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When the Nightingale Sings

By: John Ashton Williams

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Nightingales return to Berlin in the spring of 1945 to nest and raise their young. They find a city reduced to rubble by the Russian Army leaving them no place to go. Rudy, a boy disabled by polio as an infant, is condemned to be kitchen help in Adolf Hitler's Berlin bunker during the last eleven days of World War II. With Karoline, a servant girl, he prepares food and cleans the bunker for Hitler and the Nazis. The Russian Army has broken through Berlin's defenses and the end is near. Rudy's fear grows when he sees the women beaten and raped by the Russians come into the emergency aid station under the New Reich Chancellery. He worries about what will happen to Karoline when the Russians come. Rudy starts to doubt Hitler is the great Leader of the Fatherland everyone believes him to be. His admiration for Hitler turns to hatred when he learns of the atrocities perpetrated at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Doctor Goebbels, the Propaganda Minister, arrives in the bunker with his wife and six children. Rudy befriends Helga the oldest girl. Rumors spread, Dr. Goebbels and his wife plan to commit suicide with Adolf Hitler. Rudy is scared. What will happen to the children? He makes plans to escape the bunker and the Russians with Karoline and the children but is blocked at every turn by unforeseen events. Rudy seeks guidance from Hannes an old mechanic in the bunkers machine room. Hannes tells him he's just a boy and is not responsible for the Goebbels children or the fate of Karoline when the Russians come. The Russians bombard Berlin with artillery and tank fire leaving the city in ruins. The insanity of the Nazis takes over the bunker. Murder and suicide become normal. Rudy and Karoline grow closer and together struggle to survive the collapse of the Third Reich. The Russians are mounting a final assault. Rudy panics. Is it too late to escape? What will happen to the children and Karoline? Will his worst fears come true? Will the children die? Will he be killed and Karoline raped? When the nightingale sings will Rudy find the courage to never give up? Author Bio: John Ashton Williams started serious writing in 1994 at the Mississippi Valley Writers Conference sponsored by David Collins a teacher and well-known children's author. He has written numerous short stories and received awards at the above conference. WHEN THE NIGHTINGALE SINGS is his second novel. His first novel, a historical adventure, will be revised and also made available as an e-book. Keywords: Teen, Juvenile, Fiction, Historical, Hitler, Nazi, Survival, World War II, Holocaust, Friendship

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240

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First Edition Design Pub.

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1622874897

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9781622874897

The Life of William Wordsworth

A Critical Biography

By: Thomas Lockwood

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The Life of William Wordsworth

A Critical Biography

By: Thomas Lockwood

By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth’s early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet’s most creative period of life and writing. Features new research into Wordsworth’s financial situation, and into how the poet and his family survived financially Offers a new understanding of the role of his great unwritten poem ‘The Recluse’ Presents a new assessment of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge

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500

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470655445

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9780470655443

A Treatise on the Law of Evidence

Vol. I

By: John Taylor

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A Treatise on the Law of Evidence

Vol. I

By: John Taylor

Reprint of the original.

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3368152858

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9783368152857

The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island

Comprising Three Generations of Settlers who Came Before 1690, with Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation

By: John Osborne Austin

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The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island

Comprising Three Generations of Settlers who Came Before 1690, with Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation

By: John Osborne Austin

This legendary work consists of alphabetically arranged genealogical tables of approximately 500 Rhode Island families, representing thousands of descendants of pre--1690 settlers, all carried to the third generation, and some--about 100 families-- carried to the fourth.

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508

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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080630006X

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9780806300061

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

By: John Lahr

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Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

By: John Lahr

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: Biography Category National Book Award Finalist 2015 Winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award A Chicago Tribune 'Best Books of 2014' USA Today: 10 Books We Loved Reading Washington Post, 10 Best Books of 2014 The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker. John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. This astute, deeply researched biography sheds a light on Tennessee Williams's warring family, his guilt, his creative triumphs and failures, his sexuality and numerous affairs, his misreported death, even the shenanigans surrounding his estate. With vivid cameos of the formative influences in Williams's life—his fierce, belittling father Cornelius; his puritanical, domineering mother Edwina; his demented sister Rose, who was lobotomized at the age of thirty-three; his beloved grandfather, the Reverend Walter Dakin—Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is as much a biography of the man who created A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as it is a trenchant exploration of Williams’s plays and the tortured process of bringing them to stage and screen. The portrait of Williams himself is unforgettable: a virgin until he was twenty-six, he had serial homosexual affairs thereafter as well as long-time, bruising relationships with Pancho Gonzalez and Frank Merlo. With compassion and verve, Lahr explores how Williams's relationships informed his work and how the resulting success brought turmoil to his personal life. Lahr captures not just Williams’s tempestuous public persona but also his backstage life, where his agent Audrey Wood and the director Elia Kazan play major roles, and Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Bette Davis, Maureen Stapleton, Diana Barrymore, and Tallulah Bankhead have scintillating walk-on parts. This is a biography of the highest order: a book about the major American playwright of his time written by the major American drama critic of his time.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393247120

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9780393247121

Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada

By: George Henry Cornish,John Carroll

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Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada

By: George Henry Cornish,John Carroll

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385421950

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9783385421950

Fermented Beverage Production

By: Andrew G.H. Lea,John R. Piggott

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Fermented Beverage Production

By: Andrew G.H. Lea,John R. Piggott

The production of fermented beverages is nowadays a technically sophisticated business. Many people outside it, however, even if they are familiar with the food industry overall, fail to appreciate just what advances have been made in the last twenty or thirty years. In part this is due to the blandishments of advertising, which tend to emphasise the traditional image for mass market promotion at the expense of the technological skills, and in part due to a lack of readily available information on the production pro cesses themselves. This book attempts to remedy the balance and to show that, far from being a quaint and rustic activity, the production of fermented beverages is a skilled and sophisticated blend of tradition and technology. We have chosen to organise the book principally by individual beverages or groups of beverages, with the addition of a number of general chapters to cover items of common concern such as fermentation biochemistry, adulteration, filtration and flavour aspects. While we have tried to eliminate excessive duplication of information, we make no apologies for the fact that certain important aspects (e. g. the role of sulphur dioxide in wine and cidermaking) are discussed on more than one occasion. This only serves to underline their importance and to ensure that each chapter is moderately self-contained.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475752148

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9781475752144

Case and His Contemporaries

Vol. 5

By: John Carroll

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Case and His Contemporaries

Vol. 5

By: John Carroll

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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3752566884

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9783752566888

A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution

St. Helens, 1750-1900

By: Theodore Cardwell Barker,John Raymond Harris

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A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution

St. Helens, 1750-1900

By: Theodore Cardwell Barker,John Raymond Harris

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0714645559

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9780714645551

Template Synthesis of Macrocyclic Compounds

By: N. V. Gerbeleu,V. B. Arion,John P. Burgess

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Template Synthesis of Macrocyclic Compounds

By: N. V. Gerbeleu,V. B. Arion,John P. Burgess

The synthesis of macrocycles is an art in itself. Template-controlled synthesis provides elegant access to fascinating macrocyclic structures. Polyazamacrocycles, crown ethers, cryptands, rotaxanes, knots -- the range of macrocyclic compounds is as broad as their potential application as molecular switches, in ion exchange, electron transfer or catalysis. This book provides authoritative information on all aspects of template-controlled macrocyclizations. It covers in depth the current state of research on template processes - novel synthetic techniques and mechanistic approaches. The critical discussion of the diverse synthetic routes includes the detailed characterization of the broad variety of macrocyclic products. References to applications of macrocyclic compounds and over 1,500 citations make this handbook an indispensable tool for chemists in academia and industry. Researchers in organic and supramolecular chemistry, biotechnology, and inorganic chemistry will find inspiration for the design, synthesis, and myriad uses of new synthetic macrocycles.

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3527613811

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Book's by John Ashton Williams

When the Nightingale Sings

When the Nightingale Sings

The Life of William Wordsworth

The Life of William Wordsworth

A Treatise on the Law of Evidence

A Treatise on the Law of Evidence

The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island

The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada

Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada

Fermented Beverage Production

Fermented Beverage Production

Case and His Contemporaries

Case and His Contemporaries

A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution

A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution

Template Synthesis of Macrocyclic Compounds

Template Synthesis of Macrocyclic Compounds

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