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The Coves
By David Whish-Wilson. 2016
San Francisco, 1849: a place gripped by gold fever, swarming with desperate men come to seek their fortune. Among them…
are former convicts, Australians quick to seize control in a town without masters, a town for the taking. Into this world steps an Australian boy in search of his mother. Just twelve years old, and all alone in a time of opportunism, loyalty and violent betrayal, Samuel Bellamy must learn to become one of the Sydney Coves if he is to survive.The Boy Travellers in Australasia
By Thomas W. Knox. 1889
Here is humor, especially in many of the illustrations; nostalgia and escapism. The author was one of the most colorful…
and popular figures on the New York scene at the height of his career in the 1880's. This fine book is just one of his many legacies, and is an invaluable contribution toward a better understanding of our fine friends Down Under.The Justice Machine
By Dick Bauch. 2015
Chas Robertson is driven to steal to survive through a severe drought. His crime is witnessed by a police Aboriginal…
tracker and he is charged. Suddenly he is accused of attempting to murder the same witness. If Chas cannot convince the jury of his innocence he faces time in Darlinghurst Gaol. Or worse! Based on a true story, The Justice Machine examines the motivations of the players in the law game. The Magistrate, the Policeman, the Prosecutor, the Barrister and the Judge all have their own reasons for being there. Hardly any of them are to do with justice. The law and justice are different things it seems. The year is 1882 but this could be any time. Injustice is timeless.Flashman & the Angel of the Lord
By George Macdonald Fraser. 1994
George MacDonald Fraser's famous Flashman series appearing for the first time in B-format with an exciting new series style, ready…
to please his legions of old fans and attract armies of new ones. The Flashman Papers 1858--1859 Volume Ten. If only Flashman had got on with his dinner and ignored the handkerchief dropped by a flirtatious hussy in a Calcutta hotel. . . well, American history might have been different, a disastrous civil war might have been avoided, and Flash Harry himself would have been spared one of the most hair-raising adventures of his misspent life. If only. . . but alas, the arch-rotter of the Victorian age could never resist the lure of a pretty foot and this latest extract from The Flashman Papers soon finds him careering towards the little Virginian town of Harper's Ferry, where John Brown and his gang of rugged fanatics were to fire the first shot in the great war against slavery.Orthokostá: A Novel
By Stathis Kalyvas, Jane Assimakopoulos, Stavros Deligiorgis, Thanassis Valtinos. 2016
First published in 1994 to a storm of controversy, Thanassis Valtinos’s probing novel Orthokostá defied standard interpretations of the Greek…
Civil War. Through the documentary-style testimonies of multiple narrators, among them the previously unheard voices of right-wing collaborationists, Valtinos provides a powerful, nuanced interpretation of events during the later years of Nazi occupation and the early stages of the nation’s Civil War. His fictionalized chronicle gives participants, victims, and innocent bystanders equal opportunity to bear witness to such events as the burning of Valtinos’s home village, the detention and execution of combatants and civilians in the monastery of Orthokostá, and the revenge killings that ensued. As a transforming work of literature, this book redefined established methods of fiction; as a work of revisionist history, it changed the way Greece understands its own past. Now, through this masterful translation of Orthokostá, English-language readers have full access to the tremendous vitality of Valtinos’s work and to the divisive Civil War experiences that continue to echo in Greek politics and events today.The One Before
By Juan Saer, Roanne Kantor. 1976
The most important Argentinian writer since Borges --The IndependentThe One Before is a triptych of sorts consisting of…
a series of short pieces--called Arguments --and two longer stories-- Half-Erased and The One Before --all of which revolve around the ideas of exile and memory Many of the characters who populate Juan Jos Saer s other novels appear here including Tomatis ngel Leto and Washington Noriega who appear in La Grande Scars and The Sixty-Five Years of Washington all of which are available from Open LetterSand Daughter
