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The Magic of Ordinary Days

Author	: Ann Howard Creel
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2002-06-25
ISBN 10	: 9781101126967
Pages	: 304 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (269 users)

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Download or read book The Magic of Ordinary Days written by Ann Howard Creel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-06-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivia Dunne, a studious minister's daughter who dreams of being an archaeologist, never thought that the drama of World War II would affect her quiet life in Denver. An exhilarating flirtation reshapes her life, though, and she finds herself banished to a rural Colorado outpost, married to a man she hardly knows. Overwhelmed by loneliness, Olivia tentatively tries to establish a new life, finding much-needed friendship and solace in two Japanese American sisters who are living at a nearby internment camp. When Olivia unwittingly becomes an accomplice to a crime and is faced with betrayal, she finally confronts her own desires. Beautifully written and filled with memorable characters, Creel's novel is a powerful exploration of the nature of trust and love.

Ordinary Days

Author	: Leo Ou-fan Lee
Publisher	: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Release Date	: 2021-01-15
ISBN 10	: 9789882371965
Pages	: 200 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (719 users)

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Download or read book Ordinary Days written by Leo Ou-fan Lee and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir Ordinary Days by the scholar and critic Leo Ou-fan Lee and his wife Esther Lee Yuk Ying brings to this Hong Kong series an intensely personal touch, consciously echoing the great sentimental memoir of the eighteenth century, Shen Fu's Six Chapters of a Floating Life. With disarming candour, Leo and Esther lay bare their hearts to share with us their story of love and suffering, charting in a series of memorable chapters their shared spiritual quest. Set partly against the recent backdrop of some of Hong Kong's most turbulent years, partly in the far-flung diaspora of the Chinese intelligentsia, this is a revealing record of the inner life of a highly cultivated modern Chinese couple.

Just an Ordinary Day

Author	: Shirley Jackson
Publisher	: Penguin UK
Release Date	: 2017-02-02
ISBN 10	: 9780241257951
Pages	: 496 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (579 users)

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Download or read book Just an Ordinary Day written by Shirley Jackson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories from the inimitable author of 'The Lottery'. An anxious devil, an elderly writer of poison pen letters and a mid-century Jack the Ripper; a pursuit though a nightmarish city, a small boy's thrilling train ride with a female thief, and a town where the possibility of evil lurks behind perfect rose bushes. This is the world of Shirley Jackson, by turns frightening, funny, strange and unforgettably revealed in this brilliant collection of short stories. 'Jackson at her best: plumbing the extraordinary from the depths of mid-twentieth-century common. [Just an Ordinary Day] is a gift to a new generation' - San Francisco Chronicle 'For Jackson devotees, as well as first-time readers, this is a feast ... A virtuoso collection' - Publishers Weekly

A Companion to American Agricultural History

Author	: R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher	: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date	: 2022-05-11
ISBN 10	: 9781119632245
Pages	: 608 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (322 users)

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Download or read book A Companion to American Agricultural History written by R. Douglas Hurt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-05-11 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a solid foundation for understanding American agricultural history and offers new directions for research A Companion to American Agricultural History addresses the key aspects of America’s complex agricultural past from 8,000 BCE to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Bringing together more than thirty original essays by both established and emerging scholars, this innovative volume presents a succinct and accessible overview of American agricultural history while delivering a state-of-the-art assessment of modern scholarship on a diversity of subjects, themes, and issues. The essays provide readers with starting points for their exploration of American agricultural history—whether in general or in regards to a specific topic—and highlights the many ways the agricultural history of America is of integral importance to the wider American experience. Individual essays trace the origin and development of agricultural politics and policies, examine changes in science, technology, and government regulations, offer analytical suggestions for new research areas, discuss matters of ethnicity and gender in American agriculture, and more. This Companion: Introduces readers to a uniquely wide range of topics within the study of American agricultural history Provides a narrative summary and a critical examination of field-defining works Introduces specific topics within American agricultural history such as agrarian reform, agribusiness, and agricultural power and production Discusses the impacts of American agriculture on different groups including Native Americans, African Americans, and European, Asian, and Latinx immigrants Views the agricultural history of America through new interdisciplinary lenses of race, class, and the environment Explores depictions of American agriculture in film, popular music, literature, and art A Companion to American Agricultural History is an essential resource for introductory students and general readers seeking a concise overview of the subject, and for graduate students and scholars wanting to learn about a particular aspect of American agricultural history.

