Download or read book Pocketful of Sand written by M. Leighton and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Violent Leader written by Bianca Cole and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city is in chaos, but I thrive in the aftermath. Grief surrounds our family as we bury our father. As the eldest son, leading the clan is my responsibility. The first task on my list; Make the Bratva pay for what they did. I'll take the most precious thing from Spartak and defile her. Viktoria Volkov. Bratva princess and only daughter of the Pakhan. She will pay for the sins of her father. Once I set my eyes on her, sticking to the plan becomes impossible. The Russian beauty calls to my primal urges. My desire for revenge twists into something else entirely. A dark and violent need rises to the surface. I intended to give her back, broken and damaged. I'll break her and make her mine. I'm just not sure I can ever let her go. What will Spartak do once he realizes I'm keeping his princess forever? Violent Leader is the second book in the Chicago Mafia Dons series. This book is a dark mafia romance involving kidnapping, dark themes and certain subjects that may upset the reader. It has no cliff hanger a happily ever after ending, and can be read as a standalone. It features a dark, twisted Irish mob boss who takes what he wants no matter the consequences.
Download or read book A Widow for One Year written by John Irving and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemaking—it was coming from her parents’ bedroom.” This sentence opens John Irving’s ninth novel, A Widow for One Year, a story of a family marked by tragedy. Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character—a “difficult” woman. By no means is she conventionally “nice,” but she will never be forgotten. Ruth’s story is told in three parts, each focusing on a critical time in her life. When we first meet her—on Long Island, in the summer of 1958—Ruth is only four. The second window into Ruth’s life opens on the fall of 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career. She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason. A Widow for One Year closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. She’s about to fall in love for the first time. Richly comic, as well as deeply disturbing, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief.
Download or read book Les Caresses du motard written by Virna DePaul and published by Books That Rock. This book was released on with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jill Jones a de bons amis, un excellent travail, et des rencards réguliers. Ce qu’elle n’a pas, c’est de l’audace, ou bien un brin de folie … C’est en tous cas ce qu’elle croit. Mais elle rencontre alors un beau biker tatoué qui l’embrase immédiatement. Soudain, elle dit oui à toutes sortes de choses, à commencer par une nuit dans son lit, et ce, sans aucune condition. Cole Novak, expert dans le domaine de la sécurité, gagne sa vie en protégeant les autres, mais il est accablé par le chagrin de ne pas avoir été capable de sauver la personne la plus importante dans sa vie. C’est alors qu’il rencontre Jill, et pour une nuit, elle illumine son univers… mais elle disparaît tout aussi rapidement, et il replonge alors dans cette noirceur qu’il connaît maintenant trop bien. Mais Cole découvre bientôt que Jill est plus près de lui qu’il ne le pensait : elle habite dans la maison qu’il envisage de vendre afin de laisser le passé derrière lui. Alors que l’audacieuse femme de ses rêves s’avère être sa voisine, Cole vendra-t-il tout de même la maison pour s’en aller, ou bien se laissera-t-il aller à Jill en ouvrant son cœur à l’espoir ainsi qu’à l’amour ?
Download or read book Phase Line Green written by Nicholas Warr and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bloody, month-long battle for the Citadel in Hue during 1968 pitted U.S. Marines against an entrenched, numerically superior North Vietnamese Army force. By official U.S. accounts it was a tactical and moral victory for the Marines and the United States. But a survivor's compulsion to square official accounts with his contrasting experience has produced an entirely different perspective of the battle, the most controversial to emerge from the Vietnam War in decades. In some of the most frank, vivid prose to come out of the war, author Nicholas Warr describes with urgency and outrage the Marines' savage house-to-house fighting, ordered without air, naval, or artillery support by officers with no experience in this type of deadly combat. Sparing few in the telling, including himself, Warr's shocking firsthand narrative of these desperate suicide charges, which devastated whole companies, takes the wraps off an incident that many would prefer to keep hidden. His account is sure to ignite heated debate among historians and military professionals. Despite senseless rules of engagement and unspeakable carnage, there were unforgettable acts of courage and self-sacrifice performed by ordinary men asked to accomplish the impossible, and Warr is at his best relating these stories. For example, there's the grenade-throwing mortarman who in a rage wipes out two machine-gun emplacements that had pinned down an entire company for days, and the fortunate grunt with thick glasses who stumbles blindly—without receiving a scratch—across a street littered with the dead and dying who hadn't made it. In describing the most vicious urban combat since World War II, this account offers an unparalleled view of how a small unit commander copes with the conflicting demands and responsibilities thrust upon him by the enemy, his men, and the chain of command.
