Download or read book Finding Santana written by Jill Jolliffe and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of Joliffe's clandestine 1994 journey across the Indonesian archipelago pursued by the Suharto dictatorship's notorious secret police to interview East Timorese guerrilla commander Nino Konis Santana. Part memoir, part adventure story, it is written from the diaries of the journey and interwoven with those of intrepid nineteenth-century traveller Anna Forbes, who also narrowly escaped death in the East Timor mountains.
Download or read book Finding Our Dreams Are Not So Different written by Kelly Hazelett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finn loves Rachel and he knows they are endgame. Does he want to wait? Or should he start the game now? Finn finally knows what he wants to do with his life. Is it real if he can't share it with Rachel? Finn gets accepted in a respected NYC school and when Football comes knocking will he answer the door on his dead dream? Rachel lands the role she was born to play. But is it real if she can't share it with Finn? Rachel knows one thing, she can't and doesn't want to do it without Finn by her side. Rachel fights for her happy ending and won't let no one or nothing stop her this time. Finn loves Rachel and he knows they are endgame. Does he want to wait? Or should he start the game now? Finn finally knows what he wants to do with his life. Is it real if he can't share it with Rachel? Finn gets accepted in a respected NYC school and when Football comes knocking will he answer the door on his dead dream?
Download or read book The Pain of Finding Forever written by A Broken Spirit and published by T & J Publications Presents. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SANTANA PETERSON is a hardworking, ambitious, single mother whose ultimate goal is to provide the best possible life for her child being that her own traumatic childhood wasn't promising. Life hadn't always taken it easy on the Brooklyn native. At thirty five years of age, she finds herself trapped in the vicious cycle of pain she thought she'd fled from at the tender age of thirteen. Santana is determined to find that love she so desperately craves, but will she allow her past to remain, in the past when she crosses path with a man who'll stop at nothing to make her believe in love again? JAMAL DAVIDSON, is a rough neck and trap star raised in the streets of New York City. At a young age, the street savage was taught to keep his heart cold and stack his money, regardless. But when he meets a beauty that unintentionally warms his cold heart, there's nothing he wouldn't do for the sake of her. With the possible bloom of love, Jamal and Santana must overcome the many struggles of the ghetto looking to separate and annihilate them along the way. Will the two overcome the adversity in order to stand firm on the premise of black love? Or will they crash and burn before they've had the chance to explore the many possibilities?
Download or read book Finding My Purpose Finding My Way in Life written by J.O. Gonzalez and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life has many alternatives, roads, and directions to follow. The right path could be to follow a straight course or go to the right or the left. How do you decide? After decades of managing fast-paced organizations, working with youth groups, facing failure, and overcoming obstacles, J. O. Gonzalez has developed a structured set of ideas and methods that can help you determine which way to go—and how to get there. By drawing on his own experiences and those of experts in various fields, the author helps you reach the innermost places of your mind and heart so you can develop your potential, define your purpose, and determine how to make it become your reality. Remember that you have choices, you are capable, and you already have what it takes. All you have to do is believe it, imagine it, decide to do it, plan it, and act!
Download or read book Hot Stove Economics written by J.C. Bradbury and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final out of the World Series marks the beginning of baseball's second season, when teams court free agents and orchestrate trades with the hope of building a championship contender. The real and anticipated transactions generate excitement among fans who discuss the merit of moves in the arena informally known as the “hot stove league.” In Hot Stove Economics, economist J.C. Bradbury answers the hot stove league's most important question: what are baseball players worth? With in-depth analysis, Bradbury identifies the game’s best and worst contracts—revealing the bargains, duds, and players who are worth every penny they receive. From minor-league prospects to major-league MVPs, Bradbury examines how factors such as revenue growth, labor rules, and aging— even down to the month in which players are born—shape players' worth and evaluates how well franchises manage their rosters. He broadly applies the principles of economics to baseball in a way that is both interesting and understandable to sports fanatics, team managers, armchair economists and students alike.
