In her working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen, she is enthralled by her wild, red-headed friend Ruth, who initiates her into adult secrets. But Tove cannot reveal her true self to her or to anyone else. For 'long, mysterious words begin to crawl across my soul', and she comes to realize that she has a vocation, something unknowable within her - and that she must one day, painfully but inevitably, leave the narrow street of her childhood behind.Childhood, the first volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, is a visceral portrait of girlhood and female friendship, told with lyricism and vivid intensity.

    For ten years, he lived as one of them, traveled with them from country to country, shared both their pleasures and their hardships--and came to know them as no one, no outsider, ever has. Here, in this firsthand and highly personal account of an extraordinary people, Yoors tells the real story of the Gypsies' fascinating customs and their neverending struggle to survive as free nomads in a hostile world.

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    government, and his subsequent postwar life and involvement in right-wing politics.

    They were charged with 221 acts of sabotage designed to “ferment violent revolution.” Rusty was one of two individuals acquitted, and the rest received life sentences. In The World that was Ours, his wife, Hilda Bernstein, offers an astonishing personal account of the events leading up to the “Rivonia Trial” and describes how, as a white family with four children, they managed to fight a hostile and unjust regime.There was a long night ahead. We are unable to read. We listen all the time, listen for the sound of a car in anticipation that the police will come. If he is in the hands of the police, surely they will bring him to the house to search; they always raid after an arrest.Hilda Bernstein (1915–2006) lived in London, but in 1933 moved to South Africa where she married Lionel Bernstein. She was elected as a Communist to the Johannesburg City Council; helped found the multiracial Federation of South African Women; and worked closely with the African National Congress’ Women’s League in opposition to apartheid.

    With their savings, the couple bought a ramshackle house and forty acres of land on a ridge top and set out to be farmers like Henry's forebears.To this personal account of the trials of a city woman trying to learn the ways of the country and of her neighbors, Janice Holt Giles brings the same warmth, humor, and powers of observation that characterize her novels. Enlightening and evocative, personal and universally pertinent, this description of a year of "backaches, fun, low ebbs, and high tides, and above all a year of eminent satisfaction" will be welcomed by Janice Holt Giles's many readers, old and new.Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Her biography is told in Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life.

    Through her words she demonstrates that God's boundless resources back up His promises, enabling us to be channels of His love and goodness to the nations.

    It is the smells, the sounds, the fears and the petty triumphs in the world of the street pimp.

    They all became involved in one of Father's pet projects--the rebuilding of the zoo.This true story of a family and a town is entertaining, "depicting family solidarity, town spirit, and the bright side of an era too often considered a period of gloom!" It is a boo for young and old.

    This memoir is his personal testament.

    Scientific study of chimpanzees in the wild in 1960.

    It is a stylistic tour de force and one of the most honest and unrelenting novels dealing with drug addiction ever written.

    Among the homeless on London's streets, she put love into action: from sitting with a drug addict through agonizing days of withdrawl to saving a tramp from a burning building.

    The book attests to the fact that the nightmare of Stalin camps did not disappear, repressive machine continued to work also in the [poslestalinskoe] time: the closed law courts, the complete lawlessness of political prisoners, " [vospitanie]" by hunger and much other. Its victim became Anatoliy [Marchenko], who was killed in The [chistopolskoy] prison in 1986. On the whole he conducted in the camps and references 19 and one-half of years, about which and he told in his books. Book of " My of [pokazaniya]" it is written in 1967

    The years covered in this volume, 1934-53, recall a vanished world where Channon's priviliged orbit circled every social and public figure of the day in a round of parties, balls, country-house weekends and endless gossip. His position as a MP enabled him to chronicle, famously, the Abdication Crisis, when King Edward VIII's love for 'jolly, plain 'unprepossessing' Mrs Simpson reduced him to 'a broken man at bay'. Culled from some three million words in the original, Robert Rhodes James's selection gives us the moments and characters of history, etched indelibly by a master observer.

    It is also the book in which Fortini sought to clarify for himself his conflicted identity as an Italian Jew.An uncomfortably timely book, The Dogs of the Sinai combines polemic and autobiography with narrative and criticism in a terse and finely wrought reflection on politics, identity, and truthfulness in the period after the Six Day War of 1967. As topical today as it was forty-five years ago, this meditation against power is published alongside Fortini/Cani, a film by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, drawn from Fortini’s essay. The film includes moving scenes of the author reading excerpts from his book against quiet landscapes. The Dogs of the Sinai is a powerful text from one of the most important intellectuals of the Italian New Left.