Mildred's Married Life

Mildred's Married Life
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Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HN5HSR
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Rating : 4/5 (SR Downloads)

Synopsis Mildred's Married Life by : Martha Finley

Mildred's Married Life, and a Winter with Elsie Dinsmore

Mildred's Married Life, and a Winter with Elsie Dinsmore
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Publisher : Good Press
Total Pages : 269
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ISBN-10 : EAN:4064066418229
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Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Mildred's Married Life, and a Winter with Elsie Dinsmore by : Martha Finley

"Mildred's Married Life, and a Winter with Elsie Dinsmore" by Martha Finley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Finding a Way Home

Finding a Way Home
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Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Total Pages : 114
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ISBN-10 : 9781635924503
ISBN-13 : 1635924502
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Finding a Way Home by : Larry Dane Brimner

When Mildred and Richard Loving are arrested, jailed, and exiled from their home simply because of their mixed-race marriage, they must challenge the courts and the country in order to secure their civil rights. Richard Perry Loving and Mildred Jeter Loving wanted to live out their married life near family in Virginia. However, the state refused to let them--because Richard was white and Mildred was black. After being arrested and charged with a crime, the Lovings were forced to leave their home--until they turned to the legal system. In one of the country's most prominent legal battles, Loving v. Virginia, the Lovings secured their future when the court struck down all state laws prohibiting mixed marriage. Acclaimed author Larry Dane Brimner's thorough research and detailed reconstruction of the Loving v. Virginia case memorializes the emotional journey towards marriage equality in this critical addition to his award-winning oeuvre of social justice titles.

Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9780743247221
ISBN-13 : 0743247221
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Fahrenheit 451 by : Ray Bradbury

Set in the future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by the totalitarian "brave new world" regime.

Waiting for Isaac

Waiting for Isaac
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages : 30
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ISBN-10 : 1726053555
ISBN-13 : 9781726053556
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Waiting for Isaac by : Mildred Kingsley-okonkwo

Have you ever had to wait for anything? Chances are you have. Waiting is part of life. Unfortunately, many people by nature when it comes to marriage are generally impatient. This book addresses what to do while waiting in order to turn your waiting period into testimony.

Excellent Women

Excellent Women
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9781101666258
ISBN-13 : 1101666250
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Excellent Women by : Barbara Pym

Excellent Women is probably the most famous of Barbara Pym's novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Cecil as one of 'the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years,' helped launch the rediscovery of the author's entire work. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a spinster in the England of the 1950s, one of those 'excellent women' who tend to get involved in other people's lives - such as those of her new neighbor, Rockingham, and the vicar next door. This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest.

The Lovings

The Lovings
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Publisher : Chronicle Books
Total Pages : 114
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ISBN-10 : 9781616896126
ISBN-13 : 1616896124
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lovings by : Barbara Villet

The Lovings: An Intimate Portrait documents the extraordinary love story of Mildred and Richard Loving. The Lovings presents Grey Villet's stunning photo-essay in its entirety for the first time and reveals with striking intensity and clarity the powerful bond of a couple that helped change history. Mildred, a woman of African American and Native American descent and Richard, a white man, were arrested in July 1958 for the crime of interracial marriage, prohibited under Virginia state law. Exiled to Washington, DC, they fought to bring their case to the US Supreme Court. Knowledge of their struggle spread across the nation, and in the spring of 1965, the Life magazine photojournalist Villet spent a few weeks documenting the Lovings and their family and friends as they went about their lives in the midst of their trial. Loving v. Virginia was the landmark US civil rights case that, in a unanimous decision, ultimately ended the prohibition of interracial marriage in 1967.

Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce
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Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780307772930
ISBN-13 : 0307772934
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Mildred Pierce by : James M. Cain

In Mildred Pierce, noir master James M. Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devasting emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable. Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter.

Resisting Hitler

Resisting Hitler
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 513
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ISBN-10 : 9780199923885
ISBN-13 : 0199923884
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Resisting Hitler by : Shareen Blair Brysac

This gripping and heartbreaking narrative is the first full account of an American woman who gave her life in the struggle against the Nazi regime. As members of a key resistance group, Mildred Harnack and her husband, Arvid, assisted in the escape of German Jews and political dissidents, and for years provided vital economic and military intelligence to both Washington and Moscow. But in 1942, following a Soviet blunder, the Gestapo arrested, tortured, and tried some four score members of the Harnacks' group, which the Nazis dubbed the Red Orchestra. Mildred Fish-Harnack was guillotined in Berlin on February 16, 1943, on the personal instruction of Adolf Hitler--she was the only American woman to be executed as an underground conspirator during World War II. Yet as the war ended and the Cold War began, her courage, idealism, and self-sacrifice went largely unacknowledged in America and the democratic West, and were distorted and sanitized in the Communist East. Only now, with the opening of long-sealed archives from Germany, the KGB, the CIA, and the FBI, can the full story be told. In this superbly told life of an unjustly forgotten woman, Shareen Blair Brysac depicts the human side of a controversial resistance group that for too long has been portrayed as merely a Soviet espionage network.

Mildred at Roselands

Mildred at Roselands
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Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HN5HI1
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Rating : 4/5 (I1 Downloads)

Synopsis Mildred at Roselands by : Martha Finley