Download or read book Accident of Fate written by Imre Rochlitz and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accident of Fate is a first-hand account of persecution, rescue, and resistance in the Axis-occupied former Yugoslavia. At the age of thirteen, Imre Rochlitz fled to Yugoslavia from his childhood home in Vienna following the Nazi Anschluss, leaving his family behind. In January 1942 the Ustashe (Croatian Fascists) arrested and interned him in the Jasenovac death camp, where he dug mass graves. On the verge of death, Rochlitz was released due to the extraordinary intervention of a Nazi general. He escaped to the Adriatic coast, where he and several thousand other Jewish refugees were protected by the army of Fascist Italy. After Italy’s surrender, he joined Tito’s Partisans, becoming an officer and army veterinarian, and rescued dozens of downed Allied airmen. In 1945, he fled Yugoslavia’s Communist regime and reached liberated southern Italy. In 1947, at the age of twenty-two, he emigrated to the United States. With unique personal photographs and documents supporting the text, this eyewitness narrative covers little-known topics and provides a revealing historical account of the period. The book helps clarify and render accessible the complexities and contradictions of conflict and genocide in wartime Yugoslavia.
Download or read book Unwritten Fate written by Amy Shannon and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequel Series carried over from the Life series and Destiny Series. Focusing on the entire family lives and their fate as their lives intertwine in the small town of Sars Springs. As a startling motorcycle crash echoes through the town, it affects more lives than just those in the accident. The lives of the Markums and O'Roarks will never be the same as their world is once again driven by tragedy and fate. Can Dr. Markum save her family or even cure herself? As the world seems to be crashing all around her, the answers of her long line of illnesses come to surface, will she finally be cured of all the pain? Will Terry stand by her when he discovers the truth that she's been hiding in her own mind? Alex struggles with her own demons and the secrets that she's been keeping from her family, as she holds Jim's hand, as he recovers from his motorcycle accident. As she tries to figure out what she really wants out of life, she wonders who he will be if and when he wakes up.
Download or read book When Force Meets Fate written by Jamison Hill and published by Inkshares. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The gripping prose in this memoir describes a young man, whose life deteriorates from a healthy fitness trainer to the sudden depths of being sick and bedridden with a mysterious illness for years. Jamison’s dedication to life, however fragile, and advocacy, however impossible, have brought out this incredible story of survival." —Stephanie Land, New York Times bestselling author of Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive At age twenty-two, Jamison Hill was a fitness instructor and competitive bodybuilder who could lift more than four hundred pounds. Five years later, after surviving a tragic car accident that killed the other driver, a rare disease left Jamison bedridden and too weak to hold a water glass. He spent every day lying motionless in bed, his body paralyzed by pain and weakness, his mind hijacked by flashes of crunched metal, broken windshields, and exploding gas tanks. After months of being too sick to express himself, Jamison’s health began to improve along with his ability to tell his story. When Force Meets Fate is an unflinching exploration of the human condition, notably how our limitations and strengths shape our identities and how unexpected events can inevitably alter those perceptions. It’s a story of perseverance—of sheer will and unrelenting fight—but also of overcoming life’s toughest challenges through the power of vulnerability, and how freeing it can be to surrender to the unpredictability of circumstances out of our control.
Download or read book Fate s Collision written by R. W. Biga and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Craig's high school buddy suggests a road trip, Craig knows its a bad idea. Bryan is out for a good time, no matter the cost, and he has his sights set on Craig's dad's van for the journey. As Bryan assembles a group of friends for the van, Craig does his best to predict what could go wrong - a speeding ticket, cigarette smell in the car, running out of snacks, getting into arguments. It all feels such an enormous responsibility to him, and his friends don't seem to share the same outlook he does - except the beautiful Hailey, who joins them on the trip. But Craig cannot anticipate what's about to happen to them all, or indeed the world, as a worldwide emergency changes everything. He will stop at nothing to get home, even when his friends become unpredictable - or become enemies. He also doesn't foresee or understand the biggest responsibility of all - a strange gift he discovers that leaves him questioning his sanity and the course of the future...and the past.
Download or read book Accident of Fate written by Sue Mackender and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escaping a difficult past, Joanna Lane meets gallery owner Marcus Tierney and falls in love. When they adopt baby Adam they set in motion a chain of events that opens a Pandora's box. Lizzie Owen is growing up in a dysfunctional family when a terrible accident leaves her in the hands of charmer, Liam Riley. Ava, a world-renowned artist, takes Liam Riley as a lover. Imogen, her daughter, has always had her sights on Liam, and her obsession becomes more sinister as time passes. As love and lives converge, Joanna finds herself caught between loyalty and integrity as she battles to unravel secrets for the sake of her family's happiness. Every link in the chain of events leads straight back to one person - Liam Riley.
