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A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's Fight Against China's One-Child Policy 13 reviews
Steven W. Mosher
Perennial, 1993
Mothers a World Apart
I've read "A Mother's Ordeal" twice now and it's one of the most compelling books I've ever read. I was born just weeks apart from Chi An, the main character in this true story, but our lives have been lived worlds apart. As she vividly describes her childhood in Communist China, her poverty and famine and cruel government policies, I couldn't help but trace my own life events and be painfully ...
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In Love and War: The Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Years5 reviews
Jim Stockdale, Sybil Stockdale
Harpercollins, 1984
True American Hero on Vietnam and his country
Remember James Stockdale running for Vice President in the early 90's under the third party? He was perhaps the candidate with the greatest personal integrity in ages. This book is just as genuine and is a vivid examination of what it's like to be a POW in brutal captivity for years. The book also has his reflections on the present-day U.S.. Here, he is refreshing, and can be brutally ...
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Dark Moon Rising: Pagan BDSM and the Ordeal Path9 reviews
Raven Kaldera
LULU, 2006
A great guide to spiritual BDSM
I like this book. A lot. It's not the usual chapter-by-chapter explanation of things; rather, Kaldera has collected a number of his essays, as well as a significant number of guest essays from such folks as Mistress Damiana and Morning Glory Zell. The topics are far-ranging, including everything from BDSM spirituality in service to the gods, to practical considerations both mundane and magical. ...
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Ordeal by Fire: A memoir6 reviews
Rita Nayar
TSAR Publications, 2003
Survival and Sacrifice
Wow! An amazing story of survival and sacrifice. This extraordinarily personal story is written in a simple yet eloquent style that provides a window directly into the heart of a woman dealing with unbearable emotional confines in her life. It is both an awful story of an oppressive and controlling man and awesome story of a woman's struggle for emotional and spiritual freedom for herself and ...
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Dog Soldier Justice: The Ordeal of Susanna Alderdice in the Kansas Indian War4 reviews
Jeff Broome
Lincoln County Historical Society, 2004
Telling it like it was
I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Broome at the Little Big Horn Battlefield this year, 2005. I have found this book to be outstanding in the discription of just how ruthless and savage the Bog Soldiers were to the settelers of the Kansas plains. The research is outstanding and well documented. This book will move you in the hardships the settelers of the West went through and their courage and ...
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The Knee Of Listening: The Divine Ordeal of the Avataric Incarnation of Conscious Light (The Seventeen ...5 reviews
Adi Da Samraj
The Dawn Horse Press, 2004
A profound spiritual autobiography
The Knee of Listening by Adi Da Dawn Horse Press 621p (1995)
This is one of many editions of the spiritual autobiography of the unique American mystic
Adi Da. The first edition was 1972 and new editions with more material and much advertising about the group continue to appear. I also got the latest one(2004) which was about 3 times the size and weight but the hundreds of pages of new ...
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The Ordeal of Change6 reviews
Eric Hoffer
Buccaneer Books, 1990
Controversy (from the beginning) and relevance
I read this book (and most of his others) when originally published. No question but THIS IS HIS GREAT WORK. As his work went on, his lack of understanding of institutions (public and private) began to show his failure to fully grasp the implications. When he left what he knew so well, the relations of the workers, he moved so far that his later writing suffers from asute commentary based on ...
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A Short History of the Civil War: Ordeal by Fire13 reviews
Fletcher Pratt
Dover Publications, 1997
Deserves a Galaxy of Stars!
What can I say about this book? Well, how about in a lifetime of reading many books on the Civil War, both good and great, this one stands head and shoulders above them all. While more ink than the blood that was spilled has been used by many others to explain this terrible war, Pratt managed to capture the essence of the conflict in a short, brilliant book.
Pratt was a military historian of ...
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The Battered Stars: One State's Civil War Ordeal During Grant's Overland Campaign : From the Home Front in ...5 reviews
Howard Coffin
Countryman Press, 2002
A Vivid Account of a Devastating Campaign
Howard Coffin has established himself as the premier authority on Vermont and the Civil War. He has exhaustively researched Vermont's historical records including countless letters and diaries from the actual participants. He allows them to directly share their personal, heroic, sorrowful and inspiring stories and insights. It is difficult today to appreciate the pain and suffering which was ...
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Eddie's Ordeal (Neate)6 reviews
Kelly Starling Lyons
Just Us Books, 2004
A moving and dramatic story
The fourth book in the NEATE series, Eddie's Ordeal is a novel recommended for young adult readers and is about thirteen-year old Eddie Delaney, an African-American boy who loves his father but feels driven too hard sometimes. Eddie enjoys being the starter on the basketball team and gets good grades, but whe he brings home a D in language arts, everything changes. His father forces him to quit ...
