Download or read book A Fistful Of Sky written by Nina Kiriki Hoffman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-05-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gypsum LaZelle had nearly given up. She’d already watched her two older siblings experience the transition—the sudden, debilitating process that turned them from ordinary children into mages, gifted spellcasters like their beautiful mother. Perhaps she was a late bloomer, she thought until her younger siblings came into their powers as well. Now, at twenty, Gypsum fears that she must accept her fate: a mundane life without magic. She can live with being ordinary, an outsider. After all, someone in the family had to take after her father…But one day, alone at home wither family away, Gypsum falls terribly ill. And when the symptoms pass, something has changed. Something she’s dreamed of for such a long time—and suddenly, isn’t ready for at all. “One of the most original and important writers of fantasy working in America today.”—The New York Review of Science Fiction

Download or read book Fist Full of Lies written by M B Sands and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Baillou Family are in a celebratory mood - Agnes is having her first child, and today is the big reveal. Xavier is ecstatic he's becoming a grandfather for the second time, this time hoping for a grandson - his first, Amelia is ten years old and coming into her own. Alexandre is over the moon excited to become an uncle, he's been her rock the nine months of waiting for her surrogate to give birth. Dala, his wife is most excited because it relieves her of the duty to give him a second child - she's loving that Amelia is so independent and she can focus more on her career and the family business. Then the calls starting, first to Dala - she became an ally to a most unsuspecting person, they have plans to rid the world of this nuisance by the end of the year. Then the caller began harassing Mavis, Silas' wife and Dala's mother - Xavier then intervened and now the caller is threatening to reveal his secret to his son and boasting that he knows the true identity of Lyle. Xavier and Silas have been at odds, since it was revealed that Silas has fathered a daughter with Marion, but for the sake of their families they have made amends - the family convening in New Providence, The Bahamas to meet with Lyle's private investigator Nathan, to solve this mystery. The families unite, no matter their personal rifts, they unite when an enemy intervenes. Who could be the enemy withing?

Download or read book Fist Full of Lies written by A G Seymour and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fist Full of Lies; Blood Ties that Bind is the second in this series the first being Fist Full of Lies; The Maze of Deception. Tessa Cambridge is an associate at Pott's Law Firm one of the firms owned by Attorney Xavier Baillou, she made a life for herself in Washington DC, at one of the most prominent law firms. But one fall afternoon she received a call that changed her life forever. She never knew her lineage, she was raised under the care of her loving Nanny Evie and her Godfather Sir Ramsey Wheyland in London, England. Studying in America was her dream and she made a new life for herself there, owning a townhouse in the picturesque Rockville, Maryland. As far as she knew, she was living her best life ever and building up the courage to let her feelings for Xavier be known, but that phone call changed all that and in an instant, her life was turned upside-down. So many revelations, even Xavier will be affected. This secret will rock the lives of many and bring to light a deception that Alexandre must never know of.

Download or read book A Fistful of Shells written by Toby Green and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a millennium, and the sophisticated kingdoms spanning its west coast had traded with Europeans since the fifteenth century. Until at least 1650, this was a trade of equals, using a variety of currencies—most importantly, cowrie shells imported from the Maldives and nzimbu shells imported from Brazil. But, as the slave trade grew, African kingdoms began to lose prominence in the growing global economy. We have been living with the effects of this shift ever since. With A Fistful of Shells, Toby Green transforms our view of West and West-Central Africa by reconstructing the world of these kingdoms, which revolved around trade, diplomacy, complex religious beliefs, and the production of art. Green shows how the slave trade led to economic disparities that caused African kingdoms to lose relative political and economic power. The concentration of money in the hands of Atlantic elites in and outside these kingdoms brought about a revolutionary nineteenth century in Africa, parallel to the upheavals then taking place in Europe and America. Yet political fragmentation following the fall of African aristocracies produced radically different results as European colonization took hold. Drawing not just on written histories, but on archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters, Green lays bare the transformations that have shaped world politics and the global economy since the fifteenth century and paints a new and masterful portrait of West Africa, past and present.

Download or read book Fist Full of Lies written by A G Seymour and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third of the Fist Full of Lies Series, following the lives of the Baillou Family and the many secrets that haunt them. Alexandre and Agnes, Attorney Xavier Baillou's two children, suspect that Tessa Cambridge was a fraud. She was never the innocent; long suffering orphaned heiress that she painted herself to be, instead she is the ultimate reincarnation of her mother, Marion Viscoff Baillou. They suspect that she was planted into Xavier's life to take over his law firms at the behest of her scheming deceased mother. Xavier is gutted when he finds out that there were more players in the conspiracy to dethrone him from his firms - the person he least suspects is his greatest ally and the one he holds near may be his greatest enemy. The skeletons keep falling out of the closets as the causalities continue to increase. The question with this family and their friends, is always who can be trusted?

Download or read book Fistful of Death written by Henry Kane and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposition sounded like a pushover. All Peter Chambers had to do was find out where a teen-aged chorine had been for the past month and why. And for that information the girl’s father, a prosperous banker, would pay Chambers a cool thousand dollars. It was a quick way to earn some easy money. So Chambers thought . . . until he found out that the fistful of cash carried a little something extra along with it - A FISTFUL OF DEATH.

Download or read book A Fistful of God written by Therese M. Travis and published by Pelican Ventures Book Group. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's never taken a drink, but she's recovering from alcoholism all the same. After the death of her father, teenager Aidyn Pierce spends all her time cleaning up her mother's messes. So when Mom announces she's getting sober, Aidyn doesn't believe her. Mom has tried before, and Aidyn knows there will come a time?a day, a week, maybe even a month from now—when the cravings will be too much, and her mother will start drinking again. So, when Aidyn is encouraged to attend support meetings, she refuses. No point in wasting her time when her mother's going to drink again, anyway. But what Aidyn doesn't count on is the healing power of love and friendship, and the incredible strength of God to walk both mother and daughter through the dark valley of addiction and recovery.

Download or read book A Fistful of Death written by Judy Spoon Ertel and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple warped into the Twenty-first Century, she could be Adelaide Bonner Girard, Mom Extraordinaire and woman suddenly on her own. Addie Girard has a knack for finding herself in the wrong place at an unfortunately right time, hustling to deal with the issues of singledom. But what to do about the body on the floor? Friends in Wanderwood, TX, and her grown children are swept into the swirl of events while Addie strives to discover the joys of a new life as a widow in charge of many decisions. So many options and so little time to explore them—and a dead body on the floor—lead Addie’s life down paths that she never foresaw but now embraces as a part of her new adventure. Wanderwood, TX, isn’t St. Mary Meade, but the similarities and conflicts of small-town life are there. If only there weren’t that dead body on the floor!

Download or read book Fist Full of Lies written by A G Seymour and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-05 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Baillou family has so many skeletons in their closet. Xavier inherited his father's law firm along with a nagging sister, name Marion - who is found dead, stuffed like a Christmas turkey in the cubby under the foyer stairs. There was no forced entry, everything is as normal, so who could have killed her - no one knows. Alexandre Wilcott, a young attorney at the Baillou and Co. Law Firm, will learn more than just being a successful criminal attorney. Everyone around him seems to know more about him and his past than he ever did. The skeletons begin to fall out the closet one by one when Dillon a former associate of the firm is found murdered in his high rise apartment - his throat slit from ear to ear. So many twists and turns in the maze of deceptions, Alexandre's head will spin and unbeknownst to Xavier, so will his.

Download or read book MEMORIES written by Shayla Stapleton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories... I was asked once, if memories were good to hold on to Sometimes they are... right? They help to define the real you... I refuse to spend another dime – divulging to a stranger of when I think it all started. I dare you to judge me, but first, walk a mile in my shoes- now full grown- I have to go back to console that little girl I don’t care how you see me, hell... people talk anyway Here are a few things that happened, in my world... ~Memories~

Download or read book For Crying Out Loud written by Jeremy Clarkson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremy Clarkson, shares his opinions on just about everything in For Crying Out Loud. The publication of The World According to Clarkson in 2004 launched a multi-million copy bestselling phenomenon. But to no avail. Jeremy's one man war on crimes against common sense has not yet been won. And out hero's still scratching his head at the madness of it all. But it's not all bad. He's learnt a little along the way, including: • Why binge drinking is good for you • The worst word in the English language • The remarkable secret of eternal youth • The problem with America • And how to dispose of a seal For anyone who's been driven to wonder just what is the matter with people these days, For Crying Out Loud is the perfect riposte. Surprising, fearless and always laugh-out-loud funny, Clarkson's back. And he's got a point . . . For Crying Out Loud is a hilarious collection of Jeremy's Sunday Times columns and the third in his The World According to Clarkson series which also includes The World According to Clarkson, And Another Thing... and How Hard Can It Be? Praise for Jeremy Clarkson: 'Brilliant . . . laugh-out-loud' Daily Telegraph 'Outrageously funny . . . will have you in stitches' Time Out 'Cars take a back seat as Clarkson grumpily lets rip . . . the man has a point!' Zoo Number-one bestseller Jeremy Clarkson writes on cars, current affairs and anything else that annoys him in his sharp and funny collections. Born To Be Riled, Clarkson On Cars, Don't Stop Me Now, Driven To Distraction, Round the Bend, Motorworld and I Know You Got Soul are also available as Penguin paperbacks; the Penguin App iClarkson: The Book of Cars can be downloaded on the App Store. Jeremy Clarkson because his writing career on the Rotherham Advertiser. Since then he has written for the Sun and the Sunday Times. Today he is the tallest person working in British television, and is the presenter of the hugely popular Top Gear.

