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Book Synopsis Dreamers and Thieves by : Shane R. Schuch
Download or read book Dreamers and Thieves written by Shane R. Schuch and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you get when you mix a haggard old ghost who is severely ill with nostalgia with the end of the world? You get Dreamers and Thieves, by S. R. Schuch. That is I. I am he. Thomas is dead. He is an old, old soul who just cannot bear to take himself to Heaven, even though that is where all the people are. But, they’re not the same there. They are happy and healthy and eternal. Thomas misses Humans as they were on Earth: emotional, struggling, surviving. He misses them being alive. He saw himself through them, seeing as he was once one of them. Now, they are all gone, and dead, and scattered about the scorched Earth like rotten sprinkles on a big, rotting cake that floats through space. Thomas has lost almost all hope in ever finding life again. His hope is fragile and fleeting, as are his ghostly emotions, which go up and down, up and down. He roams and roams the broken Earth in hopes of finding life when he sees something he hasn’t seen in ages. He sees the Sun poking its blazing face through a pinhole in the blackened, neon, toxic pudding clouds. He hasn’t seen the glory of the Sun in years upon years, not since bombs dropped from all corners of the globe. He knows this is something. He hopes and he prays. He hopes and he prays. The sight tickles his dying hope, which is something that he desperately needs to keep roaming, roaming, roaming, and he instantly knows how he is going to spend his day: he is going to wait out the sight of the Sunrise or Sunset, which ever comes first, and as he waits, he is going to tell you a little story about what could have been, what should have been; the story is about his best friend. His best friend was Victor Connelly. He is dead now. Thomas is nostalgic, sick with memories and ghostly emotions. He and I are the same in that sense. We are ill with emotions that go up and down, up and down, and we both had to do something about it. This is that something.
Book Synopsis The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2) by : Maggie Stiefvater
Download or read book The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2) written by Maggie Stiefvater and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second installment in the all-new series from the masterful, #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater! Ronan Lynch has secrets. Some he keeps from others. Some he keeps from himself.One secret: Ronan can bring things out of his dreams.And sometimes he's not the only one who wants those things.Ronan is one of the raven boys - a group of friends, practically brothers, searching for a dead king named Glendower, who they think is hidden somewhere in the hills by their elite private school, Aglionby Academy. The path to Glendower has long lived as an undercurrent beneath town. But now, like Ronan's secrets, it is beginning to rise to the surface - changing everything in its wake.Of THE RAVEN BOYS, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY wrote, "Maggie Stiefvater's can't-put-it-down paranormal adventure will leave you clamoring for book two." Now the second book is here, with the same wild imagination, dark romance, and heart-stopping twists that only Maggie Stiefvater can conjure.
Book Synopsis Unlock Your Dream by : Philip Wagner
Download or read book Unlock Your Dream written by Philip Wagner and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Can Be Hard. Dream Anyway! Get inspired to engage in life’s greatest quest: discovering and reaching God’s purpose and dreams for your life. You’ll be empowered, equipped, and freed to give life to your dreams and to live with joy and expectation for an adventurous future. Why Are You Really Here? This question reveals the deepest longing of the human heart—a desire for meaning and significance. We recognize that we are on this earth for a purpose. Discovering that purpose is our life’s work and the key to unlocking our greatest dreams. With contagious passion and humor, Philip Wagner blends biblical truths and real-world insights to invite you to: * Reach beyond the ordinary to find the extraordinary gifts God has given you * Disentangle yourself from lesser goals and embrace a God-size dream * Navigate inevitable setbacks, disappointments, and distractions * Build the ultimate team to energize your dreams with support and encouragement * Discover your true calling and forge a unique path to an adventurous life Whether you’re a student, a parent, or a professional—no matter your background or your life’s current season—it’s never too early or too late to uncover your God-given purpose and move boldly in the direction of your dreams!
Book Synopsis The Marrow Thieves by : Cherie Dimaline
Download or read book The Marrow Thieves written by Cherie Dimaline and published by DCB. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just when you think you have nothing left to lose, they come for your dreams. Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions struggle to survive as they make their way up north to the old lands. For now, survival means staying hidden — but what they don't know is that one of them holds the secret to defeating the marrow thieves.
Book Synopsis Times of Victory by : Pedro Luis Adames Valdez
Download or read book Times of Victory written by Pedro Luis Adames Valdez and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I believe many will be touched and inspired by Pedro's insight and experiences that have come from a life of following God. May the faith spoken of in this book be released to all who read it." --Coulter Prehm, Prehm Ministries "Times of Victory is a book everyone must read, whether Christian or not. This book will give you the guidance to shape every area of your life. It is motivational and extremely uplifting. Through stories laced with his own personal experiences, Pastor Pedro does a fantastic job of showing how to find the right path in life, even when major problems and obstacles arise. Times of Victory shows how the power of God is available to us even in the darkest of times. After reading this book, you will feel the power of the Lord and have the personal power to achieve great things in life." --Shane Jeremy James, author of four best-selling books, best known for To Be Rich: How to Make a Million Plus "To witness firsthand the spiritual growth of our gifted friend, Pedro, over the past ten years has been an inspiration and an honor. After reading Pedro's book and knowing Pedro's desire and passion to serve others, we know that lives will be changed and God will be glorified. His life experiences are a testament to the loving and redeeming God we serve." --Dennis and Marcia Flom, In His Steps Ministries "A thought-provoking devotional sharing personal examples and insight. Pastor Pedro does a wonderful job linking his life stories and experiences with the Gospel that will help guide and uplift readers as they walk out their faith. A must read." --David Witkop, Executive Pastor of Thanksgiving Lutheran Church, Bellevue NE
Download or read book The Dream Thieves written by AQEEL AHMED and published by AQEEL AHMED. This book was released on 2024-04-07 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dream Thieves Dream thieves steal people's aspirations until they encounter a dream so powerful, it threatens the fabric of their reality. In Summary: In "The Dream Thieves," the beautiful town of Aspira is shown to be a place where dreams are more than just scary images. This delicate balance is threatened by the Dream Thieves, mysterious beings from another world who eat dreams and disappear where happiness and creativity used to grow. In this case, Eli, a young resident of Aspira, is in the middle of a trip that will change his life. The Dream Thieves are interested in his visions because they are bright and full of healing and inspiration. This starts an epic story that will ultimately decide everyone's fate. As the story goes on, Eli's run-in with the Dream Thieves sets him on a mission to find out what dreams are really about and get back his stolen dreams. His journey shows how the dream and real worlds are complicatedly connected, and he has to find his way through a road full of danger, new discoveries, and the chance to meet new people. The Dream Thieves change from enemies to friends in the end because Eli keeps believing in the power of dreams and wants to make things right for everyone. Because they had hurt the Heart of Dreams, which is where all dream power in Aspira comes from, they set out to fix it. The most important part of the story is Eli's huge sacrifice: he gives up part of his own dream to save the dying Heart of Dreams. In both areas, it shows how powerfully personal dreams can affect the well-being of everyone. The Dream Thieves' future is changed by this brave and selfless act. Not only does it restore the flow of dreams, but it also forces them to become Protectors of Dreams, watching over the dream realm in case it is threatened again. The sad ending of "The Dream Thieves" is a bittersweet reminder of how dreams can bring about change, heal wounds, and bring people together. By following Eli's journey, readers are encouraged to think about how their own goals relate to reality and how they can work together to change it. Aspira wakes to a new era of peace and creativity. The story has a timeless lesson about how important it is to love and protect our dreams because they are the seeds from which amazing things can grow. Chapter 1: The Amazing Dream of Eli. This was the first dream of its kind that Eli had ever had. Not only was he drawn to the city's beautiful textures and bright colors, but he was also drawn to the never-ending thrill and freedom he felt as he explored this amazing world. If you remember Eli's dream, he was on top of a cloud and looked down at a city that seemed to defy gravity. They were connected by bridges that looked like they were made of light and hung loosely in the air. They were made of bright materials that he wasn't sure what they were. There were buses and flying cars buzzing around him in the sky. They darted between