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Southern Cross the Dog

2013-05-07 Fiction
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Release : 2013-05-07
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Book Synopsis Southern Cross the Dog by : Bill Cheng

Download or read book Southern Cross the Dog written by Bill Cheng. This book was released on 2013-05-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O’Connor, Bill Cheng’s Southern Cross the Dog is an epic literary debut in which the bonds between three childhood friends are upended by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. In its aftermath, one young man must choose between the lure of the future and the claims of the past. Having lost virtually everything in the fearsome storm—home, family, first love—Robert Chatham embarks on an odyssey that takes him through the deep South, from the desperation of a refugee camp to the fiery and raucous brothel Hotel Beau-Miel and into the Mississippi hinterland, where he joins a crew hired to clear the swamp and build a dam. Along his journey he encounters piano-playing hustlers, ne’er-do-well Klansmen, well-intentioned whores, and a family of fur trappers, the L’Etangs, whose very existence is threatened by the swamp-clearing around them. The L’Etang brothers are fierce and wild but there is something soft about their cousin Frankie, possibly the only woman capable of penetrating Robert’s darkest places and overturning his conviction that he’s marked by the devil. Teeming with language that renders both the savage beauty and complex humanity of our shared past, Southern Cross the Dog is a tour de force that heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.

Southern Cross

1999-12-01 Fiction
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Release : 1999-12-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Southern Cross by : Patricia Cornwell

Download or read book Southern Cross written by Patricia Cornwell. This book was released on 1999-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patricia Cornwell has a sixth sense about the men and women in blue. In Hornet's Nest, her page-turning novel about crime and police in Charlotte, North Carolina, Cornwell moved behind the badges of these real-life heroes to uncover flesh-and-blood characters who strode through her pages to reveal vulnerable, passionate, brave, sometimes doubting, always fascinating figures. In Southern Cross, Cornwell takes us even closer to the personal and professional lives of big-city police, in a story of corruption, scandal, and robberies that escalate to murder. This time, her setting is Richmond, Virginia, where Charlotte Police Chief Judy Hammer has been brought by an NIJ grant to clean up the police force. Reeling from the recent death of her husband, and resented by the police force, city manager, and mayor of Richmond, Hammer is joined by her deputy chief Virginia West and rookie Andy Brazil on the most difficult assignment of her career. In the face of overwhelming public scrutiny, the trio must bring truth, order, and sanity to a city in trouble.

Southern Cross

2013-09-08 Social Science
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Release : 2013-09-08
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 25X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Southern Cross by : Lioness DeWinter

Download or read book Southern Cross written by Lioness DeWinter. This book was released on 2013-09-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if you were suddenly faced with the responsibility of being a God? For Timothy De Marquisate, it is yet another task that he must handle with his legendary style and grace. A humble prostitute with a heart of gold, Timothy seems born to play the role...but will his beloved Matthias stand by him? Book Two in the Jasmine Vampire series, this is the story of a modern day Messiah who must sacrifice himself for the good of humanity. This is a story of family, of friendship, of brotherhood and passion...it is about true love, no matter what the cost. Book One, The Scent Of Jasmine, followed Matthias on his journey back to humanity through the love of his beautiful Timothy. Join us now as we delve into the sad and sordid past, and learn a bit more about Arik, Obadiah, Brian, Benediction, Jesse, Matthias and Timothy...and the true meaning of Sacrifice.

The Call of the Southern Cross

2021-11-09 Fiction
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Release : 2021-11-09
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Call of the Southern Cross by : John Sandes

Download or read book The Call of the Southern Cross written by John Sandes. This book was released on 2021-11-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Call of the Southern Cross' is a romance-adventure book written by John Sandes. The story follows Sydney Verner, the long-nosed young officer, who happened to be a lieutenant in the 12th Light Dragoons, and who was passionately fond of hunting.

Centaurus and the Southern Cross

2021-03-15 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2021-03-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Centaurus and the Southern Cross by : Marius Taciuc

Download or read book Centaurus and the Southern Cross written by Marius Taciuc. This book was released on 2021-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the reader is transported to many locations in Papua New Guinea while savoring the author’s true stories and identifying with his experiences. From West Sepik to Madang, from the mountain heights of the Highlands to the Bismarck Sea-washed shores, the reader has the opportunity to resonate with the cultural context of the Asia-Pacific region. These people groups, nearly forgotten by the western world, live in the characteristic “endless cycle” style of the past. In their animistic worldview, the people of this area hold the belief that nothing changes. According to indigenous culture, the human spirit continuously transforms into other forms of life after it ceases to exist as a human. So, ancestors still exist and will always exist in the form of spirits in the universe that surrounds us. For that reason, time does not exist, so history is not worth record­ing: what is now was also in the past, and what will come tomorrow is a rebirth of the past and of those from the past in another form. How then does a young country (established in 1975) reconcile the modern age with indigenous traditions? How does an animistic society embrace new Christian teachings in the midst of naturalistic-evolutionistic times? Centaurus and the Southern Cross attempts to bring to the forefront a rediscovery of the reasons why there is value in using every available technology to advance the Good News here at the ends of the earth. Although this book’s stories are not arranged chronologically, they share a common theme of indigenous customs, and the way they impact societal behaviors in this region. This is what gives the book its continuity. I would not have been able to present certain aspects of the way the Word of God works in a people rooted and still tied to animistic practices if I had not chosen to examine these issues first. I found that the best way to transport the reader into this world of 839 tribes was by describing particular revealing events first. This book introduces the goals which make it worth investing in these people through any means possible and with every talent God has given us.

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