Author: I. - A. M. - RICHATL Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 606
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What would you do to save your kids? For most of us the answer is simple; we'd do whatever is necessary. But what if you were the only person who could save them and doing what is necessary is illegal and there is a high probability you will end up dead or in a foreign prison. Is the answer still so simple? The year is 2028 and with all her options exhausted Dr. Audrey Drayanne Harris will be forced to answer that question. The only way to save her children is to find a man she loved, but now realizes she barely knew. A man she despises above all others. A man who put her family in danger and is suspected of killing her older brother. Unfortunately finding her kids father won't be easy. He is a well-connected international criminal who is believed to be dead. Everything about him is secretive and the only way to find him is to enter his dark criminal world.As a doctor and the granddaughter of a civil rights icon she'll have to step out of her comfort zone and become a warrior. She'll need to be trained to clandestinely operate in his world, she'll need to become allies with his enemies, and she'll need to be become a solider with the mission of finding him dead or alive no matter what it takes. Ride with Draya as she uncovers the mystery of her kid's father and puts together a team to take him down. Her mission won't be easy and success won't be guaranteed, but she'll have you and she'll have her faith. Take the ride.
Author: Chris Colfer Publisher: Little, Brown Ink ISBN: 0316355925 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 339
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chris Colfer comes a graphic novel in the Land of Stories series featuring Goldilocks—as you've never seen her before! When we first meet her in The Land of Stories:The Wishing Spell, Goldilocks is a beautiful and tough-as-nails outlaw. Discover her origin story and more in this brand new, lushly illustrated full-color graphic novel, as she takes you on adventures where she may or may not break a few laws along the way. Once upon a time, the kingdoms of the fairy-tale world lived in perfect harmony under the guidance of the Happily Ever After Assembly. But not all creatures and territories have been invited to this peaceful union. Monsters and criminals have found refuge in the Dwarf Forests, a land without rulers or law. When a plot by the Charming brothers is unveiled and threatens to push society's unwanted from their homes, the fairy-tale world's harmony and Goldilocks' home are put in jeopardy . . . New and returning fans of the Land of Stories will fall in love with the adventures of Goldilocks before she met Alex and Conner Bailey. Fans will recognize familiar characters including Porridge, Jack, and Queen Red Riding Hood; and a ragtag team of misfits is introduced, including Puss in Boots, Little Miss Muffet, Pinocchio, and more.
Author: Richard Aquila Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252065279 Category : Popular culture Languages : en Pages : 330
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Following Richard Aquila's introduction, which examines the birth and growth of the pop culture West in the context of American history, noted expects explore developments in popular western fiction, major forms of live western entertainment, trends in western movies and television shows, images of the West in popular music, and visual images of the West in popular art and advertising.
Author: Benjamin Runkle Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 0230338917 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 290
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Early May 2011, in a dramatic late-night appearance at the White House, President Obama declared that "justice has been done" as he announced that Osama bin Laden was dead. After more than a decade of military operations across Central Asia and the Middle East, the Al Qaida leader who orchestrated the 9/11 terrorist attacks was finally killed in a firefight with U.S. Navy SEALs in Pakistan. Although this daring raid marked the end of the longest strategic manhunt in American history, bin Laden was not the first individual targeted as the objective of a military campaign. From Geronimo to Pancho Villa, to Manuel Noriega, to Saddam Hussein, the United States has deployed military forces to kill or capture a single person nearly a dozen times since 1885. Part military history, part action thriller, and part strategic policy analysis, Wanted Dead or Alive chronicles the extraordinary efforts of the military and intelligence agencies to bring America's enemies to justice.
Author: Ann McGovern Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks ISBN: Category : Abolitionists Languages : en Pages : 66
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A biography of the courageous slave from Maryland who escaped to the freedom of the north, and then returned, time and again, to lead others to freedom.
