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Author: Joshua D. Pilzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-02-10
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 019975957X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the wake of the wartime experience of sexual slavery for the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific War (1930-45), Korean survivors lived under great pressure not to speak about what had happened to them. These sexual slaves were known as 'comfort women,' and this book brings us into the lives of three of them.
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Published: 1988-03
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOld-House Journal is the original magazine devoted to restoring and preserving old houses. For more than 35 years, our mission has been to help old-house owners repair, restore, update, and decorate buildings of every age and architectural style. Each issue explores hands-on restoration techniques, practical architectural guidelines, historical overviews, and homeowner stories--all in a trusted, authoritative voice.
Author: Jaclyn Weldon White
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780865548848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGraduate student Jill Barnes is running out of time to produce a thesis while still struggling to come to terms with her mother's recent death. When a collection of papers belonging to a prominent 19th-century statesman become available for study, Barnes leaves her home and travels to Barnett County in middle Georgia to take advantage of the opportunity.The collection is everything she'd hoped, but Jill finds herself less and less able to concentrate on the task at hand. Grief over her mother's death is increasingly intruding into her thoughts and Barnett County is not the bucolic, rural community Jill assumed it would be. The county is divided and violence breaks out.In the midst of it all, Jill finds a Civil War diary among the statesman's papers that captures her life. In the diary she discovers a young woman's life and loss that mirrors her own. This first novel is about searching for answers to life's most basic questions and finding answers in the most unlikely places.
Author: Ashley Farley
Publisher: AHF Publishing
Published: 2019-01-15
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA novel of hope and renewal by the author of the bestselling Sweeney Sisters Series. Faith Neilson, survivor of an abusive marriage, has finally discovered her life’s passion. She’s established a shelter for women in crisis. Not only for homeless women but for those suffering from abuse, dealing with addiction, or coping with grief over the loss of a loved one. Faith’s mission is to help residents mend their broken hearts. Will she find additional funding needed to keep her program afloat? A cast of memorable characters will warm reader’s hearts. There’s Tilda, who is convinced she’s in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Molly, a street-smart homeless woman who possesses an endearing childlike quality that makes her a favorite with the other residents. Caroline, whose gardening hobby has become an obsession since the death of her son. And Jenny, a young woman whose anger at her husband for having an affair with her best friend has spiraled out of control. Join these women in their day-to-day lives as they endeavor to move from uncertainty toward independence. Tension mounts and bonds of friendship are tested when a young resident’s abusive stepfather threatens lives.
Author: Rebecca P. Wood
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
Published: 2024-03-20
Total Pages: 38
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis small book is for those who, deep inside, long for more; for those who believe the choices they have made must forever separate them from the good life; and for those who wonder if life is worth living at all. I walked in your shoes for much of my life. Abandoned. Abused. Angry. Homeless. Hopeless. Heartsick. Depressed. Discouraged. Desperate enough to do whatever it took to find peace, I reached the end of myself. Shame and blame are as old as creation, and the results have not changed. When we take a wrong turn, we get confused. Too many wrong turns, and we get lost. But there is a map that can help us find our way, no matter where we are. It is the map of love, calling to us through every drop of rain, every sunrise, every star, and every circumstance, saying, "Come. Let Me show you the way."
Author: John Leland
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2015-01-23
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 1611174597
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“[Leland] brings the botanical into direct relationship with the spiritual, using a prose style that is as profound as it is pyrotechnic.” —Jim Warren, Washington and Lee University Award-winning nature writer John Leland offers a collection of twenty-seven short, poetic essays that marry science and the humanities as the author seeks meaning in trees. Readings in Wood is an investigation of trees and forests and also of wood as a material that people have found essential in the creation of society and culture. Leland views with wit and erudition the natural world and the curious place of human beings as saviors and destroyers of this world. At once personal memoir, natural history, and cultural criticism, the book reflects Leland’s idiosyncratic vision. As vast as a forest, topics range from tree grain and leaf shape to economic theories, mathematics, and engineering. Readings in Wood is a hybrid testament of science, faith, superstition, and disbelief learned from sitting on tree trunks and peering at leaves and fungi. Leland hopes others will join him in nature’s classroom. Quite aware of the irony, he reminds us, “These leaves you desultorily turn over once hung in a green wood gone to make this book. Touching a book, you touch a tree. I pray that Readings in Wood’s essays, touching you, may justify in some small way the trees who died in their making.” “This book constitutes a hymn to the technical and the beautiful, a meander through the geography, geology, botany, mathematics and vigor of our plants, especially in the southern Appalachians.” —R. T. Smith, editor, Shenandoah, and writer-in-residence, Washington and Lee University “Informative, thoughtful, inspiring, and innately entertaining.” —The Midwest Book Review
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 1086
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKVols. for 1955-1962 include: Mining guidebook and buying directory.
