Showing results for "Citizen" in Literature & Fiction

It is 1929. At home, economic depression and dust storms ravage America, and abroad the goose step of Nazism is intensifying. Widespread fear of the "other" has reached a fever pitch. Against this tumultuous backdrop, two families share the spotlight in this sweeping saga: the Himelbaums of Poland and the Browns of Iowa. All Harry Himelbaum wants is to live somewhere happy and to send for the wife and child he must deny having.

As the nation of Riyen tries to recover from a shocking revelation, Anissa finds herself completely isolated from her friends. Struggling with bitterness, guilt, and grief, her passion for justice threatens to turn into a quest for vengeance. But when her true identity comes into question, she will uncover a life-altering truth that will shake the world to its core.

Journey to an unnamed mountainous country in central Europe at the end of the Great War. Enter Citizen Orlov, a simple fishmonger and an honest, upright citizen, who stumbles into the Ministry of Security, and consequently a hidden world of espionage and secrecy. His first assignment? To safeguard the King when he visits the scenic town of Kufzig. But Orlov soon discovers that his ministry handler, the alluring but-couldn’t-possibly-be-a-femme-fatale Agent Zelle, is planning not to protect the King but to assassinate him.

Claudia Rankine's bold new audiobook recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in 21st-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV - everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive.

He became the nation's first hero.... But before that, George Washington was just a man. And in his youth, he was a man on the make. He wanted to serve the king, so he donned a red coat and fought the French. He loved another man's wife but yearned for status, so he married a rich widow. He dreamed of wealth, so he accumulated land and slaves. He accumulated enemies, too.... In Citizen Washington, one of those enemies - a newspaper publisher named Hesperus Draper - learns that Martha Washington has burned her husband's letters at his death.

Cow Tom, born into slavery in Alabama in 1810 and sold to a Creek Indian chief before his 10th birthday, possessed an extraordinary gift: the ability to master languages. As the new country developed westward, and Indians, settlers, and blacks came into constant contact, Cow Tom became a key translator for his Creek master and was hired out to US military generals.

A battle rages for the Soul of America … In the first pages, readers are placed amid a terrorist attack in Chicago and the planning of more attacks in the Homeland on a massive scale. Congress is ready to sell-out and cave to terrorist demands. Threats from the sky are looming, and a strike on Israel is imminent. How will America deal with this new axis of evil? Will they suffer the same fate as Israel in the hands of the Romans? Are we on the brink of the apocalypse prophesied more than 2,500 years ago? In this celestial chess game, people with vastly different agendas plan their next move. One side seeks to control by cunning, passion and deception. The other seeks to give people the Truth. An age-old spiritual war is taking physical dimensions. 7,000 miles from Washington D.C., in Tehran, Iran, the evilest of terrorist attacks is in the final stages of preparation. The real battle rages for people’s hearts and minds. Light versus dark, good versus evil and no setting is more perfect than modern-day America.

Among Howard Fast's historical fiction, Citizen Tom Paine - one of America's all-time best-sellers - occupies a special place, for it restored to a generation of readers the vision of Paine's revolutionary passion as the authentic roots of our national beginnings. Fast gives us "a vivid picture of Paine's mode of writing, idiosyncrasies, and character-generous, nobly unselfish, moody, often dirty, frequently drunken, a revolutionist by avocation" ( Library Journal).

Adah ist ein begabtes Mädchen, das in einfachen Verhältnissen in Nigeria aufwächst und mehr will, viel mehr. Sie kämpft für ihre Bildung und Freiheit, geht schließlich mit ihrem Mann nach London, wo er sich als Taugenichts entpuppt. Es bleibt alles an Adah hängen: die Ernährung ihrer Familie, das Großziehen der fünf Kinder, die Suche nach einem Wohnort. Außerdem muss sie die ständigen Gewaltausbrüche ihres Mannes aushalten. Als er ihr erstes Manuskript verbrennt, zieht sie mit den Kindern aus.

The Paterson Police Department has created a cold case division, and they want to hire the private investigators known as the K Team to look into the crimes. After all, Corey Douglas and his K-9 partner, German shepherd Simon Garfunkel, recently retired from the force. Plus, another K Team member, Laurie Collins, used to be a cop as well. Their first cold case hits home for the K Team. A decade ago, at Laurie's 10th high school reunion, two of their friends simply…vanished.

Matt Helm, one-time special agent for the American government during the Second World War, has left behind his violent past to raise a family in Santa Fe, New Mexico. When a former colleague turns rogue and kidnaps his daughter, Helm is forced to return to his former life as a deadly and relentless assassin.

In this "devastating debut" (Publishers Weekly), poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, gentrifying barrios, and everything in between. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between.

Young Rae Loveless falls into an existential battle between the dystopian New World and disjointed Europe. A passionate tale of righteous politics, love, cruelty and ambition, where smart, good people challenge evil against overwhelming odds. Atlas Shrugged for people with fewer psychological issues.

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Chicago is burning. A rebellion rises, but that's the least of Carrie's concerns. Patrolman Simmons is assigned new partners who threaten the security and secrecy of Carrie's clan. Tensions are high, lines are drawn, and Carrie feels a wedge growing between her and Greg.

Journey through the riveting life of Edward Steiner, who dedicated his life to understanding how America could welcome immigrants from all corners of the globe, each with their own unique cultures, traditions, and expectations, and meld them into a unified nation. Unlike Europe, where people move between countries but rarely assimilate fully, America stands out as a cultural melting pot, and Steiners experiences provide a testament to this. Starting as a penniless immigrant, Steiner rose to become a successful figure, devoting his life to easing the transition for fellow immigrants. As a ...

Revolutionary, author, pirate, drinker and sometime maker of ladies corsets, Tom Paine was a 37 year old bankrupt when he sailed the ocean and lit the fuse of the American Revolution. From the alehouses of England to the battlefields of America and the blood soaked streets of Paris, Paine tells his own amazing story with the help of an original score and a cast of thousands. "We have it in our power to begin the World over again!" A production of The Audio Ballads.

Is the town eccentric an evil genius or model citizen? Rumors about his past include adventures overseas, Interpol, money laundering, gun running, international terrorism, witnesses disappearing without a trace, artificial intelligence, publishing empire, private jets, luxury hotels, hot women, sex research, an underground complex hidden behind a mausoleum hand-carved into a limestone cliff, and weaponization of humor.

V sbornik vydajushhegosja russkogo pisatelja i literaturoveda Jurija Nikolaevicha Tynjanova (1894 - 1943) voshli ego blistatel'nye rasskazy "Podporuchik Kizhe" i "Grazhdanin Ocher". Fantasmagorija "Podporuchik Kizhe" - chisto gogolevskaja istorija o mertvoj dushe. "Grazhdanin Ocher" - udivitel'naja istorija iz zhizni grafa Pavla Stroganova, odnogo iz «molodyh druzej» Aleksandra I v period ego liberal'nyh uvlechenij, a v gody Otechestvennoj vojny s Napoleonom.

This collection by the outstanding Russian writer and literary critic Yuri Tynianov (1894-1943) includes his brilliant short stories "Lieutenant Kizhe" and "Citizen Ocher".