Author: Norm Crampton Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1546248676 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 79
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This is a combination of stories I have written. We could all live in peace if we would just listen! None of this would change unless every American gets involved with the political process. It is your right, it is your duty, and in many circumstances, it could mean your life! What goes around comes around. Remember this! The next day, as all the other recruits answered reveille and hit the grid, Morgan and Burger were handing the company commander a note that in effect said they were helpless and hopeless. Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one. With a crack of thunder, the owls exodus was almost marked by the rising sun. The Rain Dog stretches her nose with her neck arched toward the sky, and the raindrops begin to fall.
Author: Elizabeth McGreevy Publisher: ISBN: 9780578843322 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This controversial, eye-opening book by Elizabeth McGreevy suggests a different perception of Mountain Cedars (also called Ashe Junipers). It digs into the politics, history, economics, culture, and ecology surrounding these trees in the Hill Country of Texas from the 1700s to the present. Since the 1920s, reporters, writers, scientists, landowners, politicians, and cedar fever victims have characterized the trees as a non-native, water-hogging, grass-killing, toxic, useless species to justify its removal. The result has been a glut of Mountain Cedar tall tales. Yet before the 1890s, people highly respected Mountain Cedars. The Mountain Cedars they reported were large timber trees with strong, decay-resistant heartwood. Most were cut down and sold to boost the young Hill Country economy. The clearcutting of old-growth forests and dense woodlands and the continuous overgrazing of prairies that followed led to mass soil degradation and erosion. Acting as nature's bandage, Mountain Cedars morphed into pioneering bushes and spread across degraded soils. This book tracks down the origins of the tall tales to determine what is true, what is false, and what is somewhere in between. Through a series of revelations, the author replaces anti-cedar sentiments with a more constructive, less emotional approach to Hill Country land management.
Author: William Gale Publisher: ISBN: 9781734027440 Category : Languages : en Pages : 196
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This is the backstory of one of the characters in A Pirate's Daughter. Isabella Vasquez was an only child, born of privilege on a hacienda in Old Mexico. When faced with being forced by her father into a marriage to a pompous young man she despised, Bella fled her home. An expert pistol shot and swordswoman, living on the run after killing two men in self-defense, she was forced by circumstances into a life as an outlaw. Accompanied by her father's former manager, Julio, and her former nanny, Sesasi, must evade Spanish soldiers hot on her trail, as the price on her head is continually raised. Eventually she meets Red Ned O'Keeffe and joins his pirate crew aboard the Queen Maeve.
Author: Celia Sandys Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 162349074X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 286
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“ . . . notable for its depiction of young Churchill, warts and all, as a very human character . . . .”—New York Times “A bestseller in the UK, this portrait of Winston Churchill, written by his granddaughter, unapologetically presents the future prime minister as an action hero in the Boer War. It’s rousing reading. Sandy’s affection for her grandfather is obvious, but she shows enough of his grandiosity to maintain a reader’s trust. . . . Sandys is fully aware of the extent to which her grandfather had a finger to the political winds during his exploits: he sought the limelight as aggressively as he chased adventure. Because of Sandys’s brisk narrative, as well as their knowledge of the man Churchill later became, readers will not hold young Winston’s ambition against him.”—Publishers Weekly “During his nine-month stint in South Africa, Churchill, though officially classified as a noncombatant reporter, managed to send stirring dispatches to the Morning Post, engage in several bloody skirmishes with the enemy, be captured and incarcerated as a prisoner of war, and make a suitably sensationalized, yet nonetheless daring, escape from prison. Written in a lively narrative style, this affectionate biographical portrait of a very young, very spirited, and very enterprising Winston Churchill succeeds in foreshadowing the magnitude of the renown he eventually achieved. A rip-roaring good read chockfull of action, suspense, and history.”—Booklist
Author: I. - A. M. - RICHATL
Author: Chris Colfer
Author: Richard Aquila
Author: Benjamin Runkle
Author: Ann McGovern
Author: Norm Crampton
Author: Dominic Barker
Author: Elizabeth McGreevy
Author: William Gale
Author: Celia Sandys