Download or read book Somewhere written by Lorna Jane Harvey and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring and timely collection of stories about migration, written from twenty women’s perspectives. Somewhere is an inspiring collection of stories about migration. Written from twenty women’s perspectives, it brings a refreshing and uniting voice to this compelling and trending topic. More people are likely to be migrating now than at any other time in history, and this is set to increase as climate change and political unrest pushes even more people to relocate. The implications of migration, especially for women, are often unknown, unheard, unspoken. From the fleeing refugee to the political and economic migrant, a broad range of migration by people of many cultures, ethnicities, and beliefs is shared in this book. Identity, belonging, assimilation and alienation are some of the key topics in this sometimes sad but also joyful book. Treasures of wisdom and heartfelt honesty are found in the stories. The book will give the reader hope, encouragement, or insight into a globally relevant subject on a personal level rather than through distant, abstract news stories. Somewhere encourages open-mindedness and is filled with stories that will likely have a strong impact on the reader.

Download or read book A Loss The Story of a Dead Soldier Told by His Sister written by Olesya Khromeychuk and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the story of one death among many in the war in eastern Ukraine. Its author is a historian of war whose brother was killed at the frontline in 2017 while serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Olesya Khromeychuk takes the point of view of a civilian and a woman, perspectives that tend to be neglected in war narratives, and focuses on the stories that play out far away from the warzone. Through a combination of personal memoir and essay, Khromeychuk attempts to help her readers understand the private experience of this still ongoing but almost forgotten war in the heart of Europe and the private experience of war as such. This book will resonate with anyone battling with grief and the shock of the sudden loss of a loved one.

Download or read book My Heart Was a Tree written by Michael Morpurgo and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the beauty and wonder of trees in this stunningly illustrated collection of poetry and stories celebrating trees and what they mean to the world around us . . . Inspired by the woods around his home, the mighty forests that support our life on Earth, and the Ted Hughes poem which gives this book its title, My Heart Was a Tree is a celebration, and Sir Michael Morpurgo's love letter to trees. There are stories from an ancient olive remembering Odysseus and Penelope, and from a eucalyptus that gave shelter to a koala; from a piece of driftwood that was made into a chair, and from a tiny sapling carried by a refugee as a reminder of home – these are poems and stories that will amuse, move and energise families and readers of all ages to appreciate the beauty and wonder of trees. Yuval Zommer's beautiful, detailed illustrations bring the natural world to life, and make My Heart Was a Tree a book to pore over for hours and hours, discovering something new each time.

Download or read book Hateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage written by Alice Munro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro come nine short stories with “the intimacy of a family photo album and the organic feel of real life” (The New York Times) “In Munro’s hands, as in Chekhov’s, a short story is more than big enough to hold the world—and to astonish us, again and again.”—Chicago Tribune FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY In the nine breathtaking stories that make up this collection, Alice Munro creates narratives that loop and swerve like memory, conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves. The fate of a strong-minded housekeeper with a “frizz of reddish hair,” just entering the dangerous country of old-maidhood, is unintentionally (and deliciously) reversed by a teenaged girl’s practical joke. A college student visiting her aunt for the first time and recognizing the family furniture stumbles on a long-hidden secret and its meaning in her own life. An inveterate philanderer finds the tables turned when he puts his wife into an old-age home. A young cancer patient stunned by good news discovers a perfect bridge to her suddenly regained future. A woman recollecting an afternoon’s wild lovemaking with a stranger realizes how the memory of that encounter has both changed for her and sustained her through a lifetime. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is Munro at her best—tirelessly observant, serenely free of illusion, deeply and gloriously humane.

Download or read book The Hollow Ground written by Natalie S. Harnett and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Set amongst the deadly coal mine fires of 1960s Pennsylvania, The Hollow Ground is an extraordinary debut that will "grab you by the brisket and not let go" (Gary Shteyngart) "We walk on fire or air, so Daddy liked to say. Basement floors too hot to touch. Steaming green lawns in the dead of winter. Sinkholes, quick and sudden, plunging open at your feet." The underground mine fires ravaging Pennsylvania coal country have forced Brigid Howley and her family to seek refuge with her estranged grandparents, the formidable Gram and the Black Lung stricken Gramp. Tragedy is no stranger to the Howleys, a proud Irish-American clan who takes strange pleasure in the "curse" laid upon them generations earlier by a priest who ran afoul of the Molly Maguires. The weight of this legacy rests heavily on a new generation, when Brigid, already struggling to keep her family together, makes a grisly discovery in a long-abandoned bootleg mine shaft. In the aftermath, decades' old secrets threaten to prove just as dangerous to the Howleys as the burning, hollow ground beneath their feet. Inspired by real-life events in now-infamous Centralia and the equally devastated town of Carbondale, The Hollow Ground is an extraordinary debut with an atmospheric, voice-driven narrative and an indelible sense of place. Not since To Kill a Mockingbird has a young character been so heartbreakingly captivating. A "powerful story of love and survival" (Pulitzer Prize finalist David Gates), Harnett's novel is a must-read for lovers of literary fiction"--

