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Book The Hunt for Tokyo Rose

    Book Details:
  • Author : Russell Warren Howe
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 1993-08-13
  • ISBN : 1461744016
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book The Hunt for Tokyo Rose written by Russell Warren Howe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1993-08-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [A] dramatic, affecting account...—Publishers Weekly

Book The Lottery Rose

Download or read book The Lottery Rose written by Irene Hunt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young victim of child abuse gradually overcomes his fears and suspicions when placed in a home with other boys.

Book A Life Removed

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rose George
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9780786756421
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book A Life Removed written by Rose George and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Asylum-seeker'; refugee'. All the major British political parties have brought these words to the top of the political agenda. Some newspapers shout about the swarms' of refugees arriving on our shores; others criticise our government's lack of humanitarian principles. But what do we know about the refugees themselves what it means to leave your home, your family, your past? Rose George has travelled to Liberia and Ivory Coast and also met refugees in Britain to discover what really happens when you are uprooted by war, greed and guns, or - as Liberians put it - when you've been 'running, running, running' for fourteen years non-stop; when you've rebuilt your house five times, and its been looted six times, so you don't bother putting glass in the windows any more; when, like Francis Flade Nemlin, you're a well paid NGO worker one minute, and a refugee in a transit centre with sixteen dependants only two weeks later. 'Anyone can become a refugee, ' he says. 'Why not?' Challenging the preconceptions of both sides of the political establishment, A Life Removed is a searing indictment of our failure to empathize.

Book The Sleeping Rose

    Book Details:
  • Author : Angela Elwell Hunt
  • Publisher : Thomas Nelson Publishers
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780849958472
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Sleeping Rose written by Angela Elwell Hunt and published by Thomas Nelson Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While nurturing his beautiful rose which the king invited him to show to the entire kingdom, Baldrik learns the lesson that kindness is more important than praise.

Book A Nervous State

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy Rose Hunt
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2015-12-30
  • ISBN : 0822375249
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book A Nervous State written by Nancy Rose Hunt and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold’s Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as narrative form, she instead brings alive a history of colonial nervousness. This mood suffused medical investigations, security operations, and vernacular healing movements. With a heuristic of two colonial states—one "nervous," one biopolitical—the analysis alternates between medical research into birthrates, gonorrhea, and childlessness and the securitization of subaltern "therapeutic insurgencies." By the time of Belgian Congo’s famed postwar developmentalist schemes, a shining infertility clinic stood near a bleak penal colony, both sited where a notorious Leopoldian rubber company once enabled rape and mutilation. Hunt’s history bursts with layers of perceptibility and song, conveying everyday surfaces and daydreams of subalterns and colonials alike. Congolese endured and evaded forced labor and medical and security screening. Quick-witted, they stirred unease through healing, wonder, memory, and dance. This capacious medical history sheds light on Congolese sexual and musical economies, on practices of distraction, urbanity, and hedonism. Drawing on theoretical concepts from Georges Canguilhem, Georges Balandier, and Gaston Bachelard, Hunt provides a bold new framework for teasing out the complexities of colonial history.

Book Hunting Prince Dracula

Download or read book Hunting Prince Dracula written by Kerri Maniscalco and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this New York Times bestselling sequel to Kerri Maniscalco's haunting #1 debut Stalking Jack the Ripper, bizarre murders are discovered in the castle of Prince Vlad the Impaler, otherwise known as Dracula. Could it be a copycat killer . . . or has the depraved prince been brought back to life? Following the grief and horror of her discovery of Jack the Ripper's true identity, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has no choice but to flee London and its memories. Together with the arrogant yet charming Thomas Cresswell, she journeys to the dark heart of Romania, home to one of Europe's best schools of forensic medicine . . . and to another notorious killer, Vlad the Impaler, whose thirst for blood became legend. But her life's dream is soon tainted by blood-soaked discoveries in the halls of the school's forbidding castle, and Audrey Rose is compelled to investigate the strangely familiar murders. What she finds brings all her terrifying fears to life once again.

