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Author | : Hiner Saleem |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2006-01-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1429930063 |
A young Kurd comes of age in a war-torn land. This beautiful, spare narrative tells of the life of a boy named Azad--in fact the author, a Kurdish filmmaker--as he grows to manhood in Iraq during the 1960s and 1970s. Azad is born into a vibrant village culture, to a family that is proud of its Kurdish past and hopes for a free Kurdish future. He loves his mother's orchard, his cousin's stunt pigeons, his father's old Czech rifle, his brother who is fighting in the mountains. But before he is even of school age, Azad has experienced strafing and bombing; he watches as friends and neighbors are assassinated; and he sees his father humiliated when he tries to get food for his starving family. Forced into a refugee camp in Iran for years, his family realizes, on their return, that Saddam Hussein and his regime are destroying the autonomy he had promised their people. In a burst of adolescent impatience, Azad briefly runs off to the mountains to fight for Kurdish liberty, like his brother. But Azad has also discovered art--drawings, poetry, film--and he senses that he must find his own way to advance the Kurdish cause. My Father's Rifle ends with his heartbreaking departure from his parents and flight across the Syrian border to freedom. Stunning in its unadorned intensity, My Father's Rifle is a moving portrait of a boy who embraces the land and culture he loves, even as he leaves them.
Author | : Andrew Biggio |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1684511399 |
It all started because of a rifle. The Rifle is an inspirational story and hero’s journey of a 28-year-old U.S. Marine, Andrew Biggio, who returned home from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, full of questions about the price of war. He found answers from those who survived the costliest war of all -- WWII veterans. It began when Biggio bought a 1945 M1 Garand Rifle, the most common rifle used in WWII, to honor his great uncle, a U.S. Army soldier who died on the hills of the Italian countryside. When Biggio showed the gun to his neighbor, WWII veteran Corporal Joseph Drago, it unlocked memories Drago had kept unspoken for 50 years. On the spur of the moment, Biggio asked Drago to sign the rifle. Thus began this Marine’s mission to find as many WWII veterans as he could, get their signatures on the rifle, and document their stories. For two years, Biggio traveled across the country to interview America’s last-living WWII veterans. Each time he put the M1 Garand Rifle in their hands, their eyes lit up with memories triggered by holding the weapon that had been with them every step of the war. With each visit and every story told to Biggio, the veterans signed their names to the rifle. 96 signatures now cover that rifle, each a reminder of the price of war and the courage of our soldiers.
Author | : Kimberly Jo Simac |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Constitutional amendments |
ISBN | : 9780982707449 |
"The "Right to bear arms" is a constitutional right embodied in the Second Amendment. It is a fundamental link to the heritage left to us by our nation's Founders. With my rifle by my side is a story that conveys this right to children and teaches the honor and responsibility that come with the ownership and handling of guns"--Introduction.
Author | : William T. Vollmann |
Publisher | : New York : Viking |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
A novel about Sir John Franklin's 19th-century Arctic expedition and about modern Inuit life.
Author | : Hiner Saleem |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2006-01-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780312424756 |
This beautiful, spare narrative tells of the life of a boy named Azad--in fact the author, a Kurdish filmmaker--as he grows to manhood in Iraq during the 1960s and 1970s, resulting in a moving portrait of a boy who embraces the land and culture he loves, even as he leaves them.
Author | : Brian Vincent McDonald |
Publisher | : Best Sellers |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"... powerful memoir about three generations of New York City policemen."--Dust jacket.
Author | : Chris Kyle |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2013-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0062242733 |
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING FOLLOW-UP TO AMERICAN SNIPER Join Chris Kyle on a journedy to discover “how 10 firearms changed United States history” (New York Times Book Review) Drawing on his legendary firearms knowledge and combat experience, U.S. Navy SEAL and #1 bestselling author of American Sniper Chris Kyle dramatically chronicles the story of America—from the Revolution to the present—through the lens of ten iconic guns and the remarkable heroes who used them to shape history: the American long rifle, Spencer repeater, Colt .45 revolver, Winchester 1873 rifle, Springfield M1903 rifle, M1911 pistol, Thompson submachine gun, M1 Garand, .38 Special police revolver, and the M16 rifle platform Kyle himself used. American Gun is a sweeping epic of bravery, adventure, invention, and sacrifice. Featuring a foreword and afterword by Taya Kyle and illustrated with more than 100 photographs, this new paperback edition features a bonus chapter, “The Eleventh Gun,” on shotguns, derringers, and the Browning M2 machine gun.
Author | : Ms. May |
Publisher | : Page Publishing Inc |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2020-04-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1647015502 |
A collection of short stories from 1936–2014. May you find a gold nugget in one of my father's writings.
Author | : Gary Paulsen |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780152058395 |
In this Paulsen classic, a treasured rifle passed down through generations isthe cause of a tragic accident.
Author | : Benjamin Percy |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2013-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1455529613 |
"Benjamin Percy is a force." -- Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See This debut collection of stories, The Language of Elk, by the award-winning author of Red Moon, assembles its cast from the mountain towns and low life taverns and high desert ranches of Oregon--a state that in isolated pockets remains a still-unfinished place, the frontier. Here nature exists as a source of wonder and a force to be conquered. Here myths haunt the moss-laden woods and Benjamin Percy shines his light on them, revealing bearded ladies and Bigfoot and marijuana colonies and elk hunting ranches and haunted Indian burial sites, the underside of contemporary western America. With a salty mystical voice that partners the landscape and a vision as wild as his characters, Percy explores a world of surprising violence and gentleness, hilarity and heartbreak, loveliness and ugliness, and in doing so emerges as a beautifully raw voice of the West.