A Broken Branch

Author : Thomas E. Mann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195368711
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Broken Branch written by Thomas E. Mann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two nationally renowned congressional scholars review the evolution of Congress from the early days of the republic to 2006, arguing that extreme partisanship and a disregard for institutional procedures are responsible for the institution's current state

Author : Stephen F. Anderson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538127431
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Broken Tree written by Stephen F. Anderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All families have stories and all families have secrets. Some stories can be hidden forever. Others come out over time, or suddenly through revelation. With the advent of easy to obtain and cheap DNA kits, more and more people are stumbling across biological secrets they never suspected, sometimes with happy outcomes, but sometimes with shocking results. In this book, the author provides a real-life example of the shocking revelations and aftermath of DNA investigation. Growing up as one of nine children, Stephen Anderson suspected from a young age that something was amiss. A chance accident, and a small crack in the history of his family broke open. More would come to be revealed as the author sets out on a journey to find answers to his questions. Any reader wondering what a DNA test might reveal will find here one extreme example of family secrets gone awry. As each member learns more about his or her own identity, new family members pop up, fade out, or pass away before relationships can be established or even revealed. More and more people are undergoing DNA tests and seeking to find long lost relatives though ancestry searches. What they find might upturn all their shared assumptions about family, identity, belonging, and history. Join Stephen as he uncovers his own family’s secrets, the impact they’ve had on his life and his family’s, and what they are all doing now to heal fresh wounds.

Author : John Mantooth
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101620447
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broken Branch (Novella) written by John Mantooth and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broken Branch, Alabama, serves as a refuge for the God-fearing, a shelter from the evils of the outside world. But who will protect them from the evil within? Trudy first met Otto and James after World War I, two traveling ministers, preaching the good word to anyone who’d take the time to listen. Together, they founded Broken Branch, a hideaway in Alabama where the faithful would be able to isolate themselves from the impurity of the rest of the world and live blessed lives in the eyes of God. But then the storms came, tearing apart their small compound, God’s punishment for hidden wickedness in their hearts. And when an old man wanders into Broken Branch, ranting about a secret hideaway and uncovers an old storm cellar that’s been hidden for years, Trudy begins to wonder what other secrets lie under the surface of their safe haven… Includes a preview of The Year of the Storm Praise for Broken Branch "The community of Broken Branch in John Mantooth's fine novella enacts the familiar American quest to found a religiously-pure settlement whose members might escape the evils and ills of the larger world—in this case, Depression-era America. A descendant of Hawthorne's Blithedale Farm, not to mention Puritan Plymouth, its inhabitants come the same discovery as their forebearers, namely, that they themselves contain more than sufficient darkness to undo their enterprise. Through a tight focus on the woman whose largesse has made Broken Branch possible, Mantooth portrays the movement from willful ignorance to painful wisdom. In these pages, tornadoes churn, stars fall burning from the sky, and a strange storm shelter offers a glimpse of another world full of awful beauty. Broken Branch offers compelling evidence of John Mantooth's ambitions and abilities as a writer."—John Langan, author of The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies "John Mantooth's Broken Branch is filled with claustrophobic, creeping dread. It's a story of lies and belief, fear and deception, and it will stay with you long after you've finished the last page."—Damien Walters Grintalis, author of Ink

