Download or read book Papa Was A Riot written by A. J. Ciulla and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-05-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghetto is a word with unflattering connotations. To us young who knew no other world but our Little Italy, it was a wonderland with Marde Gras everyday. It was Papa who made it so.
Download or read book Cabbages and Kings written by A. Ciulla and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Ciulla hadn't intended to spend most of his life as a freelance writer at age 18 after high school. He entered an art school to learn to paint like the davincis and bottcellis of Italy's golden age of art. This volume titled Cabbages and Kings is sort of a quick review of what Andrew Ciulla has been up to these years. His injection of eighteen poems to the eighteen short stories makes this a good book to have in everybody's library. Sort of two books in one.
Download or read book Future Warning written by Gerald Walther and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I tried to rise up but couldn't. I was tied to the table and couldn't move. Where on earth could this be? I started to squirm a little, trying to move. I was totally secured to the table. I was coming out of the anesthesia more and started looking around the room as best I could. The room was all white and real clean. My head was secured, and I could only move my eyes to see...Nothing made sense. Where am I? Did I die? Is this heaven? Or did I not make it to heaven? That disk in the south pasture—could that have anything to do with it? All I remember was looking at that glowing disk and then waking up here... I kept my eyes closed, not wanting them to know I was awake until I could figure this out in my mind. I heard a soft feminine voice say, 'David, are you awake?' The last thing West Texas rancher David McKenzie remembers is a flying saucer hovering over his pasture. He wakes up to find himself face-to-face with an alien. But when Clair, his captor, shows him his own photo album of his family, he's in for an even bigger shock. This strange-looking creature is his granddaughter, seven generations into the future! Clair quickly fills him in on the dire situation of the earth in her time. Criminals run free, food and oxygen are in limited supply, and the government is corrupt. Time is running out for his descendants, and they have chosen David for a seemingly impossible task: to save the human race. David returns home, ready for action. There's only one problem. Who's going to believe him? Heed this Future Warning, and you could save the world too!
Download or read book Godsent written by Richard Burton and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Skylar is an ordinary seventeen-year-old with an extraordinary destiny. A virgin, Kate suddenly finds herself pregnant with what she believes is the Son of God. But the Catholic Church is convinced Kate is carrying the Antichrist and, assisted by an artificial intelligence known as Grand Inquisitor, will stop at nothing to kill Ethan, her son. Ethan’s only protection is Conversatio, a secret organization dedicated to the Second Coming—which may have its own dark agenda. As Ethan grows up in anonymity, ignorant of his true identity and not knowing whom to trust, he must come to terms with his miraculous abilities and make a fateful choice that will determine the future of all mankind. And for Kate, an equally difficult struggle looms, as well as a mother’s devastating choice. Godsent is a wild religious thriller, a page-turner that keeps you guessing until the very last page. Burton, in his fiction debut, crafts a tightly-wound narrative with a heart-pounding plot and emotional resonance that will ring true to anyone with children of their own, all while the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.
Download or read book Deadly Cure written by Lawrence Goldstone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable new historical thriller by New York Times notable mystery author Lawrence Goldstone that evokes the New York City of 1899. In 1899, in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Noah Whitestone is called urgently to his wealthy neighbor’s house to treat a five-year-old boy with a shocking set of symptoms. When the child dies suddenly later that night, Noah is accused by the boy’s regular physician—the powerful and politically connected Dr. Arnold Frias—of prescribing a lethal dose of laudanum. To prove his innocence, Noah must investigate the murder—for it must be murder—and confront the man whom he is convinced is the real killer. His investigation leads him to a reporter for a muckraking magazine and a beautiful radical editor who are convinced that a secret, experimental drug from Germany has caused the death of at least five local children, and possibly many more. Noah is drawn into a dangerous world of drugs, criminals, and politics, which threatens not just his career but also his life. Goldstone weaves a savvy tale of intrigue and stunning twists that incorporates real-life historical figures and events while richly recreating the closing days of the nineteenth century—a time when American might was on the march in the Pacific, medicine was poised to leap into a new era, radical politics threatened the status quo, and the role of women in American society was undergoing profound change.
Download or read book American Rebirth written by Norma Jean Lutz and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girls are girls wherever they live—and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8–12-year-old girls: Elise the Actress: Climax of the Civil War (covering the year 1865), Janie’s Freedom: African-Americans in the Aftermath of the Civil War (1867), Rachel and the Riot: The Labor Movement Divides a Family (1889), and Emily Makes a Difference: A Time of Progress and Problems (1893). American Rebirth will transport you back to America’s recovery of the late nineteenth century, teaching important lessons of history and Christian faith. Featuring bonus educational materials such as vocabulary words, time lines, and brief biographies of key historical figures, American Rebirth is ideal for anytime reading and an excellent resource for home schooling.
