Author : Bob Hyslop
Publisher : Cuthan Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 2014-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0957369468
1954 Kenya Jonas Forbes in the colonial police battles vs. Mau Mau.. Askari Stay-Alive Johnson witnesses a massacre but deserts rather than give evidence. Jonas has to bring him back but the tale isn’t over by a long way, especially when love and jealousy play their parts.
Author : Ruth Kluger
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,11 MB
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1558616179
A controversial bestseller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival: "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight" (Los Angeles Times). Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she had been deported, along with her mother, to Theresienstadt, the first in a series of concentration camps which would become the setting for her precarious childhood. Interwoven with blunt, unsparing observations of childhood and nuanced reflections of an adult who has spent a lifetime thinking about the Holocaust, Still Alive rejects all easy assumptions about history, both political and personal. Whether describing the abuse she met at her own mother's hand, the life-saving generosity of a woman SS aide in Auschwitz, the foibles and prejudices of Allied liberators, or the cold shoulder offered by her relatives when she and her mother arrived as refugees in New York, Kluger sees and names an unexpected reality which has little to do with conventional wisdom or morality tales. "Among the reasons that Still Alive is such an important book is its insistence that the full texture of women's existence in the Holocaust be acknowledged, not merely as victims. . . . [Kluger] insists that we look at the Holocaust as honestly as we can, which to her means being unsentimental about the oppressed as well as about their oppressors." —Washington Post Book World
Author : Ye XiaoDou
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 2020-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1636893392
The first time they met, Chu Fei Fei gave a thumbs up to an uncle. The second time they met, Chu Feifei was sleeping with an uncle. "The third time we met, Chu Feifei jumped over the wall and was caught by an uncle." Uncle, it's our first time anyway, so we're even now. "I'm busy running away from the wedding, so I'll be leaving first." "... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Chu Fei Fei casually waved her hand, preparing to leave. "My fiancee escaped, who am I going to marry?" Pfft, who's your fiancee? "Aunt, I will sue ..." Before Chu Feifei could finish her words, a certain uncle pulled her into his embrace and kissed her. "Little wild cat, you won't be able to escape."
Author : Jones SR A., Ernest
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 22,92 MB
Release : 2004-03
Category :
ISBN : 1414036930
The main characters in this story come from the Bible. I have taken a little known man, Omnesimus, and formed a uplifting, high moral story. He is only heard of in the new testament books of Philemon and Colossions. The Apostle Paul, who wrote Philemon sent this letter to Philemon to help him show mercy to this run-away slave. This is a story that the young will enjoy! It has excitement, drama and love but without language that would offend anyone. I have gleamed information from encyclopedias and from the Internet concerning the area in which this story takes place, gaining information about the climate, agriculture and terrain of the land, trying to make the story's setting accurate while still folding a fictitious story around the main character. I have also talked to a person who has lived in the area my story takes place, and gained information here too. The first few pages start with Omne's childhood in what is now Turkey. Then as a strong, husky youth he is taken by raiders. He is treated, harshly, as a slave and for several months lives in the filthy camps of those who stole him. Here he is befriended by another slave, a lad about his own age, who tells him about the God in Heaven. This boy tells Omne that the gods of silver and wood are worthless! After many months Omne is taken away from this camp and sold as a slave to a man who treats his slaves well. This man had been visited by one of the men who help Paul and he believed in Christ too! One day while Omne is working his team of oxen in a field near the river, he rescues his master's young son from drowning. This feat he did even though he had never learned to swim and this act nearly takes the life of this helpful slave. As a reward for the valiant act Omne is given Martha, a most lovely and sweet young lady, for his wife. With the passing of time children are born into this couple's home. Omne and his family are treated almost like children of the master's household. Omne is respected by his master and the other slaves whom he is now boss over. All goes well until Omne's eldest son dies and Omne can't accept his death. He grows very despondent, and blames God for his son's death. Feeling that all hope is gone he steals from his master and leaves his beloved wife and children. He tries to run away from God but in the process finds that God is ever with him even through 2 robberies and beati
Author : Once there is north
Publisher : Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Demi was seven years old when she entered the Macaulay family. Her mother died from disease and her father was shot dead. And the man who adopted her was the same one who put her father in prison.She has been sick for the past ten years. Raymond, however, loved her illness because it would make her unable to leave him.The night of adulthood, he gave himself to her as a gift.The little girl unbuttoned the man's shirt with trembling fingers.From the beginning, she was a bird in a cage of Raymond, not daring to think about freedom.On the day of his wedding, she stood on the stairs and told him every word clearly －－"Uncle Macaulay, I want to live a normal life now."But that man laughed back softly."Demi, you forgot to take your medicine again."It turned out that she was just a patient, and he had never been her doctor. This is Book 3 of Stand Still, Don't Run Away, My Little Wife（3 books）
Author : Qing Shuixiya
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 1496 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1648849768
She was the princess who had been used by the tribe to marry her, and had fallen to be the mouth of the masses in the gambling workshop.He was the crown prince of the previous dynasty, because the current emperor did not want to live up to the world's infamy and gave him a title of prime minister without real power;She had searched for a sister in her life and actually entered the palace to be the emperor's concubine ...Who was in the right and who was in the wrong, where should she go from here?
