Author: David Ballantine
Publisher: Forge Books
ISBN: 1466801220
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
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David Ballantine's debut novel Chalk's Woman, is a story about freedom, liberation, and love. Set in the violent backdrop of the waning months of the Civil War, Chalk's Woman addresses violence and redemption as seen through the eyes of a girl maturing into a woman. Ann, a fourteen-year-old girl, wakes up after a terrible explosion in a make-shift hospital during the waning months of the Civil War--her house no longer stands and her mother is dead, and a young Dr. Frazier amputated her arm in order to to prevent infection. . Homeless and an orphaned, Ann feels her only option is to travel west. She leaves Vicksburg on the Santa Fe Trail and meets a troupe of orphaned children like herself and joins up with them. Together they fight against the hardships of the wild frontier: abominable weather, savage Indians, and starvation all the way to Kansas where they meet and, much to his chagrin, fall in love with Chalk. Chalk's not the nicest of men, and he sure does have a drinking problem, but from the moment Chalk and Ann see each other, they know their lives will forever be entwined. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Carol O'Connell
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101565802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
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The eight-year-old girl appeared in New York’s Central Park one day: red-haired, blue-eyed, dirty-faced, smiling widely. She looked perfect, like a porcelain fairy—except for the blood on her shoulders. It fell from the sky, she told the police. It happened while she was looking for her Uncle Red, who had turned into a tree. Right, they thought, poor child. And then they found the body in the tree. For Mallory, newly returned to the Special Crimes Unit after three months’ lost time, spent she will not say where, there is something about the girl that she understands. Mallory is damaged, they say, dangerously unstable, but she can tell a kindred spirit when she sees one. And this one will ultimately lead her to a story of extraordinary crimes, to murders stretching back fifteen years, to blackmail and complicity and a particular cruelty that perhaps only someone with Mallory’s history could fully recognize. In the next few weeks, she will deal with them all…in her own way.
Author: Brenda Little
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 9780099093107
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350113387
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 153
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Brecht projects an ancient Chinese story onto a realistic setting in Soviet Georgia. In a theme that echoes the Judgment of Solomon, two women argue over the possession of a child. Thanks to the unruly judge, Azdak (one of Brecht's most vivid creations) natural justice is done and the peasant Grusha keeps the child she loves, even though she is not its mother. Written while Brecht was in exile in the United States during the Second World War, The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a politically charged, much-revived and complex example of Brecht's epic theatre. This new Student Edition contains introductory commentary and notes by Kristopher Imbrigotta from the University of Puget Sound, US, offering a much-needed contemporary perspective on the play. The introduction covers: - narrative structure: play about a play within a play ("circle") - songs and music - justice and social systems - context: Brecht, exile, WWII, socialism - notions of collective and class - fable and story adaptation, folk fairy tale
Author: Haldane Macfall
Publisher: London : The Connoisseur
ISBN:
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Author: Linda Bryant Richardson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483684733
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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CHALK WHITE FEAR tells the story of a child who was kidnapped and raised by a serial killer. It tells of the strengths this highly intelligent child pulled from within to form the survival mechanisms that kept her alive throughout her childhood. Some background on the book: Many years ago, a band of easily led misfits made their way to an uninhabited area in the Southern United States. Their leader possessed a cold cruel heart and mystical powers. She planted a small tree and chanted until the tree and twenty foot around it became cursed with powers that only she understood. After the queens death, the band of misfits gradually either died or moved away. Only one couple stayed, built a home and attempted to lead a normal life. The years passed. In a modern day setting, a young couple settles on that same land. They are not bothered by the strange things that happen in and around the home. Later one of these characters kidnaps a toddler and brings the child back home as a companion to her daughter. The years passed and the tree became magnificent and spellbinding. The child was not easily influenced by the cursed tree, nor was she aware of the curses frustrated constant attempts to capture and kill her. It was all she could manage not to anger the woman she called mother. The question is: Will the child survive? Signed copies of Chalk White Fear is available from the author.
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Author: Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
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Author: Kiersty Boon
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1446684660
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Set in a seaside town and introducing many of the colourful local characters, this book introduces Kate and Ern, showing us their unique love story. Ern is a street artist who creates amazing illusions and worlds with his pictures. Kate is just a girl, who's trying to get by, in her own inimitable fashion, when she quite literally stumbles into his path.
Author: Charles Caverno
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Author: J. W. Bengough
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Bengough's Chalk-Talks. A Series of Platform Addresses on Various Topics" by J. W. Bengough. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
