Author: Francis Edwards
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Press
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
This is a storytelling adventure book, addresses the critical issue of bullying. The reader will come away with knowledge of how to survive bullies. After-All visits Native Peoples' Nations around the world in his dreams. These great people become his influencers when he wakes up from those dreams. After-All's adapts his character. He learns how to survive this terrible, critical issue that far too many youths face today in our modern-day society.
After-All's Runaway Cloud
Author: Francis Edwards
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Press
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
This is a storytelling adventure book, addresses the critical issue of bullying. The reader will come away with knowledge of how to survive bullies. After-All visits Native Peoples' Nations around the world in his dreams. These great people become his influencers when he wakes up from those dreams. After-All's adapts his character. He learns how to survive this terrible, critical issue that far too many youths face today in our modern-day society.
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Press
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
This is a storytelling adventure book, addresses the critical issue of bullying. The reader will come away with knowledge of how to survive bullies. After-All visits Native Peoples' Nations around the world in his dreams. These great people become his influencers when he wakes up from those dreams. After-All's adapts his character. He learns how to survive this terrible, critical issue that far too many youths face today in our modern-day society.
The Drifting Clouds
Author: Gary L. Edgar
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1948260360
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This is the story of Tran Van Tuan, a Vietnamese man struggling to survive through wars, six decades of hardship, and the ever-present threat of death, so he could realise his dreams. Born in North Vietnam during World War II, Tuan is abandoned in infancy by his father. The family is forced to flee the post-war fighting between the returned French colonialists and the Viet Minh nationalists. A harrowing period as refugees ends with the defeat of the French and the family exodus to Saigon. Journey with Tuan through the desperate years of what the Vietnamese call “the American War,” the death of his beloved mother, his fight to educate himself and rise above poverty, his eventual marriage, and the chaos and drama of the fall of Saigon to the Communists. Tuan clings to the dream of freedom as he faces the threat of execution, forced labour camps, the collapse of his marriage, and a final daring escape by boat that almost ends in death. Repatriated to Australia from a Malaysian refugee camp, he strives against the odds once again to fulfil his destiny as an artist, committed to portraying the sufferings of his generation through his visionary canvases. Compelling, courageous, and immensely touching, The Drifting Clouds speaks simply, yet eloquently of the indomitable nature of the human spirit that sustains hope even in the darkest hours.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1948260360
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This is the story of Tran Van Tuan, a Vietnamese man struggling to survive through wars, six decades of hardship, and the ever-present threat of death, so he could realise his dreams. Born in North Vietnam during World War II, Tuan is abandoned in infancy by his father. The family is forced to flee the post-war fighting between the returned French colonialists and the Viet Minh nationalists. A harrowing period as refugees ends with the defeat of the French and the family exodus to Saigon. Journey with Tuan through the desperate years of what the Vietnamese call “the American War,” the death of his beloved mother, his fight to educate himself and rise above poverty, his eventual marriage, and the chaos and drama of the fall of Saigon to the Communists. Tuan clings to the dream of freedom as he faces the threat of execution, forced labour camps, the collapse of his marriage, and a final daring escape by boat that almost ends in death. Repatriated to Australia from a Malaysian refugee camp, he strives against the odds once again to fulfil his destiny as an artist, committed to portraying the sufferings of his generation through his visionary canvases. Compelling, courageous, and immensely touching, The Drifting Clouds speaks simply, yet eloquently of the indomitable nature of the human spirit that sustains hope even in the darkest hours.
