Out North

Out North
Author: Craig Jennex
Publisher: Figure 1 Publishing
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2023-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1773272489

The ArQuives, the largest independent LGBTQ2+ archive in the world, is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and celebrating the stories and histories of LGBTQ2+ people in Canada. Since 1973, volunteers have amassed a vast collection of important artifacts that speak to personal experiences and significant historical moments for Canadian queer communities. Out North: An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada is a fascinating exploration and examination of one nation’s queer history and activism, and Canada’s definitive visual guide to LGBTQ2+ movements, struggles, and achievements.

Striking Out

Striking Out
Author: Musa Okwonga
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2021-09-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0702307912

The first children's book from superstar England striker, Ian Wright. Striking Out follows the journey of 13-year-old Jerome, who has a dream of becoming a world-class footballer. But with a difficult home life, Jerome can’t see how he’ll ever make this dream come true ... until he meets a mentor figure who can hopefully put him on the right track. From the winning writing team of Musa Okwonga and Ian Wright. Musa Okwonga is an author, poet, journalist and musician; he is a co-host of the Stadio football podcast. Ian Wright is one of the UK’s all-time leading goal scorers. He’s lifted the Premier League title, The FA Cup, the European Cup Winners’ Cup and won the Premier League golden boot.

Coming Out Under Fire

Coming Out Under Fire
Author: Allan Bérubé
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2010-09-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 080789964X

During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military. In Coming Out Under Fire, Allan Berube examines in depth and detail these social and political confrontation--not as a story of how the military victimized homosexuals, but as a story of how a dynamic power relationship developed between gay citizens and their government, transforming them both. Drawing on GIs' wartime letters, extensive interviews with gay veterans, and declassified military documents, Berube thoughtfully constructs a startling history of the two wars gay military men and women fough--one for America and another as homosexuals within the military. Berube's book, the inspiration for the 1995 Peabody Award-winning documentary film of the same name, has become a classic since it was published in 1990, just three years prior to the controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which has continued to serve as an uneasy compromise between gays and the military. With a new foreword by historians John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, this book remains a valuable contribution to the history of World War II, as well as to the ongoing debate regarding the role of gays in the U.S. military.

Exploration of Aïr : Out of the world north of Nigeria

Exploration of Aïr : Out of the world north of Nigeria
Author: Angus Buchanan
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2023-07-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"Exploration of Aïr : Out of the world north of Nigeria" by Angus Buchanan. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Journeys North

Journeys North
Author: Barney Scout Mann
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2020-08-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1680513222

2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel In Journeys North, legendary trail angel, thru hiker, and former PCTA board member Barney Scout Mann spins a compelling tale of six hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2007 as they walk from Mexico to Canada. This ensemble story unfolds as these half-dozen hikers--including Barney and his wife, Sandy--trod north, slowly forming relationships and revealing their deepest secrets and aspirations. They face a once-in-a-generation drought and early severe winter storms that test their will in this bare-knuckled adventure. In fact, only a third of all the hikers who set out on the trail that year would finish. As the group approaches Canada, a storm rages. How will these very different hikers, ranging in age, gender, and background, respond to the hardship and suffering ahead of them? Can they all make the final 60-mile push through freezing temperatures, sleet, and snow, or will some reach their breaking point? Journeys North is a story of grit, compassion, and the relationships people forge when they strive toward a common goal.

The Book of Honor

The Book of Honor
Author: Ted Gup
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2001-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0385495412

A national bestseller, this extraordinary work of investigative reporting uncovers the identities, and the remarkable stories, of the CIA secret agents who died anonymously in the service of their country. In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall into which seventy-one stars are carved-each representing an agent who has died in the line of duty. Official CIA records only name thirty-five of them, however. Undeterred by claims that revealing the identities of these "nameless stars" might compromise national security, Ted Gup sorted through thousands of documents and interviewed over 400 CIA officers in his attempt to bring their long-hidden stories to light. The result of this extraordinary work of investigation is a surprising glimpse at the real lives of secret agents, and an unprecedented history of the most compelling—and controversial—department of the US government.

Log Out! North-East India

Log Out! North-East India
Author: Dibakar Purkayastha
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2015-03-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1482845342

Storyline depicts both the joys and sorrows of the entire Bengali community who lived in different parts of North-East Indian states for long time. They settled in this part of world, not as per their own wish, but rather, they were brought here by the then ruling British for running the administration and clerics at their colonies After partition of India, their next generations of faced differential treatment from the local sons of the soil. These differential treatments led to hatred towards Bengalis in many states of the North-East. However, as time passed, they had to leave their homes due to incomparable tortures, theft, arson, and loss of lives. They escaped to different parts of the so-called mainland in search of a new home. They became refugees within the country once again.

North America

North America
Author: Sarah Albee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 22
Release: 2019-10
Genre: Atlases
ISBN: 9781999967925

"A sweeping illustrated timeline of Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the islands of the Caribbean."

Taking Out North Korea's Super Missile: (The Axis of Evil & West Coast 11/26)

Taking Out North Korea's Super Missile: (The Axis of Evil & West Coast 11/26)
Author: James Novak
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Total Pages: 407
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 163000023X

A rogue Chinese missile field commander duped Axis of Evil member nations into a joint attack on the United States with a North Korean super missile. When the commander pressed the launch button, a seven-nation, 60-megaton nuclear warhead was blasted into a flight path that was meant to end on California’s fragile San Andreas Fault. Fortunately for the United States, its Central Intelligence Agency learned of the pending missile attack and was able to respond with Operation Nonferrous, the only viable, quick-reaction plan it had available. TAKING OUT NORTH KOREA’S SUPER MISSILE (The Axis of Evil & West Coast 11/26) describes in complete detail all of the events that occurred before and after the launch button was depressed at the Lop Nor, China, missile complex on November 26. It is must-read material for anybody deeply concerned about rapidly unfolding, spiraling-out-of-control type of world events that can lead to nuclear war. It is must-read material also for those in love, those who have lost loved ones (esp. an infant), and for those special couples blessed with true conjugal love.