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Book Synopsis A Life Of Commas: A Soldier's Story by : R. Brady Johnson
Download or read book A Life Of Commas: A Soldier's Story written by R. Brady Johnson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Life of Commas, Mr. Johnson takes readers along on his roller coaster ride through fear and struggle, triumph and joy, leaving us inspired by his positivity, persistence, and faith.
Download or read book Tree of Smoke written by Denis Johnson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
Book Synopsis A Life Of Commas: A Soldier's Story by : R. Brady Johnson
Download or read book A Life Of Commas: A Soldier's Story written by R. Brady Johnson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Life of Commas, Mr. Johnson takes readers along on his roller coaster ride through fear and struggle, triumph and joy, leaving us inspired by his positivity, persistence, and faith.
Download or read book Mrs. Dalloway written by Virginia Woolf and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death. The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.
Book Synopsis Eats, Shoots & Leaves by : Lynne Truss
Download or read book Eats, Shoots & Leaves written by Lynne Truss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.
Download or read book A Long Way Gone written by Ishmael Beah and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life. “Why did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war.” “You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?” “Yes, all the time.” “Cool.” I smile a little. “You should tell us about it sometime.” “Yes, sometime.” This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
Download or read book WHEREAS written by Layli Long Soldier and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.
Book Synopsis The Domfarers of Coramonde by : Brian Daley
Download or read book The Domfarers of Coramonde written by Brian Daley and published by Lucia St. Clair Robson. This book was released on 1977 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four hours ago Gil MacDonald and his men had been fighting off an ambush in a Vietnam jungle. Now, thanks to some kin of spell, they were in the middle of this Fantasy Land filled with flying dragons, wizards, crazy castles and dispossessed princes.
Book Synopsis I Had Seen Castles by : Cynthia Rylant
Download or read book I Had Seen Castles written by Cynthia Rylant and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now an old man, John is haunted by memories of enlisting to fight in World War II, a decision which forced him to face the horrors of war and changed his life forever.
Book Synopsis American Fragments by : Daniel Diez Couch
Download or read book American Fragments written by Daniel Diez Couch and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the independence of the colonies and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous number of literary texts called "fragments."American Fragments argues that this archive of deliberately unfinished writing reimagined the place of marginalized individuals in a country that was itself still unfinished.
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Book Synopsis The Memoirs of a Revolutionary Soldier by : Joseph Plumb Martin
Download or read book The Memoirs of a Revolutionary Soldier written by Joseph Plumb Martin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Plumb Martin's 'The Memoirs of a Revolutionary Soldier' is a firsthand account of the American Revolutionary War, providing readers with a unique perspective on the hardships and triumphs experienced by the soldiers who fought for independence. Written in a straightforward and unembellished style, Martin's memoir offers a raw and honest portrayal of the harsh realities of war, including battles, marches, and the struggles of daily life as a soldier. This literary work gives readers an intimate look at the sacrifices made by those who fought for a new nation, making it a valuable primary source for historians and anyone interested in the Revolutionary War period. Martin's vivid descriptions and personal anecdotes bring to life the courage and resilience of the soldiers who helped shape American history. Joseph Plumb Martin's own experiences as a soldier in the war undoubtedly influenced his decision to pen this invaluable memoir, providing readers with an authentic and unfiltered account of a pivotal time in American history. 'The Memoirs of a Revolutionary Soldier' is a must-read for those seeking a deeper understanding of the sacrifices and struggles faced by the men who fought for freedom during the Revolutionary War.
Download or read book Comma written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Effective writing in English by : Mike Hannay
Download or read book Effective writing in English written by Mike Hannay and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We learn to speak and understand our native language without any great effort, for these are natural aspects of the maturation of every human being. The skills of reading and writing, by contrast, have to be learned, usually in an educational context. Now, when it comes to a foreign language, all the skills (speaking, un derstanding, reading and writing) have to be learned - nothing can be acquired without considerable effort. This learning process does not take place in a vac uum: it is heavily influenced by our previous experience of acquiring our native language and learning to read and write it. These facts have been taken as the background to this book. We aim this book at native speakers of Dutch who have learned to read and write their own language, and who now wish to add skill in writing English to their repertoire. Since this is our well-defined target group, we will be continually pointing to those aspects of written English which differ from comparable aspects of written Dutch, while also giving a complete guide to the writing process. There are two matters concerning the presentation of information in this book that require clarification in advance. Firstly, the book contains hundreds of numbered examples.
Download or read book Hannah's Garden written by Midori Snyder and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cassie's grandfather falls ill, she and her mother return to his farm, where Cassie discovers a wonderful, terrible secret about her family.
Download or read book Mourt's Relation written by Anonymous and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1986-09 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an account, first published in 1622, of the Pilgrim's journey to the new world.
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