The Gift of an Ordinary Day

Author	: Katrina Kenison
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2009-09-07
ISBN 10	: 9780446558099
Pages	: 209 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (58 users)

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Download or read book The Gift of an Ordinary Day written by Katrina Kenison and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-09-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gift of an Ordinary Day is an intimate memoir of a family in transition, with boys becoming teenagers, careers ending and new ones opening up, and an attempt to find a deeper sense of place—and a slower pace—in a small New England town. This is a story of mid-life longings and discoveries, of lessons learned in the search for home and a new sense of purpose, and the bittersweet intensity of life with teenagers—holding on, letting go. Poised on the threshold between family life as she's always known it and her older son's departure for college, Kenison is surprised to find that the times she treasures most are the ordinary, unremarkable moments of everyday life, the very moments that she once took for granted, or rushed right through without noticing at all. The relationships, hopes, and dreams that Kenison illuminates will touch women's hearts, and her words will inspire mothers everywhere as they try to make peace with the inevitable changes in store.

An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days

Author	: Susan Wittig Albert
Publisher	: University of Texas Press
Release Date	: 2010-09-15
ISBN 10	: 9780292723061
Pages	: 236 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (23 users)

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Download or read book An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days written by Susan Wittig Albert and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days, best-selling mystery novelist Susan Wittig Albert invites us to revisit one of the most tumultuous years in recent memory, 2008, through the lens of 365 ordinary days in which her reading, writing, and thinkingabout issues in the wider world--from wars and economic recession to climate change--caused her to reconsider and reshape daily practices in her personal life. Albert's journal provides an engaging account of how the business of being a successful working writer blends with her rural life in the Texas Hill Country and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico. As her eclectic daily reading ranges across topics from economics, food production, and oil and energy policy to poetry, place, and the writinglife, Albert becomes increasingly concerned about the natural world and the threats facing it, especially climate change and resource depletion. Asking herself, 'What does it mean? And what should I do about it",' she determines practical steps to take, such as growing more food in her garden, and also helps us to readers make sense of these issues and consider what our own responses might be. A thoughtful and thought-provoking 'book of days,' amplified with reading lists and quotations from a wide diversity of writers, An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days is a must-have addition for everyone's collection of writers' journals"--Cover, p. 4.

Insights of a Father - Ordinary Days, Extraordinary Life

Author	: Michael Connor
Publisher	: Michael Conor
Release Date	: 2012
ISBN 10	: 9780983177005
Pages	: 146 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (77 users)

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Download or read book Insights of a Father - Ordinary Days, Extraordinary Life written by Michael Connor and published by Michael Conor. This book was released on 2012 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally renowned trainer and facilitator Connor has compiled more than 1,000 stories, messages, and life lessons gained from his children. This edition, the first of three volumes, features 60 of his favorite insights from his daughters' preschool years.

The Arms of God

Author	: Lynne Hinton
Publisher	: St. Martin's Press
Release Date	: 2014-10-14
ISBN 10	: 9781466883413
Pages	: 272 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (834 users)

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Download or read book The Arms of God written by Lynne Hinton and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice is making her daughter dinner when her mother Olivia, who left her at a day care center when she was four-years-old, appears at her door. Although Alice has managed to navigate an unforgiving foster care system to build a good life for herself, she has never really recovered from her mother's disappearance. Olivia's sudden reappearance is like a quiet, unexplained gift. Over the next couple of weeks Alice asks Olivia to dinner. Olivia is always dropped off by a friend and sits peacefully as Alice and her daughter talk over the meal. One afternoon Alice gets a call from the hospital telling her that Olivia is dead. The only identification the hospital could find was Alice's number with the word "daughter" written underneath it. She goes to pick up Olivia's things and finds the key to her apartment. It is here that the mystery of Olivia's past is slowly uncovered and Alice begins to understand how the power of hatred can hold a woman down and how the power of friendship can lift her up again. Not since her bestselling book The Friendship Cake has Hinton created characters who are so filled with heartache and fragile hope, that they will become a permanent part of the reader's life.

Write to TV

Author	: Martie Cook
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Release Date	: 2007
ISBN 10	: 9780240808765
Pages	: 331 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (87 users)

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Download or read book Write to TV written by Martie Cook and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes new interview material from 45 luminaries in the television industry, including Jay Leno, Mike Wallace, Norman Lear, Paul Haggis, the writers for ''Desperate Housewives'', ''Grey's Anatomy'', and more!

Youth Poets

Author	: Korina M. Jocson
Publisher	: Peter Lang
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN 10	: 0820481963
Pages	: 236 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (63 users)

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Download or read book Youth Poets written by Korina M. Jocson and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth Poets documents an ethnographic study of the literacy learning of urban high school youth in June Jordan's Poetry for the People program. The book emphasizes how seven students adopted empowering literacies as they read, wrote, published, and performed poetry in and outside of school. Using a sociocultural and critical framework on literacy and pedagogy, the book focuses on the experiences of urban youth - from their own perspectives - to examine the various processes, products, and practices associated with poetry. It contributes to current research on literacy pedagogy in urban contexts, and further grounds connections between poetry production and academic and critical literacies. Not only does the research presented here support the use of poetry in itself, but it makes a case for the ways in which poetry can lead to transformative possibilities in diverse and multicultural classrooms.

The Lesser Tragedy of Death

Author	: Cristina García
Publisher	: Akashic Books
Release Date	: 2010
ISBN 10	: 9781936070015
Pages	: 97 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (7 users)

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Download or read book The Lesser Tragedy of Death written by Cristina García and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a collection of poems that is part biography, part dialogue, part history and part chorale, The Lesser Tragedy of Death aims to capture the ephemeral, brutal life of one unnamed brother'. His sister's voice provides the narrative thrust - probing, questioning, regretful - revisiting scenes from their past and arguing with her brother over the family legacy and her complicity in his demise.'

Becoming Clementine

Author	: Jennifer Niven
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2012-09-25
ISBN 10	: 9781101603444
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (34 users)

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Download or read book Becoming Clementine written by Jennifer Niven and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the New York Times bestseller All the Bright Places—soon to be a Netflix film starring Elle Fanning—comes a spellbinding story of a secret mission and dangerous passion in World War II Paris. After delivering a B-17 Flying Fortress to Britain, an American volunteers to copilot a plane carrying special agents to their drop spot over Normandy. Her personal mission: to find her brother, who is missing in action. After her plane is shot down, though, she’s on the run for her life. In Paris, the beautiful aviatrix Velva Jean Hart becomes Clementine Roux, a daring woman on an epic adventure with her team to capture an operative known only as “Swan.” Once settled on Rue de la Néva, Clementine works as a spy with the Resistance and finds herself falling in love with her fellow agent, Émile, a handsome and mysterious Frenchman with secrets of his own. When Clementine ends up in the most brutal prison in Paris, trying to help Émile and the team rescue Swan, she discovers the depths of human cruelty, the triumph of her own spirit, and the bravery of her team, who will stop at nothing to carry out their mission. Readers of 22 Britannia Road, The Postmistress, and Suite Francaise will cherish Becoming Clementine—a romantic World War II adventure told from the perspective of a courageous and beautiful heroine.

Ordinary Day. Remarkable God.

Author	: Rhonda Kane
Publisher	: WestBow Press
Release Date	: 2020-11-10
ISBN 10	: 9781664209039
Pages	: 450 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (9 users)

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Download or read book Ordinary Day. Remarkable God. written by Rhonda Kane and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a typical devotional book. There is no ten-step program inside to better yourself. It is not a deep theological study. It is not an end to all trials or an answer to all problems. This book is a collection of stories, prayers, and reflections. They are honest, vulnerable, sometimes dramatic, sometimes humorous, and sometimes sad, but they are real. They point to Him. No matter what adventures we travel through, our Maker and Creator is always with us. He isn’t looking for extraordinary people. He is not looking for the exceptional and the elite. He is the exceptional and the elite. He is just wanting us to walk alongside Him.

The Splendor of Ordinary Days

Author	: Jeff High
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2015-10-06
ISBN 10	: 9780698187825
Pages	: 432 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (878 users)

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Download or read book The Splendor of Ordinary Days written by Jeff High and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of Jan Karon’s Mitford series and Patrick Taylor’s Irish Country series will fall in love with Jeff High’s funny, heartfelt Watervalley series. The pastoral charm of small-town Watervalley, Tennesse, can be deceptive, as young Dr. Luke Bradford discovers when he’s caught in the fallout of a decades-old conflict… After a rocky start as Watervalley’s only doctor, Luke Bradford has decided to stay in town, honoring the three-year commitment he made to pay off his medical school debts. But even as his friendships with the quirky townsfolk deepen, and he pursues a romance with lovely schoolteacher Christine Chambers, several military veterans’ emotional wounds trigger anger and unrest in Watervalley. At the center of the clash is the curmudgeonly publisher of the local newspaper, Luther Whitmore. Luther grew up in Watervalley, but he returned from combat in Vietnam a changed man. He fenced in beautiful Moon Lake, posting “Keep Out” notices at the beloved spot, and provokes the townspeople with his incendiary newspaper. As Luke struggles to understand Luther’s past, and restore harmony in Watervalley, an unforeseen crisis shatters a relationship he values dearly. Suddenly Luke must answer life’s toughest questions about service, courage, love, and sacrifice. CONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED

Ordinary Days

Author	: Dorcas Smucker
Publisher	: Skyhorse
Release Date	: 2006-12-01
ISBN 10	: 9781680992564
Pages	: 150 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (925 users)

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Download or read book Ordinary Days written by Dorcas Smucker and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine raising six spirited kids on a grass farm. Today. That'll test any mama's strength. Dorcas Smucker and her brood live out their days in full view in this collection of musings—picking blueberries while watching for bears, hoping for angels driving off the nearby freeway, moving into the "thousand-story house." Then there was the four-week road trip, which, Dorcas says, "My sister-in-law warned me would be like putting your whole family in the bathroom and staying there for three days." There are no recipes here. But there is story upon story. Dorcas has three daughters and three sons. And she has a voice—encouraging, doubting, entertaining, but never taking herself too seriously. Often slightly off-stride, and with disarming humility, Dorcas keeps finding resource in her life at home.

Ordinary Days

Author	: Cornelia Caroline Hornosty
Publisher	: Ekstasis Editions
Release Date	: 2007
ISBN 10	: 1894800974
Pages	: 86 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (74 users)

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Download or read book Ordinary Days written by Cornelia Caroline Hornosty and published by Ekstasis Editions. This book was released on 2007 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The finely crafted poems of Cornelia Hornosty's Ordinary Days celebrate the cotidian with the deceptive informality of Auden's Musee des Beaux Arts. Anything but ordinary, Hornosty's latest volume documents a personal journey of growth, love and loss with the wry detachment of a silent witness carefully noting atmosphere, nuance and gesture. Events, people and scenes described from the outside reveal their essence through language that is casual and precise against the relentless rhythm of successive moments. Conversational yet strangely classical, the poems of Ordinary Days lull the reader into tranquil awareness only disturbed by an unexpected intensity, reverberating with a lasting echo.

The Magic of Ordinary Days [DVD]

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2005
ISBN 10	: OCLC:1003605660
Pages	: 995 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (36 users)

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