Download or read book King s Mansion written by Barbara Drumright and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King's Mansion By: Barbara Drumright Born into a small, poor family, Amber never believed her happily ever after would be anything more than daydreams. With her mind filled with images of a dashingly handsome man named Slate, Amber always assumed their worlds would run parallel and never intersect. Amber works hard to provide for her mother, laboring in degrading jobs with ungrateful people around her. She tries to remain optimistic when she becomes so tired and worn down by life. But life is so funny sometimes; it can change so quickly. It can go from the very worst conditions to the very best. And in the blink of an eye, it can become the stuff of nightmares.

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Download or read book Ghetto at the Center of the World written by Gordon Mathews and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4e de couv.: Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong's tourist district, is home to a remarkably motley group of people. Traders, laborers, and asylum seekers from all over Asia and Africa live and work there, and even backpacking tourists rent rooms in what is possibly the most globalized spot on the planet. But as Ghetto at the center of the world shows us, the Mansions is a world away from the gleaming headquarters of multinational corporations -instead it epitomizes the way globalization actually works for most of the world's people. Through candid stories that both instruct and enthrall, Gordon Mathews lays bare the building's residents' intricate connections to the international circulation of goods, money, and ideas.

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Download or read book Martial Arts Collection Tale of the Flying Dragon during Yongzheng s Reign written by Zhixin Lin and published by Zhixin Lin. This book was released on with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Spoiled Wife written by An Lianbianhua and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An imperial edict bestowed upon the young lady of the Shang Dynasty the marriage of an imperial concubine. It would be a great favor to have the daughter of an imperial concubine become the official wife of the Emperor; however, the entire Shang clan and even the entire capital felt sympathy for this unheard-of young lady.There was no other reason. It was said that Duanren Emperor was fierce and merciless, that he could stop children from crying at night, and that was even worse. He had a strange fetish, which was to suck the blood of young girls and scare to death a few of Duanren Wangfei's candidates.This wasn't the worst part of it, the most important part was that King Duanren had been in bed for three months, his life and death was uncertain, and he desperately needed a bride.This person was Shen Qi.She felt that she must be the most tragic woman in the world. There was no free lunch in this world, so she had to pay a price for her whole life.

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