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April 25, 2024

Garsington Revisited The Legend of Lady Ottoline Morrell Brought Up-to-Date

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Free Download Sandra J. Darroch, "Garsington Revisited: The Legend of Lady Ottoline Morrell Brought Up-to-Date"
English | ISBN: 0861967372 | 2017 | 456 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
Lady Ottoline Morrell was the foremost host of the Bloomsbury set, offering sustenance and friendship to Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, TS Eliot, DH Lawrence, Duncan Grant and her lover Bertrand Russell, to name but a few. This book is a revised and updated edition of the author’s original biography of Ottoline first published in 1975 worldwide. It has been updated, with vignettes about her sources, including lunch at ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" / Charleston with Duncan Grant, and a ship’s tumbler of sherry with David Garnett as a prelude to discussing "skeletons in Ottoline’s cupboard"). Her sources in Texas where she read more than 8,000 letters to Ottoline including 2,500 letters from Bertrand Russell, can now be located in new footnotes. Darroch remains as impressed as ever by Ottoline’s courage and determination to forgo the comfortable life of an aristocrat to mix with – and champion – some of the 20th century’s leading artists and writers. The definitive biography.

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January 16, 2024

The Lady Swings Memoirs of a Jazz Drummer

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Free Download The Lady Swings: Memoirs of a Jazz Drummer by Dottie Dodgion, Wayne Enstice
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0252085515 | 312 Pages | PDF | 2.2 MB
Dottie Dodgion is a jazz drummer who played with the best. A survivor, she lived an entire lifetime before she was seventeen. Undeterred by hardships she defied the odds and earned a seat as a woman in the exclusive men’s club of jazz. Her dues-paying path as a musician took her from early work with Charles Mingus to being hired by Benny Goodman at Basin Street East on her first day in New York. From there she broke new ground as a woman who played a "man’s instrument" in first-string, all-male New York City jazz bands. Her inspiring memoir talks frankly about her music and the challenges she faced, and shines a light into the jazz world of the 1960s and 1970s.

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January 5, 2024

Our Lady of Emmitsburg, Visionary Culture, and Catholic Identity Seeing and Believing

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Free Download Jill Krebs, "Our Lady of Emmitsburg, Visionary Culture, and Catholic Identity: Seeing and Believing"
English | ISBN: 1498523552 | 2015 | 256 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This ethnography explores the community of believers in a series of Marian apparitions in rural Emmitsburg, Maryland, asking what it means to call oneself a Catholic and child of Our Lady in this context, what it means to believe in an apparition, and what it means to communicate with divine presence on earth. Believers fashion themselves as devotees of Our Lady in several ways. Through autobiography, they look backward in time to see their lives as leading up to their participation in the prayer group or in some cases moving to Emmitsburg. By observing and telling miracle stories, they adopt an enchanted worldview in which the miraculous becomes everyday. Through relationships with Our Lady, their lives are enriched and even transformed. When they negotiate institutional loyalty and individual autonomy, they affirm their own authority and Catholic identity. Finally, through social media, they expand their devotional networks in ways that shift authority structures and empower individuals. Individuals engage beliefs, practices, and attitudes both arising from and resisting elements of modernity, religious pluralism and religious decline, empowerment and perceived disempowerment, tradition and innovation, and institutional loyalty and perceived disloyalty to reveal one way of understanding Catholic identity amidst the shifts and flows of modern change.

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January 4, 2024

Lady Death The Memoirs of Stalin’s Sniper [Audiobook] (2024)

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Free Download Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin’s Sniper (Audiobook)
English | May 19, 2018 | ASIN: B07CVMYPV3 | MP3@128 kbps | 14h 13m | 781.76 MB
Author: Lyudmila Pavlichenko, David Foreman, Martin Pelger, Alla Igorevna Begunova
Narrator: Emily Durante
In June 1941, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, Lyudmila Pavlichenko left her university studies and ignored the offer of a position as a nurse to become one of Soviet Russia’s 2,000 female snipers. Less than a year later, she had 309 recorded kills, including 29 enemy sniper kills. She was withdrawn from active duty after being injured. She was also regarded as a key heroic figure for the war effort.

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