buildings like fish in a river. The animals that roamed the city streets and sky, on the other hand, were what made this dream unique. These animals weren't like other animals; they talked to people like people, telling stories about their adventures and meeting people who came by. Eli remembers seeing a dog that could run faster than the flying cars and a cat whose wings sounded like old stories and whose laughter could be heard in the wind. When Eli woke up, his heart was still racing from an exciting dream. He lay in bed for a while, holding on to the dim memories of the city in the sky and the people who lived there. When Eli opened his eyes, he thought he might be back in the dream because it felt so real and solid. Eli felt he had to talk about what he had seen, even though the dream details were blurring and scenes from his own room were taking their place. He wasn't sure if his friends would believe him when he told them about the flying city and the talking animals, or if they would just think it was another dream. However, Eli knew that this dream was different. It didn't seem like something out of his mind; it was like a doorway into a world that was linked to his own in some way. The town of Aspira, where Eli lived, needed some magic. It had slowly lost its shine and life, and now there was a pall of darkness around it. It was hard for the people of Aspira to live happy lives because their daily lives were so boring and hard. The streets of town were not as busy as they used to be, and kids laughing wasn't heard very often. Eli had always thought that Aspira was missing something, something that could bring back the wonder and joy that had faded over time. While Eli thought about his dream, he began to wonder if Aspira needed a reminder of the magic in the world, the magic that could make the town happy again. Eli hurried to meet his friends because he was excited and wanted to tell them about his idea. His passionate story about his dream, which included detailed accounts of floating buildings, flying cars, and animals that talked, wowed his coworkers. They paid close attention as Eli told them about a world full of magic and excitement. Aspira seemed to suddenly feel better as they sat together. The sadness that had been there seemed to lift, and a glimpse of hope and promise took its place. What Eli dreamed brought back the wonder and joy that his friends had lost for too long. They talked about their own dreams and told each other about strange animals and places they had seen in their sleep. They could believe in the impossible again after Eli's dream seemed to have opened a door. They thought that Eli's dream might not have been a dream at all as they talked. It could have been a challenge to them to find the magic in their own lives and bring it back to Aspira. In response to Eli's idea, they came up with a plan. Instead of in the sky, they were going to build their own flying city on Aspira. They would start with small projects like making models of flying structures and their own talking animals to bring some of Eli's ideas to life. Each project was meant to bring the wonder and happiness that Eli's dream had given them to as many people in the town as possible. It was their time to work when something amazing happened. Aspira's population grew because Eli and his friends were happy and interested. By stating their own goals and ideas, they added their knowledge and creativity to the movement that was already strong. The town slowly changed from being dead and boring to busy and creative. Paintings on the walls showed scenes from Eli's dream, and the talking animal statues in the town square made everyone happy. Eli's wonderful dream had started a movement in Aspira and given him a short break from real life. People in the town were told that magic isn't just in dreams, but also in the strength of groups and creativity. Aspira's streets went from being sad to being full of hope because of them. They brought Eli's skyscraper city to life. Eli realized that remembering what a place used to be is sometimes better than trying to change it. As the town began to come to life with the spirit of the dream, he realized this. Chapter 2: The Burglars in the Venereal Area It was dark and strange in the peaceful town of Aspira, and something bad was going on. The Dream Thieves, a name for a group of mysterious and interesting people, walked quietly through the streets. They moved through the darkness with a grace that was both beautiful and scary. Their presence was almost ghostly, and you could feel it more than see it. These were not your average thieves; instead, they were looking for the most valuable and mysterious things in people. What they hoped for. They used ethereal nets and gadgets from an unknown world to record the dreams of the people who slept in Aspira. They were driven by need, not greed or spite. Dreams were more than just mental illusions for them; they were an important part of their world, like how air and water are for us. In the Dream Thieves' country, people's dreams became real. Over time, this fabric had started to fray and fall apart, which put their world's future at risk. To fix it, they needed dreams from people, full of color and feeling. The Dream Thieves waited for the Aspira people to go to sleep every night so they could steal their dreams, which rose up like smoke. These dreams ranged from normal to strange, from vivid memories of the previous day to trips into the future to places no one had been before. For the Dream Thieves, every dream was an important resource because it gave them energy to keep their world going for a little while longer. As they moved around Aspira, the Dream Thieves worked quickly but with respect for the dreams they stole. They knew how much the things they stole were worth and how their acts had hurt the people they borrowed from. But they were in great need, and the survival of their country was in danger. Aspira started to change a little with each dream that was written down. People in town felt like their mornings were missing something, but they couldn't put their finger on it. The intense dreams they had seemed to fade, leaving them with an unsettling feeling of emptiness and pain. They felt like something had cast a shadow over who they were, making them less inspired, happy, and living. Even though there was ethereal silence after the Dream Thieves' visits, people in Aspira were getting restless. They talked in whispers about their dying dreams, telling stories of lost adventures at night and strangely sad mornings. Some people started to wonder if the Dream Thieves stories, which had been written off as lies before, might actually be true. Could there really be beings that only lived in people's dreams, wiping out wonder and imagination in the process? The thought scared and interested the people in the town, who were all interested in the mysterious people who walked the streets at night. The bad guys in this story, though, were not the Dream Thieves. In their society, taking dreams was not a crime, that was okay. It was a heavy duty that was taken on in the hopes that one day there would be no need to take from people, that their reality could be fixed, and that their worlds would be balanced again. They wished there was a way for everyone to live together and enjoy the beauty of dreams without putting anyone in danger or using up all their resources. During their nighttime walks, each dream they gathered had a whispered plea for peace, understanding, and a time when dreams can freely move between their world and the human world.
Book Synopsis Call Down the Hawk (The Dreamer Trilogy, Book 1) by : Maggie Stiefvater
Download or read book Call Down the Hawk (The Dreamer Trilogy, Book 1) written by Maggie Stiefvater and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Raven Boys, a mesmerizing story of dreams and desires, death and destiny. The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming - they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives - they will sleep forever if their dreamers die.And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use them. To trap them. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all.Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality.Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it.Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer . . . and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed. . . .
Book Synopsis Lovers, Dreamers, & Thieves by : Marcia Cebulska
Download or read book Lovers, Dreamers, & Thieves written by Marcia Cebulska and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With a novelist's eye for detail and a poet's gift for language, Cebulska has written a visceral knockout of a memoir packed with vibrant, unforgettable family members and unexpected happenings. Cebulska is a brilliant, big-hearted, and luminous storyteller who can capture a world in a short vignette. I was entirely captivated by these intimate and moving family portraits that have shaped the author's life and work." Harriet Lerner, author of The Dance of Anger and Why Won't You Apologize? "This memoir is at once funny and poignant, wide-ranging and laser-focused, personal and universal. Cebulska weaves memories, family stories, and local history with deftness and reverence, creating a memoir that is both fun to read and profound." Charles Anthony Silvestri, poet, lyricist, author of A Silver Thread "Marcia Cebulska's account of life in Chicago's Polish community is both moving and important. Polish Americans in Chicago are often referenced but have not often told their own story. Lovers, Dreamers, and Thieves captures both the joys and the sorrow of the immigrant/ethnic experience in the Windy City. It is a must read for anyone interested in Chicago and its diverse people." Dominic A. Pacyga, Author of American Warsaw: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Polish Chicago. "Marcia Cebulska, in Lovers, Dreamers, & Thieves, transforms the stories of her life into fabulous folk tales full of fantastic and fantastical lore focusing on everything from the holy (a youthful interest in becoming a nun), to the earthly and earthy (her great-grandmother was a blacksmith), to the wholly bizarre (her grandfather produced fake weddings) and shocking (her uncle's connection to the mob and father's arrest). This collection elevates the commonplace book far above and beyond the common, up past the luminiferous ether, settling in the realm of legends that couldn't possibly be true, right? Oh but they are. Now listen..." Andrew Farkas, Author of The Great Indoorsman: Essays, The Big Red Herring, and Sunsphere
Book Synopsis Dangerous Dreamers by : Robert Sobel
Download or read book Dangerous Dreamers written by Robert Sobel and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the perpetrators of some of the most dizzing and daring financial machinations.
