Download or read book Ruby s War written by Johanna Winard and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes the right choice is the hardest of all. In the autumn of 1942, fifteen-year-old Ruby is collected from her aunt's guesthouse by her grandfather and taken to live with him in a small Lancashire village. A few days after her arrival, American GIs take over a nearby army camp, but although the young black soldiers are ready to help with the war effort, they are mistrusted by their own army officers, and spend their time in the village. Before long tension rises between the troops and the locals, some of whom still have embedded racial prejudices. As the village becomes increasingly divided, Ruby and her friends must struggle with first love, dangerous friendships and the difficultly of doing what is right in a chaotic and unfair world.

Download or read book Ruby s War written by Skeeter Dodds and published by Linford. This book was released on 2006 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Linford Western Library' series features a range of novels by well-known and sometimes new authors. The common thread running through the series is the focus on cowboys and life during the days of the Wild West.

Download or read book Ruby in the Ruins written by Shirley Hughes and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative depiction of family life in postwar London by one of the world's best-loved author-illustrators.

Download or read book Ruby written by Bonnie Thompson Glaser and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruby: The World War II Years is the edited journals of Ruby Side Thompson, set in east London and coverings the years from England's entry into that war in 1938 until V-E Day in 1945. Ruby, the editor's paternal grandmother was an addicted reader and writer and kept her journal for sixty years. Her journals are compelling to read because Ruby wrote with a personal candor and such a broad scope that we truly come to know her life and her times, her passions and her longings, her terrors and her resentments. She records smoldering under the yoke of “a woman's place” and soaring to the music of Strauss. She writes of despair in her search for spiritual meaning when the world around her seems devoted to destruction. In this volume of her journals we live with her during the terrors of the Nazi bombing raids in her own neighborhood as well as the ubiquitous deprivations and struggles of any civilian in a war zone. Ruby also exposes her deep grief with her mother's death and both her love and her hate for her husband. Because Ruby is so open her journal remains fresh and surprisingly universal. It reads as though it was just written.

Download or read book Ruby s Story written by Ron Osborne and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drama / Characters: 3m, 6f June 1944. In England, Allied troops are massing for an invasion. On a small farm in Appalachia, a different kind of war is about to rage. Here, Walter and Grace share a home with four daughters: Rose, who struggles to understand why Stan - an immigrant coal miner and the love of her life - abruptly left to join the Polish Free Forces; Helga, who fears for her husband who's in the Army and - like Stan - assigned to a combat unit in England; Frieda, the family's advent

Download or read book The Ruby Dice written by Catherine Asaro and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roll the Dice of Empire! The Eubian Interstellar Concord. Dominating. Static. A pyramid of cosmic power built on the bones of slaves. Their opponents The freedom-loving, telepathic Skolian Imperialate. Now centuries of war come to head and a new galactic Dark Age looms as rival emperors -- related by blood, love, and an intrigue as deep as the space between stars _ take a desperate gamble to find a way through the carnage of battle to a new understanding. But first they'll have to keep their own heads off the chopping blocks of the enemy within. The latest and greatest entry in the star-spanning Skolian Saga! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). A New SF Legend Re-makes Worlds! "[T]houghtful, engaging characters and an intriguing vision of the future." ¾Publishers Weekly on Nebula-award-winning Catherine Asaro's "Skolian Saga."

Download or read book The Scarlet Ruby War written by Thomas J. Black and published by . This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking place immediately after Mahinders Grand Tournament, Prince Mahinder has been executed for treason at the hands of the newly appointed King Girish. Jaywanter has declared the land King Ashok gifted to him years ago a sovereign nation known as The Kingdom of Scarlet, and in retaliation for Girishs decision, he declares war on the soon to be Five Kingdoms of Ruby. It is soon to be five, because at the exact same time, another land by the name of The Kingdom of Pearl (formerly The Fifth Kingdom of Ruby) declares its independence, and jumps into the war as a third party. What ensues is a tangled mess of war, political turmoil, and an already crumbling empire crumbling even further. Meanwhile, in the newly formed Queendom of Jade, Xiaoling, a Jadeite turned royalty, builds alliances between the western lands, watches the war closely under the assumption the winner will want to take back what they lost, and does her best to repair the damage Mahinder caused as lord-regent. All the while finding that politics is a whole different kind of battle.

Download or read book Bring the War Home written by Kathleen Belew and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out—with military precision—an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of white supremacy, anticommunism, and apocalypse. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the first full history of the movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building. Returning to an America ripped apart by a war that, in their view, they were not allowed to win, a small but driven group of veterans, active-duty personnel, and civilian supporters concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. They unified people from a variety of militant groups, including Klansmen, neo-Nazis, skinheads, radical tax protestors, and white separatists. The white power movement operated with discipline and clarity, undertaking assassinations, mercenary soldiering, armed robbery, counterfeiting, and weapons trafficking. Its command structure gave women a prominent place in brokering intergroup alliances and giving birth to future recruits. Belew’s disturbing history reveals how war cannot be contained in time and space. In its wake, grievances intensify and violence becomes a logical course of action for some. Bring the War Home argues for awareness of the heightened potential for paramilitarism in a present defined by ongoing war.

