Bleak City
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Bleak City
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Author : Marisa Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Taylfin Limited
Release Date : 2016-08-03
Bleak City written by Marisa Taylor and has been published by Taylfin Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-03 with categories.
Alice Moorhouse is beginning to find her way as a young woman when her life is disrupted by a series of earthquakes. As she and her family deal with the physical and emotional toll of living in a broken city, their recovery is confounded by greedy insurers determined to protect their profits, bumbling bureaucrats unable to coordinate their efforts and uncaring politicians determined to spin the recovery for their own ends. How does Alice build a life in a devastated city and discover who she really is? Set in post-earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand, Bleak City tells the story of a young woman and her wider family as they contend with the issues and frustrations that followed the quakes. It is a social commentary, taking a critical perspective of the actions of politicians, insurers and community leaders, while encouraging self-reflection on who we want to shape ourselves to be. Although titled Bleak City, it does not see a bleak future for Christchurch, but it does recognise that post-quake life for many people is a struggle.
Successes Abroad
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on the City
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Successes Abroad written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on the City and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Cities and towns categories.
The Legate S Daughter
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Author : Wallace Breem
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-11-15
The Legate S Daughter written by Wallace Breem and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-15 with Fiction categories.
From the author of EAGLE IN THE SNOW an epic Roman tale about a kidnapping and rescue The scene is Rome in the troublesome year 24 B.C. Emperor Augustus is in ill health and the city is seething with intrigue. There is speculation about the succession, uncertainty in the capital and unrest on the frontiers. The question of an heir is acute. Augustus has only one child, a daughter, Julia. She is married to Marcellus, marking the young man with the Emperor's favour, but some disagree with the match. Powerful rivals engineer crisis and conspiracy. These events are seen through the eyes of Curtius Rufus, ex-centurion, gambler, and a man dissatisfied with life. He comes to the attention of Augustus's lieutenant, Marcus Agrippa, who leads Curtius into the puzzling affair of the legate's daughter, kidnapped, it appears, by pirates and held in captivity in the African desert.
Sanctuaries Of Light In Nineteenth Century European Literature
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Author : Hugo Walter
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2010
Sanctuaries Of Light In Nineteenth Century European Literature written by Hugo Walter and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with European literature categories.
This collection of insightful and provocative essays explores the theme of sanctuaries of light in nineteenth-century European literature, especially in selected works by William Wordsworth, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Joseph von Eichendorff, and Charlotte Brontë. These sanctuaries of light, natural beauty, and serenity comfort, nurture, and revitalize the heart, mind, and soul of the individual and inspire creative expression. This book will be of interest to professors, teachers, and scholars in the fields of English literature, German literature, European literature, comparative literature, and cultural studies.
Until The Final Hour
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Author : Gertraud Junge
language : en
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Release Date : 2004
Until The Final Hour written by Gertraud Junge and has been published by Arcade Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Offering an insider's perspective on the final days of the Third Reich, the recollections of a woman who became Hitler's secretary in 1942 sheds new light on his day-to-day life, character, and habits.
3 Great Thrillers
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Author : Eric Van Lustbader
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-03-11
3 Great Thrillers written by Eric Van Lustbader and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-11 with Fiction categories.
Three terrific thrillers in one volume. LETHAL PEOPLE: Would you let your child die if your family were threatened? When the government wants someone to disappear without a trace, they put in a call to Donovan Creed. Creed is a man of many identities, a ruthless assassin with access to all the technology that the military can offer. You don't want to take on Creed. But then again, most don't even see him coming. FIRST DAUGHTER: The first book in the Jack McClure series from Eric Van Lustbader, the author of Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne series. THE BABYLON GENE: Forget everything you think you know. Here is the mother of all conspiracy thrillers, a secret that was written in blood at the dawn of history...
Collected Poems Of Anthony Hecht
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Author : Anthony Hecht
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2023-11-07
Collected Poems Of Anthony Hecht written by Anthony Hecht and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-07 with Poetry categories.
