The Rebel and the Kingdom

Author: Bradley Hope
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0593240669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
How did an Ivy League activist become a global fugitive? The New York Times bestselling co-author of Billion Dollar Whale and Blood and Oil chronicles the heart-pounding tale of a self-taught operative his high-stakes attempt subvert the North Korean regime. “Propulsive . . . Hope’s account is both deeply reported and novelistic.”—Ed Caesar, contributing staff writer for The New Yorker, author of The Moth and the Mountain In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life inside North Korea, he realized he had found a cause so pressing that he was ready to devote his life to it. What began as a trip down the safe and well-worn path of organizing soon morphed into something more dangerous. Hong journeyed to China, outwitting Chinese security services as he helped asylum-seeking North Koreans escape across the border. Meanwhile, Hong’s secret organization, Cheollima Civil Defense (later renamed Free Joseon), began tracking the North Korean government’s activities, and its volatile third-generation ruler, Kim Jong-un. Free Joseon targeted North Korean diplomats who might be persuaded to defect, while drawing up plans for a government-in-exile. After the shocking broad-daylight assassination in 2017 of Kim Jong-nam, the dictator’s older brother, Hong, along with U.S. Marine veteran Christopher Ahn, helped ferry Kim Jong-nam’s family to safety. Then Hong took the group a step further. He initiated a series of high-stakes direct actions, culminating in an armed raid at the North Korean embassy in Madrid—an act that would put Ahn behind bars and turn Hong into one of the world’s most unlikely fugitives. In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, The Rebel and the Kingdom is an exhilarating account of a man who turns his back on the status quo—to instead live boldly by his principles. Acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Bradley Hope—who broke numerous details of Hong’s operations in The Wall Street Journal—now reveals the full contours of this remarkable story of idealism and insanity, hubris and heroism, all set within the secret battle for the future of the world’s most mysterious and unsettling nation.

Love Not a Rebel

Author: Heather Graham
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0307815781
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 533

Book Description
He vowed to conquer her in every way. But she swore to Love Not a Rebel. They called her “Highness,” ravishing Lady Amanda Sterling, forced to spy on Lord Eric Cameron by the lord governor of Virginia and her evil, ambitious father. She’d detested Eric Cameron on sight. He was a traitor to King and country. Yet she’d been sent to steal his heart, his soul, and his secret plans for the revolution. And now she was his wife, swept into marriage with a man who would sear her with the hellfire of his desire and make her his prisoner of love. Lord Eric Cameron turned his back on his family’s estates in England to embrace the patriots’ cause. He did it quietly—before the fateful shots at Lexington and Concord rang out and his true allegiance became clear by cannon and by sword. But Eric also fought another war—with the glorious Amanda Sterling, the beauty he had married, knowing he could never trust her . . . nor let her go. Amanda was the woman he had vowed to conquer, the spy he would never surrender—even at the risk of his life.

Early American Rebels

Author: Noeleen McIlvenna
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469656078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183

Book Description
During the half century after 1650 that saw the gradual imposition of a slave society in England's North American colonies, poor white settlers in the Chesapeake sought a republic of equals. Demanding a say in their own destinies, rebels moved around the region looking for a place to build a democratic political system. This book crosses colonial boundaries to show how Ingle's Rebellion, Fendall's Rebellion, Bacon's Rebellion, Culpeper's Rebellion, Parson Waugh's Tumult, and the colonial Glorious Revolution were episodes in a single struggle because they were organized by one connected group of people. Adding land records and genealogical research to traditional sources, Noeleen McIlvenna challenges standard narratives that disdain poor whites or leave them out of the history of the colonial South. She makes the case that the women of these families played significant roles in every attempt to establish a more representative political system before 1700. McIlvenna integrates landless immigrants and small farmers into the history of the Chesapeake region and argues that these rebellious anti-authoritarians should be included in the pantheon of the nation's Founders.

Rebel Heart

Author: Bebe Buell
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312301552
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 406

Book Description
Exmodel's ride through the rock scene during the 1970s and 1980s.

A Rebel in Auschwitz: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Fought the Nazis from Inside the Camp (Scholastic Focus)

Author: Jack Fairweather
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338686941
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
With exclusive access to previously hidden diaries, family and camp survivor accounts, and recently declassified files, critically acclaimed and award-winning journalist Jack Fairweather brilliantly portrays the remarkable man who volunteered to face the unknown in the name of truth and country. This extraordinary and eye-opening account of the Holocaust invites us all to bear witness. Occupied Warsaw, Summer 1940: Witold Pilecki, a Polish underground operative, accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands interned at a new concentration camp, report on Nazi crimes, raise a secret army, and stage an uprising. The name of the camp -- Auschwitz. Over the next two and half years, and under the cruelest of conditions, Pilecki's underground sabotaged facilities, assassinated Nazi officers, and gathered evidence of terrifying abuse and mass murder. But as he pieced together the horrifying Nazi plans to exterminate Europe's Jews, Pilecki realized he would have to risk his men, his life, and his family to warn the West before all was lost. To do so meant attempting the impossible -- but first he would have to escape from Auschwitz itself...

