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Book Rumors of Peace

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  • Author : Ella Leffland
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2016-09-20
  • ISBN : 0062663461
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Rumors of Peace written by Ella Leffland and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To ten-year-old Suse Hansen, the fighting in Europe seems far away from the blue skies and quiet streets of her Bay Area home in Mendoza, California—despite newspaper war photographs and the tense radio broadcasts. But Pearl Harbor changes everything. Caught up in the fear and uncertainty of air raid drills, draft calls, and the mysterious departure of her Japanese and Italian neighbors, Suse becomes obsessed with the war. As Mendoza and the rest of America adjust to their new lives, Suse, too, will face challenges of her own as she begins to navigate the uncharted terrain of adolescence. Over the next four years she will confront the complexities of life—the demands of school, evolving friendships, brothers and sisters leaving home, the disturbing thrill of sexual awakening—while trying to understand who she is and what the future may hold for a world consumed by the horror of war. A rediscovered classic, Rumors of Peace is an extraordinary coming-of-age story chronicling the loss of American innocence through the voice of one remarkable young girl.

Book Rumors of Peace

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  • Author : Gary E. Parker
  • Publisher : Turtleback
  • Release : 2000-01
  • ISBN : 9780613556590
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Rumors of Peace written by Gary E. Parker and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2000-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reverend Russell Chadwick forms a controversial alliance to bring peace to Northern Ireland and places himself in the line of fire.

Book Rumors of Peace

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  • Author : Ella Leffland
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN : 9780445045873
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Rumors of Peace written by Ella Leffland and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Peace and Rumors of Peace

Download or read book Peace and Rumors of Peace written by Warren Abner Seavey and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rumours of Peace

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  • Author : Ella Leffland
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780586051801
  • Pages : 428 pages

Download or read book Rumours of Peace written by Ella Leffland and published by . This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Outlook

Download or read book The Outlook written by Lyman Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book I Lived on Butterfly Hill

Download or read book I Lived on Butterfly Hill written by Marjorie Agosín and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her beloved country, Chile, is taken over by a militaristic, sadistic government, Celeste is sent to America for her safety and her parents must go into hiding before they "disappear."

Book New Outlook

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1090 pages

Download or read book New Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Outlook and Independent

Download or read book Outlook and Independent written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Peace Corps Fantasies

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  • Author : Molly Geidel
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2015-09-15
  • ISBN : 1452945268
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Peace Corps Fantasies written by Molly Geidel and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To tens of thousands of volunteers in its first decade, the Peace Corps was “the toughest job you’ll ever love.” In the United States’ popular imagination to this day, it is a symbol of selfless altruism and the most successful program of John F. Kennedy’s presidency. But in her provocative new cultural history of the 1960s Peace Corps, Molly Geidel argues that the agency’s representative development ventures also legitimated the violent exercise of American power around the world and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. In the 1960s, the practice of development work, embodied by iconic Peace Corps volunteers, allowed U.S. policy makers to manage global inequality while assuaging their own gendered anxieties about postwar affluence. Geidel traces how modernization theorists used the Peace Corps to craft the archetype of the heroic development worker: a ruggedly masculine figure who would inspire individuals and communities to abandon traditional lifestyles and seek integration into the global capitalist system. Drawing on original archival and ethnographic research, Geidel analyzes how Peace Corps volunteers struggled to apply these ideals. The book focuses on the case of Bolivia, where indigenous nationalist movements dramatically expelled the Peace Corps in 1971. She also shows how Peace Corps development ideology shaped domestic and transnational social protest, including U.S. civil rights, black nationalist, and antiwar movements.

Book Outlook

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  • Author : Alfred Emanuel Smith
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1250 pages

Download or read book Outlook written by Alfred Emanuel Smith and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Manufacturers  News

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 836 pages

Download or read book Manufacturers News written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Peace Shall Destroy Many  text  large Print

Download or read book Peace Shall Destroy Many text large Print written by Rudy Wiebe and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflicts between the disciplined, non-violent dedication of the thriving Mennonite community and the threats and challenges from the war-torn world they left behind reveal a lurking violence beneath the peaceful surface of settlement life.

Book The Outlook

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2144 pages

Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 2144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Crisis of Peace

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  • Author : David Head
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2019-12-03
  • ISBN : 1643131788
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book A Crisis of Peace written by David Head and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of George Washington's first crisis of the fledgling republic. In the war’s waning days, the American Revolution neared collapsed when Washington’s senior officers were rumored to be on the edge of mutiny. After the British surrender at Yorktown, the American Revolution blazed on—and as peace was negotiated in Europe, grave problems surfaced at home. The government was broke and paid its debts with loans from France. Political rivalry among the states paralyzed Congress. The army’s officers, encamped near Newburgh, New York, and restless without an enemy to fight, brooded over a civilian population indifferent to their sacrifices. The result was the so-called Newburgh Conspiracy, a mysterious event in which Continental Army officers, disgruntled by a lack of pay and pensions, may have collaborated with nationalist-minded politicians such as Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and Robert Morris to pressure Congress and the states to approve new taxes and strengthen the central government. A Crisis of Peace tells the story of a pivotal episode of George Washington's leadership and reveals how the American Revolution really ended: with fiscal turmoil, out-of-control conspiracy thinking, and suspicions between soldiers and civilians so strong that peace almost failed to bring true independence.

Book The Peace That Almost Was

Download or read book The Peace That Almost Was written by Mark Tooley and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative history of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference, the bipartisan, last-ditch effort to prevent the Civil War, an effort that nearly averted the carnage that followed. In February 1861, most of AmericaÆs great statesmenùincluding a former president, dozens of current and former senators, Supreme Court justices, governors, and congressmenùcame together at the historic Willard Hotel in a desperate attempt to stave off Civil War. Seven southern states had already seceded, and the conferees battled against time to craft a compromise to protect slavery and thus preserve the union and prevent war. Participants included former President John Tyler, General William ShermanÆs Catholic step-father, General Winfield Scott, and LincolnÆs future Treasury Secretary, Salmon Chaseùand from a room upstairs at the hotel, Lincoln himself. Revelatory and definitive, The Peace That Almost Was demonstrates that slavery was the main issue of the conferenceùand thus of the war itselfùand that no matter the shared faith, family, and friendships of the participants, ultimately no compromise could be reached.

Book The Tammany Times

Download or read book The Tammany Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: