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As I Lay Me Down to Sleep
When Eileen Munro's mother became pregnant at 16, she was told to give her baby away to a 'good family', but the couple who paid the fee at the Salvation Army mother-and-baby home in Glasgow in 1963 turned out to be alcoholics who neglected and physically abused Eileen. Then, when their marriage broke down, they failed to protect her from sexual abuse at the hands of a family friend. After watching her adoptive mother drown on inhaled vomit, Eileen and her younger sister were taken into care, but her nightmare was to continue as she was subjected to further physical, sexual and emotional abuse. At the age of only seventeen, seven months into a secret pregnancy, she decided that the only way out was through a bottle of painkillers; when she survived and gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, he became her lifeline.
Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 6
Volume 6 of 8, 3337 to 4042. A genealogical compilation of the descendants of John Jacob Rector and his wife, Anna Elizabeth Fischbach. Married in 1711 in Trupbach, Germany, the couple immigrated to the Germanna Colony in Virginia in 1714. Eight volumes document the lives of over 45,000 individuals.
Lily in the Loft
"What do CNET pop culture writer Bonnie Burton, Governor General Award-winning poet David Zieroth, journalist/novelist Sparkle Hayter, novelist/screenwriter John Patrick Gillese, and Canadian sport journalist Dick Beddoes have in common besides growing up on the Canadian Prairies? They were all first published in the Young Co-operator's Pages, a section of the Saskatoon-based farm newspaper, The Western Producer. Violet McNaughton, a women's advocate and editor at the Producer, created the club for young writers in 1927. It continued on, inspiring a love of literature and writing in children for nearly 60 years. Lily in the Loft is a picture book for children ages 6-9. It is a fictional story, set in 1947 Saskatchewan, based on the experiences of thousands of children across all the prairie provinces (and even some outside this region) who eagerly awaited "newspaper day" to see their words in print. To this day, former Young Co-ops keep in touch with each other via a Facebook group. This is a book of regional historical interest. However, it is also a universal story about perseverance and determination in reaching one's goals."--
The Visual Arts in Germany, 1890-1937
This work provides an introduction to the visual arts in Germany from the early years of German unification to World War II. The study is an analysis of painting, sculpture, graphic art, design, film and photography in relation to a wider set of cultural and social issues that were specific to German modernism. It concentrates on the ways in which the production and reception of art interacted with and was affected by responses to unification, conflict between left and right political factions, gender concerns, contemporary philosophical and religious ideas, the growth of cities, and the increasing important of mass culture.
The Journey Goes on
The Journey Goes On is an astonishing collection of some of the best poetry and short fiction by the writers of the Scottish based Writers Group, Men With Pens. This Anthology has a strong mix of humour, pathos, drama and intrigue, all written with a commitment to breaking new ground in this creative field.
Primitive Renaissance
Modernity became one of a number of equally plausible cultural strategies for organizing life in the contemporary world."--BOOK JACKET.
Slaves of Men and Gods
Fifteen year old Krisi Bodan is brought to Ghana from Scotland by her doctor father after her parents separate. While trying to cope with missing her mum and failing to forgive her dad; a new friend, local head trader Gifty needs her help. Then Krisi becomes dangerously mired in much more than just old Ghanaian practices. A new country, a new culture and on discovering the scary activities of some of her new friends...new enemies of the criminal and not so criminal kind.
The Two Seeings
Speaking Woman whispers beyond time and through spirits known and unknown to Morag MacAulay, and sometimes they just downright interfere! A mystical medium, a wise-cracking friend and a lover who follows her across lives. Will Morag find the love, friendship and meaning she seeks? With that voice whispering in her ear who knows where it will all end. Does it ever end?
Reading The Landscape
Brought together for the first time, these are poems about ancestry and addiction, about landscape and introspection, about walking in the natural world and reflecting on our own inner mindscapes. Sometimes meditative, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, they range from industrial Scotland to rural Cumbria and across the North Atlantic, taking the reader through geological and human concepts of time right up to the present moment. 'I loved how accessible, they are, and how true. So much goes on beneath their shimmering surfaces. From a shell-littered west coast beach to overheard stories on a Kincardine bus, Carol McKay's poetry is vividly and poignantly in touch with the things that matter - family, community, a sense of place and of history. These big-hearted, keen-eyed poems understand just how precarious life can be, and how thrilling.' Chris Powici, author of This Weight of Light: poems, Red Squirrel Press, 2015. 'Craft without ever seeming in any way laboured, tight but not overwrought. I love Carol's use of the short line; the images she finds right outside her door and on long walks.' Donal McLaughlin, author of beheading the virgin mary and other stories, Dalkey Archive.
