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Author : Michael Gannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Cross in the Sand written by Michael Gannon and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Valentine GANNON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (558 download)
Download or read book The Cross in the Sand; the Early Catholic Church in Florida. 1513-1870. Second Printing written by Michael Valentine GANNON and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Strickland
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494924249
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (242 download)
Download or read book Cross in the Sand written by Michael Strickland and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Carver had only been a Catholic priest for a short time when he met and fell in love with the beautiful Elisabeth Downs. So began a titanic tug-of war between Richard's love of his God and his love for Elisabeth. Richard was to rise rapidly within the ranks of the church before and during the upcoming years of WORLD WAR II. The brilliant priest from America would find himself disguised with many names, attired in different clothes including a Nazi uniform before his secretive work for the church and its allies was finished at the end of the war. Richard had been destined for greatness. His greatness in the world's eye had come at a great price for Richard however. The struggle between Elisabeth and his God would continue to the end of his much celebrated life. Perhaps though if the script of his life had been different the deeds that the American Cardinal had accomplished during the Great War would have never happened? This is truly an epic tale of FORBIDDEN LOVE—GOD—WAR. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Author : Fergus Fleming
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802197523
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Sword and the Cross written by Fergus Fleming and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] searing story of France’s attempt to colonize the vast Sahara desert and of two unforgettable men who dedicated their lives to the effort.” —Rob Mitchell, The Boston Herald Whether writing of the Alps, the high seas, or the North Pole, Fergus Fleming has won acclaim as one of today’s most vivid and engaging historians of adventure and exploration. The Sword and the Cross takes us to the Sahara at the end of the nineteenth century, when France had designs on a hostile wilderness dominated by deadly Tuareg nomads. Two fanatical adventurers, Charles de Foucauld and Henri Laperrine, rose to the cause of their country’s national honor. Abandoning his decadent lifestyle as a sensualist and womanizer, Foucauld founded a monastic order so severe that during his lifetime it never had a membership of more than one. Yet he remained a committed imperialist and from his remote hermitage continued to assist the military. The stern career soldier Laperrine, meanwhile, founded a camel corps whose exploits became legendary. During World War I the Sahara’s fragile peace crumbled. In the desert mountains Foucauld paid a tragic price for his role as imperial pawn. Laperrine, by then recalled to the Western Front, returned to avenge his friend. “Fleming captures the hopelessness of the French efforts to conquer the Saharan expanse . . . Provides a vital lesson about the limits of power.” —Zachary Karabell, Los Angeles Times
Author : Michael Valentine Gannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The cross in the sand : the Early Catholic Church in Florida, 1513-1870 written by Michael Valentine Gannon and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Dutton Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Book of Sand written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by Dutton Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen new stories by the celebrated writer, including two which he considers his greatest achievements to date, artfully blend elements from many literary geares.
Author : Caroline Cross
Publisher : Child's Play Library
ISBN 13 : 9781786283498
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Sand Between My Toes written by Caroline Cross and published by Child's Play Library. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family spends a day at the seaside, enjoying the smells and sensations that are unique to the coast. Evocative rhyming text immerses the reader in the experience of visiting a beach.
Author : Anna Field
Publisher : David & Charles
ISBN 13 : 9781446303221
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Sand, Sea & Cross Stitch written by Anna Field and published by David & Charles. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features over 50 cross stitch patterns, accompanied by practical full-colour charts. Projects vary from classic samplers, pictures and alphabet designs to bags, cushions, hanging signs, pencil cases and notebook covers. Includes popular seaside motifs, such as flags, boats, beach huts, lighthouses, shells and fish. Many of the projects also feature fun phrases and alphabets.
Author : Michael Welland
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520942000
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Sand written by Michael Welland and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From individual grains to desert dunes, from the bottom of the sea to the landscapes of Mars, and from billions of years in the past to the future, this is the extraordinary story of one of nature's humblest, most powerful, and most ubiquitous materials. Told by a geologist with a novelist's sense of language and narrative, Sand examines the science—sand forensics, the physics of granular materials, sedimentology, paleontology and archaeology, planetary exploration—and at the same time explores the rich human context of sand. Interwoven with tales of artists, mathematicians, explorers, and even a vampire, the story of sand is an epic of environmental construction and destruction, an adventure in staggering scales of time and distance, yet a tale that encompasses the ordinary and everyday. Sand, in fact, is all around us—it has made possible our computers, buildings and windows, toothpaste, cosmetics, and paper, and it has played dramatic roles in human history, commerce, and imagination. In this luminous, kinetic, revelatory account, we do indeed find the world in a grain of sand.
Author : Rachel St. John
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691156131
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Line in the Sand written by Rachel St. John and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how this boundary changed from a mere line on a map to a clearly marked and heavily regulated divide between the United States and Mexico. Focusing on the desert border to the west of the Rio Grande, this book explains the origins of the modern border and places the line at the center of a transnational history of expanding capitalism and state power in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moving across local, regional, and national scales, St. John shows how government officials, Native American raiders, ranchers, railroad builders, miners, investors, immigrants, and smugglers contributed to the rise of state power on the border and developed strategies to navigate the increasingly regulated landscape. Over the border's history, the U.S. and Mexican states gradually developed an expanding array of official laws, ad hoc arrangements, government agents, and physical barriers that did not close the line, but made it a flexible barrier that restricted the movement of some people, goods, and animals without impeding others. By the 1930s, their efforts had created the foundations of the modern border control apparatus. Drawing on extensive research in U.S. and Mexican archives, Line in the Sand weaves together a transnational history of how an undistinguished strip of land became the significant and symbolic space of state power and national definition that we know today.
