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Book Unbound  A Novel in Verse

Download or read book Unbound A Novel in Verse written by Ann E. Burg and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of All the Broken Pieces and Serafina's Promise comes a breathtaking new novel that is her most transcendent and widely accessible work to date. The day Grace is called from the slave cabins to work in the Big House, Mama makes her promise to keep her eyes down. Uncle Jim warns her to keep her thoughts tucked private in her mind or they could bring a whole lot of trouble and pain. But the more Grace sees of the heartless Master and hateful Missus, the more a rightiness voice clamors in her head-asking how come white folks can own other people, sell them on the auction block, and separate families forever. When that voice escapes without warning, it sets off a terrible chain of events that prove Uncle Jim's words true. Suddenly, Grace and her family must flee deep into the woods, where they brave deadly animals, slave patrollers, and the uncertainty of ever finding freedom. With candor and compassion, Ann E. Burg sheds light on a startling chapter of American history--the remarkable story of runaways who sought sanctuary in the Great Dismal Swamp--and creates a powerful testament to the right of every human to be free.

Book Arms Unbound

Download or read book Arms Unbound written by David Mussington and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wake

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  • Author : Paul Kingsnorth
  • Publisher : Graywolf Press
  • Release : 2015-09-01
  • ISBN : 1555979076
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book The Wake written by Paul Kingsnorth and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A work that is as disturbing as it is empathetic, as beautiful as it is riveting." —Eimear McBride, New Statesman In the aftermath of the Norman Invasion of 1066, William the Conqueror was uncompromising and brutal. English society was broken apart, its systems turned on their head. What is little known is that a fractured network of guerrilla fighters took up arms against the French occupiers. In The Wake, a postapocalyptic novel set a thousand years in the past, Paul Kingsnorth brings this dire scenario back to us through the eyes of the unforgettable Buccmaster, a proud landowner bearing witness to the end of his world. Accompanied by a band of like-minded men, Buccmaster is determined to seek revenge on the invaders. But as the men travel across the scorched English landscape, Buccmaster becomes increasingly unhinged by the immensity of his loss, and their path forward becomes increasingly unclear. Written in what the author describes as "a shadow tongue"—a version of Old English updated so as to be understandable to the modern reader—The Wake renders the inner life of an Anglo-Saxon man with an accuracy and immediacy rare in historical fiction. To enter Buccmaster's world is to feel powerfully the sheer strangeness of the past. A tale of lost gods and haunted visions, The Wake is both a sensational, gripping story and a major literary achievement.

Book Unbound

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  • Author : Celeste Bradley
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2012-12-24
  • ISBN : 1466841419
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book Unbound written by Celeste Bradley and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-12-24 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***This book was previously published as The Courtesan's Guide to Getting Your Man.*** Regency London's most celebrated courtesan, The Blackbird, was a woman before her time—uninhibited, financially independent, and free to live by her own rules. Schooled in the sensual arts by the one man she loved the most, she recorded every wicked detail in her diaries... When Boston museum curator Piper Chase-Pierpont unearths The Blackbird's steamy memoirs, she's aroused and challenged by what she finds. Could the courtesan's diaries be used as a modern girl's guide to finding love and empowerment? One curious curator—and one very lucky man—are about to find out...

Book Cascade of Arms

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  • Author : Andrew J. Pierre
  • Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
  • Release : 1997-11-01
  • ISBN : 9780815791652
  • Pages : 492 pages

Download or read book Cascade of Arms written by Andrew J. Pierre and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the post-cold war emphasis on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the neglected dimension has been the spread of advanced conventional arms. Yet these are the arms most likely to be used in conflict. They present the greatest diversion from economic and social development, and are the centerpiece of regional security balances. This book examines the policies and practices of the major arms-supplying nations, looks at the impact of weapons purchases on the principal recipient regions and the possibilities for regional arms control, and dissects the economics of arms exports for the producer nations in both the developing and industrialized worlds. The book thoroughly discusses the opportunities for, and obstacles to, achieving multilateral restraint on arms. In addition to the editor, contributors are Ian Anthony, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute; Nicole Ball, Overseas Development Council; Julian Cooper, University of Birmingham; Lawrence Freedman and Martin Navias, King's College, London; Rodney Jones, Policy Architects International; Ethan Kapstein, University of Minnesota; Michael Klare, Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies; Andrew Mack, Australian National University; Abdel Monem Said Aly, Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Cairo; Janne Nolan, Brookings Institution; Andrew Ross, Naval War College; Gerald Segal, International Institute for Strategic Studies; and Gerald Steinberg, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Copublished with the World Peace Foundation

Book The Weapons State

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  • Author : David Mutimer
  • Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9781555877873
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book The Weapons State written by David Mutimer and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proliferation of all kinds of weapons is a focal point for international security. This work shows how both the language used to talk about weapons proliferation and the practices adopted to respond to it serve to define the problem in ways that promote policy responses doomed to failure.

