Download or read book Low Key Fallin For A Savage written by J Dominique and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-04-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Urban Charts Bestseller.For these two sisters, love doesn't come easy. Bestselling author J. Dominique returns with a heart wrenching romance.Gorgeous? Yes.Ambitious? Definitely.Looking at sisters Dream and Destiny Parker, they definitely do not look like what they've been through. And taking care of themselves is no object. However, the sisters met a set of brothers that can take care of them better than they can themselves, in all areas of their lives. Will the sisters let down their guards enough and allow the men into their hearts and lives?Being the oldest, Dream has had her fair share of struggle; especially, when it came to men. Now, she's only concerned with getting her and her sister's business off the ground. So, the last thing she expects is the wind known as Elijah King to come blowing into her life, changing everything she thought she knew about love.Love. Nothing to be scared of, especially for Elijah "Eazy" King. He isn't the type to run from love-in fact, he craves it. At this point in his life, he is ready to settle down and have the type of love, marriage, and life his parents have. The type that lasts decades. Knowing that he doesn't have this type of love in his current relationship, Elijah is used to hard work. And he is willing to put in the work to achieve this with her... until he sees Dream. Immediately taken by her, Elijah can see that Dream is everything that he wants, needs, and desires; the type of woman that he wouldn't mind spending forever and a day with. However, Dream has a shield around her heart that seems to be impenetrable. Will he be able to break through the ice she has around her heart and acquire that love that he wants?Although she is the baby sister, Destiny has been an adult for as long as she can remember. Not only because of their mother's neglect but also because she is a young mother herself. Providing for her son has always been Destiny's priority and she doesn't take that lightly. However, it seems like she has a second child living with her since her live-in boyfriend allows her to carry both of their weights. Unexpectedly, her knight in shining armor, Jeremiah King, comes right in on time and rescues her and her son, causing Destiny to fall head over heels. However, the only difference is that the feelings return only one way.Jeremiah "Juice" King is living his best life, due to his profession. Money. His choice of any woman he wants. Power. He's never met a woman that he cares for or love besides his mother; he's not looking for one either. So, the last thing he wants is an attachment... of any kind. However, the illicit package of Destiny and her son may be just what he needs-everything that he never knew that he wanted. With the world at his fingertips, will Jeremiah be able to give up his playboy ways for a monogamous life Destiny and her son?

Download or read book Keeping It Halal written by John O'Brien and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling portrait of a group of boys as they navigate the complexities of being both American teenagers and good Muslims This book provides a uniquely personal look at the social worlds of a group of young male friends as they navigate the complexities of growing up Muslim in America. Drawing on three and a half years of intensive fieldwork in and around a large urban mosque, John O’Brien offers a compelling portrait of typical Muslim American teenage boys concerned with typical teenage issues—girlfriends, school, parents, being cool—yet who are also expected to be good, practicing Muslims who don’t date before marriage, who avoid vulgar popular culture, and who never miss their prayers. Many Americans unfamiliar with Islam or Muslims see young men like these as potential ISIS recruits. But neither militant Islamism nor Islamophobia is the main concern of these boys, who are focused instead on juggling the competing cultural demands that frame their everyday lives. O’Brien illuminates how they work together to manage their “culturally contested lives” through subtle and innovative strategies—such as listening to profane hip-hop music in acceptably “Islamic” ways, professing individualism to cast their participation in communal religious obligations as more acceptably American, dating young Muslim women in ambiguous ways that intentionally complicate adjudications of Islamic permissibility, and presenting a “low-key Islam” in public in order to project a Muslim identity without drawing unwanted attention. Closely following these boys as they move through their teen years together, Keeping It Halal sheds light on their strategic efforts to manage their day-to-day cultural dilemmas as they devise novel and dynamic modes of Muslim American identity in a new and changing America.

