Download or read book Under the Iron Bridge written by Kathy Kacer and published by Second Story Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 1938 in Dusseldorf, Germany, and Paul is feeling pressured to join the Hitler Youth. The last thing he wants to do is march around with a bunch of bullies, supporting the Gestapo and abusing the city’s Jews, but even Paul’s parents think he should go along with his classmates in order to keep himself safe. Just when he’s starting to despair, Paul meets the Edelweiss Pirates, a group of teenage boys and girls who are working to undermine the growing power of the Nazis. When he joins the rebel organization, he finds out just how hair-raising and dangerous it is to sabotage the Third Reich and rescue Jews wherever they can. But choices have consequences, and during the terrifying violence of Kristallnacht, Paul must step out of the shadows and make a life-changing decision. Inspired by the true story of the Edelweiss Pirates, a group that declared “Eternal War on the Hitler Youth,” Under the Iron Bridge is a tale of courage in the face of cruelty.
Download or read book My Twisted Love Story written by Arun Singh and published by Sristhi Publishers & Distributors. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Rohan, you are a romantic person. You will fall in love easily. But, falling out of love will be a transformative journey for you.” Rohan’s dreams come crashing down when his beloved breaks up with him. Unable to endure the trauma of separation, he decides to end his life. An unexpected phone call gives his story a twist and takes him on a journey to diverse places, where he discovers life-altering truths. Who is the mysterious call from? Is he able to overcome his grief and make a fresh start? My Twisted Love Story is a motivational thriller which unravels the power of love and inspires you to embrace life with all its imperfections. Laced with twists and turns, it has the magic to bring you closer to your inner self and lead you to success.
Download or read book The Queen s Nine Month Scandal written by Abby Green and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today bestselling author Abby Green takes you on one queen’s sensational journey from a masquerade ball to a royal scandal in this fantastic digital novella! Desperate for a last taste of freedom before she enters a political, loveless marriage, Analia—the famous Virgin Queen of Azoria—hides behind her mask at a glitzy Venetian ball. Until the stormy grey gaze of an enigmatic, disguised stranger lays her soul—and her body—bare in one passionate night! World-famous photojournalist Daniel Petrovsky learned years ago to harden his heart against emotions and the morning disappearance of his anonymous lover should mean nothing. But when a certain queen’s shock pregnancy hits the headlines, the brooding billionaire will stop at nothing to fight for what is his! Don’t miss the other titles in this fantastic collection that celebrates Royal Babies all over the world!
Download or read book Nikki Blaze and the Chinese Princess written by Tucker Jackson and published by World Castle Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikki Blaze is at the top of her game and the top of her profession. She's the world's highest paid assassin. Now she wants out while she's still on top. But not until she goes on one last mission. To save someone she loves, she must find a legendary pearl called the Chinese Princess.
Download or read book It Takes Two written by Patrizia Chen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francesca Rivabuona is fifty and exhausted by the monotony of her life. Stuck in a stale marriage with grown children who have long since fled the coop, and desperate to escape the endless cycle of Upper East Side dinner parties and charity luncheons, she jumps at the chance to write an article about Buenos Aires for a glossy travel magazine. Francesca is instantly captivated by Buenos Aires’s palpable rhythm. She explores the city with her new friends—a group of tango dancers who give her an insider’s scoop into the best Buenos Aires has to offer—and rediscovers the sense of passion and excitement she thought she had relinquished forever. As Francesca learns to master the sensual movements of tango dancing, she begins to let down her guard—on the dance floor, in the bedroom, and in her personal life. Embarking on a steamy love affair with Argentina’s most famous plastic surgeon, she knows that she has been irrevocably transformed by the pulsing, erotic thrill of life in Argentina. At once a tale of a middle-aged woman taking a stand against the disappointments of her life and a sexy, fast-paced, entertaining novel about the ecstasy of tango dancing, It Takes Two reads like a soulful tango: irresistible, exotic, and sensual.
Download or read book Jawbone written by Mónica Ojeda and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award in Translated Literature! “Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?” Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise? When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from the Delta Bilingual Academy convene after school, Annelise leads them in thrilling but increasingly dangerous rituals to a rhinestoned, Dior-scented, drag-queen god of her own invention. Even more perilous is the secret Annelise and Fernanda share, rooted in a dare in which violence meets love. Meanwhile, their literature teacher Miss Clara, who is obsessed with imitating her dead mother, struggles to preserve her deteriorating sanity. Each day she edges nearer to a total break with reality. Interweaving pop culture references and horror concepts drawn from from Herman Melville, H. P. Lovecraft, and anonymous “creepypastas,” Jawbone is an ominous, multivocal novel that explores the terror inherent in the pure potentiality of adolescence and the fine line between desire and fear.
