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Rain Gods (Paperback)
James Lee Burke
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Bitterroot (Paperback)
James Lee Burke
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From American master James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil
War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of
characters - enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and
battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers - are caught in the
maelstrom In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the
Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and
Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is in disarray,
corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women
are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved
woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she
goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist
schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers
that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he
observed--and did--as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to
his uncle's plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured
by Hannah. Flags on the Bayou is an engaging, action-packed
narrative that includes a duel that ends in disaster, a brutal
encounter with the local Union commander, repeated skirmishes with
Confederate irregulars led by a diseased and probably deranged
colonel, and a powerful story of love blossoming between an
unlikely pair. As the story unfolds, it illuminates a past that
reflects our present in sharp relief. James Lee Burke, whose
"evocative prose remains a thing of reliably fierce wonder"
(Entertainment Weekly), expertly renders the rich Louisiana
landscape, from the sunsets on the Mississippi River to the dingy
saloons of New Orleans to the tree-lined shores of the bayou and
the cottonmouth snakes that dwell in its depths. Powerful and
deeply moving, Flags on the Bayou is a story of tragic acts of war,
class divisions upended, and love enduring through it all.
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Neon Rain (Paperback)
BURKE JAMES LEE
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR JAMES LEE BURKE THE NEON RAIN Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter -- the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords and arms smugglers, Robicheaux must face down a subterranean criminal world and come to terms with his own bruised heart in order to survive.
When I Am Writing. Sitting here, amid the stillness, in this
moment, fond, quiet and connected; my time alone to play with God
has come. As I dance with Him through tender woods and fields of
green; pondering new day's joys beheld; those of cool winds
awakening visions of things unseen. Cradled in His arms of love, we
waltz away as one, amid our fond ascension and euphoric
concatenation. We catch leaves as they fall; together, with quill
in hand, while to the thrill of my mind's contentment days of my
youth return to me as the true goodness of their nature. I recall
them fondly, while scales of worries slip away and my heart soars
free. Yes! amid this simple beauty I find God through the patient
art of Poetry. As His love, hope, and peace are fulfilling me,
covering me, protecting me, teaching me, advancing me, directing
me, holding me, carrying me, molding me, honing me, completing me;
when I am writing!
Social Policy and Change in East Asia is a collection of essays
from a group of indigenous East Asian social policy researchers who
met bi-annually to discuss social development issues. The book s
focus is the policy responses of respective East Asian government
since the 2008 financial tsunami struck the region. Together, the
essays in Social Policy and Change in East Asia argue that
traditional social policy approach has failed to account for the
problem of economic volatility and to devise policy measures that
can promote long-term stability. Avoiding a static and Eurocentric
approach, the authors of this book seek to unravel the meaning of
the social development approach in various policy contexts. This
book supports a dynamic understanding of social policy formulation
that does not neglect the problem of economic turbulence in policy
and planning.
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