The Light in the Forest
Title | The Light in the Forest PDF eBook |
Author | Conrad Richter |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2004-09-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1400077885 |
An adventurous story of a frontier boy raised by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic. When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose ways of dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them.
CliffsNotes on Richter's The Light in the Forest
Title | CliffsNotes on Richter's The Light in the Forest PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Ellen Snodgrass |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 2001-03-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0544182553 |
Conrad Richter, one of American literature's preeminent authors on the American frontier, highlights family hardship, individual suffering, and societal breakup in The Light in the Forest. Impeccably researched, Richter's novel takes place at a time of rapid change in the 18th century. True Son/Johnny is the protagonist, a white boy captured at the age of 4 by the Lenni Lenape Indians and later adopted as one of their own. Forced to return to his white family 11 years later, True Son/Johnny must address what it means to belong and face the consequence of defying those ties.
The Light in the Forest
Title | The Light in the Forest PDF eBook |
Author | Conrad Richter |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004-09-14 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781417642496 |
For use in schools and libraries only. Fifteen year old John Cameron Butler, kidnapped and raised by the Lenape Indians since childhood, is returned to his people under the terms of a treaty and is forced to cope with a strange and different world that is no longer his.
Playing in the Light
Title | Playing in the Light PDF eBook |
Author | Zoë Wicomb |
Publisher | The New Press |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2008-01-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1595582215 |
By the Windham Campbell Prize winner Set in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape Town, Zo Wicomb's celebrated novel revolves around Marion Campbell, who runs a travel agency but hates traveling, and who, in post-apartheid society, must negotiate the complexities of a knotty relationship with Brenda, her first black employee. As Alison McCulloch noted in the New York Times, "Wicomb deftly explores the ghastly soup of racism in all its unglory--denial, tradition, habit, stupidity, fear--and manages to do so without moralizing or becoming formulaic." Caught in the narrow world of private interests and self-advancement, Marion eschews national politics until the Truth and Reconciliation Commission throws up information that brings into question not only her family's past but her identity and her rightful place in contemporary South African society. "Stylistically nuanced and psychologically astute" (Kirkus), Playing in the Light is as powerful in its depiction of Marion's personal journey as it is in its depiction of South Africa's bizarre, brutal history.
Fast Food Nation
Title | Fast Food Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Schlosser |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 387 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0547750331 |
An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.
Rainbow Six
Title | Rainbow Six PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Clancy |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 916 |
Release | 1999-09-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780425170342 |
In this #1 New York Times bestselling John Clark thriller, author Tom Clancy takes readers into the shadowy world of anti-terrorism and gets closer to reality than any government would care to admit... Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark has been named the head of Rainbow, an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism. In a trial by fire, Clark is confronted with a violent chain of seemingly separate international incidents. But there is no way to predict the real threat: a group of terrorists like none the world has ever encountered, a band of men and women so extreme that their success could literally mean the end of life on earth as we know it.
My People
Title | My People PDF eBook |
Author | Luther Standing Bear |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Dakota Indians |
ISBN |
" ... [The book] is just a message to the white race; to bring my people before their eyes in a true and authentic manner ..."--Preface.