Download or read book Orphan s Destiny written by Robert Buettner and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bold, second installment of Buettner's military science fiction series that began with Orphanage, 25-year-old General Jason Wander is returning home after long years in space, but to what? Earth is now impoverished following the alien war. The problem -- the first alien invasion was merely Plan A.

Download or read book Orphan of Destiny written by Michael Spradlin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Orphan of Destiny written by Michael Spradlin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tristan and his companions have finally reached England with the Holy Grail. But his job of protecting the Grail is not over yet. For when they return, they find that much has changed for the worse in their country. Tristan's abbey has been destroyed, and Sherwood Forest suffers under the terrible reign of the Sheriff of Nottingham. As Tristan and his friends journey through England to deliver their precious cargo to the Templars, they must band together to navigate obstacles and fight one final difficult battle - and in the process, Tristan will also learn the fate of his own life. A fate that many would kill to keep secret.

Download or read book Orphan of Destiny written by Michael P. Spradlin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having outwitted Sir Hugh in France, and taken back possession of the Grail, Tristan, Robard and Maryam arrive in Dover. Returning to the Abbey he grew up in, Tristan is devastated to find it burned to the ground. Only Brother Tuck remains alive, and he has been hiding and living in the woods, hoping for Tristan's return...

Download or read book Tayus Destiny written by S. Daughtry and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALL HE WANTED WAS A LITTLE ADVENTURE...BUT WHAT HE GOT WAS EPIC! Tayus is living a pretty boring life--his only escape is through the mythical stories of the Tenians. One fateful day Tayus' world is turned upside down. Tayus is confronted with who he really is, deciding who he can trust, and submitting to the power that he never knew he had.

Download or read book He Ping written by Lorilei Ching and published by Inspiring Voices. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because baby He Ping's parents are only allowed to have one child, when she is born, they place her in a basket and abandon her on a street in China, hoping that someone will adopt her. As He Ping embarks on a journey of hope, God begins to work His miracles. Across the ocean in a continent far away, the Holy Spirit stirs the heart of a family to pray about adoption. Meanwhile, a policeman takes He Ping to an orphanage, where a nice lady feeds her and cares for her. As Father God plans a future filled with hope and prosperity, He chooses the perfect family for her; she meets them in a grand hotel with shiny floors. But as two strangers hold out their arms and offer her a toy, He Ping feels scared-until she hears God whisper in her ear. Inspired by real-life experiences, He Ping shares the story of a Chinese orphan who discovers her fate and learns the truth about God's eternal promises as despair gives way to abounding love.

Download or read book Orphan s Triumph written by Robert Buettner and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Wander is ready to lead the final charge into battle. After forty years of fighting the Slugs, mankind's reunited planets control the vital crossroad that secures their uneasy union. The doomsday weapon that can end the war, and the mighty fleet that will carry it to the Slug homeworld, lie within humanity's grasp. Since the Slug Blitz orphaned Jason Wander, he has risen from infantry recruit to commander of Earth's garrisons on the emerging allied planets. But four decades of service have cost Jason not just his friends and family, but his innocence. When an enemy counter stroke threatens to reverse the war and destroy mankind, Jason must finally confront not only his lifelong alien enemy, but the reality of what a lifetime as a soldier has made him.

Download or read book Orphan texts written by Laura Peters and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the first studies of its kind, Orphan texts seeks to insert the orphan, and the problems its existence poses, in the larger critical areas of the family and childhood in Victorian culture. In doing so, Laura Peters considers certain canonical texts alongside lesser known works from popular culture in order to establish the context in which discourses of orphanhood operated. The study argues that the prevalence of the orphan figure can be explained by considering the family. The family and all it came to represent – legitimacy, race and national belonging – was in crisis. In order to reaffirm itself the family needed a scapegoat: it found one in the orphan figure. As one who embodied the loss of the family, the orphan figure came to represent a dangerous threat to the family; and the family reaffirmed itself through the expulsion of this threatening difference. Orphan texts will be of interest to final year undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and those interested in the areas of Victorian literature, Victorian studies, postcolonial studies, history and popular culture.

Download or read book Strategy Is Destiny written by Robert A. Burgelman and published by Free Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a pioneering company in the semiconductor industry not only survive but thrive in the face of the explosive change and upheavals that forced it to transform itself twice in the course of its thirty-year history? The answer lies in the quality of its strategy-making process, contends leading strategic management scholar Robert A. Burgelman in this extraordinary book based on an exhaustive twelve-year study he conducted inside Intel Corporation. At once a history of strategy-making at Intel as well as a strategy-making field manual that any high-technology manager will need to consult frequently, Strategy Is Destiny truly describes strategy-in-action as the way of life of senior executives in the corporation of the future.

Download or read book Cultural Orphans in America written by Diana Loercher Pazicky and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of orphanhood have pervaded American fiction since the colonial period. Common in British literature, the orphan figure in American texts serves a unique cultural purpose, representing marginalized racial, ethnic, and religious groups that have been scapegoated by the dominant culture. Among these groups are the Native Americans, the African Americans, immigrants, and Catholics. In keeping with their ideological function, images of orphanhood occur within the context of family metaphors in which children represent those who belong to the family, or the dominant culture, and orphans repr.

