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Um encontro ao acaso em um trem leva duas pessoas a se apaixonarem quando menos esperam… e bem durante o Natal! Aletha Dewitt leva uma vida de conto-de-fadas. Ao menos é o que parece para quem olha de fora. Sim, ela tinha tudo o que alguém poderia desejar, exceto respeito. Ela tinha mais ideias e ambições do que o irmão terá algum dia na vida, mas os homens da família eram antiquados demais para notar. No entanto, nada ficaria em seu caminho, nem mesmo o amor. Rafael, o conte Leone, está...
| Автор | Dawn Brower |
A guerra que os juntou, acabou por separá-los. Anos mais tarde seus caminhos voltam a se cruzar e eles têm mais uma chance de viver aquele amor, mas os medos de Victoria os mantêm separados. Eles sobreviveram em um mundo destruído pela guerra, só o tempo poderá dizer se o amor que encontraram acabará por florescer. William Collins nunca quis deixar os confortos de Lilimar, o seu lar. Um dia a plantação seria dele, e ele dedicou seu coração e sua alma para fazê-la prosperar. Quando a guerra é...
| Автор | Dawn Brower |
Un amor que solamente un cuento de hadas puede crear… Un amor que solamente un cuento de hadas puede crear… Lady Delilah Everly no ha tenido una vida tan maravillosa como algunos podrían creer. El mal ni siquiera empezó a describir a su madre o como debería tratar a las personas que se suponía tenía que amar. A Dalilah se le endureció el corazón y aprendió pronto a depender de sí misma comenzando a adquirir las habilidades necesarias para sobrevivir por su cuenta. Marrok Palmer, el duque de...
| Автор | Dawn Brower |
Um amor que só um conto de fadas pode criar… Um amor que só um conto de fadas pode criar… Lady Delilah Everly não levou a vida encantada que alguns podem acreditar. Perversa nem sequer começava a descrever sua mãe ou como tratava aqueles que deveria amar. Isso endureceu Delilah para o amor e ela aprendeu cedo a apenas depender de si mesma e a ganhar as habilidades necessárias para sobreviver sozinha. Marrok Palmer, o duque de Wolfton, não consegue entender a mudança que sua vida tomou. Para...
| Автор | Dawn Brower |
At the beginning of the twentieth century, in the poverty-stricken Swedish region of Småland, young Valter, the son of a soldier, explores the world around him and watches his older brothers emigrate to America. In this novel of the life of a farm boy, first published in three volumes in 1946, Vilhelm Moberg sensitively explores his own childhood.<br /><br />When Valter, a boy with great imagination, describes the exciting things he sees so vividly, he is punished for lying, so he...
| Автор | Vilhelm Moberg |
Largely developed by Norwegians, Swedes, and Swedish-speaking Finns who spread in a short time across eight distinct settlements, the isolated community of Hovland, Minnesota, quickly established a reputation for its natural beauty and the lively activity and hospitality of its people. Excerpted and adapted from the book Norwegians and Swedes in the United States: Friends and Neighbors edited by Philip J. Anderson and Dag Blanck.
| Автор | Philip J. Anderson |
Lois Phillips Hudson eloquently portrays George Custer, a determined and angry man who must battle both the land and the landlord; his hard-working wife Rachel; and their young and vulnerable daughter Lucy. Through their compelling story looms a sense of a whole nation's tragedy during the Great Depression.<br /><br />Reviews of The Bones of Plenty:<br /><br />"It is possible . . .that literary historians of the future will decide that The Bones of Plenty...
| Автор | Lois Phillips Hudson |
– The racist violence on display in Charlottesville struck an alarming wake-up call about the rise of white supremacy, anti-Semitism, and pro-fascism have during the Trump presidency. As these flash points continue to occur and tip into the news cycle, Jamey Tracy and Hilary Moore will be able to address them from the standpoint of the history of radical groups’ efforts to confront similar outbreaks when white supremacists felt they had a friend in the White House. – Will be...
| Автор | Hilary Moore |
When Frederick Morgan was appointed COSSAC (Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander), in the spring of 1943, there was no approved plan for a cross-Channel attack and no commander. There was not even agreement about when the re-entry into the Continent would occur. The western Allies were in the midst of a great debate about the strategy or strategies to defeat Nazi Germany. COSSAC’s primary task was to create a plan that would be approved by the inter-allied Combined Chiefs of Staff....
| Автор | Stephen C. Kepher |
Out and Proud in Chicago takes readers through the long and rich history of the city's LGBT community. Lavishly illustrated with color and black-and white-photographs, the book draws on a wealth of scholarly, historical, and journalistic sources. Individual sections cover the early days of the 1800s to World War II, the challenging community-building years from World War II to the 1960s, the era of gay liberation and AIDS from the 1970s to the 1990s, and on to the city's...
| Автор | Tracy Baim |
What happens when cultural memory becomes a commodity? Who owns the memory? In The Memory Marketplace , Emilie Pine explores how memory is performed both in Ireland and abroad by considering the significant body of contemporary Irish theatre that contends with its own culture and history. Analyzing examples from this realm of theatre, Pine focuses on the idea of witnesses, both as performers on stage and as members of the audience. Whose memories are observed in these transactions, and how and...
