Peculiarly YoursiUniverse, 2005 - 272 страница Peculiarly Yours is an adventurous, humorous history, punctuated with the dynamics of family relationships, school experiences, vacations and entry into early adulthood, employment and marriage. Placed in the setting of a small upper Midwestern town, the author's life is touched both by elements of sweeping proportion-the Great Depression and World II-as well as family, faith, and the challenges of childhood and adolescence in a religiously strict home environment. Peculiarly Yours will invite you into some of the innermost rooms of the soul as the author writes of internal conflicts, loss, and faith in the midst of troubling times and parental efforts to shape identity and character. This is a fast-paced personal history of life, death, comical mishaps, romance and maturation sketched against the backdrop of the 1930s and 1940s on the northern plains. |
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Troubling Identity | 3 |
Relocating | 7 |
Grandparents | 11 |
Mama and Papa | 18 |
Intertwined | 23 |
Forbidden Pleasure | 27 |
Brother John | 31 |
Royalty | 34 |
Doting Doctor | 133 |
Wild Adoptees | 136 |
Reckless Recreation | 140 |
On Stage | 143 |
Baby Dolls | 147 |
Fallen Idol | 151 |
Receding Romance | 153 |
TEEN TURBULENCE | 159 |
Elementary | 37 |
Depression and Destiny | 41 |
Times of Life | 47 |
Character | 50 |
FREESTYLE | 53 |
Panorama | 55 |
Fair Hill | 59 |
Survival | 63 |
Free Wheeling | 66 |
Winter | 71 |
Above It All | 75 |
Close to Home | 79 |
Inspiration and Enterprise | 84 |
Rockhound | 90 |
Sojourn in Faith | 95 |
Main Street | 102 |
Motoring | 107 |
Dream Builder | 110 |
Collegiate Companion | 113 |
Relative Reception | 118 |
Luckless Lakesider | 121 |
Exposed | 125 |
Held Fast | 129 |
Conflicts and Privilege | 161 |
HiLine | 165 |
Pranks Pleasures and Peril | 169 |
Caught | 175 |
Daisy | 179 |
Mischief | 183 |
Stories in Store | 187 |
Senior Year | 193 |
LEVELING | 197 |
Courage of Conviction | 199 |
Smiles Subside | 203 |
Questionable Decorum | 207 |
Money and Men | 211 |
Highway Department | 214 |
Valley of the Shadow | 218 |
Farmstay | 221 |
Snowy Beginning | 227 |
Honeymoon | 231 |
Coldness and Compassion | 236 |
Life Together | 239 |
Lost to the World | 244 |
Чести термини и фразе
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