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Max the Dog That Refused to Die and: Pepper's Ordeal2 reviews
Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne
Hancock House Publishing, 2000
Max, cause celebre, a true story
What would you do if you went on vacation and your dog disappeared? Just disappeared into nowhere. First here, then gone.
What would you do if you were a dog and endured a terrible calamity, resulting in horrible injuries and near starvation?
This is the story of a family, a dog, and how the two got back together. It is the story of survival, endurance, abiding love, and a will to live. It ...
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The Ordeal of Robert Frost: THE POET AND HIS POETICS2 reviews
Mark Richardson
University of Illinois Press, 2000
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Exceptionally good book, and a must-read for anyone interested in Frost, or occupied with the study of his work. Thoughtful and rewarding. Highly recommended.
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Ordeal by Hunger4 reviews
George Rippey Stewart
Unforgettable
An exhaustively researched, even-handed account of the Great American Disaster. You know the general story, so the narrative builds with the crescendo drumbeats of inevitable tragedy. But Stewart's done the research better than anybody else and fills in the details. There are heroes and villians, but Stewart is always ready to give the benefit of the doubt, and believe the best in the ...
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The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization3 reviews
Daniel K. Richter
University of North Carolina Press, 1992
The Masterpiece
Daniel Richter, in this astonishing book, does an excellent job explaining social, political and economical aspects of the Iroquois people with strong evidence. This book is a resutl of a big reserach and Richter's dedication to the subject. I would recommend this book not only to students who need to take Native American History, but also to anyone who is interested in learning about the ...
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Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire (Women in Africa and the Diaspora)3 reviews
Marie Beatrice Umutesi
University of Wisconsin Press, 2004
A Tale of Disposable People
I love this book but I am sickened by its content. I'm willing to bet that few people reading "Surviving the Slaughter" have ever had a bad year that adds up to just one day of Marie Beatrice Umutesi's many bad days depicted in this memoir. This is the story of the incredible hardship and endless courage and stamina of a lone woman who, miraculously, lived to tell her tale.
Why didn't we in ...
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In the secret place: The ordeal of an African first wife in America2 reviews
Monique Ugbaja
REF Pub, 1996
This book was very inspirational and informative.
In the Secret Place provided me with an abundance of knowledge about the African culture and how faith and strength can conquer all circumstance. Ms. Ugbaja story of growing up in Africa and the transformation of her life in America makes me appreciate the little things we take for granted as American citizens. I commend her on her strength to endure the pain she suffered, and the courage ...
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The Journey and Ordeal of Cabeza de Vaca: His Account of the Disastrous First European Exploration of the ...2 reviews
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Dover Publications, 2004
First Hand Accounts are the most Fascinating
This report of the 1528 to 1536 "journey" of Cabeza de Vaca is in his own words and that is really what makes this book so interesting, even to this day. The expedition was doomed by greed and stupid decisions from the start and then we follow the story of de Vaca as he survives for 8 years without even the clothes on his back as he travels 6000 miles through unknown geography before returning to ...
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Ba-ra-kei: Ordeal by Roses2 reviews
Aperture, 2002
Long Search Rewarded
It took a long time for me to find this book (courtesy of Amazon.com) but it was definetly worth the frustration! This book of photography is a MUST for serious Mishima / Hosoe collectors and fans - it offers not only a set of beautifully taken photos but a deadly and not insignificant insight to both the photographer and his tempramental subject. Buy, beg, steal but whatever you do dont borrow ...
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An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era (Noyes Classical Studies)3 reviews
Charles DeBenedetti
Syracuse University Press, 1990
The ultimate antiwar movement study
This book has been an absolute bible to me in my study of the Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era. For anybody studying this period of history, it is of intrinsic value. It details every aspect of the antiwar movement, the cause and consequence of it and lots of other relevant material. Nearly every other modern study of this nature draws a lot from this book. Although DeBenedetti's untimely ...
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Ronald Harwood Plays: Two : Taking Sides, Poison Pen, Tramway Road, the Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, After the ...2 reviews
Ronald Harwood
Faber & Faber, 1995
TAKING SIDES probes the Nazi experience
The play TAKING SIDES is so flatly realistic that you feel at first that you are sitting on a wooden chair in the interrogator's office--listening and watching, but somehow unnoticed. Its style is seemingly so commonplace that you do not have the usual sensation of reading literature, but rather the odd sensation of following characters who are speaking what just comes into their heads. In ...
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