Download or read book Words Fate Accidents written by Kaye Allen and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One word. One day. One thing. When Josephine Reinhart graduates college two years early, she gets a head start on fulfilling her dream of travelling to Europe. Her dream is a whirlwind, and proves to be all too brief when a week later she's on her way to the airport with a ticket back home."So, now what?" is the question. Just when she thought it was back to boring life-as-usual, fate takes an unexpected turn. Her flight home from Paris gets cancelled and she bumps (quite literally) into an eccentric, orange-haired boy at the airport. And that's just the beginning of a new adventure for Josephine. Meeting Sam is one thing... spending an entire day with him in the most romantic city in the world is another thing entirely. Together they capture bits and pieces of themselves through their short journey; learning that passion is something worth fighting for, and that one needs only to get lost in order to get found. Little do they know what's in store for them. Words, Fate & Accidents is the story of two strangers who find themselves in each other's eyes-and who may just find the very thing everyone is searching for in the City of Light.
Download or read book Deciding Fate written by Michael Bird and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After twenty five years of marriage Mona and Joseph finds themselves separated in life as well as in purgatory after waking up in a strange but familiar place after having a horrific accident. As they franticly look for answers and one another, they hit a crossroad when Mona's mother and Joseph's father greets them to see if the love their kids once had was still there. As they find themselves in different rooms with a balcony and a view of the beach, they learn how to open up a porthole to see visions and memories of their past life and what their loved one was going through as they were living a life on their own. Even though Joseph and Mona learns a new way of life when Joseph's work takes him away from Mona months at a time, they come to realize how hard it becomes when they sit with their parent that they lost years ago, and watch the events unfold for the other one. During the time spent in purgatory watching memories and trying to find how to reconnect with a love that had been lost over time, they meet a soldier and his wife that help show the couple that they aren't alone when it comes to a long distant marriage. Still not knowing the other one is in a room right next to the other there is always that question where the other one is, and if they were alright after the accident. When Mona and Joseph question their parent on when they get to go back to their life on earth they are told that it is up to them to decide their own fate.
Download or read book Coalcracker Culture written by Harold W. Aurand and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The knowledge that they traded their lives for a job generated an overarching fear of losing their income."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Dusty s Fate written by Vickie King and published by Bell Bridge Books. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was hired to find her. The last thing he expected was to find himself in love. West Virginia Private Investigator Dusty Braddock thought he'd never recover from the grief and guilt over his wife's death in a car accident. Then he helped Jules Donovan and her son reconnect with the man who might be the brother Jules never knew she had. Jules, a family-loving loner, wants a family for her son and travels to West Virginia with Dusty. But the man who makes her feel like she belongs to a family turns out to be Dusty and his sprawling, affectionate Braddock clan. If she gives part of herself to him, how can she ever go back to her normal life if it doesn't work out? Will Dusty abandon her, too? Vickie King has published short fiction in Woman's World Magazine. Her debut novel, CARLY'S RULE, has already hit the bestseller list in ebook. She loves to hear from readers. Write to her at [email protected] or visit her on Facebook or at vickielking.blogspot.com.
Download or read book Death of Camus written by Giovanni Catelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1960 a mysterious car crash killed Albert Camus and his publisher Michel Gallimard, who was behind the wheel. Based on meticulous research, Giovanni Catelli builds a compelling case that the 46-year-old French Algerian Nobel laureate was the victim of premeditated murder: he was silenced by the KGB. The Russians had a motive: Camus had campaigned tirelessly against the Soviet crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and vociferously supported the awarding of the Nobel Prize to the dissident novelist Boris Pasternak, which enraged Moscow. Sixty years after Camus' death, Catelli takes us back to a murky period in the Cold War. He probes the relationship between Camus and Pasternak, the fraught publication of Doctor Zhivago, the penetration of France by Soviet spies, and the high price paid by those throughout Europe who resisted the USSR.
Download or read book Fate written by Lisa M. Hoffman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-03-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island of Sanzu is in unknown turmoil. When humans begin forgetting how to respect nature, the spirits of the land begin to wither and die. From the sorrow and suffering of the spirits a deep hatred is born, seeking to destroy everything in its path. Only the birth of a special being spoken of by the ancient keepers can restore balance. But what happens when that one has no recollection of who she is or where shes from? Cheza has lived her life in Sacama village since she was five years old. Her life has been quiet and peaceful until someone precious to her is taken away. From that moment, her life begins to fall apart as one thing after another shakes the foundation of her life. Now she must reunite herself with the only blood family she has left and travel the lands of Sanzu, collecting a precious item from the spirits to unite the lands against the evil that threatens them. But will she be able to when it means losing everything she knows and loves?
