Download or read book A Look Back Over My Shoulder written by Garry Fabian and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born Gerhard Fabian in Stuttgart, Germany on 11th January 1934, Garry's early years of life were spent travelling between countries to avoid persecution by the Nazis. In 1935 his family moved to Bodenback, Czechoslovakia, to avoid the ramifications of the Nuremberg Laws. With news of Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia, Garry and his mother travelled to Trenchin in Slovakia, then to Brno in Moravia to meet his father, then finally travelled to Prague by the end of 1938. Life in Prague was difficult for his family and they were forced to live under false documents. A steady income was generated by Garry's father's 'illegal' employment as a chauffeur, and the sale of his mother's hand-made items. During this time, Garry did not attend school but received private tuition. Life was difficult, however worse was to come. In November 1942, Garry and his family were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto, established a year earlier in order to house those considered 'undesirables' by the Nazi regime. There the Fabian family were confronted with filthy living quarters, disease infested conditions and a diet that resulted in malnutrition. Garry endured, in succession, the measles, chicken pox and whooping cough. Initially Garry wandered the camp aimlessly, but was later put to work in the tailoring shop. In time, he came to understand the culture that had developed in the camp and even gained an invaluable education provided by an elderly teacher. In May 1945, the ghetto was liberated by the Russian Army. Out of 15,000 children that entered the ghetto only 150 survived, including Garry. His parents also survived. Although luck played a large part in their survival, Garry's father was in charge of the medical supply store and was classified as 'essential'. After liberation, Garry and his family emigrated to Australia in 1947. Garry attended school and later obtained a junior technical certificate that provided him with an electrical apprenticeship for five years until 1955. In 1956, Garry enlisted in the Australian Navy for a compulsory six months. In 1958 he became engaged to Evelyn Schlesinger and took over his father's business, as his father had died that year. Over the years Garry has held many jobs whilst supporting his wife and two daughters. Fabian's autobiography details life in the Theresienstadt ghetto and his 'new life' in Australia post-war. Garry's description of a child's life in the ghetto opens an unknown world to the reader. Fabian's responsibilities and actions as an 8-11 year old in the ghetto are poignant and revealing, demonstrating how a child's life was shaped by the Nazi regime. Written in a clear and direct style, and in chronological order, this narrative presents an important account of a life deeply affected by the Holocaust, but not defeated by it.
Download or read book A Look Over My Shoulder written by Richard Helms and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2004-08-31 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Look over My Shoulder begins with President Nixon’s attempt to embroil the Central Intelligence Agency, of which Richard Helms was then the director, in the Watergate cover-up. Helms then recalls his education in Switzerland and Germany and at Williams College; his early career as a foreign correspondent in Berlin, during which he once lunched with Hitler; and his return to newspaper work in the United States. Helms served on the German desk at OSS headquarters in London; subsequently, he was assigned to Allen Dulles’s Berlin office in postwar Germany. On his return to Washington, Helms assumed responsibility for the OSS carryover operations in Germany, Austria, and Eastern Europe. He remained in this post until the Central Intelligence Agency was formed in 1947. At CIA, Helms served in many positions, ultimately becoming the organization’s director from 1966 to 1973. He was appointed ambassador to Iran later that year and retired from government service in January 1977. It was often thought that Richard Helms, who served longer in the Central Intelligence Agency than anyone else, would never tell his story, but here it is–revealing, news-making, and with candid assessments of the controversies and triumphs of a remarkable career.
Download or read book Kiss Her Goodbye written by Susan Gee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirsten Green is my best friend. Kirsten Green has gone missing. I killed Kirsten Green. Seventeen-year-old Hayley Reynolds is unwanted at home, and an outsider at school. Pushed away by her best friend Kirsten Green, she makes a deliberate, chilling decision – if Kirsten can't belong to her, then she won't belong to anyone... DI Beverley Samuels has the body of a schoolgirl on her hands – a murder that brings back the hauntingly painful memories of the case she's tried so desperately to forget. There's something deeply disturbing about this crime – and yet with little hard evidence it's up to her to decide who she will believe... Kiss Her Goodbye is a dark psychological crime novel featuring a brilliantly manipulative psychopath – and with a shock ending that is the best twist of 2018!
Download or read book A Thing Apart written by Andrew Parkin and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incredible novel, detailing both a simple love story, and the impact of the arrival of the white man, on the Australian Aboriginals, told from the viewpoint of a native Australian, about to be married. ..."a powerful piece, written with passion and compassion. The reader can only be deeply touched...by the story, but the images it evokes, and by the impact they have on his/her perceptions of Aboriginal people and their lives....great writing. It is hard to imagine a fictional work which better imparts an understanding of the impact and implications of wiping out a race."
