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A Burning in Homeland

Author : Richard Yancey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743254376
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book A Burning in Homeland written by Richard Yancey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Burning in Homeland is ...a wonderfully written, crazily romantic story of intense love and devastating betrayal ...a stunning debut of a remarkably gifted young novelist ...a Southern novel that captures the beauty, madness and mystery of both place and time. In what can only be described as a tour-de-force of passionate atmospheric storytelling, first-time novelist Richard Yancey had created a finely nuanced narrative that resounds with raw, emotional truths -- a story about the ominous return to a small town in central Florida of a man once sentenced to prison for defending the honor of the woman he loved, about the woman and her husband who both betrayed him, and about a guileless young boy who gets caught up in their web of love, lies, and deceit. The story of the love between Halley Martin and Mavis Howell is seldom talked about in the tiny town of Homeland, Florida, but in the twenty years since Halley was sent to prison for murdering a rival suitor -- the only murder ever in this small, pious town -- the story has become legend. To seven-year-old Shiny Parker it has become a mystery, something his parents whisper about. He knows that somehow the pretty wife of the local minister is involved, but it is all too confusing for him to sort out. When the church's parsonage burns, almost killing the minister, only days before the legendary Halley Martin is due to be released from prison, Shiny senses a connection between the events -- as do most residents of the town. But if Haley was still in prison when the house burned, who set the fire...and why? Passionate love, the betrayal of friendship, hidden letters, a suspicious fire, mystery and revenge -- all are elements of this complex and deeply involving Southern gothic tale. Alternating among a trio of first person narrators -- Shiny, Mavis, and Halley -- Richard Yancey has created a lush, epic Southern landscape bursting with larger than life characters and rich atmospherics. A Burning in Homeland is both starkly haunting and exquisitely romantic and a masterpiece of dazzling storytelling you will not soon forget.

Homeland

Author : Cory Doctorow
Publisher : Tor Teen
ISBN 13 : 1466805870
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Homeland written by Cory Doctorow and published by Tor Teen. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco—an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state. A few years later, California's economy collapses, but Marcus's hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform. Soon his former nemesis Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumbdrive containing a Wikileaks-style cable-dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy. It's incendiary stuff—and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is supposed to release it to the world. Then Marcus sees Masha being kidnapped by the same government agents who detained and tortured Marcus years earlier. Marcus can leak the archive Masha gave him—but he can't admit to being the leaker, because that will cost his employer the election. He's surrounded by friends who remember what he did a few years ago and regard him as a hacker hero. He can't even attend a demonstration without being dragged onstage and handed a mike. He's not at all sure that just dumping the archive onto the Internet, before he's gone through its millions of words, is the right thing to do. Meanwhile, people are beginning to shadow him, people who look like they're used to inflicting pain until they get the answers they want. Fast-moving, passionate, and as current as next week, Homeland is every bit the equal of Little Brother—a paean to activism, to courage, to the drive to make the world a better place. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Homeland Burning

Author : Brinn Colenda
Publisher : Callahan Family Saga
ISBN 13 : 9781596161030
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Homeland Burning written by Brinn Colenda and published by Callahan Family Saga. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summer 2000: Wildfires destroy mountain watersheds and municipal water systems, and shooters target civilians as environmental terrorism comes to the United States. Wallerein, terrorist-for-hire, unleashes a terrifying campaign of attacks on the American Homeland... and his enemy, Tom Callahan. Callahan rallies support to stop the attacks.

Enna Burning

Author : Shannon Hale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 159990408X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Enna Burning written by Shannon Hale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second book in New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale's beloved YA fantasy series Books of Bayern, the fire could save Enna . . . or destroy her. Enna's brother, Leifer, has found the secret to an extraordinary power--to make fire without a spark. It's an ability that could be used for good . . . if he can control it. But Enna can't decide if it's a power she wants for herself, or one that should be extinguished forever. When their home country of Bayern goes to war, the choice becomes unbearable. Enna never imagined the warm, life-giving energy of fire could destroy anything she loves, but now she must try to save Bayern and herself before fire consumes her entirely. Don't miss any of these other books from New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale: The Books of Bayern The Goose Girl Enna Burning River Secrets Forest Born The Princess Academy trilogy Princess Academy Princess Academy: Palace of Stone Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters Book of a Thousand Days Dangerous Graphic Novels with Dean Hale, illustrated by Nathan Hale Rapunzel's Revenge Calamity Jack For Adults Austenland Midnight in Austenland The Actor and the Housewife

Brominated Flame Retardants: A Burning Issue

Author :
Publisher : Am Cncl on Science, Health
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brominated Flame Retardants: A Burning Issue written by and published by Am Cncl on Science, Health. This book was released on with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In the Fire of the Eastern Front

Author : Hendrik C. Verton
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811735893
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book In the Fire of the Eastern Front written by Hendrik C. Verton and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dutch SS accounts are rare, particularly ones that describe recruiting, training, and frontline combat as completely and vividly as In the fire of the Eastern Front. Hendrick C. Verton volunteered for the Waffen-SS in early 1941 and fought against the Red Army until the end of the war as a soldier in the 5th SS Panzer Division 'Wiking' and SS Regiment Besslein, with which he participated in the epic defense of Breslau. Told from the unique perspective of a foreigner serving in the German military, Verton's memoir is an exciting addition to the literature of World War II"--Page 4 of cover.

