Download or read book Shame Shame I Know Your Name written by Heather Harlen and published by Northampton House Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been a few months since small-town event planner Marina Konyeshna survived a pursuit by international human traffickers, then a mine collapse. Marina's friends have questioned the empty whipped-cream vodka bottles and the new tattoo, but she thinks they're overreacting. Her love life is perking up, but it's not clear how long her new guy will wait on the sidelines while she buries herself in work.Marina can't pack her bags fast enough when a blast from the past offers her the opportunity to work with Russia's richest woman. In Moscow, Marina's at first thrilled to find herself taken for a glamorous Moscow pop singer, who could be her twin . But she soon finds there's more to being a celebrity than designer clothes and red carpet events. What follows is a return to the dark world of human trafficking, this time peering into the Red Market, where the human body is currency in ways she never imagined possible. Determined to take these criminal syndicates down with the help of some old and new friends, Marina must learn what it takes to survive - physically, mentally, emotionally, and culturally - thousands of miles from home.
Download or read book Healing the Shame that Binds You written by John Bradshaw and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-10-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic book, written 17 years ago but still selling more than 13,000 copies every year, has been completely updated and expanded by the author. "I used to drink," writes John Bradshaw,"to solve the problems caused by drinking. The more I drank to relieve my shame-based loneliness and hurt, the more I felt ashamed." Shame is the motivator behind our toxic behaviors: the compulsion, co-dependency, addiction and drive to superachieve that breaks down the family and destroys personal lives. This book has helped millions identify their personal shame, understand the underlying reasons for it, address these root causes and release themselves from the shame that binds them to their past failures.
Download or read book It s Not About the Burqa written by Mariam Khan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Not About the Burqa is an anthology of frank and insightful essays by Muslim women about the contemporary Muslim female experience. 'Passionate, angry, self-effacing, nuanced and utterly compelling in every single way' - Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the ‘traditional submissiveness’ of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn’t know a single Muslim woman who would describe herself that way. Why was she hearing about Muslim women from people who were neither Muslim, nor female? Years later the state of the national discourse has deteriorated even further, and Muslim women’s voices are still pushed to the fringes – the figures leading the discussion are white and male. Taking one of the most politicized and misused words associated with Muslim women and Islamophobia, It’s Not About the Burqa is poised to change all that. Here are voices you won’t see represented in the national news headlines: seventeen Muslim women speaking frankly about the hijab and wavering faith, about love and divorce, about feminism, queer identity, sex, and the twin threats of a disapproving community and a racist country. With a mix of British and international women writers, from activist Mona Eltahawy's definition of a revolution to journalist and broadcaster Saima Mir telling the story of her experience of arranged marriage, from author Sufiya Ahmed on her Islamic feminist icon to playwright Afshan D'souza-Lodhi's moving piece about her relationship with her hijab, these essays are funny, warm, sometimes sad, and often angry, and each of them is a passionate declaration calling time on the oppression, the lazy stereotyping, the misogyny and the Islamophobia. What does it mean, exactly, to be a Muslim woman in the West today? According to the media, it’s all about the burqa. Here’s what it’s really about. Shortlisted for Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year 'Engrossing . . . fascinating . . . courageous' – Observer
Download or read book How to Win Friends and Influenza written by Ed Kurtz and published by Westview Publishing Co., Inc.. This book was released on 2003-08-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, Ed Kurtz jotted down his memories of growing up in New Jersey during the 1920s and 1930s. Combining them with some essays on modern problems such as road rage, information on the origins of popular sports, and several (often spicy) jokes and stories, Ed enlisted his sister Mitzie, now 93, as a typist, and created the manuscript he titled "How to Win Friends and Influenza." This book traces a New Jersey childhood through the eras of America's Prohibition and Great Depression, and an adulthood that included overseas service during World War II, leading troops of Boy Scouts through the snake-infested woodsd, and building a house the Pope slept in. In a voice all his own, twinkling with humor and wordplay, Ed Kurtz relates a life well lived.
