Showing results for "FREEDOM" in Literature & Fiction

The government has accelerated their super soldier program. Their new Virtual Reality system is the perfect tool to train soldiers for the coming war. There is a shortage of enlisted men and women that possess the "talent". Everyone from athletes to professional gamers must be sorted and vetted. Humanity is on the line. Lucius is one of those lucky few selected to participate in Codename: Freedom, a new game that promises to push Virtual Reality to the ultimate level.

Fantasy of Freedom is the final action-packed title in the Tainted Accords series. This is the heaviest the veil has ever felt. But I am the strongest I have ever been. The veil is nothing. A part of me knew when I was taken from Osolis that when I returned—if I lived long enough to return—I would carry death and destruction to her doorstep. That is the irony of peace. It comes only after war. Warning: cliff-hanger ending. Recommended for mature young adults.

Fight for Freedom just got darker, twistier, and downright impossible to put down. Brace yourself for a heart-pounding ride—this one will keep you on the edge of your seat!

After dealing with the Goblin King, Lucius is unsure how to harness his unlocked power. He finds himself in a desperate race to the top as everyone scrambles to master their strange new abilities. The other players are the least of his worries. War is coming. The trials of Freedom have only just begun.

When Titus refuses to deny his Christian faith, Roman persecution destroys his family and condemns him to a brutal life in the copper mines of northern Italy. Underground, surrounded by despair and danger, he must choose between hatred and hope, revenge and redemption. From a mine collapse to an emperor’s audience hall, Titus’s journey spans the Roman Empire during Constantine’s transformative reign. Alongside Tribune Felix, he discovers that true freedom comes through forgiveness, not force.

Born a slave in 1776, Gabriel grows up capable and literate only to be taken from his mother and sent to the capital city as a blacksmith’s apprentice. There in the forge, a meeting point for many travelers and news bearers, his work awakens him to the sparks of resistance that are igniting into rebellion around the globe. When he is unable to both defend the love of his life and earn the money to buy her freedom, Gabriel makes a decision: freedom for just his own family would not be enough.

Hi. My name's Lea, like the field. I'm sixteen and I live on a farm that's too far away from the public schools so I'm home-schooled, but not, like, Christian home-schooled. My parents pulled me out of that a few years ago. My younger brother and I read a lot of books and learn what we want to learn. All that knowledge gets me in trouble though, because I mouth off to my dumb neighbors when they stick God and guns in my face. And I stick up for the people that they hate-the outsiders, the freaks, the people who live different lifestyles than them.

Jakob Kestrel seeks to free the Highlands. To succeed, he must defeat both man and monster, Stalkers, Wraiths, and slavers all seeking to kill him. Talia strives to eliminate the pirates haunting the Sea of Mist. But before she can do that a more lethal hazard threatens, and only Davin can save her. With battles raging all around them, Bryen and Aislinn begin to realize that they need to go to Shadow’s Reach, suspecting that the heart of the darkness seeking to smother New Caledonia lurks there.

Freedom Spring tells the story of a young African American soldier in the American Civil War. For Jim Coffee, a 14-year-old slave in 1864 Alabama, life was about to turn upside down.

Under the rule of Communist president Nicolae Ceaușescu, citizens of Bucharest live with the eyes and ears of the government ever present. During a visit to her aunt’s apartment, 15-year-old Adriana walks through a wardrobe that leads into a hidden room filled with forbidden novels. As her family begins to unravel, her life strangely parallels those of her novels’ heroines. Adriana’s childhood loyalties, and her belief that God doesn’t exist, are called into question as her circumstances force her to rethink things she once believed were certain.

What Jewel Neuman thought was just one more thing to battle at Katy High turns out to be so much more. At first, she didn’t want a part of this fight. But, when she comes face to face with a darkness uglier than she ever knew, now comes the most crucial choice of her life. Maybe God is using this mission to call her to His purpose. As Jewel learns to find freedom in fulfilling her calling, will she be able to pass that on to those she’s fighting for? Listen to her Mission of Freedom.

World Collapse happened 18 years ago. There weren't many survivors. Mayor Meirnon became ruler of Ethica. He built a wall to keep anyone from escaping and forced the people into poverty. Paradin is an 18-year-old girl who wants her freedom. She starts asking questions and becomes defiant towards Meirnon. She must fight for her freedom from a government who would kill her so no one found out the truth.

On the eve of war, the good tremble. Dearen and the Ice Tigers are bringing the fight for hearth and home to the Bareskins. And on the eve of war, something stirring within Dearen draws her north into the mountains, searching for an ethereal promise that might bring peace.

La tripulación del Angelique está orgullosa de ser lo que es: una tripulación de piratas. Su día a día consiste en navegar por los mares de Marabilia entre aventuras, asaltos a barcos y búsquedas de riquezas; en definitiva, los piratas del Angelique viven sin acatar leyes ni obedecer órdenes de nadie. Hasta que el rey Geraint de Dahes los captura y todo apunta a que eso se ha terminado. La pena por piratería es la muerte. A menos, claro, que alguien les proponga un trato que les permita salvarse... Uno que a su vez ofrezca la posibilidad de una venganza muy ansiada.

A SIBERT INFORMATIONAL BOOK MEDAL HONOR BOOK Discover the power of youth activism in this moving memoir about the Civil Rights Movement, ideal for young readers interested in America’s fight for equality. “A testament to the power we each have within us to stand up for what is right and...

Sara needs to cross the US border illegally to help her Tía Elena after learning her parents and siblings were killed in an accident. She needs to elude kidnappers and FBI agents on her way to live with her criminal uncle. Survival depends on her successful trip from Baja to Oregon. Will she thrive or only survive? Will she meet the love of her life along the way?

Cuando Sara, de 17 años, se entera de la muerte de su familia, acepta su papel de ganarse la vida cruzando la frontera a los Estados Unidos ilegalmente para vivir con un tío al que no conoce. Necesita ganar el suficiente dinero para pagar al coyote y ayudar a su tía Elena sobrevivir. Su viaje al norte está lleno de aventura y un nuevo amor.

Born into the golden light of a homeland steeped in joy and spirit, Kofi’s laughter once rang out like songbirds at dawn. But his world is ripped apart when he is stolen from his family and forced into the brutal grip of slavery. Amidst the cracking whips and endless cotton fields, a whisper calls to him—soft, ancient, powerful. The wind speaks. And Kofi listens.

It’s been 15 years...15 years since my life fell apart. Music and my baby brother, Dillon, are the only things that keep me sane. After running from myself and my parents’ ministry for so long, I’m off to a foreign country to serve at a safe haven for people just like me. I can't escape the irony of the situation, but something tells me that this trip may help me find what I’ve been searching for. Then a bus accident that was no accident and Dillion's disappearance force me into action. Now, it’s a race against time again to find my brother before he’s gone forever.

The fight for freedom continues as Jewel, now happily married and mother of four beautiful children, is sucked into another mission. When she and her team answer a mysterious call for help, the situation quickly escalates to life threatening proportions. Adira, Jewel’s oldest daughter, vanishes, and it’ll take people from drastically different backgrounds to pull together and find her before time runs out. They can’t do it on their own. They’re going to need faith stronger than any fear. Will the only man who can save her resist the darkness clutching his soul?