I Was Only Nineteen
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Author |
: John Schumann |
Publisher |
: Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages |
: 40 |
Release |
: 2014-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781743434871 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1743434871 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis I Was Only Nineteen by : John Schumann
Townsville lined the footpath as we marched down to the quay. This clipping from the paper shows us young and strong and clean. And there's me in my slouch hat, with my SLR and greens. God help me, I was only nineteen. John Schumann's unforgettable lyrics about the Vietnam War are etched in our memories and into our history books. Now they've been warmly brought to life by one of Australia's best-loved illustrators.
Author |
: Raewyn Harlum |
Publisher |
: Balboa Press |
Total Pages |
: 167 |
Release |
: 2015-02-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781452527642 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1452527644 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis I Was Only Nineteen by : Raewyn Harlum
It was a different world in 1966. Considered a social and moral outrage to have a baby out of wedlock, babies were taken from single mothers because they didnt have husbands. In I Was Only Nineteen, author Raewyn Harlum tells how she relinquished a baby to whom she had just given birth. At the time, nineteen-year-old Raewyn was homeless and sleeping on the floor of people shed known four days. Destitute, her possessions filled one suitcase. She had no family or friends in Australia and her partner already had a wife. When she went into labor, her partner left her at the hospital telling her she couldnt keep the baby. If she did, hed disappear with their two-year-old son. In this heartbreaking memoir, she shares her story that includes the reunion of the birth parents with the baby after shed grown into a beautiful young woman. It was not a love-conquers-all meeting; the young woman doesnt understand why her birth parents gave her up and then had more children.
Author |
: Steve Strevens |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 174261227X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781742612270 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (7X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Jungle Dark by : Steve Strevens
On 21 July 1969, 3 Platoon, A Company, 6 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment forced their way through the damp Vietnamese jungle on a patrol as part of Operation Mundingburra. With the insects biting and the humidity sapping their strength, the platoon established a safe harbour and listened as the news came across the radio: Neil Armstrong had become the first man on the moon. Moments later, their skipper, Platoon Commander Lieutenant Peter Hines, stepped on a mine and exploded in a maelstrom of dirt, smoke and blood.Memories of that fateful day stayed with the members of 3 Platoon for more than a decade before singer-songwriter John Schumann transformed the story into a ballad that would capture the spirit of a generation and become the anthem for the veterans of the Vietnam war.This is the true story of Frank 'Frankie' Hunt and the other soldiers of 3 Platoon who were the inspiration for Redgum's 1983 hit song I Was Only Nineteen. Using first-hand accounts, The Jungle Dark is both a fascinating Australian yarn and enthralling military history. Vividly told, informative and poignant, it also traverses the deep unhealed wounds left in the minds and hearts of Vietnam soldiers long after they had left the battlefield.
Author |
: Jodi Picoult |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 628 |
Release |
: 2013-01-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476729718 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476729719 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nineteen Minutes by : Jodi Picoult
The daughter of a judge in a New Hampshire school shooting case witnessed the events but cannot remember the last several minutes of the attack.
Author |
: Bill Shapiro |
Publisher |
: Running Press Adult |
Total Pages |
: 419 |
Release |
: 2018-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780762462551 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0762462558 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis What We Keep by : Bill Shapiro
With contributions from Cheryl Strayed, Mark Cuban, Ta-Nahesi Coates, Melinda Gates, Joss Whedon, James Patterson, and many more -- this fascinating collection gives us a peek into 150 personal treasures and the secret histories behind them. All of us have that one object that holds deep meaning--something that speaks to our past, that carries a remarkable story. Bestselling author Bill Shapiro collected this sweeping range of stories--he talked to everyone from renowned writers to Shark Tank hosts, from blackjack dealers to teachers, truckers, and nuns, even a reformed counterfeiter--to reveal the often hidden, always surprising lives of objects.
Author |
: Mavis Gallant |
Publisher |
: New York Review of Books |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 2003-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1590170601 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781590170601 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Varieties of Exile by : Mavis Gallant
Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine-grained evocation of the quandaries of people who must make their way in the world without any place to call their own. The irreducible complexity of the very idea of home is especially at issue in the stories Gallant has written about Montreal, where she was born, although she has lived in Paris for more than half a century. Varieties of Exile, Russell Banks's extensive new selection from Gallant's work, demonstrates anew the remarkable reach of this writer's singular art. Among its contents are three previously uncollected stories, as well as the celebrated semi-autobiographical sequence about Linnet Muir—stories that are wise, funny, and full of insight into the perils and promise of growing up and breaking loose.