Download or read book A Reason for Retribution written by Abisai Estrella and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a city hardened by cynicism and repression, comes Jake Santos. A hard edged veteran NYC Detective, who must come face to face with the day he never wished would ever come. Julie Ann Micheals, a young innocent woman in search of a new journey; she sets forth to the bright lights of the big city, looking for a new lease on life. Eusebio Santana, an individual so cold and relentless, to stare at him, is to gaze into the very fabric of death itself. Plagued by his years of wrongful incarceration, Eusebio orchestrates his release with the aid of an outside contractor whose own thirst for bloodshed overshadows his own; they set forth to reclaim the very streets which made him a feared man. With the entire city as their playground, the lives of Jake, Julie and Eusebio become intertwined game pieces as vindication and love become the trajectory for tragedy and triumph, for all three players. As the fall of a city becomes evident, so does the efforts of one man who must choose for the love of his city, the demise of his eluding enemy or for the love of a woman he has barely come to know........
Download or read book Finding Baseball s Next Clemente written by Roger Bruns and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines what it takes for Latino youngsters to beat the odds, overcoming cultural and racial barriers—and a corrupt recruitment system—to play professional baseball in the United States. Latin Americans now comprise nearly 30 percent of the players in Major League Baseball (MLB). This provocative work looks at how young Latinos are recruited—and often exploited—and at the cultural, linguistic, and racial challenges faced by those who do make it. There are exposés of baseball camps where teens are encouraged to sacrifice education in favor of hitting and fielding drills and descriptions of fraud cases in which youngsters claim to be older than they are in order to sign contracts. The book also documents the increasing use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs by kids desperately trying to gain an edge. In addition to discussing the hard road many Latinos follow to MLB, the work also traces the fascinating history of baseball's introduction in Latin American countries—in some cases, more than a century ago. Finally, there are the stories of great Latino players, of men like Roberto Clemente and Carlos Beltran who made it to the majors, but also of men who were not so lucky. Through their tales, readers can share the dreams and expectations of young men who, for better or worse, believe in "America's pastime" as their gateway out of poverty.
Download or read book Finding the Wild West The Great Plains written by Mike Cox and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern-day explorer's guide to the Old West From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Great Plains states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas--one of the five-volume Finding the Wild West series--highlights the best-preserved historic sites as well as ghost towns, reconstructions, museums, historical markers, statues, and works of public art that tell the story of the Old West. Use this book in planning your next trip and for a storytelling overview of America’s Wild West history.
Download or read book The Gospel Game written by Allen G. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As violence engulfs the streets of Asbury Park over the highly coveted G-pill, Sincere Wiggles, also known as Gab, is sucked into a brutal war with the dark and eerie Santana, head of the Renegades, a criminal organization made up of ruthless outlaws. Gab's clash with Santana escalates to new heights as he comes face to face with "Ambassador Truth," an unknown adversary of Santana. The face-off evolves into an epic battle of good versus evil, as Gab is forced to confront the truth about himself and the mysterious G-pill that he and so many others have been trafficking on the streets of his hometown. Bursting with imagination and rich language, The Gospel Game is full of suspenseful twists and heart-stopping action that will leave you breathless. Gab's journey of self-discovery provides both a chilling glimpse of society at its worst and an uplifting depiction of the redemptive power of truth.
Download or read book Scheduled to Death written by Mary Feliz and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “From the author of Address to Die For, “an engaging . . . mystery that moves forward quickly with freshness, a few surprises, and a couple of real scares” (Kirkus Reviews). Professional organizer Maggie McDonald has a knack for cleaning up other people’s messes. So when the fiancée of her latest client turns up dead, it’s up to her to sort through the untidy list of suspects and identify the real killer. Maggie McDonald is hoping to raise the profile of her new Orchard View organizing business via her first high-profile client. Professor Lincoln Sinclair may be up for a Nobel Prize, but he’s hopeless when it comes to organizing anything other than his thoughts. For an academic, he’s also amassed more than his share of enemies. When Sinclair’s fiancée is found dead on the floor of his home laboratory—electrocuted in a puddle of water—Maggie takes on the added task of finding the woman’s murderer. To do so, she’ll have to outmaneuver the suspicious, obnoxious police investigator she’s nicknamed “Detective Awful” before a shadowy figure can check off the first item on their personal to-do list—Kill Maggie McDonald. Praise for the Maggie McDonald Mysteries “Abundant with friendly canine companions, from-the-hearth cooking, and banter between long-time friends, this novel serves up a chilling mystery warmed by likable characters and enviable setting.” —KRL News & Reviews “Bay Area residents will enjoy the heavy local angle.” —San Jose Mercury News “The setting is delightful . . . Maggie herself, in my opinion, is a major selling point for this new series, aside from the added value of her organizational advice.”