Download or read book Merry wives of Windsor Troilus and Cressida written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Character Is Destiny written by Alice Salomon and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2004-01-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAn autobiography by the famous Alice Salomon--the German Jane Addams /div

Download or read book In the Hands of the Divine written by Patrick Wameyo Otundo and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asena was startled to the present by Teresia's stinging words. The reservoir of vice that lay dormant in the cocoon of self-restraint was roused. He shot up from the straw bed and reached for his girlfriend. He slapped her once, then twice. Teresia snapped. Her head cowered at the burning hotness of Asena's slap. A concrete block in her chest added weight to her, already, the overburdened seat of emotion. She said, "You bastard. You'll pay for hitting me. You'll not get away with it..." She then ran out of the tiny, round, grass-thatched, mud house."Come back here Teresia," Asena said calling after her. He followed her to the door. His hand clutched the rickety straw shutter that was sewn together artfully with sisal strings in fashion so common in the village."I'll do that over my dead body!" Teresia swore. She swung her fully formed female figure and ran away from Asena's little hedged compound. She was resolved never to come back.Asena stood by the door holding his arms akimbo like someone struck by a non-existent bolt of lightening. He felt lost in a burning forest. The enormity of the impact of his action was something he could not deal with on his own. Why did he hit her? Why did he hurt the only person who cared the hoot for him in the whole wide world?The truth! She had told him the truth and nothing but the truth. It stung! It hurt! It was painful. Not because of a special whip inherent in it, but because it gave birth to stigma. And stigma bred the feeling of unworthiness. But then truth is not always just, is it?He turned back into the hut. He noticed the perforated, grass-thatched roof looking like the starry sky at night. This was the place he called home. It was dark inside the house but for the daylight that was let in through the perforations on the roof. Was this an indication of Asena's blurry future? He collapsed on the bed and shut his eyes in an attempt to tune off reality. It was futile to exist away from what was. Before him, he saw an endless abyss, the same darkness that had obscured his hope from as long ago as he could remember. There was no future for him. There had never been a future for him. With Teresia, he thought he had someone who believed in the day of his salvation (from drudgery and constant want) but now she was gone - all because of his thoughtless action of hitting her. He had nothing to look up to. His land - his inheritance, the stem from which sprouted his argument with Teresia - was gone long before he became a man. And to make it worse he could not find a decent lob for lack of education. To Asena life was unjust. He simply had no one to turn to.He reached under the bed and took the chang'aa bottle he had placed there earlier. After opening the bottle cap, he took a long gulp of the potent stuff. His charred tongue recoiled upon contact with the spirit in complete contrast with the excitement in the nerves that lined the walls of his mouth. He grinned and swallowed the staff. His hungry stomach resounded noisily. In an instant, his worries were removed and his problems forgotten. He found himself in a place of solace that he never accessed when sober. The bitter reality was erased and replaced with fantasy in which he permanently wanted to live.The bitter truth lingered whether he was aware of it or not. The truth was that he was a squatter on his own land. He was condemned to life in poverty following the death of his parents eight years before. He was destitute and at the mercies of Associates.

Download or read book Mongrels Bastards Orphans and Vagabonds written by Gregory Rodriguez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented account of the long-term cultural and political influences that Mexican-Americans will have on the collective character of our nation.In considering the largest immigrant group in American history, Gregory Rodriguez examines the complexities of its heritage and of the racial and cultural synthesis--mestizaje--that has defined the Mexican people since the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century. He persuasively argues that the rapidly expanding Mexican American integration into the mainstream is changing not only how Americans think about race but also how we envision our nation. Brilliantly reasoned, highly thought provoking, and as historically sound as it is anecdotally rich, Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds is a major contribution to the discussion of the cultural and political future of the United States.

Download or read book Japanese War Orphans written by Jiaxin Zhong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Japan's defeat in August 1945, some Japanese children were abandoned in China and raised by Chinese foster parents. They were unable to return to Japan even during the mass repatriation carried out by the Japanese government in the 1950s. Most of them returned to Japan in the 1980s. They are called Japanese war orphans. They are victims of the Sino-Japanese War and have been exploited and abandoned by the Japanese government. They are also "border people" who have lived in the interstices between two nations, China and Japan, and are migrants who have exploited the gap in economic development between Japan and China to seek individual happiness. Modern East Asia underwent drastic social change. These drastic social changes affected the lives of the Japanese war orphans and their families in a variety of ways. Over the years, Zhong has interviewed Japanese war orphans, their Chinese foster parents, and Japanese volunteers. The title is an interview-based sociological study of the issue of Japanese war orphans. The first half of the Japanese war orphans' lives were spent in China, and the latter half in Japan. It brings to the fore the dramatic personal histories of the Japanese war orphans surviving in the interstices between two nation-states. Through analyzing the issue of Japanese war orphans, the research on the subject makes the following three points: (1) the powerlessness of civilians caught up in modern warfare and the long-lasting effects of modern warfare on the life histories of individuals and their families; (2) the nature of the modern nation-state, which exploits and abandons its citizens as though they were expendable; and (3) immigration as a product of modernization gaps. Scholars pursuing studies in Japanese society and historians of the Sino-Japanese war would find this an ideal read.

Download or read book Orphans written by Jeremy Seabrook and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orphans have often been beneficiaries of charity and compassion--but society has also punished, abused and ill-treated them. Attitudes behind this maltreatment are rooted in ideas that those without parents are disruptive, malevolent, and in need of discipline. Drawing on historic documents, interviews and memoirs, Jeremy Seabrook charts history's changing and often loose definitions of "orphans," and explores their many "makers"--from natural or man-made catastrophes to the State, charity, and other social forces that have separated children, especially the poor, from their close kin. But this history is not only one of suffering: Orphans also reveals the uncounted millions taken in and loved by relatives, neighbors or strangers. Freed from constraints and driven by insecurity, many orphans--including Nelson Mandela, Marilyn Monroe and Steve Jobs--have led remarkable lives.