Download or read book Elusive Dawn written by Kay Robbins and published by Jove Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elusive written by Kay Hooper and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2005 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Elusive Dawn, we have Robyn Lee, a young widow who lost her first husband to a reckless sport, and a race car driver named Shane Justice who intends to win her hart despite her fears. In On Her Doorstep, we have bestselling author Erin Scott, a guarded and wary woman who has escaped a painful marriage to live contentedly in her isolated mountain retreat -- until publisher Matt Gavin comes looking for an author whose face has haunted him for years. And in Return Engagement, we have actress Tara Collins and producer Devlin Bradley, a fiery pair once engaged for real and now forced to act the part of lovers. Or are they acting? Relationships between men and women will always lie at the heart of everything I write. I loved writing these stories, and I hope you enjoy reading them.
Download or read book Goddess X written by Robert St. Clare and published by Robert Verrastro. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goddess X begins in the heart and mind of Keith Martin, a twenty-six year old social worker who is slightly neurotic and overly nostalgic for the 1970s. He reluctantly trudges through his existence, resenting the present time and mourning the loss of his utopian childhood spent with Dawn; the kind and beautiful next-door neighbor who raised and nurtured him while his parents nurtured their careers. His banal reality shatters forever when he and his co-workers attend the grand opening of a ghoulish new bar called No Escape. Keith is shocked when he witnesses the owner of the bar, Dawn's conniving and controlling husband David, passionately kissing another woman. Realizing that he must warn Dawn, Keith decides to contact her despite the pain it will cause him to face his lost love, a woman twenty years his senior, a woman who was like a mother to him. Overcoming his fear, Keith makes a trip to his old neighborhood and pays a visit to Dawn, who welcomes him with tears and hugs. They quickly discover that their bond is as strong as ever, but that they must also face an awkward and intense physical attraction. Infused with new hope, they vow to never lose each other again. Keith's newfound bliss is short-lived as he discovers the dark secrets of the past. His entire being is shaken when he learns that Dawn, the "Goddess" of his childhood, had been verbally and physically abused by David throughout their entire marriage. He also learns that Dawn's house, his childhood sanctuary, is being plagued by paranormal phenomena, which began in 1974 when David and his mistress, Rosa, tried to invoke an evil spirit into the body of a marionette during a party. Enraged by this information, Keith begins an investigation that leads from the past to a future where David and Rosa, a self-proclaimed sorceress, are planning a bizarre and demonic demise for Dawn that's twenty-four years in the making. "For a brand new writer, Robert St. Clare has the skills and abilities of a seasoned author. Like Charles Dickens, he gives his characters many dimensions, so much so that the reader can´t help liking and disliking the right ones. You really want to travel through the adventures and misadventures of Keith Martin, whose love for an older woman (his former baby-sitter, Dawn) overpowers him. He therefore falls prey to the dangers awaiting him, commandeered by Dawn´s evil husband David and his mistress Rosa, an expert in Tibetan sorcery... An interesting and compelling tale in the flavor of Edgar Allen Poe, especially in St. Clare´s flash-backs to the ´70´s obsessions with drugs and the occult... A gripping page-turner." C. Verrastro, Who´s Who Among American Teachers© Inductee
Download or read book What Can One Person Do written by Sabina Alkire and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the challenge of living in a world broken by intractable issues of poverty and injustice, and offers meditations followed by practical suggestions on how churches and individuals can actually make a difference. What Can One Person Do? confronts a poverty-stricken world, and with clarity of purpose offers practical steps to create lasting change. Global poverty can be reduced through a series of achievable objectives: the eight Millennium Development goals agreed to by the international community at the Millennium Summit in 2000. World leaders and faith communities have adopted the MDGs, as well as the ideas found within this book--for the authors demonstrate that as shared vision grows and as these goals are accomplished, human communities shall indeed flourish.
Download or read book Lighting the Stars written by Gabriele Wills and published by Mindshadows. This book was released on with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tucked into the rugged Canadian wilderness of Muskoka's majestic lake country, Merilee Sutcliffe's peaceful town seems worlds away from the escalating conflict in Europe. But life is about to change dramatically in the Summer of 1940. As her patriotic friends and relatives leave for battle, her small town is thrust into the war machine. Merilee's formerly tranquil skies soon roar with aircraft from the Royal Norwegian Air Force, stationed nearby to train young men determined to liberate their country from Nazi occupation. When German Prisoners of War march into her shocked community, they become Merilee's closest neighbours - and biggest threat. What unfolds in her remote town and on foreign shores sets Merilee and her growing circle on a collision course with an unimagined destiny. Caught up in the chaos is Luftwaffe pilot Erich Leitner. Shot down during the Battle of Britain and transplanted to a lakeside prison in Muskoka, he discovers he has more to fear from his comrades than his captors. While her cousin-in-spirit, Elyse Thornton, navigates the treacherous skies of Britain as a Spitfire Girl, audaciously ferrying warplanes from factories to airfields, Merilee becomes quietly entangled in her own dangerous liaisons on the home front. Caught between worlds, with conflicted loyalties and a sense of duty, she joins the Royal Canadian Air Force, Women's Division, and soon finds herself in ground-zero London, focusing her photographer's lens on a city under bombardment. Far from carefree summers on the lake, struggling to survive the relentless demands and sacrifices of war, Merilee, Elyse, and their friends wonder if they dare to risk their hearts as well. As unlikely lives intersect, ideologies and social hierarchies are challenged, loves and friendships are forged or broken, and countless heroes are made and lost. But even those who return to the serenity of Muskoka are changed forever.
Download or read book Lady Thief written by Kay Hooper and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kay Hooper fan must-have, Lady Thief is the very first book ever published by this dazzling author and was out of print for 20 years. Also included is a bonus historical novella, "Masquerade," which originally appeared in the anthology Hearts of Gold.
Download or read book How to Be Dead in a Year of Snakes written by Chris Tse and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1905, white supremacist Lionel Terry murdered the Cantonese gold prospector Joe Kum Yung to draw attention to his crusade to rid New Zealand of Chinese and other east Asian immigrants. Author Chris Tse uses this story—and its reenactment for a documentary a hundred years later—to reflect on the experiences of Chinese migrants of the period, their wishes and hopes, their estrangement and alienation, their ghostly reverberation through a white-majority culture. Along the way readers visit the gold fields of the south; a shipwreck in the Hokianga that left the spirits of 500 Chinese gold miners in an unmemorialized limbo for a hundred years; and the streets of Newtown, Wellington, where Lionel Terry went out one night "looking for a Chinaman." Chris Tse's flickering use of imagery, resonant language, and flexible pronouns are particularly suited to the historic events he describes and the viewpoints he shifts through. How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes is a welcome poetic addition to New Zealand literature.
Download or read book The Metarevolution written by Grant Bartley and published by Punked Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metarevolution is a revolutionary manifesto about revolutions. It is both a theory about the nature of change throughout history, and a prescription of what to do about it. The touchstone idea for The Metarevolution is that no matter how well thought-out any ideology may be to start with, there are always limitations which only become clear as its ideals are applied. History shows that radical changes too often lead to disaster or to corruption as these limitations are revealed, or as thinking stagnates when it needs to change. How can we overcome these limitations for present and future revolutions? And how can we overcome the failure to ultimately progress which this basic cycle of history demonstrates? By looking at the 'hypothetical' example of a coming global ecological revolution, and many examples from history, The Metarevolution analyses what goes wrong with cultures in following their ideals, and reveals the metarevolutionary response. This is to create a subculture which pursues an on-going deep critique of ideology, the aim of which is for humanity to continually evolve its ideals. In following this metarevolutionary programme we will continually redirect ourselves towards the best world we can create for ourselves. So a metarevolution is the most intelligent thing the human race can do for itself... and The Metarevolution needs you.
Download or read book Multinational Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment and Growth in Africa written by Bernard Michael Gilroy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can Africa, the world’s most lagging region, benefit from globalisation and achieve sustained economic growth? Africa needs greater investment by Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) to improve competitiveness and generate more growth through positive spill-over effects. Despite the fact that Africa’s returns on investment averaged 29% since 1990, Africa has gained merely 1% of global Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows. The challenge for African countries is how to be a more desirable destination for FDI. The study integrates three currents of economic research, namely from the literature on (endogenous) economic growth, convergence and regional integration, the explanations for Africa’s poor growth and the growing understanding of the role of MNEs in a global economy. The empirical side of the book is based on an econometric study of the determinants of FDI in Africa as well as a detailed firm-level survey conducted in 2000.
Download or read book A Sky Full of Birds written by Matt Merritt and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Prose from a poet and a personal take on the spectacles' Chris Packham, author of Fingers in the Sparkle Jar Shortlisted for Richard Jefferies Society & White Horse Bookshop Literary Prize 2017 Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2017 Britain is a nation of bird-lovers. However, few of us fully appreciate the sheer scale, variety and drama of our avian life. From city-centre hunters to vast flocks straight out of the Arctic wilderness, much-loved dawn songsters to the exotic invaders of supermarket car parks, a host of remarkable wildlife spectacles are waiting to be discovered right outside our front doors. In A Sky Full of Birds, poet and nature writer Matt Merritt shares his passion for birdwatching by taking us to some of the great avian gatherings that occur around the British isles – from ravens in Anglesey and raptors on the Wirral, to Kent nightingales and Scottish capercaillies. By turns lyrical, informative and entertaining, he shows how natural miracles can be found all around us, if only we know where to look for them. A Sky Full of Birds is the perfect read for avid birdwatchers and a beautiful gift for lovers of nature and poetic prose.
Download or read book Act of Valour written by Emma Drummond and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ashleighs of Knightshill, a talented British family who are proud of their ancestry, have their world turned upside down in the summer of 1914, when the black sheep of the family returns after 12 years. Act of Valour is the concluding volume in Emma Drummond's Knightshill trilogy. "An enormously satisfying family chronicle spiced with plenty of romance, passion, and action." - Booklist
Download or read book The Inkheart Trilogy written by Cornelia Funke and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 1722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning Inkheart trilogy is complete and available in this e-bindup! From internationally acclaimed storyteller Cornelia Funke, this bestselling, magical epic is getting new covers in anticipation of the long-awaited fourth book in the series. One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART-- and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Meggie must learn to harness the magic that has conjured this nightmare. For only she can change the course of the story that has changed her life forever. This is INKHEART--a timeless tale about books, about imagination, about life. Dare to read it aloud.
Download or read book Gilberto Gil s Refazenda written by Marc A. Hertzman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refazenda connects a remarkable album by one of the 20th and 21st centuries' great musicians to a dazzling, often unexpected, array of people and places spread across the globe from Brazil to England to Chile to Japan. Critics and fans often project (or impose) desires and interpretations onto Gil that don't seem to fit. This book explores why familiar political and musical categories so often fall flat and explains why serendipity may instead be the best way to approach this mercurial album and the unrepeatable artist who created it. Based on years of listening to, studying, and teaching about Gil, and the author's own encounters with the album around the world, this book argues that Refazenda does, in fact, contain radical messages, though they rarely appear in the form, shape, or places that we might expect. The book also includes the first English-language translations of the album's lyrics, never-discussed-before 1970s Japanese liner notes, and a recounting of a forgotten moment when censors detained Gil during the album's debut tour. 33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music-basedbooks and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese and Brazilian music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and more.
Download or read book Once Upon a Summer written by Gabriele Wills and published by Mindshadows. This book was released on 2024-07-05 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting tale of star-crossed lovers and second chances. It’s the last summer for the renowned Westwind Inn, which has been “making holiday wishes come true since 1882”, according to its weathered signpost. But be careful what you wish for. Traumatized by a tragic canoeing accident a decade earlier and tormented by nightmares, Paige Latimer returns to Westwind in 1997 to come to terms with the past. Resort owner Simon Davenport was a childhood friend and her first love, but their passionate affair ended abruptly, leaving Paige bewildered and heartbroken. Being back at the lake where she spent the magical summers of her youth is healing. As she delves into Westwind’s history for a documentary she’s working on with Simon, they slide back into their old, easygoing friendship, still sharing the same talents and dreams. But eerie, unsettling incidents begin to reveal dangerous undercurrents. Nothing is quite as it seems at the idyllic lakeside resort. The enigmatic Pembrook sisters, who have vacationed at Westwind for over seventy years, hold the keys to its secrets. As Paige begins to unravel the sisters’ complex relationship with the inn, she discovers something startling about her own family. Torn between the life she thought she would lead and the commitments she made, Paige must choose her path. But something more sinister is threatening her happiness. The past hasn’t relinquished its stranglehold, and Paige realizes that the dying inn is haunted by more than mysteries and memories. Once Upon a Summer transports you to the beautiful, legendary lake district of Muskoka, Canada.
Download or read book Eternal Nightfall written by Vejai Randy Etwaroo and published by Vejai Randy Etwaroo. This book was released on with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the enchanting town of Ravenswood, where cosmic energies intertwine with earthly existence, journalist Sarah Lancaster stumbles upon a cosmic revelation that shatters the boundaries between reality and the unseen. As shadows encroach upon the cosmic haven, Sarah becomes the cosmic custodian of a celestial artifact that holds the key to cosmic mysteries. Eternal Nightfall invites you on a cosmic odyssey where ancient prophecies and cosmic secrets unravel. In a cosmic dance between the cosmic and the mundane, Sarah and a fellowship of cosmic protectors must navigate the delicate balance between cosmic forces and unearth the celestial artifact's true cosmic purpose. As cosmic constellations align, Ravenswood stands at the cosmic crossroads of its destiny. Prepare for a cosmic journey where the celestial meets the earthly, where cosmic shadows whisper untold secrets, and where the legacy of Eternal Nightfall unfolds in cosmic hues beyond the cosmic veil.
Download or read book The Runaway Bag written by Albert Payson Terhune and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Ink Trilogy Inkheart Inkspell Inkdeath written by Cornelia Funke and published by Chicken House. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 1583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete New York Times bestselling Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke - magical, thrilling and mesmerising. 'I don't think I've ever read anything that conveys so well the joys, terrors and pitfalls of reading' Diana Wynne Jones Meggie loves stories, but her father, Mo, hasn't read to her since her mother disappeared. When a stranger knocks at their door, Mo is forced to reveal an extraordinary secret - when he reads aloud, words come alive, and dangerous characters step out of the pages. Suddenly Meggie is living the kind of adventure she has only read about in books, but this one will change her life for ever ... Book 1 now a major film starring Andy Serkis, Paul Bettany and Brendan Fraser!
