A Man from Another Land
A Man from Another Land

Author: Isaiah Washington

Publisher: Center Street

Published: 2011-04-27

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1599954265

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In this inspirational memoir, Grey's Anatomy actor Isaiah Washington explains how filling in the gaps of his past led him to discover a new passion: helping those less fortunate. DNA testing revealed that Washington was descended from the Mende people, who today live in Sierra Leone. For many people, the story would end with the results of the search; for Isaiah, it had just begun. Discovering his roots has given him a new purpose, to lead an inspirational life defined by faith and charity. After visiting Sierra Leone, and researching the country and its needs, Washington forged a strong relationship with the Mende people, and was inducted as Chief Gondobay Manga in May 2006. He established The Gondobay Manga Foundation to institute many improvements suggested by the country's people, addressing educational concerns, practical issues (road building, water supply, and electricity), and rehabilitative projects. Dual citizenship has been a dream of African-Americans such as W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, but Washington became the first to realize that honor in 2008. A twofold milestone, it was also the first time an African president granted citizenship based on DNA.

Land of the Lost Souls
Land of the Lost Souls

Author: Cadillac Man,

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 160819194X

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For the past 16 years, Cadillac Man (so named because he was once hit by an El Dorado and thereafter bore an imprint of its hood ornament) has lived on the streets of New York City. Over those years, he has recorded the facts of his daily life - the harsh realities of surviving on the street, the often tragic encounters with the non-homeless world, the deep bonds with his fellow homeless, and the surprisingly varied realities of life on the outside - writing hundreds of thousands of words in a series of spiral bound notebooks. "My Life in the Streets" distills those journals into a memoir of homeless life that is peopled with indelible characters and packed with gripping stories. In a gritty, poignant, and funny voice, Cadillac narrates his descent into homelessness, the travails and unexpected freedoms of his life, and the story of his love affair with a young runaway, whom he eventually (and tragically) reunites with her family. The United States has 700,000 homeless people; ultimately, Cadillac's story is their story.

In the Land of God and Man
In the Land of God and Man

Author: Silvana Paternostro

Publisher: Dutton Books

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13:

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In 1993 journalist Silvana Paternostro discovered the startling fact that married, monogamous women in Brazil were at greater risk for AIDS than female prostitutes--because husbands have unprotected sex with other men. A compelling narrative, layered with history, careful research, and blistering social commentary, about a missing chapter in the annals of Latin American culture.

A Song for No Man's Land
A Song for No Man's Land

Author: Andy Remic

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2016-02-09

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0765384019

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He signed up to fight with visions of honour and glory, of fighting for king and country, of making his family proud at long last. But on a battlefield during the Great War, Robert Jones is shot, and wonders how it all went so very wrong, and how things could possibly get any worse. He'll soon find out. When the attacking enemy starts to shapeshift into a nightmarish demonic force, Jones finds himself fighting an impossible war against an enemy that shouldn't exist. Andy Remic's A Song for No Man's Land is the first in an ongoing series. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Man from the Land of Fandango
The Man from the Land of Fandango

Author: Margaret Mahy

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780547819884

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Illustrations and rhyming text introduce a dancing, juggling, bouncing man who appears once every five hundred years.

The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land
The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land

Author: Omer Friedlander

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published: 2023-06-27

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0593242998

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From “a marvelous new voice” (Rebecca Makkai), these “extraordinarily imaginative” (Sigrid Nunez), “revelatory” (Nicole Krauss), “superb” (Kiran Desai) stories transcend borders as they render the intimate lives of people striving for connection. WINNER OF THE AJL JEWISH FICTION AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land announces the arrival of a natural-born storyteller of immense talent. Warm, poignant, delightfully whimsical, Omer Friedlander’s gorgeously immersive and imaginative stories take you to the narrow limestone alleyways of Jerusalem, the desolate beauty of the Negev Desert, and the sprawling orange groves of Jaffa, with characters that spring to vivid life. A divorced con artist and his daughter sell empty bottles of “holy air” to credulous tourists; a Lebanese Scheherazade enchants three young soldiers in a bombed-out Beirut radio station; a boy daringly “rooftops” at night, climbing steel cranes in scuffed sneakers even as he reimagines the bravery of a Polish-Jewish dancer during the Holocaust; an Israeli volunteer at a West Bank checkpoint mourns the death of her son, a soldier killed in Gaza. These stories render the intimate lives of people striving for connection. They are fairy tales turned on their head by the stakes of real life, where moments of fragile intimacy mix with comedy and notes of the absurd. Told in prose of astonishing vividness that also demonstrates remarkable control and restraint, they have a universal appeal to the heart.

