Download or read book Forged Through Trials written by and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ultimate Millionaire written by Susan Mallery and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Todd Aston III’s reputation as a playboy preceded him; he wore power as seamlessly as he wore his custom-cut suits. But Marina Nelson had promised her sister—who was marrying Todd’s cousin—that she’d help him plan the perfect wedding. And somehow, between tasting cakes and modeling wedding dresses, Marina discovered that she wanted Todd—and that Todd wanted her. She was powerless to prevent the inevitable. Yet the harder she fell for Todd, the more she realized that he didn’t trust marriage-minded women. Which made her grandmother’s offer of a million dollars to whichever Nelson sister married him a big problem…. Look for Susan Mallery’s new Fool’s Gold trilogy, starting in June with Just One Kiss from Harlequin HQN! And don’t miss the series prequel novella, Halfway There, coming in May 2013!

Download or read book The Dragon and The Nomad written by Seaweediswild and published by Infinite Joy. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amara came from a human nomadic tribe with an arranged marriage waiting for her. She left in the hopes of finding her brother, who hasn't contacted the family for a year. It lands her a job as a maid in an underground brothel with no formal education and being human in the world of Dragons. There was little to no help for her. Maex, a shifter, was once highly respected and loved by the high nobles as the second prince of Dracone, but with a cruel stepmother as the queen, he was thrown into s*****y as a male p********e in the deep bowels of the black-market. Abused and used in every way possible, he accepted his fate and chose to die, but a human, fated to be his, is ordered to serve him. Amara fades from the face of the earth after helping Maex get to his freedom. While Maex is whisked back to his old life by his brother, the king, leaving him to wonder what happened to her. Not believing the rumor of her getting killed for what she did. He vows that the next time he sees her, he would never let her go.

Download or read book The Turning written by Andrew Thomas and published by Northern Quill Concepts. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Turning is about one woman’s journey as she embarks on a new career in four-dimensional espionage and national security with the intriguing, yet lethal, Agency of Adjustments. “An intriguing mix between reality and sci-fi,” Amazon reader Kalila Grey is a new recruit in an unknown British security organisation and is about to find out if she has the nerve to survive in a government role that few people even know exists. A former social worker with a gift for languages, Kalila begins a new career in what she thinks is national security for the UK government. However, when the true purpose of her role begins to appear she is soon faced with questionable ethics where hidden agendas and part-truths become issues of life or death. Will Kalila be able to survive a profession in high-stakes homeland security when she discovers what the real purpose is of this secret agency? And who are you meant to trust when you cannot be sure if you could even trust yourself? Kalila is about to find out... The Kalila Grey series is all about complicated politics, dubious motives and explosive action all taking place in locations around the globe. Who are her enemies and who can she trust? Not everything is clear and understandable in an environment that demands immediate action under pressure, and decision-making that offers no room for mistakes. Andrew Thomas is the author of this new take on time travel adventures that take place in a dark and gritty world of international espionage and assassination.

Download or read book Spinach Soup for the Walls written by Lynne Harkes and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has lived in wonderful places, from Nigeria to South America, Oman to the Gabon jungle.She describes the hospitality and resilience of the natives and the magnificence of landscape and animals. But Lynne was unhappy and isolated.This is the story of how she rediscovered her spirituality.We must “recognise the remarkable in the ordinary”.