Download or read book White Teeth written by Zadie Smith and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-05-20 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The blockbuster debut novel from "a preternaturally gifted" writer (The New York Times) and author of On Beauty and Swing Time—set against London's racial and cultural tapestry, reveling in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, and embracing the comedy of daily existence. Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith’s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own. At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn’t quite match her name (Jamaican for “no problem”). Samad’s late-in-life arranged marriage (he had to wait for his bride to be born), produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal’s every effort to direct them, and a renewed, if selective, submission to his Islamic faith. “[White Teeth] is, like the London it portrays, a restless hybrid of voices, tones, and textures…with a raucous energy and confidence.” —The New York Times Book Review
Download or read book The Big Rock Candy Mountain written by Wallace Stegner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifing from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks outhis fortune--in the hotel business, on new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running through the threacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Bo chases after the promise of the American dream through Minnesota, the Dakotas, Saskatchewan, Montana, Utah and Nevada, but ultimately there is no escaping the devastating reach of the Depression and his own ruinous fate. In this affecting narrative, a defining masterpiece by the "dean of Western writers" (The New York Times), Wallace Stegner portrays more than three decades in the life of the Mason family as they struggle to survivle during the lean years of the early twentieth century. With an introduction by Robert Stone.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Mercury written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Since You Ask Me written by Ann Landers and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensible, Entertaining Answers To Everyone’s Problems—Including Yours A fresh new look at: • The common-sense approach to marriage • Getting older • The importance of sex in marriage • The battle of the bottle • Teenagers and sex • And much more... Ann Landers’ warmth, wit and realistic wisdom have made her America’s most widely read human relations columnist—syndicated in more than 550 newspapers! Now, in this witty and thought-provoking book, she offers the sum and substance of her long experience with life’s oldest bugaboo—trouble! It deserves a place on everyone’s bookshelf. “This book is about trouble—that uninvited guest who visits us all. Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. “Trouble is no respecter of age, financial standing, social position or academic status. Trouble comes to people in high and low places alike. It is not a sign of stupidity, weakness, or bad luck. It is evidence that we are card-carrying members of the human race. As someone once put it, “Only the living have problems.” “This book is about how to prevent trouble and what to do about it when you can’t prevent it.”—Ann Landers
Download or read book The Misadventures of M A D S Live from Atlantis written by Craig Waid and published by Waidworks. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Mike, Aaron, Dacota, and Sheldon and the always colorful Professor, as they travel through time on one misadventure after another. Live from Atlantis is the second book in the Professor Trilogy. This misadventure takes them to the lost city of Atlantis, where they race through time to try and save it from destruction. Come ride a 200 foot tidal wave, tackle giant octopi, race through oceanic whirlpools, and find out the power of the Emerald Eye and what really happened to Atlantis. Oh, and much much more. Some secrets are only begining to emerge!
Download or read book A New Fiedler Reader written by Leslie Fiedler and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leslie Fiedler''s radical opinions and theories have changed the way we think about American literature and pop culture, challenging long-established schools and ushering in a genre of first-person, experience-based criticism. Praised and respected as "one of the most important figures in the history of American cultural thought in this century," Fiedler introduced groundbreaking ideas that now permeate university studies in literature: a homoerotic element in American machismo, interracial dependence as the classical American bond, those on the social margins being "secret selves," and the continuum of "high" and "low" culture.Designed to delight Fiedler''s contemporary audience and introduce the author to a whole new generation of readers, A New Fiedler Reader is a captivating anthology of Fiedler''s most notorious and celebrated essays, along with a selection of his engaging poems and short fiction.A literary icon, Fiedler is among those who urged legalization of marijuana in the late ''60s; suggested that college students read Timothy Leary along with Milton; and was accused of corrupting the young with dangerous leftist ideas. Collected are Fiedler''s most widely known articles, from "Come Back to the Raft Ag''in, Huck Honey!" to "An Almost Imaginary Interview: Hemingway in Ketchum." Complementing these essays are various lesser known poems and short stories, providing the reader with the complete Fiedler experience.
