Download or read book My Mother Kasia and Her American Dream written by Maria Kordas and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Mother, Kasia and Her American Dream is the story of my mother and her incredible life. All her childhood and her early adulthood life, she was dreaming about America. Her strong dream became reality. She came to this beautiful country in 1974. There was not one day for forty-two years being in Chicago that she ever complained. Her life was full of struggles. As an immigrant and a single woman with three children, she loved every day being in America. Having had the opportunity to work, to give a better life to her children and grandchildren, she felt so lucky. Her American dream was so strong that it gave her energy to become someone special that her children, grandchildren, and others close to her were so proud of. She gave her children what all people, immigrants from all over the world, wish to give their childrena freedom and a better life.
Download or read book The Price of Admission Updated Edition written by Daniel Golden and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A fire-breathing, righteous attack on the culture of superprivilege.”—Michael Wolff, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Fire and Fury, in the New York Times Book Review NOW WITH NEW REPORTING ON OPERATION VARSITY BLUES In this explosive and prescient book, based on three years of investigative reporting, Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Golden shatters the myth of an American meritocracy. Naming names, along with grades and test scores, Golden lays bare a corrupt system in which middle-class and working-class whites and Asian Americans are routinely passed over in favor of wealthy white students with lesser credentials—children of alumni, big donors, and celebrities. He reveals how a family donation got Jared Kushner into Harvard, and how colleges comply with Title IX by giving scholarships to rich women in “patrician sports” like horseback riding and crew. With a riveting new chapter on Operation Varsity Blues, based on original reporting, The Price of Admission is a must-read—not only for parents and students with a personal stake in college admissions but also for those disturbed by the growing divide between ordinary and privileged Americans. Praise for The Price of Admission “A disturbing exposé of the influence that wealth and power still exert on admission to the nation’s most prestigious universities.”—The Washington Post “Deserves to become a classic.”—The Economist
Download or read book Unbound written by Kasia Urbaniak and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate guide to owning your power--and mastering how to use it. How can so many women feel "good and mad" yet still reluctant to speak up in a meeting or difficult conversation? Why do women often feel like they're too much--and, at the same time, not enough? What causes us, at the most critical moments in our lives, to freeze? Kasia Urbaniak teaches power to women--and her answers to these questions may surprise you. Based on insights from her experiences as a dominatrix, her training to become a Taoist nun, and the countless women she has taught to expand their influence, this book offers precise, practical instruction in how to stand in your power, find your voice, and use it well. Learn how to: • Embrace your desires as the pathway to your destiny. • Ask for--and get--what you need in your life, work, and in the bedroom. • Skillfully navigate hearing "no" and any resistance, even your own. • Flip power dynamics when someone crosses your boundaries and puts you on the spot. • Create new and expanded roles for the people in your life with precise, targeted asks. Whether you're getting crystal clear on exactly what you want, or turning the tables on a man who has shut you up and shut you down, Urbaniak's methods teach women to stand for themselves in every interaction. Part manual, part manifesto, part behind the scenes look, Unbound is a how-to guide to the impossible, the outrageous, the unimaginable--a field guide to living your wildest, best, and most satisfying life.
Download or read book Time Imperfect written by Bronislaw Wildstein and published by Winged Hussar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An Imperfect Time" is an epic story depicting the fate of people involved in the grim history of the twentieth century. From the pogrom in the village near Pinsk to the reality of the Third Republic, the author leads us along winding roads, reversing the narrative, changing epochs and countries. We follow the fate of several generations of the Brok family, to whom history did not spare anything, neither suffering nor betrayal, nor crime, nor ideological asphyxiation. But you can look at the book a little differently, namely as a record and an attempt to understand the experiences that shaped today's Poland, from the bloody October Revolution through hopeful Solidarity to the futility of the Third Polish Republic. Finally, this book can be read as a kind of morality play showing the struggle of people against the temptations of evil and nothingness, those temptations that were effectively misled by the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Cursed One written by Sean Fletcher and published by Epic World Publishing. This book was released on with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hunt for the Cursed One is on… Skylar thought she could catch a break. After her near-death encounter with the psychotic leader of the Society, Kasia, and still dealing with the Dark Prince trying to possess her body, she should be on the first flight out to a resort island. Too bad the universe has other plans. Reports of a legendary being called the Cursed One are popping up all over the world. According to Fae myth, whoever manages to find and possess this being will gain unbelievable power. Nearly unstoppable power. Power to do incredible good…or evil. Naturally, Kasia wants it. And Skylar can’t let that happen. It’s up to her, Asher, and their friends from the Academy to find it first. But with those closest to Skylar harboring dangerous secrets of their own—and her crazy heart telling her it wants Asher as more than a friend—this journey may be the hardest one she’s ever taken. It could also be the deadliest. The Cursed One is the second book in the *now complete* YA fantasy Darkness Within series. If you like snarky, fast-paced fantasies full of magical academies, mysteries, and a slow-burn enemies-to lovers romance then you’ll love this series!
