The War of Sudden Light
The War of Sudden Light

Author: W. D. Tucker

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2005-07

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 059535727X

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King Ryence of Ordal fought the Faeries diligently. His people are ashamed of his efforts especially when he surrenders. At the treaty signing, the King of the Faeries discovers disturbing information and flees. Emory longs to be a knight. He is soon swept into adventure when a knight offers him apprenticeship. The King and Emory face questions: What is the mysterious prophesy that caused the Faerie King not to sign the surrender treaty? Why has the heir to the throne been taken? On what mission has Emory been sent? And who is the sorceress who pledged her life to defend the realm of Men?

A Sudden Light
A Sudden Light

Author: Garth Stein

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 0857205781

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From the author of the million-copy bestselling The Art of Racing in the Raincomes the breathtaking and long-awaited new novel. This novel centres on four generations of a once terribly wealthy and influential timber family who have fallen from grace; a mysterious yet majestic mansion, crumbling slowy into the bluff overlooking Puget Sound in Seattle; a love affair so powerful it reaches across the planes of existence; and a young man who simply wants his parents to once again experience the moment they fell in love, hoping that if can feel that emotion again, maybe they won't get divorced after all.

Suddenly, the Sight of War
Suddenly, the Sight of War

Author: Hannan Hever

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2016-02-24

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0804797188

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Suddenly, the Sight of War is a genealogy of Hebrew poetry written in pre-state Israel between the beginning of World War II and the War of Independence in 1948. In it, renowned literary scholar Hannan Hever sheds light on how the views and poetic practices of poets changed as they became aware of the extreme violence in Europe toward the Jews. In dealing with the difficult topics of the Shoah, Natan Alterman's 1944 publication of The Poems of the Ten Plagues proved pivotal. His work inspired the next generation of poets like Haim Guri, as well as detractors like Amir Gilboa. Suddenly, the Sight of War also explores the relations between the poetry of the struggle for national independence and the genre of war-reportage, uniquely prevalent at the time. Hever concludes his genealogy with a focus on the feminine reaction to the War of Independence showing how women writers such as Lea Goldberg and Yocheved Bat-Miryam subverted war poetry at the end of the 1940s. Through the work of these remarkable poets, we learn how a culture transcended seemingly unspeakable violence.

Learning to Glow
Learning to Glow

Author: John Bradley

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780816519569

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Provides personal accounts of people who were raised during the Cold War and of those who were directly in contact with nuclear weapons during World War II, the Korean War, and the Persian Gulf War, focusing on the health and environmental hazards of nuclear weapons.

The Emancipation Proclamation for the Suddenly Blind Adult (SBA)
The Emancipation Proclamation for the Suddenly Blind Adult (SBA)

Author: Scott Wendell Bray

Publisher: Suddenly Blind Adult Center

Published: 2005-08

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1419606336

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Being challenged by blindness is not the end but the beginning. It is not a call to disengage in the world but to engage more fully in the world. This "how-to" manual shows suddenly blind adults how the challenges of daily life can be met and conquered.

An Unexpected Light
An Unexpected Light

Author: Jason Elliot

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2011-08-02

Total Pages: 599

ISBN-13: 1466837802

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Part historical evocation, part travelogue, and part personal quest, An Unexpected Light is the account of Elliot's journey through Afghanistan, a country considered off-limits to travelers for twenty years. Aware of the risks involved, but determined to explore what he could of the Afghan people and culture, Elliot leaves the relative security of Kabul. He travels by foot and on horseback, and hitches rides on trucks that eventually lead him into the snowbound mountains of the North toward Uzbekistan, the former battlefields of the Soviet army's "hidden war." Here the Afghan landscape kindles a recollection of the author's life ten years earlier, when he fought with the anti-Soviet mujaheddin resistance during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Weaving different Afghan times and visits with revealing insights on matters ranging from antipersonnel mines to Sufism, Elliot has created a narrative mosaic of startling prose that captures perfectly the powerful allure of a seldom-glimpsed world. Jason Elliot's An Unexpected Light is a remarkable, poignant book about Afghanistan and a heartfelt reflection on the experience of travel itself.

The War of the World
The War of the World

Author: Niall Ferguson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-11-06

Total Pages: 880

ISBN-13: 1101615877

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From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower "Even those who have read widely in 20th-century history will find fresh, surprising details." —The Boston Globe "A fascinating read, thanks to Ferguson's gifts as a writer of clear, energetic narrative history." —The Washington Post Astonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Niall Ferguson's numerous acclaimed works have been leading up to. In it, he grapples with perhaps the most challenging questions of modern history: Why was the twentieth century history's bloodiest by far? Why did unprecedented material progress go hand in hand with total war and genocide? His quest for new answers takes him from the walls of Nanjing to the bloody beaches of Normandy, from the economics of ethnic cleansing to the politics of imperial decline and fall. The result, as brilliantly written as it is vital, is a great historian's masterwork.