Author : Rebecca Tope
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 27,15 MB
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0955951720
Set in 1846, on the Oregon Trail, this is a coming-of-age story, told by young Charity Collins. A large cast of emigrants, each with their own aspirations and beliefs, intermingle and teach each other a great deal.
Author : Rebecca Tope
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 2015-07-09
Category :
ISBN : 0955951747
Fanny Collins has arrived in Oregon after traversing the Oregon Trail in 1846 with her family. It is now 1848 and the Gold Rush is about to begin. Fanny has found a friend and partner in Carola Beaumont and together the two young girls set up in a 'boudoir' in Chemeketa (later named Salem) to provide sexual services for single men. There is a disarming innocence to their intentions, which is not entirely destroyed after a year and a half in the job. The great majority of their clients are pleasant and appreciative. There are, however, exceptions. As the Gold Rush escalates, fortunes change for almost everyone. With births and deaths as well as countless sexual encounters, this story embraces the whole of pioneer life.
Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1569478384
Maria van Buren, a beautiful, high-class prostitute, is found dead with a knife in her back in her houseboat on an Amsterdam canal. Grijpstra and de Gier must solve the murder. Her tony clients all have sound alibis. Before the murderer is caught, the detectives and their commissaris will investigate allegations of black magic, travel to Curacao, and pursue clues to a chilly island off the coast of Holland.
Author : Elizabeth Catherine Elizabeth
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 2010-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1440179298
This book is a collection of short stories gathered over time and many places where I served as a nurse. Each story is true and only the names are changed to protect the privacy of the patients. As you read the first story about Micheal, who the book is dedicated to, you will feel as though you are right there seeing them through my eyes as I served God by serving them.
Author : Allison J. Pugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199396051
In The Tumbleweed Society, Allison Pugh offers a moving exploration of sacrifice, betrayal, defiance, and resignation, as people cope in a society where relationships and jobs seem to change constantly. Based on eighty in-depth interviews with parents who have varied experiences of job insecurity and socio-economic status, Pugh finds most seem to accept job insecurity as inevitable but still try to bar that insecurity from infiltrating their home lives. Rigid expectations for enduring connections and uncompromising loyalty in their intimate relationships, however, can put intolerable strain on them, often sparking instability in the very social ties they yearn to protect. By shining a light on how we prepare ourselves and our children for an uncertain environment, Pugh gives us a detailed portrait of how we compel ourselves to adapt emotionally to a churning economy, and what commitment and obligation mean in an insecure age.
Author : Peter Ash
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Charisma (Personality trait)
ISBN :
Author : Phil Tufnell
Publisher : Headline
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1472229347
As England's cricket team compete for the Ashes in Australia, ex-England spinner Phil Tufnell is enjoying life as a retired cricketer and national treasure. When the sporting legend hung up his cricket boots back in 2003, little did he know the dramatic direction his professional life would take next. Yet since being crowned 'King of the Jungle', the ex-England spin bowler has never looked back and has become a much loved television and radio presenter. Cricket's dressing-room clown is now broadcasting's joker in the pack. Whether it's dining on mealworms on I'm a Celebrity, displaying his ballroom fleckle on Strictly Come Dancing or causing weekly mayhem for the long-suffering host Sue Barker on A Question of Sport, millions of us enjoy Tuffers' lust for life and endearing sense of humour. In Where Am I?, Phil gamely tries to make sense of the wonderful roller-coaster he has been riding these last dozen years, delighting fans with a treasure trove of wonderful stories about the places he has been, the people he has met, the 'things' he has been asked to do but - most of all - the sheer enormous joy he has had doing it all. Five star reader reviews for Where Am I: 'Tuffers at his best. A great read, full of fun as you expect' 'Proper laugh out loud material from Tuffers, but also heartfelt stories about his family' 'I'm bowled over by this read. An ordinary guy doing extraordinary things all because he enjoyed his cricket'
Author : Tess Farraday
Publisher : Jove Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780515119442
After Trick Garradine saved the life of Christa's newborn daughter, he thought he'd never see either of them again. But when Crista heard that Trick needed a cook, she saw a chance to repay him for his kindness. She made his rough-and-tumble ranch a home and lit a fire inside the cowboy's lonely heart. And suddenly, Trick longed for more than the wide-open plains.
Author : Bruce Clark
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 16,97 MB
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1415204640
Bruce Clark is the world’s best dad. Born and raised as a Scientologist, the religion-cult’s practices were his only reference points. At age 16, disillusionment had set in, and he was spewed out onto the streets uneducated and livid. Deep into adulthood he remained pretty much like that, until the love of a good woman grounded him. They got married and, at age 47, he was a father. His story begins there. Love, Sex, Fleas, God is Clark’s terrifically sad and funny account of life and parenthood seen through the eyes of one who knows about vulnerability. A father who would do anything to protect his children and rear them well, and a man who feels a stab every day as his wife leaves for work. Tending to infants, gently nudging their ascendency, becoming barely more than their launch pad into life, Clark’s story is What Women Want turned on its feet.This book makes you laugh and cry. It grips your heart and shows both the adult and child in you how frail and glorious a human life is.
Author : Peter S. Fosl
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 19,68 MB
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1118180992
Celebrate the Dude with an abiding look at the philosophy behind The Big Lebowski Is the Dude a bowling-loving stoner or a philosophical genius living the good life? Naturally, it's the latter, and The Big Lebowski and Philosophy explains why. Enlisting the help of great thinkers like Plato and Nietzsche, the book explores the movie's hidden philosophical layers, cultural reflection, and political commentary. It also answers key questions, including: The Dude abides, but is abiding a virtue? Is the Dude an Americanized version of the Taoist way of life? How does The Big Lebowski illustrate the Just War Theory? How does bowling help Donny, Walter, and the Dude oppose nihilism? Yes, the Dude is deep, and so is this book. Don't watch the movie—or go to Lebowski Fest—without it. Explores many of The Big Lebowski's key themes, such as nihilism, war and politics, money and materialism, idealism and morality, history, and more Gives you new perspective on the movie's characters—the Dude, the Big Lebowski, Walter Sobchak, Donny, Maude Lebowski, Bunny Lebowski, and others Helps you appreciate the Coen Brothers classic even more with the insights of Aristotle, Epicurus, Kant, Derrida, and other philosophical heavyweights
