The Broken Branch

Author : Thomas E. Mann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195368711
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Broken Branch written by Thomas E. Mann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two nationally renowned congressional scholars review the evolution of Congress from the early days of the republic to 2006, arguing that extreme partisanship and a disregard for institutional procedures are responsible for the institution's current state

Author : John Mantooth
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101620447
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broken Branch (Novella) written by John Mantooth and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broken Branch, Alabama, serves as a refuge for the God-fearing, a shelter from the evils of the outside world. But who will protect them from the evil within? Trudy first met Otto and James after World War I, two traveling ministers, preaching the good word to anyone who’d take the time to listen. Together, they founded Broken Branch, a hideaway in Alabama where the faithful would be able to isolate themselves from the impurity of the rest of the world and live blessed lives in the eyes of God. But then the storms came, tearing apart their small compound, God’s punishment for hidden wickedness in their hearts. And when an old man wanders into Broken Branch, ranting about a secret hideaway and uncovers an old storm cellar that’s been hidden for years, Trudy begins to wonder what other secrets lie under the surface of their safe haven… Includes a preview of The Year of the Storm Praise for Broken Branch "The community of Broken Branch in John Mantooth's fine novella enacts the familiar American quest to found a religiously-pure settlement whose members might escape the evils and ills of the larger world—in this case, Depression-era America. A descendant of Hawthorne's Blithedale Farm, not to mention Puritan Plymouth, its inhabitants come the same discovery as their forebearers, namely, that they themselves contain more than sufficient darkness to undo their enterprise. Through a tight focus on the woman whose largesse has made Broken Branch possible, Mantooth portrays the movement from willful ignorance to painful wisdom. In these pages, tornadoes churn, stars fall burning from the sky, and a strange storm shelter offers a glimpse of another world full of awful beauty. Broken Branch offers compelling evidence of John Mantooth's ambitions and abilities as a writer."—John Langan, author of The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies "John Mantooth's Broken Branch is filled with claustrophobic, creeping dread. It's a story of lies and belief, fear and deception, and it will stay with you long after you've finished the last page."—Damien Walters Grintalis, author of Ink

Author : Gunnar Alutalu
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365214885
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Broken Branch written by Gunnar Alutalu and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A branch on a wire fell down, --- The wire that powers the town. That branch from a tree Indeed did break free And started this story renown. This story, I feel, I must tell While still I remember it well. It was all in the papers, The tricks and the capers. In turbulent times did folks dwell...

Author : Karmen Permanent Court of Arbitration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781403359322
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Broken Branch written by Karmen Permanent Court of Arbitration and published by . This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas E. Mann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Broken Branch written by Thomas E. Mann and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne W. Mhorelund
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496922239
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broken Branch written by Anne W. Mhorelund and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year was 1939 when a small community near Augusta, Georgia first heard TC utter the riveting phrase, Keep your elbows resting on the needle. TC, a lumberjack and a rich timber baron made a pack. They had stepped across each others shadows since young boys one being of enormous wealth the other having a perfect aim and strength for felling 60 pines and cypress trees. Amidst civil strife, TC convinced a small contingency of friends to follow him deep into the forest across the rugged Acorn Trail to grow their own dreams. On an early morning in May 1945 ten covered wagons had reached the Acorn trail. Having been separated by politics, religion, race and the volatile mixture of love and revenge, few could ever return as the road home was splattered with the blood and ill deeds many had left behind. Forty-five years later, they would take an accounting. Some would call them cowards who high-tailed it. They would offer to drain two manmade lakes slowly. There was Meeliah, an island girl left along while Clay Albert tended to the lives of a rich Philadelphia family and she knew how to bake a pineapple sweet potato pie that could arouse and her jungle sting was severe. Her punishment would be unending; Clay Albert was determined to break her. One day they could not coax her out of the lake. One Sunday three brides-to-be would go off in a huff looking for adventure, a thing called hatching. They came upon a black family. Their intent was to enjoy some freshly churned ice cream and place ribbons in the pretty little girls hair. But three days later, one of the teenage boys would be bludgeoned to death. Was it something they did, said, or wrote? Would Barbara Lynn, a bride-to-be, get to live in the cottage behind the plantation house where slave graves were recently discovered? Did Tim really love her or was he after her blood line. Hed proclaimed, There are no brown spots about me; I am White from tick to tock and my eyes Really? While one community dismantled and escaped into the forest, another one a state away vowed to leave a forest in Dorchester County, South Carolina, beat their tools into cleats and create the greatest civilization of modern times one that would one day leave the gravity of the earth and float among the stars. They had promised their mother a homeland. But first they would tenderly assault unjust social and political structures. Some pressed into their minds that it would take 100 years, but more than one retorted, Were going to do it in one generation. The year is 2012 and counting to 2033 from 1933; a 100 years. Although Thelma claimed to be the mother of more children than any woman known hardly six could be counted at any one time; they having gone on to the other side she said. Shed referred to them as her glories, her carrots. Were they fathom? With little to go on but the suspicious tone of a business attorney and some missing birth certificates, the author recreates this lost civilization in, The Dark Circle The Search for the lost children of the Mud. The tenderness and love between Miles and Thelma Dunston are captured as the, The Slave Girl and the Jew. Five overlapping stories tell of their courage and toils of rebirth of these families and the triumph of the human spirit.

Author : Ivory Simion
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493116428
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Broken Branch and the Grafted Branch written by Ivory Simion and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ivory Simion
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781493116430
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Broken Branch and the Grafted Branch written by Ivory Simion and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Beattie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780355307245
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crooked Timber and the Broken Branch written by Peter Beattie and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our current marketplace of ideas, the invisible hand is not facilitating democracy by spreading knowledge and diverse perspectives to produce an informed citizenry. Instead, the invisible hand is acting as a puppeteer, manipulating voters and exploiting psychological prejudices in ways that often benefit only a small elite, or populist demagogues. And because this invisible hand emerges naturally from a combination of psychological, political, and economic pressures, without a conspiratorial cabal or Head Propagandist, it manipulates in a way that North Korea could only dream of, and China is presently trying to emulate. But this undemocratic state of affairs is unnecessary: science and real-world experience show how we can repair the invisible hand in the marketplace of ideas by reforming the media system, allowing democracy to function and flourish.

Author : Ben Ellis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781977093509
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broken Branches written by Ben Ellis and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your status in society depends on the purity of your genes.All men are sterile. Fertility drugs are given only to couples whose genetic matches are approved. Those without a family history to prove their genetic heritage are outcast from society. Grace is a broken branch. As an orphan, she has no link to The National Family Tree, so she and her husband, Tom, are ecstatic when they're approved to have a baby. But that was the easy part. Grace's twin brother inadvertently gets a girl pregnant after a one-night stand, and his girlfriend isn't happy because it should've been her. Both sets of parents soon become the target of a violent terrorist group that advocates genetic purity. To make matters worse, there's something strange about the unborn children that's attracting government attention ...