Fire Officer

Author : Iafc
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1449601626
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Fire Officer written by Iafc and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) And The International Association Of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) Are Pleased To Bring You The Second Edition Of Fire Officer: Principles And Practice, A Modern Integrated Teaching And Learning System For The Fire Officer I And II Levels. Fire Officers Need To Know How To Make The Transition From Fire Fighter To Leader. Fire Officer: Principles And Practice, Second Edition Is Designed To Help Fire Fighters Make A Smooth Transition To Fire Officer. Covering The Entire Scope Of NFPA 1021, Standard For Fire Officer Professional Qualifications, 2009 Edition, Fire Officer Combines Current Content With Dynamic Features And Interactive Technology To Better Support Instructors And Help Prepare Future Fire Officers For Any Situation That May Arise. Safety Is Principle! The Second Edition Features A Laser-Like Focus On Fire Fighter Safety. Reducing Fire Fighter Injuries And Deaths Requires The Dedicated Efforts Of Every Fire Fighter, Fire Officer, Fire Department, And The Entire Fire Community Working Together. It Is With This Goal In Mind That We Have Integrated The 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Developed By The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation Into The Text. Likewise, In Each Of The Chapters, Actual National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System Cases Are Discussed To Drive Home Safety And The Lessons Learned From Those Incidents. Some Of The Guiding Principles Added To The New Edition Include: •Description Of The “Everybody Goes Home” And The National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System, Including Over A Dozen Company Officer Near-Miss Examples Throughout The Text. •Description Of The IAFC/IAFF Firefighter Safety And Deployment Study. •The Latest Fire Fighter Death And Injury Issues As Reported By The NFPA? National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, IAFC, And IAFF, Including Results Of A Thirty-Year Retrospective Study. •Changes In Fire-Ground Accountability And Rapid Intervention Practices. •Results Of National Institute Of Standards And Technology Research On Wind-Driven Fires, Thermal Imaging Cameras, And Fire Dynamics As Related To Fire Fighter Survival. •The Latest Developments In Crew Resource Management. The Second Edition Also Reflects The Latest Developments In: •Building A Personal Development Plan Through Education, Training, Self-Development, And Experience, Including A Description Of The Fire And Emergency Services Higher Education (FESHE) Program. •The Impact Of Blogs, Video Sharing, And Social Networks. •How To Budget For A Grant. •Changes In The National Response Framework And National Incident Management System. Additional Items Related To Fire Fighter Safety And Health Are Included.

