Author : Mariano Gagnon
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN :
A Franciscan priest tells how he led Peruvian Indians in their battle for survival against Shining Path terrorists, drug traffickers, and government corruption. Among the numerous books written or co-written by the Hoffers are Midnight Express, Not Without My Daughter and The Senator. 24 b/w photos. Endpaper maps.
Author : Samara Delcourt
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 2017-01-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781515069584
Angry after his capture, Joshua leaves camp to get away from the source of his anger, only to be followed by a worried Shoshana who fears that the cold man who has taken the place of her longtime friend, is here to stay. Determined to help him, she ignores all his attempts to push her away, even if it means putting herself in Arek's line of sight and making her his next target. But with time comes forgiveness. Allowing love to flourish in these dark times and burn away at the anger and bitterness that had been apart of the camp's life for too long.
Author : Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1631521896
2017 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner in New Fiction 2017 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner in Women's Fiction 2018 IBPA Ben Franklin Finalist in Best New Voices: Fiction Becca Meister Fitzpatrick—wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community—is the dutiful steward of her family’s iconic summer tradition . . . until she discovers her recently deceased husband squandered their nest egg. As she struggles to accept that this is likely her last season in Long Harbor, Becca is inspired by her granddaughter’s boldness in the face of impending single-motherhood, and summons the courage to reveal a secret she was forced to bury long ago: the existence of a daughter she gave up fifty years ago. The question now is how her other daughter, Rachel—with whom Becca has always had a strained relationship—will react. Eden is the account of the days leading up to the Fourth of July weekend, as Becca prepares to disclose her secret and her son and brothers conspire to put the estate on the market, interwoven with the century-old history of Becca’s family—her parents’ beginnings and ascent into affluence, and her mother’s own secret struggles in the grand home her father named “Eden.”
Author : Jeff Eden
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 24,54 MB
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004384278
For generations, Central Asian Muslims have told legends of medieval rulers who waged war, died in battle, and achieved sainthood. Among the Uyghurs of East Turkistan (present-day Xinjiang, China), some of the most beloved legends tell of the warrior-saint Satuq Bughra Khan and his descendants, the rulers of the Qarakhanid dynasty. To this day, these tales are recited at the saints' shrines and retold on any occasion. Warrior Saints of the Silk Road introduces this rich literary tradition, presenting the first complete English translation of the Qarakhanid narrative cycle along with an accessible commentary. At once mesmerizing, moving, and disturbing, these legends are essential texts in Central Asia's religious heritage as well as fine, enduring works of mystical literature.
Author : Harvey Araton
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062097059
In the tradition of The Boys of Summer and The Bronx Is Burning, New York Times sports columnist Harvey Araton delivers a fascinating look at the 1970s New York Knicks—part autobiography, part sports history, part epic, set against the tumultuous era when Walt Frazier, Willis Reed, and Bill Bradley reigned supreme in the world of basketball. Perfect for readers of Jeff Pearlman’s The Bad Guys Won!, Peter Richmond’s Badasses, and Pat Williams’s Coach Wooden, Araton’s revealing story of the Knicks’ heyday is far more than a review of one of basketball’s greatest teams’ inspiring story—it is, at heart, a stirring recreation of a time and place when the NBA championships defined the national dream.
Author : Lloyd Tackitt
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 11,75 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781482683530
Four years after a massive solar storm knocked out the world's power grids Adrian Hunter is off on another adventure. He has heard that the US Navy may have docked some ships at Corpus Christi, so he saddles up and heads that way. Before he gets there he unintentionally rescures several girls, and has no idea how to get rid of them, so he does what comes naturally and trains them in hunting and combat proficiency - turning them into a tough and deadly fighting unit. But his troubles aren't over. He quickly finds himself leading a group of Texas volunteers against a much larger invading army from Mexico. Show more Show less --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Author : F. S. Csernetics
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 2015-06-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781514338803
Quest For Eden The Noble Guardian Warriors. In the hidden reality of the constant battle between forces of good and evil, a hero rises up against a very powerful dark force. Sandor, a peaceful but deadly martial artist learned the ways of Native American spirituality and shape shifting. While learning shape shifting, he learns to project his chi power which it's power becomes multiplied while he is in animal forms Combining these strengths was the only hope to defeat an evil force that could bring about the demise of humanity.
Author : Steven Pressfield
Publisher : Black Irish Entertainment LLC
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2011-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1936891018
WARS CHANGE, WARRIORS DON'T We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in. Do we fight by a code? If so, what is it? What is the Warrior Ethos? Where did it come from? What form does it take today? How do we (and how can we) use it and be true to it in our internal and external lives? The Warrior Ethos is intended not only for men and women in uniform, but artists, entrepreneurs and other warriors in other walks of life. The book examines the evolution of the warrior code of honor and "mental toughness." It goes back to the ancient Spartans and Athenians, to Caesar's Romans, Alexander's Macedonians and the Persians of Cyrus the Great (not excluding the Garden of Eden and the primitive hunting band). Sources include Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, Xenophon, Vegetius, Arrian and Curtius--and on down to Gen. George Patton, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, and Israeli Minister of Defense, Moshe Dayan.
Author : William Benemann
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 38,20 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080324469X
The American West of the nineteenth century was a world of freedom and adventure for men of every stripe—not least also those who admired and desired other men. Among these sojourners was William Drummond Stewart, a flamboyant Scottish nobleman who found in American culture of the 1830s and 1840s a cultural milieu of openness in which men could pursue same-sex relationships. This book traces Stewart’s travels from his arrival in America in 1832 to his return to Murthly Castle in Perthshire, Scotland, with his French Canadian–Cree Indian companion, Antoine Clement, one of the most skilled hunters in the Rockies. Benemann chronicles Stewart’s friendships with such notables as Kit Carson, William Sublette, Marcus Whitman, and Jim Bridger. He describes the wild Renaissance-costume party held by Stewart and Clement upon their return to America—a journey that ended in scandal. Through Stewart’s letters and novels, Benemann shows that Stewart was one of many men drawn to the sexual freedom offered by the West. His book provides a tantalizing new perspective on the Rocky Mountain fur trade and the role of homosexuality in shaping the American West.
Author : Melba Beals
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 34,77 MB
Release : 2007-07-24
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1416948821
Using the diary she kept as a teenager and through news accounts, Melba Pattillo Beals relives the harrowing year when she was selected as one of the first nine students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.
