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Author: Phoebe Fox
Publisher:
Published: 2017-12
Total Pages: 18
ISBN-13: 9780996744515
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Starry the Sheep is nervous about her impending "haircut," but her experience with a kind farmer in her schoolyard home, reveals that change can be a "baa-utiful" thing! An endearing story written by children's librarian, Phoebe Fox, "Starry's Haircut" will delight readers both young and old.
Author: Jeffrey Cox
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2023-03-02
Total Pages: 537
ISBN-13: 147284985X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Thousands of miles from friendly ports, the US Navy had finally managed to complete the capture of Guadalcanal from the Japanese in early 1943. Now the Allies sought to keep the offensive momentum won at such a high cost. This is the central plotline running through this page-turning history beginning with the Japanese Operation I-Go and the American ambush of Admiral Yamamoto and continuing on to the Allied invasion of New Georgia, northwest of Guadalcanal in the middle of the Solomon Islands and the location of a major Japanese base. Determined not to repeat their mistakes at Guadalcanal, the Allies nonetheless faltered in their continuing efforts to roll back the Japanese land, air and naval forces. Using first-hand accounts from both sides, this book vividly recreates all the terror and drama of the nighttime naval battles during this phase of the Solomons campaign and the ferocious firestorm many Marines faced as they disembarked from their landing craft. The reader is transported to the bridge to stand alongside Admiral Walden Ainsworth as he sails to stop another Japanese reinforcement convoy for New Georgia, and vividly feels the fear of an 18-year-old Marine as he fights for survival against a weakened but still determined enemy. Dark Waters, Starry Skies is an engrossing history which weaves together strategy and tactics with a blow-by-blow account of every battle at a vital point in the Pacific War that has not been analyzed in this level of detail before.
Author: Vernal E. Richardson
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2022-06-03
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1685706657
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book has several purposes. First, I intend to illustrate that Christianity can be a good foundation for a career in music. Second, I would like to mention and thank as many people as possible who have made positive contributions to my career. Third, I would like to provide a collection of stories (perhaps proverbs or parables) that could be useful to teachers. Fourth, I recognize now that my lifetime has seen historical revolution in the arts, finance, sex, marriage, military, politics, transportation, entertainment: practically every value we took for granted when I was a child has either been discarded or modified to the point where it is hardly recognizable. However, humanity still exists and with all its faults it is lovable and worth preserving. Oh, yes, I would also like this book to be enjoyable reading! Vernal E. Richardson
Author: Phoebe Fox
Publisher:
Published: 2021-05
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780996744539
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Phoebe K Fox
Publisher: Starry the Sheep
Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9780996744553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Starry the Sheep finds herself lost in an Arizona neighborhood near her schoolyard home. Tempted to give up, she soon discovers she has the senses to find her way.
Author: Margaret Juhae Lee
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2024-03-05
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1685890946
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Absorbing...Starry Field reminds us that even knowing where we came from won’t tell us where we’re going - but it will help along the way.” Susan Choi, National Book Award winning author of Trust Exercise A poignant memoir for readers who love Pachinko and The Return by journalist Margaret Juhae Lee, who sets out on a search for her family’s history lost to the darkness of Korea’s colonial decades, and contends with the shockwaves of violence that followed them over four generations and across continents. As a young girl growing up in Houston, Margaret Juhae Lee never heard about her grandfather, Lee Chul Ha. His history was lost in early twentieth-century Korea, and guarded by Margaret’s grandmother, who Chul Ha left widowed in 1936 with two young sons. To his surviving family, Lee Chul Ha was a criminal, and his granddaughter was determined to figure out why. Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History chronicles Chul Ha’s untold story. Combining investigative journalism, oral history, and archival research, Margaret reveals the truth about the grandfather she never knew. What she found is that Lee Chul Ha was not a source of shame; he was a student revolutionary imprisoned in 1929 for protesting the Japanese government’s colonization of Korea. He was a hero—and eventually honored as a Patriot of South Korea almost 60 years after his death. But reclaiming her grandfather’s legacy, in the end, isn’t what Margaret finds the most valuable. It is through the series of three long-form interviews with her grandmother that Margaret finally finds a sense of recognition she’s been missing her entire life. A story of healing old wounds and the reputation of an extraordinary young man, Starry Field bridges the tales of two women, generations and oceans apart, who share the desire to build family in someplace called home. Starry Field weaves together the stories of Margaret’s family against the backdrop of Korea’s tumultuous modern history, with a powerful question at its heart. Can we ever separate ourselves from our family’s past—and if the answer is yes, should we? 20 memorable photographs will be included.
Author: Claire Fejes
Publisher: Epicenter Press
Published: 2016-02-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1935347500
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Young Claire Fejes was a promising sculptor and painter in New York City when her husband gave in to "gold fever." She held the unconventional view that her career was as important as his. But in those days, a woman followed her husband, so Claire did--to Fairbanks, last stop on the Alaska Railroad, in the heart of the immense northern territory, where Joe Fejes intended to mine for gold. In a refreshingly candid memoir, Claire describes a remote outpost where the young couple joins a hard breed of Alaskans who transform loneliness into powerful friendships and where the artist overcomes soul-aching cultural isolation. Fairbanks is populated by characters such as the happy Finnish couple who adopt Claire and Joe; the lively Eva McGown, a one-woman social services agency who wears a potent violet perfume and speaks with a sweet Irish brogue; and Fabian Carey, the trapper who loves the wilderness as much as he does opera, literate, and art. Written from the heart, this memoir of post-war Alaska has become a classic with its nostalgic reflections of a simpler time.
Author: Diane Craver
Publisher: Diane Craver
Published:
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rebecca Fisher’s childhood best friend, Andrew Kauffman, left Clayton Falls without saying goodbye. It surprised Rebecca that fifteen-year-old Andrew never kept in touch with her after suddenly leaving their close-knit Plain community. Eleven years later, Andrew breaks his engagement with an English woman and quits college to join the Amish church. When Rebecca takes a two week vacation from her job in Florida to visit her family, she’s surprised that her old friend is living in his childhood home. Andrew wants to date Rebecca, but she’s unsure about him. He and her family want Rebecca to quit her job to remain in their community. Rebecca’s afraid Andrew might change his mind about being Amish. After all, his widowed father left the Amish church to marry an English woman. During the time Andrew was away, he went to high school and college. Because Rebecca only completed the required eight years at the Amish school, she realizes education is another major difference between them. Will Rebecca decide to quit her job and live again in Clayton Falls? Is falling in love with Andrew too big of a risk for Rebecca?
