The Exiles of Crocodile Island
Title | The Exiles of Crocodile Island PDF eBook |
Author | Henye Meyer |
Publisher | Mesorah Publications Limited |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780899067728 |
The story of a community of children torn from their homes by the Inquisition and their defiant struggle to keep their faith.
This is America!
Title | This is America! PDF eBook |
Author | Henye Meyer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Jews |
ISBN | 9781600912894 |
When the Gordons escaped pogrom-ridden Russia and washed up on the shores of Ellis Island, little could they have fathomed how the course of their lives was about to change. Forever. With bustling tenements, endless sweatshops, and throngs racing madly to work...this was definitely the New World.
King of Cuba
Title | King of Cuba PDF eBook |
Author | Cristina Garcia |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2013-05-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1476710244 |
A Fidel Castro-like octogenarian Cuban exile obsessively seeks revenge against the dictator.
Lost Boy
Title | Lost Boy PDF eBook |
Author | Christina Henry |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2017-07-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0399584021 |
From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a familiar story with a dark hook—a tale about Peter Pan and the friend who became his nemesis, a nemesis who may not be the blackhearted villain Peter says he is… There is one version of my story that everyone knows. And then there is the truth. This is how it happened. How I went from being Peter Pan’s first—and favorite—lost boy to his greatest enemy. Peter brought me to his island because there were no rules and no grownups to make us mind. He brought boys from the Other Place to join in the fun, but Peter's idea of fun is sharper than a pirate’s sword. Because it’s never been all fun and games on the island. Our neighbors are pirates and monsters. Our toys are knife and stick and rock—the kinds of playthings that bite. Peter promised we would all be young and happy forever. Peter lies.
Remarkable Creatures
Title | Remarkable Creatures PDF eBook |
Author | Tracy Chevalier |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2010-01-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101152451 |
From the New York Times bestselling novelist, a stunning historical novel that follows the story of Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot, two extraordinary 19th century fossil hunters who changed the scientific world forever. On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary learns that she has a unique gift: "the eye" to spot ammonites and other fossils no one else can see. When she uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home, she sets the religious community on edge, the townspeople to gossip, and the scientific world alight. After enduring bitter cold, thunderstorms, and landslips, her challenges only grow when she falls in love with an impossible man. Mary soon finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth, a middle-class spinster who shares her passion for scouring the beaches. Their relationship strikes a delicate balance between fierce loyalty, mutual appreciation, and barely suppressed envy, but ultimately turns out to be their greatest asset. From the author of At the Edge of the Orchard and Girl With a Pearl Earring comes this incredible story of two remarkable women and their voyage of discovery.
Cuba Confidential
Title | Cuba Confidential PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Louise Bardach |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 2007-12-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0307425428 |
From America’s number one Cuba reporter, PEN award–winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we’ve all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century’s wiliest political survivor and his fiefdom, Cuba Confidential is the gripping story of the shattered families and warring personalities that lie at the heart of the forty-three-year standoff between Miami and Havana. Famous to many Americans for her cover stories and media appearances, Ann Louise Bardach has been covering Cuba for a decade. She’s talked to the crooks, spooks and politicians who have made history, and to their hired assassins and confidants. Based on exclusive interviews with Fidel Castro, his sister Juanita, his former brother-in-law Rafael Díaz-Balart, the family of Elián González, the friends and family of the legendary American fugitive Robert Vesco, the intrepid terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, and the inner circles of Jeb Bush and the late exile leader Jorge Mas Canosa, Cuba Confidential exposes the hardball take-no-prisoners tactics of the Cuban exile leadership, and its manipulation and exploitation by ten American presidents. Bardach homes in on Fidel Castro and his cronies, taking us closer than we’ve ever been—and on the militant exiles who have devoted their lives, with CIA connivance, to trying to eliminate him. From Calle Ocho to Juan Miguel González’s kitchen table in Cárdenas, from Guantánamo Bay to Union City to Washington, D.C., Ann Louise Bardach serves up an unforgettable portrait of Cuba and its exiles.
A Book of Golden Deeds
Title | A Book of Golden Deeds PDF eBook |
Author | Charlotte Mary Yonge |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Europe |
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