Download or read book The Last Checkmate written by Gabriella Saab and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PopSugar Best Book of the Year! Readers of Heather Morris’s The Tattooist of Auschwitz and watchers of The Queen’s Gambit won’t want to miss this amazing debut set during World War II. A young Polish resistance worker, imprisoned in Auschwitz as a political prisoner, plays chess in exchange for her life, and in doing so fights to bring the man who destroyed her family to justice. Maria Florkowska is many things: daughter, avid chess player, and, as a member of the Polish underground resistance in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, a young woman brave beyond her years. Captured by the Gestapo, she is imprisoned in Auschwitz, but while her family is sent to their deaths, she is spared. Realizing her ability to play chess, the sadistic camp deputy, Karl Fritzsch, decides to use her as a chess opponent to entertain the camp guards. However, once he tires of exploiting her skills, he has every intention of killing her. Befriended by a Catholic priest, Maria attempts to overcome her grief, vows to avenge the murder of her family, and plays for her life. For four grueling years, her strategy is simple: Live. Fight. Survive. By cleverly provoking Fritzsch’s volatile nature in front of his superiors, Maria intends to orchestrate his downfall. Only then will she have a chance to evade the fate awaiting her and see him punished for his wickedness. As she carries out her plan and the war nears its end, she challenges her former nemesis to one final game, certain to end in life or death, in failure or justice. If Maria can bear to face Fritzsch—and her past—one last time.
Download or read book All That We Are written by Gabriella Braun and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2022 CMI Management Book of the Year Award Who do you bring with you to work? Try as we might, we cannot leave part of ourselves under the pillow with our pyjamas when we go to work. We bring all that we are. In this collection of stories, Gabriella Braun shares insights from over twenty years of taking psychoanalysis out of the therapy room and into the staff room. She shows us why a board loses the plot, nearly causes their company to collapse, and how they come through. We see the connection between a headteacher's professional and personal loss. We understand seemingly unfathomable behaviour - why a man lets his organisation push him around, a lawyer becomes paranoid, a team repeatedly creates scapegoats, and founders of a literary agency feud. At a time when we are re-thinking the workplace, ALL THAT WE ARE shows that by taking human nature seriously, we can build more humane organisations where people and their work can thrive.
Download or read book Life and Gabriella written by Ellen Glasgow and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Life and Gabriella by Ellen Glasgow
Download or read book Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman s Courage written by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-09-21 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the profound journey of courage and self-discovery in Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow’s Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage. This compelling novel follows the life of Gabriella, a woman whose unyielding strength and resolve are put to the ultimate test as she navigates the trials and tribulations of her world. As Gabriella's story unfolds, you will witness her courageous battle against societal constraints and personal challenges. How far will she go to remain true to herself amidst adversity? Her journey is a testament to the power of perseverance and the quest for personal fulfillment. But what does true courage look like in the face of overwhelming odds? Could Gabriella’s struggles and triumphs inspire you to confront your own challenges with renewed vigor? Experience the emotional depth and resilience of Glasgow’s powerful narrative. This story not only captivates but also challenges you to reflect on your own capacity for courage and endurance. Are you ready to uncover the true meaning of bravery through Gabriella’s remarkable story? Embrace the journey and let Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage inspire your own path to strength and self-discovery. Don’t miss out on this inspiring tale. Purchase Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage today, and let Gabriella’s courage guide you through your own trials and triumphs.
Download or read book Design Mom written by Gabrielle Stanley Blair and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times best seller Ever since Gabrielle Stanley Blair became a parent, she’s believed that a thoughtfully designed home is one of the greatest gifts we can give our families, and that the objects and decor we choose to surround ourselves with tell our family’s story. In this, her first book, Blair offers a room-by-room guide to keeping things sane, organized, creative, and stylish. She provides advice on getting the most out of even the smallest spaces; simple fixes that make it easy for little ones to help out around the house; ingenious storage solutions for the never-ending stream of kid stuff; rainy-day DIY projects; and much, much more.
Download or read book The Life Of Gabriella Goosington written by Victoria Vulcano and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriella Goosington is a fun-loving little girl who comes from a big, boisterous family. Gabriella loves her family, but there is one person who she loves more than anyone in the world: her pop pop. Gabriella is the first granddaughter in the family, and she quickly becomes her pop pop's whole world. Pop Pop is Gabriella's biggest fan, whether it is at a dance recital watching her twirl in her blue tutu off-beat to the music or at her soccer game, where she chases butterflies instead of the soccer ball. She will do anything to see him smile on the sidelines and hear him yell her name. Gabriella could do no wrong in Pop Pop's eyes. Gabriella has some big events that will rock her world, like the arrival of her baby sister, Gianna, and the drama that takes place in middle school. But Pop Pop is by her side through it all. He guides her, supports her, and gives her a shoulder to cry on every step of the way. As Gabriella gets older, their bond grows stronger. Being so young, Gabriella didn't realize how important Pop Pop was to her until one day, he was no longer there. How does she move forward in her life without him? Who will be there to see her through the hard times and cheer her on in good times? How can she go a day without talking to him? Would he be proud of the person she is becoming? Gabriella made a promise to her pop pop a long time ago. Will she be able to keep that promise? See how Gabriella navigates future events in her life without Pop Pop's guidance and how this special bond between a granddaughter and her grandfather molds Gabriella into the beautiful young woman she is today.