By Sarah Bryant. 2009
?An epic filled with emotion and rich with atmosphere? ( Historical Novel Society) from the author of The Other Eden.…
Khalidah faces an arranged marriage at the behest of her father, a Bedouin Clan chief. But when a mysterious stranger named Sulayman reveals the machinations behind her pending union, she suddenly finds herself a pawn in a deadly plot involving her own feuding tribe and the powerful Templar Knights. Faced with certain death, Khalidah runs away with Sulayman, a man she barely knows. Their journey, and the desire that grows between them, will thrust Khalidah toward unimaginable adventure, and the echoes of a past that somehow connect her to the Jinn?the mysterious Afghan warriors who may hold the key to the coming battle for the Holy Land.Amazing People of London: Inspirational Stories
By Charles Margerison. 2010
As you walk around historic London, you are traveling in the footsteps of amazing people including Charles Dickens, Florence Nightingale,…
Charlie Chaplin, Emmeline Pankhurst and Winston Churchill. In their different ways, they made major contributions to London, which in turn helped make the city what it is today. A city tour unlike any other, Amazing People of London takes you on a fascinating journey through the history of one of the world's most celebrated cities. Through BioViews®, you can meet those who contributed to the music, the business, the politics and other vital and fascinating aspects of London. A BioView® is a short biographical story, similar to an interview. These unique stories provide an easy way of learning about amazing people who made major contributions and changed our world.Glamorous Illusions
By Lisa T. Bergren. 2012
When Cora Kensington learns she is the illegitimate daughter of a copper king, her life changes forever. Even as she…
explores Europe with her new family, she discovers that the most valuable journey is within. The first book in the Grand Tour series takes you from the farms of Montana through England and France on an adventure of forgiveness, spiritual awakening, and self-discovery.Walrus With A Gold Tooth: Crime in Anchorage, Alaska—the Pioneer Way—Unorganized!
By Steven Levi. 2014
In the two decades between the Second World War and the Great Alaska Earthquake, Anchorage grew by a factor of…
10. Money was, quite literally, washing down the street. The economic boom was so great that all you needed to make a million dollars was a cash register. At the same time Anchorage was one of the few cities in America where organized crime never got a firm foothold. Uptown, downtown, out of town, the locals were clever enough to keep the East Coast families out. Walrus With A Gold Tooth is a fictionalized version of crime in Anchorage over these two decades and a step-by-step history of how the local squeezed out the mob before it ever made it in. And if you know your Anchorage history, you just might be able to determine which characters are actual people whose names have been changed to protect the guilty.Transportado
By Combo Translations, Terry Rachelle Spring. 2017
'TRANSPORTADO - A HISTÓRIA DO PIONEIRO' Com base na vida real de George Smith, a história conta como ele se…
voltou para o crime, teve sua sentença de morte comutada à vida nas colônias e surgiu de começos humildes para se tornar um proprietário de terras australiano pioneiro e rico. Chegando na colônia como uma juventude ingênua, ele aprende a lidar com gado e prosperar no campo severo e solitário, lidar com os nativos aborígenes em seu primeiro contato com pessoas brancas. Concedido a sua liberdade de ajuda na captura de um assassino assassino, ele começa a sonhar a terra impensável. Quando um fogo varre o campo, ele salva a cabeça tribal local e é concedido em troca, a mão da filha do chefe. Por acaso, George encontra uma maneira de ganhar dinheiro e a oportunidade de realizar seus sonhos e suas próprias terras. Sua esposa nativa morre pouco depois de entregar seu quinto filho e George viaja por terra para Sydney procurando uma governanta. Atraído por uma mulher irlandesa, ele propõe e aceita, retornando com ele para o distrito externo. Gradualmente, as crianças a aceitam como sua mãe e a família agora rica, começam a reivindicar a respeitabilidade.Transportado
By Combo Translations, Terry Rachelle Spring. 2017
'TRANSPORTADO - A HISTÓRIA DO PIONEIRO' Com base na vida real de George Smith, a história conta como ele se…
