Town Hall Tales
Author: Merlijn J. van Hulst
Publisher: Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9059722337
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Our Wretched Town Hall
Author: Eric Kostiuk Williams
Publisher: Retrofit Comics
Published: 2018-11-20
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781940398822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow would you interpret that hammy, Lynchian dream about your ex? Has your house plant been judging you this entire time? Will you bother grappling with the ethics of your woke, but Machiavellian workplace-related revenge? Does anyone care if you don't make it out to the party? How do you go forward when everything's moving backwards? Town hall's in session, and we've got lots to talk about. Eric Kostiuk Williams returns with a new, full-color short story collection that will replenish your crops, singe your eyebrows, and lightly tickle the back of your knees.
Trouble in the Town Hall
Author: Jeanne M. Dams
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
Published: 2012-12-22
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1448300738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDorothy Martin, an American widow living in England, is on her way to lunch with Alan Nesbitt – chief constable, and her own chief beau – when she notices movement in the abandoned town hall and can’t resist a snoop. But what she, and cleaning lady Ada Finch, find in there is cause for serious alarm: a dead body. And, what’s worse, when Dorothy leaves the building some time later, she notices the corpse’s arms have been moved and its eyes closed . . .
Ancestral Tales
Author: Alan Mintz
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2017-06-20
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 1503601862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten in pieces over the last fifteen years of his life and published posthumously, S. Y. Agnon's A City in Its Fullness is an ambitious, historically rich sequence of stories memorializing Buczacz, the city of his birth. This town in present-day Ukraine was once home to a vibrant Jewish population that was destroyed twice over—in the First World War and again in the Holocaust. Agnon's epic story cycle, however, focuses not on the particulars of destruction, but instead reimagines the daily lives of Buczacz's Jewish citizens, vividly preserving the vanished world of early modern Jewry. Ancestral Tales shows how this collection marks a critical juncture within the Agnon canon. Through close readings of the stories against a shifting historical backdrop, Alan Mintz presents a multilayered history of the town, along with insight into Agnon's fictional transformations. Mintz relates these narrative strategies to catastrophe literature from earlier periods of Jewish history, showing how Agnon's Buczacz is a literary achievement at once innovative in its form of remembrance and deeply rooted in Jewish tradition.
The Story of the City Hall Commission
Author: Prentiss Webster
Publisher:
Published: 1894
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLinthicum Vignettes: Tales of a Linthicum Historian
Author: Oscar 'Skip' Booth
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2014-11-16
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 1312682655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLocal historian Oscar 'Skip' Booth spent his life living, working, advocating for and writing about his hometown of Linthicum, Maryland. His "Vignette" series provided some of the only written histories of the small, unincorporated Baltimore suburb. The historical local landmarks like Tauber's, Chuck's Drive-In, BWIi Airport, and Bruce's Hardware are carefully detailed here. Skip passed away after a short illness in 2014. His commitment to community lives on in the pages of this book.
Tales from the Borderlands
Author: Omer Bartov
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2022-07-19
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 030026500X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of the diverse communities of Eastern Europe’s borderlands in the centuries prior to World War II “A powerful combination of history and personal memoir . . . A richly contextual, skillfully woven historical study.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Focusing on the former province of Galicia, this book tells the story of Europe’s eastern borderlands, stretching from the Baltic to the Balkans, through the eyes of the diverse communities of migrants who settled there for centuries and were murdered or forcibly removed from the borderlands in the course of World War II and its aftermath. Omer Bartov explores the fates and hopes, dreams and disillusionment of the people who lived there, and, through the stories they told about themselves, reconstructs who they were, where they came from, and where they were heading. It was on the borderlands that the expanding great empires—German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman—overlapped, clashed, and disintegrated. The civilization of these borderlands was a mix of multiple cultures, languages, ethnic groups, religions, and nations that similarly overlapped and clashed. The borderlands became the cradle of modernity. Looking back at it tells us where we came from.
Historic Tales of Oak Bluffs
Author: Skip Finley
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1467143979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSkip Finley's Town of Oak Bluffs columns in the Vineyard Gazette were widely popular thanks to his breezy style and historical content. In this curated collection, he presents a chronological telling of how the community became the welcoming seaside resort for a uniquely diverse group of residents and visitors, including five American presidents. Discover how islanders like Ichabod Norton, Old Harry and Lucy Vincent Smith helped to define the island we know today. From the Panic of 1873 to the Inkwell and beyond, these witty and whimsical tales prove why this particular spot is featured in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Sailing's Strangest Tales
Author: John Harding
Publisher: Portico
Published: 2016-08-08
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1911042653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating collection of entertaining stories from the seven seas reveals unusual and bizarre sailing trips, vessels and characters, and recounts perilous journeys in freak weather and other legendary tales. Within these pages you’ll find stories of pirates holding ships to ransom and the gruesome fates of some of the shipmates who dared cross them. The sailors forever lost in the Bermuda triangle, the poor family who were encircled by a school of sharks to the spooky tales of the lighthouse haunted by drunkard lightship keeper John Herman. The tales within these pages are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious and, most importantly, true. Revised, redesigned and updated for 2016, this book is the perfect gift for both keen sailors to the armchair Captains. Word count: 45,000
Shropshire Folk Tales for Children
Author: Amy Douglas
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2018-07-27
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0750989440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a children's book. But it is for real children. It is a book of buried treasure, people-eating giants, sleeping kings and a monster fish. There's fire, wee, milk and missing body parts. It's a book that's got the bits adults don't like left in. These are stories of Shropshire. They are old and wild, like the land itself. If you like giants having their heads lopped off, girls who won't do what they're told, knights fighting with lances, one-armed ghosts and grumpy witches, then this is the book for you.