Download or read book I m Low Key Feeling You written by Cole Hart and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aaliyah Pride has her hands full with pursuing her career and trying to figure out, what led to the sudden change in her man, Chris' behavior. The last thing she needed was for temptation to step in-leading her to question everything she thought she knew about life and love but that's exactly what she got when she met Montae Wilson. Montae "Baby Boy" Wilson was blessed from birth with good looks, irresistible charm and a passion for hard work. He's a man that can adjust to his surroundings and go from classic to hood in zero to sixty seconds without blinking an eye. From the moment he saw Aaliyah he knew there was something special about her. Something that went far beyond her pretty face and inviting curves. Briana Henson world was flipped upside down, when her father, one of Atlanta's biggest Kingpins, was sentenced to a thirty year sentence in a federal prison. A product of her environment, the only thing Briana knew was partying and spending money. Now that 'broke' is her lifestyle, she's desperate to find a come up and eager to use her assets to seal the deal. When she meets Montae, money is the last thing on her mind and she quickly finds herself caught up in her emotions and feeling him on an unfamiliar level. Before long, Briana is left asking herself if a woman of her stature could really love a man that's working a nine to five at Walmart. As the lives of these three collide, hearts will be broken, bonds will be damaged and an unknown enemy will submerge. Discover what can happen when chance run-ins and nights of passion lead to intimate deceptions and see just how far some admirers will go, when they're low key feeling you.

Download or read book American Soldiers written by Peter S. Kindsvatter and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some warriors are drawn to the thrill of combat and find it the defining moment of their lives. Others fall victim to fear, exhaustion, impaired reasoning and despair. This book synthesizes the wartime experiences of American soldiers, from the doughboys of World War I to the grunts of Vietnam. Focusing on both soldiers and marines, it draws on histories and memoirs, oral histories, psychological and sociological studies and even fiction to show that their experiences remain fundamentally the same regardless of the enemy, terrain, training or weaponry.

Download or read book Keeping it Simple written by Yasmin Fahr and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best New Cookbook of Spring 2020 by The New York Times, Forbes and Esquire UK. After a long day at work, heading home to cook a fussy, complicated meal is the last thing anyone wants to do. Keeping it Simple is the ultimate collection to have on hand for these moments. Featuring over 60 quick and easy, drool-worthy one-pot dinners you can whip up in the time in takes to have a glass of wine (or two, let's be honest), Yasmin Fahr has got you covered. Inspired by her column for Serious Eats, One-Pot Wonders, Yasmin sets out to arm readers with sneaky gems and low-key showstoppers that work every time, and a promise that they will learn at least one new move (if not a good few) to up their skills in the kitchen. The ultimate goal is to get dinner on the table quickly, but also to create something truly delicious as a weeknight reward. Why order a takeaway when you can throw together Miso-Ghee Chicken with Roasted Radishes or Rigatoni and Broccoli with Crispy Prosciutto in 20 minutes? And when you can cook it all in one pot, clean-up is a breeze. Featuring humorous and relatable anecdotes and musings on cooking and life, in Yasmin's witty and energetic style, Keeping it Simple is the book you'll keep coming back to night after night for inspiration both in the kitchen and out. It's a collection that will remind you why you love to cook in the first place.

Download or read book Low Key Fallin For A Savage 2 written by J Dominique and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping yet bittersweet novel by #1 African American Women's fiction bestselling author J. Dominique. This stunning new romance will be just as unputdownable as the last.Lights. Camera. Action... Living the life of the rich and famous or at least that is what it feels like for Dream and Destiny. Until it's not.For the sisters, things are looking up and they can't help but smile. Dream is living the life she has always envisioned for herself, making her dreams come true. Not only is hers and Destiny's business thriving but she is in love. Things between her and Eazy are better than she could've imagined. However, when things are going too good, the other shoe decides to drop. A blast from the past threatens to destroy their budding relationship, creating cracks in their sturdy foundation. Will the threat crumble their story before it truly begins? Or will Dream and Easy fight to protect what they have built?After their very brief affair, Destiny is cool with Juice only being in her life for the sake of Yo'Sahn. Or at least that's what she keeps telling herself. However, she keeps playing herself. Especially since the distraction of another man can't lure her head and her heart away from the handsome, yet, rude thug that she loves to hate. But when tragedy strikes, Destiny proves exactly where her loyalty lies. Yet there's someone lurking, who doesn't want them to have a happily ever after and willing to go after the one person she loves the most. When her back is up against the wall, will Destiny rise to the top and show that she can be as savage as the next? Will she put her heart in the hands of a rude thug?In part two of Low Key Fallin' for a Savage, everything is out in the open. Loyalty will definitely be tried. Unknown enemies will expose themselves. And daunting secrets threaten to disintegrate everything our favorite characters have built.*************************************************************************************************************************************************This Women's Fiction Romance is recommended for fans of Chenell Parker, Jade Jones, Jessica Watkins, Mz. Lady P, Khadija J., Lady Lissa, Patrice Balark, Jahquel J., K.C. Mills, K. Renee, Shvonne Latrice, & N'Dia Rae.

