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![]() ![]() ![]() Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. ![]() With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize-winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.Īnil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. An alternate cover edition of this ISBN can be found here. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a country under occupation, Caradoc, lover to Breaca, is caught and faces the ultimate penalty. They stand on opposite sides in a brutal war of attrition between the occupying army and the defeated tribes, each determined to see the other dead. Believing her dead, Breaca's beloved brother, Bán, joined the Roman cause.ĭreaming the Bull, the second book in this compelling series, continues the intertwined stories of Boudica, and Bán, now an officer in the Roman cavalry. She was the last defender of the Celtic culture the only woman openly to lead her warriors into battle and to stand successfully against the might of Imperial Rome - and triumph.īook one, Dreaming the Eagle, took readers from Boudica's girlhood with the Eceni tribe to the climax of the two-day battle when she and her lover, Caradoc, faced the invading Romans. “Boudica” means “Bringer of Victory” (from the early Celtic word “boudeg”). Originally a trilogy, this is now a four-part series. The second part of the stunning fictionalization of the life of Britain's warrior queen, Boudica, immerses us in a world of druids and dreamers, warriors and lovers, passion and courage. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book's major themes are the near-continuous battles to create both political institutions and social frameworks that would allow stable growth, legal norms and protection for all its citizens. Brazil- A Biography, written by two of Brazil's leading historians and a bestseller in Brazil itself, is a remarkable attempt to convey the overwhelming diversity and challenges of this huge country from its origins to the 21st century - larger than the contiguous USA and still in some regions not fully mapped. More than any other part of the 'New World' it displayed both the greatest beauty and grandeur and witnessed scenes of the most terrible European ferocity. A superb history of one of the most grand, beautiful and varied countries on Earth, from its origins to today Since Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. ![]() ![]() ![]() THE REDEMPTION OF CALLIE & KAYDEN The dark secret Kayden has kept hidden for years is finally out. But can she convince him they can make a fresh start together-or is she already too late? (98,000 words) … ( more)įrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden comes an emotional new story about two troubled souls sharing one all-encompassing love. With the help of her friends Seth and Luke she makes a plan to show Kayden the life they could have. Deep in her heart, Callie knows the time has come for her and Kayden to forget the pain of the past. The thought of breaking her silence terrifies her-but not as much as the thought of losing Kayden forever. But that means facing her greatest fear and admitting her own painful secrets aloud. Callie knows Kayden is going back to his dark place and desperately wants to save him. ![]() even if it means letting go of the only girl he's ever loved. ![]() Instead, he'll do whatever he must to protect her. ![]() The only way to clear his name is for Callie to speak up-something he'll never ask her to do. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden comes an emotional new story about two troubled souls sharing one all-encompassing love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact it is on the required reading list for some high schools and universities.ĭuring the course of the story Peekay meets a witch doctor, a German botanist, a Jewish Teacher and her father, a librarian, several black workers on the South African train system, a prison guard, a prisoner, boxers, born again Christians, a black activist, a Russian copper mine worker and an assortment of other characters both good and bad but always helpful in the development of his character. ![]() This makes this book a good read for students who are bullied and for those that bully. Many of them are wonderful role models for Peekay, some are brutal.Īt the age of four he is sent to a boarding school where he undergoes nothing short of torture. His mother suffers from mental health issues and is institutionalized, his father is never mentioned, his grandfather assumes care for him and he meets and interacts with a host of colourful (pun definitely intended) characters. The main character Peekay, short for Pisskoff, a taunting nickname given because he wets his bed, is an English child who is wet nursed and raised by a black nanny until the age of 4. ![]() ![]() ![]() Holcombe, his elementary school teacher and Old Jack Tar, a Boer War hero and loner all help him, his life is changed forever. Harry has the gift of song, and when Miss Monday, the choir mistress Mr. The novel is set in Bristol, England, from 1919 to 1940 and centers on Harry Clifton, a young boy destined to follow in the footsteps of his father and uncle and work on the docks until a new world is opened up to him. The plot revolves around the protagonist Harry Clifton, spanning the time between the end of World War I and the beginning of the Second World War. ![]() It was launched by Jeffrey Archer himself in Bangalore, India in March 2011, as the beginning of a global book tour. The book was published worldwide in 2011. Only Time Will Tell is a first part of the seven in Clifton Chronicles by Jeffrey Archer. Print (Hardcover, Paperback), Audio, eBook ![]() ![]() ![]() In this book, Yasunari Kawabata uses the death of Yoko to embody the philosophy of 'living towards death'. At the end of the work, with the death of Yoko, everything that has ever happened and the emotional bond between Shimamura and Komako is reduced to nothing. In addition to blurring reality with scenery to create a sense of illusionary beauty, the sense of futility of 'wanting something' is present throughout the story. These aesthetics are strongly reflected in his work ‘Snow Country’. ![]() Kawabata’s writing is reminiscent of Japanese painting he is a worshipper of the fragile beauty and melancholy picture language of existence in the life of nature and in man’s destiny." Under the influence of Yasunari Kawabata the unique Japanese aesthetics nourished by the reserved, exquisite Japanese culture, such as ‘the beauty of lamentation of things’, ‘the beauty of reticence’ and ‘the beauty of futility’, have become more widely known around the world. he has, with greater fidelity, retained his footing in Japan’s classical literature and therefore represents a clear tendency to cherish and preserve a genuinely national tradition of style. ![]() In the ceremony speech of the Nobel Award in 1968, Anders Österling described him as, ". ![]() Born on 14 June 1899, Yasunari Kawabata is an iconic figure of Japanese literature who won the Nobel Prize in 1968, the second Asian writer to win this prize after Rabindranath Tagore. ![]() ![]() ![]() He shows us that the birth of the Ku Klux Klan and renewed acts of racial violence were retaliation for the progress made by blacks soon after the war. Foner makes clear how, by war’s end, freed slaves in the South built on networks of church and family in order to exercise their right of suffrage as well as gain access to education, land, and employment. ![]() We see African Americans as active agents in overthrowing slavery, in helping win the Civil War, and–even more actively–in shaping Reconstruction and creating a legacy long obscured and misunderstood. ![]() ![]() He presents the period as a time of determination, especially on the part of recently emancipated black Americans, to put into effect the principles of equal rights and citizenship for all.ĭrawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents, he places a new emphasis on the centrality of the black experience to an understanding of the era. In Forever Free, Eric Foner overturns numerous assumptions growing out of the traditional understanding of the period, which is based almost exclusively on white sources and shaped by (often unconscious) racism.
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