Download or read book Spanish written by Foreign Service Institute (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pen Pal Feathers written by Paola Fonseca and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “These letters reveal how I remembered I had wings, and that I could fly – not because I had them, but because I had the courage to use them.” The ageing Arabella Gallina is struggling to pack up her family’s centuries-old coffee plantation house in Costa Rica. Receiving a visit from her son James, she discovers that his daughter, Isabella, is facing challenges in far-away England. Reluctantly at first, Arabella begins a correspondence with her granddaughter that eventually allows them both to make sense of the inevitable pain that life delivers to us all. Pen Pal Feathers is the multigenerational story of a remarkable family, a magic realism narrative that winds through Europe and the Americas and encompasses the full sweep of the 20th century. It reveals the powerful bonds between generations and how those bonds shape our lives – how enduring familial love can supply the wings that enable us to fly.

Download or read book Cajun Moon written by Gigi Gunn and published by Aphrodisia. This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sassy thinks her life is wonderful until she finds her boyfriend of 12 years and fiance of five, Roux, in an unforgivable tryst. But her heart and body struggle with her mind's decision to cut him loose. Then she's sent to San Francisco on business and meets the handsome Aidan. Sassy is mysteriously drawn to him, but decides she doesn't need any further complications in her life. As Sassy is torn between the two men - one representing her past, the other her future - she must make a choice that will change her life, and her heart, forever.

Download or read book El renacer de las alas written by Adriana Criado and published by Ediciones Kiwi. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un llamador que esconde una llave. Dos puertas que nunca debieron abrirse. Ella tiene un don, él una misión. Lilith tiene muchas preguntas, Zach demasiadas respuestas. El destino de los humanos está en manos de una guerra sobrenatural inevitable. ¿Existe esperanza cuando todo está perdido? «Al principio no te recordaba. No recordaba nada. […] Y de repente, una noche, tras recordar esa frase… “Te quiero, mi reina. Te quiero más que a mi vida”, lo recordé todo».

Download or read book Garden of Lies and Thorns of Truth written by Eileen Goudge and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two blockbusters in one from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Diary about an act of infidelity and its consequences on one woman’s family. In Garden of Lies, Sylvie wants to be a good wife to Gerald, who offers the privileged life she could only dream of. When they wed eight years ago, the country was in the throes of the Depression, and she thought she’d made the right choice. She wants to please her new husband, and bear his children. But no matter how hard she tries, she cannot give him her whole heart. She thinks something is wrong with her until Nikos, the earthy Greek handyman, shows her what real passion is—and gives her a child. Sylvie knows Gerald will never accept the newborn, who looks nothing like him, and she despairs until a fire in the hospital gives her a way out. In the confusion she switches her daughter for another’s, a bold act that resonates through the decades and culminates in one of the most passionate love stories portrayed in contemporary fiction. In Thorns of Truth, Sylvie Rosenthal is dying, and her one great mistake still weighs on her soul. The lives of her natural-born daughter, Rose, and her adopted one, Rachel, are once more turned upside down. In this sequel to the blockbuster Garden of Lies, the two women, bound forever by a secret that only one of them understands, must both find the courage to face the truth.

Download or read book Yankee Come Home written by William Craig and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the author's tour along the Spanish-American War battle trail to assess the historical conflict's enduring role in shaping relations between the United States and Cuba, discussing such topics as American imperialism and Guantâanamo.

Download or read book The Cleansing written by George Rabasa and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new twist on the expatriate novel, somewhere between mystery and ethics conundrum, with nods to Graham Greene, Joseph Conrad, and Paul Bowles, is about two very different men and their delayed but fated battle for retribution. Paul is a promising med student from the US wending his way through heady, corrupt and gorgeous Mexico City in the 1980s. Victor is a Mexican lawyer with a web of connections on both sides of the drug business, and Victor is Paul’s would-be cultural as well as underworld guide, who eventually betrays him. What happens when the former friend reappears twenty years later as a cancer patient in the doctor’s pathology lab shows that none of us can escape our secrets. Flashing between the post-9/11 US and 1980s Mexico, The Cleansing details a love triangle, or diamond, if you will. Adele, a fearless American and photojournalist, attracts both Paul and Victor, and the three become uneasy friends. Mexico City itself is the fourth player in this game, beautiful and decadent, urban and cosmopolitan, torn between policia and narcos, with the division not as clear as the expatriates first think. The Cleansing is about a reckoning of moral culpability in a corrupt setting. No matter our excuses, the past will come to find us.