Author |
: K'NAAN |
Publisher |
: Tundra Books |
Total Pages |
: 34 |
Release |
: 2012-09-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781770493025 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1770493026 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis When I Get Older by : K'NAAN
“Wavin’Flag” has become an international anthem. Its powerful words of hope have crossed generations and borders, and have made K’NAAN an international star. In his first book for children, When I Get Older, Somali-Canadian poet, rapper, singer, and songwriter K’NAAN tells his own story. Born in Somalia, he grew up in Mogadishu. His grandfather was a renowned poet who passed on his love of words to his grandson. When the Somali Civil War began in 1991, K’NAAN was just thirteen. His mother made the difficult decision to move her family so that they could grow up in safety. First in New York and then in Toronto, K’NAAN faced many challenges. Like so many other immigrants, he had to make a place for himself in a world of alien customs, clothes, and language. His road was a hard one: he lost many friends to violence. But K’NAAN’s love of music, and his enormous talent, became a way for him to connect with his past, with his classmates, and eventually, to millions of people around the world. Not only does K’NAAN tell a story that will inspire and encourage young readers, but he provides a brief history of the Somalian conflict. The lyrics of “Wavin’ Flag” are also included. Born Keinan Abdi Warsame, K’NAAN first came to prominence when he performed a spoken word piece before the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 1999. A member of the audience, the singer Youssou N’Dour, was so impressed that he asked K’NAAN to take part in an album and to tour with him. Since then, K’NAAN has performed in more than 86 countries and has received many honors, including three Juno Awards and the BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music. During the Vancouver Olympics, he worked with other Canadian musicians and artists under the name Young Artists for Haiti to produce a charity version of “Wavin’ Flag.” The song was adapted again to become the FIFA World Cup theme song. There are now twenty-two versions of the song, which hit #1 in nineteen countries.
Author |
: ZZ Packer |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2004-02-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1573223786 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781573223782 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by : ZZ Packer
The acclaimed debut short story collection that introduced the world to an arresting and unforgettable new voice in fiction, from multi-award winning author ZZ Packer Her impressive range and talent are abundantly evident: Packer dazzles with her command of language, surprising and delighting us with unexpected turns and indelible images, as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong. We meet a Brownie troop of black girls who are confronted with a troop of white girls; a young man who goes with his father to the Million Man March and must decide where his allegiance lies; an international group of drifters in Japan, who are starving, unable to find work; a girl in a Baltimore ghetto who has dreams of the larger world she has seen only on the screens in the television store nearby, where the Lithuanian shopkeeper holds out hope for attaining his own American Dream. With penetrating insight, ZZ Packer helps us see the world with a clearer vision. Fresh, versatile, and captivating, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is a striking and unforgettable collection, sure to stand out among the contemporary canon of fiction.
Author |
: Claire-Louise Bennett |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2022-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780593420515 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0593420519 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Checkout 19 by : Claire-Louise Bennett
A NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A NEW YORKER "ESSENTIAL READ" NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND VOGUE “Bennett writes like no one else. She is a rare talent, and Checkout 19 is a masterful novel.” –Karl Ove Knausgaard From the author of the “dazzling. . . . and daring” Pond (O magazine), the adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets–and dreams up–along the way. In a working-class town in a county west of London, a schoolgirl scribbles stories in the back pages of her exercise book, intoxicated by the first sparks of her imagination. As she grows, everything and everyone she encounters become fuel for a burning talent. The large Russian man in the ancient maroon car who careens around the grocery store where she works as a checkout clerk, and slips her a copy of Beyond Good and Evil. The growing heaps of other books in which she loses–and finds–herself. Even the derailing of a friendship, in a devastating violation. The thrill of learning to conjure characters and scenarios in her head is matched by the exhilaration of forging her own way in the world, the two kinds of ingenuity kindling to a brilliant conflagration. Exceeding the extraordinary promise of Bennett’s mold-shattering debut, Checkout 19 is a radical affirmation of the power of the imagination and the magic escape those who master it open to us all.
Author |
: Jack O'Hagan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 28 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1862919801 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781862919808 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Along the Road to Gundagai by : Jack O'Hagan
'There's a track winding back, to an old-fashioned shack, Along the road to Gundagai...' The words are familiar, but the story they tell may not be. Andrew McLean's illustrations bring to life the story of the men who went to the Great War, many of them never to return home.