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Author : Marthese Fenech
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789995733087
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Eight Pointed Cross /Marthese Fenech written by Marthese Fenech and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marthese Fenech
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Eight Pointed Cross written by Marthese Fenech and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The violent clash between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St John on the island fortress Malta serves as the backdrop to Eight Pointed Cross. Young siblings Domenicus and Katrina Montesa live under constant threat of raids by the Ottoman Turks, the staunchest enemies of the Christian knights. All the while, hundreds of leagues away in Istanbul, Demir's dream of becoming an imperial horseman in the Sultan's cavalry is his only salvation against relentless torment by his cruel brother. The Turkish invasion of Malta and the island's bloody defence will forever change the lives of the three protagonists, whose fates are intertwined not only with each other, but with nobles and peasants, knights and corsairs, tyrants and galley slaves, on both sides of the conflict as the novel sweeps across the Mediterranean world of the sixteenth century-from Malta, a barren Christian outpost, to Istanbul, the glittering seat of Islam, from filthy prison cells to lush palace gardens. Against soaring sea-cliffs and open sea-lanes, the men and women of Eight Pointed Cross face corruption and oppression, broken vows and betrayal, as two great empires collide. Surviving this battle-soaked world of swords and scimitars will test the limits of every character's courage, loyalty, and love.
Author : T. S. Beier
Publisher : Nostromo Publications
ISBN 13 : 1777129532
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (771 download)
Download or read book What Branches Grow written by T. S. Beier and published by Nostromo Publications. This book was released on 2020-04-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Top 5 Category Finalist - 2020 Kindle Book Awards! A boldly imagined, exhilarating quest through post-apocalyptic America, where human nature is torn between the violent desperation to survive and the desire to forge connection. Thirty-five years ago, the world was ravaged by war. Delia, a tough-as-nails survivalist, travels North in search of a future. Gennero is tortured by his violent past and devotion to his hometown. Ordered to apprehend Delia, he follows her into the post-apocalyptic landscape. The wasteland is rife with dangers for those seeking to traverse it: homicidal raiders, dictatorial leaders, mutated humans, and increasingly violent and hungry wildlife. What Branches Grow is an unflinching depiction of life after civilization, where, above all else, trust is the hardest thing to achieve and give. The survivors have an audacious dream of a better life, but their quest may end up being a fruitless endeavour in a world openly hostile to hope. For fans of Fallout, Mad Max, and The Road. Action and adventure are rounded off with a slow-burn romance, dark comedy, and a dog companion.
Author : Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338233068
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Stolen Girl written by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to Making Bombs for Hitler and The War Below, this novel follows a Ukrainian girl who was kidnapped as a child to be raised by a Nazi family. Nadia is haunted by World War II. Her memories of the war are messy, coming back to her in pieces and flashes she can't control. Though her adoptive mother says they are safe now, Nadia's flashbacks keep coming.Sometimes she remembers running, hunger, and isolation. But other times she remembers living with a German family, and attending big rallies where she was praised for her light hair and blue eyes. The puzzle pieces don't quite fit together, and Nadia is scared by what might be true. Could she have been raised by Nazis? Were they her real family? What part did she play in the war?What Nadia finally discovers about her own history will shock her. But only when she understands the past can she truly face her future.Inspired by startling true events, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch delivers a gripping and poignant story of one girl's determination to uncover her truth.
Author : Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338310542
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (383 download)
Download or read book Don't Tell the Nazis written by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch (author of Making Bombs for Hitler) crafts a story of ultimate compassion and sacrifice based on true events during WWII. The year is 1941. Krystia lives in a small Ukrainian village under the cruel -- sometimes violent -- occupation of the Soviets. So when the Nazis march into town to liberate them, many of Krystia's neighbors welcome the troops with celebrations, hoping for a better life.But conditions don't improve as expected. Krystia's friend Dolik and the other Jewish people in town warn that their new occupiers may only bring darker days.The worst begins to happen when the Nazis blame the Jews for murders they didn't commit. As the Nazis force Jews into a ghetto, Krystia does what she can to help Dolik and his family. But what they really need is a place to hide. Faced with unimaginable tyranny and cruelty, will Krystia risk everything to protect her friends and neighbors?
Author : Karen Connelly
Publisher : Nan A. Talese
ISBN 13 : 0385533276
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Burmese Lessons written by Karen Connelly and published by Nan A. Talese. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orange Prize–winner Karen Connelly’s compelling memoir about her journey to Burma, where she fell in love with a leader of the Burmese rebel army. When Karen Connelly goes to Burma in 1996 to gather information for a series of articles, she discovers a place of unexpected beauty and generosity. She also encounters a country ruled by a brutal military dictatorship that imposes a code of censorship and terror. Carefully seeking out the regime’s critics, she witnesses mass demonstrations, attends protests, interviews detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and flees from police. When it gets too risky for her to stay, Connelly flies back to Thailand, but she cannot leave Burma behind. Connelly’s interest in the political turns more personal on the Thai-Burmese border, where she falls in love with Maung, the handsome and charismatic leader of one of Burma’s many resistance groups. After visiting Maung’s military camp in the jungle, she faces an agonizing decision: Maung wants to marry Connelly and have a family with her, but if she marries this man she also weds his world and his lifelong cause. Struggling to weigh the idealism of her convictions against the harsh realities of life on the border, Connelly transports the reader into a world as dangerous as it is enchanting. In radiant prose layered with passion, regret, sensuality and wry humor, Burmese Lessons tells the captivating story of how one woman came to love a wounded, beautiful country and a gifted man who has given his life to the struggle for political change.
