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 : 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 : 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 : Ivory Simion
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493116428
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( 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 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Horne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
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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:

Author : Michigan State University. Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 916 pages
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Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin - Michigan State University, Agricultural Experiment Station written by Michigan State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eduardo Valls Oyarzun
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793621454
Total Pages : 259 pages
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Download or read book Avenging Nature written by Eduardo Valls Oyarzun and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nature, thou art my goddess”—Edmund’s bold assertion in King Lear could easily inspire and, at the same time, function as a lamentation of the inadequate respect of nature in culture. In this volume, international experts provide multidisciplinary exploration of the insubordinate representations of nature in modern and contemporary literature and art. The work foregrounds the need to reassess how nature is already, and has been for a while, striking back against human domination. From the perspective of literary studies, art, history, media studies, ethics and philosophy, and ethnology and anthropology, Avenging Nature highlights the need of assessing insurgent discourses that—converging with counter-discourses of race, gender or class—realize the empowerment of nature from its subaltern position. Acknowledging the argument that cultural representations of nature establish a relationship of domination and exploitation of human discourse over nonhuman reality and that, in consequence, our regard for nature as humanist critics is instrumental and anthropocentric, the present volume advocates for the view that the time has come to finally perceive nature’s vengeance and to critically probe into nature’s ongoing revenge against the exploitation of culture.

Author : Arch Bishop D.A. Miller, D.D. Ph.D.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105533425
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Theological Study of The Book of Romans written by Arch Bishop D.A. Miller, D.D. Ph.D. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-11 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul addressed the Book of Romans to both Jews and Gentiles, even though Rome was primarily a Gentile city. Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that most believers in the churches at Rome were Gentiles. The reason that this was important is that the Judaizers continued to infiltrate the local churches and Paul was determined to stop their false message of adding law-keeping to grace from taking root, and to demonstrate that the Gospel is for all, Jews and Gentiles.

Author : International Railway Congress Association
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1578 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monthly Bulletin written by International Railway Congress Association and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
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Download or read book Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: