Author: Guy Quigley
Publisher: Visionary Book Writers
ISBN: 1304603938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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DURING THE VIOLENT 1920S IRISH LIBERATION WAR, TOM SUTTON BECOMES A SOUGHT-AFTER REVOLUTIONARY. AFTER HIS WIFE WAS VICIOUSLY ASSAULTED, RAPED AND MURDERED BY BLACK & TANS, HE LEAVES HIS HOMELAND, THINKING HIS SON ALSO SUFFERED THE SAME FATE. ARRIVING BY COINCIDENCE IN AFRICA, HE RELAPSES INTO ALCOHOLISM AFTER BEING BROKEN-HEARTED AND PENNILESS. BY A QUIRK OF FATE, A LITTLE GIRL WITH A BOWL OF SOUP BRINGS HIM BACK FROM A LIVING HELL. TOGETHER WITH THE GIRL HEIDI AND HIS ONLY FRIEND FROM THE LIBERATION WAR, THEY TRAVEL NORTH ON RHODESIAN RAILWAYS SEEKING EMPLOYMENT IN THE SMALL WORKING GOLDMINES, FINALLY ARRIVING AT MOSI-AO-TUNYA, THE SMOKE THAT THUNDERS (VICTORIA FALLS). HE ADOPTS HEIDI AND BY VIRTUE OF HEIDI'S INHERITANCE FROM HER DECEASED FATHER THEY ARRIVE AT THE VAST TREK OF LAND KNOWN AS DEMBERRA. WITH THE HELP OF AN AFRICAN-FRIEND THEY EMBARK ON A NEW FUTURE. HOWEVER, VIOLENCE, REVENGE, AND DEATH PLAGUE THEM. IF TOM SUTTON'S LIFE WAS BROKEN OR HE FAILED TO CONFRONT IT DURING THE IRISH LIBERATION WAR, ONLY TIME WILL TELL. SUTTON'S STORY COVERS FRIENDSHIPS, ADVERSARIES, HIS CHILD'S WOMANHOOD, AND HER JEALOUSY WHEN MARIA ENTERS HIS LIFE. ONLY MOSI-OA-TUNYA WILL DETERMINE A CLIMATIC ENDING TO THEIR LOVE, LUST, ANGER AND REVENGE. THIS IS SUTTON'S STORY, OFTEN POIGNANT, OFTEN JOYFUL BUT AS BIG AND EXCITING AND EPICAL AS AFRICA ITSELF.
Author: Guy Quigley
Publisher: Visionary Book Writers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
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THE THUNDERING SMOKE - BOOK 2, THE DUTCHMAN’S PLAN IS A CONTINUING EVOCATIVE TALE OF REDEMPTION, RESILIENCE, AND THE ENDURING BONDS OF FAMILY SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE AFRICAN WILDERNESS AND THE TUMULTUOUS HISTORY THAT SHAPES ITS INHABITANTS' LIVES. TOM SUTTON'S JOURNEY FROM GRIEF AND DESPAIR TO PURPOSE AND HOPE IS A TESTAMENT TO THE HUMAN SPIRIT'S CAPACITY FOR TRANSFORMATION IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY. AS TOM GRAPPLES WITH THE AFTERMATH OF A TRAGIC MINE ACCIDENT, HE FINDS SOLACE AND PURPOSE IN THE COMPANIONSHIP OF HEIDI, A YOUNG ORPHAN GIRL WHOSE RESILIENCE MIRRORS HIS OWN. THEIR RELATIONSHIP BLOSSOMS INTO A BOND OF FATHER AND DAUGHTER, ANCHORED BY LOVE AND MUTUAL HEALING. YET, THEIR NEWFOUND FAMILY FACES CHALLENGES AND OBSTACLES AT EVERY TURN. TOM'S DETERMINATION TO ADOPT HEIDI IS COMPLICATED UNTIL THE REVELATION OF A LETTER FROM THE GRAVE, THE DUTCHMAN’S PLAN FOR THE FUTURE OF HIS DAUGHTER IS CAST IN STONE AND UNRAVELS SECRETS OF A VAST INHERITANCE IN THE FORM OF DEMBERRA, A SPRAWLING CATTLE RANCH. WITH THE SUPPORT OF HIS LOYAL FRIEND TIM AND THE GUIDANCE OF SIMALALA, AN AFRICAN ALLY FROM HIS PAST, TOM EMBARKS ON A JOURNEY TO CARVE A FUTURE OUT OF THE UNTAMED WILDERNESS. HOWEVER, THEIR DREAMS ARE THREATENED BY THE MACHINATIONS OF BRADLEY, A CUNNING ANTAGONIST HELL-BENT ON SEIZING DEMBERRA AND THE HIDDEN FORTUNE OF STOLEN GOLD IT HARBORS. BRADLEY ENGAGES JOHN SUTTON, TOM’S ESTRANGED SON TO ASSIST IN HIS PLANS. TOM'S RESILIENCE IS PUT TO THE TEST AS HE NAVIGATES A TREACHEROUS LANDSCAPE OF BETRAYAL, GREED, AND VENGEANCE. AMIDST THE TURMOIL, A NEW CHALLENGE EMERGES IN THE FORM OF ANOTHER WOMAN VYING FOR TOM'S AFFECTION, TESTING THE BONDS FORGED BETWEEN FATHER AND DAUGHTER. AS PAST AND PRESENT COLLIDE, TOM MUST CONFRONT HIS OWN DEMONS AND RECONCILE WITH HIS ESTRANGED SON, WHOSE THIRST FOR REVENGE THREATENS TO TEAR THEIR FRAGILE FAMILY APART. "THE THUNDERING SMOKE" IS A CONTINUING GRIPPING SAGA OF PERSEVERANCE, SACRIFICE, AND THE ENDURING POWER OF LOVE TO CONQUER EVEN THE DARKEST OF SHADOWS. THROUGH TOM'S UNWAVERING RESOLVE AND HEIDI'S INDOMITABLE SPIRIT, IT EXPLORES THEMES OF FORGIVENESS, REDEMPTION, AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF SECOND CHANCES. SET AGAINST THE MAJESTIC BACKDROP OF AFRICA'S RUGGED TERRAIN AND HAUNTED BY ITS TROUBLED HISTORY, IT IS A TIMELESS TALE OF HOPE AND REDEMPTION THAT WILL RESONATE WITH READERS LONG AFTER THE FINAL PAGE IS TURNED.
Author: Guy Quigley
Publisher: Visionary Book Writers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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IN THE GRIPPING CONCLUSION TO THE TRILOGY "THE THUNDERING SMOKE," BOOK 3 "THE END OF THE LINE," THE SAGA REACHES ITS CLIMACTIC RESOLUTION AS THE FORCES OF REVENGE, BETRAYAL, AND REDEMPTION COLLIDE IN THE HEART OF AFRICA. JOHN SIDDLEY, FUELED BY A DEEP-SEATED DESIRE FOR VENGEANCE AGAINST HIS FATHER, ALIGNS HIMSELF WITH TOM'S NEMESIS, BRADLY, IN A SINISTER PLOT TO DISMANTLE TOM'S WORLD ONCE AND FOR ALL. WITH TREACHERY AND DECEIT AS THEIR WEAPONS, JOHN AND BRADLY SET OUT TO BEFRIEND HEIDI, TOM'S ADOPTED DAUGHTER, AND MANIPULATE HER TRUST TO FURTHER THEIR NEFARIOUS AGENDA. MEANWHILE, TOM'S LIFE HANGS IN THE BALANCE AS HE FACES THE BRUTAL ATTACK OF A LION AND WATCHES HELPLESSLY AS HIS HOME IS CONSUMED BY FLAMES, ORCHESTRATED BY HIS ENEMIES. AS TOM BEGINS TO UNRAVEL THE MYSTERIES AND TRAGEDIES OF HIS PAST, HE DISCOVERS THE TRUE EXTENT OF THE BETRAYAL SURROUNDING HIM. ALONG THE WAY, HE SUFFERS THE DEVASTATING LOSS OF HIS CLOSEST ALLIES, TIMOTHY BRYN AND SIMALALA, IN A MANNER THAT EPITOMIZES THE RAW AND UNFORGIVING ESSENCE OF AFRICA ITSELF. WITH HEIDI AND JOHN ON THE RUN FOR THEIR LIVES, PURSUED BY BRADLY WHO SERVES AS THEIR RELENTLESS EXECUTIONER, THE STAGE IS SET FOR A DRAMATIC SHOWDOWN. AS THE TENSION MOUNTS AND THE STAKES REACH THEIR PEAK, THE THUNDEROUS ROAR OF MOSI-OA-TUNYA, THE SMOKE THAT THUNDERS, LOOMS AS THE ULTIMATE ARBITER OF FATE. IN A FINALE FRAUGHT WITH LOVE, LUST, ANGER, AND REVENGE, TOM SUTTON MUST CONFRONT HIS DEMONS AND FIND THE STRENGTH TO OVERCOME THE FORCES ARRAYED AGAINST HIM. AS THE CHARACTERS HURTLE TOWARDS THEIR DESTINY, THE BREATHTAKING BACKDROP OF THE AFRICAN WILDERNESS SERVES AS A FITTING CANVAS FOR THE EPIC CONCLUSION TO THIS GRIPPING TALE OF RESILIENCE AND REDEMPTION. ULTIMATELY, IT IS AMIDST THE THUNDERING WATERS OF VICTORIA FALLS THAT THE FATES OF ALL INVOLVED WILL BE DECIDED, IN A CLIMAX THAT WILL LEAVE READERS BREATHLESS UNTIL THE VERY LAST PAGE.