Download or read book Palabras Hierbas written by John Longtain and published by John Longtain. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uno, un Mago maldito. La otra, una Bruja perdida. Tanto Kier como Ina huyen. Huyen de lo que sea que dejaron atrás y buscan su camino. Su forma de hacer las cosas. Su propia manera de vivir. Buscan estar solos para poder buscarse a sí mismos y encontrarse sin que nadie más se los impida. ¿Pero qué pasa cuando se dan cuenta de que los dos escogieron el mismo bosque para alejarse de todo y todos los demás? Es toda una aventura, en la cual ambos emprenden el camino para aprender lo que significa ser Humano entre gente...

Download or read book Leap written by Terry Tempest Williams and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Leap, Terry Tempest Williams, award-winning author of Refuge, offers a sustained meditation on passion, faith, and creativity-based upon her transcendental encounter with Hieronymus Bosch's medieval masterpiece The Garden of Delights. Williams examines this vibrant landscape with unprecedented acuity, recognizing parallels between the artist's prophetic vision and her own personal experiences as a Mormon and a naturalist. Searing in its spiritual, intellectual, and emotional courage, Williams's divine journey enables her to realize the full extent of her faith and through her exquisite imagination opens our eyes to the splendor of the world.

Download or read book Exultaci n expositiva written by John Piper and published by Editorial Portavoz. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La predicación cristiana es un medio designado por Dios para transformar a sus oyentes tanto en la mente como en el corazón. Con ejemplos claros de métodos específicos, Piper muestra a los predicadores cómo y qué comunicar desde el púlpito de una manera que toma en serio la tarea de manejar la Palabra de Dios semana tras semana en el contexto de, y como, la adoración cristiana. Christian preaching is a God-appointed means of transforming its hearers in both head and heart. With clear examples of specific methods, Piper shows preachers how and what to communicate from the pulpit in a way that takes seriously the task of handling the word of God week in and week out in the context of, and as, Christian worship.

Download or read book Salsa Crossings written by Cindy García and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Los Angeles, night after night, the city's salsa clubs become social arenas where hierarchies of gender, race, and class, and of nationality, citizenship, and belonging are enacted on and off the dance floor. In an ethnography filled with dramatic narratives, Cindy García describes how local salseras/os gain social status by performing an exoticized L.A.–style salsa that distances them from club practices associated with Mexicanness. Many Latinos in Los Angeles try to avoid "dancing like a Mexican," attempting to rid their dancing of techniques that might suggest that they are migrants, poor, working-class, Mexican, or undocumented. In L.A. salsa clubs, social belonging and mobility depend on subtleties of technique and movement. With a well-timed dance-floor exit or the lift of a properly tweezed eyebrow, a dancer signals affiliation not only with a distinctive salsa style but also with a particular conceptualization of latinidad.

Download or read book El Descenso Del Reptil written by Valente Costa-Brava and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El descenso del reptil sigue la historia de Hermes Centauro, un joven que atraviesa una serie de pruebas de orden psicológico y espiritual para encontrar la esencia de la vida. En su camino se encuentra con el Maestro, su guía y compañero de aventuras. Sexo, drogas y diversos personajes que van desde Freud hasta Bob Marley, pasando por Elizabeth Taylor, intervienen en el camino del protagonista.

Download or read book El Monge Gris written by Narciso de Ameller and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Las aventuras de Zahra Las pinturas de Kondoa written by Antonio Javier Roldán Calzado and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuando la tierra y el cielo se separaron, el dios se dio cuenta de que el pasto para sus animales había quedado en la tierra, por lo que eligió a los masais para que los cuidaran en su nombre. Por eso los masais son los dueños de todos los rebaños de África y gozan de la protección directa de Ngai a través de esos espíritus que les acompañan hasta el día de su muerte. Aquella noche Tumake percibe el regreso del guardián más poderoso, el león blanco, el hijo del Sol, que camina por Kondoa como el más preciado regalo que nadie pudiera recibir. Todo el campo ha enmudecido esta noche, como lo hizo en otra época según le contaron sus abuelos, los anteriores laibones. Hay una mujer joven, en cuyo pelo dorado se refleja el rey del cielo, pero cuya piel es la imagen de la luna. Ella también goza del favor de Yemojá, la madre de todas las mujeres, la diosa de las aguas, que vela por su destino.

