"As I Remember It" chronicles the authors adventures in the Philippines, Spain, South Africa, India, Norway, Ethiopia, Boston, Hartford, New York, Brazil, and California. It tells of the fascinating people she met and worked with in Ethiopia, at Expo 67 in Montreal, at CARE World Headquarters in New York, as the Director of Publications at Boston University, and as an Assistant Vice President at the University of Hartford. Her memoir includes apocryphal stories of her family, her grandmother and "the Memas," her best friends Agnes and Viki, advice on Places to Miss and a Beckett review.
In this remarkable book, Sliammon Elder Elsie Paul collaborates with a scholar, Paige Raibmon, and her granddaughter, Harmony Johnson, to tell her life story and the history of her people, in her own words and storytelling style.
In this remarkable book, Elsie Paul, one of the last surviving mother-tongue speakers of the Sliammon language, collaborates with a scholar, Paige Raibmon, and her granddaughter, Harmony Johnson, to tell her life story and the history of ...
In this remarkable book, Elsie Paul, one of the last surviving mother-tongue speakers of the Sliammon language, collaborates with a scholar, Paige Raibmon, and her granddaughter, Harmony Johnson, to tell her life story and the history of ...
This is a new release of the original 1940 edition.
This is the stark childhood and adolescence of Tara Lee, the protagonist of As I Remember It. But she triumphs over rejection and abuse, thanks to her indomitable spirit and the efforts of a pair of unique foster parents.
This feeling was strongly reinforced after I noticed how very unsteady his hands were—one of them holding a handgun, ... My stomach, full of mashed potatoes and onions, remembering the bad experience it had had with alcohol in the ...
Lake Martin Dam is down below Alexander City and was built I believe in the 30'. In my childhood days we called it the backwaters. Lake Martin is a little south of Louina. The water now covers most of the area where the treasure may ...
White, a former Time writer, whose Making of the President books were filled with information about things like President Kennedy's favorite soup. (Tomato, with a glop of sour cream.) (I ate it for years, as a result.) ...
How is he going to get out of this room alive? “Klavan is as good as they get.” —Tony Hillerman, award-winning author Contemporary Young Adult Novel with a high-adrenaline plot Approximately 82,000 words Part of the Homelanders series ...
Now, with I Remember You, Yrsa will stun readers once again with this out-of-this-world ghost story that will leave you shivering. In an isolated village in the Icelandic Westfjords, three friends set to work renovating a rundown house.