Born Into Darkness

Author : Suzanne Brockmann
Publisher : Suzanne Brockmann Books
ISBN 13 : 099946454X
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born to Darkness (Originally Published 2012) written by Suzanne Brockmann and published by Suzanne Brockmann Books. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighting Destiny series # 1 Reissue originally published 2012 Set in a dark and crumbling near-future... Navy SEAL LT Shane Laughlin was dishonorably discharged and blacklisted—for being too honorable. Desperate for work and down to his last ten bucks, he takes a job as a test subject—a human guinea pig—at Boston’s Obermeyer Institute, a fringe scientific research facility. Shane’s skeptical when he finds out that OI’s focus is to find and train certain exceptional people, usually young girls—called “Greater-Thans”—whose skill-sets include telekinesis, telepathy, rapid self-healing, and super-human strength. And he’s even more surprised when he discovers that Mac, the mysterious woman who rocked his world in an epic one-night stand, is part of an elite team of kickass OI operatives who use their G-T skills to rescue and protect innocents. Because OI’s not the only organization trying to find Greater-Thans—and the other guys are out to exploit them. An illegal drug called “Destiny” is being made from the blood of young, untrained, and powerless Greater-Than girls. Addictive and dangerous, it gives its wealthy and reckless users instant G-T powers—including eternal youth—at a lethal price. Dr. Michelle “Mac” Mackenzie and her OI team are at war with the shadowy corporations who enslave girls to meet the rising demand for Destiny, and Shane wants to join them. He may not be a G-T, but as a former Navy SEAL, he’s got talents of his own. Still, Mac’s got powerful reasons to keep her distance from Shane. But when one very special little girl goes missing, Mac’s ready to do anything—including accept Shane’s help—to find and save her. Mac’s used to risking her life, but she now faces sacrificing her heart... Originally published in 2012 (170,000 words, original hard cover edition was 513 pages)

Author : Howard W. French
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631495836
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War written by Howard W. French and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the accidental unearthing of the “New World.” Still others point to the development of the scientific method, or the spread of Judeo-Christian beliefs; and so on, ad infinitum. The history of Africa, by contrast, has long been relegated to the remote outskirts of our global story. What if, instead, we put Africa and Africans at the very center of our thinking about the origins of modernity? In a sweeping narrative spanning more than six centuries, Howard W. French does just that, for Born in Blackness vitally reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in the West, and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe’s dehumanizing engagement with the “dark” continent. In fact, French reveals, the first impetus for the Age of Discovery was not—as we are so often told, even today—Europe’s yearning for ties with Asia, but rather its centuries-old desire to forge a trade in gold with legendarily rich Black societies sequestered away in the heart of West Africa. Creating a historical narrative that begins with the commencement of commercial relations between Portugal and Africa in the fifteenth century and ends with the onset of World War II, Born in Blackness interweaves precise historical detail with poignant, personal reportage. In so doing, it dramatically retrieves the lives of major African historical figures, from the unimaginably rich medieval emperors who traded with the Near East and beyond, to the Kongo sovereigns who heroically battled seventeenth-century European powers, to the ex-slaves who liberated Haitians from bondage and profoundly altered the course of American history. While French cogently demonstrates the centrality of Africa to the rise of the modern world, Born in Blackness becomes, at the same time, a far more significant narrative, one that reveals a long-concealed history of trivialization and, more often, elision in depictions of African history throughout the last five hundred years. As French shows, the achievements of sovereign African nations and their now-far-flung peoples have time and again been etiolated and deliberately erased from modern history. As the West ascended, their stories—siloed and piecemeal—were swept into secluded corners, thus setting the stage for the hagiographic “rise of the West” theories that have endured to this day. “Capacious and compelling” (Laurent Dubois), Born in Blackness is epic history on the grand scale. In the lofty tradition of bold, revisionist narratives, it reframes the story of gold and tobacco, sugar and cotton—and of the greatest “commodity” of them all, the twelve million people who were brought in chains from Africa to the “New World,” whose reclaimed lives shed a harsh light on our present world.

Author : Nick Lake
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408819953
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Darkness written by Nick Lake and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, 15-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804.

Author : Sherrilyn Kenyon
Publisher : Piatkus Books
ISBN 13 : 9780349412115
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born of Darkness written by Sherrilyn Kenyon and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 2019-02-09 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roniqua Smith
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984568485
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born into Darkness written by Roniqua Smith and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into Darkness: ~From the Beginning to the End~ is about a family so full of secrets it takes death to bring them out. Janie tells the story of her family and how they hold so many secrets without teaching the newer generation what not to do. Family curses start to form—who can change this? How will it change? Will it change?

Author : Roniqua Smith
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984559575
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born into Darkness written by Roniqua Smith and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into darkness from beginning to end is about a family that’s full of secrets and it takes death to bring them out! Janie tells the story of her family and how they hold so many secrets without teaching the newer generation what not to do, family curses starts to form, who can change this? How will it change? Will it change?

Author : Suzanne Brockmann
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345521293
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born to Darkness (with bonus short story Shane's Last Stand) written by Suzanne Brockmann and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the near future, as America endures its second Great Depression, former Navy SEAL Shane Laughlin finds work as a test subject at the Obermeyer Institute, only to be plunged into a strange world where mild-mannered scientists can kick his highly skilled ass. These “Greater-Thans” undergo rigorous training to master unique abilities—including telekinesis, super strength, and reversal of the aging process—by accessing untapped regions of the brain. But for the rich and reckless, there’s a quick, seductive alternative: Destiny, a highly addictive designer drug that can make anyone a Greater-Than—for a lethal price. Michelle “Mac” Mackenzie is determined to end the scourge of Destiny. As one of OI’s crack operatives, she’s learned to wield her powers responsibly. But she’s knocked for a loop when she meets the new test subject: Shane, the same smoldering stranger who just rocked her world in a one-night stand. Mac’s got reasons to keep her distance from him—and reasons that are just as strong to want him close. She’s used to risking her life, but now, in the midst of the ultimate war on drugs, she must face sacrificing her heart. BONUS: This edition includes Suzanne Brockmann's short story Shane's Last Stand.

Author : Neil T. Anderson
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441265759
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stomping Out the Darkness written by Neil T. Anderson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2008-06-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter what you see when you look in the mirror, God sees something better. That's because God sees you as the person you can become. Discover how to break free of negative thoughts and discover the joy of being a child of God.

Author : Annie Ernaux
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609802381
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "I Remain in Darkness" written by Annie Ernaux and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE An extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter’s attachment to her mother, and of both women’s strength and resiliency. I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie’s attempts first to help her mother recover from Alzheimer’s disease, and then, when that proves futile, to bear witness to the older woman’s gradual decline and her own experience as a daughter losing a beloved parent. I Remain in Darkness is a new high water mark for Ernaux, surging with raw emotional power and her sublime ability to use language to apprehend her own life’s particular music. A Washington Post Top Memoir of 1999

Author : James Loftin
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 166428043X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born to Shine written by James Loftin and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2022-11-16 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than you have imagined, your life can communicate grace and bring solutions that transform the world for God’s glory. Born to Shine invites Christians to review the way we see ourselves and the methods we employ as partners in God’s mission. It looks at the beauty of light, the horrors of darkness, and God’s mystifying method of using fallible Christ followers to bring hope and healing to neighbors near and far. The book provides practical tools to help readers answer the vital question: “How can I best use my prayer, time, finances, strengths, circumstances, and pain to change the world with the love of Jesus?” You are the light of the world. God invites you to reclaim that identity with intentionality, urgency, and excellence.