In The Swallows Uncaged, Elizabeth McLean paints a sweeping yet intimate panorama of Vietnam in the style of a Vietnamese eight-panel screen: eight narratives that each capture a moment in time and yet speak to one another. Interweaving historical and fictional characters over ten centuries, the stories portray the passions and turmoils of successive generations of the Nguy?n clan’s wives and daughters, and of their men. When the men go away, to war or to advance their fortune, the women stay behind (not always idly or chastely). They dutifully pass down their ancestors’ traditions to their daughters and granddaughters, but also recast the iron rules to gratify their ambitions and desires. At their humble posts by the hearth, they defy authority, scheme to improve their lots, and love zestfully and wickedly. Meticulously researched and beautifully crafted, these stories form a triumphant debut from an author with a superb gift for storytelling.
This book traces the historical process of the West Indian Labour Recruitment and migration out of Jamaica after the demise of the sugar industry. It examines how the availability of Jamaican immigrant labor between 1850 and 1930 fueled the accumulation of capital for entrepreneurs and investors.
After the death of their parents, Brant come to live with his older sister and her husband, where he accidently stumbles on a well-hidden family secret. Can the family endure or will it tear them apart?
This collection of sermons reflects both my sense of call and the diverse ways I have felt called to fulfill it. Some of the sermons were from a summer series I did called "Faith in the Real World" which was built upon questions submitted by the congregation. They asked, and I tried to answer. But otherwise the sermons are unrelated one to another, inspired by the Lectionary, the newspaper, and the Spirit. They are a cross-section of my attempts to make the Gospel relevant and accessible.
This book traces the historical process of the West Indian Labour Recruitment and migration out of Jamaica after the demise of the sugar industry. It examines how the availability of Jamaican immigrant labor between 1850 and 1930 fueled the accumulation of capital for entrepreneurs and investors.
Aria Breaniann was in the middle of another busy 36 hour shift when the storm hit the hospital. Well not a 'storm' exactly, what blew into her hospital wasn't weather related. More the 'van drives by and dumps a bloody mess in the doorway' kind of thing. A very big, very full of holes, most likely human bloody mess. That's how Aria met Gareth, with him looking at her with one almost swollen shut eye and gasping blood out of his mouth and nose and her screaming "I NEED A STRETCHER AND A CRASH CART STAT! PREP SURGERY!!" Gareth Fionnlagh is head of investigations at the city's most well-known as well as secretive company, Génie Stratégique, rumored to be run by 'ghosts' and one of the scariest women Aria has ever seen. Unfortunately their employees tend to end up in her emergency room often, too often, the big man bleeding out in front of her more often than most. What she doesn't know is that the reason why she is so busy with bullet wounds and surgery (ironically only when she is on shift) is because Gareth spends all his free time, and the free time of some of his team protecting her. Literally. Every. Single. Day. He's fiercely protective of her and loves her to distraction, but she is driving him nuts with her utter lack of concern for her safety. She's a medical engineering genius who has several products patented which would leapfrog the medical field decades forward instantly... If only she could find a sponsor willing to fund prototypes to test and manufacture- at cost and for no profit... The issue is, a lot of people want her designs and technology and intelligence but no one wants to pay anything for it and so without her knowledge Gareth has stopped so many attempts on her life, and kidnappings he's lost count. Tonight, he wasn't as lucky as he usually is though and underestimated a new threat, Maxwell Dynamics, who have been following her. Tonight they made a move, they broke into her apartment, stole everything that was paper and that had any type of memory card in it-including a video picture frame of her recently deceased parents. He had gotten the call just after 2 am when one of his team he assigned to guard her home witnessed the break-in, but was too late in getting there to stop it or the near fatal beating his best man took. What he didn't realize was that the people who were responsible for it all were still in the area and that they had circled back to finish things. Seeing him standing over the guard, they shot Gareth repeatedly until he dropped just as the rest of his team was arriving on scene to help. Doing the only thing they knew would give him even a remote chance of survival they pulled him into the van and rushed to the hospital they knew Aria worked at, literally dumping him at her feet while still pulling into the lot as she was stepping outside for a break. That was the night her life as she knew it was over, and reality was forced in on her as she came to realize from accounts from his team, the badly beaten guard (who she never even knew stood watch over her home) and the category 5 hurricane who practically forced her way into the OR room screaming "DAMN YOU THIS IS YOUR FAULT!", none other than the cold and previously thought unflappable security director of Génie Stratégique. Turns out Aria was the only one oblivious to the fact she was under constant guard and protection, and her naiveté could cost 2 men their lives tonight if not in the uncomfortably near future... Life's about to get a bit more interesting for her, in many more ways than she could begin to imagine. Follow Gareth and Aria in this prequel to the series to see how that fateful night and the weeks after unfold, how she came to be not just a much needed and extremely highly skilled addition to the company but also how they both become vital to each other's survival emotionally and physically. The 'Red Angel' who saves whomever she comes across, and her ' Knight in Tarnished Armor' who will do anything to protect her.
Comparatives and superlatives are some of the hardest parts of the english language to grasp, even for native English speakers. Sometimes, there is more than one way to write them as well such as with the word 'vain'. When comparing you say 'more vain than...' but when you are using it as a superlative you can use both 'most vain' and 'vainest' depending on your sentence structure. This workbook will help you, through over 250 exercise worksheets, with the most common ones you will find. Using more/most and less/least when describing people, places, things, animal, situations and events gives your audience a better picture in their mind of what you are talking about.
This book is the most definitive attempt to date to discuss the achievements of women as composers of experimental and avant-garde music from the 1930s to the present day. Using a wealth of primary material, it also explores currently relevant issues in gender and technology. Drawing out the relationships between composers and their working environments, and between teachers and students, Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner discusses the contribution of women composers to electroacoustic music. The book includes a bibliography and discography covering the work of ninety composers.
The County Courthouse Book is a concise guide to county courthouses and courthouse records. It is an important book because the genealogical researcher needs a reliable guide to American county courthouses, the main repositories of county records. To proceed in his investigations, the researcher needs current addresses and phone numbers, information about the coverage and availability of key courthouse records such as probate, land, naturalization, and vital records, and timely advice on the whole range of services available at the courthouse. Where available he will also need listings of current websites and e-mail addresses." -- Publisher website.
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