Download or read book Tulips and Ashes written by Iryna Kapitonova and published by Edmonds Press & Envision Berlin. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a raw and moving journey through a year in war-torn Ukraine with Iryna Kapitonova. Iryna invites you to join her in grappling with the pain of loss, uncertainty, and the terrible degradations of evil. As she chronicles her daily life in her beloved homeland of Ukraine, she also invites you to look for hope, to find reasons to celebrate, and to believe that a better day is coming. Witness the depths of loss, uncertainty, and the resilience of the human spirit. Through the pages of her daily chronicle discover hope blooming amidst chaos and the unwavering strength that can be found in moments of despair. Join her in exploring the profound interplay between faith, loss, and the enduring pursuit of hope in the face of adversity. As Iryna leads you through the first year of the 2022 war, you will find yourself alternately weeping and rejoicing, ever aware that war continues on. Join Iryna in bearing witness to the horrible and awesome potential of the human spirit.

Download or read book The Length of Days written by Volodymyr Rafeyenko and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Length of Days: An Urban Ballad is set mostly in the composite Donbas city of Z—an uncanny foretelling of what this letter has come to symbolize since February 24, 2022, when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Several embedded narratives attributed to an alcoholic chemist-turned-massage therapist give insight into the funny, ironic, or tragic lives of people who remained in the occupied Donbas after Russia’s initial aggression in 2014. With elements of magical realism, Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s novel combines a wicked sense of humor with political analysis, philosophy, poetry, and moral interrogation. Witty references to popular culture—Ukrainian and European—underline the international and transnational aspects of Ukrainian literature. The novel ends on the hopeful note that even death cannot have the final word: the resilient inhabitants of Z grow in power through reincarnation.

Download or read book The Milan Briefcase written by Graham Fulbright and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Milan Briefcase unfolds against the backdrop of the continuing, all but forgotten war in eastern Ukraine and an ailing Russian economy whose helmsmen are losing the electorate’s faith in their competence. It is a tale of machinations within clandestine corridors of power, where manipulation of public opinion is just one of the ruses, together with systematic dumbing down, employed by Machiavellian puppet masters towards achieving unpalatable ends. When classified Secret Service documents left inadvertently in a London minicab fall into private hands and are whisked away to a quiet European principality, the fuse is lit to a chain of events setting British and American intelligence services on a collision course against six individuals unaware of the significance of what they have uncovered. After three of the protagonists collude in a major bank robbery, not one of the six escapes the line of fire, whether it be in the form of death lurking in Gaudí’s Sagrada Família, Hezbollah pitted against the Islamic State in Lebanon, indictment for conspiring with jihadists, a suicide bomber in Lagos, a disastrous military offensive in Afghanistan or pursuit beyond Tiananmen Square. But perhaps some are prepared to pay the price.

Download or read book The Balance Equation Find Your Formula for Living Your Best Life written by Rob Fiance and published by Beachfront Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling to Live Your Best Life? This breakthrough book shows those who feel overwhelmed of just unable to find balance how to move closer to this elusive and vitally important goal. Virtually everyone struggles to stay balanced and carve out time for the things that are most important to them, a task that is increasingly difficult in today's frenetic world. In The Balance Equation: Find Your Formula for Living Your Best Life, authors Rob Fiance and Stuart Rosenblum offer a simple but comprehensive program for balancing the four life categories of self, health, relationships, and money. Thier proprietary cncept called Micro-movesTM - making small changes that immediatley begin addressing problem areas - helps readers achieve their priorites and begin living their best lives without a huge distuption or drain of time. Complete with exercises and case studies, The Balance EquationTM helps those who are ready to live their best lives take action and develop their own personal formula for doing exactly that. American Foundation for Suicide Prevention will receive a portion of the proceeds of each book. Reviews: I've already embraced the concept of "micro-moves," tiny activities that take almost no time at all. Such as, "meditate for one minute." I'm not a meditating-type person, but for only one minute? Yeah, I can do that! - Julie Mayerson Brown, author of top-selling contemporary women's fiction novels. I have just read “The Balance Equation” and I realized how the principles outlined would have been so useful to me when I was high ranking executive at a major movie studio. In that kind of position it was almost necessary to be consumed by my job and therefore sacrificing and short changing so many other aspects of my life. The ideas put forth in the book would have helped my live in a much more healthy, happy and self satisfying manner! -Barry London, Vice Chairman of Paramount Pictures (retired) Our limited definition of success has created a culture of rudderless ambition. The Balance Equation is an invaluable resource; a paradigm shift that trades antiquated notions of success and guides us to truly examine our lives so we can discover new definitions that include not only greater wealth, but also optimum health, peace of mind, meaning, purpose, and service to others. -Alan Watt - founder of L.A. Writers' Lab and bestselling author of The 90-Day Novel

Download or read book The New Jewish Diaspora written by Zvi Gitelman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migration has made deep marks on the social, cultural, and political terrain of many countries, in particular the United States, Israel, and Germany. The contributors examine the varied ways these immigrants have adapted to new environments, while identifying the common cultural bonds that continue to unite them. Assembling an international array of experts on the Soviet and post-Soviet Jewish diaspora, the book makes room for a wide range of scholarly approaches, allowing readers to appreciate the significance of this migration from many different angles. Some chapters offer data-driven analyses that seek to quantify the impact Russian-speaking Jewish populations are making in their adoptive countries and their adaptations there. Others take a more ethnographic approach, using interviews and observations to determine how these immigrants integrate their old traditions and affiliations into their new identities. Further chapters examine how, despite the oceans separating them, members of this diaspora form imagined communities within cyberspace and through literature, enabling them to keep their shared culture alive. Above all, the scholars in The New Jewish Diaspora place the migration of Russian-speaking Jews in its historical and social contexts, showing where it fits within the larger historic saga of the Jewish diaspora, exploring its dynamic engagement with the contemporary world, and pointing to future paths these immigrants and their descendants might follow.

Download or read book La mia Vita written by Vitalija Kosoru and published by LaVita. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not just a biography novel, but a social drama with elements of healthy humor. As the author of the book La Vita Kosoru says: "... in front of you is a plate on which ripe apples lie and everyone will find their core, their close and painful and surprisingly familiar fruit in this story." It is a fascinating, educational, tragic and at the same time bright path of a Ukrainian gypsy who lost her parents at the age of three. This novel reveals such important and unknown secrets of the world of gypsy communities as the cruel internal laws that lead to the inevitable and painful death of many women in camps. This novel touches on the political questions of several countries at the same time: Ukraine and Austria. He describes clearly and dynamically for many unpleasant topics, such as: an orphanage and atrocities by his educators; domestic violence, absolute patriarchy with its destructive violence; Homosexuality and open positioning of personality in society; Refugee problems and countries' true attitudes towards foreigners, the gradual uncovering of the purulent system and the dismantling of the myth of global compassion; Maternity issues about what it is like to be a single mother, a lesbian mother, a refugee mother while maintaining the light, love, respect, health and laughter of your children.You can discover all this and much more, which probably corresponds to your mind, or recognize yourself in these lines, maybe get an answer, remember a familiar pain or accept a slight smile while reading the book "La mia Vita".

Download or read book Hiking Home written by Ingrid Wood and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiking Home is much more than a book about exercising in woods and fields. While taking the reader on a hike through the scenic German countryside, the author weaves fascinating facts about German history as well as cherished memories into the fabric of her journey. Some of the adventures of the hiking Görgen sisters made me laugh out loud. Others made me wince and marvel about how much my friend was willing to endure to achieve her goal. Once I started reading Hiking Home, I could not put the book down. I did not want the journey to end. The next time Ingrid and her sister, Karin, go on a hike, I want to be included. Nancy Aiello

Download or read book Forced Migration and Human Security in the Eastern Orthodox World written by Lucian N. Leustean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conflict in Eastern Ukraine and the European refugee crisis have led to a dramatic increase in forced displacement across Europe. Fleeing war and violence, millions of refugees and internally displaced people face the social and political cultures of the predominantly Christian Orthodox countries in the post-Soviet space and Southeastern Europe. This book examines the ambivalence of Orthodox churches and other religious communities, some of which have provided support to migrants and displaced populations while others have condemned their arrival. How have religious communities and state institutions engaged with forced migration? How has forced migration impacted upon religious practices, values and political structures in the region? In which ways do Orthodox churches promote human security in relation to violence and ‘the other’? The book explores these questions by bringing together an international team of scholars to examine extensive material in the former Soviet states (Ukraine, Russia, Georgia and Belarus), Southeastern Europe (Turkey, Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania), Western Europe and the United States.

