[PDF] The Story Behind Anne Holms I Am David eBook

Author : Mary Colson
Publisher : Raintree Publishers
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Children of prisoners
ISBN : 9780431081830

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What was the Gulag? How did the extreme political situations of the mid-twentieth century rob thousands of a childhood? Where did Stalin find workers for his Five Year Plans? Discover how the Cold War in Europe inspired an epic journey to freedom.

Author : Anne Holm
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Refugees
ISBN :

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After escaping from an Eastern European concentration camp where he has spent most of his life, a twelve-year-old boy struggles to cope with an entirely strange world as he flees northward to freedom in Denmark.

Author : Larry Schweikart
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1350 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 2004-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1101217782

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For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.

Author : Mitch Cullin
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,80 MB
Release : 2006-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1400078229

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The basis for the Major Motion Picture Mr. Holmes starring Ian McKellen and Laura Linney and directed by Bill Condon. It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn’t even know he was asking–about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind’s ability to know. A novel of exceptional grace and literary sensitivity, A Slight Trick of the Mind is a brilliant imagining of our greatest fictional detective and a stunning inquiry into the mysteries of human connection.

Author : Thomas Nelson Publishers
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Publishers
Page : pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400311941

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I Am David Adapted from Anne Holm's internationally acclaimed novel North to Freedom, David is thrust into the free world for the first time in his young life as he travels across Europe. It is a spiritual voyage of discovery, where David slowly loses his instinctual mistrust of humanity and begins to smile, share, trust, and ultimately, love. Solomon Defeating his older brother, Solomon is crowned King of Israel and rules the land with love, peace, and respect. While visiting the city, Solomon meets the beautiful Queen of Sheba and falls in love at first sight. When the time comes for her to return to her homeland, Solomon is unable to convince her to stay. Bereft of her beauty and companionship, he falls into a deep depression, departing from his once idyllic world of peace and luxury while his kingdom threatens to collapse.

Author : John Hall
Publisher : Linford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9781847820303

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Secrecy surrounds the supposed death of Sherlock Holmes in 1891 - and his re-emergence three years later. What happened to him during the missing years of his life? This story of those missing years reveals how Holmes foiled his old adversary and became involved in a terrible game; its prize, the mastery of an entire continent - India. Holmes' adventures take him to Tibet, Persia and the Sudan, but as sole representative of the British Government, his life and the British Empire is at stake.

Author : John Carreyrou
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 36,80 MB
Release : 2018-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1524731668

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The gripping story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos—one of the biggest corporate frauds in history—a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley, rigorously reported by the prize-winning journalist. With a new Afterword covering her trial and sentencing, bringing the story to a close. “Chilling ... Reads like a thriller ... Carreyrou tells [the Theranos story] virtually to perfection.” —The New York Times Book Review In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.5 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn’t work. Erroneous results put patients in danger, leading to misdiagnoses and unnecessary treatments. All the while, Holmes and her partner, Sunny Balwani, worked to silence anyone who voiced misgivings—from journalists to their own employees.