The Tinderbox

Author : Beverly Lewis
Publisher : Thorndike Press Large Print
ISBN 13 : 9781432862497
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tinderbox written by Beverly Lewis and published by Thorndike Press Large Print. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've marveled at Dat's ability to accept the Old Ways so readily, considering his modern upbringing. Mamma says it's like he was born to be Amish. Maybe so, but all the same, I wished I knew something more about his past. With her parents' twentieth anniversary approaching, eighteen-year-old Sylvia Miller finds her father's cherished brass tinderbox left unlocked. Against her better judgment, Sylvia opens the heirloom, not realizing that what she is about to discover will splinter apart her happy life and alter everything for her close-knit Old Order Amish family. As the long-kept secret emerges into the light of day, can the Millers find a way forward through the turmoil to a place of forgiveness?

Author : James Andrew Miller
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250623995
Total Pages : 759 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tinderbox written by James Andrew Miller and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tinderbox tells the exclusive, explosive, uninhibited true story of HBO and how it burst onto the American scene and screen to detonate a revolution and transform our relationship with television forever. The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Sex and the City, The Wire, Succession...HBO has long been the home of epic shows, as well as the source for brilliant new movies, news-making documentaries, and controversial sports journalism. By thinking big, trashing tired formulas, and killing off cliches long past their primes, HBO shook off the shackles of convention and led the way to a bolder world of content, opening the door to all that was new, original, and worthy of our attention. In Tinderbox, award-winning journalist James Andrew Miller uncovers a bottomless trove of secrets and surprises, revealing new conflicts, insights, and analysis. As he did to great acclaim with SNL in Live from New York; with ESPN in Those Guys Have All the Fun; and with talent agency CAA in Powerhouse, Miller continues his record of extraordinary access to the most important voices, this time speaking with talents ranging from Abrams (J. J.) to Zendaya, as well as every single living president of HBO—and hundreds of other major players. Over the course of more than 750 interviews with key sources, Miller reveals how fraught HBO’s journey has been, capturing the drama and the comedy off-camera and inside boardrooms as HBO created and mobilized a daring new content universe, and, in doing so, reshaped storytelling and upended our entertainment lives forever.

Author : Robert W. Fieseler
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1631491644
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tinderbox written by Robert W. Fieseler and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on unprecedented access to survivors and archives, Fieseler creates an indelible portrait of a closeted, blue- collar gay world that flourished before an arsonist ignited an inferno that destroyed an entire community. The aftermath was no less traumatic—families ashamed to claim loved ones, the Catholic Church refusing proper burial rights, the city impervious to the survivors’ needs—revealing a world of toxic prejudice that thrived well past Stonewall. Yet the impassioned activism that followed proved essential to the emergence of a fledgling gay movement. Tinderbox restores honor to a forgotten generation of civil-rights martyrs.

Author : Craig Timberg
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101560614
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tinderbox written by Craig Timberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking narrative, longtime Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. Drawing on remarkable new science, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly pandemic and the best ways to fight it today. Recent genetic studies have traced the birth of HIV to the forbidding equatorial forests of Cameroon, where chimpanzees carried the virus for millennia without causing a major outbreak in humans. During the Scramble for Africa, colonial companies blazed new routes through the jungle in search of rubber and other riches, sending African porters into remote regions rarely traveled before. It was here that humans first contracted the strain of HIV that would eventually cause 99 percent of AIDS deaths around the world. Western powers were key actors in turning a localized outbreak into a sprawling epidemic as bustling new trade routes, modern colonial cities, and the rise of prostitution sped the virus across Africa. Christian missionaries campaigned to suppress polygamy, but left in its place fractured sexual cultures that proved uncommonly vulnerable to HIV. Equally devastating was the gradual loss of the African ritual of male circumcision, which recent studies have shown offers significant protection against infection. Timberg and Halperin argue that the same Western hubris that marked the colonial era has hamstrung the effort to fight HIV. From the United Nations AIDS program to the Bush administration's historic relief campaign, global health officials have favored well-meaning Western approaches--abstinence campaigns, condom promotion, HIV testing--that have proven ineffective in slowing the epidemic in Africa. Meanwhile they have overlooked homegrown African initiatives aimed squarely at the behaviors spreading the virus. In a riveting narrative that stretches from colonial Leopoldville to 1980s San Francisco to South Africa today, Tinderbox reveals how human hands unleashed this epidemic and can now overcome it, if only we learn the lessons of the past.