Book A Colonial Lexicon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy Rose Hunt
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 1999-11-15
  • ISBN : 9780822323662
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book A Colonial Lexicon written by Nancy Rose Hunt and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-15 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the “colonial encounter” paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, to reveal how concerns about strange new objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of colonialism and its aftermath in Mobutu’s Zaire. Relying on archival research in England and Belgium, as well as fieldwork in the Congo, Hunt reconstructs an ethnographic history of a remote British Baptist mission struggling to survive under the successive regimes of King Leopold II’s Congo Free State, the hyper-hygienic, pronatalist Belgian Congo, and Mobutu’s Zaire. After exploring the roots of social reproduction in rituals of manhood, she shows how the arrival of the fast and modern ushered in novel productions of gender, seen equally in the forced labor of road construction and the medicalization of childbirth. Hunt focuses on a specifically interwar modernity, where the speed of airplanes and bicycles correlated with a new, mobile medicine aimed at curbing epidemics and enumerating colonial subjects. Fascinating stories about imperial masculinities, Christmas rituals, evangelical humor, colonial terror, and European cannibalism demonstrate that everyday life in the mission, on plantations, and under a strongly Catholic colonial state was never quite what it seemed. In a world where everyone was living in translation, privileged access to new objects and technologies allowed a class of “colonial middle figures”—particularly teachers, nurses, and midwives—to mediate the evolving hybridity of Congolese society. Successfully blurring conventional distinctions between precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial situations, Hunt moves on to discuss the unexpected presence of colonial fragments in the vibrant world of today’s postcolonial Africa. With its close attention to semiotics as well as sociology, A Colonial Lexiconwill interest specialists in anthropology, African history, obstetrics and gynecology, medical history, religion, and women’s and cultural studies.

Book Mom 3MD

Download or read book Mom 3MD written by Rose A. Hunt and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quiet six-year-old girl, brought to America in 1955, was welcomed into the loving home of family members who adopted her as their own cherished daughter. Raised by a gentle, strong father and beautiful, elegant mother, Rose learned through discipline, guidance, and unconditional love what it meant to seek God, strive for excellence in all things, and respect others without compromising oneself. Upon this foundation would she build the rest of her life in spite of the storms that would soon test her. As a young woman, Rose was no stranger to grief: at the age of nine, she lost her beloved father to illness. And so it was that when she met and married her soul mate, Gabriel, she rejoiced in the profound and abundant blessing that was marriage and family, only to face devastating loss once again a few years later when the love of her life was diagnosed with leukemia. Upon becoming a widow before she was thirty years old, the young mother was charged with raising her three children alone. Though she was stricken with grief, she set her mind and spirit upon the task she had promised her husband to see through: to raise and equip their children with the love, integrity, and education that he himself so valued and had dreamed of imparting. This is the memoir of the young woman who exemplified values by which she would raise her children—values that are as relevant today as they were forty years ago. In spite of loss, grief, loneliness, frustration, and discrimination, her convictions and steadfast faith would reap great rewards, leading her to rejoice in the fruit of her labor while building a legacy that will continue for generations.

Book Blood Upon the Rose

Download or read book Blood Upon the Rose written by Gerry Hunt and published by O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Easter 1916 Rising: an unlikely band of freedom fighters - teachers, poets, writers, patriots, trade unionists - declare an Irish Republic. From this dramatic gesture, a nation is born... The rebellion that set Ireland free, told as a graphic novel.

Book Walking the Mona Lisa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jim Simpson
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2014-04
  • ISBN : 9781493176564
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book Walking the Mona Lisa written by Jim Simpson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hunting Sweetie Rose

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jack Fredrickson
  • Publisher : Minotaur Books
  • Release : 2012-02-28
  • ISBN : 1429950870
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Hunting Sweetie Rose written by Jack Fredrickson and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jack Fredrickson is one hell of a writer. This is a book that satisfies on every level."--William Kent Krueger Sweetie Fairbairn, the doyenne of Chicago society, is known for big-hearted philanthropy and magnificent soirees in her penthouse high atop one of the city's premier boutique hotels. Dek Elstrom is hired by a mysterious man in a long limousine to investigate the death of a clown. Was it suicide—or murder? What is the connection between the dead clown and Sweetie?

Book Burning Roses

    Book Details:
  • Author : S. L. Huang
  • Publisher : Tordotcom
  • Release : 2020-09-29
  • ISBN : 1250763983
  • Pages : 79 pages

Download or read book Burning Roses written by S. L. Huang and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Hugo Award Winner S. L. Huang "S. L. Huang is amazing."—Patrick Rothfuss Burning Roses is a gorgeous fairy tale of love and family, of demons and lost gods, for fans of Zen Cho and Neon Yang. Rosa, also known as Red Riding Hood, is done with wolves and woods. Hou Yi the Archer is tired, and knows she’s past her prime. They would both rather just be retired, but that’s not what the world has ready for them. When deadly sunbirds begin to ravage the countryside, threatening everything they’ve both grown to love, the two must join forces. Now blessed and burdened with the hindsight of middle age, they begin a quest that’s a reckoning of sacrifices made and mistakes mourned, of choices and family and the quest for immortality. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book The Huntsman and the She Wolf

Download or read book The Huntsman and the She Wolf written by Troy M. Costisick and published by Hunter's Rose. This book was released on 2019-02-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though his home was undamaged when the Wolf-Queen attacks, Tristan loses it anyway. His father abandons him, sells their pottery shop, and leaves him with nothing but a rucksack full of worthless mementos. Desperate, he turns to his estranged uncle for help who gifts him an ancestral sword: a great paramarion from a bygone age. Tristan's only option is to join the mysterious Huntsmen and track down the horrors that haunt his village in the slim hope of finding the fortune he needs to buy back his home and restore his family. The Huntsman and the She-Wolf is an action packed story of a young man carrying the responsibility of teaching himself to survive at the same time he tries to win back everything taken from him. It is a story that will appeal to readers who love adventure and understand that faith in a cause is a guidepost in the journey of life we all take.

