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Out of Ireland
In the late 1860s in Bantry, Ireland, sixteen-year-old Eileen O’Donovan is forced by her family to marry an older widower whom she barely knows and does not love. Her brother Michael, at age nineteen, becomes involved with the outlawed Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret organization dedicated to the violent overthrow of British rule in Ireland. Their fates intertwine when they each decide to emigrate to America, where both tragedy and happiness await them. An exciting coming-of-age story of a brother and sister in an Ireland still under the harsh rule of the British, Out of Ireland brings alive the story of our ancestors who braved the dangers of immigration in order to find a better life for themselves and their families.
Tom O'Shea, a 20th Century Man
Tom O'Shea may have started out life as an orphan with no prospects, but in his final days he looked back on a life of love, family, and personal achievement that any man would be proud to call his own. A moving memoir of a daughter discovering her beloved father's story, Tom O'Shea: A 20th Century Man, commemorates a life well lived, and it sheds light on one Irish Catholic family's experience of American life during the mid-twentieth century. After her father's death in 2001, Marian O'Shea Wernicke began to realize that much of his early life was a mystery. Through conversations with her mother and research of the time, she pieced together what his early years had been like and soon recognized she wasn't just crafting a family history. Suddenly the life of Tom O'Shea was expanding, and as all good stories are, her father's was a universally poignant tale that speaks beyond the confines of one man or one family. Experience life as an orphan, an Irish-American, and a US Marine in the Pacific during WWII through this intriguing story of a man who, though abandoned as a child, ended his days a happy husband, father, and grandfather.
Toward That Which is Beautiful
On an ordinary day in June of 1964 in a small town in the Altiplano of Peru, Sister Mary Katherine (formerly known as Kate), a young American nun recently arrived in this very foreign place, walks away from her convent with no money and no destination. Desperate and afraid of her feelings for an Irish priest with whom she has been working, she spends eight days on the run, encountering a variety of characters along the way: a cynical Englishman who helps her out; a suspicious Peruvian police officer who takes her in for questioning; and two American Peace Corps workers who befriend her. As Kate traverses this dangerous physical journey through Peru, she also embarks upon an interior journey of self-discovery—one that leads her somewhere she never could have expected.
Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis
Art keeps good alive in the worst of times. In the face of ugliness, pain, and death, it’s art that has the power to open us all to a healing imagining of new possibility; it’s art that whispers to the collective that even in the ashes of loss, life always grows again. That’s why right now, in this tumultuous time of war and pandemic, we need poets more than we need politicians. In response to the multitude of global crises we’re currently experiencing, editor Stefanie Raffelock put out a much-needed call to her writing community for art to uplift and inform the world, and the authors of She Writes Press answered. Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis—a sometimes comforting, sometim...
At a Glance
At a Glance: Paired Sources is based on a feature that is present in numerous compositions texts - paired essays. Paired essays are especially effective when presenting patterns such as definition, comparison, and contrast, argumentation, and cause and effect because they offer students the ready-made opportunity to synthesise and present their reactions to professional opinions. At a Glance: Paired Sources is designed to accompany Lee Brandon's At a Glance Series. Key features of the readings in this brand new publication include: - Contains 13 pairs of sources containing mainly essays, short stories and a poem. - Several paired readings will offer same-side views from different perspectives so those students can discuss their own positions and synthesise the sources - Each pair of readings will include guided questions: purpose, support, organisation, special techniques, and personal reactions - Each set of sources will be introduced with a brief commentary of the theme and conclude with suggestions for writing including research tips, especially when using electronic sources.
The Secret Keeper
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Waltz in Swing Time
Growing up on a Utah farm during the Depression, Irene Larsen longs to leave home and become a musician, but must ultimately decide whether pursuing her dream justifies its price.
The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
"Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."
Under the Tulip Tree
Sixteen-year-old Lorena Leland's dreams of a rich and fulfilling life as a writer are dashed when the stock market crashes in 1929. Seven years into the Great Depression, Rena's banker father has retreated into the bottle, her sister is married to a lazy charlatan and gambler, and Rena is an unemployed newspaper reporter. Eager for any writing job, Rena accepts a position interviewing former slaves for the Federal Writers' Project. There, she meets Frankie Washington, a 101-year-old woman whose honest yet tragic past captivates Rena. As Frankie recounts her life as a slave, Rena is horrified to learn of all the older woman has endured--especially because Rena's ancestors owned slaves. While Frankie's story challenges Rena's preconceptions about slavery, it also connects the two women whose lives are otherwise separated by age, race, and circumstances. But will this bond of respect, admiration, and friendship be broken by a revelation neither woman sees coming?
Make Yourself at Home
It’s the last place she wants to be. It’s the only place left to go . . . ‘Hugely entertaining...an instantly engaging read, what you might get if you mixed Jojo Moyes with Marian Keyes’ Sunday Independent
