The Last Red Sunset

The Last Red Sunset
Author: Jose Luis Almazan
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2020-03-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1796092274

Bringing back in time, life through the 1950’s. This is a great untold story. A unique adventure into a world of wild imagination. The struggle of two families for survival. One, firmly seeking to look in the right direction. The other with tremendous inclination for wrong doings. Both victims of their own ignorance. THE LAST RED SUNSET describes with complete details the knowing-mess that ignorance can create. And how it impacts the life of others for better or worse. Taking me back in time to my childhood in 1970’s, connecting me to some sources of strange events. The novel tells the unthinkable adventure of three brothers that sat foot in a remote farm in 1955, the struggle for survival, and their tragic demise. And those that once lived under the rain of happiness and fear around them. Just living the life day by day, even if that day was destined to be the last red sunset.

Blood Red Sunset

Blood Red Sunset
Author: Ma Bo
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 385
Release: 1996-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0140159428

A searing first hand account of China's Cultural Revolution that joins the ranks of great memoirs such as Life and Death in Shanghai, Wild Swans and A Chinese Odyssey First banned in its native land, this earthy, unflinching memoir has become one of the biggest bestsellers in the history of China. In 1968, a fervent young Red Guard joined the army of hotheaded adolescents who trekked to Inner Mongolia to spread the Cultural Revolution. After gaining a reputation as a brutal abuser of the local herd owners and nomads, Ma Bo casually criticized a Party Leader. Denounced as an “active counterrevolutionary” and betrayed by his friends, the idealistic youth was brutally beaten and imprisoned. Charged with passion, never doctrinaire, Blood Red Sunset is a startlingly vivid and personal narrative that opens a window on the psyche of totalitarian excess that no other work of history can provide. This is a tale of ideology and disillusionment, a powerful work of political and literary importance. “A deceptively straightforward story carried forward by deep currents of insight.”—The Washington Post “A genuine, no-holds-barred, unadorned piece of writing…echoing the realities of contemporary China.”—Liu Binyan, The New York Times Book Review

Red Sunset

Red Sunset
Author: Philip G. Roeder
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400843812

Why did the Soviet system fail? How is it that a political order, born of revolution, perished from stagnation? What caused a seemingly stable polity to collapse? Philip Roeder finds the answer to these questions in the Bolshevik "constitution"--the fundamental rules of the Soviet system that evolved from revolutionary times into the post-Stalin era. These rules increasingly prevented the Communist party from responding to the immense social changes that it had itself set in motion: although the Soviet political system initially had vast resources for transforming society, its ability to transform itself became severely limited. In Roeder's view, the problem was not that Soviet leaders did not attempt to change, but that their attempts were so often defeated by institutional resistance to reform. The leaders' successful efforts to stabilize the political system reduced its adaptability, and as the need for reform continued to mount, stability became a fatal flaw. Roeder's analysis of institutional constraints on political behavior represents a striking departure from the biographical approach common to other analyses of Soviet leadership, and provides a strong basis for comparison of the Soviet experience with constitutional transformation in other authoritarian polities.

The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Author: Carl Sandburg
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 840
Release: 1970
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780151009961

Presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of the complete poems of twentieth-century American poet Carl Sandburg.

Sybrina's Phrase Thesaurus - Volume 4

Sybrina's Phrase Thesaurus - Volume 4
Author: Sybrina Durant
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2014-01-31
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0989157288

Sybrina's Phrase Thesaurus is a reference tool for anyone with a need to compose unique, descriptive phrases. It's a great tool for creative writers of any genre including students, people just learning English (ESL), people wanting to improve their communication skills. It is also useful for artistic professionals like photographers, videographers, models, actors and many others. Volume 4 - EARTH VIEWS - This book consists of Landscapes (plains, hills, mountains, valleys), Waterscapes (waterfalls, streams, rivers, ponds) and Skyscapes (morning, sunny, cloudy, rain, space, stars) and much more. There is also a section for COLORS with descriptions for all the colors in the rainbow plus other things like metals, shiny, light, dark, day and night. Just read the phrases and use what you want just as they're written or better yet, read all the suggested phrases in a particular category for inspiration to conquer your writer's block! Anyone who enjoys reading unique descriptive phrases will love Sybrina's Phrase Thesaurus because it is packed full of descriptive phrases on every subject...from descriptions of the body, and how it looks, moves and ineracts...to word pictures describing all types of landscapes, waterscapes and skyscapes. The printed books are split into 4 volumes.

A Changed Heart

A Changed Heart
Author: May Agnes Fleming
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2016-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459503740

Romance, suspense, and murder provide the backdrop for this Gothic novel set in mid-Victorian Saint John, New Brunswick, by 19th-century writer May Agnes Fleming. A dashing British military officer makes a splash in local society, but a clique of young socialites in the booming colonial town soon find out that there is more to Captain Cavendish than meets the eye.