The Gun Runners Daughter

Author : Neil Gordon
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307803112
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gun Runner's Daughter written by Neil Gordon and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1995, Neil Gordon's Sacrifice of Isaac was one of the most acclaimed novels of the year. Newsday said it "immediately vaults Gordon into the company of John le Carré and Graham Greene." The Washington Post called it "one of those rare works of fiction that are both edifying and almost sinfully pleasurable." The San Francisco Chronicle described it as "the best kind of page-turner." ------ Now Neil Gordon returns with The Gun Runner's Daughter, an equally compelling tale of moral and psychological suspense, the story of two lawyers who fall in love while they are on opposite sides of an arms-dealing scandal. ------ For twenty-seven years, Allison Rosenthal has lived the life of the liberal elite, from summers in Martha's Vineyard to her studies at Yale. But when her father is indicted on federal charges and his profession--arms dealing--is exposed to public scrutiny, her placid life changes radically. And when her secret childhood lover is named as her father's prosecuting attorney, she must decide where her loyalties lie in a trial that is rocking the presidential administration. ------ Does family come before politics? Love before law? Truth before loyalty? These are the questions the gun runner's daughter must face as she tries to negotiate the dangerous and murky world of her father's profession and the ambiguous morality of power politics in America and Israel. In this audaciously entertaining intellectual thriller, Neil Gordon brings the personal and political together with the mastery of a great storyteller.

Author : Neil Gordon
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 9781447227854
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gun Runner's Daughter written by Neil Gordon and published by Picador. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law student Allison Rosenthal has lived a life of privilege: her childhood spent in the finest schools, her summers spent in Martha's Vineyard, her future both brilliant and certain. But when her father is arrested for illegal arms dealing Allison's life is thrown into chaos. As the trial rocks the presidential administration and the media's unblinking eye focuses on her family, Allison is forced to decide where her loyalties lie. Audacious and thrilling, The Gun Runner's Daughter cleverly explores the consequences of personal and political entanglement.

Author : Scott Hildreth
Publisher : Carina Press
ISBN 13 : 1460396863
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gun Runner written by Scott Hildreth and published by Carina Press. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former marine turned gun runner plays a deadly game of passion with a mafia boss’s daughter in this sexy romantic thriller. Former marine Michael Tripp used to take down terrorists on the front lines. Now he’s in the business of bad—selling guns on the black market to the highest bidder. The lowlifes who tread on his turf never last long. Not even the Sicilian Mafia makes him blink. But from the first time he laid eyes on Terra, he knew there was more to life than moving merchandise. As far as Tripp is concerned, the gorgeous Mafia princess is his now . . . and no one threatens what’s his. Growing up around criminals and liars, Terra has seen plenty of trouble in her young life. Now she wants out. Unfortunately, her father has other plans. And what her father wants . . . he gets. Terra knows how dangerous Tripp is. Both his underworld reputation and her overwhelming attraction to him are reasons enough to stay away. But once her true intentions—and true identity—are known, Tripp is the only one who can save her.

Author : Gina Apostol
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393083993
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gun Dealers' Daughter: A Novel written by Gina Apostol and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the PEN/Open Book Award At university in Manila, young, bookish Soledad Soliman falls in with radical friends, defying her wealthy parents and their society crowd. Drawn in by two romantic young rebels, Sol initiates a conspiracy that quickly spirals out of control. Years later, far from her homeland, Sol reconstructs her fractured memories, writing a confession she hopes will be her salvation. Illuminating the dramatic history of the Marcos-era Philippines, this story of youthful passion is a tour de force.

Author : Harvey S. Wiener
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198026234
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Any Child Can Read Better written by Harvey S. Wiener and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-05-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading, however fundamental the task may seem to everyday life, is a complex process that takes years to master. Yet, learning to read in the early stages is not an overwhelming problem for most children, especially when their classroom learning is coupled with a nurturing home environment in which reading is cherished, and pencil and paper are always available and fun to use. In fact, studies have shown that children score higher in reading if their parents support and encourage them at home. Unfortunately, though many parents want to involve themselves actively in their children's education, very few know just what to do. Now Dr. Harvey S. Wiener, author of the classic Any Child Can Write, provides an indispensable guide for parents who want to help their children enter the magic realm of words. In Any Child Can Read Better, Second Edition, Dr. Wiener offers practical advice on how to help children make their way through the maze of assignments and exercises related to classroom reading. In this essential book, parents learn how to be "reading helpers" without replacing or superseding the teacher--by supporting a child's reading habits and sharing the pleasures of fiction, poetry, and prose. Home learning parents also will find a wealth of information here. Through comfortable conversation and enjoyable exercises that tap children's native abilities, parents can help their child practice the critical thinking and reading skills that guarantee success in the classroom and beyond. For example, Dr. Wiener explains how exercises such as prereading warm-ups like creating word maps (a visual scheme that represents words and ideas as shapes and connects them) will allow youngsters to create a visual format and context before they begin reading. He shows how pictures from a birthday party can be used to create patterns of meaning by arranging them chronologically to allow the party's "story" to emerge, or how they might by arranged by order of importance--a picture of Beth standing at the door waiting for her friends to arrive could be displayed first, Beth blowing out the birthday cake placed toward the middle of the arrangement, and the pictures of Beth opening her gifts, especially the skates she's been begging for all year, would surely go toward the end of the sequence. Dr. Wiener shows how these activities, and many others, such as writing games, categorizing toys or clothes or favorite foods, and reading journals, will help children draw meaning out of written material. This second edition includes a new chapter describing the benefits of encouraging children to keep a journal of their personal reactions to books, the value of writing in the books they own (underlining, writing in the margins, and making a personal index) and a variety of reading activities to help children interact with writers and their books. Dr. Wiener has also expanded and updated his fascinating discussion of recommended books for children of all ages, complete with plot summaries. Written in simple, accessible prose, Any Child Can Read Better offers sensible advice for busy parents concerned with their children's education.

