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Daily Scoldings

Author : Beryl Barclay

Publisher : Running Press Adult

Page : 400 pages

File Size : 50,9 MB

Release : 2010-09-07

Category : Humor

ISBN : 0762441623

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Sick of the mindless pablum of "inspiration" offered by page-a-day devotionals? Tired of the relentless celebration of positive thinking? Perhaps it's time for something with a bit more bite to it. Daily Scoldings are daily doses of bitter truth that will wake anyone out of their narcissism, delusions of grandeur, and indulgent happy thoughts. Think of it as a mental dousing of cold water, first thing in the morning. It's the perfect gift for the crank, cynic, or curmudgeon in one's life.



Royko

Author : F. Richard Ciccone

Publisher : Public Affairs

Page : 474 pages

File Size : 48,63 MB

Release : 2009-09-09

Category : Science

ISBN : 0786751975

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With the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko was a Chicago institution who became, in Jimmy Breslin's words, "the best journalist of his time." Royko was by all accounts a difficult man, who would chew out his assistants every morning and retire to the Billy Goat Tavern every night. But his writing was magic. No one captured Chicago like Mike Royko. No one wrote with his honesty, his toughness, his passion, and his humor. In this, the first comprehensive biography of one of the most important Chicagoans of the century, Dick Ciccone, a long-time colleague and editor of Royko's at the Chicago Tribune, captures Royko at his best and at his worst. We see Royko on his tenth drink of the afternoon. We see him sweating over columns minutes before deadline. We see him romancing his wife and torturing his legmen. We see him barbequeing ribs and riffing on politicians. Mike Royko was a man of the people. With his keen sense of justice and his murderous pen, he became the most widely read columnist in Chicago history. His column was syndicated in more than 600 newspapers across the country. With 7500 columns spanning four decades, Royko's writing reflects a radically changing America. Royko not only tells the story of one of America's greatest newspapermen, but also explores the dramatic changes in journalism over the course of the twentieth century.



Passages

Author : Barbara H. Solomon

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 369 pages

File Size : 16,93 MB

Release : 2009-05-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1101046635

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24 stories from today's best indian authors India's literary tradition has found a growing audience around the world. Many talented writers have arrived on the scene, each illuminating different parts of the Indian experience, from years of colonial rule to the unique challenges of life in the West. This important anthology includes short stories and novel excerpts from Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai, Rohinton Mistry, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, R. K. Narayan, and sixteen more.



Best Loved Indian Stories of the Century

Author : Indira Srinivasan

Publisher : Penguin UK

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 16,73 MB

Release : 2000-10-14

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9351182797

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A selection of the most enjoyable and popular short stories from India. Best Loved Indian Stories brings together tales from different parts of the country that have enthralled readers of all ages. This volume, the first of two, represents the best English stories written by Indians in the twentieth century. In these twenty stories you will meet unforgettable characters like the inimitable Muni with his two goats in R.K. Narayan’s classic ‘A Horse and Two Goats', the pious Vishnu in Khushwant Singh's 'The Mark of Vishnu’, the innocent basket-seller with the enchanting eyes in Ruskin Bond's unforgettable 'Night Train at Deoli', the dying grandmother with her eccentric demands in Githa Hariharan's ‘Remains of the Feast’ and many other men and women who have touched our lives over the generations. The authors included in this volume are: Anjana Appachana Anita Desai Attia Hosain Bharati Mukherjee Githa Hariharan K.A. Abbas Keki N. Daruwalla Khushwant Singh Manjula Padmanabhan Manoj Das Manohar Malgonkar Mulk Raj Anand Nayantara Sahgal Nergis Dalai Padma Hejrnadi R.K. Narayan Raja Rao Ruskin Bond Santha Rarna Rau Shashi Deshpande.



The Cowpens-Guilford Courthouse Campaign

Author : Burke Davis

Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 44,43 MB

Release : 1962

Category : History

ISBN : 9780812218329

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On January 17, 1781, near Cowpens, a drover's camp on the old Cherokee trading trail in Carolina territory, Continental troops and horsemen under the direction of Daniel Morgan inflicted a stunning defeat on a crack British detachment led by the ruthless Banastre Tarleton, commander of Lord Cornwallis's cavalry. Although Tarleton fled the battlefield to avoid capture, the American victory effectively destroyed the light corps of the British army in the South. Stung by the loss, Cornwallis ordered a deliberate and dogged chase of the American rebels, a campaign that meandered through the wilderness and small communities of the Carolinas. After months of retreating, the Continental army under the command of Nathanael Greene, a Rhode Island Quaker, chose to confront the British army near Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina. Although they fought with tenacity, the Americans were forced to retreat, but Cornwallis's army had suffered casualties too heavy to pursue the Continentals and instead fell back to the port city of Wilmington. Discouraged by the guerrilla tactics, Cornwallis moved north, to his final defeat at Yorktown. In The Cowpens-Guilford Courthouse Campaign, Burke Davis provides an engaging account of the key battles in the American South, demonstrating that it was here that the strength of the Continental army's resistance to superior British forces laid the foundations for the final American victory.



Nairobi Days

Author : Shelina Shariff-Zia

Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 15,87 MB

Release : 2017-10-18

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1457554828

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This diaspora novel is a celebration of Indian and African culture seen through the eyes of a young woman. As a member of an Indian minority in a small African country, Shaza’s life is complicated. She lives in a lively house full of relatives. Later, she meets Idi Amin, the bloodthirsty Ugandan dictator and has a narrow escape… Shaza goes to a convent school. Despite the strict rules, the girls are beginning to discover the opposite sex. Shaza is part of a Muslim family that emigrated from India, the old ways still rule. No one in Kenya dates, they just sneak around. Shaza falls for a Hindu boy, Sameer is smitten but they come from two different religions. Shaza is torn between her sense of duty and longing for Sameer. Will the relationship survive her family’s disapproval and a long separation? They live in difficult times in a turbulent African country; Shaza’s cousin is almost killed by thugs and Kenya has a coup d’état where the Indian minority is targeted. The saga follows Shaza’s life from the 1960’s to the 1980’s showing the political upheavals in Kenya and her move to the United States. Nairobi Days is a coming of age story, a love story, a political novel and above all a celebration of life.



Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family in Asia

Author : L. Hoang

Publisher : Springer

Page : 348 pages

File Size : 34,65 MB

Release : 2015-05-13

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1137506865

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The contributors investigate the inter-relationships between migrant remittances and the family in Asia. They argue that, in the context of Asian transnational labour migration where remittances tend to become a primary currency of care, the making or breaking of the family unit is mainly contingent on how individuals handle remittance processes.



Incantations and Other Stories

Author : Anjana Appachana

Publisher : Penguin Books India

Page : 196 pages

File Size : 10,3 MB

Release : 2006-12

Category : India

ISBN : 9780143100911

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The Stories In This Collection Are Set In The Early Eighties, And Anjana Appachana Wonderfully Captures The Raw, Vibrant Energy And Optimism Of A Time When We Drank Chai For Thirty Paise, And Twenty Thousand Rupees Spent On &Lsquo;Gifts&Rsquo; For The Boy&Rsquo;S Side Was An Enormous Amount Of Money For Middle-Class Indians. Her Characters Strain For A Place Beyond The Boundaries Of A Prescribed Way Of Life In Urban Middle India: A Hapless College Student Gets Gated A Few Days Before Her Appointment For An Abortion; A Disgruntled Clerk Philosophises Gloomily About His Place In The Scheme Of Things; A Young Girl, Against All Odds, Decides To Keep Her Sister&Rsquo;S Deep, Dark Secret. By Turns Warm, Gullible, Arrogant And Bigoted, Appachana&Rsquo;S Characters Live Their Lives Amid Contradictions And Double Standards, Superstitions And Impossible Dreams, But Ultimately Usurp Their Familiar Landscape And Imbue It With An Idiosyncratic Vision.



In the Loup Box Set #1 (Werewolf Shifter Romance)

Author : Mac Flynn

Publisher : Crescent Moon Studios, Inc.

Page : 52 pages

File Size : 22,98 MB

Release :

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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The first four books in the werewolf romance series In the Loup are available here in one single package. Follow Stephanie Yager as she struggles with her awakening and fights the strange urges which arise from her change. Looking for other sensual werewolf reads? Try out some of my other series! Alpha Blood: play.google.com/store/books/details?id=Z1tmAwAAQBAJ Alpha Mated: play.google.com/store/books/details?id=NMuHDAAAQBAJ Beast Billionaire: play.google.com/store/books/details?id=1yGmDQAAQBAJ By My Light: play.google.com/store/books/details?id=Y-fHCgAAQBAJ Desired by the Wolf: play.google.com/store/books/details?id=QW34AwAAQBAJ Falling For A Wolf: play.google.com/store/books/details?id=EOARBgAAQBAJ Garden of the Wolf: play.google.com/store/books/details?id=LB0kCQAAQBAJ Highland Moon: play.google.com/store/books/details?id=FwwzCwAAQBAJ In the Loup: play.google.com/store/books/details?id=j4TTAgAAQBAJ Luna Proxy: play.google.com/store/books/details?id=3_f7CwAAQBAJ Marked By the Wolf: play.google.com/store/books/details?id=_ReTBQAAQBAJ The Moon and the Stars: play.google.com/store/books/details?id=rriCDwAAQBAJ Moon Chosen: play.google.com/store/books/details?id=ASPHCQAAQBAJ Moon Lovers: play.google.com/store/books/details?id=OIz4AgAAQBAJ Oracle of Spirits: play.google.com/store/books/details?id=1hh0CwAAQBAJ Scent of Scotland: Lord of Moray: play.google.com/store/books/details?id=1hh0CwAAQBAJ Shadow of the Moon: play.google.com/store/books/details?id=aqv1CQAAQBAJ Sweet & Sour: play.google.com/store/books/details?id=oLs7DQAAQBAJ Wolf Lake: play.google.com/store/books/details?id=85NDBAAAQBAJ KEYWORDS: new adult, mystery, paranormal, supernatural, fantasy, folklore, folktale, folk tale, legend, legends, myth, myths, action adventure, action, adventure, second chances, comedy, humor, horror, free, freebie, free book, free books, book, books, free ebook, ebook, free novel, rich, quick read, read, short, serial, series, college, funny, female protagonist, novel, secret, suspense, thriller, alpha male, literature, story, stories, hero, fiction, box, box set, boxed, boxed set, romance, free romance, free romance ebook, free romance ebooks, free romance book, free romance books, billionaire, wealthy, millionaire, women's fiction, legal, free romance novel, free romance books, billionaire romance, urban, contemporary, 21st century, current, historical, past, monster, creature, werewolf, shifter, shapeshifter, transform, wolf



Wolf Blood (In the Loup #4)

Author : Mac Flynn

Publisher : Crescent Moon Studios, Inc.

Page : 14 pages

File Size : 35,53 MB

Release :

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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The incessant craving is almost too much for her to bear. Stephanie struggles to contain the need inside of her even as she finds herself in the center of feuding males intent on gaining her attentions. Part four of the werewolf romance series In the Loup featuring the trials of Stephanie Yager. KEYWORDS: new adult, mystery, paranormal, supernatural, fantasy, folklore, folktale, folk tale, legend, legends, myth, myths, action adventure, action, adventure, second chances, comedy, humor, horror, free, freebie, free book, free books, book, books, free ebook, ebook, free novel, rich, quick read, read, short, serial, series, college, funny, female protagonist, novel, secret, suspense, thriller, alpha male, literature, story, stories, hero, fiction, box, box set, boxed, boxed set, romance, free romance, free romance ebook, free romance ebooks, free romance book, free romance books, billionaire, wealthy, millionaire, women's fiction, legal, free romance novel, free romance books, billionaire romance, urban, contemporary, 21st century, current, historical, past, monster, creature, werewolf, shifter, shapeshifter, transform, wolf