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Abandon
by Jillian HunterMorwenna Halliwell pleaded with all her heart, "If you sell Abandon to a stranger, Lord Pentargon, you are condemning the islanders to a fate as awful as the Highland Clearances." Anthony Hartstone, third Earl of Pentargon, was to sell the beautiful island of Abandon to the politically powerful Marquess of Camelbourne in exchange for political support. However, he found it hard to resist the persistent Morwenna, a beauty with magical powers that could suddenly bring rainbows and make flowers bloom over the island. As Anthony embarks on his mission, evil forces threaten to destroy his plans and he must confront the Herculean task of convincing his bride-to-be, Morwenna, of his undying love and desire to protect her and their beautiful land.
Abandon Ship!: The Post-War Memoirs of Captain Tony McCrum RN
by Tony McCrumCaptain Tony McCrums naval career started in 1932. He survived the sinking of HMS Skipjack at Dunkirk and went on to serve on minesweepers and at sea during the landings at Salerno. His wartime experiences were recently published as Sunk by Stukas.This book covers the second part of his naval career between 1945 and 1963. Having arrived back in Plymouth from Trincomlee as a lieutenant aboard the destroyer Tarter in November 1945, his first appointment was as senior instructor at the RN Signals School in Devonport. There then followed two appointments as Flag Lieutenant; first to Admiral Pridham-Wippell, CinC Plymouth Command and then Admiral Sir Rhoderick McGrigor, CinC Home Fleet, where he was also Deputy Fleet Communications Officer. He was based on the admirals flagship, the battleship HMS Duke of York which he joined in 1947. The fleet exercised in the Atlantic and Mediterranean and showed the flag in various ports in the USA, Caribbean Islands and the Baltic. In May 1948 he was promoted Lt. Commander. In 1950 he instructed at the main Naval Signals School at Leyedene House near Petersfield.Promoted Commander, now 32 years of age, he was surprised to be appointed to accompany King George VI on a state visit to Australia and New Zealand. This was to be aboard the liner SS Gothic as there was no Royal Yacht at that time. However after months of preparation the voyage was canceled because of the Kings terminal illness and the coronation of Britains new Queen.In November 1954 he took his first command, HMS Concord, a destroyer in the 8th Destroyer Squadron based in Hong Kong. During his eighteen month captaincy of this ship he saw action off the coast of Malaya and a lengthy visit to Australia to assist in the aftermath of a hurricane. After a spell ashore as Training Commander at HMS Ganges and after promotion to Captain in 1958, he was sent to Norway on the staff of the CinC Northern European Command. In November 1960 he was again given a seagoing command. He was to skipper HMS Meon and responsibility for the Amphibious Warfare Squadron in the Persian Gulf. The squadron composed of Meon, two tank-landing ships, four tank-landing craft and a Rhino (a pontoon-like vessel for the shallow-water landing of tanks). He was ordered to cover an area extending from the East African coast, the Red Sea and to the Persian Gulf. Having worked-up this mixed bunch of vessels and their crews, plus army personnel he was confronted with the defense of Kuwait when it was threatened by the Iraqi dictator General Kassem in 1961. He was charged with landing the twelve tanks in his squadron to defend Kuwaits main port of Shuwaikh. This was successfully carried out under difficult circumstances and the Iraqi invasion was defeated. After 42 years in the RN, Tony retired to be with his wife and young family.