Download or read book The Darkness Within The Complete Series written by Sean Fletcher and published by Epic World Publishing. This book was released on with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can she stop evil if she can't even control her own dark magic? Skylar has a few problems: Getting out from under her famous mother’s shadow. Making it through the Academy of Magic without getting herself killed. And trying not to murder the devilishly handsome, so-infuriating-she-wants-to-strangle-him Asher once they’re partnered with each other. So when she discovers a new baddie gathering power in her city, someone with insane magic and a powerful grudge against her family, Skylar knows it’s her chance to stop them. The only problem? Skylar’s got dark magic of her own. Uncontrollable magic. Magic she has to keep hidden. As maddening as Asher is, she’ll have to work with him if she wants any chance at stopping this new threat. But with her darkness growing more powerful by the day, hiding what she is will likely be impossible. And soon, her biggest enemy just might be herself… If you love fast-paced fantasies full of snark, heart, thrilling twists, and a slow-burn romance then you’ll love the complete Darkness Within series! This bundle contains all four books in the Darkness Within series: 1. Called by Darkness 2. The Cursed One 3. Enemy of Magic 4. The Dark Prince
Download or read book The Beauty of the Purple written by William Stearns Davis and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Beauty of the Purple" by William Stearns Davis. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book The Season of Lost Children written by Karen Blomain and published by Pearlsong Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a small college town in Pennsylvania the lives of a bigamist's wife, a Polish orphan, an ex-priest and his wife—a former nun—and a mute teenage runaway intersect. The Season of Lost Children explores the question of what constitutes family and finds that the answer is often closer than we think, if only we look with and within our hearts. The Season of Lost Children can be enjoyed on its own, but was also written as part of The Fenston Trilogy, in which Blomain planned to trace fifty years of the interwoven lives and friendship of three women in a bucolic Pennsylvania college town. While The Season of Lost Children focuses on the life of the eccentric former nun, Eleanor Roderi, the first novel in the planned trilogy, A Trick of Light, chronicles the heartbreaking discovery and redemption of Hattie Darling, the only daughter of the town's first family.
Download or read book Through a Glass Darkly written by Kasia Szpakowska and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic, dreams and prophecy played important roles in ancient Egypt, as in other Mediterranean societies. Scholars are now approaching the whole topic of divination in antiquity with greatly enhanced attention. In this volume eminent international specialists come together to explore the practice, logic and psychology of divination among ancient Egyptians.
Download or read book Fairy tale Inheritance Series The Collection written by Shonna Slayton and published by Amaretto Press. This book was released on 2022-10-08 with total page 2032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinderella set in the 1940s. Snow White in a 1900s mining town. The Little Mermaid aboard the Titanic! These exciting fairy tales re-imagine events throughout history as fairy tale heirlooms are passed down through the ages. New generations of heroines will navigate their magical inheritances to save those they love and possibly find a little romance along the way. Perfect for fans of history, fairy tales, and clean romance. The Fairy-tale Inheritance Series: The Collection is a box set of six full-length fairy tale novels and one bonus novella. Books include: * Cinderella's Dress * Cinderella's Shoes * Cinderella's Legacy (novella) * Sleeping Beauty's Spindle * Snow White's Mirror * Beauty's Rose * The Little Mermaid's Voice
Download or read book Fairy tale Inheritance Series The Cinderella Novels 3 Book Box Set written by Shonna Slayton and published by Amaretto Press. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not all magic disappears at midnight! These first books in the Fairy-tale Inheritance Series introduce a world where fairy-tale magic simmers just below the surface. First, in CINDERELLA'S DRESS you'll find: A mysterious steamer trunk. A magical dress. And one unexpected inheritance... On the home front in 1944, Kate wants to do her part for the war effort. She'd prefer filling in for the window dressers at the New York department store where she works, but her mother insists on sending her to audition for roles she never gets. When relatives arrive from war-torn Poland with a mysterious steamer trunk and an even more mysterious story, her life is about to get complicated. Kate's aunt, who is suffering from dementia, tries to convince her she is next in line to be the keeper of the wardrobe for Cinderella's family--the real Cinderella. Kate'll have to prove that she's worthy to continue the family line and keep Cinderella's dress safe from the people who want it most. How can she do all that and keep it a secret from the boy she's falling for? This might be the most important role Kate has ever auditioned for. But will she get to the truth before it's forgotten? Next, in CINDERELLA'S SHOES, you'll be taken to post WWII Europe and uncover even more shocking family secrets. It all builds to one final showdown. Can Kate stop a family feud that has lasted for centuries? Finally, in CINDERELLA'S LEGACY, you'll read the story behind the story. You'll be taken up into the Tatra Mountains in what is now modern-day Poland and meet a fairy godmother living in a meadow as she wakes up one morning to a surprise on her doorstep. Learn about the conflict in young Cinderella's village, and how she meets her fairy godmother. If you like the magic and romance of fairytale retellings, then you'll love this continuation of the Cinderella story.
