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Waiting for the Rain is a young adult novel by South African-born American writer Sheila Gordon, first published in 1987. It tells the story of two boys, one black and one white, growing up on a farm in South Africa during apartheid. As the boys mature, their friendship dissipates because the black boy seeks political equality while the white ...
Julian Gustave Symons (originally Gustave Julian Symons, pronounced SIMM-ons; [1] 30 May 1912 – 19 November 1994) was a British crime writer and poet. He also wrote social and military history, biography and studies of literature.
His father used Julian as an inspiration for the character of Sweet Fern in his children's books A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys and Tanglewood Tales. [8] The Hawthorne family eventually lived in Concord, Massachusetts, at a home they called The Wayside. There, Julian attended a school run by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. The school was ...
Waiting for the Rain may refer to: Waiting for the Rain (novel), a 1987 novel by Sheila Gordon; Waiting for the Rain (album), a 1985 album by Hugh Masekela
Waiting for Sunrise is a 2012 espionage novel by William Boyd. The book was published on April 17, 2012, by Bloomsbury Press in the United Kingdom and by HarperCollins in the United States. Plot summary
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The books within this series often reflected current events within the 20th century. William the Conqueror (1926) for example reflects pre-World War I imperialism, while 1930s books like William The Dictator (1938) dealt with Fascism and 1940s books like William and the Evacuees (1940) were set against the backdrop of World War II.
Harry A. Halff and Elizabeth Halff spent twenty years gathering his works into a book they published called Julian Onderdonk: A Catalogue Raisonne. [7] The San Antonio Museum of Art created an exhibit to coincide with the publication of the book which included 25 of Onderdonk's paintings from January 20-April 23, 2017. [8] [5]