Celebrity Gardener - Courtney Act
This week's celebrity gardener is gender illusionist, Courtney Act. Courtney is currently putting together an album and will be shortly organising a cabaret tour reminiscent of the 1940s. Don advised Courtney to throw out potted dracaenas ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Ruth Krauss
Ruth Krauss, a member of the experimental Writer's Laboratory at the Bank Street School in New York City in the 1940s, imaginatively used humor and invented words to create some of the very first books for children that highlighted a child's ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Andrew Wiest
From the Colonial War with France in the 1940s and 50s, through to the final evacuation of Saigon, each chapter of Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land focuses on a different aspect of the Vietnam War. The 15 chapters are written by a diverse set of ... [... more]
Random House |
Jack Valenti
The list of notable names-people that Jack Valenti knew and with whom he worked-is astonishing. Aside from LBJ, there were Jack and Bobby Kennedy, Kirk Douglas, Frank... With the nation at war in the 1940s, twenty-two-year-old Jack Valenti flew ... [... more]
Random House |
Patrick Symmes
Patrick Symmes is the author of Chasing Che and writes for Harper's, Outside, New York, and From the author of Chasing Che, here is the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. Chosen in the 1940s ... [... more]
Random House |
Michael Douglas
With the nation at war in the 1940s, twenty-two-year-old Jack Valenti flew fifty-one combat missions as the pilot of a B-25 attack bomber with the 12th Air Force based in Italy. In the 1960s, with the nation reeling from the assassination of a ... [... more]
Random House |
Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants who operated a gambling house in the 1940s, when Maxine was born, and then a laundry where Kingston and her brothers and sisters toiled long hours. Kingston graduated with a bachelor's ... [... more]
Random House |
Tissa Abeysekara
Set in the 1940s and 1960s, Bringing Tony Home is a masterful modern example of a timeless genre, the bildungsroman. In the title novella, a boy returns to his old home to find Tony, his beloved dog who was abandoned when economic circumstances ... [... more]
Random House |
Retta Scott Worcester
The original Little Golden Book from the 1940s featuring Walt Disney's Cinderella is back! This enchanting fairy tale is beautifully rendered with vintage artwork bringing Cinderella and her cruel stepsisters to life. Retta Scott Worcester Cinderella [... more]
Random House |
William X. Kienzle
Way back in the 1940s, they had all been young together. Inseparable pals Mike and Manny, both preparing for the priesthood . . . Mike's beautiful twin sister, Rose, and her best friend Alice, sharing a dream of becoming nuns . . . shy altar boy ... [... more]
Random House |
The Best "Organic" Alternatives
Before the development of synthetic fungicides in the 1940s, a wide range of non-synthetic materials were used to control fungal diseases on pipfruit. These pre-modern fungicides were not as “organic” as you may think - some compounds such as ... [... more]
HortNET New Zealand |
James Mason
Born in England in 1909, James Mason portrayed romantic villains in numerous British films of the 1940s, initally distinguishing with his brooding presence in the 1939 classic, I Met a Murderer. After making Odd Man Out in 1947, he worked in the ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
