Quiet Fire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quiet Fire write by Carol Dommermuth-Costa. This book was released on 2022-04-05. Quiet Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Young poets and historians alike will delight in this new account of the life of Emily Dickinson, one of America’s most beloved poets
The Hamlet Fire
The Hamlet Fire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hamlet Fire write by Bryant Simon. This book was released on 2020-07-23. The Hamlet Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a magnet for businesses in search of cheap labor and almost no oversight. Imperial Food Products was one of those businesses. The company set up shop in Hamlet in the 1980s. Workers who complained about low pay and hazardous working conditions at the plant were silenced or fired. But jobs were scarce in town, so workers kept coming back, and the company continued to operate with impunity. Then, on the morning of September 3, 1991, the never-inspected chicken-processing plant a stone's throw from Hamlet's city hall burst into flames. Twenty-five people perished that day behind the plant's locked and bolted doors. It remains one of the deadliest accidents ever in the history of the modern American food industry. Eighty years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, industrial disasters were supposed to have been a thing of the past in the United States. However, as award-winning historian Bryant Simon shows, the pursuit of cheap food merged with economic decline in small towns across the South and the nation to devalue laborers and create perilous working conditions. The Hamlet fire and its aftermath reveal the social costs of antiunionism, lax regulations, and ongoing racial discrimination. Using oral histories, contemporary news coverage, and state records, Simon has constructed a vivid, potent, and disturbing social autopsy of this town, this factory, and this time that exposes how cheap labor, cheap government, and cheap food came together in a way that was destined to result in tragedy.
Quiet Fires
Quiet Fires - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quiet Fires write by Ginna Gray. This book was released on 1993-08. Quiet Fires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Quiet Fire
Quiet Fire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quiet Fire write by Lisa Harlow. This book was released on 2017-09-30. Quiet Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Little Fires Everywhere
Little Fires Everywhere - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Little Fires Everywhere write by Celeste Ng. This book was released on 2017-09-12. Little Fires Everywhere available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The #1 New York Times bestseller! “Witty, wise, and tender. It's a marvel.” —Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train and A Slow Fire Burning “To say I love this book is an understatement. It’s a deep psychological mystery about the power of motherhood, the intensity of teenage love, and the danger of perfection. It moved me to tears.” —Reese Witherspoon From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Our Missing Hearts comes a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned—from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren—an enigmatic artist and single mother—who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town—and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia’s past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs. Little Fires Everywhere explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, and the ferocious pull of motherhood—and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert disaster. Named a Best Book of the Year by: People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads, Library Reads, Book of the Month, Paste, Kirkus Reviews, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and many more... Perfect for book clubs! Visit celesteng.com for discussion guides and more.
