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With opportunities for black men limited in post-World War II London, Rick Braithwaite, a former Royal Air Force pilot and Cambridge-educated engineer, accepts a teaching position that puts him in charge of a class of angry, unmotivated, bigoted white teenagers whom the system has mostly abandoned. When his efforts to reach these troubled students are met with threats, suspicion, and derision, Braithwaite takes a radical new approach. He will treat his students as people poised to enter the adult world.

भा.रा.भागवत लिखित मराठी कादंबरी "भाराभर गवत" भा.रा.भागवतांचा स्वभाव हा मिश्किल होता. त्यांनी अनेक चुरचुरीत विनोदी लेखन केले. त्यांच्या या सर्व लेखनाचा हा संग्रह.

A family torn apart. A king with an iron fist. Will their faith be strong enough to survive persecution and reunite? Jeanne is the wife of a wealthy merchant, but now she risks losing everything. Louis XIV's soldiers will stop at nothing to forcibly convert the country's Protestants to the "true" faith. The men ransack Jeanne's belongings and threaten her children. If Jeanne and Jacob can't find a way to evade the soldiers' clutches, their family will face a fate far worse than poverty and imprisonment. They may never see each other again....

Fourteenth-century Scotland suffers under the heel of England's King Edward, and James Douglas refuses to submit to the conqueror. As he wages a scorched-earth guerrilla war to drive out the invader and reclaim his birthright, Edward brings a vast army to crush the Scots. In the midst of the brutal war, even the woman James loves is threatened by his implacable duty.

Eighteen-year-old James Douglas can only watch, helpless, as the Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace is hanged, drawn, and quartered. Even under the heel of a brutal English conqueror, James' blood-drenched homeland may still have one hope for freedom, the rightful king of the Scots, Robert the Bruce. James swears fealty to the man he believes can lead the fight against English tyranny. The Bruce is soon a fugitive, king in name and nothing more. Scotland is occupied, the Scottish resistance crushed. Yet James believes their cause is not lost.

East Texas in the 1960s is not the worst place to have grown up, but for narrator Jake of The Jugheads, it was a minefield. Describing clearly and courageously first jobs and first kisses, family vacations and family fights, Jake takes us through a wild coming-of-age ride, in an ordinary American family that he believes is as violent and dysfunctional as they come. By turns hilarious and moving, The Jugheads is a compelling return to form for a master of the underside of the American psyche.

James, Lord of Douglas, known to his foes as the Black Douglas, leads a flank of the Scottish army in crushing a vast invading English force at the waters of the Bannockburn. Fresh from battle, James revels in honors heaped on him by the Scots and in the hatred of the enemy. When King Robert the Bruce orders him to push their advantage and force the English to the peace table, they both know the only way James can do so is by fire and the sword - the only language King Edward of England understands.

Before she mastered the art of French cooking in midlife, Julia Child found herself working in the secrets trade in Asia during World War II. Single, six foot two, and thirty years old, Julia McWilliams took a job working for America's first espionage agency, years before cooking or Paris entered the picture. The Secret War of Julia Child traces Julia's transformation from ambitious Pasadena blue blood to Washington, DC file clerk, to head of General "Wild Bill" Donovan's secret File Registry as part of the Office of Strategic Services.

Before she became a legend she was just known as Thyra, the unimportant daughter of the English king. She was no fool and knew what her future held for her: marriage or a nunnery. Neither option particularly appealed to her. Then an offer for her hand is made by a mischievous looking lord from across the sea. Despite her family's wishes she refuses to sell herself short. She agrees to marry him but in exchange he must give her a kingdom. After all, if she is going to tie her fate to a stranger, she might as well be a queen.

After two bestselling series examining the Civil War and WWII, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen have turned their sharp eye for detail on the Revolutionary War with To Try Men's Souls. The story follows three men with three very different roles to play in history: General George Washington, Thomas Paine, and Jonathan Van Dorn, a private in Washington's army.

New York Times best-selling authors Newt Gingrich's and William R. Forstchen's George Washington series continues - in a novel about faith, leadership, and the triumph of the American cause. It is 1781, and Washington and his army have spent three years in a bitter stalemate, engaging in near constant skirmishing against the British. The enemy position in New York City is too strong, all approaches blocked by the Royal Navy. But at last, two crucial reports reach Washington....