Download or read book Fighting Prosaic Messages written by Henry C Amoroso Jr and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part historical fiction, part memoir, part philosophy of education, this book begins with a story about a womans immigration into the U.S. and how three of her generations struggled in the U.S. school system. The book ends with an analysis of why many students fail in school, and what we can do about it. Through story and analysis, this book offers a critique of the U.S. education systemin 3 parts. Part one imagines what the immigration experience was like in the past, and reads like historical fiction. Part two looks at the ensuing three generations in the present, and reads like a memoir. Part three gleans lessons from the story as a whole for what we can do better in the future. In the historical fiction part, a Sicilian woman named Rose emigrates to the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century. Knowing no English and illiterate but armed with a moral intelligence, she struggles in this strange world of the free, rubs shoulders with some of the great thinkers of her day, and discusses the nature of education with them. Shes one of the many prosaic heroes history books and schools sometimes forget. In the memoir part, Roses son Henry, the authors father, drops out of school in the eighth grade to help his single mom by selling newspapershe never thought he was smart enough for school anyway. His son Henry Jr. goes all the way in school to obtain a PhD, but struggles to find a voice along the way. Henry Jr.s son Justin was seemingly born with an expressive voice, but in his shuffle to conform to the school system, almost lost it. In these 3 cases, we see 3 types of students who often fail in school in general. In the final analysis part, the book reflects on these prosaic cases to understand why so many U.S. students fail. The theme that emerges parallels the traditions of Rousseau, Dewey, and Montessori: students at heart are good and educators are most effective when they treat them as such; students learn best by doing, and this includes moral doing; and students become intrinsically motivated to learn if allowed to think critically, creatively, and to find their voices. If democracy depends on an informed citizenry, the questions this book raises about school failure are critical to the future of our nation . J.A.

Download or read book Take My Grief Away written by Katerina Gordeeva and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING*** 'Read this book. Don't put it off until you'll supposedly be strong enough and ready for the reading. If you put it off, you'll find yourself defenseless in the face of evil.' - Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Chernobyl Prayer In the darkest of times, in the midst of it all, a journalist has one single task: to document everything that is happening. It is time to slow down and listen to the voice of a human being. On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Since that day, prize-winning independent journalist Katerina Gordeeva has travelled to refugee centres across Europe to record the human voice and cost of war. Take My Grief Away reveals twenty-four raw, heartbreaking first-person accounts from people united in grief and their first-hand experiences of the brutality and senselessness of war. These twenty-four voices will transform what you think you know about war, grief and human nature.

Download or read book A Fool In Love written by J. Jean Elliott and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-11-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marina Frances had been in love with Jettson Frame from the moment she had lain eyes on him eleven years earlier. But Jettson had never noticed for drooling all over Flame, who had noticed him for the same length of time it took her to dump him and marry another man. Then Jettson had moved out of the state and Marina hadn’t seen nor heard of him in six years. Plus, she had gotten on with her life to the point of becoming engaged to marry her attorney boyfriend of a year and a half and the marriage was six weeks away. Now Jettson was back in her life busily chasing after her divorced Cousin Flame while trying to foist her off onto his nerdy Cousin Berry: all just like old times. How was Marina supposed to cope with her imminent marriage knowing she was still in love with Jettson, a man who didn’t know she was alive in that way and a man who could never seem to get her name straight? Nervously Marina marched down the aisle on her father’s arm Monday evening after her succession of bridesmaids. Her mother had been seated at the front of the church by one of Harvey’s groomsmen, an impatient look on her face as if the wedding wouldn’t take place fast enough for her. Harvey’s parents had been seated across the aisle from her, Harland Jr. and Amy Lennox looking on at her entrance with interest. But Marina barely took note of any of them as her gaze fixed on her fiancé as he stood tall and proud before the Reverend Ansley with Ty Wallerstein officiating as his best man. It was only a wedding rehearsal and Marina was a total mess, her heart thudding in her chest like a jackhammer. Harvey was a good man—her mother had been right about that—and he loved her very much. Marina would be a fool not to marry him in light of his newfound status at his law firm. By the same token, how could she possibly marry him knowing she was in love with another man? What guarantee did she have that she would learn to love him after they were married when it didn’t work for her Aunt Nadine three times? And how did Marina know that Harvey wouldn’t be able to detect by her marital frigidity that she didn’t love him in the true sense of the word? She should be telling Harvey right now that she could not marry him because she was not in love with him. But by the same token, she wanted to marry him because she would be a fool to let a great catch like him go. She was torn wanting him, but for all the wrong reasons. Marina fought to get a grip on herself as she and her father neared the altar. Perhaps if she recalled the playful banter that had taken place between her and her bridesmaids out in the lobby before the rehearsal had started. Simone joking about how eldest son Drancy had gotten in a fight with a neighboring child that day and how Azar had beat his behind when he’d arrived home that evening.... Gale telling her something about Darnell having returned home from his weekend business and their plans to get together later on that evening.... Shawna telling her something about being voted employee of the month at one of her jobs.... And Flame laughing about how Jettson had taken her to Six Flags Over Georgia for the day on Sunday and how she had gotten him to spend all of his money on her.... So, what else was new...?! Yet as her mind lingered on thoughts of him, Marina had to fi ght the urge to scream. JETTSON FRAME! He was the cause of all of her problems, the cause of all of her doubts concerning Harvey. Marina just did manage to pull herself together as her father deposited her at Harvey’s side. She forced warmth to her expression as she met the expectant look he turned on her. “...And at this point, I will say, ‘Who gives this woman to be with this man?’ And you will say...?” the Reverend Ansley prompted her father. “...I do,” answered Orin Francis. “And then, you will give your daughter to Harvey and tur

