Favorite Sons

Author : E. Mazzola
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137091584
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Favorite Sons written by E. Mazzola and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this examination of Sir Philip Sidney, author of the famous romance, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia , and his family, Elizabeth Mazzola argues that families are a form of poetic projects. The Sidney family, and members of the so-called 'Sidney circle' aimed to celebrate Sir Philip's life through literary tradition - they repeatedly turned to writing their own poetry as a vehicle to analyze or extend familial connections. Mazzola illustrates that Sidney's family, by celebrating the work of their brilliant loved one, actually demonstrated the unique attributes and transformation of the family in the early modern period.

Author : Robin Yocum
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1628721219
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Favorite Sons written by Robin Yocum and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrator of Favorite Sons Hutch Van Buren is fifteen years old, playing sports and searching for arrowheads in a small industrial town in Ohio with his three closest friends when an altercation between the comrades and Petey Sanchez, a troubled seventeen- year-old, leads to Petey’s accidental death. Together, Hutch and his friends become ensnared in a web of secrets and moral dilemmas. A local ne’er-do-well goes to jail for the crime while the boys keep their pact of silence. Each boy shoulders the burden of truth in his own way as each attempts to leave the past behind. Thirty-three years later, in 2004, Van Buren is the prosecuting attorney in Summit County, Ohio, and a candidate for state attorney general when he learns that he and his boyhood friends weren’t the only ones keeping a secret about Petey’s death. A convicted sex offender in need of a favor attempts to blackmail Van Buren in return for his silence. Van Buren must decide between his political career and the duty of the office he has sworn to uphold. With the clock ticking, Van Buren has a week to seek out his boyhood friends and search his soul while he sorts out three decades of deceit he helped create. Favorite Sons is a wonderful, suspenseful novel with nuanced, memorable characters and unpredictable plot twists.

Author : Bryan S. Bush
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625859937
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Favorite Sons of Civil War Kentucky written by Bryan S. Bush and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Civil War broke out, thousands of Kentuckians struggled to maintain the state's neutrality in deciding which side to support. Although Kentucky was a slaveholding state, most of the population did not wish to secede from the Union. More than 140,000 Kentucky solders fought on both sides, in the Eastern and Western Theaters. Some of those who emerged from these battlegrounds are among the state's favorite local heroes. Join historian and author Bryan S. Bush as he recounts the journeys of these brave men who fought to build and maintain the legacy of the Bluegrass State.

Author : Ellen Weber Libby
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 161592972X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Favorite Child written by Ellen Weber Libby and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thirty year veteran clinical psychologist describes in intimate detail how being the favorite child can confer both great advantages and significant emotional handicaps. Also illuminating for young parents seeking the best way to rear their children.

Author : John Piersol McCaskey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Favorite Songs and Hymns for School and Home written by John Piersol McCaskey and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Favorite Sons written by John Russell and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Favorite Sons is an American novel on the grand scale, a saga of ideas, of hopes and fears, set amongst the real-life giants - Pierpont Morgan, George Patton, John F. Kennedy. It takes in the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the McCarthy Era, the Vietnam War, and the Reagan Revolution. The themes are serious, the timespan is large, and the patterns are classic: the return of the prodigal son, the struggle against fate, a son's search for a missing father, hero and nemesis, good and evil, progress and reaction." "Flash back to the South in 1950, where a mob surrounds the car of a U.S. senator outside a political rally, waving posters showing the senator's wife dancing with an African diplomat at the U.N.: the young man driving the car is panicked as they pound on the car, rock it, shouting racial epithets. "Tell us the truth about your nigger boy!" they scream." "Now flash forward to 1978, the "new South," and another political rally where that panic-stricken young man is now a progressive U.S. senator himself: as he faces the cameras, a heckler bursts forward from the crowd. "Fornicator!" the heckler shouts, as the cameras turn toward him. "Burn in the pit! Be cursed before God! The Christ, the Living God!"" "At the center of Favorite Sons are two men, friends and rivals - industrialist Roger Albright, the last hope of a famous but impoverished old family, and Senator Worth Patterson, heir to a railroad fortune, to the manner born. This is their story, but it is also the story of the woman they both want, of the South they hope to change, and of the sons and daughters who seek to succeed where the parents failed. Set against them is the forbidding figure of Joe Crain, a media genius from the New Right who hates what they stand for, who will use any means to destroy them." "The story of Albright and Patterson is told in a big, unabashedly ambitious, and powerfully moving novel of America and American politics."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101529458
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jefferson's Sons written by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story of Thomas Jefferson's children by one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, tells a darker piece of America's history from an often unseen perspective-that of three of Jefferson's slaves-including two of his own children. As each child grows up and tells his story, the contradiction between slavery and freedom becomes starker, calliing into question the real meaning of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This poignant story sheds light on what life was like as one of Jefferson's invisible offspring.