Fighting Fate

Author: JB Salsbury
Publisher: JB Salsbury, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 371

Book Description
Fate can either deliver a happily ever after, or a sucker-punch that will destroy everything… Killian I had two dreams. Fighting for UFL…and Axelle Daniels. She claimed my soul the first time we met. She was my best friend. For years, I watched her give her time—and body—to men who didn’t deserve to breathe her air. I waited for the right moment to make her mine. And when I got my chance, I vowed I’d do anything to make her happy forever. Too bad fate had other plans… Axelle I screwed up. Big time. Parties, hangovers, men…I did it all. None of it filled the cracks in my heart or hid what a mess I was on the inside. Only Killian knew the real me. But he deserved better. I was broken, and he shouldn’t have to hold me together. So, I let him go. He left to pursue his fighting dreams. My life kept falling apart. Now, he’s back. And I’m left wondering if this second chance is our destiny, or our downfall… Fighting Fate, book 6 in the Fighting series, is an emotional, angsty, contemporary, steamy, sports/MMA romance with a guaranteed HEA. Download today to get ready to fall even harder for Killian and Axelle.

Confessions of a Rebel Debutante

Author: Anna Fields
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 0425238741
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A fond, funny Southern-fried memoir about growing up a proper young lady...or not. How does a North Carolina native go from being a tomboy with catfish guts on her overalls to becoming the next Scarlett O'Hara? Turns out, it's not so easy. Too smart, too tall, too fat, too different...Anna Fields was a dud at debbing. From tea parties to teased hair to where to hide mini bottles of liquor inside poufy crinoline ballgowns, Anna reveals all-in a hilarious, behindthe-scenes glimpse into Deb Culture, where for a Southern belle, "the proof is in the pouf." Unless, of course, she rebels...

Rock 'n' Roll Rebel

Author: Ginger Rue
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1627539662
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
Thirteen-year-old Tig Ripley has plenty of good reasons for starting an all-girl rock band. Never mind she doesn't play an instrument--she'll figure that out. Fronting a band is sure to propel her out of the background and into the spotlight at her middle school. So after a few weeks' worth of drumming lessons under her belt, she starts assembling her band. With her cousin Kyra agreeing to play bass, soon Tig has her piano-playing friend Olivia down for the keyboard. And then she convinces tough girl Robbie Chan to sign on as lead guitarist. With a cool name--Pandora's Box--all the band needs now is a killer lead singer. How hard can that be? But when Kyra invites obnoxious diva Haley Thornton to join the band, Tig realizes snagging a lead singer--the right lead singer--is not going to be easy. Everyone says the drummer is the heartbeat of a band--does Tig have what it takes to lead Pandora's Box?

North Pole High: A Rebel Without a Claus

Author: Candace Jane Kringle
Publisher: elfpublished books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
MEET SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD CANDYCANE CLAUS. She's the most popular girl at North Pole High, her father is world-famous, and every day is Christmas. What more could any girl want? BOYS! And the new boy, Rudy Tutti, is hot chocolate. But he hates anything to do with Christmas! When Candy and Rudy are forced to work together on a school Christmas-tree project, her world is turned upside down: Her grades start to suffer, she loses her taste for ice cream, and now the two North-Star-cross'd teens must contend with her overprotective father — Santa Claus — before Christmas is ruined for EVERYONE! It's been said many times, many ways; NORTH POLE HIGH is: "Engaging from the first page to the last. Has the makings of a Yuletide classic." - A.O. Bibliophile (aobibliosphere.blogspot.com) "A Christmas favorite to be read year after year." - Alyson LaBarge (SnifferWalk.org) "Filled with genuine teenage angst and drama set in a fantastical land." - Margaret Kerr (thebookhoard.com) "A tasty holiday treat. Guaranteed to put a smile on any Grinch's face." - Maria Durst (queenofallshereads.blogspot.com) "As jingle bell rockin' as you can get!" - Gina R (insatiablereaders.blogspot.com)

Lily the Rebel

Author: Nancy N. Rue
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0310232554
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
Lily adopts a radical new look and attitude but in the end, she is the same old Lily.