Daniel: Picking Up the Pieces
Daniel: Picking Up the Pieces

Author: Peter Pactor

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2019-12-03

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1525558943

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The 1929 stock market crash has come and gone, and Daniel, much criticized and mocked for his predictions of that event, has been vindicated. Now he wants to go back to the carefree days of being a boy, but it's impossible. When his bank hires a black man as a guard, Daniel stands up against discrimination and bigoted opponents. He rescues and becomes the guardian of three homeless, abused teenagers. This is a story of human struggles at the onset of the Great Depression that will touch your emotions and challenge you to reconsider your perceptions of those conditions that still persist a century later.

Harvest
Harvest

Author: Catherine Landis

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007-04-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1429976640

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With a history of childhood loss and tragedy, Arliss Greene grows up to love his cattle more than his family. The memory of his family's displacement, due to TVA's construction of Norris Dam, stays with him as he struggles to make a living farming. His son Daniel tries to distance himself, but an inexplicable attachment to East Tennessee causes him to return to the hilltop where he grew up. He is shocked and disappointed when his wife, Leda, a city girl, ends up working with Arliss, farming the family land. Decisions are made, with repercussions that reverberate throughout their lives, the lives of their children, and the life of the farm from the 1930s to the beginning of the new century. Written with an unerring ear for the cadence and language of the South, Harvest is a powerful, character-driven novel. A story of family, marriage, farming, baseball, the power of memory, and what sustains people through loss, Harvest is a reckoning of sacrifices and a testament to human resilience. Catherine Landis, the author of the critically lauded BookSense 76 pick Some Days There's Pie, has written a compelling new novel with an assured Southern inflection and lovingly rendered three-dimensional characters.

Sins of His Fathers: Daniel's Story
Sins of His Fathers: Daniel's Story

Author: Hilaria Grace

Publisher: Writers Republic LLC

Published: 2022-08-01

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13:

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Who was Daniel? Where did he come from? Why was he acting out this aggressively? How many secrets does he have? What are they? This is part two of the Sins of His Fathers Series will answer all the questions you think you have about Daniel, but SURPRISE! IT will create more questions! This story goes into Daniel's past, and you learn what other things are hiding in the shadows lurking around waiting to come out. But even though this had some hard, sad, and difficult situations, the worst is yet to come. Yes! That's right! Be prepared and stay alert because Daniel and his family have more secrets to reveal! I would like to thank Tatum Cook for her illustration for the cover of Daniel's Story.

Flowers on the Grass
Flowers on the Grass

Author: Monica Dickens

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-09-28

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1448202752

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Orphaned at the age of fourteen, Daniel is brought up by a distant and cold relative. After his expulsion from Eton his ashamed guardian, in an attempt to bury the scandal, sends the troubled boy to another distant relative in Italy. There, Daniel has little responsibility and a lot of freedom to study art and enjoy a bohemian lifestyle. But when WWII erupts he does not shun responsibility and comes back to England to join the army. During his service he meets Jane who adores Daniel's rebellious nature and falls deeply in love with him. Unfortunately, Daniel's chance for stability and domestic happiness is shattered when Jane unexpectedly dies. After that sudden blow Daniel abandons his home and work and sets off to find the freedom and happiness he experienced briefly before he was orphaned. In the Flowers on the Grass, first published in 1949, we follow Daniel on his physical and spiritual wanderings through the accounts of the characters he encounters on his journey.

Lessons from Nationalist Struggle
Lessons from Nationalist Struggle

Author: Jose Dalisay Jr.

Publisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2017-11-15

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 9712733157

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An Unknown Chapter in Philippine History Emmanuel Quiason Yap possessed a unique perspective on world affairs. This was largely a product of his upbringing and life experience, which underpinned his great love of country. Through his life, we see a clear view of the road not taken. This book portrays one of the most significant and turbulent chapters in Philippine history in this context. The period from the late 1950s to the early 1970s witnessed a resurgence of the nationalist movement, the election of Ferdinand Marcos as president, the establishment of the Communist Party of the Philippines, the First Quarter Storm, the bombing of Plaza Miranda, and the declaration of martial law. Manoling Yap cast a different light on these events, including the roles of Marcos, and Ninoy and Cory Aquino. Inevitably, many disagreed with his analysis and some dismissed him as a Communist. Ironically, it was during this period that his career reached both its zenith and nadir. Because of illness, he was unable to write his autobiography as he had always intended. But his analysis and interpretation of important events present an alternative viewpoint that must be known. This is Manoling Yap’s story

Le Grand Tango
Le Grand Tango

Author: María Susana Azzi

Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 0195127773

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Combining deft musical analysis and intriguing personal insight, Azzi and Collier vividly capture the life of Piazolla, the Argentinean musician--a visionary who won worldwide acclaim but sparked bitter controversy in his native land. 42 halftones.

Seven
Seven

Author: Julie Steimle

Publisher: BookRix

Published: 2018-02-21

Total Pages: 523

ISBN-13: 3743857200

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Jessica Mason's mother has had it. Had it with the town. Had it with her boss. Had it with her daughter's boyfriend. Had it with her daughter's friends. And had it with the magical freakiness that is Middleton Village, Massachusetts. So after contacting the FBI's Cult and kidnapping division to get their help, she concocted a scheme that would ensure her daughter's safety, while helping the the other parents of the kids who had claimed to have been kidnapped by the Wolf's Wood Cult. The thing is, the Wolf's Wood Cult isn't real. It never existed. The FBI knows it. And when Mrs. Mason finally found out that the eight kids had made up the story about their kidnapping to hide a darker truth--that these kids are involved in something extremely dangerous--she makes an even more dangerous deal than she realizes. The problem is, the dangerous thing is them. They are the Holy Seven. And anyone in their way better watch out.

Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight
Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight

Author: Daniel Thompson

Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.

Published: 2011-09-25

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1937520242

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Rich Man's War - Poor Man's Fight, is the story of two Scot - Irish families who left Ireland for the promise of a better life in America. While accurately set in time and place, this is not a battle by battle account of Civil War history. It is the story of a determined people who were pressed into a war by a country who spurned their kind and used them as pawns so their wealthy sons could be kept out of harm's way. One family, a young man who hoped to use his family trade as a sword smith entered through the port of New York in 1862. New York was in the midst of the conscription riots as Abraham Lincoln's cabinet desperately fought to fill the ranks of an Army to hold the Union together. A second family left Dublin for New Orleans. They arrived as organizers tried to convince young Irish men that the South's fight for independence from the federal government is a struggle that the Irish should understand. Fate brings the young men together on opposing sides of a Virginia battlefield where they collapse in exhaustion and come to realize the irony of their meeting and the cruel circumstances that brought them together as enemies.

Dawn on Kukulkan
Dawn on Kukulkan

Author: Jock Whitehouse

Publisher: Weiser Books

Published: 2011-08-01

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 160925340X

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In this exhilarating sequel to his acclaimed Ledge of Quetzal, Whitehouse takes us to the sacred ballgame at Chichen Itza (Kukulkan) that will determine the fate of human life on earth. In the tradition of Carlos Castaneda and Paolo Coelho, Jock Whitehouse’s Dawn on Kukulkan returns us to the magical landscape of Southern Mexico and the further spiritual adventures of Daniel Bancroft, the protagonist hero of The Ledge of Quetzal. After witnessing the Great Economic Meltdown of September 2008, and the shattering of a collective confidence in the future, Daniel once again finds himself flying to Mexico on a sacred journey – this time to the great playing field that lies at the entrance to Kukulkan, the Mayan temple at Chichen Itza, where a ballgame to determine the fate of life on earth is to be played out before sunrise on 12/21/2012. An intimate journey of personal transformation and spiritual awakening, this book is also a wake-up call in fable form: we can reverse the destructive course of humanity but only if we are courageous enough to dismantle the illusion of our differences and embrace our connection as one human family.