Abandon Ship!: The True World War II Story About the Sinking of the Laconia (True Survival Series #1)
by Michael J. Tougias Alison O'LearyA remarkable World War II account of a maritime attack off the West African coast, for fans of Steven Sheinkin and Deborah Heiligman. At the height of World War II, the RMS Laconia was torpedoed by a German submarine five hundred miles off the coast of western Africa. The attack triggered a series of unprecedented events involving allies and enemies from both sides, and left survivors adrift at sea in shark infested oceans, fighting to stay alive with little food or water. Suspenseful and informative, and featuring historic photographs, this incredible true account is a testament to the idea that compassion can rule over conflict—even during the cruelties of war. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection "This epic story races along, unspooling like a movie before our eyes—artfully, dramatically, revealing a little known part of WWII history. An intriguing book."―Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of In Harm&’s Way "The authors do an excellent job of conveying the chaos and loss of this grisly historical incident without pushing young readers too deeply into the horror. Many of those who lived through the Laconia catastrophe endured weeks at sea, parched and sunburned and starving in conditions that literally drove men mad. Archival photos add immediacy to this sensational true-life story." ―Wall Street Journal "An amazing account of a World War II event that is almost entirely unknown…. This story chronicles the courage, compassion, and perseverance of the few survivors of the incident, showcasing war at its worst and humanity at its best…. School librarians will want to add this to their collection." ―Booklist
Abandon: A Novel
by Blake CrouchA century-old mystery—and a desperate battle to survive—unfold in this standalone thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion. On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman, and child in a remote mining town disappeared, belongings forsaken, meals left to freeze in vacant cabins, and not a single bone found. Now, journalist Abigail Foster and her historian father have set out to explore the long-abandoned town and learn what happened. With them are two backcountry guides—along with a psychic and a paranormal photographer who are there to investigate rumors that the town is haunted. But Abigail and her companions are about to learn that the town&’s ghosts are the least of their worries. Twenty miles from civilization, with a blizzard bearing down, they realize they are not alone. The ordeal that follows will test this small team past the breaking point as they battle the elements and human foes alike—and discover that the town&’s secrets still have the power to kill. Part journey into old-West history, part nail-biting survival thriller, Abandon is a bloody, darkly surprising tale as only Blake Crouch could deliver.
Abandonada a tus caricias (Bribón #Volumen 3)
by Loretta ChaseDos seres opuestos, la bella y la bestia, y una pasión impensable... El mayor empeño de la testaruda, independiente y soltera por convicción Jessica Trent es alejar a su débil hermano de la destructiva influencia de Sebastian Ballister, marqués de Dain. Pero nunca pensó que acabaría deseando al arrogante y amoral marqués. Y cuando la pasión recíproca los compromete públicamente de una manera escandalosa, a Jessica no le queda otra opción que pedirle, por vía legal, una satisfacción para rehabilitar su nombre ante la rígida sociedad inglesa. Maldiciéndola por tentarlo, por besarlo y, sobre todo, por obligarlo a salvar su reputación, Sebastian quiere colocar en su sitio y, a ser posible, en alguna situación comprometida a la furiosa muchacha. Y si para eso tiene que pasar por el altar, pues que así sea. Porque está seguro de que su corazón no sucumbirá ante los múltiples encantos de Jessica...
Abandonada a tus caricias (Bribón #Volumen 3)
by Loretta ChaseDos seres opuestos, la bella y la bestia, y una pasión impensable... El mayor empeño de la testaruda, independiente y soltera por convicción Jessica Trent es alejar a su débil hermano de la destructiva influencia de Sebastian Ballister, marqués de Dain. Pero nunca pensó que acabaría deseando al arrogante y amoral marqués. Y cuando la pasión recíproca los compromete públicamente de una manera escandalosa, a Jessica no le queda otra opción que pedirle, por vía legal, una satisfacción para rehabilitar su nombre ante la rígida sociedad inglesa. Maldiciéndola por tentarlo, por besarlo y, sobre todo, por obligarlo a salvar su reputación, Sebastian quiere colocar en su sitio y, a ser posible, en alguna situación comprometida a la furiosa muchacha. Y si para eso tiene que pasar por el altar, pues que así sea. Porque está seguro de que su corazón no sucumbirá ante los múltiples encantos de Jessica...
Abandoned Asylums of Connecticut (Images of Modern America)
by L. F. Blanchard Tammy RebelloThis collection of photographs, history, and firsthand accounts gives readers a glimpse at the roots of mental health. These vignettes are born of the personal stories of those who worked at these facilities, those who were institutionalized, and their families. The authors took the time to listen to their stories and endeavored to understand their past and recognize how these events continue to influence the mental health industry today. Pictured throughout are the physical relics of the places--the now largely abandoned asylums of Connecticut--where these stories unfurled.
Abandoned Asylums of Massachusetts (Images of Modern America)
by L. F. Blanchard Tammy RebelloThis collection of photographs, history, and firsthand accounts gives readers a glimpse at the roots of mental health. These vignettes are born of the personal stories of those who worked at these facilities, those who were institutionalized, and their families. The authors took the time to listen to their stories and endeavored to understand their pasts and recognize how these events continue to influence the mental health industry today. Pictured throughout are the physical relics of the places--the now largely abandoned asylums--where these stories unfurled.
Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance: Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science #123)
by Nicholas TerpstraIn the early development of the modern Italian state, individual orphanages were a reflection of the intertwining of politics and charity.Nearly half of the children who lived in the cities of the late Italian Renaissance were under fifteen years of age. Grinding poverty, unstable families, and the death of a parent could make caring for these young children a burden. Many were abandoned, others orphaned. At a time when political rulers fashioned themselves as the "fathers" of society, these cast-off children presented a very immediate challenge and opportunity.In Bologna and Florence, government and private institutions pioneered orphanages to care for the growing number of homeless children. Nicholas Terpstra discusses the founding and management of these institutions, the procedures for placing children into them, the children's daily routine and education, and finally their departure from these homes. He explores the role of the city-state and considers why Bologna and Florence took different paths in operating the orphanages. Terpstra finds that Bologna's orphanages were better run, looked after the children more effectively, and were more successful in returning their wards to society as productive members of the city's economy. Florence's orphanages were larger and harsher, and made little attempt to reintegrate children into society.Based on extensive archival research and individual stories, Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance demonstrates how gender and class shaped individual orphanages in each city's network and how politics, charity, and economics intertwined in the development of the early modern state.
Abandoned Manitoba: From Residential Schools to Bank Vaults to Grain Elevators (Abandoned Manitoba)
by VariousTravel with Gordon Goldsborough from Rapid City School to Mallard Lodge to Union Stockyards and many places in between as the author helps us reclaim some of our long-lost heritage. This full colour, richly illustrated book looks at abandoned sites around Manitoba, describing their features, what caused them to be abandoned, and what they tell us about the history of the province.
Abandoned Princess After Seven Nights: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Qi YeYueGuangThe moment she passed through, she was eaten dry and wiped clean. This was like having several lifetimes of bad luck for her! Ah, that prince, didn't he send her into the cold palace? What are you doing here every day?
Abandoned Princess After Seven Nights: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Qi YeYueGuangThe moment she passed through, she was eaten dry and wiped clean. This was like having several lifetimes of bad luck for her! Ah, that prince, didn't he send her into the cold palace? What are you doing here every day?
Abandoned Princess' Farm Space: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Mei WuZiTongLu Xueyan had reincarnated into someone else's body. Moreover, the original owner was feeling a bit sad.It was fine if she was an Imperial Concubine, but she still had a ball!It was one thing for her husband to go missing, but her big brother actually lost!It was fine that her mother had died, but her stepmother was still as vicious as a snake!It was one thing to be a side concubine, but he had been beaten down by the main concubine to such a pathetic state!Although there were still a few loyal people around, they didn't have anything to eat. Was he going to starve to death?
Abandoned Princess' Farm Space: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Mei WuZiTongLu Xueyan had reincarnated into someone else's body. Moreover, the original owner was feeling a bit sad.It was fine if she was an Imperial Concubine, but she still had a ball!It was one thing for her husband to go missing, but her big brother actually lost!It was fine that her mother had died, but her stepmother was still as vicious as a snake!It was one thing to be a side concubine, but he had been beaten down by the main concubine to such a pathetic state!Although there were still a few loyal people around, they didn't have anything to eat. Was he going to starve to death?
Abandoned Princess' Farm Space: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Mei WuZiTongLu Xueyan had reincarnated into someone else's body. Moreover, the original owner was feeling a bit sad.It was fine if she was an Imperial Concubine, but she still had a ball!It was one thing for her husband to go missing, but her big brother actually lost!It was fine that her mother had died, but her stepmother was still as vicious as a snake!It was one thing to be a side concubine, but he had been beaten down by the main concubine to such a pathetic state!Although there were still a few loyal people around, they didn't have anything to eat. Was he going to starve to death?
Abandoned Princess' Farm Space: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Mei WuZiTongLu Xueyan had reincarnated into someone else's body. Moreover, the original owner was feeling a bit sad.It was fine if she was an Imperial Concubine, but she still had a ball!It was one thing for her husband to go missing, but her big brother actually lost!It was fine that her mother had died, but her stepmother was still as vicious as a snake!It was one thing to be a side concubine, but he had been beaten down by the main concubine to such a pathetic state!Although there were still a few loyal people around, they didn't have anything to eat. Was he going to starve to death?
Abandoned Princess' Farm Space: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by Mei WuZiTongLu Xueyan had reincarnated into someone else's body. Moreover, the original owner was feeling a bit sad.It was fine if she was an Imperial Concubine, but she still had a ball!It was one thing for her husband to go missing, but her big brother actually lost!It was fine that her mother had died, but her stepmother was still as vicious as a snake!It was one thing to be a side concubine, but he had been beaten down by the main concubine to such a pathetic state!Although there were still a few loyal people around, they didn't have anything to eat. Was he going to starve to death?
