Download or read book Lesia and I written by Myron B. Kuropas and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lesia and I is a progress report of the fifty-year marriage of Myron and Lesia Kuropas which produced two sons and six grandchildren, as well as a memoir of a Ukrainian-American whose varied career included working as a school principal in Chicago’s inner-city, a regional director of a federal agency in Chicago, a presidential special assistant in the White House, a legislative assistant in the U.S. Senate, and an adjunct professor at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. Dr. Kuropas reviews the major events in his fascinating life, his travels throughout the world, and his successes and failures in both his personal and professional life. Provided as background are historical sketches of the episodes that had a profound impact on Myron and Lesia’s life as well as the lives of their parents.
Download or read book Lesia s Dream written by Laura Langston and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Lesia can hardly bear it. She and her family must leave their beloved Baba in their Ukrainian hometown in order to flee to Canada. Dreaming of fields of wheat, wealth and security, Lesia looks forward to a life in Canada, free from poverty and rumours of war. But the 160 acres of hardscrabble prairie look nothing like the wheat fields of her dreams. And even though there is no fighting in her new country, the First World War follows them there.
Download or read book Getaway written by Rod Humphris and published by Rat's Tales Ltd. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First you save my life, then you bring me here..." Suzana Chesterfield, recently rescued from a gang of slave-traders by Simon Ellice, has come sailing with him to try to work out what to do with her life. And perhaps to find out whether the handsome, selfish, bastard should be part of it. They drop anchor in a perfect bay of pink granite rocks, glittering sand and azure water on the island of Cavello, in the Lavezzi Archipellago between Corsica and Sardinia, and are welcomed into to the warm southern hospitality of Andria Acquaviv and his family, who have the villa in the next bay. Susie's heart is touched by Lesia, the little girl who plays with her dog in the sand and Lucia, her unhappy, widowed mother, who without a husband or a son, is reduced to serving the family. She wants to help them, help the little girl to find a wider world and Lucia to break free from family bonds and find independence. Can she? Dare she interfere? And if she does, will the deceptively relaxed and easy-going man she's with, back her? Si, who knows exactly what kind of 'businessman' Andria is, is enjoying the company of the men and watching the holiday-makers come and go, and one boat in particular... ... and wondering if what he sees, which no one else sees, means what he thinks it means; that death is coming as swiftly and surely as the sun nears the sea.
Download or read book Doctor Who Bunker Soldiers written by Martin Day and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A First Doctor, Steven and Dodo novel A fireball erupts in the forests of the Ukraine, and when the locals investigate, they find what appears to be a metal coffin at the centre of the devastation. They superstitiously conclude that the casket contains the body of an angel, sent to Earth to give hope to the people. Centuries later, the Doctor and his companions find themselves trapped in Kiev, 1240 a city under attack by the Mongols. They are enforced guests of the governor, Dmitri, whose assistant Yehven believes that if the coffin is desecrated, then all who threaten us will be destroyed. When the coffin is opened by a group of men, a terrifying, skull-faced creature is freed, and kills a member of the group before fleeing. A spate of violent deaths ensure but this creature certainly isnt killing indiscriminately. How is this creature choosing it victims, where has it come from and most importantly, can the Doctor do anything to halt its murderous trail of destruction?
Download or read book Into the Heart of Darkness written by Jacques Pauw and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacques Pauw has been an investigative journalist for more than three decades. Before the phenomenal success of The President's Keepers, he spent years tracking down apartheid death squads. Into the Heart of Darkness, first released in 1997, was the result of this work. Despite official denials and cover-ups, the rumours of apartheid's death squads have now been proved to be all too real. Hundreds of anti-apartheid activists were killed and thousands tortured by a group of bizarre assassins, the foot soldiers of apartheid's secret war. Jacques Pauw has been more closely involved with apartheid's killers than any other journalist. For more than seven years, he has hunted them down and become a witness to their secret and forbidden world. Into the Heart of Darkness will take you on a journey into the minds and lives of the men who went out to kill and kill again. What caused these souls to become so dark and guided them to so much evil?
Download or read book The Vine of a Naked Child II written by Mary Elizabeth Moorman and published by Spiderwize. This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People who think they know everything are not willing to change anything. Some people think that all they have in life is what is in front of them. So they settle. They stay weak. Looking at Mary Thompson, she has it all in tact; the perfect painted face, the perfect hairstyle, and is well dressed, however, underneath the woven layers, lays dormant, a killer of souls. He is all she knows, or is it? Mary Thompson never expected to grow up the way she did, abused, misused, and rejected around each corner. All grown up, looking in the mirror, is when her true enemy reveals himself to her. She discovers that he is her family's enemy too. Only Mary stands a chance of saving them from an eternal death. But can she save them? Can she even save herself from sliding deeper into a dark pit, only to have the enemy ravish her again? Will she have enough strength to carry that endless burden? Psychologically destroyed, unstable and inexperienced in the strategies of spiritual warfare, Mary stands on a thin line between fear and faith, death and life. Will the dark side's gauntlet of trouble and turmoil keep her in bondage? Or will the grace of God, and her prophetic dreams lead to her deliverance?
