Memoirs of a Cavalier - A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. - From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Daniel Defoe is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Daniel Defoe then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. Views: 800
There's strange things afoot on Mars. Mike must dig deep if he's going to find out what's going on, make it out alive, and locate the mysterious Rose.There's strange things afoot on Mars.In this incredibly skewed and slightly humourous tale, Mike must dig deep if he's going to find out what's going on at Mars Incorporated, make it out alive, and above all else locate the mysterious Rose.And... what's the deal with the Black Cat, and why is it so important that Mike follows it? To make matters worse, he doesn't even like cats! Views: 798
Sandra Hedley was getting sick of her horrible life in New York...until a mysterious dark-skinned man showed up with his giant black Rottweiler. Phooka is the fourth story in the Bestiary TalesOne day while rummaging around in the church attic, Pastor Butch Gregory discovers evidence that something in his beloved church's past has been covered up. Unable to get it out of his mind, he begins to try and find out what happened almost forty years ago, and what he discovers opens up the floodgates of healing. The Land Begins to Heal is a reminder that there is a spiritual dynamic to addressing the injustices of the past. Views: 797
This is a military-science fiction novel with some fantasy elements that deals with the real-life horrors of war set in an urban environment.In the not-so-distant future, the United States of America finds itself on the brink of a second civil war, and an unlikely team of scientists and engineers finds itself in charge of creating Washington's next super weapons, robot soldiers designed to help restore law and order to the reeling nation. However, they all soon realize that they are up against powers beyond their control. Views: 795
Archangel is the action-packed sequel to The Civil Engineers.Aztlan is about four teenagers immersed in a fight for their lives after they stumble upon and disrupt a massive nerve gas attack on Los Angeles. A boy born in the slums of the Gaza Strip is brought to the United States as a sleeper at age twelve after his family was killed by US supplied rockets. He is recruited by a secret organization dedicated to overthrowing the United States Government with their Aztlan Project. They supply him with an extremely lethal nerve agent from the old Soviet Union, pilots willing to be martyrs and four stolen cropdusting planes. As the planes are departing from the desert outside Los Angeles, they are discovered by several teenagers who take some of the terrorist's antidote to the nerve gas, steal a laptop containing vital information regarding the terrorists attack plan, contact Homeland Security and flee across the desert pursued by the terrorists, the secret organization and Special Forces sent to rescue them. Many surprising twists and turns occur during the nonstop action as they are forced to get along and depend on each other as they fight for their lives as Los Angeles is ravaged by the attack. After being rescued they are thrust back into the middle of the fight with the terrorists as they are the only people immune to the nerve gas as Southern California continues to be devastated by the terrorists. Views: 794
Never before published, the final work of one of America's greatest writers
A Father's Law is the novel Richard Wright, acclaimed author of Black Boy and Native Son, never completed. Written during a six-week period near the end of his life, it appears in print for the first time, an important addition to this American master's body of work, submitted by his daughter and literary executor, Julia, who writes:
It comes from his guts and ends at the hero's "breaking point." It explores many themes favored by my father like guilt and innocence, the difficult relationship between the generations, the difficulty of being a black policeman and father, the difficulty of being both those things and suspecting that your own son is the murderer. It intertwines astonishingly modern themes for a novel written in 1960.
Prescient, raw, powerful, and fascinating, A Father's Law is the final gift from a literary giant. Views: 794
Dylan Teague has proven Cold Fusion a reality, and someone else wants it. Can Dylan save his work, protect the woman he loves, and stop a mysterious organization from ruling the world?Travel through the centuries from ancient Japan and aliens with a breeding program, to Egypt and the Pharaoh Khufu, to the the Nazi's and die Glocke, and back to the Japan of today and a Torsion field star ship.Dylan Teague is a brilliant young physicist who has solved the greatest puzzle facing mankind – a safe, renewable, and cheap source of virtually unlimited power. The Holy Grail of the 21st Century, he has made Cold Fusion - fusion at room temperature – a reality. He has also fallen in love with the head of one of the largest international companies in the world – the beautiful Tomiko Samuelson, CEO of Samuelson LTD. When Tomiko asks Dylan to continue his work in Kagoshima, Japan he jumps at the chance, and the opportunity to stay close to Tomiko.Before he can travel to Japan, though, he must face the suicide death of his closest Friend, Robert Fuller. Fuller is a brilliant linguist and cryptanalyst working for the mysterious Donald Mason, the founder of SETLE, the Search for Extraterrestrial Life on Earth. Fuller has been working on decoding the Voynich Manuscript, a centuries old document that has been undecipherable – until Fuller cracks the code! Did he commit suicide, or was it murder to prevent the truth of the manuscript from coming to light? In Japan, Dylan and Tomiko are captured by a mysterious individual, the head of an ominous secret organization who wants cold fusion for his own purposes. Will Dylan give away his secret to protect the women he loves? Travel through the centuries from ancient Japan and aliens with a breeding program, to Egypt in the time of the Pharaoh Khufu, and back to the Japan of today. Learn the truth of the knights Templar, and die Glocke [the Bell] of Hitler's weapons general.Answer the question for yourself – if we are the result of an alien breeding program are we still aliens? Views: 793
A princess all alone. The king and queen gone. Does her only hope lie with a butterfly? Join Jazmyn on The Butterfly Quest.A young princess finds herself all alone. Her mother and father missing and relatives she hardly knows trying to help her rule the kingdom, but does something more sinister lie behind it all.Can Jazmyn trust the butterfly that calls to her in the gardens?Will she survive the dangers of The Butterfly Quest and save the kingdom....and more?The adventure begins.The first book in a trilogy, The Butterfly Quest. Views: 793
Frustrated musician Jamie finally gets some luck: a beautiful girl who understands him and an amazing record contract. But is the song that haunts his memory really his own creation, or did something whisper it to him long ago... the sinister something that haunts the windswept monument?A lonely, windswept monument stands overlooking the sea, where misunderstood songwriter Jamie escapes to be alone with his doubts. The monument proves lucky when he meets a beautiful girl there, who reminds him of a brilliant song he composed years before... but no sooner does he find love and success than a sinister figure begins to haunt him, demanding retribution. Views: 792
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"[A]n extraordinary book, a work of staggering virtuosity. With its publication, a giant world of literature has just grown twice as tall."--Newsday
From Ralph Ellison--author of the classic novel of African-American experience, Invisible Man--the long-awaited second novel. Here is the master of American vernacular--the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech--at the height of his powers, telling a powerful, evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century.