Download or read book French Basic Course written by Foreign Service Institute (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scaredy Squirrel Goes Camping written by Mélanie Watt and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scaredy Squirrel takes a trip through the campground and finds out the wilderness is meant to be enjoyed up close.
Download or read book Pr cis of the Lectures on Architecture written by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760–1834) regarded the Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802–5) and its companion volume, the Graphic Portion (1821), as both a basic course for future civil engineers and a treatise. Focusing the practice of architecture on utilitarian and economic values, he assailed the rationale behind classical architectural training: beauty, proportionality, and symbolism. His formal systematization of plans, elevations, and sections transformed architectural design into a selective modular typology in which symmetry and simple geometrical forms prevailed. His emphasis on pragmatic values, to the exclusion of metaphysical concerns, represented architecture as a closed system that subjected its own formal language to logical processes. Now published in English for the first time, the Précis and the Graphic Portion are classics of architectural education.
Download or read book Iron Crowned written by Richelle Mead and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sexy paranormal thriller, a powerful shaman queen takes the ultimate risk to stop a war that threatens to destroy her Otherworldly kingdom. Back in the mortal realm, shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham was skilled at banishing beings that didn't belong. But as the Thorn Land's new queen, she's desperately searching for a way to end the war devastating her kingdom. Her only hope is the Iron Crown, a legendary object even the most powerful gentry fear . . . Knowing who to trust is the hardest part. Fairy king Dorian has his own agenda for aiding her search. And Kiyo, her shape-shifter ex-boyfriend, has every reason to betray her along the way. To control the Crown's ever-consuming powers, Eugenie will have to confront an unimaginable temptation—one that will put her soul and the fate of two worlds in mortal peril . . .
Download or read book Marriage Without Borders written by Dinah Hannaford and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In popular songs, televised media, news outlets, and online venues, a jabaaru immigré ("a migrant's wife") may be depicted as an opportunistic gold-digger, a forsaken lonely heart, or a naïve dupe. Her migrant husband also faces multiple representations as profligate womanizer, conquering hero, heartless enslaver, and exploited workhorse. These depictions point to fluctuating understandings of gender, status, and power in Senegalese society and reflect an acute uneasiness within this coastal West African nation that has seen an exodus in the past thirty-five years, as more men and women migrate out of Senegal in hope of a better financial future. Marriage Without Borders is a multi-sited study of Senegalese migration and marriage that showcases contemporary changes in kinship practices across the globe engendered by the neoliberal demand for mobility and flexibility. Based on ten years of ethnographic research in both Europe and Senegal, the book examines a particular social outcome of economic globalization: transnational marriages between Senegalese migrant men living in Europe and women at home in Senegal. These marriages have grown exponentially among the Senegalese, as economic and social possibilities within the country have steadily declined. More and more, building successful social lives within Senegal seems to require reaching outside the country, through either migration or marriage to a migrant. New kinds of affective connection, and disconnection, arise as Senegalese men and women reshape existing conceptions of spousal responsibility, filial duty, Islamic piety, and familial care. Dinah Hannaford connects these Senegalese transnational marriages to the broader pattern of flexible kinship arrangements emerging across the global south, arguing that neoliberal globalization and its imperative for mobility extend deep into the family and the heart and stretch relationships across borders.
