Author: Alissa Quart
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786740965
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Generation Y has grown up in an age of the brand, bombarded by name products. In Branded, Alissa Quart illuminates the unsettling new reality of marketing to teenagers, as well as the quieter but no less worrisome forms of teen branding: the teen consultants who work for corporations in exchange for product; the girls obsessed with cosmetic surgery who will do anything to look like women on TV; and those teens simply obsessed with admission into a name-brand college. We also meet the pockets of kids attempting to turn the tables on the cocksure corporations that so cynically strive to manipulate them. Chilling, thought-provoking, even darkly amusing, Branded brings one of the most disturbing and least talked about results of contemporary business and culture to the fore-and ensures that we will never look at today's youth the same way again.
Lush Rebel
Author: Billie Lustig
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789083136790
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Five years ago, Knox Ashford broke my heart. Ripped it out, threw it to the ground, and stomped on it for good measure. But now he's returned. With the world's worst marriage proposal. Claiming to want me back. My answer is something between go duck yourself and flipping him off, but he's threatening to take our strip club if I don't comply. I can't let him take everything me and my sister have built. But if he wants me, he can get me in all my glory. He should know though.... I will be the biggest pain in his ass...
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789083136790
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Five years ago, Knox Ashford broke my heart. Ripped it out, threw it to the ground, and stomped on it for good measure. But now he's returned. With the world's worst marriage proposal. Claiming to want me back. My answer is something between go duck yourself and flipping him off, but he's threatening to take our strip club if I don't comply. I can't let him take everything me and my sister have built. But if he wants me, he can get me in all my glory. He should know though.... I will be the biggest pain in his ass...
Rebel Rose
Author: Emma Theriault
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1368064981
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Happily ever after is only the beginning in this epic YA reimagining of the princesses as young rulers of their lands, aided by a mystical group of women called the Queen's Council, whose job it is to advise queens throughout history.
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1368064981
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Happily ever after is only the beginning in this epic YA reimagining of the princesses as young rulers of their lands, aided by a mystical group of women called the Queen's Council, whose job it is to advise queens throughout history.
Branded
Author: Alissa Quart
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786740965
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Generation Y has grown up in an age of the brand, bombarded by name products. In Branded, Alissa Quart illuminates the unsettling new reality of marketing to teenagers, as well as the quieter but no less worrisome forms of teen branding: the teen consultants who work for corporations in exchange for product; the girls obsessed with cosmetic surgery who will do anything to look like women on TV; and those teens simply obsessed with admission into a name-brand college. We also meet the pockets of kids attempting to turn the tables on the cocksure corporations that so cynically strive to manipulate them. Chilling, thought-provoking, even darkly amusing, Branded brings one of the most disturbing and least talked about results of contemporary business and culture to the fore-and ensures that we will never look at today's youth the same way again.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786740965
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Generation Y has grown up in an age of the brand, bombarded by name products. In Branded, Alissa Quart illuminates the unsettling new reality of marketing to teenagers, as well as the quieter but no less worrisome forms of teen branding: the teen consultants who work for corporations in exchange for product; the girls obsessed with cosmetic surgery who will do anything to look like women on TV; and those teens simply obsessed with admission into a name-brand college. We also meet the pockets of kids attempting to turn the tables on the cocksure corporations that so cynically strive to manipulate them. Chilling, thought-provoking, even darkly amusing, Branded brings one of the most disturbing and least talked about results of contemporary business and culture to the fore-and ensures that we will never look at today's youth the same way again.
Unconditional Unionist
Author: Berry Craig
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476663696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
When U.S. Congressman Lucian Anderson from Kentucky voted for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in January 1865, abolishing slavery, he gambled more than his political career. Anderson was from Mayfield, one of the most rabidly secessionist towns in the Bluegrass State. During the Civil War, his political alignment changed from pro-slavery Union Democrat to Unconditional Unionist to Republican. Elected by Unionists in 1863, he soon received death threats and was kidnapped by Confederate raiders who held him for ransom (while he tried to convert them to the Union cause). He was a Kentucky delegate to the 1864 national convention that re-nominated President Abraham Lincoln. Knowing he could not win another term, Anderson did not seek reelection in 1865. Based on newspaper articles, letters and other contemporary sources, this book provides a detailed portrait of an overlooked but significant figure of the Civil War and Kentucky history.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476663696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
When U.S. Congressman Lucian Anderson from Kentucky voted for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in January 1865, abolishing slavery, he gambled more than his political career. Anderson was from Mayfield, one of the most rabidly secessionist towns in the Bluegrass State. During the Civil War, his political alignment changed from pro-slavery Union Democrat to Unconditional Unionist to Republican. Elected by Unionists in 1863, he soon received death threats and was kidnapped by Confederate raiders who held him for ransom (while he tried to convert them to the Union cause). He was a Kentucky delegate to the 1864 national convention that re-nominated President Abraham Lincoln. Knowing he could not win another term, Anderson did not seek reelection in 1865. Based on newspaper articles, letters and other contemporary sources, this book provides a detailed portrait of an overlooked but significant figure of the Civil War and Kentucky history.
Rebel’s Quest
Author: Gun Brooke
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN: 1602823839
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
On a world torn by war, two women discover a love that defies boundaries, challenges allegiances, and that just might mean the survival—or destruction—of all they hold dear. Roshan O’Landha, a Gantharian resistance fighter, works hard to maintain her cover as a wealthy businesswoman as war on occupied Gantharat seems imminent. When the Onotharian forces strike an overwhelming blow to the resistance, Roshan sends a plea for help to Kellen O’Dal, Protector of the Realm. In the meantime, Roshan is forced to work closely with Andreia M’Aldovar, a woman she once cared for who now holds a pivotal position in the Onotharian interim government. Andreia also guards a secret, one that if known could cost her life at the hands of either the Onotharians or the resistance. As the two women struggle to prevent annihilation, Roshan is given the only order she may not be able to obey, not even to save Gantharat—assassinate Andreia M’Aldovar.
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN: 1602823839
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
On a world torn by war, two women discover a love that defies boundaries, challenges allegiances, and that just might mean the survival—or destruction—of all they hold dear. Roshan O’Landha, a Gantharian resistance fighter, works hard to maintain her cover as a wealthy businesswoman as war on occupied Gantharat seems imminent. When the Onotharian forces strike an overwhelming blow to the resistance, Roshan sends a plea for help to Kellen O’Dal, Protector of the Realm. In the meantime, Roshan is forced to work closely with Andreia M’Aldovar, a woman she once cared for who now holds a pivotal position in the Onotharian interim government. Andreia also guards a secret, one that if known could cost her life at the hands of either the Onotharians or the resistance. As the two women struggle to prevent annihilation, Roshan is given the only order she may not be able to obey, not even to save Gantharat—assassinate Andreia M’Aldovar.
Climate of Change
Author: Piers Anthony
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765363381
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
In this latest novel of Geodyssey, Anthony introduces a new cast of characters, including the Keeper, who knows the way of nature; Rebel, a headstrong girl; Craft, a cunning inventor; and Crenelle, who uses her seductive charms to defend her people.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765363381
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
In this latest novel of Geodyssey, Anthony introduces a new cast of characters, including the Keeper, who knows the way of nature; Rebel, a headstrong girl; Craft, a cunning inventor; and Crenelle, who uses her seductive charms to defend her people.
Rebel's Revenge
Author: M. M. Lehman
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595224288
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Lance Winfield went off to the Civil War an idealized young military academy student. After years of war and prison camp he returned to find everything he valued in life gone or destroyed. Rebel's Revenge is the story of this young man's continuing fight of a war long past.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595224288
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Lance Winfield went off to the Civil War an idealized young military academy student. After years of war and prison camp he returned to find everything he valued in life gone or destroyed. Rebel's Revenge is the story of this young man's continuing fight of a war long past.
The Rebel's Redemption
Author: Kira Sinclair
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 148806315X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This bad billionaire is back… And he’s here to make good.She owes him a second chance. He’s ready to collect.Anderson Stone would do anything to protect Piper Blackburn. Including going to prison—and cutting her out of his life for her own good. But when he sees the vulnerable beauty again ten years later, he still wants her—and she’s still keeping secrets. She once trusted him with her life, and it cost them their past. How much will they risk for their future?
