Download or read book A Hologram for the King written by Dave Eggers and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Award Finalist, a New York Times bestseller and one of the most highly-acclaimed books of the year, A Hologram for the King is a sprawling novel about the decline of American industry from one of the most important, socially-aware novelists of our time. In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment--and a moving story of how we got here.
Download or read book Dig written by A.S. King and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Michael L. Printz Medal ★“King’s narrative concerns are racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, and the ingrained systems that perpetuate them. . . . [Dig] will speak profoundly to a generation of young people who are waking up to the societal sins of the past and working toward a more equitable future.”—Horn Book, starred review “I’ve never understood white people who can’t admit they’re white. I mean, white isn’t just a color. And maybe that’s the problem for them. White is a passport. It’s a ticket.” Five estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their family’s tangled secrets. Their grandparents, former potato farmers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings, managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now they sit atop a million-dollar bank account—wealth they’ve refused to pass on to their adult children or their five teenage grandchildren. “Because we want them to thrive,” Marla always says. But for the Hemmings cousins, “thriving” feels a lot like slowly dying of a poison they started taking the moment they were born. As the rot beneath the surface of the Hemmings’ white suburban respectability destroys the family from within, the cousins find their ways back to one another, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name. With her inimitable surrealism, award winner A.S. King exposes how a toxic culture of polite white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can dig its way out.
Download or read book Meeting the Waylo written by Tiffany Shellam and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the experiences of Indigenous Australians who participated in Australian exploration enterprises in the early nineteenth century. These Indigenous travellers, often referred to as ‘guide’s’, ‘native aides’, or ‘intermediaries’ have already been cast in a variety of ways by historians: earlier historiographies represented them as passive side-players in European heroic efforts of Discovery, while scholarship in the 1980s, led by Henry Reynolds, re-cast these individuals as ‘black pioneers’. Historians now acknowledge that Aborigines ‘provided information about the customs and languages of contiguous tribes, and acted as diplomats and couriers arranging in advance for the safe passage of European parties’. More recently, Indigenous scholars Keith Vincent Smith and Lynnette Russell describe such Aboriginal travellers as being entrepreneurial ‘agents of their own destiny’. While historiography has made up some ground in this area Aboriginal motivations in exploring parties, while difficult to discern, are often obscured or ignored under the title ‘guide’ or ‘intermediary’. Despite the different ways in which they have been cast, the mobility of these travellers, their motivations for travel and experience of it have not been thoroughly analysed. Some recent studies have begun to open up this narrative, revealing instead the ways in which colonisation enabled and encouraged entrepreneurial mobility, bringing about ‘new patterns of mobility for colonised peoples’.
Download or read book The King s Return written by Andrew Swanston and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The king’s coronation brings hope. Until a murderer strikes. Spring 1661: After years of civil war followed by Oliver Cromwell's joyless rule as Lord Protector, England awaits the coronation of King Charles II. The mood in London is one of relief and hope for a better future. But when two respectable gentlemen are found in a foul lane with their throats cut, it becomes apparent that England’s enemies are using the newly re-established post office for their own ends. There are traitors at work and plans to overthrow the king. Another war is possible. Thomas Hill, in London visiting friends, is approached by the king’s security advisor and asked to take charge of deciphering coded letters intercepted by the post office. As the body count rises and the killer starts preying on women, the action draws closer to Thomas – and his loved ones. He finds himself dragged into the hunt for the traitors and the murderer, but will he find them before it’s too late?
Download or read book The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book All the King s Orphans written by Lynette Carpenter and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I was asked to edit All the King's Orphans, I was honored, as I always am to do this work. Little did I know so much of the book would apply to me! Along the way, I started reading for what I could glean from the expansive knowledge contained in these pages. It explained so much about myself and why I do some of the things I do. This is one of those books whose pages will be underlined, highlighted, dog-eared, and coffee stained. If you do not find yourself in these pages, then you will learn how to love others who operate from an orphan frame of mind. So thankful for this book and Lynette's courage to write it. Sheila Harper, author of Survivor: A Journey Through Abortion and Back; founder and president of SaveOne *** Why am I different? Where do I belong? How did I get in this situation? What is my purpose? Who am I? These are the questions that plague many followers of Jesus. Though adopted into His kingdom, millions still carry the spirit of an orphanunwilling or unable to see themselves as true sons and daughters of the King of Kings. The orphan spirit manifests itself in various ways, but our Abba invites us to live free of care in the security of knowing who we are in Him.
Download or read book Decisions of the Court of King s Bench Upon the Laws Relating to the Poor written by Great Britain. Court of King's Bench and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors written by Thomas Bayly Howell and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports and Papers Read at the Meetings of the Architectural Societies of the Archdeaconry of Northhampton the Counties of York and Lincoln etc written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Trials for Treason and Sedition 1792 1794 Part I Vol 2 written by John Barrell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period 1792–94 witnessed the emergence of the first genuinely popular radical movement in Britain. This collection contains the key trials of London radicalism from 1792–94. It includes a general introduction, but each of the trials is introduced in its own right and supported by endnotes and further reading.
Download or read book Journals of the House of Commons written by Great Britain House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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