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Author : Jessica Collaço
Release : 2014
Genre : Fireflies
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 700/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Firenze's Light by : Jessica Collaço
Download or read book Firenze's Light written by Jessica Collaço. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Petina Gappah
Release : 2021-07-06
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 341/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Out of Darkness, Shining Light by : Petina Gappah
Download or read book Out of Darkness, Shining Light written by Petina Gappah. This book was released on 2021-07-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful, moving, and revelatory novel set in nineteenth-century Africa--the captivating story of the loyal men and women who carried the body of explorer and missionary David Livingstone from Zambia to Zanzibar so that his remains could be returned home to England. Dawn, 1 May 1873, on the outskirts of Chitambo's village, near Lake Bangweulu in modern-day Zambia. The Scottish explorer and missionary David Livingstone has died. He had been heading south in the African interior on an increasingly maniacal mission to penetrate the greatest secret of Victorian exploration. He wanted to find the source of the world's longest river, the Nile. Instead, on an isolated and swampy floodplain, Dr. Livingstone found his death. How Livingstone is to be buried will be decided by his African companions, a group of sixty-nine men, women, and children. They decide that come what may, Livingstone, his papers and maps, must all be carried to England. They bury his heart and other organs under a tree and dry his flesh like jerky in the sun. Over nine months, battling severe illness and hunger, hostile chiefs and unknown terrain, all while taking a tortuous route of more than 1,000 miles to the coast to avoid marauding slave traders, they march with Livingstone's body and the evidence of his explorations. Their journey has been called "the most extraordinary story in African exploration." In this novel, their story is retold anew in the distinct, indelible voices of Livingstone's sharp-tongued female cook, Halima; a repressed, formerly enslaved African missionary named Jacob Wainwright; and the collective voice of the retainers. The result is a profound and tragic journey--an epic like no other--that encompasses all of the hypocrisy of slavery and colonization while celebrating resilience, loyalty, and love. In Out of Darkness, Shining Light, Petina Gappah has created an ambitious and artful masterpiece.
Author : Ame Dyckman
Release : 2015-02-17
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 780/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Wolfie the Bunny by : Ame Dyckman
Download or read book Wolfie the Bunny written by Ame Dyckman. This book was released on 2015-02-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Families of all kinds will delight in this sweet tale of new babies, sibling rivalry, bravery, unconditional love...and veggies! The Bunny family has adopted a wolf son, and daughter Dot is the only one who realizes Wolfie can--and might--eat them all up! Dot tries to get through to her parents, but they are too smitten to listen. A new brother takes getting used to, and when (in a twist of fate) it's Wolfie who's threatened, can Dot save the day?
Author : Neil Sheehan
Release : 2009-10-20
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 808/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Bright Shining Lie by : Neil Sheehan
Download or read book A Bright Shining Lie written by Neil Sheehan. This book was released on 2009-10-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most acclaimed books of our time—the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterprise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a charismatic soldier who put his life and career on the line in an attempt to convince his superiors that the war should be fought another way. By the time he died in 1972, Vann had embraced the follies he once decried. He died believing that the war had been won. In this magisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, a renowned journalist tells the story of John Vann—"the one irreplaceable American in Vietnam"—and of the tragedy that destroyed a country and squandered so much of America's young manhood and resources.
Author : Robert Shapiro
Release : 1995-01-01
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 709/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shining the Light II by : Robert Shapiro
Download or read book Shining the Light II written by Robert Shapiro. This book was released on 1995-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book continues the story of the secret government and alien involvement as well as information about the photon belt, cosmic holograms photographed in the sky, a new vortex forming near Sedona, and nefarious mining on the sacred Hopi land.
