Books with title Hurry Freedom

Brett's struggling with an abusive home following his father's death, and now it seems his wicked family is more than happy to sell him off to a just as wicked man to be married. Desperate for freedom, Brett tries to track down a man he saw in a pub while out with his new betrothed, only to discover that man is the Prince! Can he find a true friend and maybe more in the Prince, or is Brett truly meant to be a pawn for the wicked Lord Welfyr?

Here for the first time in a book for young readers is the story of the African American forty-niners who went west to seek fortunes and freedom in the California Gold Rush.Among the thousands drawn west by the California Gold Rush were many African Americans. Some were free men and women in search of opportunity; others were slaves brought from the slave states of the South. Some found freedom and wealth in the gold fields and growing cities of California, but all faced the deeply entrenched prejudices of the era.To tell this story Hurry Freedom! focuses on the life of Mifflin Gibbs, who arrived in San Francisco in 1850 and established a successful boot and shoe business. But Gibbs's story is more than one of business and personal success: With other African American San Franciscans, he led a campaign to obtain equal legal and civil rights for Blacks in California.

An antique sled with amazing powers has taken Emily and Matt across the continent and all through time. They’ve come face to face with pirates, prospectors, the Vikings, and even dinosaurs. Now, in the seventh title in the Canadian Flyer Adventures series, they’re off on their most important journey yet — helping along the Underground Railroad, where they meet Harriet Tubman and Dr. Alexander Ross. A special section at the back of the book gives readers additional facts about the abolition movement.

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 neighbor, 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, total 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—outré rocker and Walter’s college best friend and rival—still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become “a very different kind of neighbor,” 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 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 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.

Jani freaks when her parents tell her they are moving to the country, away from the home she loves, the friends she’s had since kindergarten, and all the horses at the riding stable. Her only consolation is that she can bring Keeta, her beautiful pinto mare, with her. But adventures await. While cleaning out the barn on their new property, Jani sees a swirl of movement beside the black, twisted stone in the corner. The barn is haunted! With the help of a new friend, Jani sets out to solve the mystery behind the wild, angry spirit and set it free.

“The black visors of the robots made them seem even more emotionless than the other robots……They stood very close to Logan, almost touching him, holding their weapons. For the first time in his life Logan realized that he was seen as a threat.”A robot civilization governs Earth. The only humans alive on the planet are a group of children and teenagers who are being raised in different robot families. Sixteen –year-old Logan tries to find out where they have come from and what is going to happen to them. Can they escape? Why are there no other humans?This science fiction fantasy is set in the robot city of Albuquerque, bounded by the Sandia Mountains and the Rio Grande River.

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.

Here for the first time in a book for young readers is the story of the African American forty-niners who went west to seek fortunes and freedom in the California Gold Rush.Among the thousands drawn west by the California Gold Rush were many African Americans. Some were free men and women in search of opportunity; others were slaves brought from the slave states of the South. Some found freedom and wealth in the gold fields and growing cities of California, but all faced the deeply entrenched prejudices of the era.To tell this story Hurry Freedom! focuses on the life of Mifflin Gibbs, who arrived in San Francisco in 1850 and established a successful boot and shoe business. But Gibbs's story is more than one of business and personal success: With other African American San Franciscans, he led a campaign to obtain equal legal and civil rights for Blacks in California.

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.

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?