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Little attention has been paid to the settlement of Germans in Kansas, and Roberta Reb Allen's Once We Were Strangers helps to fill that void. It is both the saga of an immigrant family told within the larger social, political, and economic context of the day and a scholarly exploration of the settlement patterns and the diverse choices made by German pioneers. Starting in the small village of Ebhausen in the Black Forest of the Kingdom of Wür...

Little attention has been paid to the settlement of Germans in Kansas, and Roberta Reb Allen's Once We Were Strangers helps to fill that void. It is both the saga of an immigrant family told within the larger social, political, and economic context of the day and a scholarly exploration of the settlement patterns and the diverse choices made by German pioneers. Starting in the small village of Ebhausen in the Black Forest of the Kingdom of Wür...

It's been almost two years since the car accident that claimed Jenny Peterson's precious memories. At first, she learned about her past from those around her. After a while, snapshots of past experiences came to mind, but they were hazy. Why could she not remember? Something triggered the briefest memory of a man who had obviously been very dear to her. What was it? A smell? A sound? A sight? She longed to figure out and capture whatever it...

It's been almost two years since the car accident that claimed Jenny Peterson's precious memories. At first, she learned about her past from those around her. After a while, snapshots of past experiences came to mind, but they were hazy. Why could she not remember? Something triggered the briefest memory of a man who had obviously been very dear to her. What was it? A smell? A sound? A sight? She longed to figure out and capture whatever it...

The history of women simmers away on the back burner of time-largely forgotten. Some foremothers left lingering traces in treasured recipes passed down from generation to generation but not mine. My great-grandmothers' kitchen chronicles can never be retrieved. My grandmothers-one gone twenty-two years before my birth, one by the time I reached two-are nearly as ephemeral. Preserving and cherishing keepsakes was not in my mother's repertoire. ...

Gretchen Richard was a vivacious, competent woman who moved to Chicago on her twentieth birthday and began her rise in the hospitality industry. In her off hours, she devoured the nightlife with a string of young swain who wanted to marry her. But in 1950 after she had already become a wife and mother, everything changed for Gretchen when Dr. Walter Freeman pronounced her a paranoid schizophrenic on a Friday and performed a lobotomy the follow...

Gretchen Richard was a vivacious, competent woman who moved to Chicago on her twentieth birthday and began her rise in the hospitality industry. In her off hours, she devoured the nightlife with a string of young swain who wanted to marry her. But in 1950 after she had already become a wife and mother, everything changed for Gretchen when Dr. Walter Freeman pronounced her a paranoid schizophrenic on a Friday and performed a lobotomy the follow...

Mit nur zehn Wörtern könne er eine ganze Geschichte erzählen, hatte Ernest Hemingway mit Schriftstellerkollegen gewettet. Die hielten dagegen und legten jeder 10 Dollar auf den Tisch, heißt es. Hemingway schrieb: For sale: Baby shoes, never worn - und kassierte den Gewinn. Ob die Story wahr ist, weiß niemand. Aber sie zeigt, dass sich auch in wenigen Worten eine Geschichte erzählen lässt. Mit Roberta Allens Fünf-Minuten-Methode schreiben S...

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Filled with erotic waywardness, this latest in the Coffee-To-Go Short-Short Story series is about characters who--wherever they maybe--are never at home.

With an eye toward building self-awareness, Allen employs her signature combination of verbal directives and visual cues in a dynamic workbook that prompts readers to look at themselves from many different angles and perspectives. 78 halftones. Consumable.