Download or read book written by Isaac E. Washington and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wake up... you are not in the same world you recognize as yesterday. You know the place you are in, it is definitely familiar, but there is something about this place. You have been here before but yet you do not remember being here at all. Your life has already been written between these thin lines and now they are being read as you live through them. Please meet Derek and Marina... take a magical journey amongst the stars as they live their young lives through time and travel. Two loved ones who have been waiting to meet each other since the beggening of time. A beautiful gift that gave Marina the power to see the future is now haunting her every moment they are together, and she cannot let go. Derek is in harm's way, but destiny will not let these two go on any longer. It is sad, but it is true, that once the stars are set, nothing can deny fate....

Download or read book A Girl During the War written by Anita Abriel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the “unforgettable story of strength, love, and survival” (Jillian Cantor, USA TODAY bestselling author) The Light After the War returns with a sweeping and evocative story of love and purpose in WWII Italy. Rome, 1943: University student Marina Tozzi is on her way home when she finds out that her father has been killed for harboring a Jewish artist in their home. Fearful of the consequences, Marina flees to Villa I Tatti, the Florence villa of her father’s American friend Bernard Berenson and his partner Belle da Costa Greene, the famed librarian who once curated J.P. Morgan’s library. Florence is a hotbed of activity as partisans and Germans fight for control of the city. Marina, an art expert, begins helping Bernard catalog his library as he makes the difficult trek to neutral Switzerland, helping to hide precious cultural artifacts from the Germans. Adding to the tension, their young neighbor Carlos, a partisan, seeks out Marina for both her art expertise and her charm. Marina, swept up in the romance, dreams of a life together after the war. But when Carlos disappears, all of Marina’s assumptions about her life in Florence are thrown into doubt, and she’ll have to travel halfway around the world to unravel what really happened during the war.

Download or read book The Translator written by Harriet Crawley and published by Bitter Lemon Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sunday Times: Best Thrillers of 2023. Financial Times: Best Summer Thrillers of 2023. “A classic thriller of the new Cold War.” Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad. A highly topical espionage novel about a Russian plot to cut the undersea communication cables linking the US to the UK. Also, a passionate love story between two people determined to stop this cataclysmic act. Clive Franklin, a Russian language expert in the Foreign Office, is summoned unexpectedly to Moscow to act as translator for the British Prime Minister. His life is upended when he discovers that his former lover, Marina Volina, is the interpreter to the Russian President. Together they will try to stop the attack that could paralyze communications and collapse the Western economy.

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Download or read book The Banker s Wife written by Cristina Alger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Immersive, satisfying, tense---and timely: This is probably happening for real right now."--Lee Child "First-rate...Slick, heart-hammering entertainment."--The New York Times Book Review On an early morning in November, a private plane bound for Geneva drops off the radar, its wreckage uncovered days later in the Alps. Among the disappeared is Matthew Werner, an insider at Swiss United, a powerful offshore bank. His young widow, Annabel, begins a desperate search for answers and quickly determines that Matthew's death was no accident. She soons finds herself in a terrifying cat-and-mouse chase, on the run from his powerful enemies, who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. Meanwhile, ambitious society journalist Marina Tourneau has finally landed at the top. With her engagement to Grant Ellis, she is set to become one of the elite she has spent a career covering, but, after the death of her mentor, she agrees to dig into one more story: Swiss United. In doing so, Marina uncovers information that implicates some of the most powerful men in the financial world, including a few who are too close to home. The story also could be the answer to Annabel's heartbreaking search--and save her life--if Marina chooses to publish it...

