Author: Hongda Harry Wu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages :
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In April 1960, Chinese Communist authorities arrested Harry Wu, casting him into a prison labour camp. Though never formally charged or tried, he spent the next nineteen years in a hellish world of grinding labour, systematic starvation and torture. The book also chronicles the stories of other prisoner's who became the author's friends during their time of incarceration.
Author: Ting-Xing Ye
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385257015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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One of the best ways to understand history is through eye-witness accounts. Ting-Xing Ye’s riveting first book, A Leaf in the Bitter Wind, is a memoir of growing up in Maoist China. It was an astonishing coming of age through the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1974). In the wave of revolutionary fervour, peasants neglected their crops, exacerbating the widespread hunger. While Ting-Xing was a young girl in Shanghai, her father’s rubber factory was expropriated by the state, and he was demoted to a labourer. A botched operation left him paralyzed from the waist down, and his health deteriorated rapidly since a capitalist’s well-being was not a priority. He died soon after, and then Ting-Xing watched her mother’s struggle with poverty end in stomach cancer. By the time she was thirteen, Ting-Xing Ye was an orphan, entrusted with her brothers and sisters to her Great-Aunt, and on welfare. Still, the Red Guards punished the children for being born into the capitalist class. Schools were being closed; suicide was rampant; factories were abandoned for ideology; distrust of friends and neighbours flourished. Ting-Xing was sent to work on a distant northern prison farm at sixteen, and survived six years of backbreaking labour and severe conditions. She was mentally tortured for weeks until she agreed to sign a false statement accusing friends of anti-state activities. Somehow finding the time to teach herself English, often by listening to the radio, she finally made it to Beijing University in 1974 as the Revolution was on the wane — though the acquisition of knowledge was still frowned upon as a bourgeois desire and study was discouraged. Readers have been stunned and moved by this simply narrated personal account of a 1984-style ideology-gone-mad, where any behaviour deemed to be bourgeois was persecuted with the ferocity and illogic of a witch trial, and where a change in politics could switch right to wrong in a moment. The story of both a nation and an individual, the book spans a heady 35 years of Ye’s life in China, until her eventual defection to Canada in 1987 — and the wonderful beginning of a romance with Canadian author William Bell. The book was published in 1997. The 1990s saw the publication of several memoirs by Chinese now settled in North America. Ye’s was not the first, yet earned a distinguished place as one of the most powerful, and the only such memoir written from Canada. It is the inspiring story of a woman refusing to “drift with the stream” and fighting her way through an impossible, unjust system. This compelling, heart-wrenching story has been published in Germany, Japan, the US, UK and Australia, where it went straight to #1 on the bestseller list and has been reprinted several times; Dutch, French and Turkish editions will appear in 2001.
Author: Jim McDermott
Publisher: Vireo Book, A
ISBN: 9781945572142
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Bitter is the wind is a coming-of-age novel that follows the lives of George Johnson Jr. and his father from the rural blue-collar landscape of upstate New York in the 1970's to the heights of Wall Street. After tragedy strengthens their bond, the Johnsons contend with monotony and unfulfilled dreams, and learn what it means to feel trapped, and ignored by a seemingly uncaring god. A study on the American working class and its aching desire for financial security and an American dream that seems just out of reach.
Author: Joe McGowan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780952133452
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Author: Sue Harrison
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480411930
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 615
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DIVDIVAs two women from different Aleut tribes struggle against their harsh fates, they find their extraordinary destinies intertwined/divDIV In the tribe of the First Men, courageous, beautiful Kiin, an accomplished ivory carver, is finally content with her hard-won life, which includes twin sons and a loving warrior husband. When she is suddenly pulled back into her nightmarish former existence as slave to the Raven, shaman of the Walrus People, her husband’s brother, Samiq, vows to bring her back to their tribe. Across the land, Kukutux, the wife of a Whale Hunter, finds the loss of her husband and the hostility of her clan too much to bear. The lives of Kiin, Samiq, and Kukutux, and the paths of their tribesmen will converge in a final dramatic confrontation that tests the strength of their hearts and spirits against the cruelty of man, nature, and fate./divDIV /divDIVBrother Wind is the final book of the Ivory Carver Trilogy, which also includes Mother Earth Father Sky and My Sister the Moon./div/div
Author: C.M. Wendelboe
Publisher: Encircle+ORM
ISBN: 1645990230
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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A retired detective is on the trail of a vicious serial killer in this “terrific debut [by] a skilled writer who ratchets up the suspense” (New York Times bestselling author Margaret Coel). Retired Denver homicide detective Arn Anderson is back in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a place he’d sworn off years ago. And while he fixes up his rundown childhood home, he finds himself doing something else he never thought he’d do: teaming up with a TV reporter on a cold murder case. But Arn isn’t the only one coming out of retirement. Ten years ago, the Five Point Killer terrorized the American Northwest with a series of brutal murders—including three police detectives among his victims. Then he disappeared without a trace. But now, on the anniversary of his crimes, he’s back to his old sadistic tricks. And Arn might be the next investigator who gets too close to the truth. "A slow-burning cold case with copious clues, conscientious detection, a high body count, periodic interruptions from the killer's viewpoint, and all the pages and pages of unraveling you'd expect from such a generously plotted mystery."―Kirkus Reviews
Author: Roger Marsh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648202561
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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A contemporary novel about the trials of an Australian Army serviceman on operations in the Middle East.Scars are inevitable in life and war. 'Echoes in the Wind' is a story of scars, and how one man¿s life was shaped by their marks.
Author: Hans Schemann
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415172547
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Containing 15,000 headwords, each entry in this dictionary provides the German equivalents, variants and contexts, as well as the degree of currency/rarity of the idiomatic expression.
Author: Mary MacLane
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752442115
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Reproduction of the original: The Story of Mary MacLane by Mary MacLane
Author: Michael Brown
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300273690
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 103
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Award winning poet, Professor Michael D. Brown's 7th poetry collection
