Author: Eduardo Garrigues
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 1518505996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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One of the unsung heroes of the American Revolution was Bernardo de Galvez, governor of Spanish Louisiana and leader of armadas against the British in North America. He took out one Redcoat fort after another, culminating with the defeat of what was thought to be the impenetrable British forts at Pensacola. Galvez positioned New Orleans as the port to ship arms and supplies up the Mississippi to the Continental Army. His genius and valor in facilitating the independence of the thirteen American colonies from a European power were ironically recognized by another European empire, Spain. The Spanish crown promoted him to one post after another until he died serving as the viceroy of New Spain in Mexico City. After exhaustive research, seasoned novelist and diplomat, Eduardo Garrigues, brings to life Galvez’s exploits, filling in the previously unknown aspects of his personality, psychological conflicts, fears and doubts. In addition to providing insights into the geo-political context of Galvez’s life, he also sensitively depicts the courtship and loving relationship with his French Creole wife, Felicitas de St. Maxent, who was considered below Bernardo’s station in the lower—but penniless—nobility. Garrigues weaves a truly American story of colonial life in early New Orleans, detailing commerce and competition on the Mississippi, colonist and Native American interaction, slavery and women’s subservience to men, Catholicism in conflict with folk religion and European privilege over colonial merit. Marching through these pages are historical figures such as Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Jay, British generals, Spanish military figures and even King Charles III of Spain.
Author: Novalyne Price Ellis
Publisher: Donald M. Grant Publishers
ISBN: 9780937986783
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Vic Kerry
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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The nightmares have returned—Jory is reliving the school shooting she survived in 1997. Every detail plays out in vivid detail, including the horrible Shadowman. Now, Jory’s son, Diego, has turned sixteen and inherited his late father’s prized car, El Diablo. He seems to have inherited something from Jory as well—the Shadowman. She tries her hardest to keep her son safe as their friends and acquaintances become victims of the entity that has stalked Jory through the years. The Shadowman’s words keep echoing to her through time... “I alone will possess you.”
Author: Carol Leonnig
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593298950
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 593
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The instant #1 New York Times bestseller | A Washington Post Notable Book | One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer-Prize winning reporters and authors of A Very Stable Genius. “Chilling.” – Anderson Cooper “Jaw-dropping.” – John Berman “Shocking.” – John Heilemann “Explosive.” – Hallie Jackson “Blockbuster new reporting.” – Nicolle Wallace “Bracing new revelations.” – Brian Williams “Bombshell reporting.” – David Muir The true story of what took place in Donald Trump’s White House during a disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full. What was really going on around the president, as the government failed to contain the coronavirus and over half a million Americans perished? Who was influencing Trump after he refused to concede an election he had clearly lost and spread lies about election fraud? To answer these questions, Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig reveal a dysfunctional and bumbling presidency’s inner workings in unprecedented, stunning detail. Focused on Trump and the key players around him—the doctors, generals, senior advisers, and Trump family members— Rucker and Leonnig provide a forensic account of the most devastating year in a presidency like no other. Their sources were in the room as time and time again Trump put his personal gain ahead of the good of the country. These witnesses to history tell the story of him longing to deploy the military to the streets of American cities to crush the protest movement in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, all to bolster his image of strength ahead of the election. These sources saw firsthand his refusal to take the threat of the coronavirus seriously—even to the point of allowing himself and those around him to be infected. This is a story of a nation sabotaged—economically, medically, and politically—by its own leader, culminating with a groundbreaking, minute-by-minute account of exactly what went on in the Capitol building on January 6, as Trump’s supporters so easily breached the most sacred halls of American democracy, and how the president reacted. With unparalleled access, Rucker and Leonnig explain and expose exactly who enabled—and who foiled—Trump as he sought desperately to cling to power. A classic and heart-racing work of investigative reporting, this book is destined to be read and studied by citizens and historians alike for decades to come.
Author: Peter Orner
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1936787253
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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This National Book Critics Circle Award is “an entrancing attempt to catch what falls between: the irreducibly personal, messy, even embarrassing ways reading and living bleed into each other, which neither literary criticism nor autobiography ever quite acknowledges" (The New York Times). “Stories, both my own and those I’ve taken to heart, make up whoever it is that I’ve become,” Peter Orner writes in this collection of essays about reading, writing, and living. Orner reads and writes everywhere he finds himself: a hospital cafeteria, a coffee shop in Albania, or a crowded bus in Haiti. The result is a book of unlearned meditations that stumbles into memoir. Among the many writers Orner addresses are Isaac Babel and Zora Neale Hurston, both of whom told their truths and were silenced; Franz Kafka, who professed loneliness but craved connection; Robert Walser, who spent the last twenty-three years of his life in a Swiss insane asylum, working at being crazy; and Juan Rulfo, who practiced the difficult art of silence. Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Yasunari Kawabata, Saul Bellow, Mavis Gallant, John Edgar Wideman, William Trevor, and Václav Havel make appearances, as well as the poet Herbert Morris--about whom almost nothing is known. An elegy for an eccentric late father, and the end of a marriage, Am I Alone Here? is also a celebration of the possibility of renewal. At once personal and panoramic, this book will inspire readers to return to the essential stories of their own lives.
