Dream of Empire
Author : John Edward Weems
Publisher :
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Texas
ISBN :
Author : John Edward Weems
Publisher :
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Texas
ISBN :
Author : Giannina Braschi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780300057959
A collection of stream-of-consciousness jottings by a Puerto Rican woman on life in New York City. A portrait of the city by a writer with an acute sense of observation. The author teaches Spanish at a university.
Author : Rae Carson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0062691929
“Action, adventure, betrayal, and poison add up to a winner." —Booklist New York Times–bestselling author Rae Carson makes a triumphant return to the world of her award-winning Girl of Fire and Thorns trilogy in this extraordinary stand-alone novel. Fans of Leigh Bardugo, Kendare Blake, and Tomi Adeyemi won’t want to put this book down. Red Sparkle Stone is a foundling orphan with an odd name, a veiled past, and a mark of magic in her hair. But finally—after years and years of running, of fighting—she is about to be adopted into the royal family by Empress Elisa herself. She’ll have a home, a family. Sixteen-year-old Red can hardly believe her luck. Then, in a stunning political masterstroke, the empress’s greatest rival blocks the adoption, and everything Red has worked for crumbles before her eyes. But Red is not about to let herself or the empress become a target again. Determined to prove her worth and protect her chosen family, she joins the Royal Guard, the world’s most elite fighting force. It’s no coincidence that someone wanted her to fail as a princess, though. Someone whose shadowy agenda puts everything—and everyone—she loves at risk. As danger closes in, it will be up to Red to save the empire. If she can survive recruitment year—something no woman has ever done before. New York Times–bestselling author Rae Carson returns to the world of The Girl of Fire and Thorns in this action-packed fantasy-adventure starring an iconic heroine who fights for her family and her friends, and for a place where she will belong.
Author : Justin Richards
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,74 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Doctor Who (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 9780563405986
Landing on a barren asteroid, the Doctor and his friends discover the final pages of a drama that has torn apart an empire are being played out. Who is the man in the mask, and how are his chess games affecting life and death in his prison? What is the secret of the knights in armor that line the bleak walls of the settlement. And what is the nature of the alien ship approaching -- and what will it want when it arrives? Soon the TARDIS crew find themselves under siege with a deadly robotic race and human traitors to defeat -- and the future of an entire stellar empire hangs in the balance: if the Doctor cannot triumph it will become a force not for good, but for evil.
Author : Juliette Harrisson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 14,72 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1441176330
An investigation into dream reports in the history and literature of early Roman culture.
Author : William Henry Venable
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Having "bent the quiet of a loving eye" upon the river and its delightful valley, the Englishman turned his ruddy face toward the chief building on the island, a frame structure of odd appearance, painted in dazzling white save the window shutters, which were vivid green. The mansion consisted of a main edifice fifty feet square and two stories high, with a peculiar portico in front, projected not in straight lines, but forming a semicircle, embracing within the curvature of its outstretching arms a favored area of dooryard. The proprietor of the estate had chosen the site and designed the plan of his residence with the double purpose of indulging a fancy for architectural novelty and of providing protection against disaster by lightning and earthquake. Never did it occur to him that fire and flood were the elements he had most reason to fear: each of these ruinous agents was destined, in turn, to devastate the island.
Author : Caroline Finkel
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 43,16 MB
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 046500850X
The definitive history of the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too often colored by the memory of its bloody final throes on the battlefields of World War I. In this magisterial work-the first definitive account written for the general reader-renowned scholar and journalist Caroline Finkel lucidly recounts the epic story of the Ottoman Empire from its origins in the thirteenth century through its destruction in the twentieth.
Author : Grey Wolf
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 2023
Category :
ISBN : 9781915692047
Author : Walter Johnson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 48,97 MB
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0674074882
River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands. This bold reaccounting dramatically alters our understanding of American slavery and its role in U.S. expansionism, global capitalism, and the upcoming Civil War.
Author : Carl Crow
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 38,51 MB
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1473382505
Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911 and made the city his home for a quarter of a century, working there as a journalist, newspaper proprietor, and groundbreaking ad-man. He also did stints as a hostage negotiator, emergency police sergeant, gentleman farmer, go-between for the American government, and propagandist. 'Japan's Dream Of World Empire - The Tanaka Memorial' was first circulated in 1927 in Chinese, purporting to be a rough translation of a document presented to the Emperor of Japan on July 25, 1927, by Premier Tanaka, outlining the policy in Manchuria.