Download or read book Tomas Loves written by Jude Welton and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tomas is a little boy who loves trains, trampolines and his dog Flynn. He hates sudden noise, surprises and changes in routine. There are many things about Tomas that make him special and unique, but despite his differences he loves fun and friendship – just like you. This beautifully illustrated, rhyming book is a perfect introduction to autism for young readers aged 2 and over, including children on the autism spectrum and their friends and siblings. In helping the reader get to know Tomas, the book encourages children to recognise what they have in common with him, not just what makes him different.
Download or read book Love Letter To America written by Tomas Schuman and published by Mayside Books. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov, was a former KGB officer and journalist who worked for the Novosti Press Agency and who ultimately defected from the Soviet Union to Canada. Yuri chose freedom. Writing as Tomas Schuman in Love Letter to America, Yuri describes Soviet genocidal Communism and explains how good it is to be free.
Download or read book The Love Bet A BWWM Romantic Comedy written by G.L. Tomas and published by Rebellious Valkyrie Press. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luz De Los Santos thought her job was easy. Being the Sex and Relationship Director of Modern Magazine, no one knew the art of dating and hookups like she did. When the commitment-phobe Afro-Dominicana gets singled out by her editor to write a challenging column for the coveted, annual Valentine’s issue, Luz is forced to confront her issues about relationships with her newly pitched project. The Love Bet. Is it possible to fall in love by the third screw? Maybe. But she’s not holding her breath once she recruits her blast from the past, Evan Cattaneo to help test her theory. Evan regrets the way things ended between him and Luz. The girl who charmed him all those years ago was now grown and sexy and has him more than ready to aid Luz in her little experiment. Only his plans won’t stop at just f*cking her. Nope, he plans to make her fall in love again. It’s only a matter of time before loving between the sheets turns into stealing kisses in the streets. When emotions get wild and feelings grow deep, will the insecurities of Luz’s past come back to haunt them?
Download or read book Love Never Dies written by L.J. Diva and published by Royal Star Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series is dedicated to… Jackie Collins is the biggest inspiration in my life when it comes to writing, if not the only inspiration. She had the passion; the brains, the ballsy rollicking attitude, and the kind of life that made me want to be her. And to the three Stefanovic brothers, Carlos, Pedro, and Tomas, without whom I would not have had names for my porn stars. In the tradition of the bonkbustingly good Jackie Collins comes L.J. Diva’s Porn Star Brothers series. Love Never Dies is a powerful, heartbreakingly moving love story on the biggest scale ever. The powerful story of two young men living through turbulent times, clinging to their love amidst the backdrop of New York in the ’70s and ’80s and the tragedy of gay love and the burgeoning HIV/AIDS epidemic. They fight to stay healthy while all of their family’s friends and co-workers die around them, and struggle to survive in a world of the gay plague and gay deaths. Then there’s the beautiful story of the Stephanopoulos family and the love they have for each other. They come together and close ranks, desperate to keep their boys alive until their heartbreaking love story comes to its very bittersweet end... Through all they are dealing with, can soulmates Tomas and Roger still find their true love story...till death do them part... Love Never Dies is the third novel in the Porn Star Brothers contemporary romance series featuring three sizzlingly sexy Greek Australian bad boy brothers. If you like family sagas, heartfelt romances and dancing to ’70s disco, then you’ll love the latest instalment in L.J. Diva’s page-turning series. Unlock The Porn Star Brothers Series to start the romance today! ***These books contain swearing, lots of sex, and a plotline. They’re for the over 18s only, but we all know those younger ones will sneak a peek. ***In order of reading - Carlos, Pedro, Tomas, Retribution (or the Porn Star Brothers box set or collector’s edition paperback novel), Forever, Love Never Dies.
Download or read book Tomas Gutierrez Alea written by Paul A. Schroeder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schroeder offers a thorough introduction to the films of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba's leading filmmaker, covering all 12 of Alea's feature films and examining in depth his three best films within the context of revolutionary Cuba.
Download or read book Waiting for the Man written by Arjun Basu and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An advertising man searches for meaning in this “fascinating dissection of the media world we live in . . . A thought-provoking road-trip tale” (Chicago Tribune). Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize In his mid-thirties, Joe works as an advertising copywriter for a slick New York agency. But he feels disillusioned with his life, and finds himself experiencing dreams about a mysterious man, seeing him on the street, hearing his voice. Joe decides to listen. So he waits on his stoop, day and night, for instructions. A local reporter takes notice, and soon Joe has become a media sensation, the center of a storm. When the Man tells Joe to “go west,” he does. What follows is a compelling and visceral story about the struggle to find something more in life, told in two interwoven threads—Joe at the beginning of his journey in Manhattan, and at the end of it as he finds new purpose on a ranch in Montana under the endless sky. “A strangely engrossing, meticulously written allegory of the present moment.” —Douglas Coupland, author of Worst. Person. Ever.
Download or read book Literature into Film written by Linda Costanzo Cahir and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most people, film adaptation of literature can be summed up in one sentence: "The movie wasn't as good as the book." This volume undertakes to show the reader that not only is this evaluation not always true but sometimes it is intrinsically unfair. Movies based on literary works, while often billed as adaptations, are more correctly termed translations. A director and his actors translate the story from the written page into a visual presentation. Depending on the form of the original text and the chosen method of translation, certain inherent difficulties and pitfalls are associated with this change of medium. So often our reception of a book-based movie has more to do with our expectations and reading of the literature than with the job that the movie production did or did not do. Avoiding these biases and fairly evaluating any particular literary-based film takes an awareness of certain factors. Written with a formalistic rather than historical approach, this work presents a comprehensive guide to literature-based films, establishing a contextual and theoretical basis to help the reader understand the relationships between such movies and the original texts as well as the reader's own individual responses to these productions. To this end, it focuses on recognizing and appreciating the inherent difficulties encountered when basing a film on a literary work, be it a novel, novella, play or short story. Individual chapters deal with the specific issues and difficulties raised by each of these genres, providing an overview backed up by case studies of specific film translations. Films and literary works receiving this treatment include The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Lady Windemere's Fan by Oscar Wilde and Shakespeare's Henry V. Interspersed throughout the text are suggestions for activities the film student or buff can use to enhance his or her appreciation and understanding of the films. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Download or read book I Want You to Be written by Tomáš Halík and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his two previous books translated into English, Patience with God and Night of the Confessor, best-selling Czech author and theologian Tomáš Halík focused on the relationship between faith and hope. Now, in I Want You to Be, Halík examines the connection between faith and love, meditating on a statement attributed to St. Augustine—amo, volo ut sis, “I love you: I want you to be”—and its importance for contemporary Christian practice. Halík suggests that because God is not an object, love for him must be expressed through love of human beings. He calls for Christians to avoid isolating themselves from secular modernity and recommends instead that they embrace an active and loving engagement with nonbelievers through acts of servitude. At the same time, Halík critiques the drive for mere material success and suggests that love must become more than a private virtue in contemporary society. I Want You to Be considers the future of Western society, with its strong division between Christian and secular traditions, and recommends that Christians think of themselves as partners with nonbelievers. Halik’s distinctive style is to present profound insights on religious themes in an accessible way to a lay audience. As in previous books, this volume links spiritual and theological/philosophical topics with a tentative diagnosis of our times. This is theology written on one’s knees; Halik is as much a spiritual writer as a theologian. I Want You to Be will interest both general and scholarly readers interested in questions of secularism and Christianity in modern life.
Download or read book The Modernist God State written by Michael Lackey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Modernist God State seeks to overturn the traditional secularization approach to intellectual and political history and to replace it with a fuller understanding of the religious basis of modernist political movements. Lackey demonstrates that Christianity, instead of fading after the Enlightenment, actually increased its power by becoming embedded within the concept of what was considered the legitimate nation state, thus determining the political agendas of prominent political leaders from King Leopold II to Hitler. Lackey first argues that novelists can represent intellectual and political history in a way that no other intellectual can. Specifically, they can picture a subconscious ideology, which often conflicts with consciously held systems of belief, short-circuiting straight into political action, an idea articulated by E.M. Forster. Second, in contrast to many literary scholars who discuss Hitler and the Nazis without studying and quoting their texts, Lackey draws his conclusions from close readings of their writings. In doing so, he shows that one cannot understand the Nazis without taking into account the specific version of Christianity underwriting their political agenda.
Download or read book A Twist In Her Fate written by Samantha Sabelli Ion and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-three-year-old Sophia Destino is a small-town girl about to plunge into life in the big city of Toronto. Still hung up on her past heartbreak, she is desperate for a change by taking on a new graduate degree in education. While living it up in the big city, temptation exposes its trials and tribulations as the naïve Sophia’s fate becomes intertwined with two other potential bachelors, who woo her heart and soul. But is Sophia even capable of knowing what her heart truly desires? With the help of her new friend Charlotte, Sophia experiences all that the city has to offer and more. Fall into her complex mind and daily life as she discovers and overcomes tough situations in her career, social life, and of course, love life! Full of humour, blunders, and scandalous moments, Sophia must endure these twists of fate to find out where her heart truly lies.
Download or read book Tomas Cowboy Homecoming written by Linda Warren and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marine Staff Sergeant Tomas 'Tuf' Hart is beginning to understand why they say 'you can never go home again.' Still grappling with the mental scars of battle, Tuf's just learned that Thunder Ranch is in trouble. Now, the Harts are banking everything on their stallion, Midnight, winning the National Finals Rodeo. The only easy part of Tuf's homecoming was falling for his high school crush all over again. Cheyenne Sundell has always been drawn to Tuf. But as a single mom of twin daughters, she's wary of getting involved, especially with another military man. Cheyenne's disastrous marriage taught her that war changed men, and not always for the better. Tuf and Cheyenne have been through hell and back. But with a little hope and a lot of holiday spirit, they just might find a way to heal themselves--and each other"--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book A Love for Nothingness A Love for Death written by Alberto Castelli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Passion of Love in the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas written by Daniel Joseph Gordon and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction to three questions on love according to St. Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologiae I?II, qq. 26?28). These three questions reflect on the nature of love (q. 26), the causes of love (q. 27), and the effects of love (q. 28). It is thus an introduction to the entire phenomenon of love, both as a bodily passion and an act of the will. The purpose is to present the Thomistic and broadly scholastic account of human and divine love from a philosophical and theological perspective. It aims to be a theological and philosophical study of the topic, useful both for a graduate/professional audience, as part of an undergraduate or graduate course, and perhaps for the educated reader. The thesis of the book is that, contrary to contemporary conceptions, not all loves are created equal. Some loves perfect us and some loves corrupt us. The worth of a love depends on its object and end. St. Thomas thus presents an objective and teleological account of human and divine love that is of philosophical and theological interest. The method is broadly exegetical, presenting a careful reading of the text and supplying the philosophical and theological background which the text of Aquinas assumes. The scope of the work is limited to three questions (ST I?II, qq. 26?28). References to interpretative disputes of Aquinas and references to further resources in the secondary literature will be mostly limited to the footnotes, making the body of the text accessible to more readers.
Download or read book Lair of Heroes written by José Adín Oliveras and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part One (1949): describes the enigma of a workman, sugarcane chopper, farmer, womanizer, quarrelsome in drunkenness, friend of friends, and fathered nine children. Second Part (1951): describes the sorrows and embittered sacrifices of an old lady. She pours out painful tears that break her spirit. She has to deal with her son’s departure to the military service. The United States is at war with North Korea and the Puerto Ricans youths residing in the Island are required to comply with the draft. Third Part (1971): the heaviness and angst of the old lady continues a few years later. Two of her sons are fighting in a jungle, challenging a fearsome enemy. The tour of duty for each son increases her sorrow arduously. Fourth Part (present time): the smallest of seven children immigrated to New York City. Finding himself alone, he challenges the adversity and breaks barriers of illiteracy. He idolizes the illusion of entering college. He is strongly advised to continue his trade (construction worker). He doesn’t have integrity to acknowledge the studies of science and mathematics. He has no training or education. He is determined to make his dream a reality.
Download or read book Transgression written by Roger Simpson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four unsolved murders. A killer with no motive. Only one woman can stop them. Forensic psychiatrist Jane Halifax is about to embark on the most challenging – and chilling – case of her career. The first murder is brazen, violent and ritualistic. Committed in the victim’s home, the killer leaves few clues as to their motive or their identity. All the police know is that the perpetrator entered the house and impaled the art collector on one of his own priceless sculptures before melting away into the night. Inspector Eric Ringer is desperate for Dr Jane Halifax to profile the killer, but Jane is cautious. She and Eric have a past … plus, she hates these kinds of cases; a psychopath is a psychopath, any way you slice it. But there’s something about this killer that intrigues Jane. And as the bodies pile up, Jane must use all her knowledge and intuition to enter the mind of the murderer before they strike again. Praise for Transgression 'Dark and twisted, this addictive thriller will keep you guessing right up until the final chapter. Loved it!' Rebecca Gibney ‘Rip-roaring crime writing at its best.’ Tony Cavanaugh 'A nail-biter’ The Age ‘Taut, dark, tense . . . Don’t turn out the lights.’ Fenella Souter
Download or read book Susan Sontag written by Carl Edmund Rollyson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delves beneath the surface to examine the forces that made Sontag an international icon, exploring her public persona and private passions, including the strategies behind her meteoric rise to fame and her political moves.
Download or read book True Love written by MJ Fields and published by MJ Fields. This book was released on with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blue Valley series is not your typical love story. It is a journey through one’s past … maybe even a story resembling someone close to you. It’s our story. Tessa Ross has finally decided to give herself a break. A break from her forced smiles. A break from the people she loves. A break to help her heart heal. A break to mend and regain the strength that she once had. A break to find herself again. A break to focus on the next step in her life journey. And so, she puts distance between herself, Lucas, and Blue Valley, returning to her family’s house in Cape Cod, a place that she always loved and felt loved in. Will it lead her home to seek comfort in those she loves, or will she see that home has always been with her? Warning: Highly Emotional! This book contains volatile characters in real-life situations that may be triggers to some readers. This was love, not a fairy tale… until it became one.