Author : LOU DIAMOND. PHILLIPS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tinderbox written by LOU DIAMOND. PHILLIPS and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two worlds at war will bring them together ... or tear them apart ... Everson didn't want to be a soldier. His parents forced him to serve, as all good Indiran men should. The only problem? His first battle against their mortal enemies goes horribly wrong and he winds up stranded on the enemy planet. Now, Everson has to survive in this strange new land where everyone is out to get him. Not to mention, the planet Mano is covered in unforgiving desert. And he's the target of traitors who want to use him in a dastardly plot to overthrow their mad king, Xander the Firm, by having him retrieve a piece of mysterious and powerful ancient technology known as the Tinderbox. But everything changes during a chance encounter with the king's daughter, Allegra. Despite her station, she's in as grave of danger from her own people as Everson is. And though their peoples have been at odds for centuries, an unlikely spark forms between them. As their worlds come crashing down around them, their forbidden love might be the only chance to end this war forever. Or, it might just be the doom of everyone ... Imagine the intrigue of Game of Thrones mixed with the star-crossed romance of Romeo and Juliet ... but in space! Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's famous fairy tale of the same name, Soldier of Indira is perfect for fans of Dune, Aurora Rising, and Stardust.

Author : Megan Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910296820
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tinderbox written by Megan Dunn and published by . This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riffing on Ray Bradbury's classic novel about the end of reading, Tinderbox is one of the most interesting books in decades about literary culture and its place in the world. More than that, it's about how every one of us fits into that bigger picture - and the struggle to make sense of life in the twenty-first century.

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Publisher : EDCON Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0848108639
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tinderbox written by and published by EDCON Publishing Group. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy a delightful excursion into the wonderful world of make-believe, where fairy-tales and old favorite stories come vividly to life. Narration by expert storytellers, music, exciting sound effects, and dramatic dialogue will inspire. This classic tale is sure to become a favorite pass-time, treating children to a magical fantasy of entertaining enjoyment along with life lessons to which they can relate.

Author : So'an Loe’m
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491773782
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welcome to the Tinderbox written by So'an Loe’m and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet Laureate, the collected work of New York poet Noble Essence of the Soan Loem fraternity of mindz, hits the literary shelves with flair and gusto. Sarah Wyman, State University of New York at New Paltz July, 2013 Poets are known for expressing sights and desires with eloquence and creativity. Their words outline and illustrate the world around us, allowing others to see the beautiful picture that is human life. Poets are fluent, forceful, and fearless, and they broaden the horizons of those observant enough to stumble upon their brave words. Welcome to the Tinderbox is a collection of observations from a noble soul, on Earth for a duration of time during which the author chooses to truly shine. Noble does not seek fame but enlightenment and relation to the divine. Born to city life, Noble Essence has seen, observed, and now delivers the realities you seek. The author is in no way perfect; Noble has perpetrated iniquities and sins, just like the rest of us. However, none of these shadows have marred the light that leads to greater, deeper knowledge of self. Regardless of where you come from, the words found herein bridge the gap of mental separation and segregation to a state of connectedness and beauty. Noble Essence was born and bred in the Bronx as a true student of experience and grew as a tulip from the citys asphalt, despite difficulty and strife. Noble began writing to let the lonely knowthey are not alone.

Author : Serene Tales Beaty
Publisher : Serene Tales Beaty
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tinder Box written by Serene Tales Beaty and published by Serene Tales Beaty. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bedtime Story Book A long time ago lived as soldier. He was a young and charming man. One day, he was returning to his home from a war thankful to be alive.

Author : Hans Christian Andersen
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822386992
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen written by Hans Christian Andersen and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the bicentennial of Hans Christian Andersen’s birth, this collection takes Andersen out of the nursery and places him squarely in the literary pantheon. While Andersen’s tales continue to seize the imagination with their singular blend of simplicity, eccentricity, and charm, English-language readers have until now had to content themselves with inaccurate retellings and inadequate translations. Diana Crone Frank, a Danish novelist and linguist, and Jeffrey Frank, a novelist and editor at the New Yorker, offer a much-needed modern translation. In this collection are twenty-two tales that best represent Andersen’s literary legacy, including such classics as “The Little Mermaid,” “The Ugly Duckling,” “Thumbelisa,” and “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” as well as largely unfamiliar stories like “By the Outermost Sea.” Illuminating notes clarify references in the tales. And in an introductory essay, the Franks explore the writer and his times, placing the enigmatic and often bizarre figure of Andersen among his literary contemporaries, such as Charles Dickens and Søren Kierkegaard, with whom he crossed paths; and they bring to life Andersen’s fascinating relationship with the United States. Illustrated with the delicate and beautiful drawings that accompanied the original Danish publication, The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen will delight readers of all ages.