| Автор | Emilie Pine |
Following the brutal invasion and occupation of Poland, the Nazis put measures into place: remove the Jews, bring in German settlers, and racially classify the rest of the population in order to separate Poles from ethnic Germans. Gerhard Wolf reveals an astonishing reality in which the plan met with massive resistance from various Nazi occupation institutions, especially when it came to deeming a majority of Polish citizens as «racially unfit.» According to Wolf, the everchanging environment of...
| Автор | Gerhard Wolf |
Over the past century, the Wolverines have created heroes and legends that excite both the young and old. From the first football game in 1879 to the hundreds of thousands of faithful fans that cheer on the most triumphant program in college football history, University of Michigan football has an undeniable legacy.In Michigan Motivations: A Year of Inspiration with the University of Michigan Wolverines, authors Cyle Young and Del Duduit relive the most famous moments and show readers how they...
| Автор | Cyle Young |
We all know the names: Grissom, Armstrong, Cernan-legends of the space age whose names resonate with people around the world and whose deeds need no introduction. We know less about the men who led the organization that planned and began the US exploration of space: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Thomas O. Paine grew up an ordinary boy in northern California during the Great Depression of the 1930s. He would go on to serve as NASA's third administrator, leading...
| Автор | Sunny Tsiao |
Between 1939 and 1945, more than seventy Allied men and women were convicted-mostly in secret trials-of working to help Nazi Germany win the war. In the same period, hundreds of British Fascists were also interned without trial on specific and detailed evidence that they were spying for, or working on behalf of, Germany. Collectively, these men and women were part of a little-known Fifth Column: traitors who committed crimes including espionage, sabotage, communicating with enemy intelligence...
| Автор | Tim Tate |
Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart is not your usual musical scholarship. In October 1999, eleven Antilleans attended the service held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin's death. This service, held in the Warsaw church where the composer's heart is kept in an urn, was an opportunity for these Antilleans to express their debt of gratitude to Chopin, whose influence is central to Antillean music history. Press coverage of this...
| Автор | Jan Brokken |
Iranian Diaspora Identities: Stories and Songs combines oral history, storytelling, theories of communication, and performance studies into a unique study of an immigrant community. This book is the result of collaborative work between two Iranian-American immigrants, one a musician and artist and the other a professor. Using ethnographic, dramatistic, and oral history approaches, Ziba Shirazi gathered these stories of diaspora journeys of Iranians living in California and Toronto in the...
| Автор | Ziba Shirazi |
From Syrian civilians locked in iron cages to veterans joining peaceful indigenous water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, from Sri Lanka to Iraq and from Yemen to the United States, human beings have been used as shields for protection, coercion, or deterrence. Over the past decade, human shields have also appeared with increasing frequency in antinuclear struggles, civil and environmental protests, and even computer games. The phenomenon, however, is by no means a new...
| Автор | Dr. Neve Gordon |
This book explores how and why Vietnam loomed so large for Humphrey as vice president from 1964 through the 1968 election campaign against Richard Nixon. It assesses how Humphrey’s loyalty to Lyndon B. Johnson, who emerges as the villain of the story in many ways, would negatively affect his political ambitions. And it engages the disconnect between Humphrey’s principles and the intricate politics of his convoluted relationship with the president and his unsuccessful...
| Автор | Andrew L. Johns |
<P>In France, both political culture and theatrical performances have drawn upon melodrama. This "melodramatic thread" helped weave the country’s political life as it moved from monarchy to democracy. By examining the relationship between public ceremonies and theatrical performance, James R. Lehning sheds light on democratization in modern France. He explores the extent to which the dramatic forms were present in the public performance of political...
| Автор | James R. Lehning |
<P>In this original and provocative study, Zsuzsa Gille examines three scandals that have shaken Hungary since it joined the European Union: the 2004 ban on paprika due to contamination, the 2008 boycott of Hungarian foie gras by Austrian animal rights activists, and the "red mud" spill of 2010, Hungary’s worst environmental disaster. In each case, Gille analyzes how practices of production and consumption were affected by the proliferation of new...
| Автор | Zsuzsa Gille |
<P>The Past Ahead is the story of the destinies of two people after their experiences of the genocide in Rwanda. Isaro is orphaned, exiled, and now returned to her native country. Niko is a character in a novel that Isaro writes to help her understand her country's recent horrific past. Isaro's quest to recover the memory of the life she has lost is haunted by her nightmare imaginings, whose horror is given expression through Niko, a mute social outcast. When an army...
| Автор | Gilbert Gatore |
<P>On May 20, 2016, armed with only their cameras, Hoosiers set out to capture the nature of their state and its people—from farmyards to city streets, state parks to suburbs, the familiar to the surprising—and in the process document a rich and diverse culture in the everyday. In these remarkable photographs, Hoosiers reclaim their state and define their identity, visually guiding readers through 24 hours of life in Indiana. Over 140 photographs preserve the wealth of their...
| Автор | Indiana University Press |
Laird Keir McQuade is a newcomer to his title, and has much work before him to restore the McQuade honor. Finding a wife is an excellent start. He's duty-bound to go to court and swear homage to his king anyway, a perfect opportunity–were not court women trussed in stupid fashions and corrupted with false mannerisms. Of course, not every lady hides behind a powdered face. . .Helena Knyvett may be a daughter of the aristocracy, but in truth she is little but a pawn in her brother's...
| Автор | Mary Wine |