Bøker av Benjamin Wood

Tom lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in quaint Longferry, working his grandfather's trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the grey, gloomy beach and scrape for shrimp, spending the rest of the day selling his wares, practising the guitar while his Ma's asleep, and daydreaming about Joan Wyath down the street.When a striking visitor turns up, an American who oozes glamour, Tom thinks it's a good deal - show him around the misty coast in exchange for enough money to raise an eyebrow at the bank, maybe enough to broaden the narrow horizons he's begun to strain against. Mr Acheson says he's in the movie business, but how much of what he says is Hollywood magic?SEASCRAPER is a mesmerising, haunting portrait of a man in a slow war of attrition - with the elements, with himself, and with the ghosts of his family's past.

Set during the American Civil War, this novel tells the story of two lovers separated by the conflict. The hero, a Union officer, is imprisoned in Fort Lafayette, a notorious Confederate prison; the heroine, a Southern girl, must overcome her loyalty to the South to save him. A gripping tale of love and war.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

"In 2014 the jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) were consolidating their control over a vast area of the Middle East. These religious fanatics singled out the Yazidis, adherents of an ancient monotheistic religion, for annihilation. Unlike Christians or Jews, who were seen as "people of the book," Yazidis were classified as pagans and therefore subject to extermination. The men were to be executed and the women and children enslaved. In August ISIS fighters attacked Sinjar, an Iraqi city inhabited mostly by Yazidis. Some 50,000 panic-stricken civilians fled to Mount Sinjar In 110À heat with no food or water. ISIS militants quickly surrounded the mountain. After several days people began to die of exposure, exhaustion, and dehydration. This book is a complete history of the ISIS attack on the Yazidis and the American response, which represented the opening salvo in the war against ISIS. With a potential genocide looming, President Barack Obama ordered the U.S. military into action in order to save the thousands of men, women and children who were desperately calling for help from Mount Sinjar. While the U.S. Air Force dropped tons of food, water, and supplies to those stranded, U.S. Navy aircraft attacked ISIS positions at the base of the mountain. In the following months the United States assembled a coalition of nations which, along with Kurdish militias, eventually destroyed the Islamic State, saved the Yazidis and liberated millions from the brutal rule of ISIS."

An unforgettable debut from an outstanding new talent