Download or read book Oxana and the Red Dress written by LaWayne Leno and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxana and the Red Dress is a richly layered,multi-generational story of love, passion, and war set against the background of rural Ukraine in the 1930s, the ensuing Bolshevik political repression, and the early days of World War II. Oxana Nikolaevna Stepaniaka is a beautiful and talented musician who dreams of escaping her Ukrainian village to become a concert pianist. Finally able to attend the Odesa Academy of Music, she finds her hopes of continuing her education destroyed by political forces and is forced to return home. Pregnant and married to a brutal man she doesn't love, Oxana is eventually caught up in the Soviet Union's repressive collectivization of agriculture. With everyone in her world succumbing to starvation during the man-made Holodomor (Death by Hunger), Oxana and her son make a frightening journey—first to Odesa, and ultimately to Leningrad during the early days of the Nazi siege. Readers will easily fall under the spell of this deeply drawn saga at whose heart lies the beauty of taboo love and the strength that arises out of shattered dreams. Oxana will linger in the memory of all who meet her. From Oxana and the Red Dress— “Oxana sat on her mother’s front doorstep one late April afternoon, basking in the warmth of the sun-drenched air. Stretching her legs and leaning her head back, Oxana closed her eyes. Within moments, she was standing in a large room somewhere—she couldn’t tell where—but it was dark, completely dark. She was wearing a red satin floor-length dress, and a matching ribbon held her hair. In the distance, a black grand piano was encircled in a halo of bright light. Oxana stepped toward the piano, and suddenly people—hundreds, maybe thousands of people—were clapping and cheering. The audience fell silent as she sat at the keyboard. She touched her fingers to the keys and the hall was filled with beautiful music—” *** “As soon as Fedor was asleep, Oxana slipped out of the bed and grabbed her dress off the floor. She pulled it across her and sat on the sofa, gazing out the window. The full moon’s soft light illuminated the trees. The room was chilly and she shivered, clutching her arms around herself. In her home, she had at least felt Irina and Jakob’s spirits, but in this foreign house she had no sense of them. It was as though when Fedor carried her across the threshold, he had carried her into another world. An unbridgeable chasm had opened, and she could never again cross back.” LaWayne Leno is the author of two previous works, The Untold Story of Adele aus der Ohe and Roses of the Prairie.
Download or read book Oxana and the Red Dress written by Lawayne Leno and published by River Grove Books. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxana and the Red Dress is a richly layered, multi-generational story of love, passion, and war set against the background of rural Ukraine in the 1930s, the ensuing Bolshevik political repression, and the early days of World War II. Oxana Nikolaevna Stepaniaka is a beautiful and talented musician who dreams of escaping her Ukrainian village to become a concert pianist. Finally able to attend the Odesa Academy of Music, she finds her hopes of continuing her education destroyed by political forces and is forced to return home. Pregnant and married to a brutal man she doesn't love, Oxana is eventually caught up in the Soviet Union's repressive collectivization of agriculture. With everyone in her world succumbing to starvation during the man-made Holodomor (Death by Hunger), Oxana and her son make a frightening journey-first to Odesa, and ultimately to Leningrad during the early days of the Nazi siege. Readers will easily fall under the spell of this deeply drawn saga at whose heart lies the beauty of taboo love and the strength that arises out of shattered dreams. Oxana will linger in the memory of all who meet her. From Oxana and the Red Dress- "Oxana sat on her mother's front doorstep one late April afternoon, basking in the warmth of the sun-drenched air. Stretching her legs and leaning her head back, Oxana closed her eyes. Within moments, she was standing in a large room somewhere-she couldn't tell where-but it was dark, completely dark. She was wearing a red satin floor-length dress, and a matching ribbon held her hair. In the distance, a black grand piano was encircled in a halo of bright light. Oxana stepped toward the piano, and suddenly people-hundreds, maybe thousands of people-were clapping and cheering. The audience fell silent as she sat at the keyboard. She touched her fingers to the keys and the hall was filled with beautiful music-" *** "As soon as Fedor was asleep, Oxana slipped out of the bed and grabbed her dress off the floor. She pulled it across her and sat on the sofa, gazing out the window. The full moon's soft light illuminated the trees. The room was chilly and she shivered, clutching her arms around herself. In her home, she had at least felt Irina and Jakob's spirits, but in this foreign house she had no sense of them. It was as though when Fedor carried her across the threshold, he had carried her into another world. An unbridgeable chasm had opened, and she could never again cross back." LaWayne Leno is the author of two previous works, The Untold Story of Adele aus der Ohe and Roses of the Prairie.
