Download or read book Of Age written by Frances M. Clarke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Enormous numbers of boys and youths served in the American Civil War. The first book to arrive at a careful estimate, Of Age argues that underage enlistees comprised roughly ten percent of the Union army and likely a similar proportion of Confederate forces. Their importance extended beyond sheer numbers. Boys who enlisted without consent deprived parents of badly needed labor and income to which were legally entitled, setting off struggles between households and the military. As the contest over underage enlistees became a referendum on the growing centralization of military and political power, it was the United States, more than the Confederacy, that fought tooth and nail to retain this valuable cohort. How far could the federal government breach the sanctity of the household when the nation's very survival was at stake? Should military officers bow to the will of local and state judges? And what form should the military take to ensure victory while remaining true to the nation's republican principles? As they detail how Americans grappled with these questions, Clarke and Plant introduce readers to common but largely unknown wartime scenarios-parents chasing after regiments to recover their sons, state judges defying the federal government by discharging boys, and recently enslaved African American youths swept up by Union recruiters. Examining the phenomenon from multiple perspectives-legal, military, medical, social, political, and cultural-Of Age demonstrates why underage enlistment is such an important lens for understanding the Civil War and its transformative effects"--

Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Download or read book The Little Jeff written by Donald A. Hopkins and published by White Mane Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete history of The Jeff Davis Legion, initially designated and 2nd Mississippi Cavalry Battalion.

Download or read book No Place for a Lady written by Vivian Vaughan and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An East Coast feminist clashes with a stubborn Texan in Vivian Vaughan’s wild west adventure. Hop aboard for a humorous and poignant ride.” —RT BOOK REVIEWS When Madolyn Sinclair, Secretary of the Boston Woman Suffrage Society, steps off the train in Buckhorn, Texas, she doesn’t know there is a right and wrong side of the tracks. Madolyn has come to this god-forsaken land with three purposes: to find her runaway brother Morley, secure her inheritance, and return to Boston to organize a Center for Women’s Rights. What she had not expected to find in this windswept land—or anywhere—was love: Madolyn Sinclair has dedicated herself to teaching submissive women from all walks of life that they don’t need men. Then she meets Tyler Grant, her brother’s erstwhile business partner, who offers to take her to Morley’s ranch. She reluctantly accepts, and Tyler takes her on a wagon ride she will never forget. But Tyler has an ulterior motive, and he’s caught a tantalizing woman in his web of deceit.

Download or read book How to Write One Song written by Jeff Tweedy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few creative acts more mysterious and magical than writing a song. But what if the goal wasn't so mysterious and was actually achievable for anyone who wants to experience more magic and creativity in their life? That's something that anyone will be inspired to do after reading Jeff Tweedy's How to Write One Song. Why one song? Because the difference between one song and many songs isn't a cute semantic trick—it's an important distinction that can simplify a notoriously confusing art form. The idea of becoming a capital-S songwriter can seem daunting, but approached as a focused, self-contained event, the mystery and fear subsides, and songwriting becomes an exciting pursuit. And then there is the energizing, nourishing creativity that can open up. How to Write One Song brings readers into the intimate process of writing one song—lyrics, music, and putting it all together—and accesses the deep sense of wonder that remains at the heart of this curious, yet incredibly fulfilling, artistic act. But it’s equally about the importance of making creativity part of your life every day, and of experiencing the hope, inspiration, and joy available to anyone who’s willing to get started.

Download or read book Little White Lies written by Paul Watkins and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Richards is a man who appears to be everything he isn't. Well dressed, well spoken and successful by any measure, his world is changed overnight when his beautiful wife, Laura, dies unexpectedly. Lost and adrift, he finally decides to take charge of his life once again and strikes out on a completely different path, one that leads to murder and mayhem. But the strange things about all this is that Philip isn't slowed or intimated by these events. Instead he seems to thrive on them. Is Philip all he appears to be, or is there a dark side that is worse than the terrible people he faces? Is he the hunted or the hunter? And do you find yourself rooting for this complex man, or secretly fearing for those around him? When does justice cross the line and become something worse than the crime it is supposed to punish? Philip's story might answer that question for you. Then again, maybe you will have more questions than you had before, and very unsettling answers indeed.

Download or read book Stanky Swims Upstream written by Jim Miotke and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeff Stanky’s career is dead. He’s tossed out of his office by Gunny, an ex-Marine security guard. His wife Sheila, loves Atlanta, but Jeff can’t stay. After his Boston interview, Sheila is gone with their life savings, and her lover. Black-balled in his field, he gives away his house, and points his BMW toward Key West. He is car-jacked in Valdosta, Georgia, robbed, and beaten into temporary amnesia. Escaping the care of a gay Valdosta doctor, he does manual labor, until his memory returns. He continues south to Orlando. He meets Joshua, a zealot hauling an eight-foot wooden cross to Elvis’s grave. Taking Joshua’s trailer-park handyman job, he romances the park’s divorcee owner. Later, he rescues an elderly Greek woman from a mugger. He’s adopted by the Mafia-type Greek family. Although fearing her three brothers, he falls in love with the virginal daughter. Sheila returns with a new lover to hunt down Jeff for more cash. Gunny learns that Jeff killed his brother. He attacks, and rapes Sheila. She plans revenge on Gunny, and hunts down Jeff. Gunny follows, feeling Jeff must die. Blood will flow. Jeff would run, but learns he is soon to be a father.

