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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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Description
In the mid-twentieth century in a home economics program at a prominent university, real babies are being used to teach mothering skills to young women. For a young man raised in these unlikely circumstances, finding real love and learning to trust will prove to be the work of a lifetime. From his earliest days as a "practice baby" through his adult adventures in 1960s New York City, Disney's Burbank studios, and the delirious world of the Beatles'...
3) Father Goose
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A man living in isolation on an island during WWII deals with a school teacher and her group of students that invade his private paradise.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Edna "Gertrude" Beasley's original memoir was published in Paris in 1925, but ultimately suppressed and lost to history - until now. In 1927, Beasley - a self-proclaimed socialist and staunch feminist who fought for women's rights - disappeared. Her fate remained a mystery until researchers began digging into her story. This book reveals the story of a woman who grew up in abject poverty in rural Texas during the early 1900s, where she battled ongoing...
Author
Publisher
Lehigh University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Composed of writings by Ethel Waxham Love, a Wellesley College graduate who married Scottish rancher John Love and went to live on his ranch in 1910, and her son, J. David Love, who later became an eminent geologist, Life on Muskrat Creek tells the fascinating story of a family's day-to-day life on an isolated ranch in early twentieth-century Wyoming. Readers will learn about the family's persistence despite a variety of challenges, including a near-fatal...
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