Download or read book Fate s Restless Feet written by Anthony Delstretto and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FATE'S RESTLESS FEET (1911-1913) Brothers Gianni and Renzo Como land with an elite Bersagliere regiment in Tripoli, Libya, as the Kingdom of Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire. What was expected to be a quick and glorious conquest devolves into primal combat as Italian forces are assaulted from all sides. Renzo, charged by his family to protect his younger brother, risks everything to live up to his duty during a treacherous battle fraught with confusion, courage, and unspeakable cruelty. Despite dire warnings, Angelina Scrivatti undertakes the perilous journey from Castrubello to America to claim a promise of marriage. She eventually arrives at a northern Michigan mining town to discover the man she loves struggling with guilt and despair. Their efforts to find happiness soon become swept up in a storm of ethnic conflict that leads to a night of grievous tragedy -- and a final chance for personal redemption. FATE'S RESTLESS FEET is the second volume of The Last Italian, A Saga in Three Parts, a gripping tale that begins in 1882 Italy and spans more than six decades of social and political tumult. Three generations of the Como and Vacci families face rapacious landowners, deadly epidemics, harrowing warfare, perilous immigration, and Fascist brutality during the Kingdom of Italy's final sixty-three turbulent years. Throughout, as the characters balance their commitments to love, loyalty, and honor against the harsh demands of physical survival, inscrutable Fate forever stands ready to randomly intervene. The other books of the trilogy include: BOOK ONE: PULLING GOD'S TEETH (1882-1886) Twenty-four-year-old Carlo Como goes out fishing one dawn on the wide river near his northern Italian village of Castrubello. The Pirino has provided a living for the Como family for generations, but this morning Carlo hauls in a very different catch: three large white rocks known as "God's Teeth." The valuable stones, coveted by local ceramic-makers, will allow him to marry his love, Tonia Vacci, a worker in the town's dismal silk mill. But the fisherman's good fortune is resented by estate manager Baldassare Gaetano, greedy both for Tonia and the profit from the stones. Carlo's discovery unleashes a chain of love and jealousy, courage and betrayal, violence and perseverance, that will define the Como and Vacci families for decades to come. Tonia's brother, Ettore, is determined to advance through life on his own merits and bids farewell to Castrubello. With a hot-headed partner, he forms a construction company and heads south to carve The King's Road through the mountains of Campania. Ettore soon finds himself fighting an impossible deadline and a band of cut-throat brigands led by the murderous "Corsicano", who swears to halt the brazen intruder threatening his mountain lair. BOOK THREE: DEATH TO THE WOLF (1942-1945) Ettore Vacci celebrates his 80th birthday even as Italy embraces its disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany. Serving with the Italian 8th Army near Stalingrad, Donato Como's unit faces a massive Soviet offensive and killing winter weather in a battle for survival on Russia's frozen steppes. When the Axis lines break, Donato leads his men in a desperate trek across a desolate wasteland, hounded by the enemy and oppressed by retreating Germans contemptuous of their Italian allies. As Donato confronts the realities of unforgiving warfare, his allegiance to the land of his forefathers deepens as never before. In Castrubello, Regina Vacci, Donato's beloved, courageously defies the Fascists' merciless persecution of Jews. Ettore Vacci is shocked to witness his nephew Pietro rise to political power within Mussolini's iron regime. With family loyalties divided, like Italia itself, Ettore Vacci finds he must act -- for justice, for Castrubello, for family honor.

Download or read book Fates written by Lanie Bross and published by Ember. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corinthe, a former Fate and now Executor, responsible for carrying out unfulfilled destinies on Earth, finds herself falling for Lucas, a human boy whose death she is supposed to enact as her last act before returning to Pyralis.

Download or read book Tempting the Fates written by Dare Wilson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2006-11-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Dare Wilson saw action in France 1940 (Dunkirk), Italy and North West Europe (where he won his MC) with the Northumberland Fusiliers and later the Recce Regiment. He then served in Palestine and Korea which he rates as the most vicious war he fought in. He was picked to command 22 SAS and was responsible for basing them at Hereford. His account of the world record-breaking free fall jump free falling from 34,000 feet makes thrilling reading one member died. He went on to fight the Mau Mau in Kenya and was in the last party to leave Aden when we withdrew in 1968. Dare then learnt to fly helicopters and commanded the fledgling Army/Air Corps. We believe that this is one of the most enthralling of the many superb memoirs we have published. Certainly it is the widest in its scope and makes for thrilling reading.

Download or read book The Three Fates written by Francis Marion Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fates and Furies written by Lauren Groff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, SLATE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS, AND MANY MORE “Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and Fates and Furies is an unabashedly ambitious novel that delivers – with comedy, tragedy, well-deployed erudition and unmistakable glimmers of brilliance throughout.” —The New York Times Book Review (cover review) From the award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Florida and Matrix, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. Profound, surprising, propulsive, and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart.

Download or read book The Three Fates written by Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Restless Legs Syndrome and Movement Disorders An Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics written by Denise Sharon and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Denise Sharon has put together an expert panel of authors on the topic of Restless Legs Syndrome and Movement Disorders. The comprehensive list of articles includes: Restless Legs Syndrome across the Globe, Neuroimaging in Restless Legs Syndrome, What's in the family of the RLS/WED patient?, Clinical Diagnosis and Diagnostic Criteria, Non-pharmacological management: myths vs. science, Sleep Bruxism, Leg Cramps, Hypnic Jerks, and more!

Download or read book The Fates Within written by Gus Meyer. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-04-29 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Cassandra is unhappy, but doesnt know why. Feeling disconnected from her family and her community, she seeks assistance from the Wizard Nestor. With far less magic and mystery than Cassandra expected, Nestor guides her on a journey of self-discovery. Simultaneously, her mother and stepfather, Queen Defforance and King Arriman, send Cassandra to the lands of Kwiessa, Kahltur, and Armigeron, hoping to enhance their standing by arranging her marriage to the most powerful ruler who will have her. While struggling with self-doubt and growing romantic ambivalence, Cassandra discovers lost secrets of her past and hidden strength in herself, ultimately compelling her to confront the sources of her misery. Fantasy stories have long been used to provide children with engaging lessons about their own circumstances. Written by a clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience in helping people of all ages find hope and direction, The Fates Within presents an inspirational allegory for the adult reader. Whether you seek an entertaining fantasy novel, insight into the world of psychotherapy, or encouragement in facing lifes challenges, The Fates Within will richly reward your quest.

Download or read book The Three Fates written by F. Marion Crawford and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Three Fates is a romance novel by F. Marion Crawford. Crawford was an American author noted for his numerous novels, particularly those set in Italy, and for his classic bizarre and fantastical stories. Excerpt: "She bore in her whole being and presence the stamp of a comfortable life. There is nothing more disturbing to society than the forced companionship of a person who either is, or looks, uncomfortable, in body, mind, or fortune, and many people owe their popularity almost solely to a happy faculty of seeming always at their ease. It is certain that neither birth, wealth, nor talent will of themselves make man or woman popular, not even when all three are united in the possession of one individual. But on the other hand they are not drawbacks to social success, provided they are merely means to the attainment of that unobtrusively careless good humour which the world loves. Mrs. Sherrington Trimm knew this. If not talented, she possessed at all events a pedigree and a fortune; and as for talent, she looked upon culture as an hereditary disease peculiar to Bostonians, and though not contagious, yet full of danger, inasmuch as its presence in a well-organised society must necessarily be productive of discomfort. All the charm of general conversation must be gone, she thought, when a person appeared who was both able and anxious to set everybody right. She even went so far as to say that if everybody were poor, it would be very disagreeable to be rich. She never wished to do what others could not do; she only aimed at being among the first to do what everybody would do by and by, as a matter of course."

Download or read book The Three Fates written by F. Marion Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Three Fates written by Aisha Urooj and published by Aisha Urooj. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world fears them, for they possess the power to shape destinies: Lachesis, Klotho, and Atropos. Yet, what truly strikes fear into the heart of one of the three Fates? Her own sisters. The weaver, Lachesis, has fallen in love with a mortal and is terrified her other siblings will find out. What is thicker than blood? Could it be love… or does family and duty triumph over everything else? Who is the mysterious stranger that has captured her mind and soul? Even Lachesis isn’t sure. She hopes the inflexible one, Atropos, never finds out or she will cut his life cord away. Her other sister, Klotho, will rewind the thread and make it seem like he never existed. Does Klotho already know and has been keeping quiet, or has she been neglecting her duties, too? Despite the danger, Lachesis plans to see him again tonight and steal a few moments away with her beloved. But her heart is in flux. Her lover said he has something important to ask of her. What could it be? Will he finally reveal his true identity… or will Lachesis discover something she wishes she had never known?

