Author: James Lee BurkePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476708525
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Burke brings his brilliant feel for time and place to a stunning story of Appalachia in the early 1960s.
To the Bright and Shining Sun
Author: James Lee BurkePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476708525
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Burke brings his brilliant feel for time and place to a stunning story of Appalachia in the early 1960s.
To the Bright and Shining Sun
Author: Burke jamesA Bright Shining Lie
Author: Neil SheehanPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679603808
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
One of the most acclaimed books of our time—the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterprise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a charismatic soldier who put his life and career on the line in an attempt to convince his superiors that the war should be fought another way. By the time he died in 1972, Vann had embraced the follies he once decried. He died believing that the war had been won. In this magisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, a renowned journalist tells the story of John Vann—"the one irreplaceable American in Vietnam"—and of the tragedy that destroyed a country and squandered so much of America's young manhood and resources.
The Days of the Bright Shining Sun
Author: Doris GillispiePublisher:
ISBN: 9781619042957
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
In 1988, I had a dream about this book from beginning to end. I got up and prayed, "Lord, what is going on in my mind." The Lord told me to just write what you see in your dream; I wrote my second page. I felt like I had finished the book, but Gold to me, "No, sleep until you do what I tell you to do." So, I began to write a little more each day. After writing five or six pages, realized God was doing something in my life. The more I wrote the more I wanted to write, so I wrote for days and nights, weeks and months.At one point, I wrote to Oprah Winfrey and asked her to help me with my unfinished book she replied, "Finish your book and then stay in contact because get letters like this from so many people." The staff thanked me for watching the show, but I kept praying and hoping that someday, God would bless me to complete and publish my book. On November 2077, God spoke and said, "It is time to finish and publish your book."This book is based on the life of poor men and women, who were nearing freedom from slavery. They chose to stay on the plantation and not become free because it gave them a place to work. The men and women lived in hut houses, and were allowed days for town, church, and school. Shortly, after the years passed, their children moved away to the North, East, West. Although the men and women began to prosper, they taught them to always tell their children's children about their forefathers encounters.
The Days of the Bright Shining Sun
Author: Doris BoganPublisher:
ISBN: 9781733675420
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
It was 1865 and slavery had been abolished, but the transition from servitude to freedom was difficult for many blacks. Many of them choose to stay as sharecroppers on the plantations that once enslaved them. It was easier to do that, work was almost impossible to find. Sharecroppers did work such as picking cotton, planting cotton, and working at the cotton gin. They lived in hut houses. There were days for town, church and also school. Shortly after the years passed by their children move away to the north, east and west. Doing good for themselves, they never forgot what their parents taught them which was to always tell their children's children, what happened during their life time.
To the bright and shining sun
Author: Lars C. ReillyA Bright and Blinding Sun
Author: Marcus BrothertonPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0316319104
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
From a New York Times bestselling author comes the incredible true story of an underage soldier's first love and loss on the battlefields of Bataan and Corregidor—perfect for fans of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz and Unbroken. Joe Johnson Jr. ran away from home at the age of 12, hopping a freight train at the height of the Great Depression. He managed to talk his way into the U.S. Army two years later. Seeking freedom and adventure, he was sent to the Philippines. Adrift in spirit, Joe visited a teenage prostitute, and they became unlikely, smitten allies. Yet when the Japanese attacked on December 8, 1941, their hopes of being together had to wait. Joe and his fellow soldiers fought for four brutal months in Bataan and Corregidor, until they were forced to surrender. The boy endured years of horror as a prisoner of war, only dreaming about seeing again the girl he’d come to love. This lyrically written and deeply encouraging saga will remind you that every life can be lifted, forgiveness is the patron of restoration, and redemption is available to all.
Bright
Author: Jessica JungPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534462562
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The “glitzy sequel filled with drama and self-discovery” (Kirkus Reviews) to the instant New York Times bestseller Shine! Crazy Rich Asians meets Gossip Girl in this knockout series from Jessica Jung, K-pop legend, fashion icon, and founder of the international luxury brand, Blanc & Eclare. Couture gowns, press parties, international travel. Rachel Kim is at the top of her game. Girls Forever is now the number-one K-pop group in the world, and her fame skyrockets after her viral airport styling attracts the attention of fashion’s biggest names. Her life’s a swirl of technicolor glamour and adoring fans. Rachel can’t imagine shining any brighter. The only thing that’s missing is love—but Rachel’s determined to follow the rules. In her world, falling in love can cost you everything. Enter Alex. When Rachel literally falls head over designer heels into his lap on a crowded metro, she’s tempted to give up her anti-love vows. Alex is more than just heart-stopping dimples and adorably quirky banter. He believes in Rachel’s future—both in music and in fashion. But the higher you rise, the farther you have to fall. And when a shocking act of betrayal shatters her world, Rachel must finally listen to her heart.
Out of Darkness, Shining Light
Author: Petina GappahPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982110341
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A powerful, moving, and revelatory novel set in nineteenth-century Africa--the captivating story of the loyal men and women who carried the body of explorer and missionary David Livingstone from Zambia to Zanzibar so that his remains could be returned home to England. Dawn, 1 May 1873, on the outskirts of Chitambo's village, near Lake Bangweulu in modern-day Zambia. The Scottish explorer and missionary David Livingstone has died. He had been heading south in the African interior on an increasingly maniacal mission to penetrate the greatest secret of Victorian exploration. He wanted to find the source of the world's longest river, the Nile. Instead, on an isolated and swampy floodplain, Dr. Livingstone found his death. How Livingstone is to be buried will be decided by his African companions, a group of sixty-nine men, women, and children. They decide that come what may, Livingstone, his papers and maps, must all be carried to England. They bury his heart and other organs under a tree and dry his flesh like jerky in the sun. Over nine months, battling severe illness and hunger, hostile chiefs and unknown terrain, all while taking a tortuous route of more than 1,000 miles to the coast to avoid marauding slave traders, they march with Livingstone's body and the evidence of his explorations. Their journey has been called "the most extraordinary story in African exploration." In this novel, their story is retold anew in the distinct, indelible voices of Livingstone's sharp-tongued female cook, Halima; a repressed, formerly enslaved African missionary named Jacob Wainwright; and the collective voice of the retainers. The result is a profound and tragic journey--an epic like no other--that encompasses all of the hypocrisy of slavery and colonization while celebrating resilience, loyalty, and love. In Out of Darkness, Shining Light, Petina Gappah has created an ambitious and artful masterpiece.
The Convict and Other Stories
Author: James Lee BurkePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451618476
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of a dozen short stories set in James Lee Burke’s most beloved milieu, the Deep South. “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke is renowned for his lush, suspense-charged portrayals of the Deep South—the people, the crime, the hope and despair infused in the bayou landscape. This stunning anthology takes us back to where Burke's heart and soul beat—the steamy, seamy Gulf Coast—in complex and fascinating tales that crackle with violence and menace, meshing his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing style.