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War Shirt back cover War Shirt is a sequel to Bad Wing Crow written in the voice of that book's hero, Sam Tucker. Most of the story takes place in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1900. Contrary to what you might expect, the book is not about war. It does, however, deal with the impact events of war, like the Wounded Knee massacre, had on the lives of the Lakota people. The story is about a Lakota family's flight and fight to reclaim their ...

Histórias de amor, de enganos, traições, torturas, mortes atravessam este romance. Você vai conhecer, em detalhes, sequelas que Hitler e Stalin deixaram nas pessoas e nos países do Leste Europeu. Jim Powell nos faz mergulhar nos bastidores da II Guerra, da Guerra Fria, do colapso do comunismo na Europa. Um livro escrito com simplicidade, elegância e contida emoção. Impossível ficar indiferente aos dramas que o autor nos revela.

Nachdem der 12-jährige Bobby und sein bester Freund Kevin auf ihrem Schulweg entführt und in ein abgelegenes Haus verschleppt wurden, erwartet sie eine Nacht voller Angst und Terror. In der Hoffnung seinem Gefängnis entkommen zu können, schleicht Bobby durch die dunklen Hallen des Hauses - in ständiger Furcht vom Entführer bemerkt zu werden. Bobbie gelingt die Flucht, aber als er die Hilfeschreie seines Freundes hört, beschließt er, dass er Ke...

Nachdem der 12-jährige Bobby und sein bester Freund Kevin auf ihrem Schulweg entführt und in ein abgelegenes Haus verschleppt wurden, erwartet sie eine Nacht voller Angst und Terror. In der Hoffnung seinem Gefängnis entkommen zu können, schleicht Bobby durch die dunklen Hallen des Hauses - in ständiger Furcht vom Entführer bemerkt zu werden. Bobbie gelingt die Flucht, aber als er die Hilfeschreie seines Freundes hört, beschließt er, dass er Ke...

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This is the first full-length study of the effect of the American Civil War on Britain's raw cotton trade and on the Liverpool cotton market. It includes an analysis of primary sources never used by historians. Before the civil war, America supplied 80 per cent of Britain's cotton. In August 1861, this fell to almost zero, where it remained for four years. Despite increased supplies from elsewhere, Britain's largest industry received only 36 p...

Jimmy Powell also known as Pastor Cochise Chops or Brother Jim was raised in rural Kentucky, where from the time he was 10 years old, he wanted to be a biker, a nomadic Harley rider!!! After being a wild child for many years, at the age of 25 Cochise joined a Motorcycle Club called the Iron Barons, which lead him to become even wilder. Though Jimmy loved the hard core biker life style, there came a day when he was pulled away from it. His moth...

This new edition of The Poetry of Sappho translates all the surviving texts of Sappho that make consecutive poetic sense, including the newly discovered "Brothers Ode, " "Cypris fragment, " and other papyrus texts published in 2014. The translation is particularly intent on bringing over into English Sappho's formal mastery along with her sense. It includes summary discussions of Sappho's biography and the history of her texts, an essay on the...

This new edition of The Poetry of Sappho translates all the surviving texts of Sappho that make consecutive poetic sense, including the newly discovered "Brothers Ode, " "Cypris fragment, " and other papyrus texts published in 2014. The translation is particularly intent on bringing over into English Sappho's formal mastery along with her sense. It includes summary discussions of Sappho's biography and the history of her texts, an essay on the...

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Engrossing' Financial Times'The plot is expertly spun out' Sunday TimesThere's a bar at the crossroads on the edge of town. Marcie and her husband have run it for ages. After thirty years of marriage, there aren't many secrets left between them. Couples often say that, don't they?Arlene turns up one night looking for a man named Jack - her father? Her lover? - but soon falls into the arms of the impulsive Franky Albertino.The stage is set for ...

Praise for Trading Futures 'With his gallows humour and observational wit, Jim Powell gives us a vivid portrait of a man in meltdown.' Daily Mail 'What starts as a light and droll Reggie Perrin-style novel about the fall of a middle-aged everyman, a "perfect makeweight in an identity parade", becomes surprisingly dark and intense.' The Times 'Powell is very good on the sense of lost youth, nostalgia and what might have been . . . This is a nov...

There’s a bar at the crossroads on the way out of town. Or the way in, depending on whether you’re coming or going. Marcie and her husband have run it for years. After thirty years of marriage, there aren’t many secrets left between them. Couples often say that, don’t they? But it’s not always true.Arlene appeared in the bar one day, not long before Franky Albertino came back to town, hoping that she’d find a man called Jack. Franky was hoping...

Translator's Note. The Poetry of Sappho. Sappho of Lesbos. The Text of Sappho's Poems. Abbreviations & Bibliography. Textual Notes

Sappho is celebrated as the supreme ancient Greek poet of love and of the personal lyric, and noted also for her vivid participation in a living paganism. Jim Powell's translation is recognized for its unique combination of poetic mastery and scholarly penetration of the original.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is widely respected for having supposedly saved America from the Great Depression. But actually, his New Deal policies prolonged and exacerbated the economic disaster.

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When I was small, my mother showed me how to grow a carrot from a carrot. She filled a jam jar with water, cut the top off a carrot, ran a cocktail stick horizontally through the stub and suspended it over the jar, just touching the water. In time, roots sprouted, and when they were long enough and strong enough, the plant was translated to the garden and new carrots grew. This was one of the many exciting ways in which I was prepared for adul...