Books with title Freedom Tree

The Freedom Tree is a novel for Young Adults set in the Spanish Civil War. The year is 1936. The rise of fascism has plunged Spain into savage conflict. Ever since his father died fighting for the Republicans in Spain, Will has felt drawn to their cause; but when he tries to join up as a volunteer in the International Brigade he is told he is too young.So Will travels to London where he meets a group of young men committed to the Republican cause. Together they embark on a perilous journey through France in a van they call Pegasus, carrying smuggled guns and ammunition. They narrowly escape the clutches of the French authorities and finally reach the Spanish border.Will and his comrades are soon in combat, first in the freezing, rat-infested trenches of the Aragon front, then in defence of supply routes vital to the failing Republican cause at Jarama. Will meets Molly, a volunteer nurse. They are captured by Moroccan troops serving under General Franco. Together they seize a chance to escape north, reaching Guernica, a small market town as yet untouched by war. Yet Guernica’s symbolic significance is far greater than its physical size, for it is the home of the Freedom Tree, a sacred oak under whose branches the liberties of the people of the Basque country are sworn and reaffirmed. It is market day, April 1937. The townsfolk are going about their quiet business as usual…until there comes the sound of approaching aircraft: German Heinkel-51s, followed by Junker-52s, fighter planes and bombers, about to launch history’s first blitzkrieg on a defenceless population.

Bec had finally found a place to call home and friends who became family, until the safety they enjoyed was ripped apart at the seams. Now on the run, Bec and her pack find themselves under attack by the giant weregal twins who destroyed their safe haven. But when help arrives, the twins flee, taking one of Bec’s new friends with them. With no other choice than to continue their journey to Lyle’s headquarters, Bec finds a few familiar faces among the strangers as they determine the best way to hit Troy where it counts.When Skye wakes up to find herself kidnapped by Colt and Wesson, she isn’t prepared for what that means for her future. As Colt’s newest acquisition to interrogate, Skye learns this man may not be who he appears. The twins are more ruthless than she’d imagined, but Colt’s softer side tempts her to trust him. Is that the real Colt, or is he playing a dangerous game with her mind?Freedom is a YA Paranormal Romance. There is no language or sexual content, but there is mild violence.

Evelyn Summers is imprisoned for a crime that was wiped from her memory.In order for Evelyn to be released, she―along with other “reformed” prisoners―must pass seven mental, physical, and virtual challenges known as the Freedom Trials. One mistake means execution and, with her history of being a snitch, her fellow inmates will do everything they can to get revenge. When new prisoner Alex Martinez arrives, armed with secrets about Evelyn’s missing memories, she must make a choice. She can follow the rules to win and walk free, or covertly uncover details of the crime that sent her there. But competing in the trials and dredging up her erased past may cost Evelyn the one thing more valuable than freedom: her life.

After an unusual energy surge reveals their presence, Tyke and the other survivors find themselves attacked by an aggressive and ruthless group of military colonists who escaped from Earth just before the plague. Determined to get the secret of Tyke's Orion Strain vaccine so they can return to take over the world, they are prepared to do whatever it takes to force the information out of him. The survivors soon find themselves locked in a bitter struggle over the future of humanity, and over who will inherit the Earth after all.

Evelyn Summers is imprisoned for a crime that was wiped from her memory.In order for Evelyn to be released, she—along with other “reformed” prisoners—must pass seven mental, physical, and virtual challenges known as the Freedom Trials. One mistake means execution and, with her history of being a snitch, her fellow inmates will do everything they can to get revenge. When new prisoner Alex Martinez arrives, armed with secrets about Evelyn’s missing memories, she must make a choice. She can follow the rules to win and walk free, or covertly uncover details of the crime that sent her there. But competing in the trials and dredging up her erased past may cost Evelyn the one thing more valuable than freedom: her life.

Bec had finally found a place to call home and friends who became family, until the safety they enjoyed was ripped apart at the seams. Now on the run, Bec and her pack find themselves under attack by the giant weregal twins who destroyed their safe haven. But when help arrives, the twins flee, taking one of Bec’s new friends with them. With no other choice than to continue their journey to Lyle’s headquarters, Bec finds a few familiar faces among the strangers as they determine the best way to hit Troy where it counts. When Skye wakes up to find herself kidnapped by Colt and Wesson, she isn’t prepared for what that means for her future. As Colt’s newest acquisition to interrogate, Skye learns this man may not be who he appears. The twins are more ruthless than she’d imagined, but Colt’s softer side tempts her to trust him. Is that the real Colt, or is he playing a dangerous game with her mind?

Taut free verse tells the little-known story of the first contraband camp of the Civil War—seen by some historians as the "beginning of the end of slavery in America." One night in 1861, three escaped slaves made their way from the Confederate line to a Union-held fort. The runaways were declared "contraband of war" and granted protection. As word spread, thousands of runaway slaves poured into the fort, seeking their freedom. These "contrabands" made a home for themselves, building the first African American community in the country. In 1863, they bore witness to one of the first readings of the Emancipation Proclamation in the South—beneath the sheltering branches of the tree now known as Emancipation Oak.

Taut free verse tells the little-known story of the first contraband camp of the Civil War—seen by some historians as the "beginning of the end of slavery in America." One night in 1861, three escaped slaves made their way from the Confederate line to a Union-held fort. The runaways were declared "contraband of war" and granted protection. As word spread, thousands of runaway slaves poured into the fort, seeking their freedom. These "contrabands" made a home for themselves, building the first African American community in the country. In 1863, they bore witness to one of the first readings of the Emancipation Proclamation in the South—beneath the sheltering branches of the tree now known as Emancipation Oak.

The new novel from the author of The Corrections. Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul - the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbour who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter - environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, family man - she was doing her small part to build a better world. But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katz - outre rocker and Walter's old college friend and rival - still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to poor Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become "a very different kind of neighbour," an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street's attentive eyes? In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of too much liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom's intensely realized characters, as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.