[PDF] Skylarks And Rebels eBook

Author : Rita Laima
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3838268547

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Skylarks and Rebels is a story about the fate of Latvia in the 20th century as told by Rita Laima. Laima, a Latvian-American, chose to leave behind the comforts of life in America to explore the land of her ancestors, which in the 1980s languished behind the Iron Curtain. In writing about her own experiences in a totalitarian state, Soviet-occupied Latvia, Laima delves into her family’s past to understand what happened to her fatherland and its people during and after World War II. She also pays tribute to some of Latvia’s remarkable people of integrity who risked their lives to oppose the brutal and destructive Soviet state.

Author : James F. Iaccino
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786497874

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This collection of new essays focuses on The CW network's hit television series Arrow--based on DC Comic's Green Arrow--and its spin-offs The Flash, DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl. Comic book adaptations have been big business for film studios since Superman (1978) and in recent years have dominated at the box office--five of the 11 highest grossing films of 2016 were adapted from comics. Superheroes have battled across the small screen for considerably longer, beginning with The Adventures of Superman (1952-1958), though with mixed results. The contributors explore the reasons behind Arrow's success, its representation of bodies, its portrayal of women, its shifting political ideologies, and audience reception and influence on storylines.

Author : Peter De Rosa
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 2009-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307422941

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"A WORK OF GREAT DRAMATIC POWER climaxing in the final hundred pages where he writes a full, searing narrative of the patriot leaders' last days . . . It's powerful stuff." --The Sunday Press (Ireland) On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and women, armed with pikes and rifles, took over the center of Dublin and proclaimed a republic. It was a rash, doomed, symbolic uprising, and the rebel leaders knew it. Crack British troops killed and wounded hundreds of the rebels in the week of fighting, and British artillery shells left Dublin's city center in ruins. But the Rising of 1916 was not in vain. The short-lived insurrection and the subsequent executions of sixteen rebel leaders galvanized the Irish people. The overthrow of seven centuries of British rule in Ireland began on Easter Monday, 1916. In Rebels, Peter de Rosa, author of the bestselling Vicars of Christ, tells the story of the 1916 Rising in all its terror and beauty. With the dramatic flair of a novelist and the scrupulous accuracy of a professional historian, de Rosa brings to life the people, passions, politics, and repercussions of this historic event.

Author : J. M. Frey
Publisher : Skylark's Saga
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,72 MB
Release : 2023-11-23
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ISBN : 9781777810764

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The Skylark is all alone behind enemy lines, fighting a futile one-man war with no way home. Her only hope is to join the Klonnish rebels. But a pilot in a lupine helmet stalks the Skylark to their door. The Coyote is dead... isn't he?

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Page : 92 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 1969-06-07
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In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.