Download or read book Jana and Lydia written by Gregory M. Hasty and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best friends Jana and Lydia hit the town in Phoenix for their first experience at a bar. The underage teenagers gain access to the Raining Nails Club and meet some guys, but circumstances quickly get out of control when they slink out to the parking lot. The situation comes unglued after Jana is confronted by an over aggressive young professional leading to a fierce struggle. In the midst of the fracas, Lydia comes to her aid, and a mysterious stranger enters the scene. Before the naive young ladies realize what’s unfolding, they’re kidnapped and taken to Nogales and forced into a sex trafficking ring. The parents of the two girls launch an investigation after their reliable daughters miss curfew and enlist the help of Lieutenant Tatum of Phoenix Missing Persons. A national manhunt commences pressuring Tatum to unravel their baffling disappearance. Once in Nogales, the two young ladies are pitted against one another by their Cartel captors, resulting in both devising separate plans of escape. How far would the girls go to risk their lives and gain freedom? Follow this hair-raising tale of sleuth, risk and peril as the girls battle hardened, cartel operatives in a showdown involving sex, resourcefulness and cunning.
Download or read book Lydia Mendoza s Life in Music La Historia de Lydia Mendoza written by Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lydia Mendoza began her legendary musical career as a child in the 1920s, singing for pennies and nickels on the streets of downtown San Antonio. She lived most of her adult life in Houston, Texas, where she was born. The life story of this Chicana icon encompasses a 60-year singing career that began with the dawn of the recording industry in the 1920s and continued well into the 1980s, ceasing only after she suffered a devastating stroke. Her status as a working-class idol continues to this day, making her one of the most prominent and long-standing performers in the history of the recording industry and a champion of Chicana/o music. This bilingual edition presents Lydia Mendoza's historia in an interview between the artist and Yolanda Broyles-González: first is the English translation, then the Spanish original, as told by Mendoza herself. Broyles-González concludes the volume with an extended essay on the significance of Mendoza's career and her place in Tejana music and Chicana studies. Known as a lone artist and performer, Lydia Mendoza's voice and twelve-string guitar-playing figure prominently in her ability to both nurture and transmit the vast oral tradition of popular Mexican song with beauty and integrity. She sang the songs of the people across generations in the old tradition; all are indigenous to the Americas, and many of them to Texas. It is the music that emerged from the experiences of native peoples (on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border) within the colonial context of the nineteenth century. Mendoza's prominence and stature as a Chicana idol stems from her sustained presence and perpetual visibility within a complex network of social and cultural relations in the twentieth century. Along with being one of the earliest female recording and touring artists, she is loved as a voice of working-class sentimiento, sentiment and sentience, through song, which is one of the most cherished of Chicana/o cultural art forms. Through her vast repertoire and unmistakable interpretive skill in the shaping of songs she is a living embodiment of U.S.-Mexican culture and a participant in raza people's protracted struggles for survival.
Download or read book The Last Crucible written by J.D. Moyer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 3 in the Reclaimed Earth series, praised by Analog SF, Compelling Science Fiction, Cemetery Dance and more! Earth is mostly depopulated in the wake of a massive supervolcano, but civilization and culture are preserved in vast orbiting ringstations, as well as in a few isolated traditional communities on Earth. Jana, a young Sardinian woman, is in line to become the next maghiarja (sorceress) by way of an ancient technology that hosts a community of minds. Maro, an ambitious worldship artist, has designs to use the townsfolk as guinea pigs in a brutally invasive psychological experiment. Jana must protect her people and lead them into the future, while deciding whom to trust amongst possible ringstation allies. FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress
Download or read book The Last Dead Girl written by Harry Dolan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Loogan’s dark past is revealed in this prequel to Bad Things Happen—the critically acclaimed mystery that Stephen King called a “great f***ing book.” On a rainy night in April, a chance encounter draws David into a romance with Jana Fletcher, a beautiful young law student. Jana is an enigma: living in a run-down apartment with only the barest of possessions, sporting a bruise on her cheek that she refuses to explain. David would like to know her secrets, but he lets them lie—until it’s too late. When Jana is brutally murdered, the police consider David a prime suspect. But as he sets out to uncover the truth, he soon learns that Jana’s death may be related to an earlier murder, one that she was obsessed with during the last weeks of her life. And as he retraces her steps, he begins to realize that he’s treading a very dangerous path—and that her killer is watching every move he makes.
Download or read book Wrath of the Goddess written by Anna Brio and published by Author House. This book was released on 2005-02-14 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floria was once a land of Kings and peace. Now it is a place of war and hate. Neutral, Darkness, and Light have been battling for control longer than they know. When two Earthlings show up mysteriously at Light and Neutral, the fate of the worlds are placed in their hands. Destiny pulls Kavey, Sam, Jayce, and Tyler into a web of mystery, death, and the smallest strand of hope. When they learn that even the Goddess wants them dead, they search ever deeper for answers. The game has been set.Can they outwit its creator?