Download or read book The Walled City written by Ryan Graudin and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 730. That's how many days I've been trapped.18. That's how many days I have left to find a way out. DAI, trying to escape a haunting past, traffics drugs for the most ruthless kingpin in the Walled City. But in order to find the key to his freedom, he needs help from someone with the power to be invisible.... JIN hides under the radar, afraid the wild street gangs will discover her biggest secret: Jin passes as a boy to stay safe. Still, every chance she gets, she searches for her lost sister.... MEI YEE has been trapped in a brothel for the past two years, dreaming of getting out while watching the girls who try fail one by one. She's about to give up, when one day she sees an unexpected face at her window..... In this innovative and adrenaline-fueled novel, they all come together in a desperate attempt to escape a lawless labyrinth before the clock runs out.
Download or read book An Angel Over My Shoulder written by Carol Bessler and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered if life could change for you? Could a word or an action change the course of your life? Can a supernatural force out there influence you or your family? Does God send His representatives, angels, to accomplish His means? Find out what he did for the main character, Cassandra, in "An Angel Over My Shoulder." Watch what happened in her life. Could it happen for you? Cassandra was an ordinary child in an ordinary home. Find out why she became so extra ordinary as an adult. Cassandra's story begins as an eleven year old child in a chaotic home. Her life changes after high school. She is involved in the world of high finance and romance. Her life has many ups and downs until a mysterious stranger comes into her life. Someone she feels she has known and not known all of her life. Does God send people? Could the changes in her life be your changes? Find out what God can do. Can He intercede in your life even if you don't believe in Him? Even if you worship another god? Could this be for you also?
Download or read book Angel over My Shoulder written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angel Blessings meets half full in this inspiring collection of 40 true stories illustrating the protection, love, and joy guardian angels bring into our lives. This book marries two best-selling trends--angels and heartwarming story collections.
Download or read book The Lookback Window written by Kyle Dillon Hertz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Editors’ Choice Vanity Fair's 20 Favorite Books of 2023 Debutiful Best Book of the Year Crimereads Best Debut of August “Hertz has managed to tell a story of queer healing with all the narrative force of a thriller and the searing fury of an indictment.” —The New York Times Book Review A fearless debut novel of resilience, transcendence, and the elusive promise of justice. Brooklyn, 2019. Dylan has lived through the unfathomable: three years as a victim of sex trafficking as a teen. Now years later—long after a police investigation that went nowhere with the domestic life he built to survive—the Child Victims Act opens up a way forward: a one-year window to sue past abusers, but once the lookback window starts, Dylan seeks answers everywhere: in the druggy reveries of Fire Island to the love-drunk strangers of summer nights downtown and the lawyers who watch over the park, finally emerging from an erotic and violent spiral with a new clarity of purpose: a righteous determination to gaze, unflinching, upon the brutal men whose faces have haunted him for a decade, and to extract justice on his own terms.
Download or read book Take Time to Smell the Roses written by Terry Crague and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So often we hear someone say, I can't believe that this has happened to me. I don't know what I am going to do. How do I go on from here. Someone wake me up, and tell me this isn't happening. This book will share with you stories of everyday people that had to face some of their worst nightmares, and it will tell you how they made it, and where they got the strength to go on. It will inspire you and help you to realize I can go on. God is not finished with me yet.
Download or read book In the Shadow of the Cross written by Charles L. Bailey Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles L. Bailey, Jr. and his book "In the Shadow of the Cross" are in the 2015 Sundance Film Festival's movie "Call Me Lucky" about Barry Crimmins by Bobcat Goldthwait . Here is a link to the Festival: http://www.callmeluckymovie.com/ In a matter of seconds, author Charles L. Bailey, Jr.'s, childhood innocence was destroyed. At the tender age of ten, Bailey became a victim of continuous sexual abuse by his family's Roman Catholic priest. In the Shadow of the Cross: The True Account of My Childhood Sexual and Ritual Abuse at the Hands of a Roman Catholic Priest details Bailey's personal journey of recovery. With candid and shocking details, Bailey reveals how his ill-treatment forever destroyed his innocence and robbed him of identity and faith. Bailey also explains how family and friends were impacted by the tragedy, how his development from child to adult was full of pitfalls, and how he struggled with issues of intimacy. But there is also hope in Bailey's story. Through his work with support groups, such as SNAP, (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), individual counseling, and his renewed faith in God, Bailey has confronted his past and has become an advocate for those impacted by clergy sexual abuse. In the Shadow of the Cross shares his compelling true story and serves as a stark reminder of the haunting legacy of abuse in the church. Charles is an award winning author, winning Honorable Mention in the recently announced 2011 London Book Festival
Download or read book Sin on a Dark Knight written by Rhiannon Futch and published by Rhiannon Futch. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full series with a HEA at the series end. Nearly ready to escape the marriage I thought would be salvation, I return home to find that someone else has set me free by murdering my husband. Free... If I can just stay alive long enough to enjoy it, because it looks like the vampires that killed him are still hungry and I look like a snack. On the run from one sexy sounding vampire, I fall into the lap of the most gorgeous man I have ever seen. He says he is no better than the guy after me, but he saves my life. What's one more sin? Now I am in a world I never knew existed, vampires and magic are real. What seems like sin might be my only chance to survive. Besides, it's just one little bite into a world beyond my wildest dreams.