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 148806315X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This bad billionaire is back… And he’s here to make good.She owes him a second chance. He’s ready to collect.Anderson Stone would do anything to protect Piper Blackburn. Including going to prison—and cutting her out of his life for her own good. But when he sees the vulnerable beauty again ten years later, he still wants her—and she’s still keeping secrets. She once trusted him with her life, and it cost them their past. How much will they risk for their future?
Rebel Spy
Author: Veronica Rossi
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 1524771228
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A reimagining of the story behind Agent 355--a New York society girl and spy for George Washington during the Revolutionary War--perfect for fans of Tatiana de Rosnay's Sarah's Key and the novels of Julie Berry. Rebellious Frannie Tasker knows little about the war between England and its thirteen colonies in 1776, until a shipwreck off her home in Grand Bahama Island presents an unthinkable opportunity. The body of a young woman body floating in the sea gives Frannie the chance to escape her brutal stepfather--and she takes it. Assuming the identity of the drowned Emmeline Coates, Frannie is rescued by a British merchant ship and sails with the crew to New York. For the next three years, Frannie lives a lie as Miss Coates, swept up in a courtship by a dashing British lieutenant. But after witnessing the darker side of the war, she realizes that her position gives her power. Soon she's eavesdropping on British officers, risking everything to pass information on to George Washington's Culper spy ring as agent 355. Frannie believes in the fight for American liberty--but what will it cost her? Inspired by the true "355" and rich in historical detail and intrigue, this is the story of an unlikely New York society girl turned an even unlikelier spy.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 1524771228
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A reimagining of the story behind Agent 355--a New York society girl and spy for George Washington during the Revolutionary War--perfect for fans of Tatiana de Rosnay's Sarah's Key and the novels of Julie Berry. Rebellious Frannie Tasker knows little about the war between England and its thirteen colonies in 1776, until a shipwreck off her home in Grand Bahama Island presents an unthinkable opportunity. The body of a young woman body floating in the sea gives Frannie the chance to escape her brutal stepfather--and she takes it. Assuming the identity of the drowned Emmeline Coates, Frannie is rescued by a British merchant ship and sails with the crew to New York. For the next three years, Frannie lives a lie as Miss Coates, swept up in a courtship by a dashing British lieutenant. But after witnessing the darker side of the war, she realizes that her position gives her power. Soon she's eavesdropping on British officers, risking everything to pass information on to George Washington's Culper spy ring as agent 355. Frannie believes in the fight for American liberty--but what will it cost her? Inspired by the true "355" and rich in historical detail and intrigue, this is the story of an unlikely New York society girl turned an even unlikelier spy.
The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775
Author: Peter Wilson Coldham
Publisher: Baltimore : Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Between 1614 and 1775 some 50,000 English men, women, and children were sentenced by judicial process to be sent to the American colonies for a variety of crimes. The data on these involuntary colonists came from a variety of official records which the author of this work spent over fifteen years studying. Among those covered were minutes of eleven Courts of Assize and Jail Delivery and of twenty-eight Courts of Quarter Session, as well as Treasury Papers, Money Books, Patent Rolls, State Papers, and Sessions Papers. The names of those deported are printed in alphabetical order and form what can be considered the largest passenger list of its kind ever published. The data presented in this volume is highly condensed but most entries include some or all of the following information: parish of origin, sentencing court, nature of the offense, date of sentence, date and ship on which transported, date and place landed in America, and the English county in which the sentence was passed.
Publisher: Baltimore : Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Between 1614 and 1775 some 50,000 English men, women, and children were sentenced by judicial process to be sent to the American colonies for a variety of crimes. The data on these involuntary colonists came from a variety of official records which the author of this work spent over fifteen years studying. Among those covered were minutes of eleven Courts of Assize and Jail Delivery and of twenty-eight Courts of Quarter Session, as well as Treasury Papers, Money Books, Patent Rolls, State Papers, and Sessions Papers. The names of those deported are printed in alphabetical order and form what can be considered the largest passenger list of its kind ever published. The data presented in this volume is highly condensed but most entries include some or all of the following information: parish of origin, sentencing court, nature of the offense, date of sentence, date and ship on which transported, date and place landed in America, and the English county in which the sentence was passed.