Banished

Author : Lauren Drain
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781455512430

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Banished by Lauren Drain Pdf

Banished is an eye-opening, deeply personal account of life inside the cult known as the Westboro Baptist Church, as well as a fascinating story of adaptation and perseverance. You've likely heard of the Westboro Baptist Church. Perhaps you've seen their pickets on the news, the members holding signs with messages that are too offensive to copy here, protesting at events such as the funerals of soldiers, the 9-year old victim of the recent Tucson shooting, and Elizabeth Edwards, all in front of their grieving families. The WBC is fervently anti-gay, anti-Semitic, and anti- practically everything and everyone. And they aren't going anywhere: in March, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the WBC's right to picket funerals. Since no organized religion will claim affiliation with the WBC, it's perhaps more accurate to think of them as a cult. Lauren Drain was thrust into that cult at the age of 15, and then spat back out again seven years later. Lauren spent her early years enjoying a normal life with her family in Florida. But when her formerly liberal and secular father set out to produce a documentary about the WBC, his detached interest gradually evolved into fascination, and he moved the entire family to Kansas to join the church and live on their compound. Over the next seven years, Lauren fully assimilated their extreme beliefs, and became a member of the church and an active and vocal picketer. But as she matured and began to challenge some of the church's tenets, she was unceremoniously cast out from the church and permanently cut off from her family and from everyone else she knew and loved. Banished is the story of Lauren's fight to find herself amidst dramatic changes in a world of extremists and a life in exile.

Author : Betsy Schow
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781492636038

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Banished by Betsy Schow Pdf

Dorthea of Emerald is used to being treated like the princess she is. Except she's trapped in a strange land called Kansas, where no one recognizes she's royalty. Not her parents, not the hospital's doctors, not even the cute patient who keeps flirting with her. The only one who knows who she really is? The evil Blanc. And she's thundering into Kansas to erase Dorethea's—and everyone else's—story. Back in Camelot, outlaw Rexi's got her own problems...like being locked in a tower. She may have trained with Robin Hood, but she's going to need to steal more than a key to escape Gwenevere's trap to take back Excalibur. And even if Rexi manages to get free, she still needs to reclaim her storyline from Morte's wicked plotting. It's not over until the last spot of ink dries. Dorethea and Rexi won't give up their happily ever afters without a fight. But with the villains of Story scripting their triumph, does this spell The End for Dorethea and Rexi?

Author : Sophie Littlefield
Publisher : Ember
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385738538

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Banished by Sophie Littlefield Pdf

Sixteen-year-old Hailey Tarbell, raised by a mean, secretive grandmother, does not know that she comes from a long line of healers until her Aunt Prairie arrives with answers about her past that could quickly threaten her future.

Author : Katherine Beckett,Steve Herbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199889570

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Banished by Katherine Beckett,Steve Herbert Pdf

With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other "disorderly" people continue to occupy public space in many American cities. Concerned about the alleged ill effects their presence inflicts on property values and public safety, many cities have wholeheartedly embraced "zero-tolerance" or "broken window" policing efforts to clear the streets of unwanted people. Through an almost completely unnoticed set of practices, these people are banned from occupying certain spaces. Once zoned out, they are subject to arrest if they return-effectively banished from public places. Banished is the first exploration of these new tactics that dramatically enhance the power of the police to monitor and arrest thousands of city dwellers. Drawing upon an extensive body of data, the authors chart the rise of banishment in Seattle, a city on the leading edge of this emerging trend, to establish how it works and explore its ramifications. They demonstrate that, although the practice allows police and public officials to appear responsive to concerns about urban disorder, it is a highly questionable policy: it is expensive, does not reduce crime, and does not address the underlying conditions that generate urban poverty. Moreover, interviews with the banished themselves reveal that exclusion makes their lives and their path to self-sufficiency immeasurably more difficult. At a time when more and more cities and governments in the U.S. and Europe resort to the criminal justice system to solve complex social problems, Banished provides a vital and timely challenge to exclusionary strategies that diminish the life circumstances and rights of those it targets.

Author : Han Dong
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780824861551

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Banished! by Han Dong Pdf

It is 1969 and China is in the throes of the Cultural Revolution. The Tao family is banished to the countryside, forced to leave comfortable lives in Nanjing to be reeducated in the true nature of the revolution by the peasants of Sanyu village. The parents face exile with stoicism and teach their son to embrace reeducation wholeheartedly. Is this simple pragmatism, an attempt to protect the boy and ensure his future? Or do the banished cadres really cling to their belief in their leaders and the ideals of the Revolution? These questions remain tantalizingly unanswered in this prize-winning first novel.

Author : Edwin F. Becker
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452096629

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Banished by Edwin F. Becker Pdf

Father Thomas Garrity is a Catholic priest who unexpectedly comes face to face with a horrific demon. Through fate or demonic manipulation, he winds up substituting for a prison chaplain who mysteriously committed suicide and was counseling a serial killer condemned on death row. Garrity meets with the convict, who at first is mute, and then becomes all too talkative, claiming to be a demon. A naïve Father Garrity assumes he is dealing with a schizophrenic. Truly possessed by the demon Furfur, the inmate begins his attack on Father Garrity. As all Catholic priests, Garrity is uneducated and unskilled at confronting the supernatural, much less a demon. This demon is intent on destroying Garity's faith in God through any means possible. The one problem is that this "inmate" will be executed in a week, so time is of the essence. At first Garrity thinks that he must only survive until the execution, but then finds he will become hunted afterward by a demon that will transfer to a whole new body. Furfur, a documented fallen angel taken from demonology, initially attempts to overwhelm Garrity with his knowledge and history. Failing, he escalates his efforts to violence, and eventually murders. Father Garrity, as all common parish priests, is inexperienced, but is desperate to defeat this demon, even though his path is crammed with obstacles. He is surrounded by non-believers and a Catholic organization that has created an impossible bureaucracy which frowns on the very mention of exorcism. The demon Furfur intends to deliver the soul of this convict to hell and then transfer himself to another person and continue to torment the priest. Father Garrity finds that Furfur, in documented demonology, ranks high in the hierarchy of hell and has 150,000 demons at his command. Although in prison, Furfur can torture the priest through hurting those close to him simply by using his legions. Father Garrity reaches out to the Vatican and eventually enlists the help of the official head Exorcist. He is also aided by an unofficial American exorcist. Their realization that the limited time until the execution is nowhere near adequate for an exorcism, makes for an unsolvable dilemma.

Author : Delphine Diaz,Sylvie Aprile
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110732276

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Banished by Delphine Diaz,Sylvie Aprile Pdf

This book aims to study the departure and reception of refugees in 19th-century Europe, from the Congress of Vienna to the 1870-1880s. Through eight chapters, it draws on a transnational approach to analyze migratory movements across European borders. The book reviews the chronology of exile and shows how European states welcomed, selected, and expelled refugees. In addition to presenting the point of view of nation-states, it reflects the experience of those migrating. The book addresses departure into exile, captured through the material circumstances of crossing borders in the 19th century, and examines the emergence of new ways to pursue political commitments from abroad. The outcasts are considered in all their diversity, with a prominent place accorded to women and children, many of whom also moved under duress. The book aims to shed light on the forced migrations of Europeans across Europe, while also considering the global dimension, looking at exile to the Americas or the French colonies. A final chapter examines the impossibility or difficulty of returning from exile to one’s country of origin, as well as the a posteriori memorial constructs around that crucial experience.

Author : Lou Yardley
Publisher : Lou Yardley
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Banished by Lou Yardley Pdf

Welcome to the monstrous world of Venari. Try not to get eaten. Elkbury is an idyllic village, hidden away in a rural area of pseudo-medieval Venari. It's a place free of death and disease due to a mysterious ceremony called the Banishment. It's a secret system that has worked well for decades. But, secrets rarely stay secret forever. When Hedwin's grandmother is about to undertake her own Banishment, he and his best friend Laura Beth decide to find out what their beloved Anastasia is about to experience. Just like disease, murder has no place in Elkbury, but it has wormed its way in. Wren Goodwort takes it upon herself to find the mysterious killer and clear her name in the process. Soon Wren, Hedwin, Laura Beth, and the rest of the villagers are thrown together to fight for their lives as deadly, monstrous, and hungry secrets are uncovered and Elkbury's delicate balance is destroyed. "Banished" will introduce you to your new favourite monsters; some human, some not.

Author : Wilhelm Hauff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433075736961

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The Banished by Wilhelm Hauff Pdf

Author : Abigail Leslie Andrews
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520395978

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Banished Men by Abigail Leslie Andrews Pdf

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. What becomes of men the US locks up and kicks out? From 2009 to 2020, the US deported more than five million people--over 90 percent of them men. Banished Men tells 186 of their stories. How, it asks, does forced expulsion shape men's lives and sense of themselves? In this book, a team of thirty-one Latinx students and an award-winning scholar of gender and migrant exclusion uncover a harrowing system that weaves together policing, prison, detention, removal, and border militarization--and overwhelmingly targets men. Guards and gangs beat them down, both literally and metaphorically, as if they are no more than vermin or livestock. Their ties with family are severed. In Mexico, they end up banished: in limbo and stripped of humanity. They do not go "home." Their fight for new ways of belonging, as people of both "here" and "there," forms a devastating, humane, and clear-eyed critique of the violence of deportation.