Download or read book Keeping Faith written by Jodi Picoult and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A triumph. This novel’s haunting strength will hold the reader until the very end and make Faith and her story impossible to forget.” —Richmond Times Dispatch “Extraordinary.” —Orlando Sentinel From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes, Change of Heart, Handle with Care) comes Keeping Faith: an “addictively readable” (Entertainment Weekly) novel that “makes you wonder about God. And that is a rare moment, indeed, in modern fiction” (USA Today).

Download or read book China in Africa written by Suisheng Zhao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s expansion and growing influence in Africa is arguably the most remarkable global political and economic development in the 21st century. China’s foray into Africa started in the late 1990s, propelled by its desire to obtain new sources of raw materials and energy for its economic growth, as well as new markets for its manufactured goods. While China’s "no political strings attached" policy proves attractive to many of African leaders, China has been criticized as neo-colonialist, interested solely in stripping Africa of its mineral wealth without proper environmental or social precautions. This book addresses the controversy by exploring the motivations and practices of China’s African engagement, providing a comprehensive account of the intensified interactions between China and African states. The first part examines the debate surrounding whether China has pursued a neo-colonialist path in Africa, by looking at the perception of China by the locals and the challenges that the intensified relationship has posed for African states. The second part analyses China’s strategic motivations to see if Beijing has acquired sustaining power and influence in Africa in competition with the West. The third part focuses on economic and business practices of Chinese companies in Africa, as well as China-Africa trade patterns. The articles in this book were originally published in special issues of the Journal of Contemporary China.

Download or read book Email Lists Made Easy for Writers and Bloggers written by Kirsten Oliphant and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Email is the most powerful tool authors and bloggers can use. Period. This is THE book that authors and bloggers need to make the most of email marketing. Email Lists Made Easy for Writers and Bloggers is the missing piece to get your list on lock. Far from a boring read on "email marketing," it will speak in terms that writers and bloggers understand. - Personal Connection - Email is far more personal that any other social connection you can have with your followers. Learn to harness that power. - Permanent Connection - You can literally download your subscribers' emails and hold them in your hand. Try doing that with Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. - Powerful Connection - The ROI of email beats the pants off anything else you'll try. A 2016 study from Campaign Monitor found that for every $1 you spend, you'll get $44 back. Get specific training on how to create and grow an effective list, from that very first signup form to more advanced tools like autoresponders series. With a free workbook you can download upon purchase, this book will be more than just ideas. It will be a practical guide that will help you learn to love (and get the most from) your email list. Chapters Include: - Finding Your Why - Choosing an Email Service Provider - Optimizing Your Signup Forms - Onboarding - Creating Content - Upping Engagement - Implementing Growth Strategies - Creating Freebies and Content Upgrades - Keeping Your List Clean - Planning Autoresponders - What's Working in 2017 Plus, you'll also get a glossary of terms you need to know and a section with the most frequently asked questions about email lists. The accompanying workbook also includes a checklist for setting up your list so that you won't miss an important piece. No one ever says they are glad they waited to start their list. Let your email list work for you. Starting...NOW. Kirsten Oliphant is a writer with an MFA in fiction and a blogger with over 10 years under her belt. She hosts the Create If Writing podcast, where she talks all about building an online platform without being smarmy. She was named one of the top 25 Social Media Power Influencers in both 2016 and 2017 and has spoken at conferences like BlogHer Food, Podcast Movement, The MediaVine Publisher's Conference, Blog Elevated, and HBU's Writer's Conference. Get started today with Email Lists Made Easy!