Download or read book Choices written by Art Dinick and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true story is about a man in his mid-thirties who is in a race car crash, and death is imminent. At that moment between life and death, the past and present merge, and time standstill. In just a few brief seconds, he relives his entire life. This story chronicles his experiences and decisions he made in his life from childhood through adult life. He instantly sees how his seemingly bad choices and good choices fit together like the pieces of a puzzle and were necessary for the good in his life. As an engineer for Exxon, he had to choose between traveling for the company on emergency trouble shooting trips or staying at home with his family. The choices he made severely impacted his marriage. He wonders if the choices he made were determined by fate or did he really have the ability to change them. This book is based on the author Art DiNick's personal life experience, which had a huge impact on his life. After 30 years, he has finally penned down his story. So, grab your copy today to read about how DiNick got a second chance at life and ponder weather the choices you made in life could have or should have been changed. See website https://www.artdinick.com
Download or read book Fate s Edge written by Ilona Andrews and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audrey Callahan left behind her life in the Edge, and she's determined to stay on the straight and narrow. But when her brother gets into hot water, the former thief takes on one last heist and finds herself matching wits with a jack of all trades... Kaldar Mar-a gambler, lawyer, thief, and spy-expects his latest assignment tracking down a stolen item to be a piece of cake, until Audrey shows up. But when the item falls into the hands of a lethal criminal, Kaldar realizes that in order to finish the job, he's going to need Audrey's help...
Download or read book Fate s Long Shadow written by Marcela Carbo and published by Marcela Carbo. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her power was born of a giant's rage. She treads a treacherous path, where a whisper could mean her demise. Jassae's world shattered when giants ravaged her peaceful village. Instead of killing her, they thrust her into a cage as a precious captive, an unexpected jewel to control the Dark Goddess. The once-formidable giants are teetering on the brink, their age-old might slowly but surely fading away. In Jassae, a priestess dedicated to a goddess who inspires more dread than reverence, they see a glimmer of hope for survival. During a night cloaked in darkness and studded with stars, Jassae reads the bone runes, conduits of ancient wisdom. As she holds the bleached fragments in her hands, a prophecy unfolds, foretelling the rise of a mighty chieftain. The giants believe she holds the key to securing the coveted chieftain's throne. The storm clouds of war gather, stirred by the revival of old grudges. Jassae's survival depends on her ability to harness the power growing within her, a force capable of devouring her mind and soul. If she can leverage her gift to install her chosen master on the throne, she may reach her first century and achieve her destiny as a priestess of the Dark Goddess. Yet, the path she walks is fraught with danger, and a misstep carries a terrible price: annihilation... and the end of her sorcerous bloodline. Fate's Long Shadow takes place in a dark setting and is intended for adult readers. Read it as a standalone or as part of a trilogy of interwoven stories. Keywords: fantasy, epic fantasy, epic, dark fantasy, dark, ya fantasy, grimdark, gritty, giant, giants, monsters, mythological creatures, magic, standalone novel, stand alone, battle, war, emotion, humanity, fantasy author, dark elf, dark elves, high fantasy, female lead, female protagonist, soft magic
Download or read book A Dance with Fate written by Juliet Marillier and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman who is both a bard--and a warrior--seeks to repay her debts and settle scores in this thrilling historical fantasy series. The young warrior and bard Liobhan has lost her brother to the Otherworld. Even more determined to gain a place as an elite fighter, she returns to Swan Island to continue her training. But Liobhan is devastated when her comrade Dau is injured and loses his sight in their final display bout. Blamed by Dau's family for the accident, she agrees to go to Dau's home as a bond servant for the span of one year. There, she soon learns that Oakhill is a place of dark secrets. The vicious Crow Folk still threaten both worlds. And Dau, battling the demon of despair, is not an easy man to help. When Liobhan and Dau start to expose the rot at the center of Oakhill, they place themselves in deadly danger. For their enemy wields great power and will stop at nothing to get his way. It will take all the skills of a Swan Island warrior and a touch of the uncanny to give them a hope of survival. . . .
Download or read book Encounters with Fate and Destiny written by Shukri Z. Al-Dajani and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shukri Z. Al-Dajani has led a most extraordinary life. His book depicts the realities of the endless torment of a refugee in search of security and a sense of belonging. It is a story of flight - at the age of twelve - from the Holy Land to Egypt, through Wales, East Africa and the Middle East, to a career at the International Labour Organization (ILO), a specialized agency of the United Nations, where he rose to the post of Assistant Director-General, responsible for the Arab States. He was the key player for the ILO in the Arab world at a time when the politics of the Middle East played a dominant role in the life of that organization. In this memoir, Al-Dajani recounts his interactions with a range of individuals including royalty, nation-builders and others in political power as well as adventurers, journalists and diplomats. His book presents a fine mosaic of the post-colonial world and the modern Middle East, and reveals the workings of politics at the highest of international diplomatic levels. The memoir includes a fascinating and intriguing analysis of the security and social problems that Europe, America and the Middle East are facing at present. It serves as an eye opener to the root causes of the current crises and presents a clear vision of the future ahead.
Download or read book When We Plot to Love written by Kumar Gautam and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theme: For those who didn't believe it could happen ever in life. Sometimes fate takes two hearts and collides them with emotions when they believe that they are away from Love. It brings them closer in moments and engraves their memories with unimaginable moments. Sometimes these feelings are carried on 'Till Death Do Us Part'.Blurb: It was surely more than an accident that they met, they started loving each other, they became so addicted to each other that accompaniment was more important than the oxygen. They were together and happier in life, they trusted each other, there were no more secrets left to share in between. They were simply in "True Love". But they say that they were playing it and faking it...Really?, but what makes them play "A Fake True Love"?
