Download or read book The Purchase written by Linda Spalding and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of Canada's 2012 Governor General's Award for Fiction In this provocative and starkly beautiful historical novel, a Quaker family moves from Pennsylvania to the Virginia frontier, where slaves are the only available workers and where the family’s values and beliefs are sorely tested. In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, recently widowed and shunned by his fellow Quakers when he marries his young servant girl to help with his five small children, moves his shaken family down the Wilderness Road to the Virginia/Kentucky border. Although determined to hold on to his Quaker ways, and despite his most dearly held belief that slavery is a sin, Daniel becomes the owner of a young boy named Onesimus, setting in motion a twisted chain of events that will lead to tragedy and murder, forever changing his children’s lives and driving the book to an unexpected conclusion. A powerful novel of sacrifice and redemption set in a tiny community on the edge of the frontier, this spellbinding narrative unfolds around Daniel’s struggle to maintain his faith; his young wife, Ruth, who must find her own way; and Mary, the eldest child, who is bound to a runaway slave by a terrible secret. Darkly evocative, The Purchase is as hard-edged as the realities of pioneer life. Its memorable characters, drawn with compassion and depth, are compellingly human, with lives that bring light to matters of loyalty and conscience. This ebook edition includes a reading group guide.
Download or read book The Purchase of the Past written by Tom Stammers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a broad and vivid overview of the culture of collecting in France over the long nineteenth-century.
Download or read book Subcommittee No 1 Hearings on the Purchase by the Department of the Army of a Rotary Forge Machine written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 1 and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of United States Government Contracts for the Purchase of Tungsten in Thailand written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Providing for the Purchase and Sale of Farm Products written by United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Methods of Sampling Delivered Coal and Specifications for the Purchase of Coal for the Government written by George S. Pope and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes on the Purchase Manufacture and Inspection of United States Army Shoes and Shoe Lasts written by Anon and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of notes on the method of purchase, manufacture, and inspection of shoes and shoe lasts in the US army during World War I. This book was originally commissioned under the auspices of the quartermaster General of the United States Army for the benefit of officers and the quartermaster corps. This fascinating volume will appeal to those with an interest in historical shoe and boot production, and particularly its importance from a military standpoint. Contents include: “Historical Sketch”, “Scope of Subject”, “Knowledge of Needs of the Army”, “Tariff of Sizes”, “Knowledge of Material”, “Cost of Materials”, “Opportune Time for Purchasing”, “Cost of Manufacture”, “Overhead”, “Advantages to Purchasing Officer of Above Knowledge”, “Purchase of Lasts”, “Knowledge of Factory Conditions”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality addition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of shoemaking.
Download or read book How to Settle in Victoria Or Instructions on the Purchase and Occupation of the Land with Observations on Gardening and Farming Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Fundamental Approach to the Purchase of Stocks for the Average Investor B W written by Antonio Sferra and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Significant Savings to be Attained as a Result of the Purchase of a Leased Automatic Data Processing System in Use at Sandia Laboratory Atomic Energy Commission written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Annuity Company for the purchase of annuities secured on property in Great Britain Ireland etc A prospectus written by British Annuity Company and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Consumer Habits and Preferences in the Purchase and Consumption of Meat written by Kelsey Beeler Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Year without a Purchase written by Scott Dannemiller and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Year without a Purchase is the story of one family's quest to stop shopping and start connecting. Scott Dannemiller and his wife, Gabby, are former missionaries who served in Guatemala. Ten years removed from their vow of simple living, they found themselves on a never-ending treadmill of consumption where each purchase created a desire for more and never led to true satisfaction. The difference between needs and wants had grown very fuzzy, and making that distinction clear again would require drastic action: no nonessential purchases for a whole year. No clothes, no books, no new toys for the kids. If they couldn't eat it or use it up within a year (toilet paper and shampoo, for example), they wouldn't buy it. Filled with humorous wit, curious statistics, and poignant conclusions, the book examines modern America's spending habits and chronicles the highs and lows of dropping out of our consumer culture. As the family bypasses the checkout line to wrestle with the challenges of gift giving, child rearing, and keeping up with the Joneses, they discover important truths about human nature and the secret to finding true joy. The Year without a Purchase offers valuable food for thought for anyone who has ever wanted to reduce stress by shopping less and living more.
Download or read book The Purchase of Alaska written by Archibald Williamson Shiels and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected letters, Senator Sumner's speech, and press opinions supporting the Purchase Treaty of Alaska in 1867.
Download or read book The Purchase of Paradise written by Joel T. Rosenthal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1972, The Purchase of Paradise is an account of medieval philanthropy and looks at the late medieval aristocracy as a social, rather than political group. The book analyses their voluntary behaviour, their gift giving and the Church, and addresses the nature of charity in the Middle Ages, providing an insight into the noble families of the time. The book depicts charitable practices within the family, such as the buying of prayers for relatives, and the family traditions of support for favoured houses lasting through several generations. The book shows that the family was the most operative unit for most forms of benefaction and ecclesiastical contact, and that the hard necessities of baronial politics were often ignored when men turned their thoughts to philanthropy and prayers for their immortal souls. The book will of value to historians and sociologists alike, as well as those working in the field of anthropology.
Download or read book The Purchase of Order written by Gail Galloway Adams and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of short stories is peopled with characters who boldly face the sorrows and strains of everyday life, seeking relief in a smile and redemption in words of compassion and honor
Download or read book The Guard Instructions for the Purchase Etc of Pianofortes written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
