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Oh, Didn't He Ramble: The Life Story of Lee Collins as Told to Mary Collins (Music in American Life)

Arts & Photography

Collins, Mary

Collins, Lee

Gillis, Frank

Miner, John W.

Music

University of Illinois Press

Surveys the jazz trumpeter's career from the formative years of jazz in New Orleans, through his club successes in Chicago after 1930, to his last European tour in 1954

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

By age nine, Mary Ellen could start a fire and make breakfast for her family on the Great Plains as they traveled West. By age 11, Connie's family had her hanging the laundry and doing the dishes for a dozen people. By age 13, Beverly had no responsibilities at home and no confidence in herself. The portraits of 14 girls aged 6 to 14, when their ideas of duty and self remained in flux, are used as a starting point for discussion on how to bring daughters and their brothers back into the flow of American home life. The author explores how Americans might make girls feel essential on the home front without denying them the right of self-definition.
Few American parents expect their children to play an important role on the home front. The average daughter does fewer than ten hours of housework a week; sons do only two. What are the consequences of this dramatic cultural shift? Collins posits that nothing we can give our children in the public sphere can offset the loss. Collins concludes that Americans must rebuild a domestic culture that moves beyond the damaging sex-based division of labor so common in the past.

The Essential Daughter: Changing Expectations for Girls at Home, 1797 to the Present

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Praeger

Ten Bells Street (The Spitalfields Sagas)

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Piatkus

The East End of London, 1930. Work is scarce, food is in short supply and there is political unrest on the streets. But in the face of all this hardship, there's always friendship.Becky, Bernie and Rose - three best friends from very different backgrounds - are working hard to establish themselves in pre-war Spitalfields. Becky, the daughter of a Jewish tailor, wants to become a nurse, but her father has more traditional plans for her. Aching to leave the East End and travel the world, Bernie feels trapped by her vast family of poor Irish dock workers. And then there is Rose. Tiny and thin, she lives with her drunken mother and a revolving selection of surrogate fathers who exploit and brutalise them both.But at least the girls have each other and, as Europe begins to drift towards another war, their friendships become ever more crucial as each one of them fights for their place in an ever-changing, frightening, new world. One way or another, love will pull them through . . .

Can their friendship survive the struggles of war? 1940, the East End of London. Life is tough for the Ten Bells Street girls. Best friends from childhood, the three of them now find themselves scattered across London, surviving the war apart. Exiled from the East End, Rose has created a new life for herself and now works as a dancer in a club in Soho - but life in the West End has its problems too. With the arrival of the war, Becky has finally found work as a nurse, but as the bombs continue to fall she struggles to cope with the damage that surrounds her. And Bernie may have achieved her lifelong dream of becoming a professional photographer, but she's never felt more distanced from her family and her life in the East End. Separated by circumstances, the girls' friendship stands strong in the face of hardship as they fight for their place in a frightening new world. One way or another, love will pull them through...

Ten Bells Street at War (The Spitalfields Sagas)

Romance

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Genre Fiction

Helps to improve social interactive skills for those professionals in the health, counseling, teaching and other social services. The areas covered include learning and evaluating social skills, developing professional helping and counseling skills, interpersonal and group skills, training and practice with various client groups including children, adolescents and the physically and mentally handicapped.

Social Skills Training and the Professional Helper

Politics & Social Sciences

COLLINS, JOHN W.

Politics & Government

wiley

Chronicles the causes of the Spanish-American War, the events leading up to it, and its lasting effects, including the emergence of the United States as a world power

The Spanish-American War (Cornerstones of Freedom Second Series)

Children's Books

History

Childrens Pr

Describes the history of the Virginia estate that was home to this country's first president and is now maintained as a national landmark

Mount Vernon (Cornerstones of Freedom Second Series)

Alter, Judy

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