Author : Regina Jennings
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493420283
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Major's Daughter (The Fort Reno Series Book #3) written by Regina Jennings and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caroline Adams returns to Indian Territory after tiring of confining society life. She wants adventure, and when she and her friend Amber come across swaggering outlaw Frisco Smith, they find his dreams for the new territory are very persuasive. With the much-anticipated land run pending, they may just join the rush. Growing up parentless, all Frisco Smith wanted was a place to call his own. It's no wonder that he fought to open the Unassigned Lands. After years of sneaking across the border, he's even managed to put in a dugout house on a hidden piece of property he's poised to claim. When the gun sounds, everyone's best plans are thrown out the window in the chaos of the run. Caroline and Frisco soon find themselves battling over a claim--and both dig in their heels. Settling the rightful ownership will bring these two closer than they ever expected and change their ideas of what a true home looks like.

Author : Susan Castillo Street
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947465589
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gun Runner's Daughter written by Susan Castillo Street and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Castillo Street weaves a feisty autobiographical web of familial relationships, cottonmouths, cicadas and crabbing amongst many other varied subjects; a 'bayou fusillade' (The Alchemist) of images and well-hewn narratives from a Southern Gothic childhood to the present day. Be ready to be transported to Mississippi and beyond by this vivid and intriguing collection brimming with the lessons of a well-lived life. Jill Munro, Author of The Quilted Multiverse and The Man from La Paz Susan Castillo Street's poems, in the first section in particular, read like short films such is their sense of place, characters, narrative, and tension. Gothic there is here yet also tenderness, humour, and a refreshing down-to-earthness. But after saying all that it's a waste of effort / to try to place things in neat boxes. Brett Evans, Editor of Prole, and Author of The Devil's Tattoo Susan Castillo Street's new collection startles in its straight-talking ability to deal with memory, loss and hope. Incidents remembered from childhood, and from a life well-lived, are recounted with easy wit and subtle measure. The title poem, 'The Gun-Runner's Daughter', remembers a teacher who bullied its narrator as a young girl. Yet, with a sort of steely generosity of spirit that characterises the collection as a whole, the poem ends trusting that the teacher is the one who has learned from the girl. These are poems that teach us to listen to, and learn from, incidents in the life of the poet. With a dash of Southern Gothic - running guns to Cuba; magnolia trees; the scent of wisteria; a dead baby sister - the collection delivers its lessons with tenderness, sometimes remorse, always with the hope that the details of a life can illuminate the living of our lives. These are poems that touch the heart. They teach us to remember, and to celebrate that remembering. Nick Selby, Professor of American Studies (University of East Anglia) and Author of American Poetry since 1900 (Edinburgh University Press)

Author : Jackson Cole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gun-runners written by Jackson Cole and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andy Davidson
Publisher : MCD x FSG Originals
ISBN 13 : 0374720940
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boatman's Daughter written by Andy Davidson and published by MCD x FSG Originals. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Go read Andy Davidson’s lush nightmare, The Boatman’s Daughter. It put an arrow through my head and heart.” —Paul Tremblay, author of Growing Things "Ample bloodshed is offset by beautiful prose . . . A stunning supernatural Southern Gothic." —Kirkus (starred) Ever since her father was killed when she was just a child, Miranda Crabtree has kept her head down and her eyes up, ferrying contraband for a mad preacher and his declining band of followers to make ends meet and to protect an old witch and a secret child from harm. But dark forces are at work in the bayou, both human and supernatural, conspiring to disrupt the rhythms of Miranda’s peculiar and precarious life. And when the preacher makes an unthinkable demand, it sets Miranda on a desperate, dangerous path, forcing her to consider what she is willing to sacrifice to keep her loved ones safe. With the heady mythmaking of Neil Gaiman and the heartrending pacing of Joe Hill, Andy Davidson spins a thrilling tale of love and duty, of loss and discovery. The Boatman's Daughter is a gorgeous, horrifying novel, a journey into the dark corners of human nature, drawing our worst fears and temptations out into the light.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1630 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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