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John Marion Porter (1839–1898) grew up working at his family's farm and dry goods store in Butler County, Kentucky. The oldest of Reverend Nathaniel Porter's nine children, he was studying to become a lawyer when the Civil War began. As the son of a family of slave owners, Porter identified with the Southern cause and wasted little time enlisting in the Confederate army. He and his lifelong friend Thomas Henry Hines served in the Ninth Kentucky Calvary under John Hunt Morgan, the...
| Автор | John M. Porter |
“[Norman Lock’s fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights.” — NPR In the seventh stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Ellen Finch, former stenographer to Henry James, recalls her time as an assistant to Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, heroes of America’s woman suffrage movement, and her friendship with the diminutive Margaret, one of P. T. Barnum’s circus “eccentrics.” When her infant son is kidnapped by the Klan, Ellen, Margaret, and...
| Автор | Norman Lock |
Celebrated as the “Indiana Jones of American literature,” legendary author Paul Theroux has explored the world and shared his vision of it in more than 50 books of bestselling fiction and nonfiction. In Camp Echo, his new novella for Scribd Originals, Theroux delivers a compelling coming-of-age story about racism, masculinity, morality, and leadership. Inspired by his own experiences as a Boy Scout in the early 1950s, Theroux writes with precision and vivid detail, drawing from his days as a...
| Автор | Paul Theroux |
Deutschland, 1933: Ernst Lossa stammt aus einer Familie von «Jenischen», Zigeuner, wie man damals sagte. Er gilt als schwieriges Kind, wird von Heim zu Heim geschoben, bis er schließlich in die psychiatrische Anstalt in Kaufbeuren eingewiesen wird. Hier nimmt sein Leben die letzte, schreckliche Wendung: Obgleich geistig völlig gesund, wird Ernst Lossa 1944 die Todespritze verabreicht. Der Autor berichtet aus der Perspektive des Jungen. Er macht die Denkstrukturen des NS-Regimes sichtbar und...
| Автор | Robert Domes |
A midnight's child of poor rural India, Ujjal Dosanjh emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1964 at the age of eighteen, and spent nearly four years making crayons, car parts and shunting trains while he attended night school and learned English by listening to BBC Radio. He moved to Canada in 1968, to the west coast, where he pulled lumber in a sawmill for a few years, eventually earning a B.A from Simon Fraser University in 1973 and then his law degree from the University of British Columbia...
| Автор | Ujjal Dosanjh |
Als James Bowen den verwahrlosten Kater vor seiner Wohnungstür fand, hätte man kaum sagen können, wem von beiden es schlechter ging. James schlug sich als Straßenmusiker durch, er hatte eine harte Zeit auf der Straße hinter sich. Aber dem abgemagerten, jämmerlich maunzenden Kater konnte er einfach nicht widerstehen, er nahm ihn auf, pflegte ihn gesund und ließ ihn wieder laufen. Doch Bob war anders als andere Katzen. Er liebte seinen neuen Freund mehr als die Freiheit und blieb. Heute sind sie...
| Автор | Джеймс Боуэн |
Author was costar of the Emmy-nominated documentary Almost Sunrise , which was screened at dozens of film festivals and over 150 community screenings, and shown as part of PBS’s POV series. For his work empowering veterans to overcome moral injury, Tom Voss has been featured in the New York Times , Newsweek , National Geographic Adventure , Men’s Health , USA Today , and the Chicago Tribune . Tom has given presentations and lectures about his journey of hope and...
| Автор | Tom Voss |
"McRae brings to the highly charged, obsessive world of professional boxing a novelist's eye and ear for revealing detail and convincingly recalled dialogue. This is an impassioned book."—Joyce Carol Oates, LA Times “This deeper understanding of everything that surrounds the fight game is what makes Dark Trade so compelling and why McRae’s brave book remains essential reading for any boxing fan.”—Joshua Isard, The Fight City Dark Trade: Lost In Boxing , by Donald McRae,...
| Автор | Donald McRae |
Born in 1918 into the fabric of Arab-Jewish frontier life at the foot of Mt. Tabor, Yigal Allon rose to become one of the founding figures of the state of Israel and an architect of its politics. In 1945 Allon became commander of the Palmah—an elite unit of the Haganah, the semilegal army of the Jewish community—during the struggle against the British for independence. In the 1947-49 War of Independence against local and invading Arab armies, he led the decisive battles that...
| Автор | Anita Shapira |
At the height of the McCarthyite hysteria of the 1950s, John Paton Davies, Jr., was summoned to the State Department one morning and fired. His offense? The career diplomat had counseled the U.S. government during World War II that the Communist forces in China were poised to take over the country—which they did, in 1949. Davies joined the thousands of others who became the victims of a political maelstrom that engulfed the country and deprived the United States of the wisdom and...
| Автор | John Paton Davies, Jr. |
One hundred years after the singer’s birth, Peggy Lee: A Century of Song brings to life the eventful career of an iconic performer whose contributions to the Great American Songbook, jazz, popular music, and film music remained unparalleled. Lee stood out among her peers as an exquisite singer possessing a cool vocal style, a songwriter frequently collaborating with leading composers of American jazz and film music, and a globally-loved entertainer with star quality. Tish Oney sheds...
| Автор | Tish Oney |
Was im 1986 im Iran geschah, weiß die ganze Welt. Doch mit der Rückkehr in die USA war die Geschichte der damals erst vierjährigen Mahtob noch nicht ausgestanden. Jahrelang musste sie sich vor ihrem Vater verstecken, lebte unter falschem Namen, musste ihr Schicksal vor den Schulfreundinnen verschweigen – denn die Angst vor einer erneuten Entführung war groß. Wie geht Mahtob Mahmoody heute mit ihrer Vergangenheit um? In poetischen Bildern erzählt sie, wie sie sich von ihrer Angst befreite, sich...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Von Geburt an blind: Joana Zimmer stellt sich dennoch mutig jeder Herausforderung. Mit ihrer einzigartigen Stimme erzählt sie in ihren Songs kraftvoll und feinfühlig Geschichten, die im Herzen lange nachklingen. In diesem Hörbuch lässt sie uns teilhaben an ihren Abenteuern, Erfolgen, Zielen, Sehnsüchten und an ihrem sozialen Engagement. Ein Hörbuch über Grenzen, die keine sein müssen, und wie man das Beste aus seinem Leben macht.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
George Scialabba is a prolific critic and essayist known for his incisive, wide-ranging commentary on literature, philosophy, religion, and politics. He is also, like millions of others, a lifelong sufferer from clinical depression. In How To Be Depressed , Scialabba presents an edited selection of his mental health records spanning decades of treatment, framed by an introduction and an interview with renowned podcaster Christopher Lydon. The book also includes a wry and ruminative collection...
| Автор | George Scialabba |
A compilation of Charles Bukowski's underground articles from his column «Notes of a Dirty Old Man» appears here in book form. Bukowski's reasoning for self-describing himself as a 'dirty old man' rings true in this book. "People come to my door—too many of them really—and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk . . . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from...
| Автор | Charles Bukowski |
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title "Mark Twain endures. Readers sense his humanity, enjoy his humor, and appreciate his insights into human nature, even into such painful experiences as embarrassment and humiliation. No matter how remarkable the life of Samuel Clemens was, what matters most is the relationship of Mark Twain the writer and his writings. That is the subject of this book."—from the Preface In Mark Twain, A Literary Life , Everett...
| Автор | Everett Emerson |
The global economy threatens the uniqueness of places, people, and experiences. In Here and There, Bill Conlogue tests the assumption that literature and local places matter less and less in a world that economists describe as “flat,” politicians believe has “globalized,” and social scientists imagine as a “global village.” Each chapter begins at home, journeys elsewhere, and returns to the author’s native and chosen region,...
| Автор | Bill Conlogue |
• Includes a foreword by Gabriel Garcia Marquez «Che Guevara in Africa.»•Fills in the missing chapter in the extraordinary life of Che Guevara and completes the publication of the series of his diaries that reveal his intellect, insightfulness and literary gift as well as his contribution to revolutionary praxis.The COMPLETE, thoroughly revised and expanded edition of one of Che’s most fascinating and devastatingly honest Congo Diary.Che’s original manuscript has been reviewed by his widow...
| Автор | Ernesto Che Guevara |
Jim Simons to człowiek, który w 2018 roku uplasował się na 52. miejscu na liście najbogatszych ludzi świata. Jak tam dotarł? Dzięki matematyce! Żaden inny inwestor – ani Warren Buffett, ani George Soros, Peter Lynch, Steve Cohen czy Ray Dalio – nie jest w stanie nawet zbliżyć się do tego, czego dokonał założyciel Renaissance Technologies, Jim Simons. Od roku 1988 fundusz Medallion spod znaku Renaissance przynosi roczne dochody na poziomie 66 procent. Firma odnotowała zyski z transakcji...
| Автор | Gregory Zuckerman |
Part biography and part microhistory, Jacob Green’s Revolution focuses on two key figures in New Jersey’s revolutionary drama—Jacob Green, a radical Presbyterian minister who advocated revolution, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler, a conservative Anglican minister from Elizabeth Town who was a leading loyalist spokesman in America. Both men were towering intellects who were shaped by Puritan culture and the Enlightenment, and both became acclaimed writers and leading...
| Автор | S. Scott Rohrer |
Although Edgar Allan Poe is most often identified with stories of horror and fear, there is an unrecognized and even forgotten side to the writer. He was a self-declared lover of beauty who “from childhood’s hour . . . [had] not seen / As others saw.” Poe and the Visual Arts is the first comprehensive study of how Poe’s work relates to the visual culture of his time. It reveals his “deep worship of all beauty,” which resounded in his...
| Автор | Barbara Cantalupo |
Nichtsahnend fliegt Betty Mahmoody zusammen mit ihrer kleinen Tochter und ihrem persischen Ehemann für einen zweiwöchigen Aufenthalt in den Iran. Bereits nach wenigen Tagen muss sie feststellen, dass ihr Mann sich immer mehr verändert. Er schlägt sie und ihre Tochter und sperrt sie ein. Von einer Rückkehr in die USA ist nicht mehr die Rede. Als es Betty gelingt, Kontakt zur Schweizer Botschaft aufzunehmen, erfährt sie, dass sie das Land nur ohne ihre Tochter verlassen kann. Das aber will sie...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
A renowned author investigates the dark and shocking history of her prairie house. When researching the first occupant of her Saskatoon home, Candace Savage discovers a family more fascinating and heartbreaking than she expected. Napoléon Sureau dit Blondin built the house in the 1920s, an era when French-speakers like him were deemed “undesirable” by the political and social elite, who sought to populate the Canadian prairies with WASPs only. In an atmosphere...
| Автор | Candace Savage |
Anthony Ervin and Constantine Markides are the recipients of the 2018 Buck Dawson Author Award presented by the Internationla Swimming Hall of Fame! "Here Ervin and swim trainer and journalist Markides combine talents to create a biography that is part first-hand narrative by Ervin, with Markides filling in the details and providing context. The formula works, pulling readers into Ervin's experience of the thrill of victory and search for meaning…Featuring more depth, breadth, truth,...
| Автор | Anthony Ervin |