Download or read book The Effortless Experience written by Matthew Dixon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows that the best way to create customer loyalty is with service so good, so over the top, that it surprises and delights. But what if everyone is wrong? In their acclaimed bestseller The Challenger Sale, Matthew Dixon and his colleagues at CEB busted many longstanding myths about sales. Now they’ve turned their research and analysis to a new vital business subject—customer loyalty—with a new book that turns the conventional wisdom on its head. The idea that companies must delight customers by exceeding service expectations is so entrenched that managers rarely even question it. They devote untold time, energy, and resources to trying to dazzle people and inspire their undying loyalty. Yet CEB’s careful research over five years and tens of thousands of respondents proves that the “dazzle factor” is wildly overrated—it simply doesn’t predict repeat sales, share of wallet, or positive wordof-mouth. The reality: Loyalty is driven by how well a company delivers on its basic promises and solves day-to-day problems, not on how spectacular its service experience might be. Most customers don’t want to be “wowed”; they want an effortless experience. And they are far more likely to punish you for bad service than to reward you for good service. If you put on your customer hat rather than your manager or marketer hat, this makes a lot of sense. What do you really want from your cable company, a free month of HBO when it screws up or a fast, painless restoration of your connection? What about your bank—do you want free cookies and a cheerful smile, even a personal relationship with your teller? Or just a quick in-and-out transaction and an easy way to get a refund when it accidentally overcharges on fees? The Effortless Experience takes readers on a fascinating journey deep inside the customer experience to reveal what really makes customers loyal—and disloyal. The authors lay out the four key pillars of a low-effort customer experience, along the way delivering robust data, shocking insights and profiles of companies that are already using the principles revealed by CEB’s research, with great results. And they include many tools and templates you can start applying right away to improve service, reduce costs, decrease customer churn, and ultimately generate the elusive loyalty that the “dazzle factor” fails to deliver. The rewards are there for the taking, and the pathway to achieving them is now clearly marked.

Download or read book Souljas Story 2 written by A. I.T and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saga continues, but this time Soulja has the money and power. He's finally living the lavish life he has always dreamed of while hustling in the streets of Gary, Indiana. But was the price paid worth the wealth accumulated. While the kidnapping, robbery, and murder of Slick, a local drug dealer, brought Soulja keys of uncut drugs, it also brought him heat he never dreamed of and consequences that lead to more kidnappings, wars, and murders. With warrants for his arrest by the Feds and a bounty on his head by the cartel, Soulja has to maneuver smartly to move all the product he has, so he brought in new members after losing old ones. So will Soulja be the last man standing, or will the Feds or the cartel track him down?

Download or read book Project Genesis written by H.J."Walt" Walter and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LEARN THE TRUTH BEHIND THE UFO SIGHTINGS OF THE PAST 60+ YEARS AND THE INTRIGE SURROUNDING THE QUEST FOR POWER AND WORLD DOMINATION Travel back in time as Bob Avery relates the epic tale of the development of the U.S. governments Anti-gravity Flight Vehicle (AFV) program. Follow the plotting by the Russian governemtn to thwart U.S. domination of world power. Live with the Navymen as they adapt to the fluid situation of attempting to bring space shuttle Enterprise back to earth and of the daring rescue in space. Tori Croft joins the AFV program and proves her mettle in the battle to survive the travails of space and the male dominated secret space program.

Download or read book Keeping On Keeping On written by Alan Bennett and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year: “Humorous, surprising, disarmingly human” essays and comic pieces from one of England’s national treasures (The Washington Post Book World). A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of the Year A Lambda Literary Award finalist Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England’s best-known literary figures, Keeping On Keeping On contains Tony Award–winning playwright, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and actor Alan Bennett’s diaries from 2005 to 2015—with everything from his much celebrated essays to his irreverent comic pieces and reviews—reflecting on a decade that saw four major theater premieres and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van. This entertaining chronicle of a life in letters comes from a “singular voice [with] a highly tuned ironic wit—his special brand of gentleness laced with arsenic” (The New York Times Book Review). “Part of the pleasure of his diaries is the sense that [Bennett] tells them things he would never say out loud.” —The New York Review of Books “Consistently funny and touching.” —The Telegraph

Download or read book Rhapsodina City written by OJ Francis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Jason Rupert, son of the self-made tycoon Wilson Rupert, one day demands his share of inheritance. He wants it immediately and fakes a wild, dramatic row with both his parents to get what he wants. He proceeds to Rhapsodina City to test his mettle and choosing to listen to the advice of false friend uses his money as he sees fi t. He is brought down to his knees when the fortune runs and so-called friends abandon him.