In his centenary year, this volume of the Pulitzer Prize winner and former poet laureate’s poems celebrates the indispensable artistry of a writer who faced the history of his era with a “clear-eyed mercy toward human weakness” (The New York Times Book Review) and was hailed in his day as “the best poet writing in English” (Joseph Brodsky). This volume brings together for the first time all of the poems that appeared in Anthony Hecht’s seven trade collections, from A Summoning of Stones of 1954 through to The Darkness and the Light of 2001; it adds the remarkable work contained in his posthumously issued Interior Skies: Late Poems from Liguria of 2011; and it rounds this out with the best of the many poems which were left uncollected at the time of his death in 2004, the earliest dating from 1950 and the latest from 2001. Including the woodcuts by Leonard Baskin that accompanied some of his pieces through the years, Collected Poems brings us the full sweep of the experience and artistry of Anthony Hecht, who, as an infantryman in World War II, bore witness to the shaping events of his time, which continue to shape our own. As the editor Philip Hoy states in his introduction: “Anthony Hecht once wrote that poems can allow us to contemplate our ‘sweetest triumphs’ and our ‘deepest desolations,’ and by employing ‘the manifold devices of art’ to recover for us what he memorably called ‘the inexhaustible plenitude of the world.’ The work gathered together here amply attests to the truth of that claim, and makes it clear that Hecht was one of the finest poets, not just of his generation, but of the twentieth century.”
Imagine Dragons Dreaming
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Author : Huttson Lo
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2011
Imagine Dragons Dreaming written by Huttson Lo and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
The Heart Of Betrayal
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Author : Mary E. Pearson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-09-15
The Heart Of Betrayal written by Mary E. Pearson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-15 with Fiction categories.
The thrilling, New York Times bestselling sequel to The Kiss of Deception. Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape. Desperate to save her life, Lia's erstwhile assassin, Kaden, has told the Vendan Komizar that she has the gift, and the Komizar's interest in Lia is greater than anyone could have foreseen. Meanwhile, nothing is straightforward: there's Rafe, who lied to Lia but has sacrificed his freedom to protect her; Kaden, who meant to assassinate her but has now saved her life; and the Vendans, whom Lia always believed to be barbarians. Now that she lives among them, however, she realizes that may be far from the truth. Wrestling with her upbringing, her gift, and her sense of self, Lia must make powerful choices that will affect her country . . . and her own destiny. The Heart of Betrayal drives up the stakes and the romance, and will leave readers desperate to read book three in the Remnant Chronicles, The Beauty of Darkness. 'It's rare that the second book in a series is as good - or perhaps better - than the first, but that's the case here' Booklist, starred review, for The Heart of Betrayal 'A heart-pounding sequel that fantasy fans will appreciate' School Library Journal
The Last New Dealer
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Author : Millard Grimes
language : en
Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc
Release Date : 2020-09-25
The Last New Dealer written by Millard Grimes and has been published by Page Publishing, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1992, A "no-shot" candidate runs for president in the New Hampshire Democratic Primary, while telling the story of how the United States evolved from 13 small, scattered, quarreling British colonies along the Atlantic Coast into the most powerful nation in history. With a definite, clear and unique message, the candidate and his handful of helpers, who include a recovering alcoholic who once worked for Jimmy Carter's campaign; a young waitress, who was a star basketball player in high school, but fell into a deep depression caused by an episode in her senior year; a retired New Hampshire newspaper publisher; plus some former employees from his years as a newspaper publisher, he manages to win the most votes on Primary night. He goes from New Hampshire, to win the Maine caucus, the Georgia Primary and following an assassination attempt which kills one of his associates, he wins Florida and comes close in New York, making him the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination. The candidate stresses that the strong U.S. central government is still the best one ever conceived and that it is "the answer, not the problem," and has been the essential factor in the nation's three great transformative crises: the American Revolution in which the colonies declared independence from England; The Civil War, which established that the states were indeed one nation, not just a collection of "un-united" states; and thirdly the New Deal, which rescued the U.S. from economic depression, prepared it to be the decisive power in winning World War II, and laid the foundation for the modern U.S. and, to a great extent, the modern world. The threat of a third-party effort by Ross Perot throwing the election to the House of Representative, persuades him to withdraw and support the better financed and organized Bill Clinton for the November election. This history is delivered in a dramatic fictional saga written in a newspaper style, which makes it easy to digest for the average reader. Its characters are well-defined, and its narrative plausible in the final analysis. It is anti-war, pro-democracy and advocates political campaigns without a lot of consultants and image-makers.