The Fortunes
Title | The Fortunes PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ho Davies |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Total Pages | 285 |
Release | 2016-09-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0544263782 |
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for literature that confronts racism and examines diversity Winner of the 2017 Chautauqua Prize Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize A New York Times Notable Book "Riveting and luminous...Like the best books, this one haunts the reader well after the end."—Jesmyn Ward “[A] complex, beautiful novel . . . Stunning.”—NPR, Best Books of 2016 “Intense and dreamlike . . . filled with quiet resonances across time.”—The New Yorker Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience. Inhabiting four lives—a railroad baron’s valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor; Hollywood’s first Chinese movie star; a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes the Asian American community; and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption—this novel captures and capsizes over a century of our history, showing that even as family bonds are denied and broken, a community can survive—as much through love as blood. “A prophetic work, with passages of surpassing beauty.”—Joyce Carol Oates, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award citation “A poignant, cascading four-part novel . . . Outstanding.”—David Mitchell, Guardian “The most honest, unflinching, cathartically biting novel I’ve read about the Chinese American experience.”—Celeste Ng
The Fortunes of Africa
Title | The Fortunes of Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Meredith |
Publisher | Public Affairs |
Total Pages | 770 |
Release | 2014-10-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1610394593 |
Africa has been coveted for its riches ever since the era of the Pharaohs. In past centuries, it was the lure of gold, ivory, and slaves that drew fortune-seekers, merchant-adventurers, and conquerors from afar. In modern times, the focus of attention is on oil, diamonds, and other valuable minerals. Land was another prize. The Romans relied on their colonies in northern Africa for vital grain shipments to feed the population of Rome. Arab invaders followed in their wake, eventually colonizing the entire region. More recently, foreign corporations have acquired huge tracts of land to secure food supplies needed abroad, just as the Romans did. In this vast and vivid panorama of history, Martin Meredith follows the fortunes of Africa over a period of 5,000 years. With compelling narrative, he traces the rise and fall of ancient kingdoms and empires; the spread of Christianity and Islam; the enduring quest for gold and other riches; the exploits of explorers and missionaries; and the impact of European colonization. He examines, too, the fate of modern African states and concludes with a glimpse of their future. His cast of characters includes religious leaders, mining magnates, warlords, dictators, and many other legendary figures—among them Mansa Musa, ruler of the medieval Mali empire, said to be the richest man the world has ever known. “I speak of Africa,” Shakespeare wrote, “and of golden joys.” This is history on an epic scale.
Gather the Fortunes
Title | Gather the Fortunes PDF eBook |
Author | Bryan Camp |
Publisher | John Joseph Adams |
Total Pages | 383 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1328876713 |
"Camp returns to his otherworldly New Orleans of The City of Lost Fortunes for a sequel that evokes the magic, mystery, and mythology of Neil Gaiman's American Gods with a female protagonist that calls to mind the power and personality of Chuck Wendig's Miriam Black (Blackbirds)"--
The Fortunes of Fifi
Title | The Fortunes of Fifi PDF eBook |
Author | Molly Elliot Seawell |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | Actresses |
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The Founders' Fortunes
Title | The Founders' Fortunes PDF eBook |
Author | Willard Sterne Randall |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 337 |
Release | 2022-02-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1524745928 |
An illuminating financial history of the Founding Fathers, revealing how their personal finances shaped the Constitution and the new nation In 1776, upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers concluded America’s most consequential document with a curious note, pledging “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.” Lives and honor did indeed hang in the balance, yet just what were their fortunes? How much did the Founders stand to gain or lose through independence? And what lingering consequences did their respective financial stakes have on liberty, justice, and the fate of the fledgling United States of America? In this landmark account, historian Willard Sterne Randall investigates the private financial affairs of the Founders, illuminating like never before how and why the Revolution came about. The Founders’ Fortunes uncovers how these leaders waged war, crafted a constitution, and forged a new nation influenced in part by their own financial interests. In an era where these very issues have become daily national questions, the result is a remarkable and insightful new understanding of our nation’s bedrock values.
The Fortunes of Nigel
Title | The Fortunes of Nigel PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Scott |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 666 |
Release | 1841 |
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The Fortunes of Glencore
Title | The Fortunes of Glencore PDF eBook |
Author | Charles James Lever |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 426 |
Release | 1863 |
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