Download or read book Dust on My Shoes Sun in My Eyes written by Becky Czlapinski and published by Becky Walters Czlapinski. This book was released on with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking about traveling to India as a solo female? This book offers insight and tips as well as an honest narrative about the author's experiences -- awe inspiring and dreadful.
Download or read book Life in My Shoes written by Pragya Thapliyal and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-08-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Singhal is the director and founder of HousingSmart. However, Avyukta, Ian’s younger brother is looking after the family business. Dr. Naya is a childhood friend of these two siblings and also, Avyukta’s beloved. Even though Ian has proved himself in every aspect of his real estate business, his only consorts remain Avyukta and Naya. With a dazzling team, Ian is attending some of the most elite areas in the city of London. He has sold one flat to an Indian. "And then another, and another, and now about two-thirds of this building are owned by Indians.’’ He firmly believes in the core values of HousingSmart. Being a young 27 years old entrepreneur, he considers his long-standing highly experienced team to be fundamental in the company’s success. At a point in Ian’s life, his high-net-worth didn’t seem the key to happiness. Until he meets a yoga instructor, Mira while on his tour to Rishikesh. It is through her, Ian discovers an awkward sense of calm, restoration from his heart’s irreparable numbness, and fulfillment of life. Her warmth was beyond Ian’s understanding. But life has different plans for him. Ira, the curator and founder of the ‘Platonic Sagas’ is confident and extremely intimidating. Ian finds himself drawn towards Ira’s conviction and energy. As the affection with Ira blooms, Ian realises he has got more to offer the world. In the arduous journey of giving up on a well-flourished legacy of his grandfather to comprehending that life isn’t ever easy in anyone’s shoes, Ian finally finds his purpose. Through his self-awareness, he can now see life differently.
Download or read book A Nickel and A Trinket written by Max Watson and published by Max Watson Books LLC. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A third of all proceeds generated from A Nickel and A Trinket go to charities fighting against human trafficking. Stefan works street corners around town, giving strangers the gift of their Time of Death in exchange for a nickel and a trinket. He’s unknowingly exploited by his family, which pushes him into a fame he never wanted, and all the while they’re keeping secrets from him. Devastated by a sudden death, his world is thrown into turmoil, kicking off an unstoppable downward spiral, only worsened by his now crippling anthropophobia. He flees from the spotlight, causing unforeseen and unpredictable public chaos. As he searches desperately for Mona, his only remaining friend, he becomes the prime suspect in a missing persons investigation. Mona’s mother forced her to work the streets from a young age. Now years later, Mona fights to free as many lives as she can from the fate she suffered as a child. But a guilt that’s quietly eating away at her is brought to light when Stefan, the alluring boy from her past, comes back. When a dangerous hooded figure has his sights set on destroying all her efforts, Desdamona must rely on the one person she’s afraid to get close to or watch as everything she’s built is set aflame. A Nickel and A Trinket explores humanity's strange magnetism with death, the struggle to outgrow the shadows of the past, and the magic that brings together a patchwork of people to form a family.
Download or read book Baghdad Trucker written by Kevin Noble and published by Northern Writers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tender Maps written by Alice Maddicott and published by September Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Of all the places where I feel the translucency of things, places that are thin for me, bluebell woods are first among them.' Some travellers are driven by the need to scale a natural wonder, or to see a city's sights or a place of history. Others, like Alice Maddicott, travel in search of a particular scene, feeling or atmosphere, often inspired by music, literature and art. Taking us deep into our emotional and creative responses to place, this extraordinary book explores the author's relentless travelling, from the heat of Sicily to the mountains of Japan. With her uniquely lyrical approach to psycho-geography, Maddicott explores the relationship with landscape that is the very essence of human creativity. From seventeenth-century salons of Paris to the underground culture and crumbling balconies of modern Tbilisi, through writers as diverse as Italo Calvino and L. M. Montgomery and artists like Ana Mendieta and eighteenth-century girls embroidering their lives, Tender Maps is a beautifully evocative book of travel, culture and imagination that transports readers in time and place. 'A rich and beguiling work of literary travel memoir that nimbly tracks the wider contours of the world in terms of feeling, memory, introspection and the imagination.' - Travis Elborough, author of Atlas of Vanishing Places
Download or read book The Yale Literary Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nuni written by John Howard Griffin and published by Wings Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After John Howard Griffin's escape from Nazi-occupied France, he was shipped to the South Pacific, where he was stationed as an isolated observer in the Solomon Islands. That experience led to his second novel, Nuni (1956). As in his first novel, The Devil Rides Outside, an American professor is confronted by an alien reality. In Nuni, that reality is a "primitive," almost Neolithic society. Yet, the professor's intellectual accomplishments are useless here, his place in both family and civilized society meaningless. He learns to cope, not so much in terms of survival as in finding a new meaning to his life. The Chicago Tribune described Nuni as "an extraordinarily interesting account of a white man's life in a savage island village of the Pacific—the greater part of the novel is concerned with the growth in the narrator, a knowledge of as well as affection for the curiously innocent people." The Dallas Times-Herald wrote: "The two greatest novels of the past decade are William Faulkner's A Fable, and John Howard Griffin's Nuni."
Download or read book At All Costs written by Sam Moses and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping, page-turning account, Sam Moses has told a story in the tradition of Sebastian Junger’s A Perfect Storm, Robert Kurson’s Shadow Divers, and Hampton Sides’s Ghost Soldiers. It’s a story about the heroism of two men in battle at sea during World War II, and one woman fleeing Nazi Norway with her child. It’s about how courage can change the course of history. AT ALL COSTS: How a Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant Marines Turned the Tide of World War II is the astonishing untold account, with original historical reporting, of how two men faced unfathomable danger to help save the island of Malta, Churchill’s crux of the war. In 1942, the tiny island of Malta was the most heavily bombed place on earth. Hitler needed Malta as a stepping-stone to get to the oil in Iraq and Iran (Persia at the time). Blockaded by sea, Malta was running on empty, in food, fuel and ammunition. Axis U-boats and dive-bombers made supply convoys to Malta more like suicide missions. In this last-hope convoy, 50 warships escorted 13 freighters carrying aviation fuel, and a single critical tanker, the SS Ohio, with 107,000 barrels of oil from Texas. Winston Churchill had traveled to Washington and asked FDR for the tanker–his prime ministership was at stake over this mission to Malta. Relentlessly dive-bombed and repeatedly torpedoed, the Ohio suffered huge hits and was abandoned. Two young American merchant mariners–pulled from the sea after their own ship went down in flames–boarded the ravaged tanker, repaired her guns and fought off German and Italian dive-bombers, as the sinking Ohio was towed at 4 knots toward Malta with a tiny crew of volunteers. Sam Moses’ AT ALL COSTS is a triumphant story of human bravery: fearless, selfless acts by men determined to save a ship and win a war; profound communal courage from an island under brutal siege; and leaders who understood the cause of freedom. Kirkus (starred review) A historical footnote provides a riveting tale of true American grit during World War II. In 1942, the island of Malta was the primary launching point in the Mediterranean for Allied aircraft and submarine attacks against Axis supply convoys. At the height of the North African campaign, Rommel’s tanks prepared to sweep into Egypt, Iran and Iraq. The only thing they lacked was the fuel to get there, and the shortage was equally desperate on Malta. The Allies launched Operation Pedestal, a last-ditch effort to re-supply the base by sending a convoy from Britain through the Gibraltar Strait to the beleaguered island. The convoy, which included the American tanker Ohio and the U.S. freighter Santa Elisa, was anything but a milk run. Vietnam vet Moses (Fast Guys, Rich Guys and Idiots, not reviewed) crafts a thrilling adventure on the high seas, though it takes a while to get started. The book’s first third juxtaposes Malta’s plight against the stories of two American merchant seamen on the Santa Elisa: Lonnie Dales and Fred Larsen, through whose eyes the battle will be viewed in bluecollar detail. Once Operation Pedestal begins, the narrative is all action. The convoy comes under repeated attack, lives are lost, the Santa Elisa is sunk. Dales and Larsen find themselves aboard the wounded Ohio, full to the brim with Texas crude. If they can hold off Nazi attacks and keep their new ship afloat long enough to reach Malta, the operation will be a success. Moses takes readers directly into the heat of battle, demonstrating a strong command of historical detail. Highly recommended for fans of naval adventure. (Agent: Peter Riva/International Transactions, Inc.) "At All Costs is an extraordinary work of research and an exciting read that pays tribute to a crucial enterprise taken against incredible odds. Sam Moses has brought the ghastliness of war and the beauty of heroism together, in jarring union." –Frank Deford “This book tells a great story. But Sam Moses is not just sharing a gripping tale. He is sharing an important and oft neglected story about a battle that played a decisive role in shaping the outcome of WW II. You will meet people who will linger in memory for their bravery, foolishness, or wisdom.” –Ken Auletta, author of Backstory “Thrillingly told and beautifully researched, At All Costs is not just the against-all-odds story of the saving of Malta, but also of how the fate of nations can turn on the personal bravery of two ordinary men.” –Robert Kurson, author of Shadow Divers “Sam Moses has skillfully blended the vivid recollections of many eyewitnesses with a wealth of original documentary research to produce an immensely readable and authoritative account of this crucial operation.” –Mark Whitmore, Director of Collections, Imperial War Museum, London, England
Download or read book Resuscitating Friendship written by Frances Wright and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark is fighting to save the life of a traffic accident victim. It is only when he has time to check the paper work that he is shocked to find that his comotosed patient is his estranged best friend . As he nurses Matty memories of their hilarious exploits come flooding back. Frances Wright has drawn on her first-hand experiences to create a vivid account of working in hospital. She has written a book that makes you laugh out loud and is also a deeply touching account of the friendship between two young men.
