Divided Heaven
Author : Christa Wolf
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Page : 298 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : Christa Wolf
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Page : 298 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1626721262
Timeless, beautiful, and haunting, spirals connect the four episodes of The Ghosts of Heaven, the mesmerizing new novel from Printz Award winner Marcus Sedgwick. They are there in prehistory, when a girl picks up a charred stick and makes the first written signs; there tens of centuries later, hiding in the treacherous waters of Golden Beck that take Anna, who people call a witch; there in the halls of a Long Island hospital at the beginning of the 20th century, where a mad poet watches the oceans and knows the horrors it hides; and there in the far future, as an astronaut faces his destiny on the first spaceship sent from earth to colonize another world. Each of the characters in these mysterious linked stories embarks on a journey of discovery and survival; carried forward through the spiral of time, none will return to the same place. This title has Common Core connections.
Author : Daniela Berghahn
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 34,64 MB
Release : 2005-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719061721
Daniela Berghahn demonstrates that East German cinema occupies an ambivalent position between German national cinema on the one hand and East European and Soviet cinema on the other. The book includes a wide-ranging exploration of post-unification cinemafrom East Germany.
Author : Attica Locke
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 39,69 MB
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316363316
In this "captivating" crime novel (People), Texas Ranger Darren Mathews is on the hunt for a missing child -- but it's the boy's family of white supremacists who are his real target. 9-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now he's alone in the darkness of vast Caddo Lake, in a boat whose motor just died. A sudden noise distracts him - and all goes dark. Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; after the events of his previous investigation, his marriage is in a precarious state of re-building, and his career and reputation lie in the hands of his mother, who's never exactly had his best interests at heart. Now she holds the key to his freedom, and she's not above a little maternal blackmail to press her advantage. An unlikely possibility of rescue arrives in the form of a case down Highway 59, in a small lakeside town where the local economy thrives on nostalgia for ante-bellum Texas - and some of the era's racial attitudes still thrive as well. Levi's disappearance has links to Darren's last case, and to a wealthy businesswoman, the boy's grandmother, who seems more concerned about the fate of her business than that of her grandson. Darren has to battle centuries-old suspicions and prejudices, as well as threats that have been reignited in the current political climate, as he races to find the boy, and to save himself. A Best Book of the Year New York TimesHouston ChronicleNPRWall Street JournalMilwaukee Journal-SentinelBook PageFinancial TimesKirkusSheReadsSunday TimesLitHubGuardianBook RiotSouth Florida Sun SentinelLonglisted for the Orwell Political Fiction Book Prize
Author : Kelly A. Ritter
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 18,39 MB
Release : 1997
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Author : Carl Van Vechten
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 18,76 MB
Release : 1926
Category : African Americans
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Author : Henry Harbaugh (D.D.)
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Page : 314 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Future life
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Author : Trent Reedy
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 054554369X
"DIVIDED WE FALL delivers cover-to-cover action, intrigue and suspense, all with a gut-punch of an ending that'll leave you begging for the next installment." -- Brad Thor, author of THE LAST PATRIOT Danny Wright never thought he'd be the man to bring down the United States of America. In fact, he enlisted in the Idaho National Guard because he wanted to serve his country the way his father did. When the Guard is called up on the governor's orders to police a protest in Boise, it seems like a routine crowd-control mission ... but then Danny's gun misfires, spooking the other soldiers and the already fractious crowd, and by the time the smoke clears, twelve people are dead. The president wants the soldiers arrested. The governor swears to protect them. And as tensions build on both sides, the conflict slowly escalates toward the unthinkable: a second American civil war.With political questions that are popular in American culture yet rare in YA fiction, and a provocative plot that asks what happens when the states are no longer united, Divided We FAll is Trent Reedy's very timely YA debut.
Author : George D. Chryssides
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 17,26 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1351931180
On March 26, 1997, the bodies of 39 men and women were found in an opulent mansion outside San Diego, all victims of a mass suicide. Messages left by the Heaven's Gate group indicate that they believed they were stepping out of their 'physical containers' in order to ascend to a UFO that was arriving in the wake of the Hale-Bopp comet. The Heaven's Gate suicides were part of a series of major incidents involving New Religions in the 1990s, as the new millennium approached. Despite the major attention that Heaven's Gate attracted at the time of the suicides, there have been relatively few scholarly studies. This anthology on Heaven's Gate includes a combination of articles previously published in academic journals, some new writings from experts in the field, and some original Heaven's Gate documents. All the material is expertly brought together under the editorship of George D. Chryssides.
Author : Nick Cutter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501104217
A trio of mismatched mercenaries is hired by a young woman to evaluate the safety of a boy who may have been taken against his will to a New Mexico backwoods settlement, where the mercenaries encounter paranoia, mistrust, and insanity in the shadow of a monolithic idol.