Download or read book Narkomania written by Jennifer J. Carroll and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of a post-Soviet state set aflame by geopolitical conflict and violent revolution, Narkomania considers whether substance use disorders are everywhere the same and whether our responses to drug use presuppose what kind of people those who use drugs really are. Jennifer J. Carroll's ethnography is a story about public health and international efforts to quell the spread of HIV. Carroll focuses on Ukraine where the prevalence of HIV among people who use drugs is higher than in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and unpacks the arguments and myths surrounding medication-assisted treatment (MAT) in Ukraine. What she presents in Narkomania forces us to question drug policy, its uses, and its effects on "normal" citizens. Carroll uses her findings to explore what people who use drugs can teach us about the contemporary societies emerging in post-Soviet space. With examples of how MAT has been politicized, how drug use has been tied to ideas of "good" citizenship, and how vigilantism towards people who use drugs has occurred, Narkomania details the cultural and historical backstory of the situation in Ukraine. Carroll reveals how global efforts supporting MAT in Ukraine allow the ideas surrounding MAT, drug use, and HIV to resonate more broadly into international politics and echo into the heart of the Ukrainian public.

Download or read book The Russians Are Coming The Money is Flowing written by S.P. Wingate and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S.-backed “regime change” in Ukraine – launching a New Cold War with Russia in 2014 – was rationalized by the need to rid Ukraine of corruption, but post-coup officials are busier than ever lining their pockets. Consortium News Welcome to Ukraine, the most corrupt country in Europe The Guardian Both Biden and Kerry championed $1.8 billion in taxpayer-backed loans to be given to Ukraine courtesy of the IMF. That money would go directly through Kolomoisky's PrivatBank, and then it would disappear. The Patriot Watchdog Burisma Paid Former Ukrainian President Poroshenko $100mm To Suppress Hunter Biden Investigation in 2017, Bribed FBI agents Ignored Evidence, the US Embassy in Kyiv Neck Deep in Corruption. Investment Watch Buris Ukrainian political scientist Taras Kuzio said, “High-level Ukrainian officials, if not directly are dealing in illegal arms, are reportedly either smoothing the path for sales or at least looking the other way. Christian Science Monitor Ukraine has gained a reputation as one of the world’s most active suppliers of illegal small arms. Frontline PBS News Joe Biden brags about extorting the government of Ukraine threatening that they would not receive their scheduled aid package unless they pull the prosecutor off the case where his son Biden was identified as the recipient of over $3,000,000.00. dagalagas YouTube video 9/20/2019 Get a first-hand real-life experience with an American investor who lived and worked in Ukraine for six years. Learn what a foreign investor must go through to get a business up and running successfully in Ukraine - or should we say unsuccessfully? The American government knows these facts about Ukraine but continue to send BILLIONS of dollars to them. BILLIONS of $$ have mysteriously disappeared into thin air. Russia and Putin are not perfect. But they are not the problem in Ukraine. Ukraine is Ukraine’s problem – Not Russia.

Download or read book Scarred written by L. Ayu Saraswati and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A transnational feminist autoethnography of traveling to twenty countries in one year to find healing and have a different relationship with pain"--

Download or read book Hope for Ukraine written by Kyle Duncan and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Harrowing, Intimate Look into the Most Devastating War in Eight Decades Part narrative, part wartime dispatch, Hope for Ukraine transports you into the gritty reality of war-torn Ukraine--and the front lines of faith, survival, and miraculous intervention. From scrambling to escape the bombs leveling their neighborhoods to fleeing sex traffickers in the chaos of border crossings to rescuing orphans trapped by Russian tanks, these stunning firsthand accounts tell the stories of real Ukrainians enduring terrible hardships with grit and grace. Join bestselling writer Kyle Duncan and his co-author Esther Fedorkevich--both with deep family ties to Ukraine--as they take you inside the conflict with dramatic boots-on-the-ground stories and eyewitness accounts of Ukrainian refugees, aid workers, soldiers, and families affected by the conflict. As the world holds its collective breath, these stories reveal the unbreakable spirit of a nation under siege. Even amid the chaos and tragedy of Europe's largest war since World War II, God is indeed at work in redemptive ways. Authors' Proceeds to Support Ukraine's Refugees