Abandoned Princess' Farm Space: Volume 6 (Volume 6 #6)
by Mei WuZiTongLu Xueyan had reincarnated into someone else's body. Moreover, the original owner was feeling a bit sad.It was fine if she was an Imperial Concubine, but she still had a ball!It was one thing for her husband to go missing, but her big brother actually lost!It was fine that her mother had died, but her stepmother was still as vicious as a snake!It was one thing to be a side concubine, but he had been beaten down by the main concubine to such a pathetic state!Although there were still a few loyal people around, they didn't have anything to eat. Was he going to starve to death?
Abandoned Queen Hard To Please: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Liu XiIn the same rented apartment in a city, two men and women with completely different personalities were gathered together …He was indifferent, silent, indifferent to things that had nothing to do with him.She, beautiful and generous, kind and pleasant, full of vivacity and sometimes charm.In her mind, he was an eccentric "uncle"; in his mind, she was a gentle and lovely "sister". Perhaps the story of 'Uncle's Love Lolita' was an innocent fantasy, but what kind of touching story would actually happen between them …
Abandoned Queen Hard To Please: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Liu XiIn the same rented apartment in a city, two men and women with completely different personalities were gathered together …He was indifferent, silent, indifferent to things that had nothing to do with him.She, beautiful and generous, kind and pleasant, full of vivacity and sometimes charm.In her mind, he was an eccentric "uncle"; in his mind, she was a gentle and lovely "sister". Perhaps the story of 'Uncle's Love Lolita' was an innocent fantasy, but what kind of touching story would actually happen between them …
Abandoned in Hell
by Marvin Wolf Joseph L. Galloway William AlbrachtIn October 1969, William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command of a remote hilltop outpost called Fire Base Kate, held by only 27 American soldiers and 150 Montagnard militiamen. He found their defenses woefully unprepared. At dawn the next morning, three North Vietnamese Army regiments--some 6,000 men--crossed the Cambodian border and attacked. Outnumbered three dozen to one, Albracht's men held off repeated ground assaults by communist forces with fierce hand-to-hand fighting, air support and a dangerously close B-52 strike. For days, the NVA blanketed Kate in a rain of rockets, mortars, artillery, machineguns, and small arms, blocking efforts to resupply, reinforce, or evacuate the outpost. Albracht continually exposed himself to enemy fire to direct air strikes, to guide re-supply helicopters, to distribute ammunition and water to his men, to retrieve the dead and to rescue the wounded, often shielding men with his own body. Wounded by rocket shrapnel, he refused medical attention or evacuation. Exhausted from days without sleep, he continued to rally his men to beat off each new enemy attack. After five days, Kate's defenders were out of ammo and water. Aerial resupply was suicidal, and reinforcements were denied by military commanders who had written off Kate. Albracht refused to surrender or die in place. Refusing to allow his men to surrender, Albracht led his troops, including many wounded, off the hill and on a daring night march through enemy lines. Abandoned in Hell is an astonishing memoir of leadership, sacrifice, and brutal violence, a riveting journey into Vietnam's heart of darkness, and a compelling reminder of the transformational power of individual heroism. Not since Lone Survivor and We Were Soldiers Once, And Young has there been such a gripping and authentic account of battlefield courage.INCLUDES PHOTOS
Abandoned in Place: Preserving America's Space History
by Roland MillerStenciled on many of the deactivated facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the evocative phrase &“abandoned in place&” indicates the structures that have been deserted. Some structures, too solid for any known method of demolition, stand empty and unused in the wake of the early period of US space exploration. Now Roland Miller&’s color photographs document the NASA, Air Force, and Army facilities across the nation that once played a crucial role in the space race.Rapidly succumbing to the elements and demolition, most of the blockhouses, launch towers, tunnels, test stands, and control rooms featured in Abandoned in Place are located at secure military or NASA facilities with little or no public access. Some have been repurposed, but over half of the facilities photographed no longer exist. The haunting images collected here impart artistic insight while preserving an important period in history.
