The Opium Lord S Daughter

Author : Robert Wang
Publisher : The Opium Lord's Daughter, LLC.
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780578502915

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Following the harrowing journey of Lady Lee Su-Mei and her family, Robert Wang's debut novel is a historical drama told from dual perspectives--Chinese and British--about the First Opium War, a tragic and history-altering conflict that occurred during the 19th century. Honoring the tradition of noted historical fiction writers such as Ken Follett, Philippa Gregory, and James Clavell, The Opium Lord's Daughter artfully weaves true events and characters into the narrative, offering the reader a selective glimpse into a world populated with rogue drug traders, imperialist government officials, religious zealots, scrappy survivors. Su-Mei, the eponymous protagonist, is a young woman unbounded by convention. From the moment we meet little Su-Mei, she valiantly resists her wealthy and powerful father--one of the largest opium traders in mid-19th century China--who attempts to force her into the barbaric practice of foot binding. Through her, readers look with fresh eyes upon antiquated and harmful traditions, and understand how time and experiences truly shape a person during their life's journey. Her defiance sets in motion a series of events, forever altering her fate, as well as the fates of those she holds dear. Su-Mei is forced to rapidly come-of-age and muster her heroic spirit to survive her crumbling world. Taboo romances, tumultuous adventures, and heart-wrenching tragedies befall Su-Mei and her loved ones throughout the course of the story. The Opium Lord's Daughter is an expedition through the destruction of a culture, underscoring the hold and havoc drug empires continue to exert in society, even to this day. A must read for fans of Shogun, Downtown Abbey, Outlander and other sweeping tales rooted in history!

Author : Nancy Farmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781471118302

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Lord of Opium by Nancy Farmer Pdf

Matt has always been nothing but a clone - an exact replica, grown from a strip of old El Patron's skin. Now, age fourteen, Matt suddenly finds himself thrust into the position of ruling over his own country, Opium, on the one-time border between the US and Mexico, stretching from the ruins of San Diego to the ruins of Matamoros. But while Opium thrives, the rest of the world has been devastated by ecological disaster… and hidden somewhere in Opium is the cure. And that isn't all that's hidden within the depths of Opium. Matt is haunted by the ubiquitous army of eejits, zombie-like workers harnessed to the old El Patron's sinister system of drug growing... people stripped of the very qualities which once made them human. Matt wants to use his newfound power to help stop the suffering, but he can't even find a way to smuggle his childhood love Maria across the border and into Opium. Instead, his every move hits a roadblock - both from the traitors that surround him and from a voice within himself. For who is Matt really but the clone of an evil, murderous dictator?

Author : Nancy Farmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781471120381

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The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer Pdf

Newberry Honour Award Winner & National Book Award Winner. Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children and other people. To most, Matt isn't considered a boy at all, but a beast, dirty and disgusting. But to El Patron, lord of a country called Opium, Matt is the guarantee of eternal life. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself - for Matt is himself. They share the exact same DNA. As Matt struggles to understand his existence and what that existence truly means, he is threatened by a host of sinister and manipulating characters, from El Patron's power-hungry family to the brain-deadened eejits and mindless slaves that toil Opium's poppy fields. Surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards, escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But even escape is no guarantee of freedom . . . because Matt is marked by his difference in ways that he doesn't even suspect. Praise for The House of Scorpions: 'It's a pleasure to read science fiction that's full of warm, strong characters... that doesn't rely on violence as the solution to complex problems of right and wrong. It's a pleasure to read.' Ursula K. LeGuin 'Fabulous' Diana Wynne Jones Also by Nancy Farmer: The Sea of Trolls Land of the Silver Apples The Islands of the Blessed The Lord of Opium

Author : Nancy Farmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781665918268

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The Lord of Opium by Nancy Farmer Pdf

As the teenage ruler of his own country, Matt must cope with clones and cartels in this riveting sequel to the modern classic "House of the Scorpion, " winner of the National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, and a Printz Honor.

Author : Fariba Nawa
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780062100610

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Opium Nation by Fariba Nawa Pdf

Afghan-American journalist Fariba Nawa delivers a revealing and deeply personal explorationof Afghanistan and the drug trade which rules the country, from corruptofficials to warlords and child brides and beyond. KhaledHosseini, author of The Kite Runner and AThousand Splendid Suns calls Opium Nation “an insightful andinformative look at the global challenge of Afghan drug trade. Fariba Nawa weaves her personalstory of reconnecting with her homeland after 9/11 with a very engagingnarrative that chronicles Afghanistan’s dangerous descent into opiumtrafficking…and most revealingly, how the drug trade has damaged the lives ofordinary Afghan people.” Readers of Gayle Lemmon Tzemach’sThe Dressmaker of Khair Khanaand Rory Stewart’s The Places Between will find Nawa’spersonal, piercing, journalistic tale to be an indispensable addition to thecultural criticism covering this dire global crisis.

Author : Jasmine Aimaq
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781641291590

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The Opium Prince by Jasmine Aimaq Pdf

Jasmine Aimaq’s stunning debut explores Afghanistan on the eve of a violent revolution and the far-reaching consequences of a young Kochi girl’s tragic death. Afghanistan, 1970s. Born to an American mother and a late Afghan war hero, Daniel Sajadi has spent his life navigating a complex identity. After years in Los Angeles, he is returning home to Kabul at the helm of a US foreign aid agency dedicated to eradicating the poppy fields that feed the world’s opiate addiction. But on the drive out of Kabul for an anniversary trip with his wife, Daniel accidentally hits and kills a young Kochi girl named Telaya. He is let off with a nominal fine, in part because nomad tribes are ignored in the eyes of the law, but also because a mysterious witness named Taj Maleki intercedes on his behalf. Wracked with guilt and visions of Telaya, Daniel begins to unravel, running from his crumbling marriage and escalating threats from Taj, who turns out to be a powerful opium khan willing to go to extremes to save his poppies. This groundbreaking literary thriller reveals the invisible lines between criminal enterprises and political regimes—and one man’s search for meaning at the heart of a violent revolution.

Author : Nancy Farmer
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545229784

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A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer Pdf

Orchard Classics is a collectible hardcover line of Newbery award-winning titles from the Orchard backlist that have fresh, beautiful new designs and include author prefaces and discussion guides.A GIRL NAMED DISASTER is the humorous and heartwrenching story of young girl who discovers her own courage and strength when she makes the dangerous journey from Mozambique to Zimbabwe. Nhamo is a Shona girl living in a traditional village in Mozambique in 1981. When her family tries to force her into a marriage with a cruel man, she flees. What was supposed to have been a short boat trip across the border into Zimbabwe, where she hoped to find her father, turns into an adventure filled with challenges and danger that lasts a year.

Author : Great Britain. House of Lords
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10213463

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Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords Appointed to Inquire Into the Present State of the Affairs of the East India Company, and Into the Trade Between Great Britain, the East Indies and China by Great Britain. House of Lords Pdf

Author : Nancy Farmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442482548

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The Lord of Opium by Nancy Farmer Pdf

In 2137, fourteen-year-old Matt is stunned to learn that, as the clone of El Patrâon, he is expected to take over as leader of the corrupt drug empire of Opium, where there is also a hidden cure for the ecological devastation faced by the rest of the world.

Author : Stephen R. Platt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307961747

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Imperial Twilight by Stephen R. Platt Pdf

As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.

Author : John H. Halpern,David Blistein
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316417655

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Opium by John H. Halpern,David Blistein Pdf

From a psychiatrist on the frontlines of addiction medicine and an expert on the history of drug use comes the "authoritative, engaging, and accessible" history of the flower that helped to build (Booklist) -- and now threatens -- modern society. Opioid addiction is fast becoming the most deadly crisis in American history. In 2018, it claimed nearly fifty thousand lives -- more than gunshots and car crashes combined, and almost as many Americans as were killed in the entire Vietnam War. But even as the overdose crisis ravages our nation -- straining our prison system, dividing families, and defying virtually every legislative solution to treat it -- few understand how it came to be. Opium tells the "fascinating" (Lit Hub) and at times harrowing tale of how we arrived at today's crisis, "mak[ing] timely and startling connections among painkillers, politics, finance, and society" (Laurence Bergreen). The story begins with the discovery of poppy artifacts in ancient Mesopotamia, and goes on to explore how Greek physicians and obscure chemists discovered opium's effects and refined its power, how colonial empires marketed it around the world, and eventually how international drug companies developed a range of powerful synthetic opioids that led to an epidemic of addiction. Throughout, Dr. John Halpern and David Blistein reveal the fascinating role that opium has played in building our modern world, from trade networks to medical protocols to drug enforcement policies. Most importantly, they disentangle how crucial misjudgments, patterns of greed, and racial stereotypes served to transform one of nature's most effective painkillers into a source of unspeakable pain -- and how, using the insights of history, state-of-the-art science, and a compassionate approach to the illness of addiction, we can overcome today's overdose epidemic. This urgent and masterfully woven narrative tells an epic story of how one beautiful flower became the fascination of leaders, tycoons, and nations through the centuries and in their hands exposed the fragility of our civilization. An NPR Best Book of the Year"A landmark project." -- Dr. Andrew Weil"Engrossing and highly readable." -- Sam Quinones"An astonishing journey through time and space." -- Julie Holland, MD"The most important, provocative, and challenging book I've read in a long time." -- Laurence Bergreen

Author : C.C. Benison
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385670180

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Ten Lords A-Leaping by C.C. Benison Pdf

A skydiving routine for charity goes horribly awry, leaving a wealthy lord dead and his household at odds over whether it was a tragic accident . . . or cold-blooded murder at twenty thousand feet. To fundraise for the parish in bucolic Thornford Regis, Father Tom Christmas skydives, plummeting for charity. While his landing is bumpy, it's nothing compared to that of Hector, Earl of Fairhaven, who leaps from twenty thousand feet with disastrous results. Some residents of the town, including every member of the Earl's household, however, believe that those results were not accidental, and soon Tom Christmas is investigating a crime that will take him into the secrets of his own past, and in for a very hard landing of his own.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : OSU:32437121366559

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The Law Times Reports of Cases Decided in the House of Lords, the Privy Council, the Court of Appeal ... [new Series]. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Binoy Gupta
Publisher : Ukiyoto Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789360163495

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Drug Lords of the World by Binoy Gupta Pdf

Drug Lords of the World explores the dark and dangerous world of drugs, drug lords and drug cartels from the jungles of South America, across Golden Crescent, through the Golden Triangle to the streets of major cities. You will learn about kingpins like Al Capone, Khun Sa, Chao Nyi Lai, Bao Youxiang, Lao Ta Saenlee, Wei Hsueh-kang, Hajji Bashir Noorzai of Afghanistan, General Noriega, Pablo Escobar, Griselda Blanco the Queenpin, Félix Gallardo of Mexico, Joaquín El Chapo Guzman, Ng Sik-ho, Tse Chi Lop, new Drug Lords from Brazil and many others. You will learn about Drug cartels like the Medellin and Cali Cartels, Sinaloa Cartel. Books have been written about them. Movies and TV serials have been made. You will learn about them in this must read book. The author retired as a top bureaucrat in the Government of India. He holds a Ph.D. in law as well as a large number of post graduate degrees and diplomas. He has authored several books and written hundreds of articles. This book is the result of years of research.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Nineteenth century
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008415890

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The Nineteenth Century by Anonim Pdf