Author : Larry E. Mifsud
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483604659
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Lost at Christmas written by Larry E. Mifsud and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winter of 1896 in the Yukon was very cold and windy. The winters were especially hard on the birds and animals. Settlers who moved to the Yukon struggled to survive. They provided shelter for their families by constructing small farmhouses. The wild life and settlers seldom crossed paths but that would all change. A severe snow storm altered the quiet existence of a family of geese, a tiny moose and a family of settlers. The result ended in a daring rescue and an everlasting friendship between them and a young girl at Christmas.
Author : Robert C. Jacobson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734205114
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Space Is Open for Business written by Robert C. Jacobson and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For hundreds of thousands of years, humanity focused on space as a location. Today, space is not just a destination-it is a domain, an ecosystem, an enabler of progress, and quite possibly the most valuable industry of the twenty-first century.Three things you need to know: Space as an industry is notoriously complex-which means it's misunderstood. Space influences and benefits nearly every other industry on the planet. Accessing space has never been easier.Space investor and entrepreneur Robert C. Jacobson provides a comprehensive overview of this spectacular industry, allowing everyone on Earth to understand the integral role space plays in our lives and how it will continue to transform the world. Over one hundred industry experts share exclusive insights, presenting a 360-degree view of the wide-ranging space industry, its emerging opportunities, investment potential, benefits on Earth, and more.Space Is Open for Business provides a framework for those outside of the industry to understand the critical context that led to the commercial movement known as NewSpace, illustrating how private sector trailblazers have evolved this $350 billion global industry and how NewSpace's exponential growth will lead our world into a new era of progress.Foreword by David S. Rose Founder, New York Angels | Associate Founder, Singularity University"A sweeping guide that will inspire you to think big about space, the space economy, and your role within it."Matthew C. Weinzierl, Ph.D., Harvard Business School
Author : Arthur Gilman Shapiro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019979460X
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions written by Arthur Gilman Shapiro and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual illusions are compelling phenomena that draw attention to the brain's capacity to construct our perceptual world. The Compendium is a collection of over 100 chapters on visual illusions, written by the illusion creators or by vision scientists who have investigated mechanisms underlying the phenomena. --
Author : Ernle Bradford
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497617308
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book The Great Siege, Malta 1565 written by Ernle Bradford and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire’s Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar. In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was thought to be invincible. Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman sultan, had expanded his empire from western Asia to southeastern Europe and North Africa. To secure control of the Mediterranean between these territories and launch an offensive into western Europe, Suleiman needed the small but strategically crucial island of Malta. But Suleiman’s attempt to take the island from the Holy Roman Empire’s Knights of St. John would emerge as one of the most famous and brutal military defeats in history. Forty-two years earlier, Suleiman had been victorious against the Knights of St. John when he drove them out of their island fortress at Rhodes. Believing he would repeat this victory, the sultan sent an armada to Malta. When they captured Fort St. Elmo, the Ottoman forces ruthlessly took no prisoners. The Roman grand master La Vallette responded by having his Ottoman captives beheaded. Then the battle for Malta began in earnest: no quarter asked, none given. Ernle Bradford’s compelling and thoroughly researched account of the Great Siege of Malta recalls not just an epic battle, but a clash of civilizations unlike anything since the time of Alexander the Great. It is “a superior, readable treatment of an important but little-discussed epic from the Renaissance past . . . An astonishing tale” (Kirkus Reviews).
Author : Heidi Williamson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780375229
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (752 download)
Download or read book Return by Minor Road written by Heidi Williamson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her mid-20s, Heidi Williamson was part of a Scottish community that suffered an inconceivable tragedy, the Dunblane Primary School shooting. Those years living in the town form the focus of her third poetry collection. Through rivers, rain, wildlife and landscape, Williamson revisits where 'the occasional endures' and discovers the healing properties of a beloved place that helped form her.
