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Odyssey of Innocents

Author : Lydia Edwards
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480816833
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Odyssey of Innocents written by Lydia Edwards and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tania Abu Ali is just thirteen years old when she and her family are forced to flee their home in Damascus, Syria, during a violent civil war. They gather everything they can carry, join the masses, and seek safety in a refugee camp in Lebanon. But life in the camp promises no secure future. Its not safe and food is scarce. Tanias mother sends her four children on a journey to a better life. The siblings are instructed to go west in search of the great sea called the Mediterranean. By wit and perseverance, they venture forward through civil wars, ethnic and religious clan conflict, assault, slave traders, border barricades, and death. They experience the goodwill of many, overcome the malice of few, thus discovering a world of hope and promise, inspired to go forward to the mystery of the next plateau. A work of historical fiction, Odyssey of Innocents provides an intimate look at the struggles and dreams of people caught in the chaos of the Syrian civil war.

Innocents

Author : Cathy Coote
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780802139276
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Innocents written by Cathy Coote and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having set out to seduce her teacher as part of a personal agenda, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl realizes her seductive powers are greater than she realized and leaves the home of her guardian aunt and uncle in order to move in with him. Original.

Odyssey of an Innocent

Author : kerry Heubeck
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426986211
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Odyssey of an Innocent written by kerry Heubeck and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) came into the vernacular, a child-soldier returns home from a distant war, believing himself unscathed. Yet the beauty, the dark humor, the lunacyand the horror of his experiences there continue haunt him. He is no longer able to make sense of the world; no job or relationship can hold him...he has to keep moving! In his third Vietnam book, Kerry Heubeck reaches into personal depths, traversing foreign lands and emotions, seeking answers to unnamable questions. He encounters the prophesies of a seeress, the healing salve of nature and the wisdom of Monkey. From that Oriental Trickster, he learns that if he is to quiet the sirens that drew him into this quest, he must return to that land ravished by war. Heubecks odyssey through the Land of the Dragon brings a glimpse of the serenity he seeks. It also draws the reader into an unforgettable adventure during a harrowing moment of this planets history.

The Last Innocents

Author : Michael Leahy
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062360582
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Last Innocents written by Michael Leahy and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year Finalist for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing From an award-winning journalist comes the riveting odyssey of seven Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1960s—a chronicle of a team, a game, and a nation in transition during one of the most exciting and unsettled decades in history. Legendary Dodgers Maury Wills, Sandy Koufax, Wes Parker, Jeff Torborg, Dick Tracewski, and Tommy Davis encapsulated 1960s America: white and black, Jewish and Christian, wealthy and working class, pro-Vietnam and anti-war, golden boy and seasoned veteran. The Last Innocents is a thoughtful, technicolor portrait of these seven players—friends, mentors, confidants, rivals, and allies—and their storied team that offers an intriguing look at a sport and a nation in transition. Bringing into focus the high drama of their World Series appearances from 1962 to 1972 and their pivotal games, Michael Leahy explores these men’s interpersonal relationships and illuminates the triumphs, agonies, and challenges each faced individually. Leahy places these men’s lives within the political and social maelstrom that was the era when the conformity of the 1950s gave way to demands for equality and rights. Increasingly frustrated over a lack of real bargaining power and an oppressive management who meddled in their personal affairs, the players shared an uneasy relationship with the team’s front office. This contention mirrored the discord and uncertainty generated by myriad changes rocking the nation: the civil rights movement, political assassinations, and growing hostility to the escalation of the Vietnam War. While the nation around them changed, these players each experienced a personal and professional metamorphosis that would alter public perceptions and their own. Comprehensive and artfully crafted, The Last Innocents is an evocative and riveting portrait of a pivotal era in baseball and modern America.