Download or read book Sophie s Diary written by Dora Musielak and published by American Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophie Germain overcame gender stigmas and a lack of formal education to prove that for all prime exponents less than 100 Case I of Fermat's Last Theorem holds. Hidden behind a man's name, her brilliance as mathematician was first discovered by three of the greatest scholars of the eighteenth century, Lagrange, Gauss, and Legendre. In Sophie's Diary, Germain comes to life through a fictionalized journal that intertwines mathematics with historical descriptions of the brutal events that took place in Paris between 1789 and 1793. This format provides a plausible perspective of how a young Sophie could have learned mathematics on her own—both fascinated by numbers and eager to master tough subjects without a teacher's guidance. Her passion for mathematics is integrated into her personal life as an escape from societal outrage. Sophie's Diary is suitable for a variety of readers—both young and old, mathematicians and novices—who will be inspired and enlightened on a field of study made easy, as told through the intellectual and personal struggles of an exceptional young woman.
Download or read book Narrative Political Unconscious and Racial Violence in Wilmington North Carolina written by Leslie Hossfeld and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-02-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the counter-narratives of social actors that may be used as resources to promote and create social change, particularly racial change. A policy implication emanating from this research is to institute an educational component for the North Carolina public school curriculum that addresses the racial violence in Wilmington in 1898. A model syllabus is provided.
Download or read book Homeland written by Barbara Hambly and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who loved Cold Mountain or Geraldine Brooks’s March will embrace and long remember this spellbinding novel of two remarkable women torn apart by conflict, sustained by literature and art, united by friendship and hope. As brother turns against brother in the bloodbath of the Civil War, two young women sacrifice everything but their friendship. Susanna Ashford is the Southerner, living on a plantation surrounded by scarred and blood-soaked battlefields. Cora Poole is the Northerner, on an isolated Maine island, her beloved husband fighting for the Confederacy. Through the letters the two women exchange, they speak of the ordeal of a familiar world torn apart by tragedy. And yet their unique friendship will help mend the fabric of a ravaged nation. The two women write about books and art, about loss and longing, about their future and the future of their country. About love. About being a woman in nineteenth-century America. About the triumphant resilience of the human spirit. Their voices and their stories are delineated in indomitable prose by an award-winning writer who captures in intimate detail a singular moment in time. In Homeland, Barbara Hambly takes readers on a unique odyssey across a landscape treacherous with hardship and hatred. She paints a passionate masterpiece of a friendship that not only transforms our understanding of the most heart-wrenching era of American history but celebrates the power of women to change their world.
Download or read book Farewell to Manzanar written by BookCaps Study Guides Staff and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2011 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect companion to Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s " Farewell to Manzanar," this study guide contains a chapter by chapter analysis of the book, a summary of the plot, and a guide to major characters and themes. BookCap Study Guides do not contain text from the actual book, and are not meant to be purchased as alternatives to reading the book.
Download or read book Lydia the Patriot written by Susan Martins Miller and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time Period: 1770 Twelve-year-old Bostonian Lydia Lankford knows in her heart of hearts that the patriot cause is true and just-so why can't other members of her family see that, too? When the Boston Massacre occurs, this fictional colonist finds herself witnessing a spark that helps to ignite the American Revolution. Especially for girls ages eight to twelve, the fascinating story of Lydia Lankford shares the coming-of-age experiences of an impetuous girl on the verge of young womanhood, while teaching important lessons of Christian faith and American history. "Lydia the Patriot" makes a great recreational read, and is perfect for homeschooling.
Download or read book Family Reading Festival written by Frances Cavanah and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annette Vallon written by James Tipton and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A privileged young woman finds romance with the English poet William Wordsworth and adventure amid the French Revolution in this debut historical novel. Born into a world of wealth and pleasure, Annette Vallon enjoys the privileges of aristocracy, but a burning curiosity and headstrong independence set her apart from other women of her class. Spoiled by the novels of Rousseau, she refuses to be married unless it is for passion. Her stubborn devotion to her romantic principles bears the sweetest fruit when William Wordsworth, a young English poet, enters her life. She will be his mistress, his muse, his obsession. But theirs is a love that will test Annette in unexpected ways, bringing great joy and gravest peril in a dark time of chaos, upheaval, and death. Set amid the terror and excitement of the French Revolution, Annette Vallon is an enthralling and evocative tale that captures the courageous spirit of a remarkable woman who, for too long, has been relegated to the shadows of history.
Download or read book Farewell to Manzanar written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War internment.
Download or read book Sheldon Basic Reading Series written by William Denley Sheldon and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sex Politics and Putin written by Valerie Sperling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Vladimir Putin macho, or is he a "fag"? Sex, Politics, and Putin investigates how gender stereotypes and sexualization have been used as tools of political legitimation in contemporary Russia. Despite their enmity, regime allies and detractors alike have wielded traditional concepts of masculinity, femininity, and homophobia as a means of symbolic endorsement or disparagement of political leaders and policies. By repeatedly using machismo as a means of legitimation, Putin's regime (unlike that of Gorbachev or Yeltsin) opened the door to the concerted use of gendered rhetoric and imagery as a means to challenge regime authority. Sex, Politics, and Putin analyzes the political uses of gender norms and sexualization in Russia through three case studies: pro- and anti-regime groups' activism aimed at supporting or undermining the political leaders on their respective sides; activism regarding military conscription and patriotism; and feminist activism. Arguing that gender norms are most easily invoked as tools of authority-building when there exists widespread popular acceptance of misogyny and homophobia, Sperling also examines the ways in which sexism and homophobia are reflected in Russia's public sphere.