Author : Jennifer Wong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911027874
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (278 download)
Download or read book Letters Home written by Jennifer Wong and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters Home, Jennifer Wong's remarkable and vivid third collection of poems, unravels the complexities of being between nations, languages and cultures. Travelling across multiple borders of history and place, these poems examine what it means to be returning home, and whether it is a return to a location, a country or to a shared dream or language. "There are poems of homesickness, nostalgia, but also humour, hope and optimism - all depicted in Wong's distinctive, intelligent style... This is a remarkable collection, which makes a new and bold contribution to the genre of diaspora literature." - Hannah Lowe "Jennifer Wong's voice is captivating, compassionate, her poems full of insight, as she questions the complex relationship between culture and identity and what it means to leave a place to become defined by another." - Rebecca Goss
Author : Ray Fabri
Publisher : Brockmeyer Verlag
ISBN 13 : 381960734X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Maltese Linguistics written by Ray Fabri and published by Brockmeyer Verlag. This book was released on 2009 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Ball
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 0307423085
Total Pages : 685 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Ironfire written by David Ball and published by Delta. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Empires of Sand comes a mesmerizing new adventure that Jean Auel cites as “crowded with events that both forecast and mirror the conflicts of today.” Sweeping from the drawing rooms of Paris to the palace of Suleiman the Magnificent to the dark hold of a slave ship racing across the sea, here is a dazzling story of love and valor, innocence and identity, an epic novel of the clash of civilizations on a barren island where the future was forged. The Mediterranean, the sixteenth century: Lying squarely in the midst of the vital sea lanes between the Christian West and the Ottoman Empire in the East, and ruled by the ancient Order of the Knights of St. John, Malta will become the stage upon which the fate of the world turns. For one of its sons, the hand of violence strikes swiftly, when young Nicolo Borg is seized by Barbary slavers and launched on a remarkable journey to the court of the supreme ruler of the Muslim world. Renamed Asha, plotting his escape even as he swears allegiance to the god of his masters and is schooled in the arts of culture and war, the innocent boy will be transformed into one of the Sultan’s deadliest commanders. For Nico’s beloved sister, Maria, his loss fires her hatred for the knights who did nothing to save him and her dreams of escape from her stifling home. As the headstrong girl grows into a fierce beauty, she will capture the attention of one man in particular, Christien de Vries, a surgeon-knight torn between duty and desire, caught up in Malta’s frantic preparations against the coming Ottoman storm. Around Nico and Maria are men and women who will share their destinies: Dragut Raïs, a brilliant corsair, arch-rival of the knights…Giulio Salvago, a priest in full flight from his carnal nature…Alisa, a young beauty hidden away in a harem…Jean de La Valette, the master knight who is Malta’s only hope for survival. As the mighty Ottoman fleet bears down on the tiny island, as Nico Borg makes his way back to his homeland at the helm of a warship, Ironfire moves inexorably to a shattering climax where all will face ultimate justice in the murderous cauldron of siege warfare. Brilliantly capturing the crosscurrents of a storied age, Ironfire is historical fiction in the grand tradition, a stirring realization of a pivotal moment in time that irrevocably shaped the world we inhabit today.
Author : John Francis Guilmartin
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780304352630
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (526 download)
Download or read book Galleons and Galleys written by John Francis Guilmartin and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turn of the 16th century saw the start of a revolution in sea warfare, driven by gunpowder, galleys (long, low boats propelled principally by oars), and galleons (heavy, square rigged sailing ships). Suddenly, Europe dominated the waters. A beautifully written account of the age conveys exactly how Portugal could establish outposts throughout the world, how Christian fleets wrested control of the Mediterranean from the Ottoman Empire, and why the "invincible" Spanish armada met with disaster when attempting to invade England.
Author : Bruce Ware Allen
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1611688434
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book The Great Siege of Malta written by Bruce Ware Allen and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1565, a massive fleet of Ottoman ships descended on Malta, a small island centrally located between North Africa and Sicily, home and headquarters of the crusading Knights of St. John and their charismatic Grand Master, Jean de Valette. The Knights had been expelled from Rhodes by the Ottoman sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, and now stood as the last bastion against a Muslim invasion of Sicily, southern Italy, and beyond. The siege force of Turks, Arabs, and Barbary corsairs from across the Muslim world outnumbered the defenders of Malta many times over, and its arrival began a long hot summer of bloody combat, often hand to hand, embroiling knights and mercenaries, civilians and slaves, in a desperate struggle for this pivotal point in the Mediterranean. Bruce Ware Allen's The Great Siege of Malta describes the siege's geopolitical context, explains its strategies and tactics, and reveals how the all-too-human personalities of both Muslim and Christian leaders shaped the course of events. The siege of Malta was the Ottoman empire's high-water mark in the war between the Christian West and the Muslim East for control of the Mediterranean. Drawing on copious research and new source material, Allen stirringly recreates the two factions' heroism and chivalry, while simultaneously tracing the barbarism, severity, and indifference to suffering of sixteenth-century warfare. The Great Siege of Malta is a fresh, vivid retelling of one of the most famous battles of the early modern world - a battle whose echoes are still felt today.
Author : Nicholas Monsarrat
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780304358441
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (584 download)
Download or read book The Kappillan of Malta written by Nicholas Monsarrat and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2001 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As bombs pound Malta to dust, Father Salvatore--a simple priest, or kappillan, serving the poor--finds himself caught in the drama of World War Two. In the fragile safety of catacombs revealed by the explosions, he tends to the flood of homeless, starving, and frightened people seeking shelter, giving messages of inspiration and hope. His story, and that of the island, unfold in superbly graphic images of six days during the siege. "...one of the most memorable characters of postwar fiction"--Daily Express. 5 X 7 3/4.