Author : Anne W. Mhorelund
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496922239
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broken Branch written by Anne W. Mhorelund and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year was 1939 when a small community near Augusta, Georgia first heard TC utter the riveting phrase, Keep your elbows resting on the needle. TC, a lumberjack and a rich timber baron made a pack. They had stepped across each others shadows since young boys one being of enormous wealth the other having a perfect aim and strength for felling 60 pines and cypress trees. Amidst civil strife, TC convinced a small contingency of friends to follow him deep into the forest across the rugged Acorn Trail to grow their own dreams. On an early morning in May 1945 ten covered wagons had reached the Acorn trail. Having been separated by politics, religion, race and the volatile mixture of love and revenge, few could ever return as the road home was splattered with the blood and ill deeds many had left behind. Forty-five years later, they would take an accounting. Some would call them cowards who high-tailed it. They would offer to drain two manmade lakes slowly. There was Meeliah, an island girl left along while Clay Albert tended to the lives of a rich Philadelphia family and she knew how to bake a pineapple sweet potato pie that could arouse and her jungle sting was severe. Her punishment would be unending; Clay Albert was determined to break her. One day they could not coax her out of the lake. One Sunday three brides-to-be would go off in a huff looking for adventure, a thing called hatching. They came upon a black family. Their intent was to enjoy some freshly churned ice cream and place ribbons in the pretty little girls hair. But three days later, one of the teenage boys would be bludgeoned to death. Was it something they did, said, or wrote? Would Barbara Lynn, a bride-to-be, get to live in the cottage behind the plantation house where slave graves were recently discovered? Did Tim really love her or was he after her blood line. Hed proclaimed, There are no brown spots about me; I am White from tick to tock and my eyes Really? While one community dismantled and escaped into the forest, another one a state away vowed to leave a forest in Dorchester County, South Carolina, beat their tools into cleats and create the greatest civilization of modern times one that would one day leave the gravity of the earth and float among the stars. They had promised their mother a homeland. But first they would tenderly assault unjust social and political structures. Some pressed into their minds that it would take 100 years, but more than one retorted, Were going to do it in one generation. The year is 2012 and counting to 2033 from 1933; a 100 years. Although Thelma claimed to be the mother of more children than any woman known hardly six could be counted at any one time; they having gone on to the other side she said. Shed referred to them as her glories, her carrots. Were they fathom? With little to go on but the suspicious tone of a business attorney and some missing birth certificates, the author recreates this lost civilization in, The Dark Circle The Search for the lost children of the Mud. The tenderness and love between Miles and Thelma Dunston are captured as the, The Slave Girl and the Jew. Five overlapping stories tell of their courage and toils of rebirth of these families and the triumph of the human spirit.

Author : Karmen Permanent Court of Arbitration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781403359322
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Broken Branch written by Karmen Permanent Court of Arbitration and published by . This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ivory Simion
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493116444
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Broken Branch and the Grafted Branch written by Ivory Simion and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The translation of the Holy Bible will be revealed on three levels of consciousness. Depending on what level of consciousness and what level of evolutionary development the reader is presently on will determine the amount of understanding the reader will receive from this translation. Remember, all men are not on the same level of consciousness or on the same level of evolutionary development.

Author : Gunnar Alutalu
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365214885
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Broken Branch written by Gunnar Alutalu and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A branch on a wire fell down, --- The wire that powers the town. That branch from a tree Indeed did break free And started this story renown. This story, I feel, I must tell While still I remember it well. It was all in the papers, The tricks and the capers. In turbulent times did folks dwell...

Author : Lady Ann Novels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broken Branches written by Lady Ann Novels and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A families strength should be built like the strongest tree in the forest. While branches and trunks appear to only be wood they consist of many cells used for strength and resistance to injury and decay. When a family tree is built on fragility it's members are easily broken lacking the necessary nutrients needed to withstand trauma. Through its weakness Ann is born. Ann is a young child that wants nothing more than love and protection from her family. Yet, at a young age Ann is faced with trauma and later emotional abuse from her mother's boyfriend. Domestic violence and mental abuse ruled the household. Ann has to choose whether to remain among "Broken Branches" or to stand strong. Ann takes you through a journey of her life's lessons that taught Ann not only how to survive her unstable environment but how to build an inner strength that would save her life. Broken Branches is a not your average memoir. Through its pages Ann is finally "Writing the wrong" to heal, grow and stand tall.

Author : Thomas E. Mann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Broken Branch written by Thomas E. Mann and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Horne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Year in Fiji written by John Horne and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: