Download or read book Ayana the Tall written by Evelyn McBride and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ayana grew to be the tallest giraffe in her herd, she felt very alone. But she soon found a way into their hearts during the hot summer when the herd could not reach the leaves of the trees for food. Ayana then pulled down the branches so they could eat again.
Download or read book Blissfully Yours written by Velvet Carter and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their exotic island idyll is only the beginning… Who's the real Saturday Knight? Is she the tempestuous, in-your-face star of Divorced Divas, the small screen's hottest reality series? Or is she the sultry, au naturel temptress Brandon Gilliam meets in Jamaica? It isn't long before the New York director and the woman known off set as Ayana are sharing a passionate interlude that he never wants to end. Back in the city, Ayana gets a reality check—when her sexy isle lover turns back into the no-nonsense director on her show. If the secret about her romantic interlude with Brandon gets out, it could ruin her career as the single vamp fans love to hate. There are people who depend on Ayana and the financial gains earned through her TV persona. Is she willing to risk everything for a seductive fantasy, or could what she shares with Brandon be the truest bliss of all?
Download or read book The Substance of Bread written by J. Vargas and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-powered Boston attorney Teri Dane learned well the pain associated with caring deeply about someone. Having grown up watching her father physically abuse her mother, Teri swore that she would never allow any man to have the power to hurt her. Since then, she has protected her heart by caring only about the things that she wanted. Now, at the age of forty-nine, she's reached the pinnacle of her career by attaining a partnership in the largest law firm in the country. Living the lavish lifestyle that comes with such stature, she feels she has it all. But when she rejects a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, John, it sends him spiraling into a drunken despair, and he ends up dead after a late-night robbery. John's older brother, Mike, a doctor who works with the poor in Ethiopia, blames Teri's cold heart for John's death and decides to teach her a lesson. Taken from the comforts of luxury and security in Boston, Teri is plunged directly into the midst of suffering, hunger, and pain in Ethiopia. Forced to witness so many innocents suffer, she is compelled to confront her life's greatest fear of becoming emotionally attached. But is it too late for her to learn?
Download or read book Ayana s Story of Dada and the Peacock written by Fidell James and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little One has just finished her bath and now it's time to tackle her soft, curly, tangled locks every little girls dream, right? For Little One it is torture unimaginable as she kicks and screams while her mother dresses her hair. If only her hair was as smooth and straight as her big sister Ayana's. When mother leaves the room, Ayana attempts to console Little One with a story of a beautiful African girl who is also struggling with her own self-image. Little One is taken hundreds of years back to the ancient West African coast of Nigeria and meets a cast of friends who will teach her more than just to love her curly hair, but to also accept her for just who she is. As bed-time draws near, it is Amari who has yet one more lesson to teach Little One.
Download or read book Ayanan the Tall written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read-along CD includes 20 minutes of great songs for kids by Jason Dirks & Igor Woroniuk.
Download or read book Don t F ck With The Healer written by Black Lyte and published by Black Lyte. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young ‘White User’ and her party wander into a high level Zone things quickly go awry. Now, in order to survive she is forced to cultivate her strength in a hostile place filled with monsters lurking in every corner. Will Ayana obtain the strength she needs to survive or end up another skeleton by the wayside?
Download or read book Iron and Rain written by Alex P. Berg and published by Batdog Press. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mars stands at a crossroads. It can accept the tyrannical rule of the United Space Corporation, or pay for its freedom in blood. After Ambrose Drake’s plan to free the red planet doesn’t deliver the results he’d desired, he still hopes he can liberate Mars with minimal violence—until a brutal act of USC aggression makes it clear: USC will either subjugate Mars, or destroy it. With his forces pushed onto their heels, Ambrose has no choice. To save his home, he must go on the offensive. He must travel to Earth and dismantle USC, once and for all. But USC doesn’t plan on giving him the chance. As they pit their might against Mars, they send someone after Drake: a ruthless assassin known as the Patient Dragon. Now the clock is ticking. As Drake races to undermine the USC forces who oppose him, the Dragon grows closer with every step… Don’t miss this thrilling conclusion to the Tyrants of Mars, a science fiction trilogy full of action, mystery, and political intrigue.