Download or read book Louder Than Bombs written by Ed Vulliamy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir, part reportage, Louder Than Bombs is a story of music from the front lines. Ed Vulliamy, a decorated war correspondent and journalist, offers a testimony of his lifelong passion for music. Vulliamy’s reporting has taken him around the world to cover the Bosnian war, the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of Communism, the Iraq wars of 1991 and 2003 onward, narco violence in Mexico, and more, places where he confronted stories of violence, suffering, and injustice. Through it all, Vulliamy has turned to music not only as a reprieve but also as a means to understand and express the complicated emotions that follow. Describing the artists, songs, and concerts that most influenced him, Vulliamy brings together the two largest threads of his life—music and war. Louder Than Bombs covers some of the most important musical milestones of the past fifty years, from Jimi Hendrix playing “Machine Gun” at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 to the Bataclan in Paris under siege in 2015. Vulliamy was present for many of these historic moments, and with him as our guide, we see them afresh, along the way meeting musicians like B. B. King, Graham Nash, Patti Smith, Daniel Barenboim, Gustavo Dudamel, and Bob Dylan. Vulliamy peppers the book with short vignettes—which he dubs 7" singles—recounting some of his happiest memories from a lifetime with music. Whether he’s working as an extra in the Vienna State Opera’s production of Aida, buying blues records in Chicago, or drinking coffee with Joan Baez, music is never far from his mind. As Vulliamy discovers, when horror is unspeakable, when words seem to fail us, we can turn to music for expression and comfort, or for rage and pain. Poignant and sensitively told, Louder Than Bombs is an unforgettable record of a life bursting with music.
Download or read book Willing to Die written by Lisa Jackson and published by Zebra. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Sandra Brown and Lisa Gardner will devour this riveting new suspense thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson! Make sure it’s part of your summer beach reading! WHEN A KILLER HAS NOTHING TO LOSE The crime scene is as puzzling as it is brutal. Doctor Paul Latham and his wife, Brindel, are found dead in separate beds in their beautiful San Francisco home, each the victim of a gunshot wound to the head. There are no signs of forced entry, and despite the emptied safe it’s clear this murder isn’t random. THERE’S EVERY REASON For Detective Regan Pescoli, news of her sister’s death brings grief mixed with guilt. She and Brindel weren’t close, and Pescoli barely knows her teenage niece, Ivy, a secretive girl who lands on her doorstep in Grizzly Falls, Montana. Though Pescoli is on maternity leave, she’s soon mired deep in the investigation headed by her partner, Selena Alvarez. But as the list of suspects keeps growing, so does the body count . . . TO BE AFRAID . . . Maybe it’s exhaustion or hormones that have Pescoli on edge, feeling more vulnerable than ever before. Or maybe the chill running through her veins is justified. Because as the case takes a new, terrifying turn, Pescoli’s loved ones and her life are at the mercy of a killer who’ll go to any lengths to see her suffer . . .
Download or read book Run for Your Life written by Jill Jolliffe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unwillingly given up by her birth mother and adopted into a violent household, Jill Jolliffe found the course of her life set before she even had time to choose. She ran away as a teenager and has been running ever since. Jolliffe became a thorn in the establishment’s side and earned herself a hefty ASIO file. Following her instincts, she became a foreign correspondent – risking her life to report on Indonesia’s occupation of East Timor, exposing sex-trafficking rackets in Portugal and ducking bullets while covering a war in Angola. Over time she realises that the recurring pattern of her career has been reporting the stories of young women in distress, as though trying to free her younger self from the chains of being a ‘Forgotten Australian’. In the course of writing her memoir, an unexpected meeting with her birth mother takes her life full circle.