Download or read book Gabriella s Book of Fire written by Venero Armanno and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 2001-01-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning a 20-year period, this novel follows the story of Salvatore Capistrano and Gabriella Zazo, the youngest son and daughter of two Sicilian families who live side by side in a Brisbane suburb. It follows the course of their epic love affair, which is pulled apart by their family's animosities toward one another.
Download or read book Murder Most Serene written by Gabrielle Wittkop and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last days of the Venetian Republic, the successive wives of Count Alvise Lanzi suffer mysterious, agonizing deaths. Murder Most Serene offers a cruel portrait of a beautiful but corrupt city-state and its equally extravagant and corrupt inhabitants. Redolent of darkness, death, poison and transgression, it is also an over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek Venetian romp. Rich in historical detail and bursting with bejeweled putrescence, Gabrielle Wittkop's chilling memento mori eschews the murder mystery in which it is garbed for a scintillating depiction of physical, moral, societal and institutional corruption, in which the author plays the role of puppeteer--"present, masked as convention dictates, while in a Venice on the brink of downfall, women gorged with venom burst like wineskins." Self-styled heir to the Marquis de Sade, Gabrielle Wittkop (1920-2002) was a French author who wrote a remarkable series of novels and travelogues, all laced with sardonic humor and dark sexuality, with recurrent themes of death, disease and decrepitude. After meeting Justus Wittkop, a German deserter, in Paris under the Occupation, she hid him from the Nazis and then married him after the war, in what she described as an "intellectual alliance," given he was homosexual. He would commit suicide in 1986, with her approval, after being diagnosed with Parkinson's. Her first novel, The Necrophiliac, appeared in 1972, but a number of her books have only been made available since her own suicide in 2002, after she was diagnosed with lung cancer.
Download or read book Gabby written by Gabrielle Giffords and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adeeply personal account of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' and astronaut Mark Kelly's lives together, recounting their courtship, Ms Giffords' rise in politics, and the tragic 8th January 2011 shooting in Arizona which killed six people and gravely wounded Representative Gifford and twelve others. The book also tells the story of her recovery progress and traces Kelly's career from decorated Desert Storm combat pilot to his recent mission as the commander of Space Shuttle Endeavour's final flight.
Download or read book Blood Bones Butter written by Gabrielle Hamilton and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited through the years: the rural kitchen of her childhood, where her adored mother stood over the six-burner with an oily wooden spoon in hand; the kitchens of France, Greece, and Turkey, where she was often fed by complete strangers and learned the essence of hospitality; Hamilton’s own kitchen at Prune, with its many unexpected challenges; and the kitchen of her Italian mother-in-law, who serves as the link between Hamilton’s idyllic past and her own future family—the result of a prickly marriage that nonetheless yields lasting dividends. By turns epic and intimate, Gabrielle Hamilton’s story is told with uncommon honesty, grit, humor, and passion.
Download or read book Blood Bones Butter written by Gabrielle Hamilton and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2011 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chef of New York's East Village Prune restaurant presents an unflinching account of her search for meaning and purpose in the food-central rural New Jersey home of her youth, marked by a first chicken kill, an international backpacking tour and the opening of a first restaurant. 50,000 first printing.
Download or read book Her Best Kept Secret written by Gabrielle Glaser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Quit Like a Woman, this “engaging account of women and drink, [cites] fascinating studies about modern stressors…and evidence that some problem drinkers can learn moderation….Bound to stir controversy” (People). In Her Best-Kept Secret, journalist Gabrielle Glaser uncovers a hidden-in-plain-sight drinking epidemic. Using “investigative rigor and thoughtful analysis” (TheBoston Globe), Glaser is the first to document that American women are drinking more often than ever and in ever-larger quantities in this “substantial book, interested in hard facts and nuance rather than hand-wringing” (The New York Times Book Review). She shows that contrary to the impression offered on reality TV, young women alone aren’t driving these statistics—their moms and grandmothers are, too. But Glaser doesn’t wag a finger. Instead, in a funny and tender voice, Glaser looks at the roots of the problem, explores the strange history of women and alcohol in America, drills into the emerging and counterintuitive science about that relationship, and asks: Are women getting the help they need? Is it possible to return from beyond the sipping point and develop a healthy relationship with the bottle? Glaser reveals that, for many women, joining Alcoholics Anonymous is not the answer—it is part of the problem. She shows that as scientists and health professionals learn more about women’s particular reactions to alcohol, they are coming up with new and more effective approaches to excessive drinking. In that sense, Glaser offers modern solutions to a very modern problem.
Download or read book Gabriella Knows Best written by Gabriella Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 120-page Gabriella Journal features: 120 wide-ruled lined pages 6 x 9 inches in size - big enough for your daily writings and also small enough to take with you smooth white-color paper, perfect for ink, gel pens, pencils or even colored pencils a black matte-finish cover for an elegant, professional look and feel This (Gabriella Knows Best) journal can be used for writing poetry, jotting down your brilliant ideas, recording your accomplishments and much more. Use it as a diary or gratitude journal, a travel journal or to record your food intake or progress toward your fitness and life goals. The simple lined pages allow you to use it however you wish. Our journals to write in offer a wide variety of journals, so keep one by your bedside as a dream journal, one in your car to record mileage and expenses, one by your computer for login names and passwords, and one in your purse or backpack to jot down random thoughts and inspirations throughout the day. Paper journals never need to be charged and of course no batteries are required! You only need your thoughts and dreams and something to write with. This Gabriella journal makes a wonderful present, so put a smile on someone's face today!
Download or read book Gabriella written by Earl Murray and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1846, a time of great turmoil for America. Claire McFarlane is a young Englishwoman traveling in the United States with her fiance, Sir Edward Garr, a supposed big game hunter who is actually a spy for the British-owned Hudson Bay Company. Claire is an exceptional artist whose ambition is to paint portraits of Indian warriors of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains--but her dreams may be compromised by Sir Edward's irrational desire to stop American movement into the Great Northwest. A young man named Quincannon carries his own dreams into the wilderness, that of reestablishing the American Fur Company along the western seaboard. His love for Claire and his bitter rivalry with Edward Garr forms the background for a harrowing journey across the mountains and deserts into the new land of promise at the end of the Oregon Trail. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Sicilians written by Joe Giarratano and published by Joe Giarratano. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sicilians is crime fiction -- a bracing take on a mafia saga, with a fresh and innovative storyline, and a cracker of a climax. Book one outlines the adventures of a group of Sicilians in the Western Sicilian village-towns of the Belice Valley -- some are members of the Cosa Nostra brotherhood and others are ordinary people whose lives are controlled by them. Each has their own power struggles and agendas. Book two has all the ingredients of a best seller. It can be read stand alone and is where the book shines. It finds the key characters in transit to Sydney, Australia where the action culminates, with the addition of dirty cops, stand-over men and new murderers.
Download or read book Gabriella written by Brenda Hiatt and published by Brenda Hiatt. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He lost a wager . . . but won a treasure. Due to a lost wager, the Duke of Ravenham is obliged to bring a pretty little nobody from the country into fashion among the high-sticklers of London Society. Ravenham would never refuse a debt of honor, no matter how unorthodox, so he overlooks Miss Gordon’s vulgar relations to do what is necessary, escorting the unsophisticated chit to balls, etc. But what he expects to be an irksome duty turns out to be something quite different as he falls under the spell of his protege’s innocent charm. When he lost that wager, he definitely never counted on losing his heart as well! First impressions can be deceiving. Miss Gabriella Gordon only came to London at her mother’s and sister’s insistence, for she’d much rather assist in running her father’s veterinary practice than attempt to fit into fashionable society. No sooner has she arrived in London than the exalted (and exceedingly handsome) Duke of Ravenham comes to call. The reason is less than flattering, however: due to a lost wager, the Duke is forced to bring Gabriella into fashion, a “favor” she would certainly refuse if her family would let her. But the more time she spends in the dashing Duke’s company, the more conflicted she feels— particularly when she discovers they have more in common than she ever dared dream. Book 1 of Brenda Hiatt’s bestselling Hiatt Regency Classics collection.
Download or read book Just Plain Gabriella written by Linda Kay Hilbert and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many different types of angels in heaven, but what does an angel in heaven do when she is the only one without a job? Gabriella tries to find a job in heaven that she would be good at doing. After several attempts to find just the right job for her with unsuccessful results, she becomes discouraged and thinks God will never find just what it is she is supposed to do. Gabriella believes she is not pretty enough to be a guardian angel. She is just too plain. She is not fast enough to be a messenger angel. She has trouble with her wings. Her friends all tell her to just have patience, and God will let her know in time. His time. Everyone has a talent or a calling. Sometimes it takes a little while to find out what that is for all of us. When Gabriella is summoned to appear before God himself, she is sure she has done something wrong. Much to her delight, she learns she was chosen for the most important job ever. Never doubt that there is a plan for each and every one of us. We just have to wait and, above all, believe.