Download or read book Saved written by Lydia Williams and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Lydia learns to be the best that she can be as she competes in a variety of sports against very unusual competitors. An inspiring celebration of self-belief, the joy to be had in sport, and the importance of persistence. Little Lydia loves sport. She lives in the outback and is friends with all the animals. When she asks Emu, Kangaroo and Koala to play sport with her, she soon discovers that each of them has a special talent. But does Lydia have a gift for sport too? And if she does, how will she discover it? A funny and triumphant picture book by Lydia Williams, goalkeeper for the Matildas.
Download or read book Brian Pendleton and His Descendants 1599 1910 written by Everett Hall Pendleton and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1910 with total page 925 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With some account of the Pembleton families of Orange County, N. Y., Ostego County, N. Y., and Luzerne County, Pa., and notices of other Pendletons of later origin in the United States
Download or read book Coast Road written by Barbara Delinsky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his ex-wife has a car accident, architect Jack McGill leaves his job and latest girlfriend to fly to her bedside in Carmel, California. Finding her in a prolonged coma, he moves into her home to look after two resentful daughters.
Download or read book Publications written by Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Parish Register Section and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Parish Register of Sheffield in the County of York written by Sheffield (England : Parish) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Publications of the Yorkshire Parish Register Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Choices A Novel About Choosing A Life written by Forrest Landry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choices is an amazing collection of 75 short-short stories, all telling about Hugh Sutherland's daily choices. He lives in the middle of the block and has to choose to go left or right each morning, to get to either of two bus lines so he can go to work. One frigid morning he gets hit between the eyes with the realization that if he goes left, he misses all the experiences he'd have had if he'd gone right, and vice versa. He's blown away by his philosophical epiphany and sits on his front stoop, freezing his tuckus off. And finally he has to get up and go, one way or the other. The rest of the stories show his sudden awareness having a great impact on his life. It's a riveting tale.I wrote Choices to show how choices have far-reaching effects. If not one way, then another - it's not always just left or right. And if you choose a way that you don't like, then choose another!The Choice Is Yours! Rated R
Download or read book Experiencing the New Genetics written by Kaja Finkler and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past several decades there has been an explosion of interest in genetics and genetic inheritance within both the research community and the mass media. The science of genetics now forecasts great advances in alleviating disease and prolonging human life, placing the family and kin group under the spotlight. In Experiencing the New Genetics, Kaja Finkler argues that the often uncritical presentation of research on genetic inheritance as well as the attitudes of some in the biomedical establishment contribute to a "genetic essentialism," a new genetic determinism, and the medicalization of kinship in American society. She explores some of the social and cultural consequences of this phenomenon. Finkler discovers that the new genetics can turn a healthy person into a perpetual patient, complicate the redefinition of the family that has been occurring in American society for the past few decades, and lead to the abdication of responsibility for addressing the problem of unhealthy environmental conditions. Experiencing the New Genetics will assist scholars and general readers alike in making sense of this timely and multifaceted issue.
Download or read book Human Trafficking written by Wendy Stickle and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Trafficking: A Comprehensive Exploration into Modern Day Slavery examines the legal, socio-cultural, historical, and political aspects of human trafficking and modern-day slavery. While most texts only cover sex trafficking and labor trafficking, this text takes a more inclusive approach, provide coverage of what is currently known about organ trafficking, child marriage, and child soldiers as well. These topics are explored within the borders of the United States as well as across the world. The reality is that this problem is not limited to one country or, even, one continent. Technology and globalization have made this an international crisis that requires a collaborative and cooperative international response. The goal of this text is to provide an accurate understanding of all forms of human trafficking and current responses to this crime.
Download or read book False Flag written by John Altman and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In False Flag, Israeli-born Dalia Artzi, a tactical genius and specialist at Princeton in the study of maneuver warfare, uncovers a fiendish plot by a small group of Israeli fanatics to commit a horrific crime against the United States government and pin the blame on Iran. At first, Dalia, a pacifist, is hesitant to get involved. But, strong in her Jewish faith, she believes that the goal of her religion is not to crush one’s enemies but to practice tikkun olam, to repair the world. Soon Dalia has little choice but to act quickly and do what she must to prevent the unspeakable. Meanwhile, Jana, a beautiful but deadly Israeli operative taking orders from the conspiring fanatics, is determined to deftly fulfill the deadly mission entrusted to her. Once the plot has been carried out, Jana and the commanders of her mission believe that Israel’s enemies will meet with total destruction when the world’s most powerful nation retaliates. Jana is firm in her conviction that she is on the side of right and believes the ends will justify the means, however violent. Centered on a fascinating and original Israeli heroine and antiheroine, False Flag probes some of the most important political and moral conflicts of our times. Altman examines extremism in its many incarnations and the complex pitfalls humans encounter when they try to do what is right, no matter the cost. In the process, he continues his tradition of creating ruthless female assassins, delivering his most terrifying creation yet. Riveting espionage, struggles of conscience, and edge-of-your-seat intrigue combine to make False Flag one of the most compelling and controversial thrillers of 2017.
Download or read book The Publications of the Surtees Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of publications, v. 1-132, in v. 132.
Download or read book The Remains of Denis Granville D D written by Denis Grenville and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of publications, v. 1-132, in v. 132.
