Author: Susan Oliver
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780025929203
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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The author recounts her record-setting solo flight across the Atlantic in a single-engine prop plane and discusses her triumph over personal problems
Author: John Boyko
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307361462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Blood and Daring will change our views not just of Canada's relationship with the United States, but of the Civil War, Confederation and Canada itself. In Blood and Daring, lauded historian John Boyko makes a compelling argument that Confederation occurred when and as it did largely because of the pressures of the Civil War. Many readers will be shocked by Canada's deep connection to the war—Canadians fought in every major battle, supplied arms to the South, and many key Confederate meetings took place on Canadian soil. Filled with engaging stories and astonishing facts from previously unaccessed primary sources, Boyko's fascinating new interpretation of the war will appeal to all readers of history.
Author: Homer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145167418X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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A new translation of Homer's epic adventure endeavors to instill the poetic nature of its original language while retaining accuracy, readability, and character vibrancy, creating the most captivating rendition of one of the defining masterpieces of Western literature.
Author: William Cleaver Wilkinson
Publisher:
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Category : Greek literature
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Author: Moishe Rozenbaumas
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815654723
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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In The Odyssey of an Apple Thief, Moishe Rozenbaumas (1922–2016) recounts his fascinating life, from his Lithuanian boyhood, to the fraught experiences that take him across Europe and Central Asia and back again, to his daring escape from Soviet Russia to build a new life in Paris. Along the way, we get a rarely seen portrait of the lives of working-class Jewish youth in Telz/Telsiai, a religious town renowned for its yeshiva. We hear of the games children played, the theft of apples from a Catholic orchard, and Rozenbaumas’s early apprenticeship as a tailor once his father leaves the country. The war breaks out and the teenaged Rozenbaumas flees Lithuania alone, unable to convince his mother and sibling to go with him. We learn of his life as a starved refugee in an Uzbek kolkhoz, his escape into the Red Army, and his unlikely work in the reconnaissance unit of the Soviet Army. After the war, Rozenbaumas is drafted into the Marxist-Leninist university and as a cadre of the Communist Party, ultimately escaping in 1956 with his family to Paris, where he and his wife give an openly Jewish education to their children. In the vast literature of memory written by Jewish witnesses before, during, and after WWII, Rozenbaumas’s account stands out for the singularity of his experience and for his deft narration of events of mythological dimension from a personal perspective. The Odyssey of an Apple Thief offers not only invaluable testimony of this historical moment but also an illuminating and original portrait of Lithuanian Jews in the twentieth century.
Author: Scott Ridley
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062020196
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Morning of Fire by Scott Ridley is the thrilling story of 18th century American explorer and expeditioner John Kedrick as he journeyed for land and trade in the Pacific. Set against the backdrop of one of the most exciting and uncertain times in world history, John Kendrick’s odyssey aboard his sailing ship Lady Washington carries him from the shores of New England across the unexplored waters of the Pacific Northwest to the contentious ports of China and the war-ravaged islands of Hawaii, all while avoiding intrigues and traps from the British and the Spanish. Morning of Fire is riveting American and naval history that brings the era of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson gloriously alive—a tale of danger, adventure, and discovery that fans of Nathaniel Philbrick will not want to miss.
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 896
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Author: Robinson Smith
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Author: Matt Sattel
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595298478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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A missing king, a ferocious dragon and a diabolical goblin wizard; how can a thirteen year old from Chicago deal with such troubles? For his birthday James Montgomery receives an old-fashioned tape recorder and a single tape from his long dead father. He is told that when he inserts the tape and presses the record button, he will participate in a fantastic story of adventure. Follow James in his first tape, as he must become a hero to save the fantasy kingdom of Agreloth from an army of goblins. First he must somehow destroy a dragon the size of three school buses!
Author: William Cleaver Wilkinson
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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