Download or read book Slender Fantasies written by Richard Hicks and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-03-07 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Ralph Plotkin—a Los Angeles lawyer whose career has gone into the tank. A recovering compulsive gambler who has stolen from his client's trust fund, Ralph is under investigation by the State Bar, and owes money to a Korean Mafia loan-shark. Reduced to crashing posh Hollywood parties to forage for food, Ralph is about to skip out to Mexico, when he encounters Iris Labelle, a wannabe actress and resigned anorexic and bulimic, who suggests that maybe her eating disorder stems from her childhood doll. The Bobbie Doll. Not to be confused with Barbie, this child-like androgynous doll (who sometimes wears a nose-ring and tattoo) is flat-chested and Twiggy-thin—just like Iris. Enter Charlie Kim—a Swarthmore grad posing as the head of the Korean Mafia who wants to be the next Steven Spielberg—and his cleaver wielding cousin, Genghis. When they threaten to make kimchi out of Ralph's index fingers, Ralph promises payment from the proceeds of a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the Bobbie Doll. It seems the doll suffered from a design defect—it was unnaturally thin—which caused young women to suffer from anorexia and bulimia. "A sure winner. We're suing for millions," says Ralph. Readers who join Ralph in his efforts to promote a nuisance suit into a nationwide class action, will encounter intrigue, conspiracy, agents and double-agents, and a bizarre cast of malady-ridden characters that include a militant woman's movement, a knuckle-cracking, megalomaniac defense attorney, the octogenarian, hypochondriac Chairman of a Korean conglomerate and his shaman priestess, a forensic psychiatrist suffering from agoraphobia, and thousands of emaciated young women who started out life with the Bobbie Doll—the doll of the Eighties and Nineties. Slender Fantasies is a fast paced satire of the legal profession, that will keep you turning pages until the final plot-twisting denouement, when Ralph, facing insurmountable odds, stands alone in a David and Goliath courtroom confrontation to prove that playing with dolls—at least the Bobbie Doll—-really can be dangerous to a young girl's health.

Download or read book The Desert Smells Like Rain written by Gary Paul Nabhan and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published more than forty years ago, The Desert Smells Like Rain remains a classic work about nature, how to respect it, and what transplants can learn from the longtime residents of the Sonoran Desert, the Tohono O’odham people. In this work, Gary Paul Nabhan brings O’odham voices to the page at every turn. He writes elegantly of how they husband scant water supplies, grow crops, and utilize edible wild foods. Woven through his account are coyote tales, O’odham children’s impressions of the desert, and observations of the political problems that come with living on both sides of an international border. Nabhan conveys the everyday life and extraordinary perseverance of these desert people. This edition includes a new preface written by the author, in which he reflects on his gratitude for the O’odham people who shared their knowledge with him. He writes about his own heritage and connections to the desert, climate change, and the border. He shares his awe and gratitude for O’odham writers and storytellers who have been generous enough to share stories with those of us from other cultural traditions so that we may also respect and appreciate the smell of the desert after a rain. Longtime residents of the Sonoran Desert, the Tohono O'odham people have spent centuries living off the land—a land that most modern citizens of southern Arizona consider totally inhospitable. Ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan has lived with the Tohono O'odham, long known as the Papagos, observing the delicate balance between these people and their environment. Bringing O'odham voices to the page at every turn, he writes elegantly of how they husband scant water supplies, grow crops, and utilize wild edible foods. Woven through his account are coyote tales, O'odham children's impressions of the desert, and observations on the political problems that come with living on both sides of an international border. Whether visiting a sacred cave in the Baboquivari Mountains or attending a saguaro wine-drinking ceremony, Nabhan conveys the everyday life and extraordinary perseverance of these desert people in a book that has become a contemporary classic of environmental literature.

Download or read book Forever Peace written by Joe Haldeman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2043 A.D.: The Ngumi War rages. A burned-out soldier and his scientist lover discover a secret that could put the universe back to square one. And it is not terrifying. It is tempting...