GUATEMALA

Author : Narayan Changder
Publisher : CHANGDER OUTLINE
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book GUATEMALA written by Narayan Changder and published by CHANGDER OUTLINE. This book was released on 2023-01-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a captivating journey through the heart of Guatemala with "GUATEMALA UNVEILED," the ultimate MCQ guide to the country's Mayan mysteries, natural wonders, and cultural riches. Tailored for students, travelers, and enthusiasts, this comprehensive guide takes you on an interactive adventure filled with engaging multiple-choice questions, insightful analyses, and interactive learning elements that unveil the treasures of Guatemala, from its ancient archaeological sites to the lush landscapes of Lake Atitlˆn and the vibrant tapestry of its indigenous cultures. Key Features: Mayan Mysteries: Dive into the enigmatic world of the Maya, exploring Guatemala's ancient archaeological wonders such as Tikal and Yaxhˆ. MCQs provide insights into the geographical wonders that make Guatemala a living testament to one of the world's most fascinating civilizations. Natural Wonders: Explore Guatemala's diverse and lush landscapes, from the volcanic highlands of Antigua to the tropical rainforests of Pet?n. Multiple-choice questions offer a glimpse into the ecological wonders that make Guatemala a paradise for nature enthusiasts. Cultural Riches: Journey through Guatemala's rich cultural heritage, including its indigenous traditions, colonial history, and vibrant arts scene. MCQs delve into key cultural events, influential figures, and the unique blend of Mayan and Spanish influences that shape the nation. Colonial Elegance: Gain insights into Guatemala's colonial architectural elegance, from the charming streets of Antigua to the historic structures of Quetzaltenango. Multiple-choice questions provide a comprehensive view of the country's architectural heritage. Lake Atitlˆn Magic: Discover the magic of Lake Atitlˆn, surrounded by picturesque villages and framed by volcanic peaks. MCQs provide a glimpse into the cultural significance and natural beauty of this iconic Guatemalan destination. Interactive Learning: Foster engagement with interactive elements, including visual aids, supplementary resources, and discussion prompts. This guide goes beyond traditional general knowledge resources, allowing readers to actively participate in the discovery of Guatemala. Why Choose Our MCQ Guide? Comprehensive Expertise: Crafted by experts in Guatemalan history, geography, archaeology, and culture, this guide ensures accuracy and depth in presenting the multifaceted aspects of the country. Versatile Learning: Whether you're a student studying the region, a traveler planning a visit, or simply intrigued by Guatemala, this guide accommodates various learning preferences and levels of expertise. Informed Exploration: "GUATEMALA UNVEILED" equips you with the knowledge needed to explore the country with a deeper understanding of its Mayan mysteries, natural wonders, and cultural riches. Keywords: Guatemala, MCQ Guide, Mayan Mysteries, Natural Wonders, Cultural Riches, Colonial Elegance, Lake Atitlˆn, Interactive Learning, Central America, Travel. Embark on an expedition through the Mayan mysteries, natural wonders, and cultural riches of Guatemala with "GUATEMALA UNVEILED." Whether you're a student, traveler, or enthusiast, this MCQ guide provides an engaging and interactive exploration of the country's geography, culture, history, and archaeological wonders. Add this essential resource to your collection and uncover the secrets of this Central American gem. Purchase your guide now and embark on a journey of discovery in the heart of Guatemala!

The Beggar, The Thief and the Dogs, Autumn Quail

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385498357
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book The Beggar, The Thief and the Dogs, Autumn Quail written by Naguib Mahfouz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2000-12-05 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anchor proudly presents a new omnibus volume of three novels--previously published separately by Anchor--by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Assembled here is a collection of Mahfouz's artful meditations on the vicissitudes of post-Revolution Egypt. Diverse in style and narrative technique, together they render a rich, nuanced, and universally resonant vision of modern life in the Middle East. The Beggar is a complex tale of alienation and despair. In the aftermath of Nasser's revolution, a man sacrifices his work and family to a series of illicit love affairs. Released from jail in post-Revolutionary times, the hero ofThe Thief and the Dogs blames an unjust society for his ill fortune, eventually bringing himself to destruction. Autumn Quail is a tale of moral responsibility, isolation, and political downfall about a corrupt bureaucrat who is one of the early victims of the purge after the 1952 revolution in Egypt.

Live Fire Training Principles and Practice

Author : International Society of Fire Service Instructors
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 1284171922
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Live Fire Training Principles and Practice written by International Society of Fire Service Instructors and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live Fire Training: Principles and Practice to NFPA 1403, Second Edition provides a definitive guide on how to ensure safe and realistic live fire training for both students and instructors.

Homeland Elegies

Author : Ayad Akhtar
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 031649643X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Homeland Elegies written by Ayad Akhtar and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "profound and provocative" new work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish: an immigrant father and his son search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other (Kirkus Reviews). One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020 Finalist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A Best Book of 2020 * Washington Post * O Magazine * New York Times Book Review * Publishers Weekly "Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable." —Salman Rushdie A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a country in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear, and where the nation's unhealed wounds wreak havoc around the world. Akhtar attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Central Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one—least of all himself—in the process.

Butterfly Burning

Author : Yvonne Vera
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466806079
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Butterfly Burning written by Yvonne Vera and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2000-09-12 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Butterfly Burning brings the brilliantly poetic voice of Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera to American readers for the first time. Set in Makokoba, a black township, in the late l940s, the novel is an intensely bittersweet love story. When Fumbatha, a construction worker, meets the much younger Phephelaphi, he"wants her like the land beneath his feet from which birth had severed him." He in turn fills her "with hope larger than memory." But Phephelaphi is not satisfied with their "one-room" love alone. The qualities that drew Fumbatha to her, her sense of independence and freedom, end up separating them. And the closely woven fabric of township life, where everyone knows everyone else, has a mesh too tight and too intricate to allow her to escape her circumstances on her own. Vera exploits language to peel away the skin of public and private lives. In Butterfly Burning she captures the ebullience and the bitterness of township life, as well as the strength and courage of her unforgettable heroine.