Download or read book Hardy Boys 65 The Stone Idol written by Franklin W. Dixon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-04-21 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an ancient stone idol disappears, the Hardy Boys are off on another fast-paced adventure. It's a mystery that takes the boys from a primitive village in the Andes Mountains to Antarctica and finally to Easter Island. By using their fine investigative skills, the Hardy Boys find that the mystery of the stone idol is not what it seems!
Download or read book Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor written by Douglas Kammen and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most troubling but least studied features of mass political violence is why violence often recurs in the same place over long periods of time. Douglas Kammen explores this pattern in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor, studying that region’s tragic past, focusing on the small district of Maubara. Once a small but powerful kingdom embedded in long-distance networks of trade, over the course of three centuries the people of Maubara experienced benevolent but precarious Dutch suzerainty, Portuguese colonialism punctuated by multiple uprisings and destructive campaigns of pacification, Japanese military rule, and years of brutal Indonesian occupation. In 1999 Maubara was the site of particularly severe violence before and after the UN-sponsored referendum that finally led to the restoration of East Timor’s independence. Beginning with the mystery of paired murders during East Timor’s failed decolonization in 1975 and the final flurry of state-sponsored violence in 1999, Kammen combines an archival trail and rich oral interviews to reconstruct the history of the leading families of Maubara from 1712 until 2012. Kammen illuminates how recurrent episodes of mass violence shaped alliances and enmities within Maubara as well as with supra-local actors, and how those legacies have influenced efforts to address human rights violations, post-conflict reconstruction, and the relationship between local experience and the identification with the East Timorese nation. The questions posed in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor about recurring violence and local narratives apply to many other places besides East Timor—from the Caucasus to central Africa, and from the Balkans to China—where mass violence keeps recurring.
Download or read book The Second Favorite Daughters Club 1 Sister Sabotage written by Colleen Oakes and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Sisters and Netflix’s The Baby-sitter’s Club, a contemporary series for the siblings who always come in last. Santana Barnes is tired of playing second fiddle to her ballet protégé, honor student older sister Victoria. Casey Hammond is sick of her cute-as-a-button, adventurous little sister Sage, who steals all of their dad’s attention. When the girls meet in their middle school library, they learn they have a lot in common: they both love reading, they hate after-school activities, and most important, they are clearly their parents’ second-favorite children. So they decide to do something about it. They create the Second Favorite Daughters Club. The members? Just the two of them. The mission? To become their parents' favorite children by undermining their love-hoarding siblings. But is it possible to cheat your way to becoming your parents’ favorite? And is being in the spotlight really what they want after all? Bestselling author Colleen Oakes’s middle grade debut, SISTER SABOTAGE is a celebration of friendship and family in all its challenging forms, and a reminder that there’s no one way to stand out.
Download or read book Political Continuity and Conflict in East Timor written by Ruth Nuttall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the history of political continuity and conflict in East Timor between 1974 and 2006, and the origins of an unexpected crisis in 2006 which caused an international military intervention and several more years of UN missions. Providing a fresh and empirical political history to explain the crisis, the book offers new dimensions to the understanding of East Timor, its independence struggles, political transition and politics after independence in 2002. The author revisits historical materials and brings to light new resources, making extensive use of the 2005 Report of the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation and contemporary diplomatic, UN and news media reports, to provide a precise context and chronology for the events in 2006. The book provides an analysis within which factors such as ethnic and inter-communal violence, security sector weaknesses and conflict between the army and police, the constitution and legal system, state-building and peace-building can be located in the larger context of the 2006 crisis. Demonstrating how and why, in the space of four weeks in April and May 2006, the newly independent country of Timor-Leste plunged from ‘UN success story’ into catastrophe, this book will be of interest to academics working on Southeast Asian Politics, Southeast Asian history, Development Studies and Nation-, State- and Peace-Building and International Relations.