Download or read book Monthly Packet written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Must Not Think of Ourselves written by Lauren Grodstein and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a New York Times bestselling author Lauren Grodstein, a story inspired by a little-known piece of history in the lives of Jewish occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II. Called a "masterpiece", and as seen on The Today Show with Jenna pick (Madeline Miller). On a November day in 1940, Adam Paskow becomes a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, where the Jews of the city are cut off from their former lives and held captive by Nazi guards to await an uncertain fate. Weeks later, he is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Would he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls? Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. One of the people Adam interviews is his flatmate Sala Wiskoff, who is stoic, determined, and funny—and married with two children. Over the months of their confinement, in the presence of her family, they fall in love. But when Adam discovers a possible escape from the Ghetto, he is faced with an unbearable choice: whom can he save, and at what cost ? Inspired by the testimony-gathering project with the code name Oneg Shabbat, and told with immediacy and heart, We Must Not Think of Ourselves is a piercing story of love, determination, and sacrifice.
Download or read book The Tatra Eagle written by J. Victor Tomaszek and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As war in 1680s Europe rages below, BOLESLAW RADOK shepherds and hunts in Poland’s High Tatra Mountains. His father like all able bodied men is off at war and has neither trained his son in close combat nor left him a sword. Boleslaw is attacked by a wolf and limps home for bandaging, then barely survives a farm raid that kills his grandfather. Four Polish knights kill the brigands then deliver Bole’s fallen father’s sword, a dying comrade’s last wish. Boleslaw struggles with two options: stay on the farm he cannot defend well or follow his father’s path to a life at war. Why are the knights reluctant to train him? The Tatra Eagle is a completed 102,000-word historical novel climaxing in the 1683 Battle of Vienna, seat of the Holy Roman Empire. It is in the same genre as Michael Crichton’s Pirate Latitudes and Ken Follet’s Fall of Giants. Doctor Zhivago’s epic romantic sweep also comes to mind.
Download or read book Basia written by Barbara Marchwicki and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basia is an emotional journey of a woman through childhood and adolescence into a turbulent adulthood full of revelations and deceptions. As a teenager, Basia observes the complete deterioration of her parents marriage and her mothers struggle to keep her family and kids together. She knows her mother desperately hangs on to the memories of her first love, but the memories are too painful to share. When her mother dies when Basia is just twenty years old and her father goes through a selfish stage, she is forced to grow up quickly. She leaves her family home and the small town she grew up in and vows to never return. Within the layers of self-discovery lies the profound need to be loved. She makes mistakes and bad decisions, but she never loses the clarity of her aim; to never end up like her parents and marry only for love.
Download or read book The Beauty of the Purple written by William Stearns Davis and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Something of My Very Own to Say written by Thomas S. Gladsky and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays and representative selections of literature seeks to enlarge the history of American women's literature. Polish and American scholars reflect upon questions of gender and ethnicity that have framed the experiences of all women, but particularly those of Polish descent. The original texts accompanying each essay - fiction, memoirs, poems, and essays - represent many aspects of the women's identities: secular and spiritual, Jewish and gentile, immigrant and native, 19th-century and contemporary. Viewed from literary, historical, political artistic, social and gender perspectives, the writings of Polish American women offer a record of cultural sensitivities of those cut off from their homeland and twice removed from the American mainstream.
