Author: Sophie Francis Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1291102256 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 360
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This is the story of Alice Counter, a young girl who boards the RMS Titanic with her family. This book tells the story of her journey on the ill-fated ship from when they leave port to the chilling sinking. Alice's journey is far from average, it is rife with excitement especially when she meets the sadistic young Gregory Hudson. This book is perfect for anyone who is interested in the Titanic or anyone just looking for a good fictional book to read.
Author: David Seed Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135953899 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 226
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American Science Fiction--in both literature and film--has played a key role in the portrayal of the fears inherent in the Cold War. The end of this era heralds the need for a reassessment of the literary output of the forty-year period since 1945. Working through a series of key texts, American Science Fiction and the Cold War investigates the political inflections put on American narratives in the post-war decades by Cold War cultural circumstances. Nuclear holocaust, Russian invasion, and the perceived rise of totalitarianism in American society are key elements in the author's exploration of science fiction narratives that include Fahrenheit 451, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Dr. Strangelove.
Author: Kirk Melnikoff Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108642063 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 337
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Presenting the first exploration of Christopher Marlowe's complex place in the canon, this collection reads Marlowe's work against an extensive backdrop of repertory, publication, transmission, and reception. Wide-ranging and thoughtful chapters consider Marlowe's deliberate engagements with the stage and print culture, the agents and methods involved in the transmission of his work, and his cultural reception in the light of repertory and print evidence. With contributions from major international scholars, the volume considers all of Marlowe's oeuvre, offering illuminating approaches to his extended animation in theatre and print, from the putative theatrical debut of Tamburlaine in 1587 to the most current editions of his work.
Author: Sebastien Busque Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 152550925X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 453
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A star is plucked from the heavens, given mortal form, and sent into the world of Medierth. The love of starborn Karyana is the one slim hope that Reveen, exiled Planar of Magic, has for redemption. Such is the will and mercy of the Divine Council. There is one member of council, however, who will stop at nothing to extinguish that faint spark of grace. Xelnos the Planar of Destruction would tear all hope from Reveen once and for all. Working through Pison, a dark assassin of preternatural origin and ability, Xelnos sets his will and hatred in Reveen’s path. But the intricacies of fate are such that none can know the ultimate consequences of any action.
Author: Simon Wiesenthal Publisher: Schocken ISBN: 0307560422 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 306
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A Holocaust survivor's surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo Levi, and more. You are a prisoner in a concentration camp. A dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness. What would you do? While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion and justice, silence and truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. But even years after the way had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What would you have done in his place? In this important book, fifty-three distinguished men and women respond to Wiesenthal's questions. They are theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors, and victims of attempted genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, China and Tibet. Their responses, as varied as their experiences of the world, remind us that Wiesenthal's questions are not limited to events of the past.
Author: M.S. Metcalf Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1785891197 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 240
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‘In a distant time on the island of Axis that sat in the southern Atlantic, a translucent blue butterfly fluttered its delicate gossamer wings while dancing its whimsical way through fragrant flowers and ferns in sleepy woodland waking up to a glorious brand new day. Sunlight shone through twisted, thick gnarly branches of trees older than time itself. Standing there, the timeless trees stood like megalithic statues greeting the solar dawn.’ The Wizardly Journey is a colourful and diverse escapist fantasy novel, which is full of interesting characters, each of whom represent the extremes and duality of human nature. Some are dedicated to saving precious lives and fragile eco-systems, living authentically with kindness and courage, while others are selfish and hide a dark agenda. This book will take the reader on a magical journey through different cultures, myths, legends and exotic locations. As well as opening the reader’s eyes to an amazing fairytale, The Wizardly Journey explores very real human issues such as conserving the planet, protecting animals, marine and avian life and the environment. A kaleidoscopic journey through the light and dark energies of humankind, this book will appeal to readers aged 13 and over. Written with the aim to giving animals a voice, The Wizardly Journeydraws attention to animals’ concerns and addressed them with an open mind.
Author: Kenneth M. Doyle Publisher: The O'Brien Press ISBN: 1847174302 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 192
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Kenneth and Patrick Doyle grew up in a family of nine children in Tullamore, Co. Offaly. Though the home was dysfunctional and all the children suffered at the hands of their parents, Kenneth and Patrick were singled out for horrific abuse at the hands of their mother. Starved, beaten and sent out to steal, their story is a catalogue of abuse. It also implicates the authorities, who had pages upon pages of reports on their situation, and yet never stepped in.
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