Download or read book Like I Want You written by Angel DeVille and published by A. DeVille. This book was released on 2024-10-30 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darius Howard is an up and coming singer. His shows are filled with ladies waiting to meet him and get to know him in more ways than one. One night, he meets Isis and sparks begin to fly. Darius starts to fall in love with Isis as they meet up secretly due to Isis having a rough relationship with her music producer boyfriend, Tavion Sanders. Analia Cunningham is Darius' good friend from high school as well as a background singer on a few of his songs. She has been in love with Darius since she can remember but he has no idea. Analia has been waiting in the background for Darius to 'see' her. However, he has been utterly clueless, especially since meeting Isis. Darius discovers Isis wasn't as truthful as he'd thought - when they first hooked up , as he finds out Isis' future plans. Meanwhile Analia is ready to give up on the love she has for Darius and move on. Another rising singer, Taye Mitchell, has caught Analia's attention. Their friends, Marcus and Siedah try to help Darius realize that the person who he had been looking for has been right beside him the entire time. Will Darius be able to finally see the love Analia has for him? Will Analia wait around long enough for Darius to catch on? Or is this just a lose-lose situation? **NOTE: While this is a Stand-Alone story, it does feature a story within a story. If you want to follow the story of Marcus and Siedah, Please Read: THAT'S WHY I LOVE YOU & LIKE I WANT YOU & SWEET HOLY HONEY.**
Download or read book The Weakest Manga Villainess Wants Her Freedom written by Kazuki Karasawa and published by Cross Infinite World. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oh, crud, I just realized that I’ve been reincarnated into my favorite manga as the first boss defeated by the heroine at the start of the story! Worst yet, it turns out my fiancé is the strongest of the Four Grand Magi and the very villain who slanders my character as a disgrace on her deathbed! I’m outta here! This is the story of the weakest manga villainess who seeks out the slow life instead of the villain life.
Download or read book Excruciating Bliss written by Jon Davis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not long ago there was prosperity. Every worker had a job and those whose fortunes weren't on the rise held out hope that their day would soon come when they too joined the burgeoning league of millionaires that seemed to be produced overnight. This era is ending just as James is struggling to finish college. His dream of making a stylish, sophisticated life in the city isn't going as planned. Debt is beginning to mount as he longs for hedonistic fun. It isn't until James accidentally befriends a mysterious young woman who shares many of his tastes and aspirations does he begin to believe that things are turning around for him. She is Loren Anders, an heir to a global finance empire and aspiring fashion model. She is buoyant and fun, something James has longed to be. But as the Great Recession approaches, Loren's realm of opulence and glamour begins to unravel. James is forced to find fulfillment by putting aside the illusions that promised happiness.
Download or read book The Moral Power of Money written by Ariel Wilkis and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary social interactions, The Moral Power of Money investigates the forces of power and morality at play, particularly among the poor. Drawing on fieldwork in a slum of Buenos Aires, Ariel Wilkis argues that money is a critical symbol used to negotiate not only material possessions, but also the political, economic, class, gender, and generational bonds between people. Through vivid accounts of the stark realities of life in Villa Olimpia, Wilkis highlights the interplay of money, morality, and power. Drawing out the theoretical implications of these stories, he proposes a new concept of moral capital based on different kinds, or "pieces," of money. Each chapter covers a different "piece"—money earned from the informal and illegal economies, money lent through family and market relations, money donated with conditional cash transfers, political money that binds politicians and their supporters, sacrificed money offered to the church, and safeguarded money used to support people facing hardships. This book builds an original theory of the moral sociology of money, providing the tools for understanding the role money plays in social life today.
Download or read book The Fear of Erring written by Ingo Rohrer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Salupo s Groceries written by Laurel Salupo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salupo’s Groceries is a beautiful written story about two young loves that met and married in Sicily. Carolina and Nicolo had their share of heartaches and happiness over the years. Nicolo was an Army Veteran from the Turkish Italian war. Together the newly married couple traveled from Sicily to America. Once they arrived in the land of the free, they settled in the Woodland area of Cleveland Ohio. Like many young European travelers, it took time to assimilate and plant roots like many immigrants of that time in the early 1920’s. Nicolo had many dreams: he wanted a home, and a neighborhood grocery store, but most of all he wanted a family. With the love of his life by his side, Carolina, they worked hard and achieved many of their goals. Life can be joyous and tragic, and it was for the Salupo family. Together as a family they pulled though tragedy, forging forward in life remembering the true inner strength of Nicolo, who was a husband and their loving father.