Download or read book Role Play written by Clara Drummond and published by FSG Originals. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Role Play is a fresh satire narrated by a wealthy young woman in Rio on the verge of a class-consciousness awakening. Vivian is a curator, not just at her gallery gig in Rio de Janeiro, but in every aspect of her life. Her apartment has designer armchairs. Her wallet is Comme des Garçons. Everything is selected and arranged, even her lovers and friends. In Vivian’s world, everything comes in excess, including her own caustic selfawareness. As she informs us, “I’m a misandrist and a misogynist,” but she is fond of gay men, “the one type of human you can properly get along with as equals.” Role Play examines the superabundances of Brazilian elites— their art, ethics, and monied ambivalence in the face of social inequality, machismo, and violence. As sharp and sparkling as broken champagne flutes, Clara Drummond’s prose is seductively frank and unflinching in its depiction of wealth’s power to warp the self.

Download or read book The Conversion written by Joseph Olshan and published by Arcadia Books. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night, two men waving guns and knives break and enter their Paris hotel room, terrorizing Russell and his much older companion, a famous American poet named Edward Cannon. The intruders, not finding what they seemingly expected, leave without further incident. But the baffling, traumatic events overwhelm Cannon who dies in his sleep later that night. Now Russell is left to ponder the meaning of the attack, what to do with the poet's unfinished, problematic memoir and, perhaps most importantly, how to reconstruct and move forward with his own life.Hearing of the disturbing circumstances of Cannon's death, an Italian writer, Marina Vezzoli, invites Russell to recuperate at her villa in Tuscany. But what at first seems like a generous invitation slowly reveals itself to be a calculated offer. As Russell's stay in Italy lengthens, he begins to realize that the people in his life are using or manipulating him, most of all the poet's New York publishers who, against the dying poet's wishes, are trying to acquire his unfinished manuscript. Looming over everything is the long and fascinating legacy of Villa Guidi, where during Word War II a Jewish family hid in the subterranean floors, later undergoing a conversion to Catholicism. In an echo of this dramatic history, Russell is forced to undergo a conversion of his own in order to find redemption and meaning in his life.

Download or read book The Alpha King and his Lunar wolf mate written by bloubulangel1987 and published by Infinite Joy. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supernaturals of Africa Book 1 Blurb: “Damien? As in Alpha King Damien? King of the werewolves?” I ask him “Yes that is me! I’m the Alpha King!” Damien says. “Are you nervous about being my Queen?” He asks me and I open my eyes wide in shock. How the hell did he know that? “Uhm no not at all!” I say as I shake my head. “Then why can I feel that you are scared?” He asks me. Okay this is so weird it is like he can read my mind or something. “I’m not scared!” I tell him as I look down at the floor. “I am just nervous as this is all new to me.” I tell him. He puts his hands under my chin, making me look up into his mesmerizing brown eyes. “Look at me. You are my mate and you are the most important thing in the world to me. I will never let anything happen to you. I know our world is all new to you and all, but know this I will teach you everything there is to know about us. I will always be there for you!” Thalia Fernandes, a 17 year old girl who has believed that she has been human her whole life. She will be 18 in a week. Her life is about to change when she learns the truth about who she really is and supernatural world she knows nothing about. Damien Burns, 25 year old Alpha King. He has not met his mate yet. He is under pressure from the Werewolf council to choose a mate and produce heirs or they will choose a mate for him. He is refusing to do that as he is waiting for his mate. What will happen when Damien and Thalia meet? Will she accept him or reject him?

Download or read book HOME COMING written by Margaret Barker and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The boy she remembered was now very much a man. After her divorce, Dr. Alice Broughton was thrilled to return to Ceres, the Greek island where she'd spent holidays at her grandmother's house. Then she had adored Nick Kalodoukas, the big brother she'd never had. Now Nick was to be her boss, and they met as adult strangers. She caught glimpses of the closeness they'd shared, but something was holding Nick back—and before she broke through the barrier Alice needed to be sure of what she wanted from him….