Download or read book Rain Logan written by Lacey Lee and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lifeless town of Penorwood is about to be brought back to life when 15-year-old Rain Logan finds herself on her grandmother’s doorstep with nothing to lose and a secret to keep. After a devastating event leads Rain to run away from her life in the concrete City, she turns to her grandmother, who she barely knows, and develops an identity that no one saw coming. From hidden family secrets to a dark force with a century-old chip on his shoulder, Rain must clean up the mess that is her legacy and hopes she can survive her scariest and darkest dreams when they become a reality. Because.... for the first time in her life, Rain feels absolutely alone.
Download or read book Gone to Dust written by Liliana Hart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Liliana Hart returns to her suspenseful Gravediggers series featuring five dead men tasked with saving the world…and their latest member who risks it all for love. The world thinks they're dead. The world is wrong. Miller Darling is one of the most popular romance novelists of her time. Not bad for a woman who doesn’t believe in romance. She’s as logical as they come, and she doesn’t believe in happily-ever-afters. What she does believe in is family, so when her brother disappears, she doesn’t think twice about packing her bag and her laptop and heading out to find him. Elias Cole lived and breathed the life of a Navy SEAL. Now he’s “dead” and his hero’s honor tarnished. The only thing keeping him sane are the men who are like him—The Gravediggers—and the woman who makes his head spin. He’s never met anyone like Miller Darling. Her smart mouth and quick wit keep him on his toes, and damn if he doesn’t find that appealing. When Miller receives a package from the brother who abandoned her asking for help, it’s clear she’s in over her head with the mess he’s gotten himself into. She needs a professional, and Elias is just the man for the job. Only her brother is a former SEAL—the man who left his team to die—and Elias is more interested in vengeance than saving his life.
Download or read book So Disdained written by Nevil Shute and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So Disdained is set in Italy during the 1930s. The story follows the character of Stephen Fletcher, an English engineer who is sent to Italy to work on a new project. Fletcher becomes involved in a dangerous game of espionage, as he is recruited by a British intelligence agent to gather information about an Italian weapons manufacturer. Along the way, Fletcher falls in love with a beautiful Italian woman named Marta, who becomes instrumental in his mission. However, as Fletcher becomes increasingly entangled in his role as a spy, he begins to question the morality of his actions and the motives of those around him. The novel explores themes of loyalty, betrayal, love, and the political tensions of pre-World War II Europe. Ultimately, Fletcher must decide where his loyalties lie and what he is willing to risk for the sake of his beliefs and those he cares about.
Download or read book We Will Not Go to Tuapse written by Fernand Kaisergruber and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A soldier with the German Army’s Wallonian Legion chronicles his experience as a foreign volunteer for the Nazi war machine during WWII. A french-speaking Belgian, Fernand Kaisergruber volunteered to fight with the military force that occupied his country. His detailed chronicle of that time reads like a travelogue of the Eastern Front campaign. Until recently, very little was known of the tens of thousands of foreign nationals who fought with the Germans. Kaisergruber’s book sheds light on issues of collaboration, the experiences and motives of volunteers, and the reactions they encountered in occupied countries. Kaisergruber draws upon his wartime diaries, those of his comrades, and his later work with them while secretary of their postwar veteran's league. Although unapologetic for his service, Khemakes no special claims for the German cause. He writes instead from his firsthand experience as a young man entering war for the first time. His narrative is full of observations of fellow soldiers, commanders, Russian civilians, and battlefields.