Download or read book Remembrance written by Janet Spaeth and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eliza has been betrayed and scorned. Eliza Davis’s life is turned upside down when she finds her fiancé with another woman. She flees St. Paul and, with the help of a newfound friend, reestablishes her life in Remembrance, Minnesota. But she and Hyacinth have hurdles ahead of them before they can call Remembrance home. Silas Collier is dead-set against his uncle Edward marrying a woman he has only met through letters. When the woman arrives on the train with an unexpected companion, he finds both ladies suspicious. His qualms increase when Eliza reacts strongly to a newspaper report of a scandal in St. Paul. Can Eliza overcome the darkness of her past and move into the light of God’s forgiveness? Will Silas ever let go of his resentment and distrust of women to see the treasure God has brought to Remembrance, just for him? "Create in me a clean heart, O God." Psalm 51:10
Download or read book The Diversity Bargain written by Natasha K. Warikoo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We’ve heard plenty from politicians and experts on affirmative action and higher education, about how universities should intervene—if at all—to ensure a diverse but deserving student population. But what about those for whom these issues matter the most? In this book, Natasha K. Warikoo deeply explores how students themselves think about merit and race at a uniquely pivotal moment: after they have just won the most competitive game of their lives and gained admittance to one of the world’s top universities. What Warikoo uncovers—talking with both white students and students of color at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford—is absolutely illuminating; and some of it is positively shocking. As she shows, many elite white students understand the value of diversity abstractly, but they ignore the real problems that racial inequality causes and that diversity programs are meant to solve. They stand in fear of being labeled a racist, but they are quick to call foul should a diversity program appear at all to hamper their own chances for advancement. The most troubling result of this ambivalence is what she calls the “diversity bargain,” in which white students reluctantly agree with affirmative action as long as it benefits them by providing a diverse learning environment—racial diversity, in this way, is a commodity, a selling point on a brochure. And as Warikoo shows, universities play a big part in creating these situations. The way they talk about race on campus and the kinds of diversity programs they offer have a huge impact on student attitudes, shaping them either toward ambivalence or, in better cases, toward more productive and considerate understandings of racial difference. Ultimately, this book demonstrates just how slippery the notions of race, merit, and privilege can be. In doing so, it asks important questions not just about college admissions but what the elite students who have succeeded at it—who will be the world’s future leaders—will do with the social inequalities of the wider world.
Download or read book State Terrorism and the Politics of Memory in Latin America written by Gabriela Fried Amilivia and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the intergenerational transmission of traumatic memories of the dictatorship in the aftermath of the two first decades since the Uruguayan dictatorship of 1973-1984 in the broader context of public policies of denial and institutionalized impunity. Transitional justice studies have tended to focus on countries like Argentina or Chile in the Southern Cone of Latin America. However, not much research has been conducted on the "silent" cases of transitions as a result of negotiated pacts. The literature on memory trauma and impunity has much to offer to studies of transition and post-authoritarianism. This book situates the human and cultural experience of state terrorism from the perspective of the experiences of Uruguayan families, through an in-depth ethnographic, cultural, psycho-social, and political interdisciplinary study. It will be a valuable resource to students, scholars, and practitioners who are interested in substantive questions of memory, democratization, and transitional justice, set in Uruguay's scenario, as well as to human rights policy-makers, advocates and educators and social and political scientists, cultural analysts, politicians, social psychologists, psychotherapists, and activists. It will also appeal to the general public who are interested in the problem of how to transmit the stories and meaning of traumatic experiences as a result of gross human rights violations, the cultural and generational effects of state terror, and the politics of impunity. This book is essential for collections in Latin American studies, political science, and sociology.
Download or read book Amor in the 305 written by Shelly Cruz and published by Shelly Cruz Writes, LLC. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were not supposed to meet, but fate had other plans. Hoping to escape her tumultuous past, Soledad Caruso moves to sunny Miami Beach for a fresh start. What she doesn’t expect is to bump into the handsome man she met months earlier while vacationing with her girlfriends. His dark alluring features. His enticing thick accent. She knows better than to trust a man she barely knows. Amaury Mejía lives a quiet life and owns a scooter shop in Miami Beach with his best friend. When Soledad Caruso shows up unexpectedly, the heat between them ignites, as it did the first night they met. Her fiery olive skin. Her curvaceous figure. He wants forever with her. But when his past crashes in, it threatens to destroy everything they’ve worked so hard to build.
