Download or read book A Family Cursed written by Elaine Crowley and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When ruthless Michael McCarthy evicts the Cronins, tenants in the estate that is to become his son's, old Mag Cronin calls down the power of darkness on Michael and his descendants. At first the curse is laughed off, but in the next generation the McCarthys suffer a terrible toll of lives lost and blighted. Only handsome, young Michael, his father's pride and joy, seems to lead a charmed life, prospering as a barrister in Dublin with his wife and daughters. But slowly the workings of the curse are felt in a further generation. Molly, his first and favourite daughter, follows her foolishly trusting heart and marries a brutal soldier. Beautiful and gifted Francoise turns to a harsh, unrewarding career. Nell, born to be a wife and mother, loses her chance of happiness in the cruellest way possible. When a fourth child, Rory, is born unexpectedly, it is his fate to either carry the curse into another generation - or to break it.

Download or read book Flying Tigers Aim High and Think Big written by Al Lopez and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Author AL Lopez was born in Antonito, Colorado and learned to fly during his last year in high school while being absent from school. Principal, George Schilthuis, summoned AL to his office to expel him. Upon learning what AL was doing during his absence Mr. Schilthuis, chose to give AL permission to miss school three afternoons a week to work at the airport and fly. Al was a pilot for the Flying Tigers for 35 years. Since retirement AL has been a Real Estate Broker, Toastmaster, Auctioneer, Youth Motivational Speaker, and is an author. AL resides in Leesburg, Florida

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Download or read book Offers and Offer Refusals written by Eric A. Anchimbe and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a pragmatic dimension to World Englishes research. It is particularly timely because pragmatics has generally been understudied in past research on World Englishes, especially postcolonial Englishes. Apart from drawing attention to the paucity of research, the book also contributes to theory formation on the emerging theoretical framework, postcolonial pragmatics, which is then applied to data from two World (postcolonial) Englishes, Ghanaian and Cameroon Englishes. The copious examples used clearly illustrate how postcolonial societies realise various pragmatic phenomena, in this case offers and offer refusals, and how these could be fruitfully explained using an analytical framework designed on the complex internal set ups of these societies. For research on social interaction in these societies to be representative, it has to take into account the complex history of their evolution, contact with other systems during colonialism, and the heritages thereof. This book does just that.

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Download or read book Arkansas Slave Narratives written by Federal Writers Project and published by Native American Book Publishers. This book was released on 1938-01-01 with total page 2056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1936 to 1938, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) commissioned writers to collect the life histories of former slaves. This work was compiled under the Franklin Roosevelt administration during the New Deal and economic relief and recovery program. Each entry represents an oral history of a former slave or a descendant of a former slave and his or her personal account of life during slavery and emancipation. These interviews were published as type written records that were difficult to read. This new edition has been enlarged and enhanced for greater legibility. No library collection in Arkansas would be complete without a copy of Arkansas Slave Narratives.

Download or read book Tuff Enuff written by Janice Wangard and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real-life stories of one family told to educate, inspire, and bring laughter to all those who choose to turn the pages. Be transported back to a long-gone era reliving stories of love and hardship inspired by one family who lived during the "Greatest Generation." This generation proved that the "Land of Opportunity" works for those who are Tuff Enuff. Taking personal responsibility for their lives, each put in the hard work needed to overcome obstacles, and strength during tragedy, and come out stronger. God bless those who actually lived these stories and all those who choose to read them.

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Download or read book The Names of the Things That Were There written by Antonio Skármeta and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the best short stories by the author of the unforgettable novel The Postman. Each of the stories in this book is an extraordinary piece of literature. Love, youth, desire, and freedom, coupled with versatile prose, sensitivity, and a subtle irony that sometimes morphs into dark humor, confirm Antonio Skármeta’s position as one of the greatest storytellers in contemporary literature. Juan Villoro has selected and written a prologue for this collection, originally published in five books that influenced an entire generation of writers and brought about a renewal of Latin American prose.

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Download or read book Brazilian African Diaspora in Ghana written by Kwame Essien and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazilian-African Diaspora in Ghana is a fresh approach, challenging both pre-existing and established notions of the African Diaspora by engaging new regions, conceptualizations, and articulations that move the field forward. This book examines the untold story of freed slaves from Brazil who thrived socially, culturally, and economically despite the challenges they encountered after they settled in Ghana. Kwame Essien goes beyond the one-dimensional approach that only focuses on British abolitionists’ funding of freed slaves’ resettlements in Africa. The new interpretation of reverse migrations examines the paradox of freedom in discussing how emancipated Brazilian-Africans came under threat from British colonial officials who introduced stringent land ordinances that deprived the freed Brazilian- Africans from owning land, particularly “Brazilian land.” Essien considers anew contention between the returnees and other entities that were simultaneously vying for control over social, political, commercial, and religious spaces in Accra and tackles the fluidity of memory and how it continues to shape Ghana’s history. The ongoing search for lost connections with the support of the Brazilian government—inspiring multiple generations of Tabom (offspring of the returnees) to travel across the Atlantic and back, especially in the last decade—illustrates the unending nature of the transatlantic diaspora journey and its impacts.

Download or read book Confessions of an Old Man written by James Harrison Cohen J.D. Ph.D. and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My book covers my life and times and is replete with confidences and revelations both political and personal.

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