Download or read book NERDS 4 written by C. K. Hoy and published by C. K. Hoy. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Retribution written by A. L. Slade and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes an angel an angel? Is it their undivided loyalty to God? Is it the wings on their back? Is it their mechanical personalities, unable to feel emotions? Sure. But what makes an angel human? Love. And love. What is honest love? Is it caring for someone? Is it being there for them? Is it doing everything you can for them? Yes. But is it more? Yes. Honest love is less about how much you would do for someone and more about how long you would wait, unable to do anything at all, to do it. Angels are Gods soldiers, who can be punished for disobeying God. Thats a rule every angel knows and every angel avoids. One particular angel forgets and ignores Gods orders, all the while following a human with whom he has fallen in love after specific orders to go to earth. After blatantly ignoring God and returning to Him in hopes of helping the human, the angel is shunned to earth for disloyalty. Now, the angel must cope with slow deterioration, all the while watching his beloved human endure hardships and, chooses to do something that is eventually seen as an act of smitten stupidity.
Download or read book written by Joseph Zdenek and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In my career, I've helped develop and polish many good stories. Few have been as memorable and enjoyable as "Heart of Courage." Once the editor, but now a fan, I eagerly await the next book in the series." --Arlene W. Robinson, Freelance Editor The island of Tandori has seen more war than peace for as long as anyone can remember. A battleground for the foreign canine and feline peoples of Everlet and Hohleran, Tandori is also home to an indigenous race of lizards that remains neutral in the ancient conflict, but hardly dormant. The ever-changing tides of war soon engulf Rhomand, a young canine officer who finds himself engaged in a battle deep in enemy territory, fighting both for his own life and the life of his childhood friend, Ayana. As the war surrounding Rhomand rages, a threat surfaces that knows no mercy and respects no race. It attracts the attention of Veia, a powerful mage and keeper of arcane arts. The foreboding signs, stretching from common battlefields to the secluded lizard cities, lead to an undertaking that envelops not only Veia and her companions, but also an unsuspecting Rhomand and Ayana. Should they fail, the fate of their world will become shrouded in darkness.
Download or read book Barely Floating written by Lilliam Rivera and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling story full of heart about how one twelve-year-old channels her rage into synchronized swimming dreams, from the author of The Education of Margot Sanchez and Never Look Back, Lilliam Rivera. Natalia de la Cruz Rivera y Santiago, also known as Nat, was swimming neighborhood kids out of their money at the local Boyle Heights pool when her life changed. The L.A. Mermaids performed, emerging out of the water with matching sequined swimsuits, and it was then that synchronized swimming stole her heart. The problem? Her activist mom and professor dad think it's a sport with too much emphasis on looks—on thinness and whiteness. Nat grew up the youngest in a house full of boys, so she knows how to fight for what she wants, using her anger to fuel her. People often underestimate her swimming skills when they see her stomach rolls, but she knows better than to worry about what people think. Sometimes, she feels more like a submarine than a mermaid, but she wonders if she could be both. Barely Floating explores what it means to sparkle in your skin, build community with those who lift you up, and keep floating when waters get rough.
Download or read book Tokyo Zangyo written by Michael Pronko and published by Raked Gravel Press. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tokyo, your job can kill After a top-tier manager in Japan’s premier media company ends up dead in front of company headquarters, Detective Hiroshi enters the high-pressure, hard-driving world of Tokyo’s large corporations. Hiroshi quickly finds out the manager fell from the roof at the exact same spot as an employee suicide three years before. With little more to go on, Hiroshi can’t tell if the manager’s death was a guilt-ridden suicide, a careless accident, or a grisly personnel decision. The only certainty is that Japanese workplaces rely on “zangyo,” unpaid overtime that drives employees to quit—or to kill. Teaming up with his mentor Takamatasu, Hiroshi scours the off-record spending, lavish entertaining and unspoken agreements that keep Japan, Inc. running with brutal efficiency. Working overtime himself, Hiroshi probes the dark heart of Japanese business, a place he’s tried to avoid all his life. Tokyo Zangyo is the fourth in the Detective Hiroshi series.