voltou para o crime, teve sua sentença de morte comutada à vida nas colônias e surgiu de começos humildes para se tornar um proprietário de terras australiano pioneiro e rico. Chegando na colônia como uma juventude ingênua, ele aprende a lidar com gado e prosperar no campo severo e solitário, lidar com os nativos aborígenes em seu primeiro contato com pessoas brancas. Concedido a sua liberdade de ajuda na captura de um assassino assassino, ele começa a sonhar a terra impensável. Quando um fogo varre o campo, ele salva a cabeça tribal local e é concedido em troca, a mão da filha do chefe. Por acaso, George encontra uma maneira de ganhar dinheiro e a oportunidade de realizar seus sonhos e suas próprias terras. Sua esposa nativa morre pouco depois de entregar seu quinto filho e George viaja por terra para Sydney procurando uma governanta. Atraído por uma mulher irlandesa, ele propõe e aceita, retornando com ele para o distrito externo. Gradualmente, as crianças a aceitam como sua mãe e a família agora rica, começam a reivindicar a respeitabilidade.Honor Edgeworth
By Douglas Lochhead, Kate Madeleine Bottomley. 1973
In Honor Edgeworth the sole and sincere motive of the authoress has been to hold up to the mass the…
little picture of society, in one of its most marked phases, that she has sketched, as she watched its freaks and caprices from behind the scenes.Ottawa, in this work, is taken merely as a representative of all other fashionable cities, for the simple reason that it is better known to the writer than any other city of social repute. Her object in publishing the volume at all, if not clearly defined throughout the work, may be discovered here: it is primarily, to attract the attention of those who, if they wished, could exercise a beneficial influence over the sphere in which they live, to the moral depravities that at present are allowed so passively to float on the surface of the social tide. It would with the same word appeal to the minds and hearts of those women who are satisfied to remain slaves to the exactions of an unscrupulous society, at the sacrifice of their most womanly impulses, and their noblest energies; and would also remind some reckless sons of Ottawa, of how miserably they are contributing towards the future prosperity of their country, by adopting, as the only aim of their lives, the paltry ambition of an unworthy self-indulgence.The predominant feeling throughout the entire composition has been one of pure philanthropy, as the authoress desires to benefit her fellow-creatures, in as far as it lies in her very limited power.Guilty
By Douglas Lochhead, Lance Bilton. 1973
France, Story of a Childhood
By Lara Vergnaud, Zahia Rahmani. 2016
This moving tale of imprisonment and escape, persecution and loss, is narrated by the daughter of an alleged Harki, an…
Algerian soldier who fought for the French during the Algerian War for Independence. It was the fate of such men to be twice exiled, first in their homeland after the war, and later in France, where fleeing Harki families sought refuge but instead faced contempt, discrimination, and exclusion. Zahia Rahmani blends reality and imagination in her writing, offering a fictionalized version of her own family's struggle. Lara Vergnaud's beautiful translation from the French perfectly captures the voices and emotions of Rahmani's childhood in a foreign land. While the author delves deeply into the past, she also indicts present-day France and Algeria. From the unique perspective of the daughter of an accused Harki, she examines France's complex and controversial history with its former colony and offers new insight into the French civil riots of 2005. She makes a stirring plea for understanding between generations and cultures, and especially for an end to the destructive practice of condemning children for their fathers' actions and beliefs.Os Inimigos de Deus
By Ronyfer, Maria Fatima Gonçalves Naslaniec. 2015
Os inimigos de Deus por RonyFer Dispersados pelos quatro pontos cardeais daquele mundo saturado de divindades terrestres, aqueles poderosos e…
mesquinhos seres repartiam a riqueza que a providência lhes provia. E em sua voracidade sem limite se alimentavam do sangue de milhões. Gênero: Ficção histórica Gênero Secundário: História Idioma: Português Número de Palavras: 16537 Amostra do texto: A falsidade dos que se sentiram deuses, com seu poder maligno e destruidor e se apoderaram indevidamente dos bens do planeta inteiro, mergulhando a população no caos, no desespero e na fome, enquanto eles, os deuses pilhavam enormes fortunas, produto de sua desmesurada ambição. Com seus atos malignos transformaram-se então em «Os inimigos de Deus».#Berlin45 Les derniers jours du Troisième Reich racontés sous la forme d’un fil Twitter