Book Immortal

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  • Author : Jessica Duchen
  • Publisher : Unbound Publishing
  • Release : 2020-10-29
  • ISBN : 1789651166
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Immortal written by Jessica Duchen and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Beethoven's 'Immortal Beloved'? After Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, a love letter in his writing was discovered, addressed only to his ‘Immortal Beloved’. Decades later, Countess Therese Brunsvik claims to have been the composer’s lost love. Yet is she concealing a tragic secret? Who is the one person who deserves to know the truth? Becoming Beethoven’s pupils in 1799, Therese and her sister Josephine followed his struggles against the onset of deafness, Viennese society’s flamboyance, privilege and hypocrisy and the upheavals of the Napoleonic wars. While Therese sought liberation, Josephine found the odds stacked against even the most unquenchable of passions...

Book UnBound

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  • Author : Neal Shusterman
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2016-12-13
  • ISBN : 1481457241
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book UnBound written by Neal Shusterman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out what happens to Connor, Risa, and Lev now that they've finally destroyed the Proactive Citizenry in this collection of short stories set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Unwind Dystology by Neal Shusterman. Connor Lassiter's fight to bring down Proactive Citizenry and find a suitable alternative to unwinding concluded in UnDivided. Now Connor, Risa, and Lev are free to live in a peaceful future--or are they? Neal Shusterman brings back his beloved Unwind characters for his fans to see what's left for those who were destined to be unwound.

Book Catalogue

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  • Author : Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1903
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book Catalogue written by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogues of Sales

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  • Author : Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1132 pages

Download or read book Catalogues of Sales written by Sotheby & Co. (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana

Download or read book Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana written by Charles Spencer Earl of Sunderland and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana

Download or read book Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana  Sale Catalogue of the Truly and Very Extensive Library of Printed Books Known as the Sunderland Or Blenheim Library Comprising a Remarkable Collection of the Greek and Roman Classic Writers in First Early and Rare Editions  A Large Series of Early Printed Bibles and Testaments in Various Languages  A Few Ancient and Important Mss

Download or read book Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana Sale Catalogue of the Truly and Very Extensive Library of Printed Books Known as the Sunderland Or Blenheim Library Comprising a Remarkable Collection of the Greek and Roman Classic Writers in First Early and Rare Editions A Large Series of Early Printed Bibles and Testaments in Various Languages A Few Ancient and Important Mss written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rory Hobble and the Voyage to Haligogen

Download or read book Rory Hobble and the Voyage to Haligogen written by Maximilian Hawker and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This story is full of adventure and heart! A real page turner!' Dani Harmer 'Warm, funny, pacy, endlessly inventive and life-affirming; there are lots of young readers who will identify with Rory' Chris Beckett, Arthur C. Clarke-Award winner Eleven-year-old Rory Hobble has it tough: he gets upsetting thoughts all the time and they won't go away – 'Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)', the head doctors call it. His mum hasn't been very well for a long while either. Perhaps it's his fault... Maybe that's why she doesn't always feed him; maybe that's why she screams at him. At least Rory has his telescope – gazing at the unchanging stars keeps him calm. But, one night, Rory sees something impossible in the sky: mysterious lights – artificial and definitely not of earthly origin. When his mum is abducted by the shadowy Whiffetsnatcher, Rory – accompanied by his space-faring, care-experienced social worker, Limmy – travels beyond the Earth, chasing those mysterious lights to the frozen ends of the Solar System. Along the way he must outwit a breakaway human civilisation living on a Martian moon; survive the threat of otherworldly monsters; and learn to speak to alien whales. But his greatest challenge left Earth with him and it will take all the courage he has not only to overcome his OCD, but to decide whether he wants to rescue an abusive mother if he gets his chance...

Book Perspectives on South Asian Security

Download or read book Perspectives on South Asian Security written by Shanthie Mariet D'Souza and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of speeches and lectures delivered by political luminaries, practitioners and noted scholars on South Asian security at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. It offers interesting insights on the emerging security dynamics of South Asia. The issues covered are highly topical and include analyses of the conflict in Afghanistan, counter-terrorism in Pakistan, conflict management in Kashmir, post-conflict restructuring in Nepal and militarization in Asia. Some of the chapters provide in-depth analyses of the regional power politics and competing foreign policy priorities, with particular emphasis on India, the major regional power. India's foreign policy and defense relations with Southeast Asia, China and Russia are covered in detail in individual chapters. The book brings together insights from experts who have served at the highest levels of government as well as scholars and experts with firsthand experience in the field. It highlights some of the significant security issues that have a vital bearing on the future of South Asia and will be of interest to policy makers, students and observers of the South Asian security scene.

Book Arms Unbound

Download or read book Arms Unbound written by David Mussington and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Days of Massasoit

Download or read book In the Days of Massasoit written by Hezekiah Butterworth and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: