Download or read book Once Upon A Time Life Happened written by Joan Gasperson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of short stories pertaining to life's problems and solutions to those problems.
Download or read book Once upon a time behind the Berlin Wall written by David Frohriep and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Once upon a time behind the Berlin Wall..." takes you on David Frohriep's emotional and cultural rollercoaster ride from East to West: as a child and teenager in communist Germany with a first unexpected adventure in New York and a dramatic return to East Germany; escape to West-Berlin; diplomat in reunified Germany; women and a career in NYC, London and Paris; and a great love for Europe. David explores what it means to be "free", discovering new ways of living and escaping from a few risky situations along the way. Through these ten personal stories, we find out how he pursues his dream to find professional fulfillment and personal happiness.
Download or read book Once Upon a Time in Asia written by James H. Kroeger and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wisdom of the many peoples and cultures of Asia through their legends and stories.
Download or read book Once Upon a Time in Paradise written by Charles Foster and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When sound arrived in Hollywood in the late 1920s, Canadians were already holding some of the most important roles in the motion picture industry. Louis B. Mayer, from New Brunswick, was boss at MGM; Jack Warner, from Ontario, was head of Warner Bros. Studio; and Mack Sennett, from Quebec, was still King of Comedy. Canadians like Mary Pickford, Marie Dressler, and Norma Shearer moved easily from silents to talkies - this illustrious trio won the first three Academy Awards for Best Actress. Canadians arriving in sunny California in the 1930s and 1940s were principally actors, including Yvonne de Carlo, Walter Pidgeon, Ruby Keeler, and many others. You will be amazed at the Canadian influence on Hollywood’s Golden Age.
Download or read book Accidentally Deliberate written by Denison E. Gundy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a womans life who has experienced most everything but death and child birth. She survived an abusive marriage, several abusive relationships, mental abuse as a child in her home, and being mentally and physically worn down by show business, which constantly challenged her self-esteem. It will tell you how she overcame disaster (several severe car accidents, being mugged on the street, and a 1976 sailboat trip through the middle of the Bermuda Triangle), what she learned from her experiences, and how she has put into practice the knowledge gained from those lessons; the biggest of which is having a sense of humor through it all. She has studied human behavior and abusive situations, and hopes that this book will allow her to help young girls deal with the misogyny of women that is ever-present in the world today. There is also the intrinsic value of entertainment contained in these pages of her triumphs and tribulations. Have a look into the world of a woman whose uncanny fortune is displayed in every corner of her life.
Download or read book The African Misfit written by Benjamin Nengwani and published by Benjamin Nengwani. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In life there many paths one can take but the most meaningful path, is the one you pave for yourself. However, it is also the most difficult path to take. But life is already hard, so why not live it on your own terms? This book is about an Alpha child, who is too foolish to allow life to take control of him. He refuses to be controlled by his circumstances. And therefore, he defies all logic by always pressing forward when there is no hope. In this book you will learn that there is no such thing as a “challenge free life”. Life is hard and it will never be easy, so you have to toughen up. But most importantly, you have to live. And to live is to do the liveliest thing and that is to be yourself at all times. So, release yourself to the world and leave nothing behind because you only have one chance at this life. This is a tale of an Alpha child and it is based on a true story. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Benjamin Nengwani is an author, speaker, market disruptor and a versatile coach.
Download or read book The Plague Years written by Michael Titlestad and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plague Years collects scholarly and essayistic reflections on literary, visual, and sonic representations of the COVID-19 and other pandemics. These are placed alongside poetry and short fiction written in the first two years of quarantine or isolation. This range expresses the intellectual and imaginative struggle and ingenuity entailed in coming to terms with the rampant spread of disease and its emotional, cultural, and political consequences. The contributions are from diverse contexts: Africa (from Egypt to South Africa), China, Japan, the US, and Scandinavia. They consider some of the array of contemporary engagements: poems translated from Mandarin about the traumas of the frontline, Chinese calligraphic poetry printed on cartons of PPE, comments on the literary history of representing epidemics and pandemics, political analyses of the post-truth present, and the role of life-writing and gaming in an interrupted world. Given the generative and creative obliquity of many of its parts, this collection shifts how one thinks about the diseased present and the archival pasts on which it draws. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of English Studies in Africa.
Download or read book A Dark and Broken Heart written by R.J. Ellory and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a “master of the genre,” a psychological thriller about a corrupt cop who must face his own conscience when his schemes result in a senseless murder. (New York Times bestselling authorClive Cussler) Detective Vincent Madigan is a good cop?he’s charming, effective, and knows how to look after himself. The only problem is that he’s up to his neck in debt to Sandia, a notorious East Harlem drug lord. When Madigan devises a scheme to eliminate his debt by robbing Sandia and then repaying him with his own money, he thinks his heist is foolproof. But things go horribly wrong when Madigan is forced to kill his co-conspirators and a child is shot in the crossfire. Now both sides of the law are hunting him down, and the cop assigned to lead the case is the very last person he could have expected. Employing every deception and ruse he can think of, Madigan must stay one step ahead in a battle of wits that will test him to his limits. Can he evade justice for his crimes, or will his own conscience be his final undoing? “A brutal and confronting read that will leave you reeling long after turning the final page.” —Bookreporter “Noir fans will welcome Ellory’s intricate take on a familiar theme?a morally compromised protagonist’s desperate efforts to remain alive and redeem his soul.” —Publishers Weekly “Classic noir . . . Ellory is beginning to sound like the master [James Ellroy].” —Daily Mail
Download or read book The Twins written by NJ Moss and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blood-chilling new thriller from the author of The Second Wife: Twin sisters trade lives—and step into each other’s nightmares . . . Sadie has a proposal for her twin sister, Lorna. She knows Lorna’s husband is abusive, and offers to switch places with Lorna to keep her safe. But Sadie has her own reasons for wanting to live Lorna’s life. Lorna finds sanctuary in Sadie’s apartment—until an angry associate shows up and she finds herself facing a devastating choice. When an elderly neighbor offers help, Lorna is grateful—but does the neighbor also have ulterior motives? When Lorna’s husband welcomes two family members for a visit, their presence only makes things worse for Sadie—who has discovered that her brother-in-law is far more dangerous than she imagined. Neither sister wants to stay where they are. Nor do they want to go back to their real lives. The only solution is to start working together. However, working out who the real enemies are may not be so easy . . . This book contains references to physical and emotional abuse.
Download or read book The Hurricane Murders written by David Holmberg and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reporter in Florida, Jake Arnett, covers the baffling murder of a mother and daughter seeking a new life - a story that requires every ounce of investigative skill, commitment, and compassion he can muster. Arnett works against a backdrop of decline and despair in print journalism that jeopardizes the newspaper he works for, and the life and career of his closest friend. Journalist David Holmberg has defined a fictional Florida of post-modern bleakness, where hurricanes prowl menacingly and nearly every place seems a venue for anxiety, fear, failure, and even suicide - especially after a chillingly hard-to-fathom murder of a mother and daughter. Haunted by the story, reporter Jake Arnett becomes obsessed with finding their killer or killers, with putting at least one thing right. This is a noir that goes even deeper into the darkness than our foundational writers of the genre. - Jack Vitek, author of The Godfather of Tabloid: Generoso Pope Jr. and the National Enquirer. David Holmberg, a veteran reporter, brings all the accumulated knowledge of years in the news business to The Hurricane Murders. In relentlessly fast-paced prose that's as strong as a category five storm, he captures the passion of the Florida journalists who hunt out the truths concealed behind the sun and fun images we associate with that beckoning locale. He pulls this together into a dynamic thriller that will keep folks turning the pages deep into the night. - John Katzenbach, acclaimed author of Hart's War, Just Cause, and other novels.
Download or read book And Then Life Happens written by Auma Obama and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving account by Auma Obama about her life in Africa and Europe, and her relationship with her brother, Barack Obama. While her younger brother Barack grew up in the U.S. and Indonesia, Auma Obama's childhood played out at the other end of the world in a remote village in Kenya, the birthplace of the siblings' shared father. Barack and Auma met for the first time in the 1980s, and they built a lasting relationship which lead to travels together in Kenya, research into their family history and finally Auma's support for her brother's political career and eventual bid for the U.S. presidency. Auma spent sixteen years studying and living in Germany, moved to England for love, and gave birth to a daughter there. The tension between her original and chosen worlds and cultures was a constant challenge, and eventually Auma returned to Africa and worked to support young men and women in shaping their futures. In And Then Life Happens, her candid and emotional memoir, Auma shares her own story as well as recollections of and experiences with her famous brother, who says about their first encounter: "I hugged her, we looked at each other, and laughed. I knew right then that I loved her."
Download or read book Shapes of Native Nonfiction written by Elissa Washuta and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as a basket’s purpose determines its materials, weave, and shape, so too is the purpose of the essay related to its material, weave, and shape. Editors Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton ground this anthology of essays by Native writers in the formal art of basket weaving. Using weaving techniques such as coiling and plaiting as organizing themes, the editors have curated an exciting collection of imaginative, world-making lyric essays by twenty-seven contemporary Native writers from tribal nations across Turtle Island into a well-crafted basket. Shapes of Native Nonfiction features a dynamic combination of established and emerging Native writers, including Stephen Graham Jones, Deborah Miranda, Terese Marie Mailhot, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Eden Robinson, and Kim TallBear. Their ambitious, creative, and visionary work with genre and form demonstrate the slippery, shape-changing possibilities of Native stories. Considered together, they offer responses to broader questions of materiality, orality, spatiality, and temporality that continue to animate the study and practice of distinct Native literary traditions in North America.
