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Author: Charles Young
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 1475976011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA widower now remarried, Charles Young retires from a long teaching career in Greece and returns home to Connecticut with his wife, Mary. After they move into his old family homestead, they discover a box of letters in the attic. One letter at a time, an early life is revealed.
Author: Linda Gartz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-04-03
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 163152321X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Redlined exposes the racist lending rules that refuse mortgages to anyone in areas with even one black resident. As blacks move deeper into Chicago’s West Side during the 1960s, whites flee by the thousands. But Linda Gartz’s parents, Fred and Lil choose to stay in their integrating neighborhood, overcoming previous prejudices as they meet and form friendships with their African American neighbors. The community sinks into increasing poverty and crime after two race riots destroy its once vibrant business district, but Fred and Lil continue to nurture their three apartment buildings and tenants for the next twenty years in a devastated landscape—even as their own relationship cracks and withers. After her parents’ deaths, Gartz discovers long-hidden letters, diaries, documents, and photos stashed in the attic of her former home. Determined to learn what forces shattered her parents’ marriage and undermined her community, she searches through the family archives and immerses herself in books on racial change in American neighborhoods. Told through the lens of Gartz’s discoveries of the personal and political, Redlined delivers a riveting story of a community fractured by racial turmoil, an unraveling and conflicted marriage, a daughter’s fight for sexual independence, and an up-close, intimate view of the racial and social upheavals of the 1960s.
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Published: 1942
Total Pages: 292
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2020-12-01
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0593133013
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA never-before-seen collection of deeply personal love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by their daughter “A glimpse into the mind of a writer finding his voice.”—The Washington Post “If ever I do write anything of length—good or bad—it will be written with you in mind.” Kurt Vonnegut’s eldest daughter, Edith, was cleaning out her mother’s attic when she stumbled upon a dusty, aged box. Inside, she discovered an unexpected treasure: more than two hundred love letters written by Kurt to Jane, spanning the early years of their relationship. The letters begin in 1941, after the former schoolmates reunited at age nineteen, sparked a passionate summer romance, and promised to keep in touch when they headed off to their respective colleges. And they did, through Jane’s conscientious studying and Kurt’s struggle to pass chemistry. The letters continue after Kurt dropped out and enlisted in the army in 1943, while Jane in turn graduated and worked for the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D.C. They also detail Kurt’s deployment to Europe in 1944, where he was taken prisoner of war and declared missing in action, and his eventual safe return home and the couple’s marriage in 1945. Full of the humor and wit that we have come to associate with Kurt Vonnegut, the letters also reveal little-known private corners of his mind. Passionate and tender, they form an illuminating portrait of a young soldier’s life in World War II as he attempts to come to grips with love and mortality. And they bring to light the origins of Vonnegut the writer, when Jane was the only person who believed in and supported him supported him, the young couple having no idea how celebrated he would become. A beautiful full-color collection of handwritten letters, notes, sketches, and comics, interspersed with Edith’s insights and family memories, Love, Kurt is an intimate record of a young man growing into himself, a fascinating account of a writer finding his voice, and a moving testament to the life-altering experience of falling in love.
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Published: 1941
Total Pages: 452
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Published: 1938
Total Pages: 602
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alfred Emanuel Smith
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 1254
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carleton Young
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780996843010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImagine clearing out your family attic and discovering hundreds of Civil War letters, filled with depth and insight about battles and army life, but not knowing why the letters were there. Using the resources of Ancestry.com and other sources, the author discovers how two Vermont soldiers fit into his family heritage and uses their letters to weave together their war-time story along with the stories of friends and relatives who fought by their side. Voices From the Attic tells the story of two brothers who witnessed and helped to make history by fighting in the Peninsula Campaign, then at South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Cedar Creek. They then helped to preserve that history through their many detailed letters that have now been re-discovered after being stored away for one and a half centuries.
Author: Mehtab Ahmed Khan
Publisher: Mehtab Global LLC
Published: 2023-09-12
Total Pages: 45
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Letters Left Behind In the quiet suburbs of Willowbrook, nestled among the tall oak trees and cobblestone streets, lived Margaret Henderson. She was an ordinary woman leading an ordinary life, with a seemingly unremarkable family history. That was until the day she stumbled upon a forgotten attic in her ancestral home, a dusty, cobweb-laden space that held the key to unraveling the enigmatic past of her family. The Letters Left Behind is a captivating journey of discovery, love, and mystery. It's a story of how a simple attic and a collection of old letters can unearth hidden truths and secrets that had long been buried in the sands of time. Join Margaret on her quest as she uncovers a series of mysterious letters, each a piece of a puzzle that will change her life forever.
