The Leave Takers

The Leave Takers

Author: Margarett Mirley

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2007-04-13

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 1904744028

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This compelling and vivid novel - the first in the 'Journey into Eta' trilogy - follows the trials of Hagio and the 'Leave-Takes' in the Ancient Greek world.


The Leave-Takers

The Leave-Takers

Author: Steven Wingate

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2021-03

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1496225023

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The Leave-Takers is a twenty-first-century American love story and a tale of internal migration to the Great Plains.


Leave Taking

Leave Taking

Author: Winsome Pinnock

Publisher: NHB Modern Plays

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781848427402

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A new play about the conflict between a West-Indian woman and her English-born daughters.


Taking Leave, Taking Liberties

Taking Leave, Taking Liberties

Author: Aaron Hiltner

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 022668718X

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American soldiers overseas during World War II were famously said to be “overpaid, oversexed, and over here.” But the assaults, rapes, and other brutal acts didn’t only happen elsewhere, far away from a home front depicted as safe and unscathed by the “good war.” To the contrary, millions of American and Allied troops regularly poured into ports like New York and Los Angeles while on leave. Euphemistically called “friendly invasions,” these crowds of men then forced civilians to contend with the same kinds of crime and sexual assault unfolding in places like Britain, France, and Australia. With unsettling clarity, Aaron Hiltner reveals what American troops really did on the home front. While GIs are imagined to have spent much of the war in Europe or the Pacific, before the run-up to D-Day in the spring of 1944 as many as 75% of soldiers were stationed in US port cities, including more than three million who moved through New York City. In these cities, largely uncontrolled soldiers sought and found alcohol and sex, and the civilians living there—women in particular—were not safe from the violence fomented by these de facto occupying armies. Troops brought their pocketbooks and demand for “dangerous fun” to both red-light districts and city centers, creating a new geography of vice that challenged local police, politicians, and civilians. Military authorities, focused above all else on the war effort, invoked written and unwritten legal codes to grant troops near immunity to civil policing and prosecution. The dangerous reality of life on the home front was well known at the time—even if it has subsequently been buried beneath nostalgia for the “greatest generation.” Drawing on previously unseen military archival records, Hiltner recovers a mostly forgotten chapter of World War II history, demonstrating that the war’s ill effects were felt all over—including by those supposedly safe back home.


The Journey Takers

The Journey Takers

Author: Leslie Albrecht Huber

Publisher:

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780578052144

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Leslie Albrecht Huber's ancestors were journey takers, leaving theirhomes in Germany, Sweden, and England behind to sail to the USand start new lives here. Huber sets out to trace these journeys and tounderstand her family - who they were and what mattered to them. As shefollows in their footsteps, walking the paths they walked and looking overthe land they farmed, she finds herself on a journey she hadn't expected.Based on thousands of hours of research, Huber recreates the immigrationexperience in a way that captures both its sweeping historical breadth andits intimately personal consequences.


The Taker

The Taker

Author: Alma Katsu

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-09-06

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1439197075

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From the author of The Hunger—hailed by Stephen King as “deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down”—comes a hauntingly atmospheric tale filled with alchemy, lust, and betrayal. True love can last an eternity…but immortality comes at a price. On the midnight shift at a hospital in rural Maine, Dr. Luke Findley is expecting another quiet evening of frostbite and the occasional domestic dispute. But the minute Lanore McIlvrae—Lanny—enters his ER, she changes his life forever. A mysterious woman with plenty of dark secrets, Lanny is unlike anyone Luke has ever met. He is inexplicably drawn to her…despite the fact that she is a murder suspect with a police escort. As she begins to tell her story, Luke finds himself utterly captivated. Her impassioned account begins at the turn of the 19th century in the same small town of St. Andrew, Maine, back when it was a Puritan settlement. Consumed as a child by her love for the founder’s son, Jonathan, Lanny will do anything to be with him. But the price she pays is steep—an immortal bond that chains her to a terrible fate for all eternity. And now, two centuries later, the key to her healing and her salvation lies with Dr. Luke Findley. Part historical novel, part supernatural page-turner, The Taker is a “mesmerizing” (Booklist, starred review) story about the power of unrequited love not only to elevate and sustain, but also to blind and ultimately destroy.


Taking Leave

Taking Leave

Author: Nagle Jackson

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780822217640

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THE STORY: In the middle of the night, Eliot Pryne, professor of English Literature--specialty Shakespeare--is packing what he thinks is a suitcase and leaving what he thinks is a hotel. In the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, he is taking leave


The Technology Takers

The Technology Takers

Author: Jens P. Flanding

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2018-11-30

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1787694658

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Digital-era technologies lead organizations to become technology takers, the equivalent of economic 'price takers'.To be a technology taker is to assent to the behavior transforming benefits of modern technologies. This playbook offers technology takers tactics to manage change, create value, and exploit the digital era's strategic opportunities.


Leave Taking

Leave Taking

Author: Lorraine Marwood

Publisher:

Published: 2018-07-02

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780702260117

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Leave taking nounthe act of saying goodbye. What if you had just one week left to say goodbye to everything you've ever known? Toby and his mum and dad are leaving their family farm after the death of Toby's younger sister, Leah. Together, they sort through all their belongings and put things aside to sell or throw out. It's a big task, and Toby doesn't want to leave the only place he's called home. As his last day on the farm approaches, Toby has a plan - a plan to say goodbye to all the things and places that mean something special to him and Leah, from the machinery shed to Pa's old truck to the chook house. With the help of his best friend, Trigger the dog, he learns what it means to take your leave.


Of Fathers and Fire

Of Fathers and Fire

Author: Steven Wingate

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2019-04-01

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1496215060

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When Richie Thorpe and his ragtag religious band of ex-thieves arrive in the High Plains town of Suborney, Colorado, Tommy Sandor is captivated by the group. It’s the summer of 1980 in the dusty, junkyard town, and the seventeen-year-old is wrestling with the forces shaping America and himself: the Iran hostage crisis, the incoming tide of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, and the political rise of the Christian Right. As Tommy is increasingly drawn to the group, his mother, Connie, grows frantic. She has been hiding the truth from her son, telling him that his father was a saxophonist from New York who never knew he had a child, and is lying low in Suborney to hide from Tommy’s actual father—Richie Thorpe. Connie knows Richie has come for his son, and though she has witnessed Thorpe’s mysterious powers, the desperation to protect her lie, her son, and their life begets a venom with an elemental power that threatens the whole town.