War has come to England, and the Furys soldier on Desmond Fury calls himself a working man, but it has been years since he put in a full shift. A brutally arrogant union leader, he longs to escape the working class and sees World War II as his ticket to better things. He is at a banquet for war recruiters, savoring the atmosphere of refinement, when a call comes from the hospital that drags him right back into the mud. His mother, the indomitable Mrs. Fury, has collapsed. After years of holding the family together—and making life hell for everyone in it—she lies in the hospital, near death. But Mrs. Fury is not finished yet. As Desmond fights for respectability and her other children wage battles of their own, Mrs. Fury will do what she can to keep her family intact—even if it kills her. Our Time Is Gone is the third book of James Hanley’s acclaimed Furys Saga.

Louis Barfe's elegantly written, authoritative and highly entertaining history charts the meteoric rise and slow decline of the popular recording industry. Barfe shows how the 1920s and 1930s saw the departure of Edison from the phonograph business he created and the birth of EMI and CBS. In the years after the war, these companies, and the buccaneers, hucksters, impresarios and con-men who ran them, reaped stupendous commercial benefits with the arrival of Elvis Presley, who changed popular music (and sales of popular music) overnight. After Presley came the Beatles, when the recording industry became global and record sales reached all time highs. Where Have All The Good Times Gone? also charts the decline from that high-point a generation ago. The 1990s ushered in a period of profound crisis and uncertainty in the industry, encapsulated in one word: Napster. Barfe shows how the almost infinite amounts of free music available online have traumatic and disastrous consequences for an industry that has become cautious and undynamic.

For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir told through the themes of great books such as The Metamorphosis, The Scarlet Letter, The Iliad, and more, Tran navigates the push and pull of finding and accepting himself despite the challenges of immigration, feelings of isolation, and teenage rebellion, all while attempting to meet the rigid expectations set by his immigrant parents. Appealing to fans of coming-of-age memoirs such as Fresh Off the Boat, Running with Scissors, or tales of assimilation like Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Displaced and The Refugees, Sigh, Gone explores one man’s bewildering experiences of abuse, racism, and tragedy and reveals redemption and connection in books and punk rock. Against the hairspray-and-synthesizer backdrop of the ‘80s, he finds solace and kinship in the wisdom of classic literature, and in the subculture of punk rock, he finds affirmation and echoes of his disaffection. In his journey for self-discovery Tran ultimately finds refuge and inspiration in the art that shapes—and ultimately saves—him.

Well-known shearing commentator Evans discusses his farming life, from a tough post-war childhood with no mother, tractor or car, to days on shearing gangs and in hedge-laying competitions, to his own sheep farming, commentating and his impact on policy through work with the National Farmers Union.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels comes an enthralling southern gothic saga about one woman's quest for the truth... When Vivien Walker left her home in the Mississippi Delta, she swore never to go back. But in the spring, nine years to the day since she’d left, Vivien returns, fleeing from a broken marriage and her lost dreams for children. What she hopes to find is solace with her dear grandmother who raised her, a Walker woman with a knack for making everything all right. Instead Vivien is forced into the unexpected role of caretaker, challenging her personal quest to find the girl she once was. But things will change again in ways Vivien cannot imagine. A violent storm has revealed the remains of a long-dead woman buried near the Walker home, not far from the cypress swamp that is soon to give up its ghosts. Vivien knows there is now only one way to rediscover herself—by uncovering the secrets of her family and breaking the cycle of loss that has haunted them for generations. READERS GUIDE INCLUDED

From the memoirs of Lora: A Time Gone By, is a family historical novel set in Texas during the 1950's. Like the Chesterfields, the Cartier's dominated the tobacco industry at the turn-of-the-century - they made a mint following the Civil War. From the memoirs of Lora: A Time Gone By, is a family historical novel set in Texas during the 1950's. Like the Chesterfields, the Cartier's dominated the tobacco industry at the turn-of-the-century - they made a mint following the Civil War. In 1956 a brutal murder takes place - Barbara Jourdan, a high fashion New York Model and heir to the Cartier fortune is found brutally murdered in her Texas mansion. Who Killed Barbara? While searching for answers to who murdered her sister, Lora-Lee discovers secrets about the family that frightens her to the core and ends her up in the back alleys of Louisiana's bayou country and into the mystique world of voodoo. Lora-Lee rushes to the ranch where she confronts Grandmother Lora who is the eldest living relative and matriarch of the Cartier clan. Lora-Lee demands Grandmother to tell her what is going on for she can not believe what she found out about their family. She yells out, "...Grandmother are we really Negroes?" Grandmother breaks down and begins unweaving a tale of mystery and intrigue that takes them on a journey into their past dating back to the Civil War. Become captivated in Grandmother Lora's memoirs about her prolific family in Lynetta Jordan's page turning novel, "From the memoirs of Lora; A Time Gone By".

As one man attempts to piece his life back together again, he has to think back the year of hippies, Woodstock, drugs, anti-war and pro-war to try and make sense of who he is and where he is now.

With remarkable speed, the Sixties have gone from lived history to mythology. They remain alive in our culture in a manner different from any previous era. At the dawn of a new century, we are still debating the issues that emerged during that decade, still living in the conscious aftermath of its events and transformations. This collection looks back at the Sixties, attempting to understand the issues of the day on their own terms and to think about their meanings in today's world. Alexander Bloom has gathered ten original essays, each of which explores the gulf between history and myth regarding a central characteristic of the Sixties. Topics covered include civil rights, the student movement and the New Left, the Vietnam War, the antiwar movement, gay rights, the counterculture, and the women's movement. Long Time Gone dispels myths about the Sixties and constructs an accurate vision of the past and an understanding of its impact on the modern world. It is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking deeper knowledge of this incredible decade and its continuing influence on American culture.

In this book, a sequel to Mining My Own Life the author makes whole the omissions of several riveting episodes in his life working for a living in three continents. Growing up in Malaysia under brutal Japanese occupation; the chilling circumstances in Sri Lanka the land of his forbears that propelled him to seek employment in the West African states of Sierra Leone and Liberia which changed the contours of his familys life permanently ; the crushing process he had to involuntarily subject himself in order to obtain United States citizenship and from a position of clinical detachment he confronts point blank the twin scourges the pernicious caste system (that is pervasive in his community) and the blankness of the color blind ideology in the United States of America. To the long avowed esoteric doctrines of Karma, Maktub and Historical Determinism and to the precept of Thy Will Be Done the author deftly puts a human face by relating them to his own enlightening personal experiences which have had an enduring impact on his life.