Books with author John Ames Mitchell

A genealogical detective story and a tale of lost love. Mary Ames Mitchell often wondered about her maternal grandmother, Eileen Maud, who died in Great Britain long before Mary’s birth in Pasadena, California. No one dared speak about Eileen Maud in the presence of Mary’s grandfather’s second wife, Fay. The quiet and usually preoccupied Prynce Hopkins appeared to deny his first wife’s existence.As a young adult, Mary uncovered a scrapbook and learned Prynce secretly archived treasured keepsakes and love poems Eileen Maud had written. When Mary’s mother learned about the scrapbook, she had it destroyed. Then Mary sought out her grandfather’s journals from 1921 to 1933 about the time he married and lost Eileen Maud, only to find the important details mysteriously clipped out, censored. “What secret is my family keeping?” Mary wanted to know. “Is it the reason my aging mother became so bitter and could be so mean?”Forty years later, Mary traveled to England in search of her grandmother’s grave. She dug through dusty family records and library archives to piece together the moving love story of her wealthy, American and eccentric grandfather and her traditional, working-class, English Midlands grandmother. In the process, Mary learned how, with Upton Sinclair, Prynce Hopkins supported California’s labor uprising in the 1920s, how he became involved with the early psycho-analytical movement in London in the 1930s with Dr. Ernest Jones and Mrs. Melanie Klein, about the progressive schools he built in Paris and Santa Barbara, and why his pacifist and socialist causes led to Eileen Maud divorcing him. After six years of research, Mary nearly came to some wrong conclusions. Then the missing cut-outs from the journal surfaced.The Search for My Abandoned Grandmother weaves Mary Ames Mitchell’s genealogical detective story with her grandfather’s personal narrative of his life with his first wife. With generosity and tenderness, she unravels spiritual insights and truths about social obligation, personal integrity, and family love.

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Was the most famous poet and writer of all time a fraud and a plagiarist? Was Shakespeare the 'upstart crow' described by Greene as strutting in borrowed feathers, or Jonson's 'Poet-Ape' who patched plays together from others' work? Was his name merely a pseudonym for a well-known contemporary figure?These questions have been furiously debated ever since the eighteenth century, when the writing styles of Marlowe and other playwrights were discerned in plays such as Titus Andronicus. The orthodox view is that the author of the works of Shakespeare was, of course, the actor and businessman of Stratford-upon-Avon. But the known facts about this man are surprisingly meagre, and contrast puzzlingly with the learned, courtly philosopher revealed in the Sonnets and plays - the universal genius and supreme stylist.Respected scholars and obsessive eccentrics have devoted years to the search for evidence, and many different theories have been put forward. Some believe that the great lawyer Francis Bacon may have used the name of an obscure actor to disseminate his philosophy. Many others, including Freud, see the Earl of Oxford mirrored in Hamlet. Yet others suggest that Marlowe was not killed, as thought, in a drunken brawl, nor even in a secret service execution, but lived on to write secretly as Shakespeare.John Michell's enthralling investigation of the many claims and counter-claims reads like a series of detective stories. He lays out the evidence and the arguments for the various candidates, not forgetting Shakespeare himself, and provides a drily humorous commentary on the research and prejudices of their champions while adding new insights of his own. By the end of the book, even the most faithful disciples of the Bard will find themselves questioning 'Who Wrote Shakespeare?'

At least since Donald Trump became president of the United States the term “Fake News” has become a synonym for everything that’s wrong in our society. People cannot trust each other anymore and people specifically do not trust newspapers anymore. In a world where people start to trust strangers in shaky YouTube videos more than ever, we thought we must stop this development. We therefore roamed the continents and dug deep into many different subject areas on our search to uncover the real truth. The outcome is this book which tells you the facts that matter and that are far away from being fake news.We hope this will give you a plenty of joy and more than a few surprises. Enjoy the read! And in case you are interested in even more fun facts just visit our website www.onlyfunfacts.com.

Peter, fifteen, and his Dad leave Boston for a cross country drive to their new home in Portland, OR. Peter’s Dad is the director of the US Army’s Deep Space Exploration lab and is being transferred to the new, more sophisticated lab in Oregon. Unbeknownst to anyone, however, the signals sent out by the lab’s proprietary satellites and antennae have alerted deep space aliens, who send four of their number to earth to assess the technology and threat potential. These aliens, blindingly white, stocky four foot creatures have the capacity to reduce themselves to the size of a pea by eliminating the atomic distances in each atom of their makeup. Once on earth, they can recharge--in much the same way as electric eels produce a charge—their atoms and regain their original stature. The also possess the ability to extract DNA from any individual earthly life form and assume the size and shape of that individual, including its mind. For this mission, the aliens choose human beings to act as their Trojan Horses. They intercept Peter and his Dad, making his Dad one victim. Peter escapes. Then they randomly select two others to help with the effort in Portland. However, since they do not understand human society, the resultant trio make for a strange, ill-matched group. Further, they have no concept of human psychology or emotion, which proves their undoing. In this fast-paced novel for young adults, Peter and his sister Jessica, together with their friends and contemporaries Andrew and Victoria, the children of the African-American assistant director, they foil the aliens.

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