Author: John Sullivan
Publisher: Boolarong Press
ISBN: 1925236757
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Alby Leung teaches English at the China-Australia Management Training Institute in Shanghai, a goodwill project designed in Canberra, blessed in Beijing. Due to a misreading of his sketchy military credentials, he also acts as the project’s informal security chief. Unaware of his limitations, his boss instructs him to save an old friend’s husband, a dubious character entangled in a local business wrangle. This lands the ill-equipped Alby in a treacherous world of double-dealing merchants, bent officials, murderous gangsters and hostile police, a scene overshadowed by the heated rivalry of Australia’s old ally, America, and her new best friend, China ... a most unsettling climate for expat team-members deep in the Red Dragon’s den.
Author: Charles Wilkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Author: Elassi Nabil
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 9948757947
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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A Red Dragon’s Dreams is a collection of poems that delve into the heart of the universe and what makes us human. From metaphorical poems and tongue twisters to brain-teasing riddles, the message is one of unity, love, and appreciation for all we see, feel, touch, and hear. The poems unveil the strange mysteries of the universe through simple words, sentences, and sometimes shapes, often exploring existential thoughts, dreamland experiences, and varied perspectives on pain, unfairness, and frustration. Yet, one theme connects these diverse poems: hope.
Author: Charles Wilkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Author: James A. Owen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442402296
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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"'The Crusade has begun'... "There's an old myth in the Archipelago," he went on softly, shaking his head. "A legend, really...I recall it mentioned a Crusade, but those events happened seven centuries ago. We always thought it was only a story." It has been nine years since John, Jack, and Charles had their great adventure in the Archipelago of Dreams and became the Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica. Now they have been brought together again to solve a mystery: Someone is kidnapping the children of the Archipelago. And their only clue is a mysterious message delivered by a strange girl with artificial wings: "The Crusade has begun." Worse, they discover that all of the legendary Dragonships have disappeared as well. The only chance they have to save the world from a centuries-old plot is to seek out the last of the Dragonships -- the Red Dragon -- in a spectacular journey that takes them from Sir James Barrie's Kensington Gardens to the Underneath of the Greek Titans of myth. With friends both familiar and new, they will travel through an extraordinary landscape where history, myth, and fable blend together to tell the oldest story in the world. And along the way, the Caretakers of the Geographica will discover that great deeds alone do not make heroes, and that growing up may be unavoidable...but growing old doesn't have to be.
Author: James A. Owen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0857070304
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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John, Jack, and Charles (who met nine years ago when they became Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica, an atlas of all the lands we think of as imaginary) have come together again. Someone is kidnapping the children of the Archipelago of Dreams - and the legendary Dragonships, which can cross between the two worlds, have disappeared. Their search takes them from Sir James Barrie and Peter Pan, to Jason and the Argonauts, Medea, the Pied Piper of Hamelin, and much more! An inventive, magical adventure that will keep readers riveted.
Author: Hal Jr. Reames
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595179649
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Over a billion Chinese are inventing a bridge between communism and capitalism, between their 1949 revolution and the digital age. Wearing business attire and talking on cell phones, they ride bicycles from small apartments to mammoth, new office buildings. They might blow their noses into the ashtray in the hotel lobby, but they would never wear their shoes into your home. Theirs has been the fastest growing economy in the world, and their military might will grow with their financial clout; yet, nonasian Americans know very little about the Chinese. Find out what they Chinese think about raising children or the struggle over Taiwan, how they survive their crowded conditions, what can be learned about racism or relationships from spending ninety days with one's spouse in China.
Author: Doug Aldridge
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476668450
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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Focusing on the overarching theme of religious satire in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, this study reveals the novel's hidden motive, moral and plot. The author considers generations of criticism spanning the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, along with new textual evidence showing how Twain's richly evocative style dissects Huck's conscience to propose humane amorality as a corrective to moral absolutes. Jim and Huck emerge as archetypal twins--biracial brothers who prefigure America's color-blind ideals.
Author: Dell Belew
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1600344798
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Author: Rick Hughes
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466933607
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
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Ten-year-old Virginia has never really paid any attention to her dreams. Until now, a month after her mother was believed drowned in Wales, she has dreams like none she's ever had before. A recurrent nightmare of a ferocious red dragon makes her afraid ever to sleep again. Then the dragon beckons her, and at school, she sees the dragon emblem of Wales and recognizes her dream dragon. Her mother might not be dead! She tries to get her father to take them to Wales to find out. He is skeptical at first, but then he has the same dream! They are soon in Wales, meeting a mysterious old woman who claims to have seen her mother. She also claims to have sent Virginia the dreams! The trail is full of action and adventure! There's a white cliff and a black hole that seems impossible to escape. There's a terrifying bat-infested cave and a storm at sea, where it looks like they will share her mother's fate in the freezing ocean. Everything she knows about survival is put to the test! There are truly horrifying people, who want to include her in their macabre plans, plans that include her missing mother. Virginia believes that you've got to give all you've got when something really matters. It really matters to find her missing mother, and she puts everything she's got into all the incredible challenges that she faces in her quest to find her!