The Play of Light
Author: Ann Smock
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438481519
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Drawing from five contemporary French poets—Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, Danielle Collobert, Anne Portugal, and Jacques Jouet—Ann Smock juxtaposes them and provides a milieu suitable for philosophical reflection on identity, on not-being and being, on communication, and on secrets. Smock also includes thinkers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and Giorgio Agamben, who contribute to the conversation, as do Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot. Though the poems considered here are often thought difficult, Smock maintains a light touch throughout. She writes in an accessible, even pleasurable style while contributing to the scholarly study of literature at the border shared by poetry and philosophy
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438481519
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Drawing from five contemporary French poets—Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, Danielle Collobert, Anne Portugal, and Jacques Jouet—Ann Smock juxtaposes them and provides a milieu suitable for philosophical reflection on identity, on not-being and being, on communication, and on secrets. Smock also includes thinkers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and Giorgio Agamben, who contribute to the conversation, as do Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot. Though the poems considered here are often thought difficult, Smock maintains a light touch throughout. She writes in an accessible, even pleasurable style while contributing to the scholarly study of literature at the border shared by poetry and philosophy
Lake in the Clouds
Author: Sara Donati
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553897519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nation’s past--and in the life of the spirited Bonners--as their oldest daughter, the brave and beautiful Hannah, comes of age with a challenge that will change her forever. Masterfully told, this passionate story is a moving tribute to a resilient, adventurous family and a people poised at the brink of a new century. It is the spring of 1802, and the village of Paradise is still reeling from the typhoid epidemic of the previous summer. Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have lost their two-year-old son, Hannah’s half brother Robbie, but they struggle on as always: the men in the forests, the twins Lily and Daniel in Elizabeth’s school, and Hannah as a doctor in training, apprenticed to Richard Todd. Hannah is descended from healers on both sides--one Scots grandmother and one Mohawk--and her reputation as a skilled healer in her own right is growing. After a long night spent attending to a birth, Elizabeth and Hannah encounter an escaped slave hiding on the mountain. She calls herself Selah Voyager, and she is looking for Curiosity Freeman--a former slave herself, one of the village’s wisest women and Elizabeth’s closest friend. The Bonners take Selah, desperately ill, to Lake in the Clouds to care for her, and with that simple act they are drawn into the secret life that Curiosity and Galileo Freeman and their grown children have been leading for almost ten years. The Bonners will do what they must to protect the Freemans, just as Hannah will protect her patient, who presents more than one kind of challenge. For a bounty hunter is afoot--Hannah’s childhood friend and first love, Liam Kirby. While Elizabeth and Nathaniel undertake a treacherous journey through the endless forests to bring Selah to safety in the north, Hannah embarks on a very different journey to New-York City, with two goals: to learn the secrets of vaccination against smallpox, a disease that threatens Paradise, and to find out what she can about Liam’s immediate past and what caused him to change so drastically from the boy she once loved. The obstacles she faces as a woman and a Mohawk make her confront questions long avoided about her place in the world. Those questions follow her back to Paradise, where she finds that the medical miracle she brings with her will not cure prejudice or superstition, nor can it solve the problem of slavery. No sooner have the Bonners begun to rebound from their losses--old and new--than they find themselves confronted by more than one old enemy in a battle that will test the strength of their love for one another. Hannah faces the decision she has always dreaded: will she make a life for herself in a white world, or among her mother’s people?
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553897519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nation’s past--and in the life of the spirited Bonners--as their oldest daughter, the brave and beautiful Hannah, comes of age with a challenge that will change her forever. Masterfully told, this passionate story is a moving tribute to a resilient, adventurous family and a people poised at the brink of a new century. It is the spring of 1802, and the village of Paradise is still reeling from the typhoid epidemic of the previous summer. Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have lost their two-year-old son, Hannah’s half brother Robbie, but they struggle on as always: the men in the forests, the twins Lily and Daniel in Elizabeth’s school, and Hannah as a doctor in training, apprenticed to Richard Todd. Hannah is descended from healers on both sides--one Scots grandmother and one Mohawk--and her reputation as a skilled healer in her own right is growing. After a long night spent attending to a birth, Elizabeth and Hannah encounter an escaped slave hiding on the mountain. She calls herself Selah Voyager, and she is looking for Curiosity Freeman--a former slave herself, one of the village’s wisest women and Elizabeth’s closest friend. The Bonners take Selah, desperately ill, to Lake in the Clouds to care for her, and with that simple act they are drawn into the secret life that Curiosity and Galileo Freeman and their grown children have been leading for almost ten years. The Bonners will do what they must to protect the Freemans, just as Hannah will protect her patient, who presents more than one kind of challenge. For a bounty hunter is afoot--Hannah’s childhood friend and first love, Liam Kirby. While Elizabeth and Nathaniel undertake a treacherous journey through the endless forests to bring Selah to safety in the north, Hannah embarks on a very different journey to New-York City, with two goals: to learn the secrets of vaccination against smallpox, a disease that threatens Paradise, and to find out what she can about Liam’s immediate past and what caused him to change so drastically from the boy she once loved. The obstacles she faces as a woman and a Mohawk make her confront questions long avoided about her place in the world. Those questions follow her back to Paradise, where she finds that the medical miracle she brings with her will not cure prejudice or superstition, nor can it solve the problem of slavery. No sooner have the Bonners begun to rebound from their losses--old and new--than they find themselves confronted by more than one old enemy in a battle that will test the strength of their love for one another. Hannah faces the decision she has always dreaded: will she make a life for herself in a white world, or among her mother’s people?