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In the midst of the 1973 civil war, Is True Love Resilient? unfolds a poignant autobiography that defies the harsh realities of separation and the relentless chaos of war. This captivating narrative invites listeners into a love story that transcends time, distance, and the ravages of conflict.

"Era l’anno in cui sarebbe dovuto finire il mondo. L’anno in cui si sentì spesso dire: "Non siamo la Grecia". Infatti, non siamo la Grecia. Per questo ne abbiamo bisogno." Una taverna invisibile dalla strada: dentro, pochi tavoli, luci basse, fumo e bicchieri di retsina sempre vuoti. Suoni di risate, confidenze, insulti a mezza bocca. Poi tutto tace. Una melodia sale nell’attesa come una malattia, sospinta da un martellare di chitarre e buzuki, e una voce si leva infine sopra a tutto: è il rebetiko, il blues dei greci; colonna sonora di una nazione, lato di brace della vita.

Charles Dickens' classic novel David Copperfield is loosely based on the life of the author. It tells the story of David Copperfield’s life from childhood to adulthood with all of the hardships, changes, and good fortune that David encounters on his life journey. It focuses on the relationships he develops with a huge cast of characters who he meets as he travels from rags to riches and back again.

Peculiar weather settles over a bustling Texas sea port, a city made prosperous off the cotton trade and thick with racial inequality. The sky above Galveston, Texas, darkens to the sickly green of a healing bruise, the sea turns black, and the inhabitants of the city have no idea the force of the hammer about to drop on them. On September 8, 1900, a hurricane ripped apart Galveston, Texas, killing nearly 8,000 people and nearly obliterating the town. Lansdale's story brings dimension to many who lost their lives that day, and a few who survived.

Non a tutti è concesso di sapere in anticipo il giorno della propria morte. Lucio Battistini, quarantenne ex pallanuotista con moglie e due figli piccoli, invece lo conosce esattamente. Anzi, la data l'ha fissata proprio lui, quando ha ricevuto la visita di un ospite inatteso e indesiderato, un cancro al fegato che ha soprannominato, per sdrammatizzare, "l'amico Fritz". Cento giorni di vita prima del traguardo finale. Cento giorni per lasciare un bel ricordo ai propri figli, giocare con gli amici e, soprattutto, riconquistare il cuore della moglie, ferito da un tradimento inaspettato.

La scenografia è tortuosa, tra Catanzaro, Lamezia e Vibo. La coreografia è mossa dalla faida di clan e malavita. Qui, Angela Donato, diciassettenne, gira armata e vende armi e liquori di contrabbando, proiettata verso l'illegalità senza temere l'impazienza dei grandi boss: la morte è un rischio troppo frequente per averne paura. Poi nasce l'amore e Angela si rifugia nella famiglia e in una vita "pulita". Nascono tre figli. A Santo, l'unico figlio maschio, viene imposto di studiare in collegio per tenerlo lontano dalla violenza della piana lametina.

Felice Lasco torna a Napoli, nel rione Sanità, dopo quarantacinque anni trascorsi fra Medio Oriente e Africa. La madre sta morendo e lui la accudisce fino all'ultimo con tardiva ma amorosa pazienza. Poi, invece di tornare al Cairo dove lo aspetta l'amata compagna, Felice sembra obbedire al richiamo delle radici e di un destino, e rimane. Rimane perché in attesa dell'incontro fatale con Oreste, noto ormai come delinquente incallito.

Agosto 1922. La Parma popolare dell'Oltretorrente resiste alle squadre fasciste di Italo Balbo. Guido Picelli è alla testa degli Arditi del Popolo nell'ultimo episodio di opposizione rivoluzionaria all'incalzare della dittatura. Picelli e Balbo, il mito socialista e il camerata fascista, rivivono nei ricordi di un vecchio Ardito, il giorno dei funerali di Mario Lupo nel 1972, quando lo scontro fra sinistra extraparlamentare e neofascisti riconduce quasi naturalmente agli avvenimenti di cinquant'anni prima. Fra memoria storica e invenzione narrativa.