Download or read book Killer Instinct written by Marilyn Victor and published by Michael Allan Mallory. This book was released on 2010 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoologist "Snake" Jones and her wolf-biologist friend Gina discover four wolf carcasses in the woods near Wolf Lake, Gina swears vengeance against the shooter. When a cantankerous local man with outspoken anti-wolf sentiments is murdered, Gina falls under suspicion.

Download or read book The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace written by Jeff Hobbs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a young African-American man who escaped the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets when he returned home.

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Download or read book George written by Jarrod Tatom and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Took the right steps to have a comfortable life, unfortunately his path became a bumpy road, of many hardships that beat him down mentally. Eventually the demons became more than he could bare. He sadly sent his body and heart to heaven but left his soul and knowledge for a young boy’s conscience to make it through life without self-harm.

Download or read book Family Farm Ready or Not written by Lonna Herrell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I first started this book, I wanted to make sure I got across to everyone the importance of family; that a family should do all they can together and help each other out while they can. Our family, neighbors, friends and everyone are very important.

Download or read book Moments in Time A Model s Book written by Claudia Rhodes and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Right now I’m feeling much pain, so much so that if I don’t write this story I promised my kids would soon be done and always and never materialized, which has to be done, if only for my own sanity and to ultimately free us all up, I will feel lost. Now. What I didn’t expect to write is this other story. But that must be told to give a better understanding of why this whole mess happened anyway. My dupey heads might come up with better reasons, and then maybe someday they’ll write their books with fond memories and less pain. A bestseller will be yours, I’m sure. If not in the bookstores, it will be in your hearts. I started writing my book over thirty years ago and some. (Smile.)

Download or read book Revisionist Rape Revenge written by Claire Henry and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered a notorious subset of horror in the 1970s and 1980s, there has been a massive revitalization and diversification of rape-revenge in recent years. This book analyzes the politics, ethics, and affects at play in the filmic construction of rape and its responses.

Download or read book Stratton written by Duncan Falconer and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING DOMINIC COOPER - READ IT BEFORE YOU SEE IT! * THE ENEMY HAS A WEAPON. SO DO WE. Discover the hugely bestselling debut thriller by a former member of the elite Special Boat Services - the toughest men in the world - and his super-weapon hero: Stratton. When an undercover operation monitoring the Real IRA goes horrifically wrong, British Intelligence turn to the one man who can get their agent out: Stratton, SBS operative with a lethal reputation. It's a dangerous race against time: if the Real IRA get to the Republic before Stratton gets to the Real IRA, his colleague is as good as dead. But the battle in the Northern Ireland borders is just the beginning. For there can only be one way the Real IRA knew about the British agent: someone within MI5 is tipping them off. A surveillance mission is mounted in Paris to identify the mole but ends in disaster: Hank Munro, US Navy SEAL on secondment, is captured. Munro's wife Kathryn is distraught, and her priest Father Kinsella is very supportive. Kinsella, though, is not the holy man he seems, and Kathryn becomes an unwitting part of a deadly Real IRA plan, a terror attack the likes of which London has never seen . . . When Hank is inadvertently kidnapped by terrorists on an SBS 'safe op', Kathryn returns home to America, only to be manipulated by a priest and secret IRA godfather into playing a political role in the negotiations for Hank's release. Unknown to her she is to have a key part in the most destructive terrorist assault in Irish Republican history, one that holds the fate of hundreds of thousands of Londoners in its hands. Originally published as The Hostage.

Download or read book A Journey to Faith written by Jean Ellis Hudson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clem Brown, born developmentally slow in 1866, suffers many trials and tragedies in his young life--the loss of his father before he was born, the loss of his mother when he was eight, and the loss of both his grandparents as well as other personal difficulties. Some of the trial in his life would come as a result of the aftermath of the Civil War. the spiritual teaching of the adults in his life gives him a strong place to "hang his hat" as he grows. He overcomes most of his "slowness" as he ages and finds the love of his life when he is twenty-three. They build upon the farm he and his grandfather began until it becomes a large, diversified endeavor. He and his wife, Susannah, have three children--Thomas, Ruthie, and Little Jeff. Difficulties don't end there for Clem and Susannah. Discover how Clem and his family react to new trials. the teachings of his mother and grandparents, which hold him in stead through all the tough times, is faith in a loving God.

Download or read book Bloody Bones written by Laurell K. Hamilton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in trade paperback: the fifth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Laurell K. Hamilton. When Branson, Missouri, is hit with a death wave 'four unsolved murders' it doesn't take an expert to realize that all is not well. But luckily for the locals, Anita Blake is an expert in the kinds of preternatural goings-on that have everyone spooked. And she's got an 'in' with the creature that can make sense of the slayings-the sexy master vampire known as Jean-Claude.