Download or read book Get Me written by Jillian Dodd and published by Jillian Dodd. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Take Me Home Tonight written by Erika Kelly and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rocker gets a taste of unexpected passion in the latest red-hot Rock Star Romance from the award-winning author of I Want You to Want Me. Calix Bourbon might seem like a free spirit, but that's all a front. In reality he's just trying to keep his fractured family together while working as a session musician. When Blue Fire hires him to replace their keyboardist, Calix is determined to make the most of the opportunity--but he can't help being distracted by the band's sexy personal chef. Mimi's temporary gig is great, but she has her heart set on auditioning for a televised cooking show. There's just one problem: she only has a week to acquire the skills necessary to survive the competition. Luckily, the band's new keyboard player can teach her exactly what she needs, in the kitchen and in the bedroom...
Download or read book Take Me with You written by Carlos Frias and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative and unforgettable memoir from award-winning journalist Carlos Frías about his journey to Cuba where he retraces his family's history and encounters the realities of Cuba under Fidel Castro's rule. Carlos Frías, an award-winning journalist and the American-born son of Cuban exiles, grew up hearing about his parents' homeland only in parables. Their Cuba, the one they left behind four decades ago, was ethereal. It existed, for him, only in their anecdotes, and in the family that remained in Cuba—merely ghosts on the other end of a telephone. Until Fidel Castro fell ill. Sent to Cuba by his newspaper as the country began closing to foreign journalists in August 2006, Frías begins the secret journey of a lifetime—twelve days in the land of his parents. That experience led to this evocative, spectacular, and unforgettable memoir. Take Me With You is written through the unique eyes of a first-generation Cuban-American seeing the forbidden country of his ancestry for the first time. Frías provides a fresh view of Cuba, devoid of overt political commentary, focusing instead on the gritty, tangible lives of the people living in Castro's Cuba. Frías takes in the island nation of today and attempts to reconstruct what the past was like for his parents, retracing their footsteps, searching for his roots, and discovering his history. The story creates lasting and unexpected ripples within his family on both sides of the Florida Straits—and on the author himself.
Download or read book Hers to Crave written by Avery Samson and published by Avery Samson. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She wasn’t looking for anything complicated, but how can she walk away from a man that’s hers to crave? The text just said to do something crazy. Claire Lloyd didn’t think that included having sex with a complete stranger only half an hour after meeting him. Was she a complete idiot? Not only did she have sex with a random guy, turns out he wasn’t a stranger at all. He’s a world renowned soccer player that she should have recognized the instant she saw him. The problem is, he’s amazing. He’s sexy, athletic, funny, and that accent. Holy cow! She should leave him alone, but how can she not crave him with every bone of my being? Claire was the most amazing woman Alex Ross ever met. He doesn't believe in love at first sight. Well, he didn’t until he saw Claire walking across campus. He really should be ashamed of what he did. He introduced himself as Alex, not the famous Xander Ross she might have recognized. He thought maybe if he had her once, he’d be able to let her go. But it’s Claire. No man in his right mind could let her go, now he just has to convince her they’re worth the effort.
Download or read book Miami written by Anthony P. Maingot and published by Interlink Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociologist and Miami resident Anthony P. Maingot has written a cultural history of this vibrant city, which boasts the highest percentage of foreign-born residents in the US. Miami, or “Sweet Water” in the Creek Indian language, is one of the newest cities in the United States. While northern Florida was fought over by European powers and finally taken by the Americans as part of the slave-worked plantation South, Miami lay largely ignored and populated by more alligators than humans until its incorporation as a city in 1896. The driving force was Henry Flagler, who brought his railroad down to Miami and from there to Key West—and trade with Cuba. Once settled, “Tin Can” tourists from the North, Midwest and South rode their Model-T Fords down to Florida and Miami and the boom in land sales began. After the Prohibition period and the heyday of the bootleggers, a new but still segregated Miami emerged from the Second World War. Miami Beach became a tourist mecca and once Disney World opened in Orlando, millions passed through Miami to reach it and Florida and Miami entered a new era of growth and development. It was Fidel Castro, however, who created present-day Miami by exiling over a million of Cuba's middle class. Showing enormous entrepreneurial skill and an exuberant taste for life, Cubans and more recently, Brazilians, Venezuelans and Colombians created the first Latin and “tropical” city in the US. Anthony P. Maingot explores the momentous history and vibrant culture of this most cosmopolitan city. With the highest percentage of foreign-born residents in the US, Miami is a melting-pot of music, dance, visual arts, cuisine sports and political argument. Maingot reveals how this unique cultural mix keeps the new city humming and ensures the perpetuation of its tropical joie de vivre. * City of migrants and tourists: “capital of Latin America and the Caribbean”; Little Havana and Little Haiti; exiles and entrepreneurs; the world's biggest cruise ship hub. * • City of crime: the Prohibition boom; Al Capone, Meyer Lansky and the mob; Miami Vice and modern-day drug crime. * City of culture: art deco architecture; the Latin recording industry; writers of the Caribbean Diaspora; center of performing arts.
Download or read book Miami s Superstar 2 written by Diamond Johnson and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I think that everyone can pretty much agree that love isn’t easy. Even when two people desperately love each other so much, that still doesn’t make it easy. In fact, in order to have that “perfect love” that we all hope and pray for, we’ll have to go through some bumps and bruises along the way. Messiah and Ryan have what it takes to be that “it” couple. The chemistry between them is amazing, but can Ryan see it? Can she see that she has a man in Miami who desperately loves her, or will she go running back to her fiancé, Devin, in Philadelphia? This big secret that Devin has been keeping from Ryan, how will she react to that? It’s so many things in Ryan’s life that are getting in the middle of her becoming that Miami Superstar that she’s destined to be. Not only is the talent there but the support from Messiah is there as well, but can she see it? After almost eight years of being apart from each other, can the two of them finally make it work or will Ryan hold herself back from true happiness?
Download or read book Trabulation written by Travis Williams and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accused, convicted, and given a thirty-year federal sentence for drug conspiracy that was contributed to me. They killed me. I have been dead to many for thirty whole years and killed internally. Humbled by my reality, constrained and constricted to limited space, unable to move after being buried by a court judgment. The judge recalled and revealed every character flaw that I ever demonstrated when he sentenced me to...thirty fucking years. I have survived the silence and secrecy of my death imposed upon me by the federal court. I have conquered my darkness, loneliness, and lifeless realities. No longer am I consumed by my burial. I have held my breath for the entire thirty years. I survived, I am now resurrected from the dead. I am here to tell my story.
Download or read book Love Is Blind written by May'lon Miranda and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ive been through a lot in my life and was always on the right path in life up until i found out at the age of 17 that I was adopted I went into the deepest state of depression it crushed my world but at the same time started my new beginning...all throughout my life I was searching for the truth I didnt think I would ever find myself or my biological family until one day a letter, a pen and a pad of paper would change my life forever
Download or read book Southern Patriots written by Ashley Riley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Fifty Years: Shining on the Emerald Coast is the story of one small congregation in the Panhandle of Florida, the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Emerald Coast (the UUFEC). In it is a short introduction to Unitarian Universalism and its place in the deep South, but the book's main emphasis is on those whose contributions and personalities made this particular fellowship what it is today. More than anything, these pages are a tribute to all those whose visions created the Fellowship, whose lives and thoughts became part of its common spiritual growth, and who left their tears and laughter imprinted on its walls. This is the story of how one congregation was shaped.
Download or read book A Love Like Carmen s written by T. N. Bradford and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carmen is a young woman in her twenties who keeps looking for love in all the wrong places. She’s also a Christian struggling to integrate her religion into the confines of modern dating. Over and over, Carmen chooses the wrong guy. In her journal, she acknowledges that she fears abandonment and is afraid of being alone. She longs to find the right guy to start a family, and she is lucky to have her faith to lean on. She truly believes God has a man waiting for her. She believes she has a divinely ordained match out there somewhere, so she asks God for guidance as she is shaped into the person God wants her to be. Carmen has moments of doubt, however, as she sometimes thinks God hates her due to some of her past decisions. She eventually finds her way back into His loving arms, though not without strife. She must go through a lot of Mr. Wrongs to find Mr. Right, but Carmen will not give up. She looks forward to the day when she finds a true love of her own.
Download or read book A Conversation with the Mann written by John Ridley and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you want? "I want the Ed Sullivan Show." At the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, like a lot of black Americans, comedian Jackie Mann wanted to be somebody. And for him there was only one way to achieve that: to make it big. Make it, no matter the cost: friends, family, one's own self-esteem and self-respect. This is the story of a young man's journey from Harlem to stardom, a story of Hollywood royalty, New York glitterati, Vegas Mafiosi, Northern bigotry, and Southern racism. This is a story of love, honor, betrayal, and redemption; of fame bought and paid for by any means necessary. It is the story of one man's desire and an entire race's demands, and the incredible moment when the two came together as one. This is the story of Jackie Mann.
Download or read book The Hijacking of American Flight 119 written by John Wigger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1971, "D. B. Cooper" pulled off what some call the crime of the century, skyjacking a Boeing 727 and parachuting into history and legend. Here's a book that offers a gripping account of that still-unsolved case, based on never-before-published interviews, showing how it launched one of the most extraordinary eras in American aviation history. In November 1971, an unidentified man later anointed by the media as "D.B. Cooper" pulled off one of the most audacious crimes in aviation history, hijacking a Northwest Airlines flight over the Pacific Northwest and parachuting from the Boeing 727 with $200,000 in ransom. "D. B. Cooper" was never to be seen again and the FBI, which kept his case open for forty years, finally determined it would never be solved. Unsolved, perhaps, but much admired. Over the next seven months, a number of air pirates imitated Cooper's crime. None were more daring than the hijacker of American Airlines Flight 119. After commandeering the flight from St. Louis with a machine gun and collecting $502,500 in ransom, the Flight 119 hijacker parachuted into the night over Indiana. Unlike Cooper, he was found. These two crimes were part of a wave of hijackings that occurred between 1961 and 1972, "D. B. Cooper" may have been the most famous, but he was far from alone. One hijacker ran across the tarmac in Reno, Nevada with a pillowcase over his head, gun in hand, to seize a United Airlines flight. Another collected a large ransom in Washington, D.C. before jumping over Honduras. Motivations in many cases remain murky, an admixture of politics, greed, derring-do, and boredom. What they had in common was how they transfixed the nation's attention, bringing about a transformation in the ways that commercial airlines were run and how the laws of the skies were enforced. With its focus on the parachute hijackers, beginning with "D. B. Cooper," John Wigger's book gathers together the stories of this period of daring criminality and recounts them in gripping fashion, showing their effect on the public, the media, and law enforcement. Using never-before published interviews and first-hand accounts, he brings one of the most chaotic periods in U.S. commercial aviation to life.
Download or read book Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away written by David Powell and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida Historical Society Samuel Proctor Award Rare accounts of Cuban migration in the words of the exiles themselves Bringing together an unprecedented number of extensive personal stories, this book shares the triumphs and heartbreaking moments experienced by some of the first Cubans to come to the United States after Fidel Castro took power in 1959. Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away is a moving look inside fifteen years of migration that changed the two countries and transformed the lives of the people who found themselves separated from their homeland. David Powell presents interviews with refugees who left Cuba between 1959 and the 1962 Missile Crisis, as well as those who embarked on the Freedom Flights of the late 1960s and early 1970s. During these years more than 600,000 Cubans migrated to the US, some by way of other countries and many arriving in Miami with only a few clothes and pocket money. In their own words, exiles describe why they left the island, how they prepared for departure, what situations they faced when they arrived in the US, and how they integrated into American life. Offering historical background that illuminates this pivotal period in the context of the Cold War, Powell shows how the US government’s Cuban refugee assistance program had far-reaching effects on refugee policy, bilingual education, and child welfare programs. The testimonies in this book include new information about low-cost “Cuban Loans” that enabled young exiles to attend US colleges, preparing many to be builders and leaders in their adopted country today. A powerful portrayal of the initial effects of a revolution that began a new era in Cuba’s relationship with the world, this book preserves rare accounts of the motivations and struggles of early Cuban exiles in the words of the emigres themselves, adding gripping detail to the history of the modern Cuban diaspora. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Download or read book The Life of Rahmique written by ,MGE and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rahmique Jamingson Jr., a.k.a Rah, is a young boy born and raised from Camden, New Jersey, trying to figure out his way through life but hits some tragic struggles along the way. He is raised by a mother who struggles with a drug addiction and a father who he later found out is a drug kingpin. Taye, who is his older brother, gets locked up on several drug charges, leaving him to fend for himself with a niece and nephew. As Rahmique gets older, he enters the street life, getting fast money to support his family, trying to follow his brother's footsteps. His best friend, Amir, who he finds out is also his brother, gets caught up at a party, ending in a tragic death. He has flashbacks of his childhood, finding the killer and seeking for revenge. Rahmique becomes successful at what he does with his father leaving him the family business until he is triggered by his archenemy, Mahki, trying to take his spot.
Download or read book Clouds over Paradise written by Thayer Keith Miller and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CLOUDS OVER PARADISE AN AROUND THE WORLD ADVENTURE By Thayer Keith Miller N3TM (Ex WA3EFH) A TRUE ADVENTURE STORY---The account of the adventures of a senior officer on the windjammer yacht YANKEE TRADER on its first around-the-world expedition in 1973-1974. Relive the adventure with all the details like you were there. THIS STORY WILL APPEAL TO YOU---If you are interested in amateur radio, ocean sailing, travel and adventure. Ive never heard such a story. It ought to be a best seller! Thomas I. Kolstad, Captain U. S. Navy Very interesting reading! CQ Magazine Definitely, this story is meant for a television series! Tony Lopopolo, Literary Critic Thayer Keith Miller is the best qualified person to tell this storyships officer, ham radio operator, cruise consultant and operator of sailing expeditions in the South Pacific. He shares this knowledge and expertise as he recounts the adventure story in detail based on original logs, diaries, notes and personal recollections. It is perhaps the most detailed story you will ever read and it is very informative in this edited and shortened account. The author was arrested in Hong Kong and imprisoned as a suspected spy. Later, without a passport or money he was shanghaied in Singapore and held as an impressed seaman for three months. He recounts his rescue at sea off the coast of Kenya by an armed boarding party and his repatriation in a top secret operation planned by the U.S. State Department. His friend was later murdered in the Seychelles while making arrangements to reunite the author with his girlfriend. A disturbed passenger and crew members caused troublephysical and verbal abuse with accusations of sabotage and mutiny. The author describes how the international amateur radio fraternity played a vital role in his escape from circumstances because of his shipboard operation as WA3EFH maritime mobile. A TRUE STORYBETTER THAN FICTION. READ IT NOW! Many of the events took place in the Seychelles, an island chain sometimes known as the Paradise of the Indian Ocean and original site of the Garden of Eden, hence the title and its implications.
Download or read book From that Exceptional Balcony written by Alfred S. Iskander and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plain and simple, here is the thing: Hillary did not win because Hillary was not going to win "Russia, the Russians, and Vladimir Putin." Enough is enough with that. Throw that cheap talk out the window. Hillary went too far. She is nothing more than a former first lady. But she wants to make believe that she is larger than life. She is not, and nobody is. Yes, a lot of people voted for her. Translation: "You were a good president, Mr. Clinton, we do appreciate you!" See, when it comes to what takes place on the political stage, there is always room for translation. Look at what happened with Jeb Bush. He was thrown out of the race at a very early moment. Poor Jeb did not have a chance. Translation: "We don't want another George W. Bush!" The rejection here was not meant for Jeb Bush as much as it was meant for George W. Bush's brother. Now then, going back to Hillary with the same measuring scale, the appreciation there was not meant for Hillary as much as it was meant for president Clinton's wife. Hillary is inadequate, she never was meant for the presidency of mighty United States of America. More to the point, even the position of Secretary of State was not really meant for her. President Obama gave her the position mainly to heal the wounds of the party and move on! He definitely was fully aware that others among the individuals that surrounded him were far more qualified than her. Ask him. Let us hear his answer. He just wanted to show the whole world that he forgave her for what she said to him and about him, "Shame on you, Mr. Obama!" Remember that language? Well, the truth is, Hillary does not have the capacity to understand complex issues at depth, just to give you an example here: when the Muslim Brotherhood became in charge of Egypt, she stood out there and announced, "Hey, that is democracy," smiling approvingly and nodding wholeheartedly in all directions. Oh yeah? Democracy, eh? Was it democracy when Hitler became in charge of Germany? That was brainwashing, utter deception, and intimidation all the way. Mr. Trump, I urge you to declare the Muslim Brotherhood the most violent terrorist organization on earth. For that is precisely who they are, a bunch of street thugs, hardaEUR"core criminals from anywhere you look at them. Then you look at the other side, and there you see the North Korean and the Chinese leaders: one of them was born in Extortionsville and the other was born in Deceptionsville. We don't know what will happen, however, whether the North Korean is driving toward war or toward peace, China loves it anyway. On the one hand, the lengthy issue of North Korea is the best distraction to the whole world while China is colonizing and militarizing the South China Sea. China has never ending territorial ambitionsaEUR"claiming and disputing here and there all the time. And having swallowed one region after another in the space of time, I can sure tell you, if you live on the moon, China will have territorial disputes with you. Now then, on the other hand, China is using the North Korean issue to blind the issue of those massive trade imbalances: Five hundred and fifty billion? Dollars? a year? What are we buying from China that we cannot make for ourselves at an unsurpassable degree of excellence? What the hell is going on here? That is not trade. That is throat cutting and blood sucking. That can't be. Five hundred and fifty billion? Get out of my face. That is the biggest robbery in the history of mankindaEUR"someone is smoking something out thereaEUR"in the meantime, someone is getting paid handsomely by the Chinese government to keep our relations with Russia at their lowest point. It is in the Chinese book of secrets: to make sure that the Americans wouldn't have friends in the Kremlin, and the Russians wouldn't have friends in the White HouseaEUR"and by the way, how could we end up paying China interest on borrowed money that had been stolen from us in the form of intellectual property and industrial secrets. A serious confrontation with China is what is neededaEUR|Not negotiations: you do not negotiate with a thiefaEUR"read...
Download or read book Impossible Promise written by Sybil Bartel and published by Carina Press. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three years ago, Layna Blair listened in horror over a telephone line as her parents were murdered. When the killer said she was next, Layna panicked and made a deadly deal—his secret in exchange for her life. She's paid the price every day since, becoming a prisoner in plain sight. Marine Sergeant Blaze Johnson offers Layna a way out—her freedom, his rules, no questions asked—and she takes it, despite knowing what her keepers do to people who get too close. She doesn't know Blaze is fighting his own demons or that beneath his warrior façade is a man on the verge of breaking. Embarking on a wild revenge mission with Blaze and his smooth-talking best friend, Talon, is not what Layna signed on for. But attempting to run when Blaze has made no secret he intends to make her his is a reckless mistake. With the killer closing in, it's up to Blaze to save them all—and to Layna to realize that she's risked the one thing she can't afford to lose. Book one of two 93,000 words
