Mountain Windsong

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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806186925
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Book Synopsis Mountain Windsong by : Robert J. Conley

Download or read book Mountain Windsong written by Robert J. Conley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the tragic events of the Cherokees' removal from their traditional lands in North Carolina to Indian Territory between 1835-1838, Mountain Windsong is a love story that brings to life the suffering and endurance of the Cherokee people. It is the moving tale of Waguli (Whippoorwill") and Oconeechee, a young Cherokee man and woman separated by the Trail of Tears. Just as they are about to be married, Waguli is captured be federal soldiers and, along with thousands of other Cherokees, taken west, on foot and then by steamboat, to what is now eastern Oklahoma. Though many die along the way, Waguli survives, drowning his shame and sorrow in alcohol. Oconeechee, among the few Cherokees who remain behind, hidden in the mountains, embarks on a courageous search for Waguli. Robert J. Conley makes use of song, legend, and historical documents to weave the rich texture of the story, which is told through several, sometimes contradictory, voices. The traditional narrative of the Trail of Tears is told to a young contemporary Cherokee boy by his grandfather, presented in bits and pieces as they go about their everyday chores in rural North Carolina. The telling is neiter bitter nor hostile; it is sympathetic by unsentimental. An ironic third point of view, detached and often adversarial, is provided by the historical documents interspersed through the novel, from the text of the removal treaty to Ralph Waldo Emerson's letter to the president of the United States in protest of the removal. In this layering of contradictory elements, Conley implies questions about the relationships between history and legend, storytelling and myth-making. Inspired by the lyrics of Don Grooms's song "Whippoorwill," which open many chapters in the text, Conley has written a novel both meticulously accurate and deeply moving.

Mountain of Tears

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504926404
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)

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Book Synopsis Mountain of Tears by : Leo LePage

Download or read book Mountain of Tears written by Leo LePage and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the Marine Corp from the characters making a decision to enter to boot camp to the training to become a Recon Marine.

Tears of the Mountain

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Publisher : Unbridled Books
ISBN 13 : 1609530063
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis Tears of the Mountain by : John Addiego

Download or read book Tears of the Mountain written by John Addiego and published by Unbridled Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is July 4th, 1876, and Jeremiah McKinley is looking forward to a great day of festivity ... among friends, family, and heroes in Sonoma County, California. His only teacher is returning from the East Coast to visit after an absence of twenty-five years. He reflects on past love, the hazardous pioneer journey of his youth ... and the many violent conflicts of the West, and voices of the long dead seem to come from everywhere. A series of mysterious notes follow him throughout the day. When a visiting senator is found murdered, suspicion leads to his old mentor, Professor Applewood, whose sudden disappearance from the festivities makes McKinley a suspected accesstory to a fugitve."--Jacket.

The Mountain That Loved A Bird

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Publisher : Tulika Books
ISBN 13 : 9788181460769
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mountain That Loved A Bird by : Alice McLerran

Download or read book The Mountain That Loved A Bird written by Alice McLerran and published by Tulika Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-loved story by an American writer draws from universal truths as it tells a lyrical tale of a small bird that changes the life of a cold and bare mountain. Read, performed and presented through puppets all over the world, it has also been dramatised innovatively in different countries, the most recent being Japan. This new edition has rich and evocative illustrations by Stephen Aitken, who lives in Himachal Pradesh.

The Tears of the Rajas

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471129470
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis The Tears of the Rajas by : Ferdinand Mount

