Letter Revolution

Buried in archives and forgotten for centuries, the voices of the Revolution are finally revealed in Lost Letters of the American Revolution. This extraordinary collection of more than 100 authentic letters pulls back the curtain on the untold human drama of America’s fight for independence. Here are the words they never meant for us to see: spies sending coded messages in lemon juice, desperate mothers begging Congress for food and shelter, soldiers marching to their deaths, and enslaved men pleading for the liberty they were promised but denied.

Framed as a captivating dialogue between Shane Claiborne, a progressive young evangelical, and Tony Campolo, a seasoned pastor and professor of sociology, Red Letter Revolution is a life-altering manifesto for skeptics and Christians alike. Best-selling authors Shane Claiborne and Tony Campolo...

In The Love Letter by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hauck, the lines between fiction and reality are blurred when a screenwriter begins to fall for the lead actress in his story inspired by a centuries-old love letter penned by his ancestor on the eve of battle. When Chloe is given a...

Known to historians as "the First American," Benjamin Franklin is without a doubt the most accessible of America's founding fathers. His writings have inspired millions of Americans, and even now, more than 200 years after his death, his wit and humor still brighten lives all across the world. But what was this great man's view on faith? Was he really a Deist as so many historians have proposed? Was he a humanist like so many of his French friends? Is there any possibility that he could have been a Christian? In this unique volume, Bill Fortenberry has collected everything that Franklin ...

Ernesto Che Guevara was a voyager - and thus a letter writer - for his entire adult life. The letters collected in I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 range from letters home during his Motorcycle Diaries trip, to the long letter to Fidel after the success of the Cuban revolution in early 1959 (from which the book's title comes).

While writing Frontier Warriors, a tale set during the Revolutionary War, an unexpected romance emerged between Madeleine Chenier, an American Patriot, and Lt. Colonel Geoffrey Harwood of the Queen’s Rangers. After the book’s release, readers asked what became of them once they sailed for his family farm in Herefordshire, England—and I found myself wondering the same. Imagine, then, that several of Maddy’s letters to her brother in America were recently discovered in the attic of an old farmhouse in southwestern Pennsylvania. In them she recounts her perilous voyage across the North...

In the heart of Victorian London, where smoke dimmed the sky and conscience labored beneath industry’s weight, voices once thought forgotten still whisper through the fog. Letters from the Shadowed City gathers their words—dispatches written by clerks, midwives, constables, and widows, each struggling to preserve mercy amid machinery. These letters are the city’s true confessions, written in the ink of endurance. The nineteenth century was an age of noise: the din of factories, the clatter of carriages, the endless turning of machines. Yet beneath that mechanical rhythm lived another ...

In the glittering salons of pre-Revolutionary France, seduction is the ultimate weapon. The Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont are former lovers turned partners in manipulation—sophisticated libertines who orchestrate elaborate schemes to corrupt the innocent and destroy reputations for sport. When the Marquise challenges Valmont to seduce the virtuous Madame de Tourvel, a married woman renowned for her piety, he accepts with supreme confidence. But as their game spirals into a web of betrayal, desire, and revenge, neither player anticipates that matters of the heart refuse ...

The staggering story of the most important Chinese political dissident of the Mao era, a devout Christian who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the regime Blood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a poet and journalist arrested by the authorities in 1960 and executed eight...

This kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time brings together some of our most treasured writers today—Edwidge Danticat, Layli Long Soldier, Monica Youn, Julia Alvarez, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor—to give voice to the unthinkable grief and hopeful possibilities born...

When seventeen-year-old William Hunter marches off to war in the spring of 1780, the Glorious Cause of the American Revolution seems all but lost. Many of the largest cities in his new country are occupied by the forces of King George III, and the noose is tightening around the city of Charleston, South Carolina. Leaving Bethesda Orphanage with nothing more than a kiss from Catherine DeLoach, William sets out to defend his country. His dreams of victory and glory are quickly smashed by the realities of war as he finds that he has enlisted in a desperate struggle against the most powerful ...

A forgotten warehouse. A hidden archive. A letter that was never meant to be found. After inheriting his estranged uncle’s abandoned warehouse along the riverfront of a dying Indiana freight district, Eli Thorne expects nothing more than dust, paperwork, and a building ready to collapse. Instead, he discovers a hidden compartment sealed behind the wall of an upstairs records room. Inside rests a centuries-old leather dispatch satchel filled with Revolutionary War letters stained with blood. What begins as a historical curiosity quickly becomes something far more dangerous. The letters ...

Ernesto Che Guevara fue un viajero - y por lo tanto un escritor de cartas - a lo largo de su vida de adulto. Las cartas coleccionadas aquí incluyen un amplio rango, de cartas a sus padres durante su viaje en motocicleta a la extensiva carta a Fidel luego del éxito de la revolución cubana a comienzos de 1959, de lo más personal a lo intensamente político, revelando a alguien que no solo ahondaba a través del pensamiento en todo lo que encontraba, pero para quien el proceso de transformación social fue un compañero constante desde su juventud hasta poco antes de su muerte.

What would happen if love, not violence, became the weapon of revolution? In this radical and revelatory edition of A Letter to a Hindu, Russian literary titan Leo Tolstoy writes to Indian revolutionary Tarak Nath Das, answering the question that haunted colonial India: How can two hundred million people be enslaved by thirty thousand? His answer is electrifying: through their own participation in violence and rejection of the law of love. More than a historical document, this newly translated and annotated volume by Damian Westfall includes Gandhi’s passionate introduction and the full ...

Set in the framework of historical events with political overtones, the Battle of the Alamo, Battle of San Jacinto and Mexican-American War come to life for the reader. The story is told through the eyes of Texas Ranger Jesse McAlester. ImpressumIn Scotland in the 1820s, the Highland Clearances forced the McAlester family to the coastal areas of Scotland where they continued their thoroughbred and training program. A tragedy compelled the family to flee to America by way of New Orleans. “The novel Alamo Letters is a tale of a young Scottish immigrant whose journey takes him all the way to...

Bloomsbury presents The Book of Secrets by Xinran Xue, read by Daniel York Loh and Crystal Yu. ‘An extraordinary firsthand account of Communist Party machinery at its most brutal and paranoid’ --Sunday Telegraph Picked as Hilary Spurling's Book of the Year in The Spectator. The spellbinding...

Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton had a famously contentious political relationship. In June of 1804, then-Vice President Burr was made aware that Hamilton had made disparaging remarks about him. Dr. Charles Cooper had overheard these remarks and published a letter indicating such. Burr soon after read Dr. Cooper's remarks and took offense. The following are pieces of correspondence between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, followed by letters from Alexander Hamilton to his friend Nathaniel Pendleton, as well as his wife Elizabeth.

Edmund Radcliffe's two greedy brothers convinced their father, Malcolm Radcliffe, to exile Edmund to Martinique to save the family from financial ruin and further embarrassment. There, he finds work as an accounting clerk. Still, Edmund wanted to go to sea. After being hired as a second officer on a merchant ship, he discovers the captain is stealing from the ship's owner. With France consumed by its revolution, the Marquis de Fontaine and his family board Edmund's ship in Bordeaux. On the voyage back to Martinique, Edmund falls in love with Sophie, the Marquis' eldest daughter. In the U.S....