Download or read book Towards the Fates written by Meghan Brunner and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wood from a tree on the mortal plane, the leaf from the Fae world, and the seed from gods-only-knew-where; it had become a thing of all of them. *** Ten months ago, the Gypsies battled the Fae for Ryna's soul. As the cycle of the rennies' year returns to Pendragon, they find their beloved playground more steeped in Magick than ever. Ten months ago, they won. Now clocks refuse to function, phantom music rides the wind, and as strange creatures stalk the grounds, Ryna feels the call of Pendragon's shadow-self more keenly with every pasing day. But the Fae are old, and patient, and they do not give up easily. As Phoenix is about to find out, just because you've sworn you're done with the them doesn't mean they're done with you....

Download or read book Pharmacology of Restless Legs Syndrome RLS written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharmacology of Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS), Volume 84, the newest volume in the Advances in Pharmacology series, presents a variety of chapters from the best authors in the field on essential topics, with this volume presenting chapters on Targeting the adenosinergic system in Restless Legs Syndrome, Assessing iron uptake mechanisms in the brain: impact of gender and genotype, Pharmacological treatments of RLS in augmentation, C. elegans and its applicability to studies on RLS, The neurophysiology of hyperarousal in RLS: hints for a role of glutamate/GABA, Treatment management and options in RLS patients, Pharmacological responsiveness of Periodic Legs Movements during Sleep, and more. Includes the authority and expertise of leading contributors in pharmacology as sourced from an international board of authors Presents the latest release in the Advances in Pharmacology series

Download or read book Fates Dawning written by Jayde Knight and published by Jayde Knight. This book was released on 2009-08-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fates have intervened in the lives and affairs of the elves and the kingdom of Tharkayn. Will their love and sacrifices be enough to save the last of the ancient tribes? Will Tamuril find the power within her to reunite the races of the elves? And will her love for Coribus be enough to bring him back to aid her in the fight to come?

Download or read book As the Fates Decree written by Venus G. Booth and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fool s Fate written by Robin Hobb and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Complex . . . an atmosphere-filled adventure . . . with a fair quota of surprises . . . a winning combination of strong characters and colorful societies.”—Kirkus Reviews In the final book in the Tawny Man Trilogy, Fitz and the Fool are tested more severely than ever in a book the Monroe News-Star calls “a breathtaking ride from beginning to end.” FitzChivalry Farseer has become firmly ensconced in the queen’s court. Along with his mentor, Chade, and the simpleminded yet strongly skilled Thick, Fitz strives to aid Prince Dutiful on a quest that could secure peace with the Out Islands—and win Dutiful the hand of the Narcheska Elliania. The Narcheska has set the prince an unfathomable task: to behead a dragon trapped in ice on the isle of Aslevjal. Yet not all the clans of the Out Islands support their effort. Are there darker forces at work behind Elliania’s demand? Knowing that the Fool has foretold he will die on the island of ice, Fitz plots to leave his dearest friend behind. But fate cannot so easily be defied.

Download or read book Movement Disorder Genetics written by Susanne A. Schneider and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers recent developments and possible pitfalls in the diagnosis of genetic movement disorders and related conditions. It is divided into three sections: technical and scientific aspects; clinical aspects with guidance towards work-up; and ethical and legal aspects of genetic testing in a clinical and research setting. The first section includes chapters on genetic analysis and counselling with critical discussion of potential problems when interpreting the results. Clinical chapters summarize genetic forms of movement disorders including parkinsonism, tics and dystonia with algorithms for hands-on daily practice. Related conditions such as RLS, ataxias and dementias are also covered. Finally, chapters on ethical and legal aspects of genetic testing are included. Movement Disorder Genetics is aimed at clinicians and scientists working in the field of movement disorders and related conditions.