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Download or read book The Long Journey Back written by Linda Penninga and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-12-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War is over and the South is reeling from the loss and devastation of the war. Colleen and Steven must now travel from Virginia to their home in Georgia. The road is fraught with hardship and peril; from bear attacks and cave dwellers, to Unionists out for revenge. Even after reaching home, their journey does not end. They are faced with the struggles of rebuilding their home, dealing with devastating losses, finding their place in a new South, and mending what the war has torn apart. It is a time of reconstruction, Black Codes, and the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan. This is the story of the South and its people, rising from the ashes of war; the journey back from grief, death, and adversity.

Download or read book The Long Walk Back Home A Quest For Freedom written by Douglas Davis and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Become involved in Hunter's westward quest for freedom during the Civil War, when the forced "Long Walk" and tragic enslavement threatened the destruction of his proud people. This Navajo youth displays three loves of homeland, culture and tribe while struggling with daily survival issues, dangerous wildlife, and the greed of soldiers determined to eliminate this cherished freedom. Religious enlightenment develops for Hunter while "walking in beauty" with nature, and contending with convoluted cross roads of truth and irony. Freedom has never been free!

Download or read book Mists of Dawn written by Chad Oliver and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 17-year-old makes an unplanned trip through space and time to Europe 50,000 years ago where Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man engage in conflict for survival.

Download or read book The Chautauquan written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Visions of Skyfire written by Regan Hastings and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: View our feature on Regan Hastings’s Visions of Skyfire. Teresa Santiago has awakened her abilities to summon lightning but is unable to control her power-or her attraction to Rune, her Eternal protector and destined partner. Now, Teresa and Rune must locate a missing artifact of unimaginable power before it unleashes the forces of darkness on the world. But with enemies both mortal and magical on their trail, Teresa and Rune discover that only through sacrifice will love conquer all...

Download or read book The Adjacent written by Christopher Priest and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the master illusionists of our time.” —Wired “A head-spinning blast of blurred reality . . . jaw-dropping.” —NPR “Completely fascinating.” —San Francisco Book Review Set against “a kaleidoscopic backdrop of Earth’s past, present, and future”, this time-hopping science fiction novel is a moving meditation on “the resonance of history, memory, and love” (AV Club) In the near future, Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled from Anatolia to Britain when his wife, an aid worker, is killed—annihilated by a terrifying weapon that reduces its target to a triangular patch of scorched earth. A century earlier, Tommy Trent, a stage magician, is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the enemy. Present day. A theoretical physicist develops a new method of diverting matter, a discovery with devastating consequences that will resonate through time.

Download or read book The Horn Island Logs of Walter Inglis Anderson written by Walter Inglis Anderson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1985 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelation of the art and mind of a unique artist lost and alone in the world of nature, this beautiful book records Anderson's experiences on one of the barrier islands in the Gulf of Mexico over a period of twenty years. Revised edition.