"Tell me what happened while there's still time," demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the itinerate Negro preacher whom he calls Daddy Hickman. As a young man, Sunraider was Bliss, an orphan taken in by Hickman and raised to be a preacher like himself. Bliss's history encompasses the joys of young southern boyhood; bucolic days as a filmmaker, lovemaking in a field in the Oklahoma sun. And behind it all lies a mystery: how did this chosen child become the man who would deny everything to achieve his goals? Brilliantly crafted, moving, wise, Juneteenth is the work of an American master.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Views: 789
Das berühmte Bild einer Frau, lange verschollen, taucht plötzlich wieder auf. Überraschend für die Kunstwelt, aber auch für die drei Männer, die diese Frau einst liebten - und sich von ihr betrogen fühlen. In einer Bucht an der australischen Küste kommt es zu einem Wiedersehen: Die Männer wollen wiederhaben, was ihnen vermeintlich zusteht. Nur einer ergreift die Chance, der Frau neu zu begegnen, auch wenn ihnen nicht mehr viel Zeit bleibt Views: 773
Glenn Beck—author of thirteen #1 New York Times bestsellers—issues a startling challenge to people on both sides of the aisle to give up our addiction to outrage.
America is addicted to outrage, we’re at the height of a twenty-year bender, and we need an intervention. In Addicted to Outrage, New York Times bestselling author Glenn Beck addresses how America has become more and more divided—both politically and socially. Americans are now less accepting, less forgiving, and have lost faith in many of the country’s signature ideals, he says. We are quick to point a judgmental finger at the opposing party, are unwilling to doubt their own ideologies, and refuse to have any self-awareness whatsoever. Beck states that our current downward spiral will ultimately lead to the destruction of everything America has fought so hard to preserve. This is not simply a Republican problem. This is not simply a Democratic problem. This is everyone’s burden, and we need to think like recovering addicts and change.
With a nod to a traditional twelve-step program, each chapter encourages self-reflection and growth and shows us the way to a more hopeful, happy future. Beck draws from his own life experiences and includes relevant examples for each step, from families who learned to forgive killers to remembering to believe in something greater than ourselves to understanding the importance of humility. Addicted to Outrage is a timely and necessary guide for how Americans, right and left, must change to survive. Views: 771
Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles. Furthermore, India's leading political thinkers have often served as its most influential political actors--think of Gandhi, whose collected works run to more than ninety volumes, or Ambedkar, or Nehru, who recorded their most eloquent theoretical reflections at the same time as they strove to set the delicate machinery of Indian democracy on a coherent and just path. Out of the speeches and writings of these thinker-activists, Ramachandra Guha has built the first major anthology of Indian social and political thought. Makers of Modern India collects the work of nineteen of India's foremost generators of political sentiment, from those whose names command instant global recognition to pioneering subaltern and feminist thinkers whose works have until now remained obscure and inaccessible. Views: 771
How to tell a shattered story?
By slowly becoming everybody.
No?
By slowly becoming everything.
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on a journey of many years – the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi into the burgeoning new metropolis and beyond, to the Valley of Kashmir and the forests of Central India, where war is peace and peace is war, and where, from time to time, ‘normalcy’ is declared.
Anjum, who used to be Aftab, unrolls a threadbare carpet in a city graveyard that she calls home. A baby appears quite suddenly on a pavement, a little after midnight, in a crib of litter. The enigmatic S. Tilottama is as much of a presence as she is an absence in the lives of the three men who love her.
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is at once an aching love story and a decisive remonstration. It is told in a whisper, in a shout, through tears and sometimes with a laugh. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, mended by love – and by hope. For this reason, they are as steely as they are fragile, and they never surrender. This ravishing, magnificent book reinvents what a novel can do and can be. And it demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy’s storytelling gifts. Views: 770
Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of World War II unfolds between the poles of his grief for his lover Jean, killed in the Resistance during the liberation of Paris, and his perverse attraction to the collaborator Riton. Elegaic, macabre, chimerical, Funeral Rites is a dark meditation on the mirror images of love and hate, sex and death. Views: 767
