The Undiscovered Country

Author: Aidan McQuade
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1783528087
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235

Book Description
'A smart and pacy debut' Irish Times ‘One is struck by its mordant wit and fierce intelligence’ Martin W. Sandler, National Book Award-winning author and historian 'A cracker read about morality and ethics in a time of conflict . . . A really accessible way of getting into complex stuff on nation-building and justice' Claire Hanna, MP for Belfast South 1920, the Irish War of Independence. Amid the turmoil of an emerging nation, two young IRA members assigned to police a rural village discover the body of a young boy, apparently drowned. One of them, a veteran of the First World War, recognises violence when he sees it – but does one more corpse really matter in this time of bitter conflict? The reluctant detectives must navigate the vicious bloodshed, murky allegiances and savage complexities of a land defining itself to find justice for the murdered boy. Neither of them realises just how dangerous their task will become.

Undiscovered Country

Author: Lin Enger
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452965714
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Now in paperback—a bold reinvention of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and a hair-bristling story of betrayal, revenge, and the possibilities of forgiveness On a cold November afternoon in northern Minnesota, seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson finds his hunting partner—his father—sprawled on the forest floor, dead of a rifle wound. Authorities rule it a suicide, but Jesse is not convinced. Haunted by the ghost of his dad, and compelled by recently unearthed secrets, he is forced to wrestle with questions of justice and retribution even as he tries to hold his family, and himself, together.

Undiscovered Country

Author: Kelly O'Connor McNees
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681777274
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
In 1932, New York City, top reporter Lorena “Hick” Hickok starts each day with a front page byline—and finishes it swigging bourbon and planning her next big scoop. But an assignment to cover FDR’s campaign—and write a feature on his wife, Eleanor—turns Hick’s hard-won independent life on its ear. Soon her work, and the secret entanglement with the new first lady, will take her from New York and Washington to Scotts Run, West Virginia, where impoverished coal miners’ families wait in fear that the New Deal’s promised hope will pass them by. Together, Eleanor and Hick imagine how the new town of Arthurdale could change the fate of hundreds of lives. But doing what is right does not come cheap, and Hick will pay in ways she never could have imagined.

The Undiscovered Country

Author: Andre Bagoo
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
ISBN: 9781845234638
Category : Trinidad and Tobago
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
A wonderful collection of essays by inspiring Trinidadian poet and journalist, Andre Bagoo.

Beyond Uhura

Author: Nichelle Nichols
Publisher: Boxtree
ISBN: 9780752202389
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
For nearly 30 years Nichelle Nichols, African American granddaughter of a former slave-owner, has been part of the Star Trek myth as Lieutenant Uhura, Communications Officer on the Starship Enterprise. In this autobiography she recounts her personal and professional life.

The Undiscovered Country

Author: Carl Watkins
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780099548584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
'The Undiscovered Country' takes a long view of what the people of Britain have believed, and still believe, about the dead. Stretching from the Middle Ages to the present day, this is an exploration of the ideas of heaven, hell and purgatory, of body and soul, of ghosts and remembrance.

Hamlet: The Undiscovered Country

Author: Stephen F. Roth
Publisher: Open House
ISBN: 0970470207
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
This book reads like a cross between a literary detective novel and a personal conversation with a passionate Shakespeare scholar, unpacking the play that Roth calls the seminal text of the humanist religion. It unveils new realities about the playsome of which have have lain hidden since Shakespeares dayuntangles centuries of commentary and criticism, and delivers the punch lines for a whole raft of Shakespeares remarkably involved in-jokes. Roths scholarship tackles old arguments like Hamlets age (hes sixteen), lays out the intricate time structure thats embedded in the play, and unravels several of the plays endless allusions that so puzzle the will. He depicts a dense, ironic, and multivalent web of political and dramatic tension in Elsinore (plus a great deal of humor), and delivers one ahamoment after another for lovers of the Bards greatest tragedy.

Star Trek VI

Author: J.M. Dillard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743454251
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Internal pressures, enormous military expenditures, and the destruction of their primary energy source have brought the Klingon Empire to the verge of catastrophic collapse. To avert disaster, Gorkon, Chancellor of the Klingon High Council, proposes negotiations between the Federation and Klingon Empire, negotiations that will put an end to the years of hostility between the two powers, and herald a new era of peace and cooperation. Captain James T. Kirk and the U.S.S. Enterprise are dispatched to escort the Chancellor safely into Federation space. But a treacherous assassination brings negotiations to a sudden halt and places Kirk and Dr. McCoy in the hands of the Federation's greatest enemy. With time running out, Spock and the Enterprise crew work to uncover the deadly secret that threatens to propel the galaxy into the most destructive conflict it has ever known.

Tron

Author:
Publisher: Marvel
ISBN: 9780785153207
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In anticipation of Walt Disney Pictures' high-tech adventure, TRON: LEGACY, which hits U.S. theaters in Disney Digital 3D and IMAX 3D on December 17, 2010 - Marvel Comics is proud to bring you a stunning new visualization of the first TRON film. Adapted by legendary scribe PETER DAVID (X-Factor, The Dark Tower) and stunningly illustrated by MIRCO PIERFEDERICI (X-Men Legacy, Dark Wolverine)!

The Undiscovered Country

Author: Ron Rhodes
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 9781565074149
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
At one time, people only whispered the word death. Today, it's the topic of bestselling books and magazine feature articles. Yet with all that has been said, it's still a subject shrouded in mystery. Noted author and Bible expert Rhodes brings together a wide range of scriptural facts that provide an incredibly clear and inspirational picture of the next life.