Tag: Town

The Wedding That Saved a Town


Free Download Jenya Prosmitsky, "The Wedding That Saved a Town"
English | 2008 | pages: 36 | ISBN: 0822573768 | PDF | 15,1 mb
A klezmer band travels to Pinsk to perform at a "shvartze chaseneh," or "black wedding"-an event staged by the residents to bring a miracle to their town threatened by a cholera epidemic.

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One Job Town Work, Belonging, and Betrayal in Northern Ontario


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English | 2018 | ISBN: 1442610239, 1442640839 | PDF | pages: 393 | 102.6 mb
There’s a pervasive sense of betrayal in areas scarred by mine, mill and factory closures. Steven High’s One Job Town delves into the long history of deindustrialization in the paper-making town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, located on Canada’s resource periphery. Much like hundreds of other towns and cities across North America and Europe, Sturgeon Falls has lost their primary source of industry, resulting in the displacement of workers and their families.

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A Small Town in Germany


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English | August 20, 2024 | ISBN: B0DB2MDHC6 | 13 hours and 37 minutes | M4B 128 Kbps | 757 Mb
In the late 1960s, in the town of Bonn, capital of West Germany, a British Embassy officer by the name of Leo Harting goes missing-and forty-three confidential-or-higher files with him.
Dispatched from the British Foreign Office to investigate, Alan Turner arrives in Bonn to find riots, protests, and a tenuous balance of power. As if there isn’t enough pressure, the embassy’s head of Chancery, Rawley Bradfield, makes it clear he has no intentions of making Turner’s investigation an easy one.
As Turner peels back the layers of chaos and desperation swirling around Bonn and the British Embassy, and grows ever closer to understanding the missing Leo Harting, he begins to uncover a web of deceit and corruption that threatens to upend British interests in Western Europe.

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Small Town Living A Coast-to-Coast Guide to People, Places, and Communities


Free Download Small Town Living: A Coast-to-Coast Guide to People, Places, and Communities by Erin Austen Abbott
English | September 24th, 2024 | ISBN: 0762484292 | 264 pages | True EPUB | 344.48 MB
Celebrate the joys of small town life in this stunning, coast-to-coast photographic ode to country stores, main streets, and the inspiring creatives who have embraced life outside the city center.

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Small-Town Wisconsin Fun, Surprising, and Exceptional Road Trips


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English | May 1, 2023 | ISBN: 1493065947 | 200 pages | PDF | 15 Mb
You know the adage. Good things come in small packages. Here’s proof: dozens of delicious little destinations that delight travelers who crave fun, safe, surprising, and under-the-radar escapes from big-city bustle and congestion. Time to downshift and discover the natural beauty, unique spirit, and enduring character of unusual burgs of Wisconsin. An eclectic mix of communities makes the cut for this selective guide to rural treasures, many of which are lesser known because of limited or no advertising. Visit for an hour, day, overnight or longer. All these special places have a population of no more than 5,000 people, and many have less than 1,000.

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A Small Town in Ukraine


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English | February 23, 2023 | ISBN: 0241609224 | 320 pages | MOBI | 5.14 Mb
‘A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir’ Philippe Sands

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Small-town Martyrs and Murderers Religious Revolution and Counterrevolution in Western France, 1774-1914


Free Download Edward J. Woell, "Small-town Martyrs and Murderers: Religious Revolution and Counterrevolution in Western France, 1774-1914"
English | 2006 | pages: 293 | ISBN: 0874623111 | PDF | 1,6 mb
On March 11, 1793, about a thousand counterrevolutionary rebels converged on the small French town of Machecoul and over the next six weeks killed many of its revolutionary officials and supporters. The massacres at Machecoul marked the beginning of a popular insurgency in western France called the War of Vendee, in turn igniting the ferocious republican response known today as the Terror. This story explores why these small-town massacres occurred, how they may have unfolded, and what the local and national repercussions of the murders were. The author Edward J. Woell argues that more than any other factor, religion stood at the center of the massacres: in their origins during the late Old Regime, in their enactment amid the wider revolutionary tumult, and in their remembrance over the century that followed. Claiming a greater significance to the episode than most historians have acknowledged, Woell shows that the Machecoul massacres not only raise the most fundamental, profound, and perplexing questions that scholars have sought to answer, but they also embody the quintessential themes of the French Revolution.

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