All We Know

Esther Murphy was a brilliant New York intellectual who dazzled friends and strangers with an unstoppable flow of conversation. But she never finished the books she was contracted to write—a painful failure and yet a kind of achievement. The quintessential fan, Mercedes de Acosta had intimate friendships with the legendary actresses and dancers of the twentieth century. Her ephemeral legacy lies in the thousands of objects she collected to preserve the memory of those performers and to honor the feelings they inspired. An icon of haute couture and a fashion editor of British Vogue, Madge Garland held bracing views on dress that drew on her feminism, her ideas about modernity, and her love of women. Existing both vividly and invisibly at the center of cultural life, she—like Murphy and de Acosta—is now almost completely forgotten. In All We Know, Lisa Cohen describes these women's glamorous choices, complicated failures, and controversial personal lives with lyricism and empathy. At once a series of intimate portraits and a startling investigation into style, celebrity, sexuality, and the genre of biography itself, All We Know explores a hidden history of modernism and pays tribute to three compelling lives. All We Know is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012

The book (fiction) tells an engaging original story an epic sweeping drama with character driven pictures  During the 1930s Baron Jacques Chavalmont the wealthy and respected President and Chief Executive of an infl uential private merchant bank in Paris became concerned by developments in Germany and meticulously crafted a plan for the survival of his extended family should a war ensue.  The Plan required the transfer of substantial assets bullion, currencies, art and jewelry for safekeeping in the Barons Bank (The Bancario di Milano) in Buenos Aires. The Baron arranged for his ambitious son-in-law Caetano di Rosario to manage the Bancario.  The book narrates how its characters a disparate group of talented men and women from Italy, Germany, Latvia, and Entre Rios (Argentina): Caetano Di Rosario, his wife Marie-Helene, their son Alain, Max Elman and his paramour Francine, Dr. Manfred Lowen, and Kathleen McCloud (from Entre Rios) converged on Buenos Aires during the 1930s. It relates their dreams, hopes, frustrations, passions, romances, adultery, greed and dishonesty.  It describes how the new Buenos Aires residents successfully adapted to their new environment and how their lives interacted over time against the backdrop of events (leading to and after the Second World War) which took place in England, France, Germany, Monte Carlo, Latvia, Israel and Buenos Aires. The immigrants never saw their loved families again Most had perished in the Holocaust  After the end of the Second World War a small group of European family survivors sued Caetano di Rosario and the Bancario in Buenos Aires for the recovery of their families deposited assets. The fully described litigation process culminated in a most interesting denouement that directly aff ected Caetano, Marie-Helene, Alain, Kathleen, Manfred and Sandra

In this stirring and captivating story of the heart, Bernard Henry, Jr. explores the nuances of how a man manages to balance the complexities of his life during a crucial and emotional episode. Awaken in the mist of a tragic scenario, a dedicated husband and family man finds himself tormented with the uncertainty of his future, and dwells on his past to guide him through the most staggering and difficult ordeal of his life. Through a man’s eyes and heart, we journey to how he overcomes this crippling emotional turmoil with the help of his family and friends, and through reflecting on his life experiences. This story demonstrates the delicate line of strength that men are programmed to display and the tender attributes that are truly the sources of a man’s courage. Robert Curtis is in a stable period of his marriage. As most young couples, he and his wife Regina have had some ups and downs as they grow individually and together. The trials of everyday life, family, and professional woes take their toil on their marriage, but they are able to pull it together. Just as life seems calm and their relationship becomes more fulfilling, Regina and their daughter is involved in a horrible car accident. This debut novel illustrates the intricate workings of every relationship and how our connections to family and friends impact our lives greatly. Filled with genuine dialogue, good times and bad, sweet moments and bitter, "For All We Know" is remedy for healing and reveals a heartwarming story told from the ardent joys of a man’s heart.

Jo Shepherd grew up on a farm in the Pacific Northwest under the loving care of her grandfather, Frank. After spending months nursing him through his final painful illness, Jo receives a vision of the Virgin Mary, who sends her to Italy to live out her dream of becoming an artist. In doing so, Jo must leave behind her home and her best friend Jack, and risk losing him forever. In Florence, Jo’s intense artistic visions begin to find fruition, but her odyssey is complicated when she meets Chad and Walter, two extraordinary young men. By day, Jo paints–women in a marketplace, the view of the Arno from the Piazzale Michelangelo. At night, both Chad and Walter vie for her attention. As the lives of these three friends become more deeply entwined, the revelation of painful secrets threatens to destroy their delicate balance. It isn’t until Jo returns home that she begins to face up to the legacy of her time in Italy, her very real grief for the grandfather she lost, and the prospect of a future with or without Jack.

Natalie, almost sixteen, sneaks away from her Connecticut home and takes the bus to Florida, looking for the mother who abandoned her father and her when she was ten years old.

Winner of the Willie Lee Rose Prize from the Southern Association for Women Historians In the years after World War I, Southern farm women found their world changing. A postwar plunge in farm prices stretched into a twenty-year agricultural depression and New Deal programs eventually transformed the economy. Many families left their land to make way for larger commercial farms. New industries and the intervention of big government in once insular communities marked a turning point in the struggle of upcountry women—forcing new choices and the redefinition of traditional ways of life. Melissa Walker's All We Knew Was to Farm draws on interviews, archives, and family and government records to reconstruct the conflict between rural women and bewildering and unsettling change. Some women adapted by becoming partners in farm operations, adopting the roles of consumers and homemakers, taking off-farm jobs, or leaving the land. The material lives of rural upcountry women improved dramatically by midcentury—yet in becoming middle class, Walker concludes, the women found their experiences both broadened and circumscribed.

When Maureen and Bridget, two sixteen-year-old best friends who look like sisters, are in a terrible car accident and one of them dies, they are at first incorrectly identified at the hospital, and then, as Maureen achieves a remarkable recovery, she must deal with the repercussions of the accident, the mix-up, and some choices she made while she was getting better.

"What we know about teaching Teenagers", 2019 I would like to thank Dr. Richard NeSmith for helping me know more about what goes through teenagers’ minds and grow into a better teacher. Dr. NeSmith’s 28-plus years of teaching experience and careful study of biology, developmental and cognitive psychology make him one of the best experts in the field. His book explains the difficulties students have learning at school and reflects on how to overcome them, promoting a better understanding of the changes going on in teenagers’ lives as well as an elementary understanding of what causes pain points in the brain of the adult-in-the-making. Above all, Dr. NeSmith reminds us that teenagers are individuals, with their personality, strengths, weaknesses, and their ways of showing love and concern. The book has been carefully researched and will make you aware of the cognitive-emotional interactions going on inside the mind of preadolescents to improve your teaching strategies. It is such a privilege to teach and take teenagers from childhood to adulthood. Whether you are a parent, a teacher, or a school administrator you will find in this book strategies to facilitate learning and encourage lifelong learning. =========================================================================== A research-based book addressing brain-based learning and how secondary age students best learn and how teachers can best teach to meet those needs. American public education is on life support like never before. Why? The shift from LEARNING to standardized testing, ticking boxes for administrators, and watering down curricula are some of the reasons. This synthesis of brain-based research emphasizes how students best learn. It is NOT a checklist, it is a strategy that empowered teachers can utilize to improve student learning. But, knowing how teens think enables teachers to know HOW TEENS best LEARN. --Dr. Richard NeSmith