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For abstract see: Caribbean Abstracts, no. 4, 1992-1993 (1994); p. 35, no. 0126.
Author : Mbye B. Cham
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
For abstract see: Caribbean Abstracts, no. 4, 1992-1993 (1994); p. 35, no. 0126.
Author : Christina Baker Kline
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062356356
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPTIONED FOR TELEVISION BY BRUNA PAPANDREA, THE PRODUCER OF HBO'S BIG LITTLE LIES “A tour de force of original thought, imagination and promise … Kline takes full advantage of fiction — its freedom to create compelling characters who fully illuminate monumental events to make history accessible and forever etched in our minds." — Houston Chronicle The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant novel about three women whose lives are bound together in nineteenth-century Australia and the hardships they weather together as they fight for redemption and freedom in a new society. Seduced by her employer’s son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to “the land beyond the seas,” Van Diemen’s Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long voyage to this distant land. During the journey on a repurposed slave ship, the Medea, Evangeline strikes up a friendship with Hazel, a girl little older than her former pupils who was sentenced to seven years transport for stealing a silver spoon. Canny where Evangeline is guileless, Hazel—a skilled midwife and herbalist—is soon offering home remedies to both prisoners and sailors in return for a variety of favors. Though Australia has been home to Aboriginal people for more than 50,000 years, the British government in the 1840s considers its fledgling colony uninhabited and unsettled, and views the natives as an unpleasant nuisance. By the time the Medea arrives, many of them have been forcibly relocated, their land seized by white colonists. One of these relocated people is Mathinna, the orphaned daughter of the Chief of the Lowreenne tribe, who has been adopted by the new governor of Van Diemen’s Land. In this gorgeous novel, Christina Baker Kline brilliantly recreates the beginnings of a new society in a beautiful and challenging land, telling the story of Australia from a fresh perspective, through the experiences of Evangeline, Hazel, and Mathinna. While life in Australia is punishing and often brutally unfair, it is also, for some, an opportunity: for redemption, for a new way of life, for unimagined freedom. Told in exquisite detail and incisive prose, The Exiles is a story of grace born from hardship, the unbreakable bonds of female friendships, and the unfettering of legacy.
Author : Alec Nevala-Lee
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 12,93 MB
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101607599
In the lightning-paced sequel to The Icon Thief, Europe’s turbulent past and terrifying future are set to collide in the streets and prisons of London—and beyond. Rachel Wolfe, a gifted FBI agent assigned to a major investigation overseas, discovers that a notorious gun runner has been murdered at his home in London, his body set on fire. When a second victim is found under identical circumstances, the ensuing chase plunges Wolfe and her colleagues into a breathless race across Europe, a secret war between two ruthless intelligence factions, and a hunt for a remorseless killer with a deadly appointment in Helsinki. At the heart of the mystery lies one of the strangest unsolved incidents in the history of Russia—the unexplained death of nine mountaineers in the Dyatlov Pass five decades before. And at the center of it all stands a figure from Wolfe’s own past, the Russian thief and former assassin known in another life as the Scythian…
Author : Ronald Skeldon
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Chinese
ISBN : 9781563244322
A comprehensive study of the Hong Kong emigrants both within the context of their home society and within their new host communities. The contributers include geographers, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, a political scientist, an educationist, an urban planner, and a sinologist. The volume is divided into seven parts: setting the scene; the historical and geographical context; Canada; Australasia; US; a European and an Asian destination (the UK and Singapore); and conclusion ("Migration from Hong Kong: Current Trends and Future Agendas"). Paper edition (432-2), $27.50. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Joshua Reed Giddings
Publisher :
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 1863
Category : Seminole War, 1st, 1817-1818
ISBN :
Author : Kerby A. Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195051872
Explains the reasons for the large Irish emigration, and examines the problems they faced adjusting to new lives in the United States.
Author : Elisabeth de Waal
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250045789
"Originally published in Great Britain by Persephone Books"--Title page verso.
Author : Ingrid J. Parker
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,4 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781410404718
When the exiled Prince Okisada is poisoned, Sugawara Akitada is called up by the emperor's envoys to investigate.
Author : Michael J. Arlen
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374150966
Author : Mavis Gallant
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 2003-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590170601
Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine-grained evocation of the quandaries of people who must make their way in the world without any place to call their own. The irreducible complexity of the very idea of home is especially at issue in the stories Gallant has written about Montreal, where she was born, although she has lived in Paris for more than half a century. Varieties of Exile, Russell Banks's extensive new selection from Gallant's work, demonstrates anew the remarkable reach of this writer's singular art. Among its contents are three previously uncollected stories, as well as the celebrated semi-autobiographical sequence about Linnet Muir—stories that are wise, funny, and full of insight into the perils and promise of growing up and breaking loose.