Download or read book Vincent and Eve written by Jessica Ruben and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising All I want is to leave my crime-ridden shadow of a home in New York City. I've done everything I can to keep my head down and focus on my studies. College is my only goal; love has never been on the map...That is, until my sister brings me to an underground fight, where I meet a gorgeous and mysterious man: Vincent. He is the ghost in my shadows, showing up to feed me pieces of his upper-crust life, then evaporating into darkness until his next visit. I'm falling hard and fast. How can I trust him amidst the depth of his secrets? Vincent may be even more dangerous than the dark world I'm trying to escape. Reckoning Vincent: Forgetting about Eve was the plan. Finding her at a party on my college campus was the last thing I expected. My world has turned into a house of cards, where one wrong move can send it all crashing down...and us with it. Eve: Finally at a prestigious university-and on the path to living my dreams-I've left the darkness of the Blue Houses behind. Still, a whole new host of problems await me.Vincent is the king of the school. I thought I wanted to know what he was hiding, but unlocking his biggest secret leads me into entirely new territory laced with danger and lust...one I'm not sure I'll survive. Redemption Vincent Through every drop of blood I spilled, I lost a piece of my soul. I've sacrificed seven long years and the woman of my life for the Family. But I'm not done fighting-not yet. Eve is still out there. I will stop at nothing to get her back. Eve After having my heart torn out by the son of the biggest crime family in New York, I was forced to start over in California. With three thousand miles between me and my past, life is finally set on cruise control. As for love? It's not worth the fight.
Download or read book Redemption written by Jessica Ruben and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VincentThrough every drop of blood I spilled, I lost a piece of my soul. I've sacrificed seven long years and the woman of my life for the Family. With prison behind me, I'm finally taking the reins of my destiny. I won't allow the choices of my past to define my future. But I'm not done fighting-not yet. Eve is still out there. I will stop at nothing to get her back.EveAfter having my heart torn by the son of the biggest crime family in New York, I was forced to start over in California. With 3000 miles between me and my past, life is finally set on cruise control. I'm a lawyer at one of the best law firms in the country, I own my apartment, and I even have a doting boyfriend by my side. As for love? It's not worth the fight.
Download or read book The Many Faces of Adam and Eve written by Bernard F. Batto and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to popular opinion, the story of Adam and Eve is not confined to the book of Genesis. It has roots in prebiblical myth and continued to evolve long after the Bible was completed. Bernard F. Batto traces the development of the Adam and Eve story from its origins in Mesopotamian myth to its reformulation in Genesis and beyond--including its expansion in Jewish epigraphs such as 1 Enoch and the Life of Adam and Eve, and its place in Christian innovations such as the apostle Paul's thesis that Christ is a second Adam, and in the thinking of church fathers such as Irenaeus, who held that Christ recapitulates all humankind in himself, and Augustine, whose doctrine of original sin interprets the Adam and Eve story. Batto also examines gnostic teachings about a heavenly Adam and an earthly Adam, and surveys rabbinical attempts from the Talmudic period to find hidden meanings in the Genesis story. Islam's emphasis on Satan's role in seducing Adam and Eve is also discussed, and the book concludes with Milton's unforgettable retelling of the Adam and Eve story in Paradise Lost. Batto's goal is not only to reveal the many faces given Adam and Eve throughout history, but also to understand the divergent cultural and theological factors powering this long, evolving tradition.
Download or read book Unstable Relations written by Eve Vincent and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1970s witnessed the emergence of a global environmental movement in response to rampant resource extraction. This moment gave rise to a celebrated 'green-black alliance' between environmentalists and Indigenous groups in Australia. However, in recent years, this relationship has come under increased critical scrutiny, spurred in part by the global mining boom and continuing concerns about the effects of climate change. This edited collection brings together leading anthropologists, social scientists, activists, and writers to subject the Indigenous-environmentalist relation to rigorous, empirical inquiry, and to explore noted controversies, campaigns, and key issues, such as: the Wild Rivers Act and James Price Point, mining, native title rights, 'feral' species, forestry, national parks, and payment for environmental services. The insights generated here have relevance beyond Australia as scholars investigate the politics of indigeneity in the present moment, and consider the economic future of Indigenous minorities. Significantly, the collection involves both Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors, subjecting environmentalists to a kind of anthropological analysis. [Subject: Environmental Studies, Politics, Indigenous Studies]
Download or read book Warrior Undone written by Jessica Ruben and published by Jessicarubenbooks. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have no intention of finding happily-ever-after. At least, not anymore. Fighting for my country was an honor, returning home is a curse. My demons need to be fed. How else can a shattered man stay afloat? When a wild night in Las Vegas with the sexiest woman I've ever met turns into hell, she attaches to me as though I'm her savior. But what happens when a woman hangs her hands on broken glass? She bleeds.
Download or read book Mafia Kingdom written by Jessica Ruben and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mafia Romance. International Romance. New adult romance.
Download or read book Gringo Love written by Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the city of Natal in northeastern Brazil, several local women negotiate the terms of their intimate relationships with foreign tourists, or gringos, in a situation often referred to as "sex tourism." These women have different experiences, but they share a similar desire to "escape" the social conditions of their lives in Brazil. Based on original ethnographic research and presented in graphic form, Gringo Love explores the hopes, dreams, and realities of these women against a backdrop of deep social inequality and increasing state surveillance leading up to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games. It touches on important contemporary issues, including sexual economics, transnational mobility, romantic imaginaries, gender representation, race and inequality, and visual methods. The graphic story is accompanied by analysis and contextual discussion, which encourage readers to engage with the narrative and expand their understanding of the broader social issues therein.
Download or read book Dinner with Edward written by Isabel Vincent and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking she is merely checking in on a friend's nonagenarian dad, Isabel Vincent has no idea that the man in the kitchen cooking a sublime meal will end up changing her life. Dinner with Edward is a book about love, nourishment, and how dinner with a friend can, in the words of M. F. K. Fisher, “sustain us against the hungers of the world.”
Download or read book Warez written by Martin Paul Eve and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay. These public manifestations of piracy, though, conceal an elite worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups who specialize in obtaining media – music, videos, games, and software – before their official sale date and then racing against one another to release the material for free. Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy is the first scholarly research book about this underground subculture, which began life in the pre-internet era Bulletin Board Systems and moved to internet File Transfer Protocol servers (“topsites") in the mid- to late-1990s. The “Scene," as it is known, is highly illegal in almost every aspect of its operations. The term “Warez" itself refers to pirated media, a derivative of “software." Taking a deep dive in the documentary evidence produced by the Scene itself, Warez describes the operations and infrastructures an underground culture with its own norms and rules of participation, its own forms of sociality, and its own artistic forms. Even though forms of digital piracy are often framed within ideological terms of equal access to knowledge and culture, Eve uncovers in the Warez Scene a culture of competitive ranking and one-upmanship that is at odds with the often communalist interpretations of piracy. Broad in scope and novel in its approach, Warez is indispensible reading for anyone interested in recent developments in digital culture, access to knowledge and culture, and the infrastructures that support our digital age.
Download or read book Seized written by Eve LaPlante and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seized is a narrative portrait of a common brain disorder that can alter personality, illuminating the mind-body problem and the limits of free will. An invaluable resource for anyone touched by epilepsy, Seized gives first-hand accounts of three ordinary patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), explaining what they suffer and how they cope. The book also tells the stories of creative luminaries diagnosed with or suspected of having TLE, including van Gogh, Dostoevsky, Lewis Carroll, Saint Paul, and Flaubert. The psychological implications of Seized are, according to Publishers Weekly, “staggering.” Kirkus Reviews called the book “Fascinating . . . LaPlante’s descriptions of the human brain are wonderfully concrete, her historical research is well presented, and her empathy for TLE’s victims is clear.” In this “fascinating account of medical research,” Howard Gardner noted, “LaPlante shows how a brain scar may cause bizarre aggressive or sexual behavior—and works of profound creative imagination.”
Download or read book The Devil in Winter written by Lisa Kleypas and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'm Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can't be celibate. Everyone knows that." Desperate to escape her scheming relatives, Evangeline Jenner has sought the help of the most infamous scoundrel in London. A marriage of convenience is the only solution. No one would have ever paired the shy, stammering wallflower with the sinfully handsome viscount. It quickly becomes clear, however, that Evie is a woman of hidden strength—and Sebastian desires her more than any woman he's ever known. Determined to win her husband's elusive heart, Evie dares to strike a bargain with the devil: If Sebastian can stay celibate for three months, she will allow him into her bed. When Evie is threatened by a vengeful enemy from the past, Sebastian vows to do whatever it takes to protect his wife . . . even at the expense of his own life. Together they will defy their perilous fate, for the sake of all-consuming love.
Download or read book Adam Evil written by Charlie Vincent and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam is living the high life in Monaco. He's a man that appears to have it all: the fancy apartment, the sports car, and the finest private wine collection in the world. When a local woman goes missing and the police do nothing about it, curiosity gets the better of him and he decides to investigate.He finds himself embroiled in a dark world of traffickers who kidnap women and force them into prostitution throughout the Mediterranean. The police are too afraid to confront them and locals don't even dare speak their name. Nobody has ever faced up to them.Adam isn't just anybody though. He's lived through all of human history and has built up a set of skills that make him bad news for anyone he decides to take down. As he wages a one man war against them, he realises he may have bitten off more than he can chew. Will Adam save the missing woman and take the traffickers down, or has he finally met his match?
Download or read book Seven Daughters of Eve written by Bryan Sykes and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-05-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This national bestseller, now in paperback, reveals how all humans are descended from seven prehistoric women--the Seven Daughters of Eve.