Author: Daniel Heath Justice
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826350135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 595
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Taking fantasy literature beyond the stereotypes, Daniel Heath Justice’s acclaimed Thorn and Thunder novels are set in a world resembling eighteenth-century North America. The original trilogy is available here for the first time as a fully revised one-volume novel. The story of the struggle for the green world of the Everland, home of the forest-dwelling Kyn, is an adventure tale that bends genre and gender. “Justice has created a fantasy epic so rich in history and so complex with all of its inhabitants and mystery that you’re never going to want The Way of Thorn and Thunder to end. What a treasure for anyone looking for heroes and adventure in a series based on Aboriginal philosophy and wisdom.” —Richard Van Camp, author of The Lesser Blessed “The Way of Thorn and Thunder is a beautifully wrought high fantasy novel, drawing from the unique and fascinating cultures of North America’s aboriginal peoples but successfully creating a world and characters that stand on their own, and are even set apart from what we usually see in high fantasy. Readers who enjoy meticulously created landscapes and cultures, as well as language that is by turns both visceral and elegant, will likely find much to love in The Way of Thorn and Thunder.”—Karin Lowachee, author The Gaslight Dogs “A powerful heroic fantasy, notable for being set, not in the familiar myth-Europe of most such fantasies, but (like Liliana Bodoc’s haunting Saga de los Confines) in the Old World of the Western Hemisphere, the Native American world, where the true, deep roots of magic are threatened by conquest and destruction.”—Ursula K. Le Guin
Author: Dorothy Hodgson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520287363
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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"Global Africa will complicate conventional views of Africa as a place of violence, despair and victimhood--a place and space that other people, states, and organizations act on and steal from. Instead, they aim to document some of the significant global connections, circulations, and contributions that African people, ideas, and goods have made in the world--not just in the United States, but in South Asia, Latin America, Europe, and elsewhere. They will showcase new framings of Africa, but will not romanticize the conditions and circumstances in which too many people on the continent currently live. The essays in this volume will amplify those voices that offer complex and insightful explanations, strategies for solutions, and inspiration for the future."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Jack Cavanaugh
Publisher: David C Cook
ISBN: 9781564764287
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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As England and her American colonies went to war, the loyalties of good men and women were put to the test. This is their story. The Patriots Esau and Jacob Morgan had been at odds with each other since their births moments apart. Their rivalry had spanned three decades and reached its peak when Jacob practically stole the attractive Mercy Reed for his wife while Esau, her fiancé was away studying in England. Now Jared and Anne Morgan are forced to watch as their sons take opposing stands in the struggle for American liberty. Will the war for independence tear the Morgans apart? And if they survive, will the Morgan family faith and Bible continue in America, or will they return to England where it all started? Follow the Morgan family as they are tossed about by the tides of conflict--from the battlefields of Lexington and Concord to the deadly winter encampment at Valley Forge to the seats of colonial power in Boston, Philadelphia, and New York--as their lives cross paths with influential men and women who changed the course of history.
Author: John N. Maclean
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743410386
Category : Wildfires
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Maclean chronicles the deadly 1994 Colorado forest fire that was wrongly identified at the outset as occurring in South Canyon, leading to one of the greatest tragedies of firefighting. Winner of the Mountains and Plains Bestsellers Association's Best Nonfiction Book of 1999 Award. plus a 8-page B&W insert.
Author: Frank Worthington
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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"The Witch Doctor and other Rhodesian Studies" by Frank Worthington offers a captivating glimpse into the rich tapestry of Rhodesian culture and traditions. Through a collection of insightful studies, Worthington delves into the beliefs, practices, and folklore of the region, shedding light on its unique customs. His immersive narratives provide a deeper understanding of the interplay between modernity and ancient beliefs, offering readers a fascinating journey into the heart of Rhodesia's cultural heritage. This anthology serves as a valuable record of the traditions that have shaped the lives of the people of Rhodesia.
Author: Josef Blaha
Publisher: Josef Blaha
ISBN: 802704782X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 57
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The book Zohar – The Book of Splendor is the most important work of the Spanish Kabbalah. Zohar is a Mystical Commentary on the Torah. After the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud it is the third canonical text of Judaism. In this book the reader will have the possibility to read the Mystical Creation Story of the Zohar. Whereas in the Zohar the beginning is connected with the idea of God’s extension in all directions, the reader will have the possibility to read this masterpiece of the Spanish Kabbalah. The Jewish existence in Spain came to an end in the year 1492, when the Jews were expelled from Spain and several years later from Portugal. Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534–1572), the Founder of modern Kabalah, deeply reflected upon the meaning of this worst expulsion of the Middle Ages. Rabbi Luria did not write a lot – he mainly preached and his disciples wrote down what he said. Following a deep meditation, Rabbi Luria came up with a new concept – God put upon Himself a voluntarily Exile, He withdrew from the World – because of His solidarity with Israel. There are many writings falsely attributed to Rabbi Luria. This short Commentary on Zohar by Rabbi Luria is authentic; it was first published in Zion in Jerusalem in 1940, edited by Gershom Scholem. Josef Blaha was born in Brno, Czech Republic in 1963, and is lecturer in Jewish Studies and specializes in Jewish Mysticism. He published fifteen books in Czech and in English dealing with Judaism and especially with the Jewish Mysticism. Josef Blaha teaches the US students at the Charles University in Prague.
Author: Reginald Arthur Luck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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