Huguenot Guérins and their Descendant
Author | : William Collings Lukis Guérin |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2023-09-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368191217 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
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Author | : William Collings Lukis Guérin |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2023-09-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368191217 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Author | : Kaui Hart Hemmings |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2011-10-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0812982959 |
Now a major motion picture starring George Clooney and directed by Alexander Payne Fortunes have changed for the King family, descendants of Hawaiian royalty and one of the state’s largest landowners. Matthew King’s daughters—Scottie, a feisty ten-year-old, and Alex, a seventeen-year-old recovering drug addict—are out of control, and their charismatic, thrill-seeking mother, Joanie, lies in a coma after a boat-racing accident. She will soon be taken off life support. As Matt gathers his wife’s friends and family to say their final goodbyes, a difficult situation is made worse by the sudden discovery that there’s one person who hasn’t been told: the man with whom Joanie had been having an affair. Forced to examine what they owe not only to the living but to the dead, Matt, Scottie, and Alex take to the road to find Joanie’s lover, on a memorable journey that leads to unforeseen humor, growth, and profound revelations.
Author | : Tom Frist |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2002-06-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0595733875 |
Jay Benton returns to Brazil for the first time since his birth. Recently graduating from the Harvard Business School, he feels empty and rudderless and is anxious to learn as much as he can about his saint-like Brazilian father who was killed when Jay was only two. He also wants to discover more about his Confederate ancestors who emigrated to Brazil shortly after the Civil War. During Jays ten-day visit to Campo Feliz, a city founded by one of his forefathers, Jay falls in love, is almost killed in a land dispute, and discovers facts about himself and his family that change his life. The Descendant is a book with strong spiritual themes of suffering, prejudice, forgiveness, and grace. It is an informative book that tells the story of leprosy and of the Confederate emigration to Brazil.
Author | : Marie Tanner |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780300054880 |
From antiquity to the eve of the modern era, rulers of Western empires inspired hero worship by proclaiming their divine origins. In this fascinating original study, Marie Tanner presents the history of the emperor's mythic image and its continuing influence on Western political thought. She shows that these pretensions to divinity were based on the Trojan legend and the myth of Rome as developed in Vergil's Aeneid and that later Christian emperors expanded these claims by tracing their lineage not only to the pagan gods but also to the priest-kings of the Old Testament. Through this amalgam of heritages each successive Holy Roman emperor proclaimed that he was the last descendant of Aeneas, destined to yield the terrestrial rule of Rome to Christ and thereby inaugurate millennial peace. By examining a wide range of literary, artistic, and historical sources plus a corpus of new illustrations, Tanner discovers remarkable chains of evidence for this process, one that culminates with the Renaissance Hapsburgs who imbued the holiest symbols of the faith with dynastic meaning as they attempted to consolidate all priestly and secular powers in their grip. On these foundations Philip II of Spain, son of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the first monarch to rule the four known continents, created a new concept of absolute monarchy that shaped the principles of modern statecraft and determined the dominant form of government in Europe for the next two centuries.
Author | : Edward Carpenter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Samuel Carpenter (1649-1728), a Quaker, immigrated from England to Barbados in 1671, and immigrated to Philadelphia in 1683. He married Jane Hardiman in 1684. Descendants lived throughout the United States.
Author | : L.D. Hall |
Publisher | : L.D. Hall |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2019-10-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Bianca Ibano wants nothing to do with her magical heritage. On the run from her dangerous and powerful family, she’s determined to forge her own path. But when a group of vicious vampires threaten her peaceful existence, she must make a choice–run, or fight. Elias comes to New Orleans expecting a simple mission. But what he finds is a more complex enemy than he thought–and emotions he hasn’t experienced for centuries. On a collision course with a group that threatens the stability of New Orleans, the Alliance, and the human world, Elias and Bianca must face what they’ve both been running from–or risk losing each other . . .
Author | : Douglas A. Blackmon |
Publisher | : Icon Books |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2012-10-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1848314132 |
A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.