Clouds above the Hill
Author: Shiba Ryōtarō
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134679300
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Clouds above the Hill is the best-selling novel ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed. Best-selling author Shiba Ryōtarō devoted an entire decade of his life to this extraordinary blockbuster, which features Japan's emerging onto the world stage by the early years of the 20th century. Volume IV begins with the dramatic battle of Mukden where Akiyama Yoshifuru’s cavalry play a major part in the action against the Cossacks. Meanwhile, Admiral Tōgō’s fleet sail to the Tsushima strait to intercept the Baltic Fleet en route to Vladivostok. With the help of Akiyama Saneyuki’s strategies, the Baltic Fleet is totally destroyed and the Japanese fleet make a triumphant return to Yokohama. Anyone curious as to how the "tiny, rising nation of Japan" was able to fight so fiercely for its survival should look no further. Clouds above the Hill is an exciting, human portrait of a modernizing nation that goes to war and thereby stakes its very existence on a desperate bid for glory in East Asia.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134679300
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Clouds above the Hill is the best-selling novel ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed. Best-selling author Shiba Ryōtarō devoted an entire decade of his life to this extraordinary blockbuster, which features Japan's emerging onto the world stage by the early years of the 20th century. Volume IV begins with the dramatic battle of Mukden where Akiyama Yoshifuru’s cavalry play a major part in the action against the Cossacks. Meanwhile, Admiral Tōgō’s fleet sail to the Tsushima strait to intercept the Baltic Fleet en route to Vladivostok. With the help of Akiyama Saneyuki’s strategies, the Baltic Fleet is totally destroyed and the Japanese fleet make a triumphant return to Yokohama. Anyone curious as to how the "tiny, rising nation of Japan" was able to fight so fiercely for its survival should look no further. Clouds above the Hill is an exciting, human portrait of a modernizing nation that goes to war and thereby stakes its very existence on a desperate bid for glory in East Asia.
My Name is Runaway
Author: Jessica Shubert
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1644626799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
It's day 2 of the extermination of the worst criminals in Tersatellus, and things aren't looking much easier for anyone involved. Temporarily exiled in Hudson Bay, the criminals in question have to deal with all sorts of cultural divides, from language barriers to locals trying to kill them, not to mention the wildlife trying to eat them and automobile malfunctions trying to fry them. And that's just when the two established gangs aren't fighting. Well, technically only two. When new participants turn out to be old friends interested in a treasonous alliance, Rat manages to find herself in even deeper trouble, which is impressive for someone who started her Monday blowing up an island and being revealed as one of the greatest saboteurs of her country's history. With her own past unravelling beyond her control and her future turning less certain by the hour, this longtime fugitive of the law has to figure out where her loyalties lie and what things she can't escape from.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1644626799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
It's day 2 of the extermination of the worst criminals in Tersatellus, and things aren't looking much easier for anyone involved. Temporarily exiled in Hudson Bay, the criminals in question have to deal with all sorts of cultural divides, from language barriers to locals trying to kill them, not to mention the wildlife trying to eat them and automobile malfunctions trying to fry them. And that's just when the two established gangs aren't fighting. Well, technically only two. When new participants turn out to be old friends interested in a treasonous alliance, Rat manages to find herself in even deeper trouble, which is impressive for someone who started her Monday blowing up an island and being revealed as one of the greatest saboteurs of her country's history. With her own past unravelling beyond her control and her future turning less certain by the hour, this longtime fugitive of the law has to figure out where her loyalties lie and what things she can't escape from.
The Expository Times
Author: James Hastings
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Project: Runaway Bride
Author: Heidi Betts
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460324072
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
USA TODAY bestselling author Heidi Betts continues her Project: Passion series with a runaway bride's big baby secret! Handbag designer Juliet Zaccaro should be walking down the aisle, so why is she running out of the church instead? Because she just found out she's pregnant, and not by her cruel, distant fiancé! Now it's up to private investigator Reid McCormack to bring her home. But once he finds her, he'll make sure she doesn't go back to her fiancé—especially since the baby she's carrying might just be Reid's! Even as Juliet denies their explosive chemistry, can Reid convince her that there's more between them than a baby bump?