Download or read book A Fistful of Rice written by Vikram Akula and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the globe, poverty has held too many people in its grip for too long. While microfinance - small loans to impoverished individuals - initially attracted attention in the press, it didn't achieve the scale, scope, and profitability necessary to substantially combat poverty. All that changed with Vikram Akula's creation of SKS Microfinance. In this highly personal narrative, A Fistful of Rice, Akula reveals how he pieced together the best of both philanthropy and (to his surprise) capitalism to help millions of India's poor transition from paupers to customers to business owners. As thoughtful as Barack Obama's personal journey in Dreams from My Father, as harrowing as Paul Farmer's battle against infectious disease in Mountains Beyond Mountains, and as gripping as Greg Mortensen's fight for education in Three Cups of Tea, Akula's story shows how traditional business principles can be brought to bear on global problems in new ways. A Fistful of Rice offers not only inspiration but also lessons for anyone seeking to transform tenacity, creativity, and innovation into potent tools for fighting even the most seemingly intractable human burdens.

Download or read book The Myth Behind All Truth written by Kim Acrylic and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-23 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Poems and Lyrics. Moody, Broody, Beat, and Surreal. Abstract with madness, sex, drugs, Rock 'N' Roll, bliss and a roller-coaster ride of intense images. I encourage everyone to buy this book at ONLY 70P for a limited time by my incredibly talented friend Kim Hoff-Acrylic - she is truly a goddess of the beat.....words that are sassy, sexy, dirty, pure, passionate, poisonous, penwomanship of the highest and most intensely intoxicating but super intellectual order! I could go on, but Kim is so much better with words than me. . . . check it out! -Sam Parr, English Artist

Download or read book My Darling Belle written by Barbara Commorato and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabelle "Belle" Winslow long ago abandoned any thought of marriage. Although her brother's generosity allows her to live at his home in England, Belle must contend with his shrewish wife's constant harassment. During one of her brother's social gatherings, Belle meets the mysterious Count Alexi of Tantolovitch. His intimate conversation sparks a long-hidden desire in Belle, and the Count begins courting her. When he invites her to his estate in Bucharest, Belle eagerly accepts. Alexi seduces Belle with his charm and whispered words of love. But dark secrets and whispered warnings throw Belle into confusion. Why does Alexi forbid her from speaking to anyone outside his estate? What is the terrifying scream echoing across the countryside at night? Before long, Belle begins to doubt her sanity as danger haunts her every step. In an exotic land plagued with peril, will this new life be all that she desires, or will the man of her dreams become the man of her nightmares?

Download or read book A Fistful of Shells written by Toby Green and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2019 Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award 'Astonishing, staggering' Ben Okri, Daily Telegraph A groundbreaking new history that will transform our view of West Africa By the time of the 'Scramble for Africa' in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for many centuries. Its gold had fuelled the economies of Europe and Islamic world since around 1000, and its sophisticated kingdoms had traded with Europeans along the coasts from Senegal down to Angola since the fifteenth century. Until at least 1650, this was a trade of equals, using a variety of currencies - most importantly shells: the cowrie shells imported from the Maldives, and the nzimbu shells imported from Brazil. Toby Green's groundbreaking new book transforms our view of West and West-Central Africa. It reconstructs the world of kingdoms whose existence (like those of Europe) revolved around warfare, taxation, trade, diplomacy, complex religious beliefs, royal display and extravagance, and the production of art. Over time, the relationship between Africa and Europe revolved ever more around the trade in slaves, damaging Africa's relative political and economic power as the terms of monetary exchange shifted drastically in Europe's favour. In spite of these growing capital imbalances, longstanding contacts ensured remarkable connections between the Age of Revolution in Europe and America and the birth of a revolutionary nineteenth century in Africa. A Fistful of Shells draws not just on written histories, but on archival research in nine countries, on art, praise-singers, oral history, archaeology, letters, and the author's personal experience to create a new perspective on the history of one of the world's most important regions.

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Download or read book A Fistful of Icons written by Sue Matheson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a century of reinvention and, frequently, reinterpretation, Western movies continue to contribute to the cultural understanding of the United States. And Western archetypes remain as important emblems of the American experience, relating a complex and coded narrative about heroism and morality, masculinity and femininity, westward expansion and technological progress, and assimilation and settlement. In this collection of new essays, 21 contributors from around the globe examine the "cowboy cool" iconography of film and television Westerns--from bounty hunters in buckskin jackets to denizens of seedy saloons and lonely deserts, from Cecil B. DeMille and John Ford to Steve McQueen and Budd Boetticher, Jr.