Download or read book The House of the Scorpion written by Nancy Farmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newberry Honour Award Winner & National Book Award Winner. Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children and other people. To most, Matt isn't considered a boy at all, but a beast, dirty and disgusting. But to El Patron, lord of a country called Opium, Matt is the guarantee of eternal life. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself - for Matt is himself. They share the exact same DNA. As Matt struggles to understand his existence and what that existence truly means, he is threatened by a host of sinister and manipulating characters, from El Patron's power-hungry family to the brain-deadened eejits and mindless slaves that toil Opium's poppy fields. Surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards, escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But even escape is no guarantee of freedom . . . because Matt is marked by his difference in ways that he doesn't even suspect. Praise for The House of Scorpions: 'It's a pleasure to read science fiction that's full of warm, strong characters... that doesn't rely on violence as the solution to complex problems of right and wrong. It's a pleasure to read.' Ursula K. LeGuin 'Fabulous' Diana Wynne Jones Also by Nancy Farmer: The Sea of Trolls Land of the Silver Apples The Islands of the Blessed The Lord of Opium
Download or read book The Treasure of El Patron written by Gary Paulsen and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tag pointed his flashlight into the hole and peered inside. It was impossible. The inside was hollow, like an underwater cave. Something shiny lay near the opening and reflected the beam from his light. He reached inside and pulled it out. A pewter spoon. If he could have made a sound, he would have screamed with joy. He tucked the spoon in his vest pocket and reached into the hole again. A sharp stab of pain shot through his left hand. Something had hold of the tip of his thumb and was trying to yank him into the hole! Tag Jones knows that somewhere in the azure water and coral reef surrounding Bermuda lies a sunken ship full of treasure. El Patron sank in 1614, and Tag’s father died in a diving accident while looking for it. Tag won’t give up until he finds El Patron—and he’s not scared off by the local legend that says the ship is cursed. But when two tourists ask Tag and his friend Cowboy to retrieve some mysterious underwater parcels for them, the boys find themselves in dangerous water, way over their heads!
Download or read book Cuentos Chicanos written by Rudolfo A. Anaya and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty-one short stories in English and Spanish that demonstrate the changes and developments that have occured in the Chicano literary tradition over the last twenty years.
Download or read book El Patron written by Raul Tacchuella and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History will always remember him as one of the most iconic characters in the field of organized crime. However, "The Boss" became more than a criminal. It influenced the culture of a whole country, marking a before and after. HATED BY SOME AND LOVED BY OTHERS, "The Boss" does not go unnoticed and in this story, I tell how his journey affected an entire generation. I invite you to immerse yourself in the pages of this book and discover a true story never told concerning this character from which answers are still emerging. Check out our Amazon Best Sellers Rank # 1 in Biographies of organized crime in the United States # 1 in Biographies and memories This book will allow you to understand why Pablo Escobar's name continues to echo through time.
Download or read book Lord of Opium written by Nancy Farmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt has always been nothing but a clone - an exact replica, grown from a strip of old El Patron's skin. Now, age fourteen, Matt suddenly finds himself thrust into the position of ruling over his own country, Opium, on the one-time border between the US and Mexico, stretching from the ruins of San Diego to the ruins of Matamoros. But while Opium thrives, the rest of the world has been devastated by ecological disaster… and hidden somewhere in Opium is the cure. And that isn't all that's hidden within the depths of Opium. Matt is haunted by the ubiquitous army of eejits, zombie-like workers harnessed to the old El Patron's sinister system of drug growing... people stripped of the very qualities which once made them human. Matt wants to use his newfound power to help stop the suffering, but he can't even find a way to smuggle his childhood love Maria across the border and into Opium. Instead, his every move hits a roadblock - both from the traitors that surround him and from a voice within himself. For who is Matt really but the clone of an evil, murderous dictator?
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Treaties and Other International Agreements written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bound for Gold written by William Martin and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Peter Fallon novel of the California gold rush"--Jacket.
Download or read book Dirt Street Justice written by Walter E. Brady and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Dr. Paul Allan Kelly traveled many times to southern Texas on vacations, developing such a passion for the region and its people that he eventually moved to Treasure, Texas, to practice medicine. With his floppy straw hat, crazy bib overalls, and love for his Harley motorcycle, Kelly was a bit unorthodox as a small town's only doctor. What he lacked in appearance, he made up for in character. He championed the rights of the people in the small, farming community, and he was obsessed with a desire to change the oppressive slum conditions and poverty of the Mexican American people living here. He stressed the need for greater politically representations in their communities and the importance of voting and participating in the political programs. But some people in powerful positions in this county believed Kelly was a troublemaker. After only three years in practice, Kelly was shot and killed under suspicious circumstances by Deputy Sheriff Billy Joe Smith. Though justice was never achieved in the court system, some of those responsible for Kelly's death paid the price.
