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Author: Jack Patton
Publisher:
Published: 2016-10-11
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781484496589
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gliding lizards have taken Bug Island by storm, and the Battle Bugs need Max's help. Fortunately, Max has the perfect plan up his sleeve.
Author: Jack Patton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2016-10-11
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 054594516X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Never leave a bug behind -- Collect all the Battle Bugs books! Look out below!Gliding lizards have taken Bug Island by storm, and the Battle Bugs need Max's help. Fortunately, Max has the perfect plan up his sleeve.To fight the lizards, the bugs will have to take to the air. Max has to organize the butterfly squadrons before their homeland is completely overrun!
Author: Julia Alvarez
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2010-01-12
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1616200995
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, internationally bestselling author and literary icon Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies is "beautiful, heartbreaking and alive ... a lyrical work of historical fiction based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, revolutionary heroes who had opposed and fought against Trujillo." (Concepción de León, New York Times) Alvarez’s new novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, is coming April 2, 2024. Pre-order now! It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s dictatorship. It doesn’t have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas—the Butterflies. In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé--speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez’s imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human costs of political oppression. "Alvarez helped blaze the trail for Latina authors to break into the literary mainstream, with novels like In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents winning praise from critics and gracing best-seller lists across the Americas."—Francisco Cantú, The New York Times Book Review "This Julia Alvarez classic is a must-read for anyone of Latinx descent." —Popsugar.com "A gorgeous and sensitive novel . . . A compelling story of courage, patriotism and familial devotion." —People "Shimmering . . . Valuable and necessary." —Los Angeles Times "A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time.” —St. Petersburg Times "Alvarez does a remarkable job illustrating the ruinous effect the 30-year dictatorship had on the Dominican Republic and the very real human cost it entailed."—Cosmopolitan.com
Author: Marcos (subcomandante.)
Publisher: Autonomedia
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1570271186
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'We are all Zapatistas.' Subcomandante MarcosThis book began in 1994, when Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos replied to a 10-year-old girl from Mexico City who had sent him a drawing. The ensuing collection of related tales about the warrior-beetle, narrated by his pipe-smoking, black-ski-masked human squire is an extraordinary account for the general reader of current global political struggle.Marcos created a humorous fictitious character, Don Durito, a beetle with Quixotic fantasies which regards Marcos as his Sancho Panza. In this book, Marcos creates a new political genre, so-called "postdata": ironical commentaries which he affixes to his formal communiqués or declarations. In one of them he even offers to perform a striptease for government negotiators.'We are the product of 500 years of struggle...They [Mexican government] don't care that we have nothing, absolutely nothing, not even a roof over our heads; no land, no work, no health care, no food, no education... nor is there peace nor justice for ourselves and our children. But today, we say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!' First EZLN declaration of war, December 31st 1993The Zapatistas are not Marxist, Rightists, or Anarchists. They seek not to replace one infrastructure of power with another, thus rejecting the normal goal of an armed struggle. They are armed but do not use violence as a tool to expand their aims. Although a localized rebellion, the Zapatistas are unified in a worldwide struggle that transcends the mainstream media's limited perspective through eloquent dictations distributed globally via the Internet.With a fresh perspective and tactics that have never been seen in relation to an armed insurrection, the EZLN (Zapatista National Liberation Army) has changed the definition of what revolution means. From the marginalized confines of the poorest region in Mexico, a new concept of revolutionary change with a new solution to societies woes is currently being proposed.
Author: William BROUGH (Dramatist.)
Publisher:
Published: 1866
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Anthony Crawforth
Publisher: Legend Press Ltd
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 0956071619
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the epic, true and long overdue story of the young explorer who put forward the first ever case for the creation of a new species, providing what Charles Darwin called the "beautiful proof" for Natural Selection. The major discovery of Batesian Mimicry was developed from Bates's fascinating 11-year journey and study of butterflies in the Amazon rainforest. He noted how certain animals adopt the look of others to deceive predators and gain an advantage to survive. Little known to the public, Bates made other crucial contributions to biology: he collected over 14,000 specimens, of which over 8,000 were new to science at the time. He went on to become the administrator for the Royal Geographical Society and transformed it into an institution which combined exploration with academic research, and was responsible for placing geography on the school curriculum. This important book reassesses Bates's life and finally places both the man and his work in their rightful place alongside the other greats.
Author: Henry Brereton Marriott Watson
Publisher:
Published: 1900
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carol Arens
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 1460300831
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A bounty hunter on a mission gives an innocent beauty the adventure of her life in this Western romance. Nebraska, 1881. Infamous bounty hunter Zane Coldridge does not get distracted. He’s renowned for his no-nonsense attitude, and criminals fear the day he comes knocking on their door. But when Zane encounters Missy Lenore Devlin, his resolve is swiftly tested. This disarmingly ditzy damsel in distress is on the lookout for adventure, and Zane has that in abundance. Torn between chivalry and duty, Zane pulls Missy onto his horse and promises her a journey—one that neither could have imagined when the sun rose over the prairie that morning.
Author: Donna Alward
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-06-05
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0373178131
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"With his break-your-heart smile, rodeo star and rebel Ty Diamond has a reputation that should have Clara Ferguson running scared--not straight into his arms! Ty knows he needs to take it easy with Clara--her past has left her with a bruised heart and she's determined never to rely on a man again. But Ty isn't all he seems...and his gentle side shakes Clara's resolute independence to its breaking point."--P. [4] of cover.
Author: Nik Korpon
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Published: 2017-06-06
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0857666576
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a dystopian world ravaged by war and environmental collapse, one man fights history to discover the truth about his wife and child. After decades of war, the brutal Tathadann Party restored order toshattered Eitan City by outlawing the past and rewriting history. Memory is a commodity – bought and sold, and experienced like a drug. Henraek works as a Tathadann memory thief, draining citizens’ memories. Everything changes when Henraek harvests a memory of his own wife’s death, in the hidden rebellion that once tore apart their city. Now he will do whatever it takes to learn the truth – even ifit means burning Eitan City to the ground. File Under: Science Fiction [ Memory Thieves | Collaborators | Brothers In War | City on Fire ]