Book Synopsis For Sale —American Paradise by : Willie Drye
Download or read book For Sale —American Paradise written by Willie Drye and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal for Best Regional Nonfiction in the Southwest The story of how Florida became entwined with Americans’ 20th-century hopes, dreams, and expectations is also a tale of mass delusion, real estate collapses, and catastrophic hurricanes. The Fantasy of Florida hones in on the experiences of William Jennings Bryan and Edwin Menninger, the two men who shaped the image of Florida that we know today and who sold that image as America’s paradise. The cast of characters also includes the Marx Brothers, Thomas Edison, Al Capone, and Mark Twain. A tale of a colorful and tragicomic era during which the allure and illusion of the American Dream was on full display—a Jazz Age period when Americans started chasing what F. Scott Fitzgerald called “the orgiastic future”—the book reveals how the recent economic collapse in Florida is eerily similar to events that happened there between 1925 and 1928. What sets the mid-1920s’ Florida land boom apart from more recent booms-and-busts, however, is that this was the first modern boom, the first time that emerging new technologies, mass communications and modern advertising techniques were used to sell the nation on the notion that prosperity and happiness are simply there for the taking. Florida’s image as a place where the rules of everyday life don’t apply and winners go to play was formed during this dawn of the age of consumerism when Americans wanted to have fun and make lots of money, and millions of them thought Florida was the perfect place to do that.
Book Synopsis The Dream Thieves by : Maggie Stiefvater
Download or read book The Dream Thieves written by Maggie Stiefvater and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that the ley lines are awake, Ronan Lynch's ability to pull objects from his dreams is out of control but worst of all, the Gray Man is stalking the Lynch family, looking for something called the Greywaren.
Book Synopsis Mister Impossible (The Dreamer Trilogy #2) by : Maggie Stiefvater
Download or read book Mister Impossible (The Dreamer Trilogy #2) written by Maggie Stiefvater and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Raven Boys, a mesmerizing story of dreams and desires, death and destiny. Something is happening to the source of the dreamers' power. It is blocked. Diminished. Weak. If it goes away entirely, what will happen to the dreamers and those who depend on them? Ronan Lynch isn't planning to wait and find out. Backed by his mentor, Bryde, he is ready to do what needs to be done to save the dreamers and the dreamed . . . even if it takes him far from his family and the boy he loves. Jordan Hennessy knows she will not survive if the dreaming fails. So she plunges into a dark underworld in order to find an object that may sustain her. Carmen Farooq-Lane is afraid of the dreamers -- which is why she's agreed to hunt them down. The closer she gets, though, the more complicated her feelings become. Will the dreamers destroy the world . . . or will the world be destroyed trying to eliminate the dreamers? In the remarkable second book of The Dreamer Trilogy, Maggie Stiefvater pushes her characters to their limits -- and shows what happens when they start to break.
Book Synopsis Dreamers of the Day by : Mary Doria Russell
Download or read book Dreamers of the Day written by Mary Doria Russell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A schoolteacher still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic travels to the Middle East in this memorable and passionate novel “Marvelous . . . a stirring story of personal awakening set against the background of a crucial moment in modern history.”—The Washington Post Agnes Shanklin, a forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio, has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference convenes, she is freed for the first time from her mother’s withering influence and finds herself being wooed by a handsome, mysterious German. At the same time, Agnes—with her plainspoken American opinions—is drawn into the company of Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell, who will, in the space of a few days, redraw the world map to create the modern Middle East. As they change history, Agnes too will find her own life transformed forever. With prose as graceful and effortless as a seductive float down the Nile, Mary Doria Russell illuminates the long, rich history of the Middle East with a story that brilliantly elucidates today’s headlines.
