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Author: Cynthia B. Acree
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 523
ISBN-13: 1612340822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe compelling true story of Col. Cliff Acree and Cynthia Acree, two high school sweethearts whose lives were torn apart by the Gulf War.
Author: Geraldine Bedell
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2009-03-05
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 0141038608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWarm, witty and surprising, 'The Gulf Between Us' is a deliciously written novel about disappointment, hope and surviving in a world of conflicting values.
Author: Belle Boggs
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2019-04-02
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1555978347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA hilarious send-up of writing workshops, for-profit education, and the gulf between believers and nonbelievers Marianne is in a slump: barely able to support herself by teaching, not making progress on her poetry, about to lose her Brooklyn apartment. When her novelist ex-fiancé, Eric, and his venture capitalist brother, Mark, offer her a job directing a low-residency school for Christian writers at a motel they’ve inherited on Florida’s Gulf Coast, she can’t come up with a reason to say no. The Genesis Inspirational Writing Ranch is born, and liberal, atheist Marianne is soon knee-deep in applications from writers whose political and religious beliefs she has always opposed but whose money she’s glad to take. Janine is a schoolteacher whose heartfelt poems explore the final days of Terri Schiavo’s life. Davonte is a former R&B superstar who hopes to reboot his career with a bestselling tale of excess and redemption. Lorraine and Tom, eccentric writers in need of paying jobs, join the Ranch as instructors. Mark finds an investor in God’s Word God’s World, a business that develops for-profit schools for the Christian market, but the conditions that come along with their support become increasingly problematic, especially as Marianne grows closer to the students. As unsavory allegations mount, a hurricane bears down on the Ranch, and Marianne is faced with the consequences of her decisions. With sharp humor and deep empathy, The Gulf is a memorable debut novel in which Belle Boggs plumbs the troubled waters dividing America.
Author: Jack E. Davis
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Published: 2017-03-14
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 0871408678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner • Pulitzer Prize for History Winner • Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Finalist • National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, NPR, Library Journal, and gCaptain Booklist Editors’ Choice (History) Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence In this “cri de coeur about the Gulf’s environmental ruin” (New York Times), “Davis has written a beautiful homage to a neglected sea” (front page, New York Times Book Review). Hailed as a “nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond’s best-seller Collapse, and Simon Winchester’s Atlantic” (Dallas Morning News), Jack E. Davis’s The Gulf is “by turns informative, lyrical, inspiring and chilling for anyone who cares about the future of ‘America’s Sea’ ” (Wall Street Journal). Illuminating America’s political and economic relationship with the environment from the age of the conquistadors to the present, Davis demonstrates how the Gulf’s fruitful ecosystems and exceptional beauty empowered a growing nation. Filled with vivid, untold stories from the sportfish that launched Gulfside vacationing to Hollywood’s role in the country’s first offshore oil wells, this “vast and welltold story shows how we made the Gulf . . . [into] a ‘national sacrifice zone’ ” (Bill McKibben). The first and only study of its kind, The Gulf offers “a unique and illuminating history of the American Southern coast and sea as it should be written” (Edward O. Wilson).
Author: Maxine Alterio
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Published: 2019-04-02
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0143773321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnder the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, love, lies and disenchantment lead to a menacing showdown in this suspense-filled novel. A foreigner is seriously injured not far from Julia's safe Queenstown hideaway. Why does he have her name in his wallet? His unexpected arrival takes Julia back forty-five years to London, where as an impulsive young woman she first met Benito Moretti - a meeting that was to change her life, taking her to the glittering Gulf of Naples. There Julia found herself pitted against her belligerent mother-in-law and Benito’s sinister brother in a lethal battle for her husband and children. Julia remembered her father saying, We’re all as sick as our secrets. Words that still haunt her.
Author: Geoffrey F. Gresh
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2015-06-10
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0804795061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe U.S. military maintains a significant presence across the Arabian Peninsula but it must now confront a new and emerging dynamic as most Gulf Cooperation Council countries have begun to diversify their political, economic, and security partnerships with countries other than the United States—with many turning to ascending powers such as China, Russia, and India. For Gulf Arab monarchies, the choice of security partner is made more complicated by increased domestic and regional instability stemming in part from Iraq, Syria, and a menacing Iran: factors that threaten to alter totally the Middle East security dynamic. Understanding the dynamics of base politicization in a Gulf host nation—or any other—is therefore vitally important for the U.S. today. Gulf National Security and the U.S. Military examines both Gulf Arab national security and U.S. military basing relations with Gulf Arab monarchy hosts from the Second World War to the present day. Three in-depth country cases—Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Oman—help explain the important questions posed by the author regarding when and why a host nation either terminated a U.S. military basing presence or granted U.S. military basing access. The analysis of the cases offers a fresh perspective on how the United States has adapted to sometimes rapidly shifting Middle East security dynamics and factors that influence a host nation's preference for eviction or renegotiation, based on its perception of internal versus external threats.
Author: Anna Costantini
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe romance of a lovely American girl married to an Italian count whose cultural differences threaten to sunder their marriage.
Author: Captivating History
Publisher:
Published: 2020-01-27
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781647484989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe late 1980s and early 1990s were times of significant changes.
Author: Susan Cerulean
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Trevor Griffiths
Publisher:
Published: 1992-01
Total Pages: 57
ISBN-13: 9780571167289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBilly Ryder and Finbar O'Toole are two builders trapped on the outskirts of a city at war, somewhere in the Middle East. As the sirens and missiles whistle around them, they build a wall in order to protect an ancient shrine. For Billy it is simply a job, for Finbar it is something more.