Author : Bob Hyslop
Publisher : Cuthan Books
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 2010-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0955871875
1961 UK. Mao Zedong orders Chinese Intelligence (CID) to penetrate the British Labour Party and CND to produce a split between Britain and its NATO allies. In China a Western spy reveals the plot but then goes on the run. MI5 recruits Jonas Forbes to investigate the threat. Jonas becomes involved one of beautiful Chinese twins – but is she an enemy agent? Triads and the Soviet Embassy play a part before the end is reached. A thriller meticulously exploiting its historical context
Author : Matt Haig
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1782115099
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth. 'I wrote this book because the oldest clichés remain the truest. Time heals. The bottom of the valley never provides the clearest view. The tunnel does have light at the end of it, even if we haven't been able to see it . . . Words, just sometimes, really can set you free.'
Author : Ning XiaoMeng
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 1314 pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 2019-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1647874092
At 8 o'clock sharp at night, Tao Yao nimbly jumped out of a normal private car parked on the road, and punctually appeared on the road that Su Shigang had to take when he got off work every day.According to elder brother Tao Ran's investigations, Su Shigang would appear here on time at this time every day, buy a pack of cigarettes from the same store by the roadside, and then head straight for the night arena.Su Shigang was an influential official in the Yan City.And Tao Yao's mission today, was to take his life!
Author : Pin Yathay
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801468655
On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh to open a new and appalling chapter in the story of the twentieth century. On that day, Pin Yathay was a qualified engineer in the Ministry of Public Works. Successful and highly educated, he had been critical of the corrupt Lon Nol regime and hoped that the Khmer Rouge would be the patriotic saviors of Cambodia.In Stay Alive, My Son, Pin Yathay provides an unforgettable testament of the horror that ensued and a gripping account of personal courage, sacrifice and survival. Documenting the 27 months from the arrival of the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh to his escape into Thailand, Pin Yathay is a powerful and haunting memoir of Cambodia's killing fields.With seventeen members of his family, Pin Yathay were evacuated by the Khmer Rouge from Phnom Penh, taking with them whatever they might need for the three days before they would be allowed to return to their home. Instead, they were moved on from camp to camp, their possessions confiscated or abandoned. As days became weeks and weeks became months, they became the "New People," displaced urban dwellers compelled to live and work as peasants, their days were filled with forced manual labor and their survival dependent on ever more meager communal rations. The body count mounted, first as malnutrition bred rampant disease and then as the Khmer Rouge singled out the dissidents for sudden death in the darkness.Eventually, Pin Yathay's family was reduced to just himself, his wife, and their one remaining son, Nawath. Wracked with pain and disease, robbed of all they had owned, living on the very edge of dying, they faced a future of escalating horror. With Nawath too ill to travel, Pin Yathay and his wife, Any, had to make the heart-breaking decision whether to leave him to the care of a Cambodian hospital in order to make a desperate break for freedom. "Stay alive, my son," he tells Nawath before embarking on a nightmarish escape to the Thai border.First published in 1987, the Cornell edition of Stay Alive, My Son includes an updated preface and epilogue by Pin Yathay and a new foreword by David Chandler, a world-renowned historian of Cambodia, who attests to the continuing value and urgency of Pin Yathay's message.