Download or read book God s Sky Volume II written by Pearl Smithern and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lesia's and Andrew's lives intertwine with other characters into a maze. She has met this challenge with an enduring attitude. Yet, like the creatures we are, she soon finds life has sorrow and unanswered questions. Dreams of fear and doubt are now in the maze making her unsure about her future. Maze of life is seeing, not seeing- hearing, and not hearing, those ahead of you. If you have ever been in a maze, you want to hurry to exit, but a wrong choice can be costly. What will complete her loveless life? Will it be the handsome gladiator with his son, or the sandals of Andrew? God-Sky volumes III Maze Continues.
Download or read book A Feast of Longing written by Sarah Klassen and published by Coteau Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate, powerfully written, collection of stories featuring characters who seldom find themselves present in Canadian fiction - ordinary middle class people. A Feast of Longing presents a fourteen-course banquet of characters whose common thread is their own longing D for significance, for meaning in their lives, for their troubles to pass, for guilt to let them go. Inspired by a charismatic speaker to side with the poor, a woman volunteers at a charity soup kitchen and is intimidated by one of the patrons she tries to befriend. A man whose son has been arrested for several crimes tries to find some peace in regular visits to a church. A first year university student reluctantly befriends her aunt's neighbour, a mentally challenged woman. With a poet's eye, ear and heart, sharpened over the creation of five collections of verse, Sarah Klassen brings an insight into characters and a depth to her stories that is not often found in short fiction. In every story optimism is present, but is tempered by the presence, or at least the awareness, of life's cruel underside, adding an extra power to the work."
Download or read book Jettie s Journey What a Trip written by Jettie Pettit and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how a strict Southern Baptist became a dedicated Catholic evangelist and teacher. The ways that God moved in my life were indeed strange. From early childhood until now His Holy Spirit has been my guide when I would follow and the one with the cattle prod when I hesitated. Some of the experiences told about in this book may cause skepticism, but every word is true! I have told some of the stories in different places, but this is the first time that the entire story has been written. It is my prayer that any who read it will be blessed and inspired to tell their own story.
Download or read book God s Sky written by Pearl Smithern and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lesia's life in volume one and two took her on a journey from Jerusalem, Rome, Patra, Greece, and Ukraine. She kept the heartbeat of love inside her mind, reminding her that soon she would be reunited with her soul mate. Things did not go as she had hoped. A big dream was born inside this new-age woman. She will break the mold of where and what women were doing in her timeline. She now accepts the challenge of building an Andrew School for children and especially orphans. Her children would for sure not have slave-posted ears. Her slave earring is gone, but memories would sometimes surface. She ponders that maybe she will be only an old school maid. Her sandals were divided; she gave Jacob the right one, and is now unhappy with her decision. She decides she would never separate them again. Now, the sandal, with God's help, begins an important maze journey for Jacob, Nathanael, Philip, and his sister, Mariamne, along with Mugface and his family. With ensuing international turmoil in the latter end of the maze, Lee Chin meets the Zhang Family. Speculus the gladiator has now gotten into her human desire! Was her last hug with Dylan leaving the mark of a son on her heart? Will this child face his destiny with no parents or country? Will everyone reach the end and be one big family? My novel was written in volumes, bringing my dream to life! Hopefully someday as a movie and enjoyment for all ages.
Download or read book Thousands of Roads written by Maria Savchyn Pyskir and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2001-01-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before, during, and after World War II, Maria Savchyn Pyskir served in the Ukrainian Underground resistance. Her dramatic and poignant memoir tells of her recruitment into underground service at age 14, her participation in resistance activities during the War, her bittersweet marriage to revolutionary leader “Orlan,” her struggle against Stalinist forces, and her captures by and escapes from the KGB. In the 1950s when she escaped to the West, she began these memoirs, which were not published in Ukrainian until after the fall of the Soviet Union. Their appearance in Ukrainian caused a sensation, as she remains the only survivor of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) to have told her tale, now offered in English. Pyskir, whose escape came at the cost of her husband, children, and family, recreates in her memoir an astonishing account of her experiences as a Ukrainian partisan, a woman, a wife, a mother, and an outcast from her own land. The book contains maps, many of the author’s own photographs, and a foreword by John A. Armstrong.