Download or read book The Sandbox written by Justin Jackson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-07-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noah Parker is a man trying to forget the end of an old relationship so he can begin a new one. He left everything he knew and moved to Chicago in order to start over again. He isnt, however, the same person. He only knows a few people and after one drunken night out, he realizes the ex-boyfriend he left behind also moved to Chicago and is now standing in the same bar! Confused, Noah tries desperately to adjust to this discovery and ends up trying to transition from an old relationship that wont die into a new one. He is left emotionally confused and frustrated and doesnt understand his feelings. While he valiantly tries to move on, he finds a new job, gets arrested on false drug charges, and realizes he is barely getting by in the wilds of Chicagos gay scene.
Download or read book Sink written by Perrin Briar and published by . This book was released on with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sinkhole is a natural phenomenon. It can happen anywhere, anytime. It drinks lakes dry, consumes jungles, and even demolishes entire mountains. You may have seen one in your street. But these things aren’t lost. They’ve simply been moved. Things are forgotten on the surface all the time. Beneath the crust, they’re always remembered. It’s just another day for unscrupulous developer Graham Turner when he breaks into an old man’s home to steal his property deeds. But then he’s sucked through a sinkhole into a forgotten world deep beneath the earth’s surface. Graham and the old man must rely on each other if they are to survive and escape this dangerous new world and return to the surface. SINK. A forgotten world. A lost world. But not for long.
Download or read book Redeeming Her Hot Shot Vet written by Juliette Hyland and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the woman from his past redeem this hot-shot vet? Find out what happens in Juliette Hyland's latest Harlequin Medical Romance. The key to his redemption? The woman from his past! When Holt escaped Spring River, he never thought he’d return. With a chance to right the wrongs of his youth, he’s back to save the town’s veterinary clinic. The renowned vet just didn’t realize it’d mean working with Sage, the woman he left behind… Their attraction certainly hasn’t faded! But Sage isn’t the dreamer he once knew, and he’s determined to make amends. Can Holt mend what’s been broken and spark a new life—together? From Harlequin Medical: Life and love in the world of modern medicine.
Download or read book Harlequin Medical Romance April 2023 Box Set 2 of 2 written by Juliette Hyland and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin Medical Romance – April ‘23 – Box Set 2 of 2 Harlequin Medical Romance brings you a collection of three new titles, available now! Enjoy these stories packed with pulse-racing romance and heart-racing medical drama. This Harlequin Medical Romance box set includes: REDEEMING HER HOT-SHOT VET By Juliette Hyland When renowned vet Holt returns to Spring River, he didn’t realise it’d mean working with Sage, the girl he left behind… Their attraction certainly hasn’t faded and Sage isn’t the dreamer he once knew. Can Holt mend what’s been broken and spark a new life—together? TEMPTED BY THE REBEL SURGEON Gulf Harbour ER By JC Harroway Dr Lauren has applied to become head of the Gulf Harbour ER. The problem? Her old flame, surgeon Mason, has just taken a post there! Their chemistry is still off the charts and leaping back into this rebel’s bed is oh-so tempting… BREAKING THE SINGLE MOM’S RULES Gulf Harbour ER By JC Harroway Doctor and single mom Kat always sticks to protocol. When nurse Nash plays it fast and loose, she confronts him. But the disarmingly attractive single dad leaves her tongue-tied! Kat’s meticulous about her no-men rule, yet she never anticipated a connection as electric as hers and Nash’s…
Download or read book The Texas Hamburger written by Rick Vanderpool and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “Hambassador of Texas” sinks his teeth into the American culinary classic on a road trip with pit stops at the best burger joints in the state. Texans are passionate about this signature sandwich, and photographer/writer Rick Vanderpool has become, in his own right, the Hambassador of Texas. In 2006, Rick undertook a quest to find and photograph the best Texas burgers, traveling over eleven thousand miles and visiting over seven hundred Texas burger joints. Since that time, he has continued his travels, sampling the finest burgers the Lone Star State has to offer. He has also picked up some fellow enthusiasts willing to share their own tasty tales along the way. From Fletcher Davis’s 1885 Athens creation (recipe included) and the Cheeseburger Capital of Texas in Friona to Whataburger #2 in Corpus Christi and Herd’s in Jacksboro, join Rick and his “Hamburger Helpers” on their journey celebrating the history of the original Texas hamburger. “Looking for a place to eat a great hamburger? Rick Vanderpool may have just the place for you—hundreds in fact. The Lubbock resident criss-crossed the state taking hundreds of photographs and visiting more than 700 burger joints for a book on the subject.” —Hockley County News-Press