Abandoned to Lust: Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity (Gender, Theory, and Religion)
by Jennifer KnustEarly Christians used charges of adultery, incest, and lascivious behavior to demonize their opponents, police insiders, resist pagan rulers, and define what it meant to be a Christian. Christians frequently claimed that they, and they alone were sexually virtuous, comparing themselves to those marked as outsiders, especially non-believers and "heretics," who were said to be controlled by lust and unable to rein in their carnal desires. True or not, these charges allowed Christians to present themselves as different from and morally superior to those around them. Through careful, innovative readings, Jennifer Knust explores the writings of Paul, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus of Lyons, and other early Christian authors who argued that Christ alone made self-mastery possible. Rejection of Christ led to both immoral sexual behavior and, ultimately, alienation and punishment from God. Knust considers how Christian writers participated in a long tradition of rhetorical invective, a rhetoric that was often employed to defend status and difference. Christians borrowed, deployed, and reconfigured classical rhetorical techniques, turning them against their rulers to undercut their moral and political authority. Knust also examines the use of accusations of licentiousness in conflicts between rival groups of Christians. Portraying rival sects as depraved allowed accusers to claim their own group as representative of "true Christianity." Knust's book also reveals the ways in which sexual slurs and their use in early Christian writings reflected cultural and gendered assumptions about what constituted purity, morality, and truth. In doing so, Abandoned to Lust highlights the complex interrelationships between sex, gender, and sexuality within the classical, biblical, and early-Christian traditions.
Abandoned: Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City
by Julie MillerTwo interesting items: The author's article in New York ArchivesA letter regarding foundlings in The Riverdale PressIn the nineteenth century, foundlings—children abandoned by their desperately poor, typically unmarried mothers, usually shortly after birth—were commonplace in European society. There were asylums in every major city to house abandoned babies, and writers made them the heroes of their fiction, most notably Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist. In American cities before the Civil War the situation was different, with foundlings relegated to the poorhouse instead of institutions designed specifically for their care. By the eve of the Civil War, New York City in particular had an epidemic of foundlings on its hands due to the rapid and often interlinked phenomena of urban development, population growth, immigration, and mass poverty. Only then did the city's leaders begin to worry about the welfare and future of its abandoned children.In Abandoned, Julie Miller offers a fascinating, frustrating, and often heartbreaking history of a once devastating, now forgotten social problem that wracked America's biggest metropolis, New York City. Filled with anecdotes and personal stories, Miller traces the shift in attitudes toward foundlings from ignorance, apathy, and sometimes pity for the children and their mothers to that of recognition of the problem as a sign of urban moral decline and in need of systematic intervention. Assistance came from public officials and religious reformers who constructed four institutions: the Nursery and Child's Hospital's foundling asylum, the New York Infant Asylum, the New York Foundling Asylum, and the public Infant Hospital, located on Randall's Island in the East River.Ultimately, the foundling asylums were unable to significantly improve children’s lives, and by the early twentieth century, three out of the four foundling asylums had closed, as adoption took the place of abandonment and foster care took the place of institutions. Today the word foundling has been largely forgotten. Fortunately, Abandoned rescues its history from obscurity.
Abandoned: The Story of the Greely Arctic Expedition, 1881-1884
by A. L. ToddAlden L. Todd’s Abandoned has been called “A model account of perhaps the most ill-fated and certainly the most grimly fascinating episode in the annals of Arctic exploration....” Working extensively with primary sources—official correspondence, diaries, letters, notes by the expedition’s participants and those left at home and in the nation’s capital—Alden Todd presents an evenhanded, elegantly written account of the greatest tragedy in the history of American arctic exploration: the Greely expedition of 1881-1884.Launched as part of the United States’ participation in the first International Polar Year, the expedition sent twenty-five volunteers to what is now Ellesmere Island in the Canadian High Arctic, off the northwest coast of Greenland, commanded by Adolphus Washington Greely, a thirty-seven-year-old lieutenant in the U.S. Army’s Signal Corps.The ship sent to resupply them in the summer of 1882 was forced to turn back before reaching the station, and the men were left to endure short rations and unbroken isolation at their icy base. When the second relief ship, sent in 1883, was crushed in the ice, Greely led his men south, following a prearranged plan. The crew spent a third and increasingly more wretched winter camped at Cape Sabine. Supplies ran out, the hunting failed, and men began to die of starvation.Abandoned is a gripping account of men battling for survival as they are pitted against the elements and each other. It is also the most complete and authentic account of the controversial Greely Expedition ever published, an exemplar of the best in chronicles of polar exploration.