Download or read book Running Red written by Jack Bates and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebellious teen Robin Robbie Willette thinks her life sucks. Her grades aren't the greatest. Her dad hates her older boyfriend. And her mom keeps Robbie on a short leash after her straight A, perfect, older sister gets pregnant and has a baby. As the tension builds in her family, Robbie runs away with her boyfriend Lane only to wind up sleeping on the sofa of her ostracized sister. But it's not all that bad. Robbie has a taste of independence. She's working on getting her diploma through night school. She has a job--not a great one but it's legit. And she's finally beginning to figure out that her relationship with Lane is a dead end. For the first time in a long time, Robbie Willette is getting her life together. Just as her life is improving, the world around her begins to crumble. Literally. A plague crawls over the planet, mutating humans into blood-lusting zombies that help spread a deadly fungus. It isn't long before society collapses. In fact, in less than a year, all of society?s norms are gone. Robbie quickly finds herself separated not only from her family, but from all humanity. Hoping to reunite with her sister and niece, Robbie sets off with the most loyal companion she's ever had: a yellow Labrador she names Yuki. The road she travels is not easy. She must confront personal fears, untrustworthy humans, and aggressive mutants. Will Robbie fulfill her dream of finding her family, or is the world just too dangerous a place to discover what she needs most--hope?
Download or read book Monkey See Monkey Zoo written by Erin Soderberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After listening to a young boy describe his life, Willa the monkey escapes from her zoo home and, together with some friendly chipmunks, goes in search of him in the human city.
Download or read book ROTTEN Book One Infection written by M. Lauryl Lewis and published by M. Lauryl Lewis. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The undead. The reanimated. Monsters that walk the earth once Hell is full. Zombies. Call them what you want. No one was prepared for the end of the world to bring the impossible; the dead were never actually supposed to rise. War, plague, natural disaster maybe - but the dead rising to eat the living? That was never supposed to become reality. It began with sniffles, coughs, and fever. Once sick, the end came soon, but so did the beginning. Just as quickly as the sick begin to fall, so does Poppy’s world. As she loses everything she holds dear, she faces her new world head-on. Accompanied by strangers, she tries to make her way to safety, soon to realize that safety no longer exists. ROTTEN takes place in the same universe as the Grace Series. Get ready to follow Poppy and Ellis as they cross paths with a few names you might recognize. While the two series will eventually merge, you do not need to read one to follow the other.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tree Beast written by Tracy Pak and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tree Beast By: Tracy Pak When Native American FBI agent Sarema gets called in to investigate an unusual case in Colorado, she finds that the case is connected to an event of her past. A case filled with mystical monsters she thought was just a nightmare.
Download or read book Dark Hunger written by Vivian Murdoch and published by Vivian Murdoch. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’m no Guardian Alpha, but I am a protector. And I protect what’s mine, even against their will. As the bouncer of an elite brothel, it is my duty to train the betas and omegas in the art of pleasing an Alpha. It is a job I relish, but inside, I’m craving an omega of my own who won’t wither under my iron fist. But the goddess Illaria must have a sense of humor, because the first woman to entice me in years is a beta. She has no scent markers to draw me to her, and yet the little refugee haunts my waking hours until something in me snaps. Beta or not, I’ll claim her as my own, my personal little plaything... but she's not what she seems, and when her true nature is revealed, I'm not the only one with a claim. It might cost me everything, but I will get what I want, and I want her." The Alphas of Stanlion Marked Omegas is a darkverse romance series. Please enjoy your Alphas and omegas on the darker side.
