Cucumbers Have Thorns and Snakes Love Strawberries (a Story of Courage, Faith and Survival) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cucumbers Have Thorns and Snakes Love Strawberries (a Story of Courage, Faith and Survival) write by Jancie E. Sullivan. This book was released on 2010-08. Cucumbers Have Thorns and Snakes Love Strawberries (a Story of Courage, Faith and Survival) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an instance the life of a loving family would change forever: children are stolen, the father is left a cripple, and the wife he had loved since grade school would abandon him. Fourteen years would go by before he would see them again.
The Poisonwood Bible
The Poisonwood Bible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Poisonwood Bible write by Barbara Kingsolver. This book was released on 2009-10-13. The Poisonwood Bible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.
The Story-book of Science
The Story-book of Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Story-book of Science write by Jean-Henri Fabre. This book was released on 1917. The Story-book of Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A book about metals, plants, animals, and planets.
My Antonia
My Antonia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Antonia write by Willa Cather. This book was released on 2024-01-02. My Antonia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A haunting tribute to the heroic pioneers who shaped the American Midwest This powerful novel by Willa Cather is considered to be one of her finest works and placed Cather in the forefront of women novelists. It tells the stories of several immigrant families who start new lives in America in rural Nebraska. This powerful tribute to the quiet heroism of those whose struggles and triumphs shaped the American Midwest highlights the role of women pioneers, in particular. Written in the style of a memoir penned by Antonia’s tutor and friend, the book depicts one of the most memorable heroines in American literature, the spirited eldest daughter of a Czech immigrant family, whose calm, quite strength and robust spirit helped her survive the hardships and loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. The two form an enduring bond and through his chronicle, we watch Antonia shape the land while dealing with poverty, treachery, and tragedy. “No romantic novel ever written in America...is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.” -H. L. Mencken Willa Cather (1873–1947) was an American writer best known for her novels of the Plains and for One of Ours, a novel set in World War I, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943 and received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1944, an award given once a decade for an author's total accomplishments. By the time of her death she had written twelve novels, five books of short stories, and a collection of poetry.
The Waves
The Waves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Waves write by Virginia Woolf. This book was released on 2019-03-18. The Waves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of Woolf's most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a glorious chorus of voices that exists not to remark on the passing of events but to celebrate the connection between its various individual parts.