Gaffney V. Board of Trustees of the Orland Fire Protection District

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.W/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gaffney V. Board of Trustees of the Orland Fire Protection District written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Collapse of Burning Buildings, 2nd Edition

Author : Vincent Dunn
Publisher : PennWell Books
ISBN 13 : 1593702337
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Collapse of Burning Buildings, 2nd Edition written by Vincent Dunn and published by PennWell Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. General collapse information 2. Terms of construction and building design 3. Building construction: firefighting problems and structural hazards 4. Masonry wall collapse 5. Collapse dangers of parapet walls 6. Wood floor collapse 7. Sloping peak roof collapse 8. Timber truss roof collapse 9. Flat roof collapse 10. Lightweight steel roof and floor collapse 11. Lightweight wood truss collapse 12. Ceiling collapse 13. Stairway collapse 14. Fire escape dangers 15. Wood-frame building collapse 16. Collapse hazards of buildings under construction 17. Collapse caused by master stream operations 18. Search-and-rescue at a building collapse 19. Safety precautions prior to collapse 20. Why the World Trade Center Towers collapsed 21. High-rise building collapse 22. Post-fire analysis 23. Early floor collapse EPILOGUE: Are architects, engineers, and code-writing officials friends of the firefighters?

Heromaker

Author : G.B. Chavez
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Heromaker written by G.B. Chavez and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 1145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ezekiel-Amadeus is the eldest of nine children, all raised by a single mother, and tends to show total independence a lot younger than expected. An enigmatic change in his body compared to his fellow teenagers and a past life he cannot remember, he rises to prove himself capable of standing up for those he wishes to protect. Hildegard is an orphan raised by an abusive aunt, who wishes to one day become a singer and actress. But the more she learns about her parents, the more of a target she becomes. But when things get tough, she will do what she can to stand up for herself. Cadence is an incredibly intelligent, yet shy, young woman who has ideas to advance humanity’s understanding of science, all the while a stranger to true affection. And yet, beyond going through school, they encounter more than what most people know. Secrets, such as an underground nation comprised of Neo Nazis, the mysterious society of the Knights of the Peace Equation, the experimental city of Mega, among the fate of the race of Elfs, among other mythological creatures. About the Author About the time he reached middle school, G.B. Chavez began thinking of ideas for a television series he’d wish to someday create. By the time he graduated high school in 2019, he had begun to reinvent the story upon realizing how much of a challenge it would be, but still wished to get a version of the story out. In March of 2021, Chavez began to write Heromaker: A British Story Written By An American, which he plans to eventually be the first installment of an extensive series of books surrounding the main protagonist(s). Chavez has always had a fascination with culture affiliated with the United Kingdom, which has stemmed from watching Peter Pan as a child. This fascination is not only what inspired for this story to take place in the United Kingdom, but has him wishing to one day travel to the European nation.

Changing Women, Changing Nation

Author : Yajaira M. Padilla
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438442785
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Changing Women, Changing Nation written by Yajaira M. Padilla and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Women, Changing Nation explores the literary representations of women in Salvadoran and US-Salvadoran narratives during the span of the last thirty years. This exploration covers Salvadoran texts produced during El Salvador's civil war (1980–1992) and the current postwar period, as well as US-Salvadoran works of the last two decades that engage the topic of migration and second-generation ethnic incorporation into the United States. Rather than think of these two sets of texts as constituting separate literatures, Yajaira M. Padilla conceives of them as part of the same corpus, what she calls "trans-Salvadoran narratives"—works that dialogue with each other and draw attention to El Salvador's burgeoning transnational reality. Through depictions of women in trans-Salvadoran narratives, Padilla elucidates a "story" of female agency and nationhood that extends beyond El Salvador's national borders and imaginings.

Burning Orchards

Author : Gurgen Mahari
Publisher : Black Apollo Press
ISBN 13 : 1900355574
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Burning Orchards written by Gurgen Mahari and published by Black Apollo Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gurgen Marhari's controversial novel, Burning Orchards, is set in the Ottoman city of Van, Eastern Anatolia, during the period leading up to the Armenian rebellion of 1915 and relates the epic story of the events which culminated in the catastrophe of the following years, wonderfully told by one of the great writers emerging from Soviet Armenia. Written with an abiding humanity, Mahari's characters are portrayed as complex and flawed - neither hero nor villain but keenly observed and evoked with a tender humour. Burning Orchards offers a version of events leading up to the siege of Van different from the received, politically charged accounts, even daring to reflect something of the loyalty many Ottoman Armenians had felt towards the former Empire. First published in Armenian in 1966 after Mahari's long exile in Siberian, Burning Orchards (Ayrvogh Aygestanner), was banned and publicly burned in the streets of Yerevan, even though the authorities in Moscow had eventually agreed to its publication. Much against the wishes of his wife he tried to rewrite the novel, removing passages criticising some Armenian political parties and leaders, but dying before it could be finalised. The translation offered here is of the banned 1966 publication. A brilliant work, epic in scope and masterful in its depiction of the cruel displacement of an ancient people from their historic homeland, Burning Orchards is a re-discovered classic.