Gail's adventures have fascinated young girls. Newly updated, this series is sure to be a favorite with today's generation as well. In this fourth book, Elizabeth Gail Dobbs comes face to face with her double when she visits her Grandma and Grandpa Johnson. What's behind the mysterious look-alike? How did she materialize seemingly from nowhere? And why all the trouble now? Lessons of life, faith, and loving others are brought to bear in this readable favorite for girls.

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