Download or read book The Heart of a Wrestler written by Danielle C. Aucoin and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camille is a small-town girl with big city dreams who gets tangled up for life with her twin neighbors Andrew and Joseph. They get into normal teenage angst over the years. Camille and Joseph fall in love and have a beautiful love story until fate intervenes a crash her life. Camille is crushed but learned she was pregnant. Andrew takes her in and helps care for her. When Josephine (Josie) was born, Camille and Andrew admitted their love for each other. Camille and Andrew grow into parenthood. They put their dreams on the back burner, but they finally get their chance and takes their shot not letting go as they fought all their way up to the most supreme wrestling company giving them fame. Come on this grand adventure with them! Camille’s moto I have the heart of a wrestler it is Fragile, Intimate, Loyal, Strong, and Brave!”
Download or read book The Road to Madrid written by Nina Stevens and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a failed right-wing military coup provoked civil war in Spain, in July 1936, the Spanish government made a worldwide plea for help. In Britain, Aid Spanish Committees sprang up nationwide. Nowhere was empathy more keenly felt for the working people of Spain than among the people of Glasgow, which became the hub of the Scottish Aid for Spain movement. Glasgow was also home to an enterprise which was to make a significant contribution to the Spanish Republic the Scottish Ambulance Unit (SAU). The Unit was the brainchild of a wealthy Glaswegian philanthropist, Sir Daniel Macaulay Stevenson (18511944). The Units valiant and tireless work soon earned it an excellent reputation among Republican forces and as news of its remarkable work spread, volunteers became affectionately known as Los Brujos The Wizards. However, the off-duty activities of some of the SAUs members earned it an altogether different kind of reputation, and the Unit was soon to become immersed in scandal which tarnished its good name. Donald Gallie was a member of the first SAU team to arrive in Madrid (there would be three successive expeditions). He was 24 years old when Civil War broke out. His family shared a strong sense of commitment, and this, together with Donalds love of travel and adventure, is what impelled him to volunteer for service. His skills as mechanic would prove invaluable in the aid and transport given to casualties. His Diary is a remarkable document, and its publication a significant event in the historiography of the Spanish Civil War.
Download or read book Bugs written by Whiti Hereaka and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the unfolding lives of three young people in their last year of school in small town New Zealand. Life is slow, and it seems not much happens in town or in Jez and Bugs's lives But when Stone Cold arrives, the three come to different conclusions about how to deal with being trapped in a small town and at the bottom of the ehap.
Download or read book Settling Down and Settling Up written by Andrea Katherine Medovarski and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparing second generation children of immigrants in black Canadian and black British women’s writing, Settling Down and Settling Up extends discourses of diaspora and postcolonialism by expanding recent theory on movement and border crossing. While these concepts have recently gained theoretical currency, this book argues that they are not always adequate frameworks through which to understand second generation children who wish to reside "in place" in the nations of their birth. Considering migration and settlement as complex, interrelated processes that inform each other across multiple generations and geographies, Andrea Katherine Medovarski challenges the gendered constructions of nationhood and diaspora with a particular focus on Canadian and British black women writers, including Dionne Brand, Esi Edugyan, and Zadie Smith. Re-evaluating gender and spatial relations, Settling Down and Settling Up argues that local experiences, often conceptualized through the language of the feminine and the domestic in black women’s writings, are no less important than travel and border crossings.
Download or read book Tainted Gardens written by Jenette Gallardo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if . . .? What if a man with no family meets a girl with all the family you can imagine? What if this man, who is totally human, befriends and falls in love with the girl—who just happens to be a were-panther? How much would they actually sacrifice to adapt to each other’s ways, habits, and downfalls? Would their tremendous admiration and love for each other survive these all-too-real obstacles? And most importantly, would the human man learn to accept the reality of girl’s primal nature as a Shifter? This is the story of how Quinton Majors meets up with Raven Simon, the Shifter female who form one-third of the Onyx Triad! Readers, welcome to their stronghold: Vassar. Welcome . . . to the Tainted Garden!
