Golden Hill

Golden Hill
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 320
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781501163876
ISBN-13 : 1501163876
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Golden Hill by : Francis Spufford

Originally published: Great Britain: Faber & Faber, 2016.

How Much of These Hills Is Gold

How Much of These Hills Is Gold
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9780525537229
ISBN-13 : 0525537228
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis How Much of These Hills Is Gold by : C Pam Zhang

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2020 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE WINNER OF THE ROSENTHAL FAMILY FOUNDATION AWARD, FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Belongs on a shelf all of its own.” —NPR “Outstanding.” —The Washington Post “Revolutionary . . . A visionary addition to American literature.” —Star Tribune An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape—trying not just to survive but to find a home. Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant buffalo bones, tiger paw prints, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets, sibling rivalry, and glimpses of a different kind of future. Both epic and intimate, blending Chinese symbolism and reimagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story, an unforgettable sibling story, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page, it’s about the memories that bind and divide families, and the yearning for home.

A History of Connecticut's Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe

A History of Connecticut's Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe
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Publisher : American Heritage
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1596292962
ISBN-13 : 9781596292963
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis A History of Connecticut's Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe by : Charles W. Brilvitch

From triumphs to tragedies, A History of Connecticut's Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe vividly recounts the long lost history of southwestern Connecticut's Paugussett tribe. Since the arrival of Columbus, Native Americans have endured countless hardships. Like all of New England's indigenous people, western Connecticut's Paugussett tribe has suffered injustice and fought determinedly to preserve their cultural identity. In A History of Connecticut's Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe, author Charles Brilvitch passionately chronicles the tribe's struggles and fascinating history through the Victorian era to the present, and traces their traditions and ongoing determination to preserve an irreplaceable and vanishing culture.

The Gold Shoe

The Gold Shoe
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Publisher : Barbour Publishing
Total Pages : 251
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781624164453
ISBN-13 : 1624164455
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis The Gold Shoe by : Grace Livingston Hill

Of all things, a blizzard isn’t what Tasha Endicott expected. Rather than spending her weekend at a glitzy dance, she’s stranded with the Macdonalds at their country home. Thurly Macdonald is certainly handsome, but his quiet life of faith is a far cry from Tasha’s modern tastes. But Tasha soon finds her heart drawn to a love she’s never known but desperately needs. Can she abandon her world for his?

Napoleon Hill's Golden Rules

Napoleon Hill's Golden Rules
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 231
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780470482742
ISBN-13 : 0470482745
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Napoleon Hill's Golden Rules by : Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill's Golden Rules: The Lost Writings consists of a series of magazine articles Napoleon Hill wrote between 1919 and1923 for Success Magazine, of which he eventually become an editor. Hill's obsession with achieving material success had led him from poverty stricken Appalachian Mountains with the desire to study successful people. These articles focus on Hill's philosophy of success, drawing on the thoughts and experience of a multitude of rags-to-riches tycoons, showing readers how these successful people achieved such status. Many of his writings such as the chapter on Law of Attraction, written in the March 1919 issue, have recently basis of several bestselling books. Readers will discover principles that will assure their success if studied and put into action. Chapters include: Lesson #1: Your Social and Physical Heredity--Hills Golden Rule (May 1920) Lesson #2: Auto Suggestion--Napoleon Hill's Magazine (July 1921) Lesson #3: Suggestion (Applied Salesmanship)--Napoleon Hill's Magazine (August 1921) Lesson #4: The Law of Retaliation--Hill's Golden Rule (March 1919) Lesson #5: The Power of Your Mind (Little Odd Visits with Your Editor)--Hill's Golden Rule (October 1919) Lesson #6: How to Build Self-Confidence--Napoleon Hill's Magazine (June 1921) Lesson #7: Environment and Habit--Hill's Golden Rule (April 1919) Lesson #8: How to Remember--Hill's Golden Rule (May-June 1919) Lesson #9: How Marc Antony Used Suggestion in Winning the Roman Mob--Hill's Golden Rule (July 1919) Lesson #10: Persuasion vs. Force--Hill's Golden Rule (September 1919) Lesson #11: The Law of Compensation--Napoleon Hill's Magazine (April 1921) Lesson #12: The Golden Rule as a Pass Key to All Achievement--Napoleon Hill's Magazine (June 1921)

Television's Second Golden Age

Television's Second Golden Age
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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Total Pages : 228
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0815605048
ISBN-13 : 9780815605041
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Television's Second Golden Age by : Robert J. Thompson

This is an insider's tour, touching on the network's dizzying decision-making process, and the artists who have revolutionized the medium.

Quarter-acre of Heartache

Quarter-acre of Heartache
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0936015012
ISBN-13 : 9780936015019
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Quarter-acre of Heartache by : Claude Clayton Smith

Describes the life of the Paugusset Indians of Connecticut and uses the voice of Aurelius Piper, Chief Big Eagle, to recount how their tiny reservation survived a modern legal challenge.

Golden Hill

Golden Hill
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Publisher : Faber & Faber
Total Pages : 368
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780571281374
ISBN-13 : 0571281370
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Golden Hill by : Francis Spufford

** Includes the first chapter of the hugely anticipated new novel by Francis Spufford, Cahokia Jazz. ** Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2016 Winner of the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2017 Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize 2017 Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017 Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017 Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2017 Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year 2017 A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and handsome young stranger fresh off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a suspicious yet compelling proposition -- he has an order for a thousand pounds in his pocket that he wishes to cash. But can he be trusted? This is New York in its infancy, a place where a young man with a fast tongue can invent himself afresh, fall in love, and find a world of trouble . . .

Dracula, My Love

Dracula, My Love
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 484
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780062010421
ISBN-13 : 0062010425
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Dracula, My Love by : Syrie James

Author Syrie James (The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen) offers readers a breathtaking new perspective on Bram Stoker’s classic tale of the king of the vampires with Dracula, My Love. In these “Secret Journals of Mina Harker,” the object of Dracula’s desire relates for the very first time the shocking story of her scandalous seduction and sexual rebirth. This is not the chaste vampire romance of Twilight—Dracula, My Love celebrates a passionate obsession in all its hot and sensuous glory.

Rails Around Gold Hill

Rails Around Gold Hill
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 502
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015013064996
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Rails Around Gold Hill by : Morris Cafky