A Rope From The Sky

Author : Zach Vertin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643130880

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A Rope from the Sky by Zach Vertin Pdf

The untold story of America's attempt to forge a nation from scratch, from euphoric birth to heart-wrenching collapse. South Sudan's independence was celebrated around the world—a triumph for global justice and an end to one of the world's most devastating wars. But the party would not last long: South Sudan's freedom fighters soon plunged their new nation into chaos, shattering the promise of liberation and exposing the hubris of their foreign backers. Chronicling extraordinary stories of hope, identity, and survival, A Rope from the Sky journeys inside an epic tale of paradise won and then lost. This character-driven narrative is first a story of power, promise, greed, compassion, violence, and redemption from the world's most neglected patch of territory. But it is also a story about the best and worst of America—both its big-hearted ideals and its difficult reckoning with the limits of American power amid a changing global landscape. Zach's Vertin's firsthand acounts, from deadly war zones to the halls of Washington power, brings readers inside this remarkable episode—an unprecedented experiment in state-building and a cautionary tale. It is brilliant and breathtaking, a moder-day Greek tragedy that will challenge our perspectives on global politics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Science
ISBN : UCAL:C2834644

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Knowledge by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edwin Sharpe Grew,Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell,Arthur Cowper Ranyard,Wilfred Mark Webb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Science
ISBN : UCAL:C2661424

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Knowledge & Illustrated Scientific News by Edwin Sharpe Grew,Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell,Arthur Cowper Ranyard,Wilfred Mark Webb Pdf

Author : Edward Burnett Tylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Civilization
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025581914

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Researches Into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization by Edward Burnett Tylor Pdf

Author : Henry Davenport Northrop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : UIUC:30112088391013

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Earth, Sea and Sky, Or, Marvels of the Universe by Henry Davenport Northrop Pdf

Includes chapters on the narwhal, arctic voyages of discovery and the aurora.

Author : Henry Davenport Northrop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Science
ISBN : UCAL:$B235684

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Earth, Sea and Sky by Henry Davenport Northrop Pdf

Author : Edward Singleton Holden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1JNM

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The Earth and Sky by Edward Singleton Holden Pdf

Set in the jazz world of the 1950s, the novel features Tom Hickey, the saxophone playing private eye. He tries to clear the name of an old girlfriend, charged with murder after a nightclub fire. The real arsonists reply by kidnapping his wife.

Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : Octagon Press Ltd
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Nasreddin Hoca (Legendary character)
ISBN : 9780863040221

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The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin by Idries Shah Pdf

Collected stories about a popular figure in the folklore of many Asian and European countries.

Author : Amanda Lindhout,Sara Corbett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451651720

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A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout,Sara Corbett Pdf

BREAKING NEWS: Amanda Lindhout’s lead kidnapper, Ali Omar Ader, has been caught. Amanda Lindhout wrote about her fifteen month abduction in Somalia in A House in the Sky. It is the New York Times bestselling memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most remote places and then into captivity: “Exquisitely told…A young woman’s harrowing coming-of-age story and an extraordinary narrative of forgiveness and spiritual triumph” (The New York Times Book Review). As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself visiting its exotic locales. At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress, she began saving her tips so she could travel the globe. Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each adventure, went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Somalia—“the most dangerous place on earth.” On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road. Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda survives on memory—every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity—and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark. Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, A House in the Sky is “a searingly unsentimental account. Ultimately it is compassion—for her naïve younger self, for her kidnappers—that becomes the key to Lindhout’s survival” (O, The Oprah Magazine).

Author : Hermann Joseph Klein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590566953

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Land, sea and sky; or, Wonders of life and nature, tr. from the Germ. [Die Erde und ihr organisches Leben] of H.J. Klein and dr. Thomé, by J. Minshull by Hermann Joseph Klein Pdf

Author : James Ramsey Ullman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1988-04-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780064470483

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Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman Pdf

The Citadel It stands unconquered, the last great summit of the Alps. Only one man has ever dared to approach the top, and that man died in his pursuit. He was Josef Matt, Rudi Matt's father. At sixteen, Rudi is determined to pay tribute to the man he never knew, and complete the quest that claimed his father's life. And so, taking his father's red shirt as a flag, he heads off to face the earth's most challenging peak. But before Rudi can reach the top, he must pass through the forbidden Fortress, the gaping chasm in the high reaches of teh Citadel where his father met his end. Rudi has followed Josef's footsteps as far as they will take him. Now he must search deep within himself to find the strength for the final ascent to the summit -- to plant his banner in the sky. His father died while trying to climb Switzerland's greatest mountain -- the Citadel -- and young Rudi knows he must make the assault himself.

Author : Christian Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X002059568

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"The Land of the Sky;" Or, Adventures in Mountain By-ways by Christian Reid Pdf

Christian Reid (Mrs. Frances Tiernan) wrote this her tenth novel in 1875. This book gave the North Carolina mountain region its name. A charming yet highly significant book, also included is an 1877 nonfiction article by Reid about the mountains. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Sky Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN : UCSC:32106018811031

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Rope Enough by Sky Gilbert Pdf

In prison, they are interviewed by right wing-journalist Cecilia Wainscott, who quickly discovers that Ichabod is a complex character--both a theoretical mathematician and an exuberantly dark misanthrope. In the end, Cecilia learns a little bit about herself, gay men, theoretical mathematics, and the nature of the universe. Are Dylan and Ichabod evil cold-blooded killers, turned on by a perverse cocktail of death and orgasms, or are they simply misunderstood by a homophobic culture? It's all very scary and funny--but only you, the reader, can decide...

Author : Peggy Eddleman
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307981295

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Sky Jumpers by Peggy Eddleman Pdf

In this thrilling sci-fi adventure, epic danger and impossible odds are no match for one girl's courage! Twelve-year-old Hope lives in White Rock, a town of inventors struggling to recover from World War III. But adventurous Hope is terrible at inventing. She would much rather sneak off to cliff dive into the Bomb’s Breath, the deadly band of air that surrounds the town. When bandits invade White Rock to steal its greatest invention—priceless antibiotics—the town is left with a heartbreaking choice: hand over the medicine and die from disease, or die fighting the bandits. Help lies in a neighboring town, but the bandits count everyone fourteen and older each hour. Now Hope and her friends Aaren and Brock are only ones who can escape through the Bomb’s Breath. For once, the daring and rebelliousness that usually get Hope into trouble might just save them all. A Texas Library Association’s Bluebonnet Award Selection “Eddleman brings a strong sense of atmosphere to this post-apocalyptic coming-of-age piece, and the underlying message—that it’s possible to contribute in unexpected ways—is a positive one.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Cecelia Holland
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504007665

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Pillar of the Sky by Cecelia Holland Pdf

A novel of primitive England and the birth of the breathtaking monoliths known as Stonehenge, from “a first-class storyteller” (People). In a time before recorded history, on an island that many centuries later would come to be known as Britain, Moloquin, the Unwanted One, dreams of a pathway to the heavens. Cast out as a child, he survives by his wits alone on the fringes of tribal society and grows into manhood driven by one powerful and unshakable ambition: to build a link between the earthly and the spiritual worlds through the raising of an impossible structure. But to accomplish such a momentous feat in this primitive age of stone will not only require superhuman strength, it will entail unraveling the very fabric of life. Still, Moloquin will not be deterred in his quest, and he will stand courageously against all enemies, court untold disaster, sacrifice what he must, and remake his entire world to see his great vision gloriously realized. One of today’s foremost historical novelists, Cecelia Holland explores the strange and enduring mystery of Stonehenge, one of the true wonders of the ancient and modern world. A breathtaking speculation, Pillar of the Sky is an unforgettable tale brimming with action, colorful characters, vivid detail, intelligence, and wonder, while presenting a possible history of the man-made miracle on Salisbury Plain that confounds scientists, scholars, and archaeologists to this day.