Author : Dean Bartoli Smith
Publisher : Stillhouse Press
ISBN 13 : 9781945233128
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baltimore Sons written by Dean Bartoli Smith and published by Stillhouse Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank, unsparing, often violent and disturbing, these poems speak in the voice of a young man trying to navigate the city he loves as he lives in the long shadow of his father's suffocating obsession with firearms. With the city of Baltimore as his backdrop, accomplished poet, author, and editor Dean Bartoli Smith offers a wrenching examination of our troubled attachments to place and the deepest wounds of the American psyche.

Author : Jeffrey Archer
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429954183
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sons of Fortune written by Jeffrey Archer and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2003-01-08 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Archer-returns with a powerful tale of twins separated by fate and reunited by destiny in Sons of Fortune. In Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940s, a set of twins is parted at birth-not by accident. Nat Cartwright goes home with his parents, a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman, while his twin brother begins his days as Fletcher Davenport, son of a millionaire and his society wife. During the 1950s and 1960s, the two brothers grow up apart, following similar paths that take them in different directions. Nat leaves college at the University of Connecticut to serve in Vietnam, then finishes school, earns his MBA, and becomes a successful currency dealer. Fletcher, meanwhile, graduates from Yale University with a bachelor's and a law degree, going on to distinguish himself as a criminal defense lawyer. At various times in their lives, both men are confronted with challenges and obstacles, tragedy and betrayal, loss and hardship, before they both decide to run for governor, unaware they are brothers.... In the tradition of Jeffrey Archer's most popular books, Sons of Fortune is as much a chronicle of a nation in transition as it is the story of the making of these two men -and how they eventually discover the truth-and its tragic consequences.

Author : Mary Weber
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0718080971
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Best the Boys written by Mary Weber and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The task is simple: Don a disguise. Survive the labyrinth . . . Best the boys. Every year for the past fifty-four years, the residents of Pinsbury Port have received a mysterious letter inviting all eligible-aged boys to compete for an esteemed scholarship to the all-male Stemwick University. The poorer residents look to see if their names are on the list. The wealthier look to see how likely their sons are to survive. And Rhen Tellur opens it to see if she can derive which substances the ink and parchment are created from, using her father’s microscope. In the province of Caldon, where women train in wifely duties and men pursue collegiate education, sixteen-year-old Rhen Tellur wants nothing more than to become a scientist. As the poor of her seaside town fall prey to a deadly disease, she and her father work desperately to find a cure. But when her mum succumbs to it as well? Rhen decides to take the future into her own hands—through the annual all-male scholarship competition. With her cousin, Seleni, by her side, the girls don disguises and enter Mr. Holm’s labyrinth, to best the boys and claim the scholarship prize. Except not everyone is ready for a girl who doesn’t know her place. And not everyone survives the deadly maze. Welcome to the labyrinth. Praise for To Best the Boys: “Atmospheric, romantic, inspiring.” —KRISTEN CICCARELLI, internationally bestselling author of The Last Namsara "Smart, determined, and ready to take on the world: Rhen Tellur is an outstanding heroine with every reason to win a competition historically intended for boys." —Jodi Meadows, New York Times bestselling author of The Incarnate Trilogy and coauthor of My Lady Jane A “Hunger Games/Handmaid’s Tale mash-up.” —BN Teen Blog