Author : Anna Durand
Publisher : Jacobsville Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781958144152

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Banished in the Highlands by Anna Durand Pdf

Time travel, witchcraft, and a growly Highlander. The ultimate Hot Scots prequel is coming. I need to shake up my life, but I never imagined how much of a jolt I'd get. My husband destroyed my life, then died and left me with nothing. What can I do now? Might as well blow the last of my savings on the trip I've dreamed of taking all my life. I fly to Scotland, to the Highlands. But on my third night there, the unimaginable happens. Magic happens. And suddenly, I find myself in the past and in the arms of a gruff and growly medieval Scot. His three strange aunts insist their witchy powers brought me here. And they think I can save their nephew, Kieran MacTaggart, from his banishment in this abandoned castle. Yeah, they're insane. Kieran might behave like a beast and look like one too, but something about him inspires me to learn more about him, the clan that banished him, and this eerie castle. When he kisses me, I experience a desire so powerful that it steals my breath away. I know I should run, but Kieran won't let me go. When he discovers his archenemy, Simidh Gunn, has found out about me, Kieran vows to protect his "property"—namely, me—at any cost. Even if he must invoke black magics to do that. Trapped in a past I don't understand, all I can do is pray for salvation. Banished in the Highlands is a time travel prequel inspired by the bestselling Hot Scots series. The mystery of Kieran MacTaggart will be revealed in April 2023. Can't wait? Get a taste of Kieran's story in Spellbound in a Kilt (Hot Scots, Book Ten) and in Incendiary in a Kilt (Hot Scots, Book Twelve).

Author : James Clemens
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345453945

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Wit'ch War by James Clemens Pdf

Wit’ch War is the dazzling third volume in the epic saga of The Banned and the Banished In her hands, the young wit’ch Elena holds the awesome energies of blood magick—and more. For the fate of all Alasea hinges on her recovery of the Blood Diary, a potent talisman forged five hundred years ago, then locked away behind wards too strong for any mage to break. But only with the secrets recorded in its pages can Elena defeat the evil magicks of the Dark Lord. The challenge? The Diary lies hidden in A’loa Glen, the fabled city that belongs to Shorkan, chief lieutenant of the Dark Lord, and his fearsome army. Now, with the aid of the ocean-dwelling Sy-wen and her great dragon, Elena prepares a desperate invasion of A’loa Glen. At her side stands the one-armed warrior Er’ril, her faithful protector and the only man who knows how to unlock the wards surrounding the Blood Diary—a man who also happens to be the brother of the dreaded Shorkan. Meanwhile, Elena's brother, whose magick brings him prophetic dreams, has glimpsed a future in which Elena falls by the deadly sword of . . . Er'ril. But his visions do not always come true. How can he act against his sister's trusted guardian on the basis of a future betrayal that may never happen? For Elena's sake, and for the sake of all Alasea, how can he afford not to?

Author : Michael Wisehart
Publisher : Easthaven Publishing LLC
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Banished (Street Rats of Aramoor: Book 1) by Michael Wisehart Pdf

★★★★★ "I've read almost 1,000 books and this one is at the top" - Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "It's like I have a mini-movie playing in my head" - Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "A book that I can let my children read also. Please keep writing" - Amazon Reviewer Being the best isn't always a good thing. Desperate to become the youngest warrior of his clan, Ayrion will stop at nothing to reach his goal, not even the one thing all Upakans fear... ... Magic. However, when a fatal accident forces him to flee, Ayrion barters passage aboard the only ship willing to take one of his kind...A Cursed Ship. With nothing but the clothes on his back, Ayrion sets sail for the royal city of Aramoor in hopes of making a name for himself. Little does he know how deadly those streets can be. Life doesn't always hand you what you want, sometimes you have to take it. Street Rats of Aramoor Book 1: Banished Book 2: Hurricane Book 3: Rockslide Book 4: Sandstorm Book 5: Wildfire Book 6: Avalanche The Aldoran Chronicles Book 1: The White Tower Book 2: Plague of Shadows Book 3: The Four-Part Key Book 4: The Tunnels Beneath

Author : Sophie Littlefield
Publisher : Ember
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385738552

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Unforsaken by Sophie Littlefield Pdf

Having learned that she has powers both to heal people and to create zombies, Hailey is trying to lead a fairly normal life, but when she attempts to contact her boyfriend, she brings dangerous villains to her doorstep.

Author : Ron Gabriel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0997944943

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The Banished by Ron Gabriel Pdf

An orphaned witch. A small Vermont town. An ancient spell linked to the Devil.Travis is a talented witch who believes his inherited magic is elevated because it avoids the ritualistic kills that sustain traditionalists in the coven. To replenish depleted power, he feeds on human fear alone.The horrors he conjures are wiped from victims' memories, so what's the harm?A clique of coeds finds itself caught in Travis' witchcraft, as he comes to discover the magic he thought was benign instead catalyses a diabolical twist that may be worse than murder.But Travis cannot stop. The witches that killed his parents have tracked his whereabouts, and he must refuel to fight them the only way he can: haunting unlucky locals until they manage to break free of the spell.The Banished is ideal for fans of Stephen King, Deborah Harkness, Alex North ¿ and for anyone who loves classic horror, dark fantasy, or thrillers crossed with the occult.