Download or read book Light My Fire written by Jessica Ruben and published by Sex. Rock. Mafia.. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Amazon bestselling author Jessica Ruben comes a hot new Romance...He saved me from war.Fed me when I was in too much pain to eat.Smuggled me and my family into America when it became too dangerous to stay.But, Nico didn't flee with us.While I began elementary school in the United States, he was building the greatest and toughest Mafia of the century.The Mafia Shqiptare.Nico is now King of all underground trades.Sexy. Aggressive. Brilliant.After years of nothing but silence, he's back in my life, Ready to do whatever it takes to bring me into his universe.He isn't leaving until he takes me with him
Download or read book Love Her Madly written by Jessica Ruben and published by Jessicarubenbooks. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From International Bestselling author Jessica Ruben comes a passionate romance. From India to Iran and New York City, buckle up for a journey you won't forget. Darius is a man with power and control.As a child in the Mumbai slums, living among lethal street gangs, all he cared about was his safety and where he would find his next meal.That is, until the Madame of the most famed brothel in India finds him, offering him a life he can't refuse. As an intelligent, beautiful woman raised in a small mountain village, Gini never would have imagined a place like The Mansion exists.Stolen by Darius into a dark underworld where the famed Mullah Omar arranges pleasure marriages to the highest bidder, Gini fights for survival.At first frightened by the dangerous man who keeps her prisoner, Darius slowly becomes the one light in her dark world. The Madame. The Mullah. The Protector. The Beauty. Who will win when money reigns supreme and power is everything?
Download or read book Convenient Amnesia written by Donald Vincent and published by Broadstone Books. This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. African & African American Studies. An old movie theme song once observed, "What's too painful to remember, we simply choose to forget." That sort of convenient amnesia is at the heart of this incandescent first poetry collection from Donald Vincent. Incandescent, because that's the sort of light produced by heat, and there's a righteous heat raging in these pages, producing a brilliance that illuminates a legacy of racism and violence and appropriation and disenfranchisement and, and...all those things we'd like to forget, ignore, disown. All that pain. This is, then, a document on the subject of getting woke. And what an awakening! Vincent is by his own description "Prankster and intelligent gangster all-in-one," and that phrase captures perfectly the tone, and charm, of this book. But beware that beguiling charm, because it's dangerous. Indeed, "Lucky Charm" is the first poem, where he declares, "I inherited the bop in my walk from my great, / great grandpa's lashings on the farm." That's a hard-won bop, indeed, and in case we're inclined to forget, conveniently, that those lashings are not just a thing of the past, he doubles down a few lines later with the incendiary reminder, "I want to whistle whimsical feelings to white women, / Emmett Till's charm." Vincent identifies himself with Till again a few poems later, and laments that black children are born as "a small, black imprint / forced into a blank, / white world." Elsewhere, he declares, "they built me / to be filthy / black & ugly / and forever / guilty." He won't let us forget how that feels, how that works, even if it would be convenient to do so. Vincent scrutinizes the aftermath of this legacy on stages large and small, and after a first section devoted to more political poems, in the second he tightens his focus on a more domestic scale. The title poem examines an all-too-familiar scene of troubled marriage, the husband "stumbling through the garage / entrance, smelling of Wild Irish Rose," his wife demanding "What happened to us?" His answer: "I forgot. / I don't know. Dear, I forgot. / Just give me one more chance." Yes, it's a melodramatic stereotype, but it's also a sad reality for too many families, a product of too many generations of denied opportunity, even to form stable families and communities. How many chances do we have left? (But lest this sound too unremittingly gloomy, this section also contains some whimsical "Dating Advice from Married Women," along with unabashedly romantic poems.) In the final section, the "intelligent gangster" is most evident, as Vincent interrogates, responds to, and riffs off works by authors and artists as various as Baraka and Emerson, Angelou and Dickinson, Degas and Basquiat. This is no mere display of erudition, however, but more a declaration that a fully formed culture, a truly humane world, must be open to all, accepting of all, and incorporate all that has come before us. Nothing can be forgotten. Even what's too painful.
Download or read book Marked written by Ruby Vincent and published by Evergreen Academy. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It wasn't supposed to be like this. Evergreen Academy was meant to be my fresh start. My hair was on point. My skin was flawless. And now I wore the hell out of my clothes instead of hiding them. Even running into Ryder hadn't thrown me. So what that the silver-eyed devil who tormented me for years now ruled my new school with a band of boys everyone called the Knights. The four of them were devastatingly rich, enviously handsome... and heartbreakingly cruel. But the Evergreen Knights didn't scare me. I had my own plans and no reason to enter their little world... until one fateful night and a masquerade ball changed everything. I saw something I shouldn't have and now I've been Marked. They'll do everything they can to break me but they don't know the monsters I've faced. They don't know I've been broken before. If they want to take on Valentina Moon... bring it on.