Book Synopsis Making Markets by : Mitchel Y. Abolafia
Download or read book Making Markets written by Mitchel Y. Abolafia and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the wake of million-dollar scandals brought about by Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, and their like, Wall Street seems like the province of rampant individualism operating at the outermost extremes of self-interest and greed. But this, Mitchel Abolafia suggests, would be a case of missing the real culture of the Street for the characters who dominate the financial news. Making Markets, an ethnography of Wall Street culture, offers a more complex picture of how the market and its denizens work. Not merely masses of individuals striving independently, markets appear here as socially constructed institutions in which the behavior of traders is suspended in a web of customs, norms, and structures of control. Within these structures we see the actions that led to the Drexel Burnham and Salomon Brothers debacles not as bizarre aberrations, but as mere exaggerations of behavior accepted on the Street. Abolafia looks at three subcultures that coexist in the world of Wall Street: the stock, bond, and futures markets. Through interviews, anecdotes, and the author’s skillful analysis, we see how traders and New York Stock Exchange “specialists” negotiate the perpetual tension between short-term self-interest and long-term self-restraint that marks their respective communities—and how the temptation toward excess spurs market activity. We also see the complex relationships among those market communities—why, for instance, NYSE specialists resent the freedoms permitted over-the-counter bond traders and futures traders. Making Markets shows us that what propels Wall Street is not a fundamental human drive or instinct, but strategies enacted in the context of social relationships, cultural idioms, and institutions—a cycle that moves between phases of unbridled self-interest and collective self-restraint."
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Download or read book Born Fighting written by Jim Webb and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first work of nonfiction, bestselling novelist James Webb tells the epic story of the Scots-Irish, a people whose lives and worldview were dictated by resistance, conflict, and struggle, and who, in turn, profoundly influenced the social, political, and cultural landscape of America from its beginnings through the present day. More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition, and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working class America, and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself. Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the full journey of this remarkable cultural group, and the profound, but unrecognized, role it has played in the shaping of America. Written with the storytelling verve that has earned his works such acclaim as “captivating . . . unforgettable” (the Wall Street Journal on Lost Soliders), Scots-Irishman James Webb, Vietnam combat veteran and former Naval Secretary, traces the history of his people, beginning nearly two thousand years ago at Hadrian’s Wall, when the nation of Scotland was formed north of the Wall through armed conflict in contrast to England’s formation to the south through commerce and trade. Webb recounts the Scots’ odyssey—their clashes with the English in Scotland and then in Ulster, their retreat from one war-ravaged land to another. Through engrossing chronicles of the challenges the Scots-Irish faced, Webb vividly portrays how they developed the qualities that helped settle the American frontier and define the American character. Born Fighting shows that the Scots-Irish were 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army; they included the pioneers Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston; they were the writers Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and they have given America numerous great military leaders, including Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Audie Murphy, and George S. Patton, as well as most of the soldiers of the Confederacy (only 5 percent of whom owned slaves, and who fought against what they viewed as an invading army). It illustrates how the Scots-Irish redefined American politics, creating the populist movement and giving the country a dozen presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. And it explores how the Scots-Irish culture of isolation, hard luck, stubbornness, and mistrust of the nation’s elite formed and still dominates blue-collar America, the military services, the Bible Belt, and country music. Both a distinguished work of cultural history and a human drama that speaks straight to the heart of contemporary America, Born Fighting reintroduces America to its most powerful, patriotic, and individualistic cultural group—one too often ignored or taken for granted.
Download or read book Dream Thief written by Tony Abbott and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. When Eric's nightmare can only mean that he is being summoned back to Droon, he and his friends arrive to find out that the citizens' dreams are being stolen.