Author : Sharon Katz Cooper
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1479582182
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (795 download)
Download or read book When Crabs Cross the Sand written by Sharon Katz Cooper and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Crabs Cross the Sand follows the migration journey of one specific Christmas Island crab, subtly teaching the role of migration in the crab's life cycle while engaging readers with a story-like narrative. Includes a "fast facts" page, a glossary, and realistic, text-match illustrations that pull readers right to the water's edge.
Author : Chris Auer
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310866480
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Legend of the Sand Dollar written by Chris Auer and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2011-04-23 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight-year-old Kerry loves the ocean. But on this visit to the beach, she discovers a little-known treasure and learns of the story of easter revealed in the sand dollar. Now you and your child can discover the story behind this small ocean treasure as stunning illustrations form the backdrop for this familiar seaside legend. Seen through the eyes of children, The Legend of the Sand Dollar shares the timeless hope of resurrection and new life---the promise of Easter.
Author : Efraim Karsh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674005419
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Empires of the Sand written by Efraim Karsh and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-02 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors "show how the Hashemites played a decisive role in shaping present Middle Eastern boundaries and in hastening the collapse of Ottoman rule."--Jacket.
Author : Andrew Holleran
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 037460097X
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)
Download or read book The Kingdom of Sand written by Andrew Holleran and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE PICK ONE OF THE LONDON TIMES' TOP TWENTY-SIX FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR LA TIMES 5 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 BBC Culture’s 50 Best Books of 2022 "[Holleran's] new novel is all the more affecting and engaging because the images of isolation and old age here are haunted . . . in 1978 Holleran wrote the quintessential novel about gay abandon, the sheer, careless pleasure of it: Dancer From the Dance. Now, at almost 80 years of age, he has produced a novel remarkable for its integrity, for its readiness to embrace difficult truths and for its complex way of paying homage to the passing of time." —Colm Toibin, The New York Times Book Review "It’s rare to find fiction that takes this kind of dying of the light as its subject and doesn’t make its heroes feel either pathetic or polished with a gleam of false dignity . . . This sad, beautiful book captures the sensations Holleran’s characters are chasing — as well as the darkness that inevitably comes for them, and us." —Mark Athitakis, The Los Angeles Times One of the great appeals of Florida has always been the sense that the minute you get here you have permission to collapse. The Kingdom of Sand is a poignant tale of desire and dread—Andrew Holleran’s first new book in sixteen years. The nameless narrator is a gay man who moved to Florida to look after his aging parents—during the height of the AIDS epidemic—and has found himself unable to leave after their deaths. With gallows humor, he chronicles the indignities of growing old in a small town. At the heart of the novel is the story of his friendship with Earl, whom he met cruising at the local boat ramp. For the last twenty years, he has been visiting Earl to watch classic films together and critique the neighbors. Earl is the only person in town with whom he can truly be himself. Now Earl’s health is failing, and our increasingly misanthropic narrator must contend with the fact that once Earl dies, he will be completely alone. He distracts himself with sexual encounters at the video porn store and visits to Walgreens. All the while, he shares reflections on illness and death that are at once funny and heartbreaking. Holleran’s first novel, Dancer from the Dance, is widely regarded as a classic work of gay literature. Reviewers have described his subsequent books as beautiful, exhilarating, seductive, haunting, and bold. The Kingdom of Sand displays all of Holleran’s considerable gifts; it’s an elegy to sex and a stunningly honest exploration of loneliness and the endless need for human connection, especially as we count down our days.
Author : Bernd Hartmann
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811744329
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Panzers in the Sand written by Bernd Hartmann and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combat history of a renowned German tank regiment in World War II.
Author : Arturo Longoria
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623495008
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book The Sand Sheet written by Arturo Longoria and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two million acres of sand, born and blown from an ancient sea beginning about ten thousand years ago, stretch across eight counties in deep South Texas. Known as the Coastal Sand Plain, the Texas Coastal Sand Sheet, or just the Sand Sheet, it is a region of few people, little rainfall, and no water. Among the dunes and dry, brown flats, only the hardiest shrubs and grasses provide habitat for the coyotes, quail, and rattlesnakes that live here. Arturo Longoria, whose cabin sits amid the sand scrub and desert motts of granjeno, brasil, and mesquite, knows this land intimately. A student of bushcraft and natural history, Longoria found refuge in this remote and hostile country as he recovered from a rare illness. He weaves a story of beauty and survival in a land where the vastness of Texas' storied ranches and rich oil fields serves as the backdrop for a steady migration of long distance “travelers,” who cross over the border and into el desierto at great peril. This book is about a harsh and dangerous landscape that has nonetheless given sustenance and solace to a writer for whom the Sand Sheet became both his home and his inspiration.
Author : Amy Harmon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781503939325
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (393 download)
Download or read book From Sand and Ash written by Amy Harmon and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy, 1943--Germany occupies much of the country, placing the Jewish population in grave danger during World War II. As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but divided by circumstance and religion. As the years go by, the two find themselves falling in love. But the church calls to Angelo and, despite his deep feelings for Eva, he chooses the priesthood. Now, more than a decade later, Angelo is a Catholic priest and Eva is a woman with nowhere to turn. With the Gestapo closing in, Angelo hides Eva within the walls of a convent, where Eva discovers she is just one of many Jews being sheltered by the Catholic Church. But Eva can't quietly hide, waiting for deliverance, while Angelo risks everything to keep her safe. With the world at war and so many in need, Angelo and Eva face trial after trial, choice after agonizing choice, until fate and fortune finally collide, leaving them with the most difficult decision of all.