Download or read book Barcelona 2004 Edges of Experience Memory and Emergence written by Lyn Cowan and published by Daimon. This book was released on with total page 1382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stimulating program featured clinical, artistic, historical and other interests and concerns of Jungian Psychology today, with wide-ranging presentations and events. From the Contents: Cultural Complexes in the Group and the Individual Psyche by Thomas Singer, Sam Kimbles Descent and Emergence Symbolized in Four Alchemical Paintings by Dyane Sherwood An Archetypal Approach to Drugs and AIDS: A Brazilian Perspective by Dartiu Xavier da Silveira Frida Kahlo by Mathy Hemsari Cassab Images from ARAS: Healing our Sense of Exile from Nature by Ami Ronnberg Trauma and Individuation by Ursula Wirtz Human Being Human: Subjectivity and the Individuation of Culture by Christopher Hauke Studies of Analytical Long-Term Therapy by Wolfram Keller, Rainer Dilg & Seth Isaiah Rubin Analysis in the Shadow of Terror by Henry Abramovitch Ethics in the IAAP – A New Resource by Luigi Zoja, Liliana Wahba & Hester Solomon Hope Abandoned and Recovered in the Psychoanalytic Situation by Donald Kalsched In the Footsteps of Eranos by P. Kugler, H. Kawai, D. Miller, G. Quispel & R. Hinshaw The Self, the Symbolic and Synchronicity by George Hogenson Memory and Emergence by John Dourley Bild, Metapher & Symbol: An der Grenze der kommunizierbaren Erfahrung by M. Krapp Broken Vessels – Living in two Worlds: Some Aspects of Working with Clients with a Physical Disability by Kathrin Asper & Elizabeth Martigny
Download or read book Guerrero written by William Bateman Jr. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book finds the brothers Alfredo and Francisco Guerrero finally going in their own directions toward the future. Alfredo is off to the university, and Francisco is being groomed for the job as foreman of the hacienda. Both brothers will marry the two sisters Carmela and Alberta. Alfredo getting the girl of his dreams and now the love of his life, Alberta. While Francisco will marry Carmela, the woman that he loves, but theirs will be a contentious marriage. She never loves him, treats him with contempt, and through sexual manipulation, dominates the marriage. Alfredo goes through the rudiments of school and finds that his teacher is a hard task master. While Francisco is schooled in the classroom of the hacienda in how to be the foreman that he will have to be by Pedro Carillo, the oldest vaquero on the hacienda. We left Francisco breaking horses along with the vaqueros in the West Meadows, where one of the vaqueros had been killed by a rogue horse and where Carmela was a witness to that death.
Download or read book Reclamaciones Presentadas Al Tribunal Anglo chileno 1894 1896 written by Anglo-Chilean tribunal of arbitration and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Session Laws written by New Mexico and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Don Jos the Last Patr n written by José Ortiz y Pino and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four hundred years ago, the pioneer men and women who first came to New Mexico were forced to make their life compatible with the earth and with their isolation. The beauty that surrounded them did not sustain them, but out of reverence for the land, there appeared the chosen ones--the "curanderos" who understood the medicinal uses of herbs; the "veijitos," the old men who made folklore, history and tradition and recounted it to the younger generations. And from this same tradition came the Patrón, a man who had the ability to channel ambition and determination, and to make the land and its people yield to the law of common interest. He was a protector, a watcher of signs; he was a code maker, a fashioner of a way of life that is sadly missing in today's world. He was called the Patrón by those whom he loved and who returned that love with work, faith and personal devotion. They called him the Patrón, but they might just as well have called him the Godfather. José Ortiz y Pino has portrayed New Mexico, its characters and traditions with a sagacious wit and poignant keenness that could only have emanated from one who grew up in its midst. And he has narrated for us the story of a man whose visions had no limits, a man whose dedication to his goal was matched only by his sense of justice and compassion for all men--Don José Ortiz, The Last Patrón.
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Download or read book The Coffee Cartel written by Paul H. Barrett and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Straits of Florida, about 20 miles from Cuba, two fishing buddies are shocked when two intruders board their 55’ Hatteras during the night. The intruders are ultimately shot and what follows is a suspenseful tale of a retired FBI Agent, Paul Pilot, and his discovery and involvement in a sinister plot involving modified cocaine, super addictive coffee and a group of ruthless villains. Cutting edge surveillance technology, several assaults on Coffee Cartel operations and torturous interrogations end in the termination of one of the most sinister operations ever conceived. Paul Pilot, while intensely involved, falls deeply in love with Sara Sonata (an ebony angel). Despite incredible odds, Pilot helps stop the Cartel’s threat and he is ultimately presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the White House.
Download or read book Poor Man s Medicine written by Dayton Lummis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: POOR MANS MEDICINE is the third volume of what can be called The Notational Trilogyacerbic views, interpretations and opinions about contemporary human existence, society, the environment, culture, and everything else. These pieces are sometimes wistful thoughts of things past, or often unease about the future that we are being dragged into. About previous books in this trilogy, readers have said they have been informed, amused andoftenoutraged! These reactions will continue, and, as before, the reader WILL NOT BE BORED!