Download or read book Ruby s Story written by India Millar and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War defined the three Beardsley sisters. War between the nations, and even more, war between themselves. Conflict shaped them. Defined what they were; what they were to become. Ruby ́s tale is the story of the darker side of family life; a story of conflict between sisters. A story where nothing is taboo. Nothing is forbidden. Of all the numerous Beardsley brood, Ruby was the first to arrive, popping into the world on the first day of the 20th Century. As soon as her Father showed her her picture in the local newspaper, Ruby knew that she was destined to be special. Had been born special. Not for her the daily grind of working in Dad ́s shop. She was going to be somebody. She had the looks and the brains to do it, and by hell or high water she was going to achieve what she wanted. No matter how she did it. When she cheated death by inches at work in the dangers of the Barnbow munitions factory during the Great War, she knew she had to move on. When she married her adoring husband, Roy, and moved to London to start her own fashion empire, Ruby thought she had finally arrived. But she was wrong. There was more, so much more in store for her than she could ever know. A passionate affaire with her sister ́s husband. A revenge relationship with her other sister ́s lover. The ambition of a lifetime won and lost; won by hard work and talent, only to be lost when war came into her life yet again. And yet it was also war that gave her the greatest opportunity in her life. Ruby ́s story is her story, but it is also the dramatic roller coaster tale of how she interacts with her two sisters, Coral and Pearl, through life and love and betrayal. The story of how, between them, the three sisters forge very different lives for themselves. Together and apart. But always, always winning. One way or another. The Sisters at War Trilogy is family life; the kind of family life that makes you grateful it is not your own story. Not your family.

Download or read book Ruby s Sword written by Jacqueline Veissid and published by Chronicle Books LLC. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruby is always racing after her big brothers. But no matter how hard she tries, she can never catch up. Then one day, she discovers some sticks in the grass. Not just any sticks—swords! And suddenly the world is her kingdom. Readers will cheer on Ruby's perseverance and creativity as they delight in the antics of the adorable animals that join her along the way. Anyone who has ever imagined themselves the star of their own swashbuckling adventure will find this sweet book irresistible.

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Download or read book In Love and War written by Liz Trenow and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: July, 1919. The First World War is over. The war-torn area of Flanders near Ypres is no longer home to trenches or troops, but groups of tourists. Controversial battlefield tourism now drives bus-loads of people to witness first-hand where loved ones fell and died. At the Hotel de la Paix in the small village of Poperinghe, three women have come to the battlefields to find a trace of men they have loved and lost. Ruby is just 21, a shy Englishwoman looking for the grave of her husband. Alice is only a little older but brimming with confidence; she has travelled all the way from America, convinced her brother is in fact still alive and still in France. Then there's Martha and her son Otto, who are not all they seem to be.

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Download or read book Ruby written by Cynthia Bond and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club 2.0 selection, the epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her. This beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction. Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby Bell, “the kind of pretty it hurt to look at,” has suffered beyond imagining, so as soon as she can, she flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York. Ruby quickly winds her way into the ripe center of the city—the darkened piano bars and hidden alleyways of the Village—all the while hoping for a glimpse of the red hair and green eyes of her mother. When a telegram from her cousin forces her to return home, thirty-year-old Ruby finds herself reliving the devastating violence of her girlhood. With the terrifying realization that she might not be strong enough to fight her way back out again, Ruby struggles to survive her memories of the town’s dark past. Meanwhile, Ephram must choose between loyalty to the sister who raised him and the chance for a life with the woman he has loved since he was a boy. Full of life, exquisitely written, and suffused with the pastoral beauty of the rural South, Ruby is a transcendent novel of passion and courage. This wondrous page-turner rushes through the red dust and gossip of Main Street, to the pit fire where men swill bootleg outside Bloom’s Juke, to Celia Jennings’s kitchen, where a cake is being made, yolk by yolk, that Ephram will use to try to begin again with Ruby. Utterly transfixing, with unforgettable characters, riveting suspense, and breathtaking, luminous prose, Ruby offers an unflinching portrait of man’s dark acts and the promise of the redemptive power of love. Ruby was a finalist for the PEN America Robert Bingham Debut Novel Award, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and an Indie Next Pick.

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Download or read book Cold Mountain written by Charles Frazier and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award–winning novel: “A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep.” —People Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His journey across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. Meanwhile, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.