Author : Jacques Roumain
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780435987459
This outstanding Haitian novel tells of Manuel's struggle to keep his little community from starvation during drought.
Author : Charles B. Dew
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393313598
A study of African-American workers empowered and partly liberated by their skills. At Buffalo Forge, an extensive ironmaking and farming enterprise in Virginia before the Civil War, a unique treasury of materials yields an "engrossing, often surprising record of everyday life on an estate in the antebellum South" (Kirkus Reviews).
Author : Dōgen
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0865471851
Author : Edwidge Danticat
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1936070650
Haiti has had a tragic history and continues to be on of the most destitute places on the planet, especially in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake. Here, however, editor Edwidge Danticat reveals that even while the subject matter remains dark, the calibre of Haitian writing is of the highest order. Features stories by Edwidge Danticat, Madison Smartt Bell, Gary Victor, Jessica Fievre, Marilene Phipps, Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel, Katie Ulysse, Yanick Lahens, Evelyne Trouillot, Kettly Mars, Rodney Saint-Eloi and many more.
Author : Lilas Desquiron
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780813917535
A novel on Haiti during the regime of Francois Duvalier. The protagonists are a group of women in the countryside who bear the brunt of reprisals against revolutionaries by the Tontons Macoutes.
Author : Hsüan Hua
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 29,6 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780881398625
Author : John Feinstein
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0374305978
From award-winning sportswriter John Feinstein, a YA novel about a teen golfer poised to blaze his way into Masters Tournament history—and he’ll face secrecy, sacrifice, and the decision of a lifetime to get there. Seventeen-year-old Frank Baker is a golfing sensation. He’s set to earn a full-ride scholarship to play at the university of his choice, but his single dad wants him to skip college and turn pro—golf has taken its toll on the family bank account, and his dad is eager to start cashing in on his son’s prowess. Frank knows he isn’t ready for life on the pro tour—regardless of the potential riches—so his swing coach enlists a professional golfer turned journalist to be Frank’s secret adviser. Pressure mounts when, after reaching the final of the U.S. Amateur tournament, Frank wins an automatic invite to the Masters. And when the prodigy, against all odds, starts tearing up the course at Augusta National, sponsors are lined up to throw money at him—and his father. But Frank’s entry in the Masters hinges on maintaining his standing as an amateur. Can he and his secret adviser—who has his own conflicts—keep Frank’s dad at bay long enough to bring home the legendary green jacket?
Author : Richard H. Shultz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231129831
By focusing on four specific hotbeds of instability-Somalia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, and Iraq-Richard H. Shultz Jr. and Andrea J. Dew carefully analyze tribal culture and clan associations, examine why "traditional" or "tribal" warriors fight, identify how these groups recruit, and where they find sanctuary, and dissect the reasoning behind their strategy. Their new introduction evaluates recent developments in Iraq and Afghanistan, the growing prevalence of Shultz and Dew's conception of irregular warfare, and the Obama Defense Department's approach to fighting insurgents, terrorists, and militias. War in the post-Cold War era cannot be waged through traditional Western methods of combat, especially when friendly states and outside organizations like al-Qaeda serve as powerful allies to the enemy. Bridging two centuries and several continents, Shultz and Dew recommend how conventional militaries can defeat these irregular yet highly effective organizations.
Author : Edward (of Norwich)
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Hunting
ISBN :
Author : Andrea Hairston
Publisher : Tordotcom
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250260558
“This is a prayer hymn, a battle cry, a love song, a legendary call and response bonfire talisman tale. This is medicine for a broken world." —Daniel José Older Named a Best of 2020 Pick for Kirkus Review's Best Books of 2020 Award-winning author Andrea Hairston weaves together African folktales and postcolonial literature into unforgettable fantasy in Master of Poisons The world is changing. Poison desert eats good farmland. Once-sweet water turns foul. The wind blows sand and sadness across the Empire. To get caught in a storm is death. To live and do nothing is death. There is magic in the world, but good conjure is hard to find. Djola, righthand man and spymaster of the lord of the Arkhysian Empire, is desperately trying to save his adopted homeland, even in exile. Awa, a young woman training to be a powerful griot, tests the limits of her knowledge and comes into her own in a world of sorcery, floating cities, kindly beasts, and uncertain men. Awash in the rhythms of folklore and storytelling and rich with Hairston's characteristic lush prose, Master of Poisons is epic fantasy that will bleed your mind with its turns of phrase and leave you aching for the world it burns into being. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