Odyssey of Innocents

Author : Donnie Kingman
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595004776
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Odyssey of Innocents written by Donnie Kingman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-05-18 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High hopes and thirty dollars start a young couple forced out of farming, by the dust bowl and the Great Depression, to leave their Texas home. In 1936, with another newly married couple, they search for a better life in California. This story of adventure, hardships and triumphs is told through the eyes of a sixteen year old bride who has never been more than sixty miles from her Texas home. This true story that reads like a novel, tells of being homeless, hungry, of floods and rattlesnakes; living under a tree for six winter months and the pleasure of having a box of oatmeal. Told with laughter and tears, the story is about sacrifice and success from 1936 through the beginning of World War II. Filled with the wonder of seeing new places, meeting other refugees and hearing their stories; of doing migratory farm labor and farming cotton. She misses her family and has many flashbacks of her earlier life in Texas. The theme throughout this book is a young bride抯 dream of a little white house, orange trees and a garden. The dream helps her face many hardships. Will the dream be realized?

Border Odyssey

Author : Charles D. Thompson
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0292771991
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Border Odyssey written by Charles D. Thompson and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This blend of travelogue and reportage from the US-Mexico border is “an exploration of 2,000 miles of fraught, rugged and deeply contested territory” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). In a quest to capture a real-life, close-up view of the land where so many have been kicked, cussed, spit on, arrested, detained, trafficked, or killed—and the subject that has been debated for decades by politicians and commentators—Charles D. Thompson records his journey from Boca Chica to Tijuana, and his conversations with everyone from border officials to migrant workers to local residents. Along the journey, five centuries of cultural history (indigenous, French, Spanish, Mexican, African American, colonist, and US), wars, and legislation unfold. Among the terrain traversed: walls and more walls, unexpected roadblocks, and patrol officers; a golf course (you could drive a ball across the border); a Civil War battlefield (you could camp there); the southernmost plantation in the US; a hand-drawn ferry, a road-runner tracked desert and a breathtaking national park; barbed wire, bridges, and a trucking-trade thoroughfare; ghosts with guns; obscured, unmarked, and unpaved roads; a Catholic priest and his dogs, artwork, icons, and political cartoons; a sheriff and a chain-smoking mayor; a Tex-Mex eatery empty of customers and a B&B shuttering its doors; murder-laden newspaper headlines at breakfast; the kindness of the border-crossing underground; and too many elderly, impoverished, ex-U.S. farmworkers, braceros, who lined up to have Thompson take their photograph. “A firsthand look at how modern U.S. border policy has affected the people in the region, from migrant workers to indigenous people to border patrol agents to residents of economically stagnant towns just north of the boundary. The result is a travel memoir with a conscience, an extension of Thompson’s ongoing work to humanize the hotly debated region.” —The News & Observer

Odyssey

Author : Homer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198788805
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book Odyssey written by Homer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their composition almost 3,000 years ago the Homeric epics have lost none of their power to grip audiences and fire the imagination: with their stories of life and death, love and loss, war and peace they continue to speak to us at the deepest level about who we are across the span of generations. That being said, the world of Homer is in many ways distant from that in which we live today, with fundamental differences not only in language, social order, and religion, but in basic assumptions about the world and human nature. This volume offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to ancient Greek culture through the lens of Book One of the Odyssey, covering all of these aspects and more in a comprehensive Introduction designed to orient students in their studies of Greek literature and history. The full Greek text is included alongside a facing English translation which aims to reproduce as far as feasible the word order and sound play of the Greek original and is supplemented by a Glossary of Technical Terms and a full vocabulary keyed to the specific ways that words are used in Odyssey I. At the heart of the volume is a full-length line-by-line commentary, the first in English since the 1980s and updated to bring the latest scholarship to bear on the text: focusing on philological and linguistic issues, its close engagement with the original Greek yields insights that will be of use to scholars and advanced students as well as to those coming to the text for the first time.

