Download or read book The Confession written by Haley Rhoades and published by Gingham Frog Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jackson and Kennedy start their family—Taylor volunteers as the surrogate. ‘The Deed’ successful, Taylor is pregnant. With complications and a surprise in the first trimester, will Jackson and Kennedy provide the support Taylor needs? The three encounter a crisis even Dr. Wilson struggles to assist with. When blindsided by Kennedy’s endgame will this life-long threesome survive? Follow along as best friends endure nine long months of love, sacrifice, and loss.

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Download or read book The Influence Peddlers written by Hédi Kaddour and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eagerly awaited English translation of Kaddour's award-winning novel of clashing cultures during the French colonial years Gather together French colonialists, young nationalists eager for independence, and local Maghreb leaders in a small North African city of the 1920s. Bring a collection of brash American filmmakers and celebrities into the picture. Dangerous cultural collisions are the inevitable result in Hédi Kaddour's best-selling novel of French colonial rule and its persisting legacy of human chaos and cultural tragedy. In this commanding novel, the author plumbs the contradictions of colonialism and the impact on individual lives. With insight, humor, and a profound sense of irony he introduces Les Prépondérants--"The Preponderants," an unofficial group of peddlers of influence who operate at every level of colonial society. American "Hollywood" values, Islamic and secular politics, French manners--none of them escapes Kaddour's skewering wit. Filled with rich irony and wonderful characters, this is a novel that grapples forcefully with colonial relations in the Arabic, North African, and French worlds, while also journeying into the simmering Europe and United States of the Roaring Twenties.

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