Download or read book Working in the Shadows written by Gabriel Thompson and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants, who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. He stooped over lettuce fields in Arizona, and worked the graveyard shift at a chicken slaughterhouse in rural Alabama. He dodged taxis -- not always successfully -- as a bicycle delivery "boy" for an upscale Manhattan restaurant, and was fired from a flower shop by a boss who, he quickly realized, was nuts. As one coworker explained, "These jobs make you old quick." Back spasms occasionally keep Thompson in bed, where he suffers recurring nightmares involving iceberg lettuce and chicken carcasses. Combining personal narrative with investigative reporting, Thompson shines a bright light on the underside of the American economy, exposing harsh working conditions, union busting, and lax government enforcement -- while telling the stories of workers, undocumented immigrants, and desperate US citizens alike, forced to live with chronic pain in the pursuit of 8 an hour.
Download or read book Somewhere in the Unknown World written by Kao Kalia Yang and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “an exceptional storyteller,” Somewhere in the Unknown World is a collection of powerful stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, told by the award-winning author of The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet. All over this country, there are refugees. But beyond the headlines, few know who they are, how they live, or what they have lost. Although Minnesota is not known for its diversity, the state has welcomed more refugees per capita than any other, from Syria to Bosnia, Thailand to Liberia. Now, with nativism on the rise, Kao Kalia Yang—herself a Hmong refugee—has gathered stories of the stateless who today call the Twin Cities home. Here are people who found the strength and courage to rebuild after leaving all they hold dear. Awo and her mother, who escaped from Somalia, reunite with her father on the phone every Saturday, across the span of continents and decades. Tommy, born in Minneapolis to refugees from Cambodia, cannot escape the war that his parents carry inside. As Afghani flees the reach of the Taliban, he seeks at every stop what he calls a certificate of his humanity. Mr. Truong brings pho from Vietnam to Frogtown in St. Paul, reviving a crumbling block as well as his own family. In Yang’s exquisite, necessary telling, these fourteen stories for refugee journeys restore history and humanity to America's strangers and redeem its long tradition of welcome.
Download or read book Quasar 169 written by E. D. Detetcheverrie and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-07-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SILVER SPHERE SIGHTINGS… A collection of sexy, funny, science fiction tales from the Quasar series of stories.QUASAR 169 Alex Roglitz is sick of aliens, sick of the quasi-realities he keeps getting teamed up with known as Quasars, and pretending to be sick until he can get transferred elsewhere in the para-policing facility he works for called StarNet. His dream nearly comes true until he's handed one last case and one last new partner—a fourteen year old girl! Things are not what they seem as Alex and Amanda track down clues surrounding the murder of the beautiful Geminarian interpreter who was raped by an alien...especially when the victim decides to post bail for her own killer!WHERE THE QUASAR Xenophobe Alex Roglitz is sent to investigate a brilliant young couple who claim to be creating Quasars in their basement! Can Amanda save him when he's taken hostage by a mad scientist or will one of his former partners have to do the job?QUASARFLIGHT He hasn't seen the Silver Sphere aliens since they abducted his mother, but now the strange, powerful entities have taken over part of Canada and maybe even Alex himself!Also by E.D.Detetcheverrie… Trumpet Of The Unicorn, a 35 million year old mystery, available wherever quality books are sold.
Download or read book Beneath a Navajo Moon written by Lisa Carter and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when danger and love collide under a Navajo moon? The search for a woman who disappeared in 1906 has lead cultural anthropologist Erin Dawson to Cedar Canyon, where the iconic terrain of red rock walls and mesas keep Navajo traditions—and maybe criminal evidence—well hidden. When Erin’s search leads her to cross paths with tribal policeman Adam Silverhorn, it’s hardly love at first sight. But everywhere she turns, Adam is already there. Fighting their feelings for each other, the two are suddenly thrust into a battle far more dangerous—a common quest to rout an insidious drug cartel that has spawned the recent rise in gang violence on the reservation. Adam’s position of authority gives Erin a rare glimpse into Navajo life few outsiders like her ever see—and into a crime ring that no one dares to imagine. As danger mounts, Adam and Erin begin to wonder if they will live to tell how they really feel.