Killing Time

Author : John Hollway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1626369143
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Killing Time written by John Hollway and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a prominent white man in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to Angola Prison and confined to his cell for twenty-three hours a day. However, Thompson adamantly proclaimed his innocence and just needed lawyers who believed that his trial had been mishandled and would step up to the plate against the powerful DA’s office. But who would fight for Thompson’s innocence when he didn’t have an alibi for the night of the murder and there were two key witnesses to confirm his guilt? Killing Time is about the eighteen-year quest for Thompson’s freedom from a wrongful murder conviction. After Philadelphia lawyers Michael Banks and Gordon Cooney take on his case, they struggle to find areas of misconduct in his previous trials while grappling with their questions about Thompson’s innocence. John Hollway and Ronald M. Gauthier have interviewed Thompson and the lawyers, and paint a realistic and compelling portrait of life on death row and the corruption in the Louisiana police and DA’s office. When it is found that evidence was mishandled in a previous trial that led to his death sentence in the murder case, Thompson is finally on his road to freedom—a journey that continues with his suit against Harry Connick, Sr. and the New Orleans DA’s office to this day.

Mark Twain's Travel Literature

Author : Harold H. Hellwig
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786436514
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Travel Literature written by Harold H. Hellwig and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-03-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical study analyzes major concepts in the travel literature of Mark Twain and notes how his oeuvre (including his classic works of fiction) revolves around travel as a central issue. The book focuses especially on his representations of time, place, and identity in the travel works Roughing It, A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, Life on The Mississippi, and Following the Equator. All receive an in-depth analysis, noting Twain's strong sense of nostalgia for the disappearing American frontier, his growing concern over the assimilation of Native American cultures, and his continual search for a sense of personal and national identity. One appendix provides a complete list of the travel literature contained in Twain's personal library.

Innocent Intent

Author : K.C. Mills
Publisher : Black Odyssey Media
ISBN 13 : 195795017X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Innocent Intent written by K.C. Mills and published by Black Odyssey Media. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a wife becomes the prime suspect in her husband’s murder, this criminal psychologist must forget everything she thought she knew in order to clear her name in this debut psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Shanora Williams’ The Wife Before. Cassidy Evans is the blueprint. As a Criminal Psychologist, Cassidy is a savant. She spent years solving groundbreaking cases by shifting through the minds and behaviors of those driven by the darkness that controls them. After years of dedicated field work, Cassidy decides to retire and share her expertise of killers’ mentalities as a novelist. As a published author, she’s now happily married and spends most of her time traveling the world and sharing with others how to understand the twisted minds that drive bad behaviors. Unfortunately, with all of the knowledge that Cassidy is armed with, she somehow overlooks the lies of the person closest to her. When she tags along to a crime scene with and old colleague, Cassidy is shocked to discover that the victim is her husband. If that’s not enough to send her world spiraling, she also finds out that the identity of the murdered victim, doesn’t match the name on their marriage license. Things quickly escalate when Cassidy becomes the main suspect. Not knowing the man she is married to is the least of Cassidy’s problems. Everyone believes she is a murderer, and none more than the lead detective on the case¾Nathanial Davis. He is determined to find the truth while proving to the world that Cassidy isn’t who she claims to be. In doing so, he decides to keep Cassidy close while digging through her past to uncover all of her untold truths. While she’s hiding secrets that could totally destroy the world she spent years building, Cassidy learns that things are never what they seem. With such an intricate familiarity of seeing through lies, how is it that Cassidy is happily married to a man who she loves and adores, but doesn’t truly know? Suddenly, losing her career is far less important than maintaining her freedom. In the end, she may lose both.

An Orchestra of Minorities

Author : Chigozie Obioma
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316412414
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book An Orchestra of Minorities written by Chigozie Obioma and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartbreaking story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves, by Man Booker Finalist and author of The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma. "It is more than a superb and tragic novel; it's a historical treasure."-Boston Globe Set on the outskirts of Umuahia, Nigeria and narrated by a chi, or guardian spirit, An Orchestra of Minorities tells the story of Chinonso, a young poultry farmer whose soul is ignited when he sees a woman attempting to jump from a highway bridge. Horrified by her recklessness, Chinonso joins her on the roadside and hurls two of his prized chickens into the water below to express the severity of such a fall. The woman, Ndali, is stopped her in her tracks. Bonded by this night on the bridge, Chinonso and Ndali fall in love. But Ndali is from a wealthy family and struggles to imagine a future near a chicken coop. When her family objects to the union because he is uneducated, Chinonso sells most of his possessions to attend a college in Cyprus. But when he arrives he discovers there is no place at the school for him, and that he has been utterly duped by the young Nigerian who has made the arrangements... Penniless, homeless, and furious at a world which continues to relegate him to the sidelines, Chinonso gets further away from his dream, from Ndali and the farm he called home. Spanning continents, traversing the earth and cosmic spaces, and told by a narrator who has lived for hundreds of years, the novel is a contemporary twist of Homer's Odyssey. Written in the mythic style of the Igbo literary tradition, Chigozie Obioma weaves a heart-wrenching epic about destiny and determination.