Book Primrose Past

    Book Details:
  • Author : Caroline Rose Hunt
  • Publisher : William Morrow
  • Release : 2000-12-26
  • ISBN : 9780060394134
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Primrose Past written by Caroline Rose Hunt and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 2000-12-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primrose Past recreates, with rare authenticity and engaging spirit, the diary of a young girl growing up in Victorian England -- a time of simple manners and values, when life was lived slowly and morals were passed on from generation to generation through homilies and by example. The young lady of the story -- fifteen years of age in 1848, the year of the journal -- narrates in a fresh and endearing voice a year in the life of a Victorian family, offering a window into the lifestyle of the time; along the way she even includes recipes for dishes she learns from the family cook over the course of the year (authentic 19th-century recipes the author discovered in the course of her research). But the story, deceptively simple at first, soon takes on an air of suspense, as her parents leave on a journey, and her father writes with the news that her mother has taken gravely ill; soon thereafter the little girl -- identified only by the nickname "cygnet", or young swan, in the diary -- finds a letter among her mother's belongings leading her to question her own parentage. The text of the journal is framed by a present-day narrative, in Caroline's own voice, detailing the discovery of the actual diary, and Caroline's own attempts to discover the truth behind this enigmatic story.

Book Bed of Rose and Thorns

Download or read book Bed of Rose and Thorns written by Lee Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This spectacular standalone fantasy bursts with epic battles and avid romance." - Booklife Reviews Editor's Choice Winner"A beautifully crafted setting with complex character dynamics and layers of political intrigue... A showstopper. Hunt's ambitious standalone latest has everything-a well-imagined fantasy world, great characters, incredible tension, and fierce love. The real genius here is the mixture of extraordinarily deep worldbuilding with relevant and complex themes, which include identity, intolerance, love, passion, friendship, integrity, honor and more." - Prairies Book Review"An intriguing storyline, scenarios grounded in the real world, and a breathless pace make Hunt's latest standalone fantasy a must-read." - BookView Reviews Recommended Read"An engaging medieval fantasy that's also, at times, a refreshingly candid tale of desire." - Kirkus Reviews"I gladly rate Bed of Rose and Thorns 4 out of 4 stars." - OnlineBookClub.orgSir Ezra is an Elysian Bell; he has a frightening potential that he keeps hidden deep beneath tight layers of steel armor. He secretly loves a dark Queen whose touch would mean his death.Banished for brutally slaughtering the Prince of Erle and husband to the Queen, Sir Ezra can only dream of seeing her again. Every night, his soul travels to distant lands, remembering the Queen, her deep convictions, brilliant mind, unending work, hidden loneliness, and a single night of horrific bloodshed.Recalled to the Queendom after eleven years, Ezra hopes to catch at least a fleeting glimpse of the woman he was sacrificed for. Instead, he finds a nation in rebellion and the Queen to be an elusive phantom. His only friend, Sir Marigold, challenges his presence and tells him that he is not needed in the capitol. Looking for both the truth and the absent Queen, Ezra finds only more secrets and enemies.Ezra's armor is dented, scarred, and ruined by friend and enemy alike; his secret potential is about to become unbound.

Book The Album of Gunfighters

Download or read book The Album of Gunfighters written by John Marvin Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This album contains photographs and short biographies of many gun-fighters connected in one way or another with the growth of the legend of Billy the Kid, John Selman, Pat Garrett, and many others.

Book Grendel Omnibus Volume 1  Hunter Rose

Download or read book Grendel Omnibus Volume 1 Hunter Rose written by Matt Wagner and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt Wagner's masterpiece celebrates its thirtieth anniversary with the firstever comprehensive collection of the complete Grendelsaga! The first of four volumes presenting the entire series and following the chronology of the stories, this edition introduces millionaire Hunter Rose and his alter ego, the criminal mastermind Grendel! Volume 1 reprints Grendel: Devil by the Deed; the short story collections Grendel: Black, White, & Red and Grendel: Red, White, & Black, featuring a host of legendary guest artists; and the epic Grendel: Behold the Devil. * The complete series, collected for the first time! "Grendel is a brave and possibly even reckless experiment that has succeeded admirably." Alan Moore (Watchmen)