How Much Land Does A Man Need?
How Much Land Does A Man Need?

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2015-02-26

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 0141397756

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'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!' A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). Tolstoy's works available in Penguin Classics are Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth,The Cossacks and Other Stories, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, What is art?, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, Master and Man and Other Stories, How Much Land Does A Man Need? & Other Stories, A Confession and Other Religious Writings and Last steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy.

NO-MAN'S-LAND & Other Supernatural Stories (Mystery & Horror Series)
NO-MAN'S-LAND & Other Supernatural Stories (Mystery & Horror Series)

Author: John Buchan

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2016-03-25

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 8026851560

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This carefully crafted ebook: “NO-MAN'S-LAND & Other Supernatural Stories (Mystery & Horror Series)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. “No-man's-land” – A beast is at large in wilderness, hunting cattle and murdering unsuspecting people, what happens when a man comes face-to-face with it? “The Watcher by the Threshold” – An unmentionable creature piggybacks a man from his near-death experience . . . “Space” – A brilliant mathematician theorizes the existence of a new dimension but it is not uninhabited, something lurks there . . . “The Keeper of Cademuir” – a man is trapped in a trap laid by poachers and lies dying until. . “A Journey of Little Profit” – a shepherd is transformed into a nice person but why and how? “The Outgoing of the Tide” – jealousy and witchcraft never go well for anyone “The Grove of Ashtaroth” – a home in African wilderness with an ancient temple in its vicinity affects its new occupant. “Basilissa” – a curious nightmare leading to a deadly countdown or is it a warning? “Fullcircle” – a haunted new-house and a doomed family . . . John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian and also served as Canada's Governor General. His 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and biographies. But, the most famous of his books were the adventure and spy thrillers and it is for these that he is now best remembered. "It was with a light heart and a pleasing consciousness of holiday that I set out from the inn at Allermuir to tramp my fifteen miles into the unknown. I walked slowly, for I carried my equipment on my back . . ." (No-Man's-Land)

No Man's Land
No Man's Land

Author: David Baldacci

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2016-11-15

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1455586498

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After his father is accused of murder, combat veteran and Special Agent John Puller must investigate his past and learn the truth about his mother in this New York Times bestselling thriller--but someone hiding in the shadows wants revenge. Two men. Thirty years. John Puller's mother, Jackie, vanished thirty years ago from Fort Monroe, Virginia, when Puller was just a boy. Paul Rogers has been in prison for ten years. But twenty years before that, he was at Fort Monroe. One night three decades ago, Puller's and Rogers' worlds collided with devastating results, and the truth has been buried ever since. Until now. Military investigators, armed with a letter from a friend of Jackie's, arrive in the hospital room of Puller's father-a legendary three-star now sinking into dementia-and reveal that Puller Sr. has been accused of murdering his wife. Aided by his brother Robert Puller, an Air Force major, and Veronica Knox, who works for a shadowy U.S. intelligence organization, Puller begins a journey that will take him into his own past, to find the truth about his mother. Paul Rogers' time is running out. With the clock ticking, he begins his own journey, one that will take him across the country to the place where all his troubles began: a mysterious building on the grounds of Fort Monroe. There, thirty years ago, the man Rogers had once been vanished too, and was replaced with a monster. And now the monster wants revenge. And the only person standing in his way is John Puller.

Notes from No Man's Land
Notes from No Man's Land

Author: Eula Biss

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2018-11-06

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1555978231

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize Acclaimed for its frank and fascinating investigation of racial identity, and reissued on its ten-year anniversary, Notes from No Man’s Land begins with a series of lynchings, ends with a list of apologies, and in an unsettling new coda revisits a litany of murders that no one seems capable of solving. Eula Biss explores race in America through the experiences chronicled in these essays—teaching in a Harlem school on the morning of 9/11, reporting from an African American newspaper in San Diego, watching the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina from a college town in Iowa, and rereading Laura Ingalls Wilder in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago. What she reveals is how families, schools, communities, and our country participate in preserving white privilege. Notes from No Man’s Land is an essential portrait of America that established Biss as one of the most distinctive and inventive essayists of our time.