Odyssey

Author : Sanjay Sonawani
Publisher : Booktango
ISBN 13 : 1468950916
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book Odyssey written by Sanjay Sonawani and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odyssey Set on the backdrop of annihilating Trojan War, home returning Greek warriors had to undergo other tremulous events. Menelaus had won back his estranged wife, Helenâe¦but did he? What fate was waiting home for Agamemnon? And what happened to Odysseus, chief architect of the Trojan victory?The journey was not easy. The destiny was all the time laughing at them through Cassandra!An epical story of human strife and persistence!

Innocent Years

Author : Andreas Polydorou
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1847534368
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Innocent Years written by Andreas Polydorou and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Cyprus in the 1950's.

The Death of Innocents

Author : Helen Prejean
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030727702X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Innocents written by Helen Prejean and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-01-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the national bestseller Dead Man Walking comes a brave and fiercely argued new book that tests the moral edge of the debate on capital punishment: What if we’re executing innocent men? Two cases in point are Dobie Gillis Williams, an indigent black man with an IQ of 65, and Joseph Roger O’Dell. Both were convicted of murder on flimsy evidence (O’Dell’s principal accuser was a jailhouse informant who later recanted his testimony). Both were executed in spite of numerous appeals. Sister Helen Prejean watched both of them die.As she recounts these men’s cases and takes us through their terrible last moments, Prejean brilliantly dismantles the legal and religious arguments that have been used to justify the death penalty. Riveting, moving, and ultimately damning, The Death of Innocents is a book we dare not ignore.

Innocent Casualties

Author : Elaine Feuer
Publisher : Blue Danube Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0988969130
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Innocent Casualties written by Elaine Feuer and published by Blue Danube Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innocent Casualties is a well-documented expose that blows the whistle on the FDA and its 40-year war on alternative healing that may be costing hundreds of thousands of Americans the access to the very medicines that can save their lives. Innocent Casualties manages to make the blood boil in righteous anger, because it makes the FDA’s abuse of power so personal. Ms. Feuer takes the reader step-by-step through the nonsensical tactics, deceit, and police mentality, by disclosing the cunning and underhanded means used by the FDA to appear to be serving the people while actually abetting the cause of the international drug cartel.

Survivor's Odyssey

Author : Richard Wiener
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479794724
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Survivor's Odyssey written by Richard Wiener and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book transports the reader to the very beginnings of the Nazi regime, as seen through the eyes of a young boy -- the only Jew in a school of Hitler Youths in a small medieval German town. It is his life journey -- his traumatic experience of Kristallnacht . . . the destruction of his home . . . separation from his parents . . . exile . . . post-war reconciliation with his ex-classmates . . . forgiveness . . . and ultimate grant of honorary citizenship -- that provides the reader with a rich, inspiring you-are-there experience seldom encountered in the Holocaust canon.

River Thieves

Author : Michael Crummey
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307374882
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book River Thieves written by Michael Crummey and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In elegant, sensual prose, Michael Crummey crafts a haunting tale set in Newfoundland at the turn of the 19th century. A richly imagined story about love, loss and the heartbreaking compromises—both personal and political—that undermine lives, River Thieves is a masterful debut novel. Published in Canada and the United States, it joins a wave of classic literature from eastern Canada, including the works of Alistair MacLeod, Wayne Johnston and David Adams Richards, while resonating at times with the spirit of Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain and Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy. An enthralling story of passion and suspense, River Thieves captures both the vast sweep of history and the intimate lives of a deeply emotional and complex cast of characters caught in its wake.