Download or read book Inside the New China written by Gene Ayres and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is no longer a Third World country. It is now the world's fastest growing economy. Even after the 2008 Olympics, this fact may come as a shock to many Americans, who continue to think that the Chinese still march around in brown uniforms with red stars on their caps arresting dissidents for wearing capitalist Levis. China has at last count, more than half a billion cell phone users. Indeed, the Chinese are not only the world's leading users of mobile phones, but also the leading suppliers. No Chinese student goes without one and even a donkey cart driver chatting away on a mobile is not an uncommon sight.China's educated New Generation is possibly the most highly motivated force since the post-World War II generation in America. The young people of China are the next wave of a flourishing Chinese middle class now estimated as 13.5 % of the population, and expected to be 600 million strong by 2015, according toBusiness Week. These young people want to drive cars like ours, live in houses like ours, own condos near the beach, wear designer clothes, and carry cell phones, iPods, camcorders, digital cameras, and MP3 players, just like Americans. Tens of millions already do.During a thirty-month stay in Chinabetween 2004 and 2007, Ayres was presented to soldiers straight out of boot camp, toasted by military generals and governors, invited to parties with local leaders as a ""foreign expert and dignitary,"" and begged to counsel dissidents and the lovelorn. He rode buses jammed with peasants hoping that they would actually be paid at the end of the month. He dickered with farmers in open markets and street vendors desperate to make ends meet. He dealt with smooth, savvy merchants in upscale department stores; and debated policy with Communist Party bosses. This revised paperback edition of the author's earlier work, A Billion to One, is a vivid, intimate account of China as it is today.

Download or read book US China Relations written by Tao Xie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With China’s rapid ascendance to great power status, the U.S.-China relationship has become one of the most important international relationships in the world today. This book explores relations between the U.S. and China, focusing in particular on China policymaking in the U.S. Congress, which has been unusually active in the development of this relationship. Based on detailed analysis of China bills introduced in Congress over the past three decades, it provides detailed analysis of how Congressional policymaking works in practice, and explores the most controversial issues in U.S.-China relations: Taiwan, trade and human rights. It considers the voting patterns and party divisions on these issues, showing that liberals and conservatives often form an alliance concerning China because China’s authoritarian regime, human rights problems, soaring trade surplus with the U.S and rising military power attract criticism from both camps. It also argues that congressional committees, bicameralism and presidential veto make it virtually impossible for Congress to legislate on China, despite its intense preferences, and therefore Congress often turns to informal – but no less effective – means to exert influence on China policy, such as framing public opinion and generating situations that result in anticipated reactions by the executive branch or Beijing.

Download or read book Big Tall Chronicles written by Gary Michael Marino and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-06-09 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big & Tall Chronicles is a revealing and powerful, yet surprisingly comical account of Gary Marino's lifelong battle with obesity. It details how growing up overweight in America negatively affects an individual. Anecdotes demonstrate how Mr. Marino's weight problem put him in situations or "misadventures" that he normally would not have experienced, and offers a brutally honest look into the self-destructive mindset that modern day food addicts go through, and the frustrations and downfalls that occur while trying to live a normal life. The passionate soul-searching that ultimately pushed Marino's inner button and led him to a healing path resonates with a bittersweet familiarity for anyone recovering from an addictive disorder. Marino shares the knowledge and insights he has gained with the help of his "Dream Team" of experts, including a sports medicine specialist, a nutritionist, a personal trainer, and a therapist specializing in weight-loss issues. Truthful, educational and soul baring with a humorous undercurrent, Big & Tall Chronicles may very well be the breakthrough personal journey and addiction recovery book millions of Americans have been waiting for to dig deep into themselves and fix themselves once and for all.