Download or read book The Recipient written by Dean Mayes and published by Central Avenue Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her heart is dying. Casey Schillinge is a vivacious young woman on the verge of making her mark on the world. While backpacking, she is struck down by a tropical disease and suffers cardiac failure. But at the eleventh hour, Casey receives a life-saving heart transplant and a rare second chance to begin again. Her new heart is changing her. Three years later, Casey has become a withdrawn shell of her former self: she is estranged from her loved ones, afraid of open spaces and rides the line between legitimate and criminal work. The worst of her troubles come in the form of violent night terrors; so frightening that she resorts to extreme measures to keep herself from sleeping. What is her heart revealing? When she can take no more, she embarks on a desperate search for the source of her dreams. In so doing, she makes a shocking discovery surrounding the tragic fate of the donor whose heart now beats inside her chest. As she delves deeper into the mystery of her donor, she realizes her dreams are not a figment of her imagination, but a real-life nightmare. Will her heart end up killing her after all? "As Dean takes you on an adrenaline-fuelled ride that twists to a kicker of a climax, ultimately uncovering a tale of human horror that is all too real, he will keep you guessing throughout as you try and figure out just who the good guys and the bad guys are. A word of warning – trust no-one as you race towards the very satisfying conclusion of this gripping psychological thriller!" - Marcia B, Book Muster Down Under "Entwining very real social issues with fast-paced adventure and fascinating dream sequences, Mayes has created a story that successfully combines suspense, dark humor, cultural references, action and outright horror, an intense examination of what motivates the terrible crimes perpetrated in the novel. Be prepared for a wild ride!" - Abbie Williams, author of The Shore Leave Cafe series "Overall, a great read that was fascinating medically and had great character development." - Christina Boswell, Manhattan Book Review Be sure to also read Dean Mayes' other novels: The Hambledown Dream Gifts of the Peramangk The Artisan Heart
Download or read book In the Labyrinth of the KGB written by Olga Bertelsen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2024 Winner, Kjetil Hatlebrekke Memorial Book Prize, King's College Centre for the Study of Intelligence This book focuses on the generation of the sixties and seventies in Kharkiv, Soviet Ukraine, a milieu of writers who lived through the Thaw and the processes of de-Stalinization and re-Stalinization. Special attention is paid to KGB operations against what came to be known as the dissident milieu, and the interaction of Ukrainians, Jews, and Russians in the movement, their persona friendships, formal and informal interactions, and the ways they dealt with repression and arrests. This study demonstrates that the KGB unintentionally facilitated the transnational and intercultural links among the Kharkiv multi-ethnic community of writers and their mutual enrichment. Post-Khrushchev Kharkiv is analyzed as a political space and a place of state violence aimed at combating Ukrainian nationalism and Zionism, two major targets in the 1960s–1970s. Despite their various cultural and social backgrounds, the Kharkiv literati might be identified as a distinct bohemian group possessing shared aesthetic and political values that emerged as the result of de-Stalinization under Khrushchev. Archival documents, diaries, and memoirs suggest that the 1960s–1970s was a period of intense KGB operations, “active measures” designed to disrupt a community of intellectuals and to fragment friendships, bonds, and support among Ukrainians, Russians, and Jews along ethnic lines domestically and abroad.
Download or read book Operation Lancaster written by Roger Londoniary and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11-14 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Livington is set on a mission in Germany, and not just that is also is ordered to blowup a Nazi artillery plant. His lover and date is a Nazi. He is secretly been spying on her. However, he goes undercover in doing so. Along with this, Livington has to contact Lesia Stock is his partner in the mission undercover though. Not just that but also they encounter some obstacles on the way.
Download or read book Unclenching Our Fists written by Sara Elinoff Acker and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features eleven first-person stories of men from diverse class and racial backgrounds who have made a long-term commitment to end their physical and emotional abuse and controlling behaviors. These men speak frankly about the abuse they inflicted on their families, what it took to get them to face themselves, and how they feel about the damage they have caused. All participated in violence intervention programs, some for as long as ten years. To put a face on violence and to encourage activism for reform, most of the eleven have allowed their photos and real names to be used in the book. Surrounding this material are chapters that provide context about the disputes among researchers about whether batterer intervention programs work (only a small number of batterers renounce their abuse) and chapters that address the reactions of partners to these stories. "When the Man You Love is Abusive" is designed to caution women not to be manipulated by accounts of change and to outline the stages men need to pass through in the long process of becoming accountable. "The Last Word: Voices of Survivors" ends the book with a focus group discussion in which former abuse victims and advocates respond candidly to the men's stories.
Download or read book Seven Million Sunflowers written by Malcolm Duffy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escaping war is only half the battle as the Kovalenko family swap Ukrainian dangers for life with a British family. 15-year-old Kateryno and her family live in Kharkiv. Their lives are shattered when on February 24th 2022 the Russian army invades. Their apartment block is struck by a missile. After weeks living in their basement, Kateryno, her mother, and brother, decide to leave, joining seven million Ukrainian refugees. They come to England and meet their host family, the Hawkins. But their new beginning brings a whole new set of problems.
Download or read book Handbook of Intercultural Communication written by Helga Kotthoff and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s globalized world of international contact and multicultural interaction, effective intercultural communication is increasingly seen as a pre-requisite for social harmony and organisational success. This handbook takes a ?problem-solving? approach to the various issues that arise in real-life intercultural interaction. The editors have brought together experts from a range of disciplines, including linguistics, psychology and anthropology, to provide a multidisciplinary perspective on the field, whilst simultaneously anchoring it in Applied Linguistics. Key features: provides a state-of-the-art description of different areas in the context of intercultural communication presents a critical appraisal of the relevance of the field offers solutions of everyday language-related problems international handbook with contributions from renown experts in the field