Download or read book The Tears of the Rajas written by Ferdinand Mount and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tears of the Rajas is a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt and disease, everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan snows. They lived through the most appalling atrocities and retaliated with some of their own. Each of their lives, remarkable in itself, contributes to the story of the whole fragile and imperilled, often shockingly oppressive and devious but now and then heroic and poignant enterprise. On the surface, John and Augusta Low and their relations may seem imperturbable, but in their letters and diaries they often reveal their loneliness and desperation and their doubts about what they are doing in India. The Lows are the family of the author's grandmother, and a recurring theme of the book is his own discovery of them and of those parts of the history of the British in India which posterity has preferred to forget. The book brings to life not only the most dramatic incidents of their careers - the massacre at Vellore, the conquest of Java, the deposition of the boy-king of Oudh, the disasters in Afghanistan, the Reliefs of Lucknow and Chitral - but also their personal ordeals: the bankruptcies in Scotland and Calcutta, the plagues and fevers, the deaths of children and deaths in childbirth. And it brings to life too the unrepeatable strangeness of their lives: the camps and the palaces they lived in, the balls and the flirtations in the hill stations, and the hot slow rides through the dust. An epic saga of love, war, intrigue and treachery, The Tears of the Rajas is surely destined to become a classic of its kind.

Tears in the Wind

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533558138
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (581 download)

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Book Synopsis Tears in the Wind by : Larry Semento

Download or read book Tears in the Wind written by Larry Semento and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Larry Semento signed on with a commercial expedition to climb Denali (formerly Mt. McKinley) in Alaska, he expected an adventure. He didn't anticipate the story of a lifetime. After battling harsh weather to reach the summit, the team encountered a horrible tragedy on descent. Follow along on this amazing journey and discover what it is like to climb a big mountain, and understand the impact that this epic adventure had on him, his family and friends.

Trail of Tears

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307793834
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis Trail of Tears by : John Ehle

Download or read book Trail of Tears written by John Ehle and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail. The Cherokee are a proud, ancient civilization. For hundreds of years they believed themselves to be the "Principle People" residing at the center of the earth. But by the 18th century, some of their leaders believed it was necessary to adapt to European ways in order to survive. Those chiefs sealed the fate of their tribes in 1875 when they signed a treaty relinquishing their land east of the Mississippi in return for promises of wealth and better land. The U.S. government used the treaty to justify the eviction of the Cherokee nation in an exodus that the Cherokee will forever remember as the “trail where they cried.” The heroism and nobility of the Cherokee shine through this intricate story of American politics, ambition, and greed. B & W photographs

Vale of Tears

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Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1461625831
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Book Synopsis Vale of Tears by : Peter T. King

Download or read book Vale of Tears written by Peter T. King and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2003-11-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his inimitable "two track" style of creating a fictional future and flashing back to actual events in recent history, Peter T. King once again places Congressman Sean Cross at the center of international terrorism, this time coming from radical Islam in cahoots with the Irish Republican Army. The "reality-based" track gives a minute-by-minute account of September 11, 2001 and its effect on the cities of New York and Washington, and continues with month-by-month accounts up until September 11, 2002. A leading congressional Republican, King offers keen insight into President Bush's inner circle in the days immediately following the attacks. In King's fictional future New York once again comes under attack, and it falls upon the resourceful Sean Cross to uncover the odd bedfellows that comprise this latest conspiracy to visit terror on American soil.

Tears of Blood

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582431027
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)

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Book Synopsis Tears of Blood by : Mary Craig

Download or read book Tears of Blood written by Mary Craig and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2000-09-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1959, when China claimed power over this tiny mountain nation, more than one million Tibetans are believed to have perished by starvation, execution, imprisonment, and abortive uprisings. Many thousands more, including their spiritual and political leader, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, have been driven into exile.The country has been systematically colonized, so that indigenous inhabitants are now a second–class minority. Not only are Tibetans being squeezed out by Chinese settlers, but there are reports of Tibetan women being forcibly sterilized and of healthy full–term babies being killed at birth. Thousands of Tibetans languish in prison and suffer appalling torture. Rich mineral resources have been plundered and the delicate ecosystem devastated. Buddhism, the life blood of Tibet, has been ruthlessly suppressed.Mary Craig tells the story of Tibet with candor and power. Based upon extensive research and interviews with large numbers of refugees now living in exile in India, this book presents four decades of religious persecution, environmental devastation, and human atrocities that have caused Tibetans to weep "tears of blood."