Author: R. Walenstein Baldwin
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595165893
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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This realistic story of a black Christian mother who instructs her son to think and behave according to the teachings of Jesus Christ. As he matures, he strives to live as a “good person” in an uncertain and materialistic world. Joseph is the main character who meets a girl in an orphanage and she will forever influence his life. He fell in love, after being seduced, and he is befriended by an army buddy. Over indulgence in alcohol led him to become homeless. Thus, in the story there is love, sex, friendships, betrayal, humor, violence and an ending, which is both positive and miraculous for the reader who may believe.
Author: Jeremy D. Otten
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666701351
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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In examining Luke’s multiple appeals to the figure of Elijah, this study not only provides clarity to a fascinating but often misunderstood element of the Lukan narrative, but also provides a helpful model for understanding an even more perplexing question in Lukan studies, namely, the presentation of the nation of Israel. No New Testament author takes more interest in Elijah than Luke, who may allude to the Elijah-Elisha narratives as many as forty times. This study pushes past questions of typology and one-to-one correlation that have stalled scholarly discussion on the topic, examining the theological significance of Elijah in Luke-Acts as a literary motif. It is argued that, in drawing on a common association between Elijah and the Old Testament concept of remnant, Luke appeals to Elijah at key moments in the narrative in order to signal the development of his remnant theology. For Luke, as in the days of the prophets, the concept of remnant holds in tension God’s irrevocable promises to Israel with the widespread rejection of God’s new work of salvation; the faithfulness of a few with a hope for the nation as a whole; and the particular election of Israel with the message of salvation for all nations.
Author: Lane Moore
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501178849
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant, funny, and deeply moving first book. Lane Moore is a rare performer who is as impressive onstage—whether hosting her iconic show Tinder Live or being the enigmatic front woman of It Was Romance—as she is on the page, as both a former writer for The Onion and an award-winning sex and relationships editor for Cosmopolitan. But her story has had its obstacles, including being her own parent, living in her car as a teenager, and moving to New York City to pursue her dreams. Through it all, she looked to movies, TV, and music as the family and support systems she never had. From spending the holidays alone to having better “stranger luck” than with those closest to her to feeling like the last hopeless romantic on earth, Lane reveals her powerful and entertaining journey in all its candor, anxiety, and ultimate acceptance—with humor always her bolstering force and greatest gift. How to Be Alone is a must-read for anyone whose childhood still feels unresolved, who spends more time pretending to have friends online than feeling close to anyone in real life, who tries to have genuine, deep conversations in a roomful of people who would rather you not. Above all, it’s a book for anyone who desperately wants to feel less alone and a little more connected through reading her words.
Author: Rafael Cervantes
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463373198
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 119
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Have you, ever, feel fooled?, Have you, ever, thought that God abandoned you or simply he does not exist?, Have been you abandoned by your relatives or friends?, Is it worth keep moving forward?. These and other questions will be answered through the author unbelievable , but real, life's story, whom after suffering a deadly car crash, which left him laying on a bed for five months, was fired from his own family company, by his mother and siblings. He was in bankruptcy with his wife and daughter, to start an amazing journey full of intrigues, lies and betrayals, discovering that, even, in the deepest darkness, he never has been alone.
Author: Milkyway Media
Publisher: Milkyway Media
ISBN:
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 29
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Carol Leonnig & Philip Rucker's I Alone Can Fix It In I Alone Can Fix It (2021), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig deliver an authoritative behind-the-scenes account of Donald Trump's last year in office and reveal what really happened in the White House during the catastrophic 2020 election campaign. Rucker and Leonnig expose the inner workings of a broken and incompetent administration that failed to control the coronavirus, resulting in the deaths of more than half a million Americans. Their sources were in the room as Trump repeatedly placed his own benefit ahead of the country's good. These eyewitnesses to history describe his reluctance to take the coronavirus danger seriously, even to the extent of infecting himself and others around him. This is the story of a country sabotaged by its own leader, in terms of economics, medicine, and politics, all culminating in the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
