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A False Tree of Liberty
This book is concerned with the history of the idea of human rights. It offers a fresh approach that puts aside familiar questions such as 'Where do human rights come from?' and 'When did human rights begin?' for the sake of looking into connections between debates about the rights of man and developments within the history of capitalism. The focus is on England, where, at the end of the eighteenth century, a heated controversy over the rights of man coincided with the final enclosure of common lands and the momentous changes associated with early industrialisation. Tracking back still further to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing about dispossession, resistance and rights, the book reveals a forgotten tradition of thought about central issues in human rights, with profound implications for their prospects in the world today.
Skating with the Statue of Liberty
"This rich story reminds us that America can be at its best as a melting pot. A page-turner for all the right reasons." —VINCE VAWTER, Newbery Honor–winning author of Paperboy In this gripping and poignant companion to Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner Black Radishes, Gustave faces racism and anti-Semitism in New York City during World War II, but ultimately finds friendship and hope. After escaping the Germans in Nazi-occupied France, Gustave and his family have made it to America at last. But life is not easy in New York. Gustave’s clothes are all wrong, he can barely speak English, and he is worried about his best friend, Marcel, who is in danger back in France. Then there is Septemb...
Broken Promises
Broken Promises is an intriguing love story filled with heartbreak, secrets, family betrayal, and murder. Devilan Kincaid, son of an Irish Mafia boss, isn't passionate about the family business. Creating body art, racing motorcycles, and living in Malibu with his best friends JT and Maggie MacCarthy, his true love, would've been living the dream.Gavin Kincaid, Godfather of the Irish Mafia, had different plans for his son: attend Boston University, major in accounting, and return to Brooklyn as his right-hand man and accountant for the Irish Mafia. Forced to give up his dreams, Devilan becomes the Irish Mafia's Golden Boy. A drunken night of passion obligated him to marry his college fling, E...
Liberty Brought Us Here
Between 1820 and 1913, approximately 16,000 black people left the United States to start new lives in Liberia, Africa, in what was at the time the largest out-migration in US history. When Tolbert Major, a former Kentucky slave and single father, was offered his own chance for freedom, he accepted. He, several family members, and seventy other people boarded the Luna on July 5, 1836. After they arrived in Liberia, Tolbert penned a letter to his former owner, Ben Major: "Dear Sir, We have all landed on the shores of Africa and got into our houses.... None of us have been taken with the fever yet." Drawing on extensive research and fifteen years' worth of surviving letters, author Susan E. Lin...
Hearts that Burn
James Raintree Hunter, aka Flame, and Corinne Genevieve Michaels, aka Princess, grew up in Sinners Motorcycle Club. Best friends at two, boyfriend/girlfriend at thirteen, lovers at fourteen, and engaged at eighteen-together forever. It was their destiny until mainstream norms infiltrated their lives. Flame: It isn't a revelation the Afghanistan War screwed with my mind. Joey's and my father's death sent me over the edge. It's no excuse for what I had done to the woman I love. Sinners love and protect our females. I broke the bikers' golden rule, so it's no wonder my dreams have been haunted by Corrie. I made it my mission to make her life a living, breathing hell. She left me. Two-and-a-half...
Life, Liberty, and Pursuit
When college-bound Eliza falls into a cruise-ship pool, she doesn't expect to fall in love. And when navy recruit David pulls her from the water, he finds her surprisingly hard to resist. But a whirlwind of rescues, candlelit nights, and beachside misunderstandings pulls them into a four-day love affair that threatens to break their hearts before their love has a chance to start.
Black Radishes
Sydney Taylor Honor Award Winner Black Radishes is a suspenseful WWII/Holocaust story, in which one boy learns what it means to be Jewish and French at a time when everything is changing. It is March of 1940. The French believe that their army can protect them from Nazi Germany. But is Paris a safe place for Jews? Gustave’s parents don’t think so. Forced to leave behind his best friend, the mischievous Marcel, and his cousin Jean-Paul, Gustave moves with his mother and father to Saint-Georges, a small village in the countryside. During April and May, Nazi Germany invades one country after another. In June, the French army is defeated, and Paris is occupied. Saint-Georges is still part of...
The Book Of Boro
A collection of boro-inspired projects and techniques which celebrates this traditional Japanese textile and its relevance to the modern sewer and quilter. Learn about the history of boro and how it is being revived for a new audience using contemporary fabrics including denim, linen and shibori tie dye as well as sashiko and other embroidery stitches. The word boro comes from the Japanese boroboro meaning something tattered or repaired. It refers to textiles that have been mended or patched together for utilitarian, not decorative, purposes to make the fabric stronger and warmer, and to mend torn and threadbare areas. The techniques section includes a short stitch directory with traditional stitches (running stitch and applique) and contemporary stitches (herringbone stitch, blanket stitch, chain stitch and whipped running stitch). Other techniques include instructions on improvisational patchwork; applique: raw, turned edge and reverse; darning techniques and methods for distressing and ageing fabrics to achieve an authentic boro finish.
Liberty's Dawn
DIVThis remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. The Industrial Revolution brought not simply misery and poverty. On the contrary, Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many, this was a period of new, and much valued, sexual and cultural freedom./divDIV /divDIVThis rich personal account focuses on the social impact of the Industrial Revolution, rather than its economic and political histories. In the tradition of best-selling books by Liza Picard, Judith Flanders, and Jerry White, Griffin gets under the skin of the period and creates a cast of colorful characters, including factory workers, miners, shoemakers, carpenters, servants, and farm laborers./div
Ties that Bind
Liam Kincaid is no saint. He's a Sinner. Liam Kincaid, the bossiest of all Sinners, contemplates surrendering forty-nine years of bachelorhood to be with his soulmate, Pony, Montana's hometown girl, sweet Rebecca Dutton. But nothing comes easy for a Sinner—not even love. Becca Dutton shied away from men. Colton Yardley, her ex, taught her an unforgettable lesson: marriage vows mean nothing. Her divorce was final but with a hitch—the judge ordered Becca to return to South Pleasant, Wyoming, and fulfill her employment contract with Colton's greedy and underhanded father. When Becca and Brody go missing in Wyoming, Liam risks everything to rescue them. But, as the Yardley's find out, anyone who screws with the Sinners isn't long for the world. Will Liam succeed before it's too late? Or will he face his greatest fear: losing his kindred spirit?