Download or read book Pascal written by John R Cole and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-10 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searches for the man Blaise who has been shadowed into near invisibility by the hero Pascal, the 17th-century French scientist who underwent a conversion in midlife and became saintly. Knits the two halves of his life together by examining his upbringing and family relationships, finding in his love for God a substitute or at least compensation for the loss of his parents. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Nanny for the SEALs written by Sarwah Creed and published by Sarwah Creed. This book was released on with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three SEALs need a nanny for their twins… and someone to satisfy their hot-as-sin bodies, too. I moved cross-country to be with my ex, and one night I followed him, suspecting he was cheating on me. He ended up going to the strip club, Ranchy High. I had to find a way to get in, so when the bouncer asked if I was the nanny, I lied. I found out that my ex was cheating and stealing from others. Distressed and distraught, I found myself in the Jeep with a driver, with not only one kid, but two. Their driver took me to their penthouse, which was on the other side of town. I soon found out that their dads were hot triplets—Stan, Rick, and Pete. They told me that I did a good job and hired me on the spot. The three hot-as-sin SEALs were triplets, but they’re different in every way. Rick, with his seductive and commanding emerald eyes, made me want to surrender to him. Pete was the fun one, the kind who loved to keep entertaining me all night long. Stan was the shy one, the virgin I had to set free from his anxieties. I found a new lease on life, one that I’d never dreamed of having until I moved in. No more did I have a man making all my anxieties go into overtime. My world could turn upside down because everything was going right, but it could go wrong if they found out my secret. The lie in which I’d been holding on to, could be revealed, and I would end up losing a lot more than the new home I’ve found—I could end up losing my heart, too.
Download or read book Northern Affairs Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionnaire Francois anglois Et Anglois francois an Abrege Par A Boyer Premi re Partie second written by and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Les Multiplicateurs written by Liz Wiseman and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nous avons tous besoin de plus de multiplicateurs autour de nous. Dans le monde du travail, il existe deux types de leader et deux styles de management radicalement différents. Certains leaders drainent les capacités et l'intelligence de leurs équipes alors que d'autres les amplifient pour produire de meilleurs résultats. Vous avez sûrement déjà croisé ces deux styles de management au travail. Le premier draine l'intelligence, l'énergie et les capacités des personnes qui l'entourent et doit toujours être au centre de l'attention. De l'autre côté se trouvent les leaders qui utilisent leur intelligence pour amplifier l'intelligence et les capacités des personnes qui les entourent. Ce sont les leaders qui incitent les employés à se dépasser pour obtenir des résultats qui dépassent les attentes. Ce sont les multiplicateurs. Augmentez les performances de votre entreprise. Ayant analysé les données de plus de 150 dirigeants, l'experte en leadership Liz Wiseman a identifié cinq disciplines qui distinguent les Multiplicateurs des Diminueurs. Ces cinq disciplines sont des compétences relationnelles, organisationnelles et managériales à portée de tous et peuvent avoir un réel impact sur la rentabilité de l'entreprise. Devenez un Multiplicateur. Apprenez à développer vos compétences afin de devenir un Team Leader inspirant. Attirez les talents, engagez vos collaborateurs et stimulez l'innovation. Ce livre fournit tous les outils vous permettant : • D'identifier concrètement ces deux styles de management et de leadership • De découvrir les cinq compétences à mettre en pratique afin de devenir un leader bienveillant et inspirant • De mettre en place un environnement de travail stimulant et innovant Si vous êtes à la recherche d’un livre sur le leadership ou le développement des compétences tels que L’intelligence émotionnelle de Viola Di Russo ou la série Pourquoi de Simon Sinek, alors Multiplicateurs sera le choix idéal pour votre prochaine lecture.
Download or read book The Royal Dictionary Abridged In Two Parts I French and English II English and French The Seventh Edition Carefully Corrected By Mr A Boyer written by Abel Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1747 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
