Island Of Shattered Dreams

Author : Chantal T. Spitz
Publisher : Huia Publishers
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1869692993

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Island of Shattered Dreams by Chantal T. Spitz Pdf

Finally in English, Island of Shattered Dreams is the first ever novel by an indigenous Tahitian writer. In a lyrical and immensely moving style, this book combines a family saga and a doomed love story, set against the background of French Polynesia in the period leading up to the first nuclear tests. The text is highly critical of the French government, and as a result its publication in Tahiti was polarising.

Author : Michael Viner
Publisher : Phoenix Books, Inc.
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1597775371

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Shattered Dreams, Broken Promises by Michael Viner Pdf

Viner traveled to various Eastern European countries to interview women of all ages and circumstances who are willing to do anything to get to America. The revealing and often unsettling tales of these women, told in their own words, shine a light on a growing population in the U.S.

Author : Keith Baker
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786956678

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The Shattered Land by Keith Baker Pdf

Intent on saving one of their own, a band of heroes travels to Eberron’s most isolated continent—facing drow elves and powerful magics along the way Xen'drik, the dark continent. A land of once-proud empires that now lie in ruin. A land shrouded in mystery where monsters and dark powers stalk the jungles, where only the bravest and most foolhardy will venture. Now, a band of former soldiers must brave the depths of Xen'drik to save Daine—their fearless leader, close companion, and the hero of the City of Towers. After joining forces with a mysterious woman, the friends venture to the dark continent, where they hope to find the ancient artifact that is the last hope to save Daine’s life.

Author : Geoff Inverarity
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1772141755

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All the Broken Things by Geoff Inverarity Pdf

Geoff Inverarity writes poems for people who donít like poetry (and those who do). In this debut collection Inverarity writes of broken things, things that have come apart at the seams, things that ought not to but sometimes do dissolve with time: friendships, relationships, promises, aging parents, hearts, bodies, love, and even time itself. But it's not all shattered dreams and sad-luck stories here, there is hope and optimism too--in the future, in the Now, and in the heat and power of the coming generations. And there are poems of memory, poems for grandfathers and aging aunts, children and lost loves. Inverarity also probes the the multitude of possibilities "in this fallen world of compromises," gently reminding us that "we're stockpiling for the short term / the long term we don't know. / No matter how much you prepare / there's always something new looming / like the Unexploded Grief Bomb." It is a world where we struggle to give back the past, to finally get to the point "where the past does not exist" and "where all history is now." Poetry.

Author : Jen Webb,Kavita Ivy Nandan
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Pacific Island fiction (English)
ISBN : 9823660166

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Writing the Pacific by Jen Webb,Kavita Ivy Nandan Pdf

"Writing the Pacific is a new anthology of stories and poems that re-envisions the myths, traditions and lived reality of 'Pacific-ness'."--Book jacket.

Author : Deanne Burch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1949642593

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Journey Through Fire and Ice by Deanne Burch Pdf

At the age of twenty-three, Deanne Burch accompanied her husband, Ernest "Tiger" Burch to the Inuit village of Kivalina, Alaska, a barrier island 23 miles above the Arctic Circle. Tiger was conducting a participant study of the natives, whereas Deanne was a city girl - ethnocentric, naïve, and completely unprepared for the journey she was about to embark on. In Kivalina, she lived on the edge of two worlds - the one she left behind and the one where she reluctantly participated in all aspects of the women's lives. Skinning seals, cleaning and drying fish, cutting beluga and caribou to store became her way of life. Plumbing, running water and electricity were not available. Loneliness was a constant companion, although she tried to be accepted by the Inuit women who were suspicious of all white women. Gradually Deanne adapted to living in a culture she knew nothing about. The midnight sun was followed by relentless darkness and brutal weather. With this came a journey into the unknown. First was a fateful camping trip where they nearly lost their lives, followed six days later by a fire in their house, an event that left Tiger badly burned. During the three months Tiger spent in the hospital, his only wish was to return to Kivalina and finish what he had started. Despite horrific burns on his face and hands and seared lungs from which he never recuperated, Tiger and Deanne returned to the village to complete the study. Instead of believing in fairy tales and happy endings, Deanne became a woman of strength ready to face the next challenge. Over fifty years later she remembers the young girl who left on an unknown journey. A journey that will live in her heart forever.

Author : Peter Josie
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781466937383

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Shattered Dreams by Peter Josie Pdf

An often thrilling first-hand account of island politics in the era after independence. The St Lucia Labour Party (SLP) comes to power after 15 yeards in the wilderness and hardly settles into office before it is rent asunder by internal bickering over its leadership. In less than three years, the party is out of office again and both it and its main characters are fighting for their respective political lives. SHATTERED DREAMS is the story of the ups and downs of political activism and the personalities and events that shaped the emergence of the Caribbean island, for whose possession the English and French fought some of the bloodiest in this hemisphere in the 18th century. In SHATTERED DREAMS, Josie attempts to show how the rise to power in sister island Grenada of the Peoples Revolutionary Government (PRG) under Marxist Maurice Bishop in 1979 influenced super power involvement in the affairs of the Caribbean islands and could have contributed handsomely to the demise of both the SLP in the St Lucia and the PRG in Grenada.

Author : Sally Wentworth
Publisher : Harlequin Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0373106297

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Shattered Dreams by Sally Wentworth Pdf

Shattered Dreams by Sally Wentworth released on Jul 25, 1983 is available now for purchase.

Author : Olive Fisher Campbell
Publisher : GeneralStore PublishingHouse
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1897113129

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Shattered Dreams by Olive Fisher Campbell Pdf

Author : Zeca Santana
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781462820412

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Angola: Land of Shattered Dreams by Zeca Santana Pdf

This is not a book of fiction. It is an actual account of the events and the nature of the tragedy that befell so many innocent victims on the fateful morning of March 15, 1961, in Angola, Africa, and how it has developed into one of the greatest tragedies to ever hit the continent of Africa. From a genuine desire to be independent from the European powers, so much brutality and vengeance has surfaced that not much has been left standing in Angola on which to build. This book, Angola: Land of Shattered Dreams, was written by Zeca Santana as a record of what happened during those early days of 1961 to his family and others, as well as some of the observations and experiences he has had on his numerous trips to Angola since 1991. As a student of world history, the author also wants to remind and warn the reader of the message that this terror can happen and indeed is happening now in many parts of the world. When ruthless forces or dictators such as Saddam Hussein in Iraq or Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe and the great genocide in Rwanda incite primitive and superstitious beliefs in certain groups of people for the purpose of hatred and violence, terror occurs. It is a message that urges the free and civilized world to take care and be prepared. This terror knows no geography, as every American citizen should realize from the September 11 experience in 2001. It is timeless, and it belongs to every man and woman. It may be a private terror, or it may strike a family, a town, a nation. But whatever its form, its language does not change.

Author : Mildred Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0533149878

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Shattered Dreams by Mildred Alexander Pdf

Author : Michael A. Ross
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807129240

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Justice of Shattered Dreams by Michael A. Ross Pdf

Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816--1890) served on the nation's highest tribunal for twenty-eight tumultuous years and holds a place in legal history as one of the Court's most influential justices. Michael A. Ross creates a colorful portrait of a passionate man grappling with the difficult legal issues arising from a time of wrenching social and political change. He also explores the impact President Lincoln's Supreme Court appointments made on American constitutional history. Best known for his opinions in cases dealing with race and the Fourteenth Amendment, particularly the 1873 Slaughter-House Cases, Miller has often been considered a misguided opponent of Reconstruction and racial equality. In this major reinterpretation, Ross argues that historians have failed to study the evolution of Miller's views during the war and explains how Miller, a former slaveholder, became a champion of African Americans' economic and political rights. He was also the staunchest supporter of the Court of Lincoln's controversial war measures, including the decision to suspend such civil liberties as habeas corpus. Although commonly portrayed as an agrarian folk hero, Miller in fact initially foresaw and embraced a future in which frontier and rivertown settlements would bloom into thriving metropolises. The optimistic vision grew from the free-labor ideology Miller brought to the Iowa Republican Party he helped found, one that celebrated ordinatry citizens' right to rise in station an driches. Disillusioned by the eventual failure of the boomtowns and repelled by the swelling coffers of eastern financiers, corporations, and robber barons, Miller became an insistent judicial voice for western Republicans embittered and marginalized in the Gilded Age. The first biography of Miller since 1939, this welcome volume draws on Miller's previously unavailable papers to shed new light on a man who saw his dreams for America shattered but whose essential political and social values, as well as his personal integrity, remained intact.

Author : Monique Layton
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Tahiti
ISBN : 9781460268605

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The New Arcadia by Monique Layton Pdf

SINCE BEING "DISCOVERED " IN 1767, Tahiti has faced a profound cultural upheaval. From the start, she has been branded with the irresistible dual myth of the Noble Savage's harmonious Arcadian life and of the vahine's amorous favours freely granted. People (navigators, missionaries, whalers, slavers) and events (deadly epidemics, atomic testing, and now tourism), all have contributed over time to creating the modern Tahitian quandary: trying to recover an idealized past and losing the benefits of modern life, or continuing as a cog in the French administrative system and losing her soul. Based on historical records, sailors' journals, Ma'ohi epic poetry, European paintings, folkloric events, the film industry, and novels by modern Tahitian writers, this book follows the passage from Otaheite's paradisal way of life, through the disastrous encounter with European civilization, ending with French Polynesia's modern prospects. Most remarkable of all is the enduring Ma'ohi culture's survival into the twenty-first century.

Author : Andrew Hammond
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030389734

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The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature by Andrew Hammond Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive guide to global literary engagement with the Cold War. Eschewing the common focus on national cultures, the collection defines Cold War literature as an international current focused on the military and ideological conflicts of the age and characterised by styles and approaches that transcended national borders. Drawing on specialists from across the world, the volume analyses the period’s fiction, poetry, drama and autobiographical writings in three sections: dominant concerns (socialism, decolonisation, nuclearism, propaganda, censorship, espionage), common genres (postmodernism, socialism realism, dystopianism, migrant poetry, science fiction, testimonial writing) and regional cultures (Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe and the Americas). In doing so, the volume forms a landmark contribution to Cold War literary studies which will appeal to all those working on literature of the 1945-1989 period, including specialists in comparative literature, postcolonial literature, contemporary literature and regional literature.

Author : Angela White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1945927771

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Shattered Dreams by Angela White Pdf

We were supposed to have a home now, with walls and floors. The constant traveling, trying to outrun nature was going to be over. We were going to build a life that resembled what we had lost, full of peace and the pursuit of happiness. We¿d earned it.Then all of the dreams that had held us through the nightmares shattered against the stone. We lost our hope, our home, and half of our members in the attempt. Now, outlasting death long enough to reach Kendle¿s island is all that remains for us and even that isn¿t certain.¿The future, cold and dark, offers little comfort. Without change, there can be no peace. Only survivors.¿