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460324072
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
USA TODAY bestselling author Heidi Betts continues her Project: Passion series with a runaway bride's big baby secret! Handbag designer Juliet Zaccaro should be walking down the aisle, so why is she running out of the church instead? Because she just found out she's pregnant, and not by her cruel, distant fiancé! Now it's up to private investigator Reid McCormack to bring her home. But once he finds her, he'll make sure she doesn't go back to her fiancé—especially since the baby she's carrying might just be Reid's! Even as Juliet denies their explosive chemistry, can Reid convince her that there's more between them than a baby bump?
Glass Clouds
Author: Suzanne Cass
Publisher: Suzanne Cass
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
“Rich and vivid, instantly captures your attention with complex characters and heart-racing action.” Her survival depends on a dangerous stranger. Charlize Brewer is in France to recuperate from the physical and mental scars of a tragic crash that ended her career as a police officer. But her search for a quiet life is shattered when a wounded man climbs over her garden wall to escape the gangsters pursing him. Undercover agent, Jean-Luc Munulo, leaves as soon as it’s safe, believing it’s the last time he’ll ever see the beguiling woman who saved his life. But when Charlize becomes an unwitting target of the mobster he’s hunting, Jean-Luc’s forced to take her on the run with him as they try to stay one step ahead of the gang and its vicious leader. Jean-Luc is drawn to this vulnerable, scarred woman with a core of steel. And Charlize is falling for him. They need each other to survive, but will she be able to overcome her demons to do her part when the time comes? This novel was a finalist in the Romance Writers of Australia RUBY Award for romantic suspense.
Publisher: Suzanne Cass
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
“Rich and vivid, instantly captures your attention with complex characters and heart-racing action.” Her survival depends on a dangerous stranger. Charlize Brewer is in France to recuperate from the physical and mental scars of a tragic crash that ended her career as a police officer. But her search for a quiet life is shattered when a wounded man climbs over her garden wall to escape the gangsters pursing him. Undercover agent, Jean-Luc Munulo, leaves as soon as it’s safe, believing it’s the last time he’ll ever see the beguiling woman who saved his life. But when Charlize becomes an unwitting target of the mobster he’s hunting, Jean-Luc’s forced to take her on the run with him as they try to stay one step ahead of the gang and its vicious leader. Jean-Luc is drawn to this vulnerable, scarred woman with a core of steel. And Charlize is falling for him. They need each other to survive, but will she be able to overcome her demons to do her part when the time comes? This novel was a finalist in the Romance Writers of Australia RUBY Award for romantic suspense.
Empire of Dust
Author: Eleanor Herman
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459294874
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In Macedon, war rises like smoke, forbidden romance blooms and ancient magic tempered with rage threatens to turn an empire to dust After winning his first battle, Prince Alexander fights to become the ruler his kingdom demands—but the line between leader and tyrant blurs with each new threat. Meanwhile, Hephaestion, cast aside by Alexander for killing the wrong man, must conceal the devastating secret of a divine prophecy from Katerina even as the two of them are thrust together on a dangerous mission to Egypt. The warrior, Jacob, determined to forget his first love, vows to eradicate the ancient Blood Magics and believes that royal prisoner Cynane holds the key to Macedon's undoing. And in chains, the Persian princess Zofia still longs to find the Spirit Eaters, but first must grapple with the secrets of her handsome—and deadly—captor. New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Herman entwines the real scandals of history with epic fantasy to reimagine the world's most brilliant ruler, Alexander the Great, in the second book of the Blood of Gods and Royals series.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459294874
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In Macedon, war rises like smoke, forbidden romance blooms and ancient magic tempered with rage threatens to turn an empire to dust After winning his first battle, Prince Alexander fights to become the ruler his kingdom demands—but the line between leader and tyrant blurs with each new threat. Meanwhile, Hephaestion, cast aside by Alexander for killing the wrong man, must conceal the devastating secret of a divine prophecy from Katerina even as the two of them are thrust together on a dangerous mission to Egypt. The warrior, Jacob, determined to forget his first love, vows to eradicate the ancient Blood Magics and believes that royal prisoner Cynane holds the key to Macedon's undoing. And in chains, the Persian princess Zofia still longs to find the Spirit Eaters, but first must grapple with the secrets of her handsome—and deadly—captor. New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Herman entwines the real scandals of history with epic fantasy to reimagine the world's most brilliant ruler, Alexander the Great, in the second book of the Blood of Gods and Royals series.