Download or read book Oksana Behave written by Maria Kuznetsova and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "irresistible" (Anthony Marra) debut about a Russian American girl's bumpy path to adulthood "The voice is so, so sharp and so funny that I am just like tickled--tickled --to be reading it."--Emma Straub, The Wall Street Journal When Oksana's family begins their new American life in Florida after emigrating from Ukraine, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet, her depressed mother sits home all day worrying, and her flamboyant grandmother relishes the attention she gets when she walks Oksana to school, not realizing that the street they're walking down is known as Prostitute Street. Oksana just wants to have friends and lead a normal life--and though she constantly tries to do the right thing, she keeps getting herself in trouble. As she grows up, she continues to misbehave, from somewhat accidentally maiming the school bus bully, to stealing the much-coveted (and expensive-to-replace) key to New York City's Gramercy Park, to falling in love with a married man. As her grandmother moves back to Ukraine, her father gets a job at Goldman Sachs, and her mother knits endless scarves, Oksana longs for a Russia that looms large in her imagination but is a country she never really knew. When she visits her grandmother in Yalta and learns about Baba's wartime past and her lost loves, Oksana begins to see just how much alike they are, and comes to a new understanding of how to embrace life and love without causing harm to the people dearest to her. But will Oksana ever quite learn to behave? Praise for Oksana, Behave "Tragicomic and bittersweet . . . an immigrant's coming-of-age tale done with brio."--Kirkus Reviews "What luck for readers that Oksana can't behave Little devil, infinite imbecile, poor futureless child--all the names her displaced, loving family give to her as she crashes and burns and wanders the wilderness of her inheritance, fit perfectly. As outrageous as she is, as funny and as awful as she can be, though, in Oksana, Maria Kuznetsova has also created a character of great passion and depth--of tragedy, even, too--the very sort that populate the stories of Chekhov and Tolstoy, the poems of Anna Akhmatova, and all the other Russian writers Oksana looks to for comfort and company and some sort of bearing in this absurd world. This novel is a stark, hilarious delight."--Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers
Download or read book Death of a Nightingale written by Lene Kaaberbol and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Nordic noir duo who brought you The New York Times bestseller The Boy in the Suitcase comes a chilling new thriller with a mystery seventy-years in the making. Nina. Natasha. Olga. Three women united by one terrifying secret. But only one of them has killed to keep it. Natasha Doroshenko, a Ukrainian woman who has been convicted for the attempted murder of her Danish ex-fiancé, escapes police custody on her way to an interrogation in Copenhagen’s police headquarters. That same night, the ex-fiancé’s frozen, tortured body is found in a car. It isn’t the first time the young Ukrainian woman has lost a partner to violent ends: her first husband was murdered three years earlier in Kiev in the same manner. Danish Red Cross nurse Nina Borg has followed Natasha’s case for years now, ever since Natasha first took refuge at her crisis center. Nina just can’t see the young mother as a vicious killer. But in her effort to protect Natasha’s daughter and discover the truth, Nina realizes there is much she didn’t know about Natasha and her past. The mystery has long and bloody roots, going back to a terrible famine that devastated Stalinist Ukraine in 1934, when a ten-year-old girl with the voice of a nightingale sang her family into shallow graves.
Download or read book Zandra Rhodes written by Dennis Nothdruft and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated volume surveys the textile and fashion designs of one of Britain's most distinctive creative voices, marking the 50th anniversary of the house of Zandra Rhodes.
Download or read book The Hard Parts written by Oksana Masters and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable and inspirational story of Oksana Masters, who was born with radiation-induced birth defects and suffered appalling abuse as an orphan, before being adopted and moving to the US, where she went on to triumph over her challenges to win ten Paralympic medals in four different sports. Oksana Masters was born in the shadow of Chernobyl, with one kidney, a partial stomach, six toes on each foot, webbed fingers, no right bicep and no thumbs. Her left leg was six inches shorter than her right, and she was missing both tibias. Relinquished to the orphanage system by birth parents daunted by the staggering cost of their child’s medical care, Oksana encountered numerous abuses, some horrifying. Salvation came at the age of seven when Gay Masters, an unmarried American professor who saw a photo of the little girl and became haunted by her eyes, waged a two-year war against stubborn adoption authorities to rescue Oksana from her circumstances. In America, Oksana endured years of operations that included a double leg amputation. Still, how could she hope to fit in when there were so many things making her different? As it turned out, she would do much more than fit in. Determined to prove herself and fuelled by a drive to succeed that still smouldered from childhood, Oksana triumphed in not just one sport but four - winning against the world’s best in rowing, biathlon, cross-country skiing and road cycling competitions. This is Oksana’s astonishing story of journeying through a series of dark tunnels - and how, with her mother’s love, she finally found her way into the light. Her message to anyone who doesn’t fit in: you can find a place where you excel and where you have worth.
Download or read book Killing Eve Codename Villanelle written by Luke Jennings and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The breakneck thriller that inspired TV sensation Killing Eve, starring Sandra Oh, "unlike any other spy drama you've seen" (Daily Beast). Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world's most skilled assassins. A catlike psychopath whose love for the creature comforts of her luxurious lifestyle is second only to her love of the game, she specializes in murdering the world's richest and most powerful. But when she murders an influential Russian politician, she draws a relentless foe to her tail. Eve Polastri (not a codename) is a former MI6 operative hired by the national security services for a singular task: to find and capture or kill the assassin responsible, and those who have aided her. Eve, whose quiet and otherwise unextraordinary life belies her quick wit and keen intellect, accepts the mission. The ensuing chase will lead them on a trail around the world, intersecting with corrupt governments and powerful criminal organizations, all leading towards a final confrontation from which neither will emerge unscathed. Codename Villanelle is a sleek, fast-paced international thriller from an exciting new voice in fiction.
Download or read book Borat written by Ant Hines and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTAINS ALL NEW MATERIAL BORAT: TOURISTIC GUIDINGS TO GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN JAGSHEMASH! WELCOMES IN KAZAKHSTAN! In coitus with Kazakh Minister of Information, telelviski journalist Borat Sagdiyev is take great pleasuring himself to present this touristic guidings to Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan–home to many many of Central Asia’s most highly respected sex criminals. This volume is showcase of all that is great of Kazakhstan–marvel at the statistic of Nurek Dam, make your childrens laugh with our jokes about jews and take a peekings inside brandnew Capitalist Supermall Viktor Hotelier’s Shopcity–3 stores and electrical staircare!! Containings over half the photographs, maps and writings ever produced by Kazakhstan and printed on our finest grade paper (50% tree, 10% asbestos, 22% gypsy, 18% pubis)–this books will surely makings you visit Kazakhstan most urgently! You welcomes–we seeings you soon! BORAT: TOURISTIC GUIDINGS TO MINOR NATION OF U.S. AND A. JAGSHEMASH READER! Subsequents to worldwide successes of his blockbusterings moviefilm, Borat Sagdiyev–televiski journalist and 4th most famous person of Kazakhstan–have in associate with Ministry of Information produce this travel guidings journal to minor nation of US and A. This book a most sensible acquisition if you are think of travel to this country and will instruct you on all you needing know–from how to get cage of your wife through airport, to how to gain entry to an American vagine without spend money. It also contain most explicit guidings to American peoples–did you know that there are over 1,000 of them with chocolate colour skin? And that it natural, not makeups!? Learn too of the great American cities–Washingtons DC, New York and Londons–and read truthful accounts of their landmarks: for examples, discover that in realitys, the World Trade Centers of New York City is not near so tall as they saying it is. Containings many many photographs never before looked upon and writings of most splendid caliber, this book really is a very nice!
Download or read book Femen written by Femen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ukraine is not a brothel!' This was the first cry of rage uttered by Femen during Euro 2012. Bare-breasted and crowned with flowers, perched on their high heels, Femen transform their bodies into instruments of political expression through slogans and drawings flaunted on their skin. Humour, drama, courage and shock tactics are their weapons. Since 2008, this 'gang of four' – Inna, Sasha, Oksana and Anna – has been developing a spectacular, radical, new feminism. First in Ukraine and then around the world, they are struggling to obtain better conditions for women, but they also fight poverty, discrimination, dictatorships and the dictates of religion. These women scale church steeples and climb into embassies, burst into television studios and invade polling stations. Some of them have served time in jail, been prosecuted for ‘hooliganism’ in their home country and are banned from living in other states. But thanks to extraordinary media coverage, the movement is gaining imitators and supporters in France, Germany, Brazil and elsewhere. Inna, Sasha, Oksana and Anna have an extraordinary story and here they tell it in their own words, and at the same time express their hopes and ambitions for women throughout the world.
Download or read book The Destination written by Mrs Oxana Eliahu and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kaminsky family lived under Communism and behind the iron curtain for generations. Vita and everyone she knew thought people who believed in God were ignorant and primitive. She hated being a Jew and despised the idea of going to Israel. In the late 1980's, when Perestroika allowed Jews to leave Russia, she had big dreams for success. Looking for love and wealth, she left Russia for America, but nothing went as planned. Her life was a wild ride-and an amazing testimony to the incredible power and persistence of the loving God she refused to acknowledge. For years He let her live in the messes she made, each time rescuing her at the last minute, until she finally called out to Him. Vita's journey of transformation with dreams, wonders and miracles, dramatic relationships, divorce, and death ends with a divine love story that brings her to Peculiar, USA. You will never forget her story! Here is the trailer for the book: https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Mu8gIPma0 It Wasn't My Idea To Write This Book. Many times, after sharing my testimony in churches and congregations, people had asked me if I had the story of my life written in a book. At first I didn't pay attention to those questions about the book, but as people continued requesting, I prayed and asked God if this was His idea. I am like Gideon, always trying to make sure that I hear the right voice. In my prayer I said, "God if this is your will, please give me another direct confirmation. Please let someone say these exact words to me, 'Oxana, you need to write a book of your testimony.'" A few weeks later, we did a revival service in Butler, Missouri. I had only forty-five minutes to share and sing, so I couldn't even share my whole story, just a little part of it. At the very end, when almost everybody had left, a woman approached me and without any greeting, with no "hello" or "shalom," she said to me: "Oxana you need to write a book of your testimony." Wow! I had goose bumps. This surely was the confirmation. I knew I had to take it seriously now. How in the world could I write a book? I even have an accent in every language that I speak. It just seemed to be a huge giant that I would never be able to fight. Finally, I pulled myself together and wrote one page of the book. I felt very proud of myself and even showed my first page to some friends. To my big surprise, they said they liked it, but I couldn't go any further. It just was too hard for me. I felt like Jonah, who didn't want to go to Nineveh. One day after ministering in a Russian church in Oregon, one young lady came to talk to us. She wanted us to go together for dinner. At the restaurant she asked Boaz and me to share a story about how we met, and we gladly told her our love story.The next day she wrote me on Facebook that our story really touched her heart and also gave her hope and encouragement. Well, I thought to myself, why should I write the whole story of my life, it's so long and complicated? Why not to start with a shorter story? I felt like I found a solution. I would just create a love story novel, which was also a great testimony and had a message by itself. I even had a catchy title for it, "How I Met My Boaz and Ended Up in Peculiar." I started writing, but still struggled. So I decided to take a writing course online. I also read a book called Writing Life Stories by Bill Roorbach and signed up for critique writing groups. When I brought my writings to the critique group and read the first chapter of my love story, they said to me, "You can't just start the story like that. You have to give us some background." I wrote three pages of my background and came to the writing group again. I read my new pages with the condensed and compressed story of my life, hoping that now I would be done with the background and will be able to concentrate and continue with my love story again........ But it didn't fly....
Download or read book Sleeping Late On Judgement Day written by Tad Williams and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After failing to rescue his demon girlfriend from the Grand Duke of Hell, fallen angel Bobby Dollar runs into an old friend who has mysteriously lost his memory.
Download or read book Dining with millionaires written by José Gordo and published by Punto Rojo Libros. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night.\r One dinner.\r Ten shocking lessons.\r And several exciting stories full of wisdon and warmth.\r Learn with Sam about the 10 keys to success through stories that will inspire you and also make you reflect not only on how you approach business, but how you approach life.
Download or read book Red and White written by Lowell High School (San Francisco, Calif.). Student Association and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of Being Rational written by Oxana Dubrovina and published by ISBN Services. This book was released on 2019-11-24 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, thousands upon thousands of people make the pilgrimage to the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting to hear the wisdom of one of the smartest men in the business-Charlie Munger. Find out what he has to say!Charlie Munger is one of the most successful businessmen in the world. He is worth more than a billion dollars and has spent his career not only honing his own business decision-making abilities but also teaching others to do the same. Now, all of his wisdom and insight into wealth management is collected in one place.Author Oxana Dubrovina wants to give you a crash course in Munger's life-changing philosophy. This success self-help guide and motivational biography will put you on the road to a bright financial future by using Munger, as well as other inspirational leaders like Benjamin Franklin, Lee Kuan Yew, and even Jesus Christ, to illustrate important messages about how to live a good, honest, and successful life.
Download or read book The Memory Keepers written by Natasha Ngan and published by Hot Key Books. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you're chasing memories to survive, it's better to leave the past behind ... Seven is a thief with a difference - he steals downloadable memories from banks and memoriums to sell onto London's black market, trading secrets and hidden pasts for a chance at a future of his own. He makes sure he keeps some special stuff back to 'surf' himself though - it's the only real form of entertainment he can afford. But one night, as Seven is breaking into a private memorium in a wealthy part of London, he is caught in the act by one of its residents: Alba, the teenage daughter of London's most famous criminal prosecutor. Instead of giving him away, Alba promises to keep Seven's secret - as long as he allows her to go memory-surfing herself. In doing so, they discover a hidden memory about Seven's past, revealing a shocking secret about his childhood, the government and a mysterious experiment known as The Memory Keepers ... Now Seven and Alba will have to race against time to unlock the maze of The Memory Keepers - but can they keep themselves out of harm's way before the London Guard - and Alba's father - catches up with them?
Download or read book The Night of Christmas Eve written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Night of Christmas Eve' is a story written by Nikolai Gogol. The story opens with a description of the winter scenery of Dikanka, Ukraine. A witch flies across the night sky and the devil steals the moon and hiding it in his pocket, first playing with it in the sky, with no one in the village noticing. Since it is the night before Christmas, the devil is free to roam around and torment people as he pleases, so he decides to find a way to get back at the village blacksmith, Vakula, because he paints religious art in the church.
Download or read book East by West written by Jasmine Hemsley and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Hearst Big Books Award (Women's Health and Wellbeing) East by West is the first solo cookbook from bestselling author, cook and TV presenter Jasmine Hemsley, co-founder of Hemsley + Hemsley. Featuring 140 delicious recipes from around the world, East by West champions the ancient Ayurvedic philosophy of eating to nourish, sustain and repair for ultimate mind-body balance. Jasmine continues her passion for balancing body, mind and spirit amidst the challenges of our fast-paced day-to-day lives, through real food and tasty home cooking. With a focus on listening to your body, eating when you’re hungry, being conscious of what you’re eating when you’re eating it and choosing foods that are right for your mood from day to day, East by West is a modern take on the Ayurvedic principles. With classic Ayurvedic comfort dishes from Golden Milk to Kitchari and great family sharing dishes Sesame Roast Chicken to Saffron Millionaire Cheesecake, the book has something for every taste (bringing to life store cupboard basics to create dishes) from super simple to simply special. A global range of recipes, together with simple mindful rituals and a classic cleanse to revisit when your energy levels need a boost help the book bring Ayurveda to life in a fresh and friendly way. Packed with beautiful colour photography and inspired by Jasmine’s personal journey with food and healthy living, East by West represents a delicious evolution of the ideas explored in Hemsley + Hemsley bestsellers Good + Simple and The Art of Eating Well.