Below the Crying Mountain

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis Below the Crying Mountain by : Criselda Yabes

Download or read book Below the Crying Mountain written by Criselda Yabes and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Below the Crying Mountain won the Gawad Likhaan, the University of the Philippines Centennial Literary Prize.

Thirteen Moons

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Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 030736643X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis Thirteen Moons by : Charles Frazier

Download or read book Thirteen Moons written by Charles Frazier and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent novel by one of America’s finest writers is the epic of one man’s remarkable journey, set in nineteenth-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life. At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins – for a brief moment – a mysterious girl named Claire, and his passion and desire for her spans this novel. As Will’s destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians – including a Cherokee Chief named Bear – he learns how to fight and survive in the face of both nature and men, and eventually, under the Corn Tassel Moon, Will begins the fight against Washington City to preserve the Cherokee’s homeland and culture. And he will come to know the truth behind his belief that “only desire trumps time.” Brilliantly imagined, written with great power and beauty by a master of American fiction, Thirteen Moons is a stunning novel about a man’s passion for a woman, and how loss, longing and love can shape a man’s destiny over the many moons of a life.

The Mountain Within: Leadership Lessons and Inspiration for Your Climb to the Top

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Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071773258
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (717 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mountain Within: Leadership Lessons and Inspiration for Your Climb to the Top by : Herta Von Stiegel

Download or read book The Mountain Within: Leadership Lessons and Inspiration for Your Climb to the Top written by Herta Von Stiegel and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 2008, international business executive Herta von Stiegel led a group of disabled people to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for charity. The story was captured in the award-winning documentary The Mountain Within—and now the expedition has inspired this remarkable work, which blends the gripping tale with powerful leadership lessons and conversations with many of the world’s most influential business leaders: Kay Unger Sung-Joo Kim Dr. Joachim Faber Baroness Scotland of Asthal Marsha Serlin Dr. Karl (Charly) and Lisa Kleissner Martha (Marty) Wikstrom Sam Chisholm Minister Mohamed Lotfi Mansour Karin Forseke President and Lt. General Seretse Khama Ian Khama Christie Hefner Abeyya Al-Qatami Hon. Al Gore and David Blood Dr. Mohamed “Mo” Ibrahim Life may be full of obstacles, but it is the mountain within that most often needs to be conquered. No matter your challenges or where you are on your climb to the top, this unique work helps you become a resilient leader capable of guiding your team to achieve even the most challenging goal.

The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories

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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806123530
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (235 download)

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Book Synopsis The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories by : Robert J. Conley

Download or read book The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories written by Robert J. Conley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories, based on Cherokee history, folklore, and experience, reflect the depth of historical experience, as well as the range of contemporary life and values of this enduring Native American people

Tears of the Salamander

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Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
ISBN 13 : 0307547930
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis Tears of the Salamander by : Peter Dickinson

Download or read book Tears of the Salamander written by Peter Dickinson and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfredo, a choir boy in 18th-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, and his mysterious Uncle Giorgio spirits him away to their ancestral home below a volcano. There he learns that Uncle Giorgio is the Master of the Mountain; he can control the volcano. He is also an alchemist, able to make gold from the tears of the fiery salamander he captured from the heart of the mountain. Alfredo is his heir, the next Master; and as Alfredo learns the history of his family and its power, he begins to suspect that his uncle is actually a fearsome sorcerer.

The Trail of Tears

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Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780756501013
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis The Trail of Tears by : Michael Burgan

Download or read book The Trail of Tears written by Michael Burgan and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2001 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts how the Cherokees were forced to leave their land and travel to a new settlement in Oklahoma, a terrible journey known as the Trail of Tears.

The Tears of the Blind Lions

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Tears of the Blind Lions by : Thomas Merton

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Trail of Tears

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Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 9781604539462
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis Trail of Tears by : Sue Vander Hook

Download or read book Trail of Tears written by Sue Vander Hook and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2010 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a brief history of the Cherokee Indians and describes their forced migration, which came to be known as the Trail of Tears, following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.