By Philip Gibson, Vincente Morlet. 2015
« Et si les réseaux sociaux avaient existé lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale ? » Voici l'histoire captivante des…
vingt derniers jours du Troisième Reich d'Hitler racontés sous la forme d'un fil Twitter. Parmi les auteurs de tweets : Hitler, Churchill, Truman, Joukov, Eisenhower, Goebbels, Bormann, Weidling, Krebs, Keitel, Jodl, Patton, Bradley, Heinrici, Koniev, Tchouïkov, ou encore Eva Braun. Le roman s'ouvre sur l'annonce de la mort du président Franklin D. Roosevelt et les réactions qui s'ensuivent. L'histoire relate ensuite les réflexions et les décisions des principaux protagonistes lors de la prise de Vienne, la bataille des hauteurs de Seelow, la libération des camps de concentration, la bataille de Berlin, la mort d'Hitler et, enfin, la capitulation des forces du Troisième Reich.He was sleeping with his mother
By G G Vega, Corina Gîțu. 2015
This book is a brief history of my own experience as a child, at the age of five, in 1968,…
in a remote, hostile, difficult region between the borders of Brazil and Bolivia, in a small village, on the edge of the river Paraguay, on the territory of the Republic of Paraguay, in South America, where I was born, and spent most of my childhood. The purpose of this book is to help you understand that in spite of the distant, inaccessible, and all difficulties in my country, God has taken me, He cared for me, helped me, and has raised me as person, and I also attribute it to the love and dedication of my parents, their respect for family, love for their children, and a genuine, simple and humble, but sincere faith in God.#Berlino45: Gli Ultimi Giorni del Terzo Reich
By Philip Gibson, Alexander W. Powell. 2015
Cosa sarebbe successo se ci fossero stati i social network durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale? Questo non è un libro…
nel solito formato. È l'avvincente storia degli ultimi 20 giorni del Terzo Reich di Hitler raccontati sottoforma di feed di Twitter, come tweet giornalieri e affermazioni reali di Hitler, Churchill, Truman, Zhukov, Eisenhower, Goebbels, Eva Braun e molti altri. La storia comincia con l'annuncio e le reazioni alla morte del presidente Frankin D. Roosevelt e segue i pensieri e le azioni dei partecipanti principali attraverso la cattura di Vienna, la Battaglia della Alture di Seelow, la liberazione dei campi di concentramento, la Battaglia di Berlino, la morte di Hitler e la resa finale delle forze del Reich.The Education of a Poker Player
By James Mcmanus. 2015
"In writing about poker Jim McManus has managed to write about everything, and it's glorious."--David SedarisNew York Times-bestselling author James…
McManus offers up a collection of seven stories narrated by Vincent Killeen, an Irish Catholic altar boy, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Persuaded at age eight by his grandmother that entering the priesthood will guarantee salvation for every member of his family, Vince eagerly commits to attending a Jesuit seminary for high school. As the meaning of a vow of celibacy becomes clearer to him, however, and he is exposed to the irresistible temptations of poker and girls, life as a seminarian begins to seem less appealing. These autobiographical stories are enlightening and evocative, providing keen, often humorous insight into Catholicism, faith, celibacy and its opposite, as well as America's--and increasingly the world's--favorite card game.James McManus has been called "poker's Shakespeare." He is the New York Times-bestselling author of Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker and Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker, among others. He has been the poker columnist for the New York Times and currently writes the history column for CardPlayer. His work has also appeared in Harper's, The Believer, Paris Review, Esquire, and in Best American anthologies for poetry, sports writing, science and nature, and magazine writing. He has spoken about poker at Yale, Harvard, Google, Goldman Sachs, and on numerous media outlets, and is the recipient of the Peter Lisagor Award for Sports Journalism and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, among other awards. He teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.