Download or read book All We Can Save written by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and published by One World. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. “A powerful read that fills one with, dare I say . . . hope?”—The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativity, and collaboration. While it’s clear that women and girls are vital voices and agents of change for this planet, they are too often missing from the proverbial table. More than a problem of bias, it’s a dynamic that sets us up for failure. To change everything, we need everyone. All We Can Save illuminates the expertise and insights of dozens of diverse women leading on climate in the United States—scientists, journalists, farmers, lawyers, teachers, activists, innovators, wonks, and designers, across generations, geographies, and race—and aims to advance a more representative, nuanced, and solution-oriented public conversation on the climate crisis. These women offer a spectrum of ideas and insights for how we can rapidly, radically reshape society. Intermixing essays with poetry and art, this book is both a balm and a guide for knowing and holding what has been done to the world, while bolstering our resolve never to give up on one another or our collective future. We must summon truth, courage, and solutions to turn away from the brink and toward life-giving possibility. Curated by two climate leaders, the book is a collection and celebration of visionaries who are leading us on a path toward all we can save. With essays and poems by: Emily Atkin • Xiye Bastida • Ellen Bass • Colette Pichon Battle • Jainey K. Bavishi • Janine Benyus • adrienne maree brown • Régine Clément • Abigail Dillen • Camille T. Dungy • Rhiana Gunn-Wright • Joy Harjo • Katharine Hayhoe • Mary Annaïse Heglar • Jane Hirshfield • Mary Anne Hitt • Ailish Hopper • Tara Houska, Zhaabowekwe • Emily N. Johnston • Joan Naviyuk Kane • Naomi Klein • Kate Knuth • Ada Limón • Louise Maher-Johnson • Kate Marvel • Gina McCarthy • Anne Haven McDonnell • Sarah Miller • Sherri Mitchell, Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset • Susanne C. Moser • Lynna Odel • Sharon Olds • Mary Oliver • Kate Orff • Jacqui Patterson • Leah Penniman • Catherine Pierce • Marge Piercy • Kendra Pierre-Louis • Varshini • Prakash • Janisse Ray • Christine E. Nieves Rodriguez • Favianna Rodriguez • Cameron Russell • Ash Sanders • Judith D. Schwartz • Patricia Smith • Emily Stengel • Sarah Stillman • Leah Cardamore Stokes • Amanda Sturgeon • Maggie Thomas • Heather McTeer Toney • Alexandria Villaseñor • Alice Walker • Amy Westervelt • Jane Zelikova
Download or read book Badu s Bad Day written by Evelyn McBride and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures of Badu, a baboon.
Download or read book Difficult Pleasures written by Anjum Hasan and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2012 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Moving Blade written by Michael Pronko and published by Raked Gravel Press. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the top American diplomat in Tokyo, Bernard Mattson, is killed, he leaves more than a lifetime of successful Japan-American negotiations. He leaves a missing manuscript, boxes of research, a lost keynote speech and a tangled web of relations. After his alluring daughter, Jamie, returns from America wanting answers, finding only threats, Detective Hiroshi Shimizu is dragged from the safe confines of his office into the street-level realities of Pacific Rim politics. With help from ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi, Hiroshi searches for the killer from Tokyo’s back alley bars to government offices, through anti-nuke protests to the gates of an American naval base. When two more bodies turn up, Hiroshi must choose between desire and duty, violence or procedure, before the killer silences his next victim—and the past.
Download or read book Things Past Telling written by Sheila Williams and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a truly character-driven novel that explores how people define themselves, the creation of family and home, and the importance of memory and language. . . . Fans of historical epics won’t be able to put this book down.”—Historical Novel Society “Emotionally satisfying. . . . A remarkable character portrait.”—Publishers Weekly The author of The Secret Women tells the story of a brave and enduring woman as indomitable as Ernest Gaines’ legendary Miss Jane Pittman, in a breathtaking novel that combines the epic romance and adventure of Outlander, the sweeping drama of Roots, and the haunting historical power of Barracoon. Things Past Telling is a remarkable historical epic that charts one unforgettable woman’s journey across an ocean of years as vast as the Atlantic that will forever separate her from her homeland. Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace—a.k.a “Momma Grace” will live a long, wondrous life marked by hardship, oppression, opportunity, and love. Though she will be “gifted” various names, her birth name is known to her alone. Over the course of 100-plus years, she survives capture, enslavement by several property owners, the Atlantic crossing when she is only eleven years of age, and a brief stint as a pirate’s ward, acting as both a spy and a translator. Maryam learns midwifery from a Caribbean-born wise woman, whose “craft” combines curated techniques and medicines from African, Indigenous, and European women. Those midwifery skills allow her to sometimes transcend the racial and class barriers of her enslavement, as she walks the razor’s edge trying to balance the lives and health of her own people with the cruel economic mandates of the slave holders, who view infants born in bondage not as flesh-and-blood children but as investment property. Throughout her triumphant and tumultuous life Maryam gains and loses her homeland, her family, her culture, her husband, her lovers, and her children. Yet as the decades pass, this tenacious woman never loses her sense of self. Inspired by a 112-year-old woman the author discovered in an 1870 U.S. Federal census report for Ohio, loosely based on the author’s real-life female ancestors, spanning more than a hundred years, from the mid-eighteen-century to the end of America’s Civil War, and spanning across the globe, from what is now southern Nigeria to the islands of the Caribbean to North America and the land bordering the Ohio River, Things Past Telling is a breathtaking story of a past that lives on in all of us, and a life that encompasses the best—and worst—of our humanity.
