Dance Against The Wind

Author : Terry C. Johnston
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307755841

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Dance on the Wind by Terry C. Johnston Pdf

Sixteen-year-old Titus Bass fears one fate more than any other: never to experience the great wilderness or the wildness inside himself. So late one night he snatches a squirrel gun and a handful of biscuits, flees into the woods, and doesn’t look back. From Louisville past the Chickasaw bluffs and the Natchez Trace all the way to New Orleans, he plunges into the rough-and-tumble life along the banks of the Mississippi: a volatile, violent country of boatmen and river bandits, knife fights and Indian raids, strong liquor and stronger women. Yet beyond the great river stretches the vast, unexplored expanse of the Great Plains. And it is here that young Titus will seek his future, and risk everything to seize it.

Author : Brenda Jernigan
Publisher : Brenda Jernigan
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452485799

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Dance on the Wind by Brenda Jernigan Pdf

A BARGAIN MADE IN HASTE Desperate but determined, lovely Brandy answers an advertisement for a mail order bride, hoping to build a new life out West for herself and the five orphans she's taken under her wing. She needs a guide to reach Fort Laramie by wagon train and turns to Thunder, a Cheyenne scout, for help. When he curtly refuses, Brandy is undaunted. And when he's jailed after a gunfight she makes a devil's bargain: he gets his freedom and she gets a guide. A DESTINY SEALED BY A KISS Thunder has learned the hard way that prejudice runs deep for half-breeds. Now, his only desire is to live among the Cheyenne people. He doesn't want the temptation beautiful Brandy offers and the wild passion that explodes between them only hardens his resolve to avoid what he cannot have: another man's soon-to-be-wife. Can he truly walk away from Brandy and the ragtag family? Or has his destiny been sealed by a kiss "Ms Jernigan plots an intricate tale...her love scenes are steamy. Sensual!" Romantic Times

Author : Neal Gabler
Publisher : Crown
Page : 1265 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593238646

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Against the Wind by Neal Gabler Pdf

From the author of Catching the Wind comes the second volume of the definitive biography of Ted Kennedy and a history of modern American liberalism. “Magisterial . . . an intricate, astute study of political power brokering comparable to Robert A. Caro’s profile of Lyndon Johnson in Master of the Senate.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) Against the Wind completes Neal Gabler’s magisterial biography of Ted Kennedy, but it also unfolds the epic, tragic story of the fall of liberalism and the destruction of political morality in America. With Richard Nixon having stilled the liberal wind that once propelled Kennedy’s—and his fallen brothers’—political crusades, Ted Kennedy faced a lonely battle. As Republicans pressed Reaganite dogmas of individual freedom and responsibility and Democratic centrists fell into line, Kennedy was left as the most powerful voice legislating on behalf of those society would neglect or punish: the poor, the working class, and African Americans. Gabler shows how the fault lines that cracked open in the wake of the Civil Rights movement and Vietnam were intentionally widened by Kennedy’s Republican rivals to create a moral vision of America that stood in direct opposition to once broadly shared commitments to racial justice and economic equality. Yet even as he fought this shift, Ted Kennedy’s personal moral failures in this era—the endless rumors of his womanizing and public drunkenness and his bizarre behavior during the events that led to rape accusations against his nephew William Kennedy Smith—would be used again and again to weaken his voice and undercut his claims to political morality. Tracing Kennedy’s life from the wilderness of the Reagan years through the compromises of the Clinton era, from his rage against the craven cruelty of George W. Bush to his hope that Obama would deliver on a lifetime of effort on behalf of universal health care, Gabler unfolds Kennedy’s heroic legislative work against the backdrop of a nation grown lost and fractured. In this outstanding conclusion to the saga that began with Catching the Wind, Neal Gabler offers his inimitable insight into a man who fought to keep liberalism alive when so many were determined to extinguish it. Against the Wind sheds new light both on a revered figure in the American Century and on America’s current existential crisis.

Author : Mir Foote
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1301002402

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Dance Against the Wind by Mir Foote Pdf

Author : Gloria Jean Wade Gayles
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015038521772

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Rooted Against the Wind by Gloria Jean Wade Gayles Pdf

In these beautifully written essays, Gloria Wade-Gayles is at times painfully candid as she confronts such controversial subjects as rape, homophobia, interracial relationships, and even "looking and acting too young" for her age. Yet what emerges from each piece is a powerful connection to her community, which serves as her well-spring of strength, sheltering her faith.

Author : Una Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Book jackets
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213327815

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Nets for the Wind by Una Taylor Pdf

Author : Prairie Wind Writers,Carolyn D. Wall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018315734

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Braced Against the Wind by Prairie Wind Writers,Carolyn D. Wall Pdf

Author : Caroline Brettell
Publisher : Scholarly Resources, Incorporated
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015049698254

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Writing Against the Wind by Caroline Brettell Pdf

This biography of Canadian journalist Zoe Bieler explores many of the historical and social issues that have confronted women in the twentieth century. Written by Bieler's daughter, anthropologist Caroline Brettell, Writing Against the Wind uses Bieler's life as a timeline, tracing the triumphs and frustrations women have experienced in the last eighty years. Several themes that are important to the field of women's studies are examined: genres of female writing, women's biogra-phy and autobiography, the historical circumstances that shape career opportunities for women, the nature of mother-daughter relationships, the problems of working mothers, the idea of women mentoring women, the emergence of feminism and women's issues in both academia and the popular press, and the changing roles of women in journalism. Drawing from her mother's life experiences as well as her journalistic and personal writings (an appendix featuring some of Bieler's writings is included), Brettell reveals how women have struggled with balancing a job and raising a family and, at the same time, enduring the stigma attached to women working outside the home. Thoroughly engaging, this book is ideal for courses in women's studies, women's history, biography/autobiography, women's writing, and women in journalism.

Author : Christian Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X002080085

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A Daughter of Bohemia by Christian Reid Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11499460

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The American Naturalist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Barnard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X000871839

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Papers on Froebel's Kindergarten by Henry Barnard Pdf

Author : Bill Brooks
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786004711

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Dust on the Wind by Bill Brooks Pdf

Quint McCannon returns home to Cheyenne in the Wyoming Territory to learn that his best friend and partner has been murdered. Now, McCannon--a man who knows violence, friendship, and the empty places in between--is heading across the frontier in search of a maddog killer. For McCannon, it's a journey through the madness and glory of the West--to one moment with a gun.

Author : Karl von Frisch
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Bees
ISBN : MINN:31951P002600554

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The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees by Karl von Frisch Pdf

Reprint of the revered Harvard UP original of 1967, itself a translation of the German original (Springer Verlag, 1965)--with a new foreword by Thos. D. Seeley. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Marc Simmons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018561294

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On the Santa Fe Trail by Marc Simmons Pdf

'One of the great strengths of this collection is its diversity; included are writings by an army major, Indian agent, German immigrant woman, and a New Mexican drover.... These travelers offer a wide and enlightening range of perspectives regarding the demanding conditions of the Santa Fe trail....' Glenda Riley, author of Women and Indians on the Frontier

Author : Henry Barnard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015068194805

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The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard Pdf