Dreams Beneath Your Feet
Title | Dreams Beneath Your Feet PDF eBook |
Author | Win Blevins |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2008-11-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429963263 |
Eighteen years have passed since Sam Morgan came West from Pennsylvania and learned the perilous business of trapping in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. Now, in 1840, he seems to face a bleak future. The fur trade has played out and he must find other means of making a living. Sam decides to return to California with his daughter Esperanza and start a new life. The great golden land represents a bitter memory — his beloved Crow Indian wife Meadowlark died there in childbirth — but friends convince him that his destiny lies on the Pacific shore. Meadowlark's uncle, Flat Dog, his family, and Hannibal MacKye, the half-Delaware mountain man, join Sam and Esperanza for the journey west, where they hope to trade for a herd of Appaloosa horses to sell at a profit in California. At Fort Hall on the Oregon Trail, Sam and his people encounter a terrified woman, Lei Palua, who has escaped the clutches of a psychopath called Kanaka Boy, whose gang of killers and rapists has been terrifying Indian villages in the Northwest. Sam Morgan and his people take Lei Palua under their wing unaware that her one-time lover and now bloodthirsty nemesis dogs her trail, vowing to kill her and all who stand in his way. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Heavens' Embroidered Cloths
Title | Heavens' Embroidered Cloths PDF eBook |
Author | William Butler Yeats |
Publisher | Pavilion Books, Limited |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9781857936544 |
As a boy Yeats dramatized himself as a sage, magician or poet, and when fellow poet Katharine Tynan first met him in 1885 he seemed to her all dreams and gentleness. His lifelong interest in the myths, legends and folk history of his native Ireland, his fascination with magic and the occult, the theatre, language, politics, love and friendship are all prevalent in this collection of poems. He was a visionary poet and uses symbols to evoke rather than to describe, and in 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The book is illustrated by a range of predominantly Irish painters, including the poet's younger brother, Jack B. Yeats.
The Wind Among the Reeds
Title | The Wind Among the Reeds PDF eBook |
Author | William Butler Yeats |
Publisher | |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | Irish poetry |
ISBN |
Love Bomb
Title | Love Bomb PDF eBook |
Author | Jenny McLachlan |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2016-04-26 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1250061490 |
Originally published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury in 2015.
Best-Loved Yeats
Title | Best-Loved Yeats PDF eBook |
Author | W. B. Yeats |
Publisher | The O'Brien Press |
Pages | 91 |
Release | 2013-01-08 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1847174337 |
I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams ... Some of the most famous lines in Irish poetry come from the pen of William Butler Yeats, poet, patriot, dramatist and senator. This illustrated collection of forty of his best-loved works, on Love, Politics, Old Age, Myth and Legend includes people, places and events that were important to him.
Paradise Beneath Her Feet
Title | Paradise Beneath Her Feet PDF eBook |
Author | Isobel Coleman |
Publisher | Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2013-02-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0812978552 |
Now with a new Preface and Afterword by the author “Outstanding . . . [Isobel Coleman] takes us into remote villages and urban bureaucracies to find the brave men and women working to create change in the Middle East.”—Los Angeles Times In this timely and important book, Isobel Coleman shows how Muslim women and men across the Middle East are working within Islam to fight for women’s rights in a growing movement of Islamic feminism. Journeying through Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, Coleman introduces the reader to influential Islamic feminist thinkers and successful grassroots activists working to create economic, political, and educational opportunities for women. Their advocacy for women’s rights based on more progressive interpretations of Islam are critical to bridging the conflict between those championing reform and those seeking to oppress women in the name of religious tradition. Socially, culturally, economically, and politically, the future of the region depends on finding ways to accommodate human rights, and in particular women’s rights, with Islamic law. These reformers—and thousands of others—are the people leading the way forward. Featuring new material that addresses how the Arab uprisings and other recent events have affected the social and political landscape of the region, Paradise Beneath Her Feet offers a message of hope: Change is coming to the Middle East—and more often than not, it is being led by women. Praise for Paradise Beneath Her Feet “Clearly written, deeply moving, and wonderfully enlightening.”—Reza Aslan, author of No god but God “[An] engrossing portrait of real Muslim women that reveals how Islamic feminists . . . are working with and within the culture, rather than against it . . . to forge ‘a legitimate Islamic alternative to the current repressive system.’ Coleman doesn’t diminish the enormity of the struggle, but she argues convincingly that it might yet rewrite Islam’s future.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A nuanced view of Islam’s role in public life that is cautiously hopeful.”—The Economist “Eye-opening . . . Deeply religious, profoundly determined and modern in every way, these are twenty-first-century women bent on change. Hear them roar and see a future being born before our eyes.”—Booklist
Early Poems
Title | Early Poems PDF eBook |
Author | William Butler Yeats |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2013-02-04 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0486159450 |
Rich selection of 134 poems published between 1889 and 1914: "Lake Isle of Innisfree," "When You Are Old," "Down by the Salley Gardens," many more. Note. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.