Author : Nadine Gordimer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,16 MB
Release : 2003-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 074756275X
This is a passionate love story; love between a man and two women, between father and son, and something even more demanding- a love of freedom.
Author : Paul Hendrickson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0804153345
They stand as unselfconscious as if the photograph were being taken at a church picnic and not during one of the pitched battles of the civil rights struggle. None of them knows that the image will appear in Life magazine or that it will become an icon of its era. The year is 1962, and these seven white Mississippi lawmen have gathered to stop James Meredith from integrating the University of Mississippi. One of them is swinging a billy club. More than thirty years later, award-winning journalist and author Paul Hendrickson sets out to discover who these men were, what happened to them after the photograph was taken, and how racist attitudes shaped the way they lived their lives. But his ultimate focus is on their children and grandchildren, and how the prejudice bequeathed by the fathers was transformed, or remained untouched, in the sons. Sons of Mississippi is a scalding yet redemptive work of social history, a book of eloquence and subtlely that tracks the movement of racism across three generations and bears witness to its ravages among both black and white Americans.
Author : Michaline Gregorowicz
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 15,30 MB
Release : 2021-11-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780578216645
After my son Joey passed away in June of 2000, I struggled to find any books that gave me concrete ideas of how I could help myself through my grieving process. Many family members and friends gifted me books, but they all told the same story. Have faith, cherish the wonderful memories and so on. Of course all good advice, just superficial. Then a few years after my son died, I happened to be at my hairdresser's, when a woman came in. I knew her through our sons' sports. I also knew that her oldest son had also passed away after Joey. It was getting close to Christmas, so I asked her if they were planning on putting up a tree. Her answer floored me! She had two other teenaged children at home. She shared with me that after her older son died, her surviving children wanted nothing to do with Christmas, no tree, no lights, nothing! So as my heart broke for her, I began telling her how I and my family celebrated our first Christmas after Joey died, and how that became a new tradition that continues through today. After listening to my story, this mom told me that I had helped her more in the last fifteen minutes, than anyone else had up to this point. That was my light bulb moment! And the spark to write my book was ignited. In the first few chapters of my book, I do recount the day my son died, his viewing and his funeral. I also discuss the many other issues that have to be dealt with during the months afterward. Although sad, I felt that this was an important part of my grieving process. But in the chapters that follow, I describe all the positive actions we took that helped us to go on. I discuss new found hobbies, seeking professional help, medium readings, and even the many beautiful signs I feel my son sends us to let us know he is alright. So in addition to a journey filled with very specific steps I and my family took to survive, it is also a story of my spiritual journey. So if you or anyone you know has lost a child or loved one, I am confident that some idea or story in my book will help them.
Author : Michelle Love
Publisher : Blessings For All SC
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 29,24 MB
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1648086411
Enjoy this bad-boy billionaire romance collection at a terrific discount. The Sons of Sin Short Stories is a collection with an international cast of beautiful people, stunning locations, dark storylines, and hot, hot sensual romance! 1 - Taylor’s Tryst: A Dirty Little Secret Extra Some may call it stalking; I called it lining up the woman I would tame next. Little Taylor Swenson made me hot in ways no one ever had. Taking slaves had been my way for years. Taylor wouldn’t be taken as one, and I could see that from the start. Secrets and lies were a necessity for me. Could I make her my last secret? Could I bind her to me? Could I silence her, using only my body and special talents? 2 - Taking Cher: The Virgin’s Baby Extra The way her dark hair hung in limp, damp strands around her expressionless face lured me to a place I’d tried to stay away from … Being a new hire from Boston Arts Academy, I found myself in Lubbock, Texas, working as the newest professor of Ancient Arts at Texas Tech. I wanted to leave my old life behind. Way behind. Trouble had a way of finding me, but I thought a place as big as Texas would hide me well enough. Until she walked into my classroom, rain-soaked, shaking with the cold, and utterly clueless to the predator who would lead her down a path of absolute destruction. Or that’s how I thought at the time. Could she be the one woman on Earth who could tame the beast who resided within me? 3 - Valerie’s Revenge: His Secret Virgin Extra A girl’s gotta do what a girls gotta do … He walked into the classroom and every girl’s eyes went to him. Tall, seductive, muscles that just wouldn’t quit. When the girl who sat next to me called dibs, I laughed. When she glared at me, I thought twice about what I’d done. When she forced herself on the new guy, I thought I’d better get him out of her nasty-ass clutches before he got something uncurable from her. Love wasn’t a thing I’d even contemplated, but sometimes things happen that you never see coming. Keywords: billionaire, bad boy, love books, love stories, new adult, holiday, sweet romance, romantic novels, sexually romantic books, guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, happily ever after.
Author : Zak Ebrahim
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476784817
An extraordinary story, never before told: The intimate, behind-the-scenes life of an American boy raised by his terrorist father—the man who planned the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. What is it like to grow up with a terrorist in your home? Zak Ebrahim was only seven years old when, on November 5th, 1990, his father El-Sayyid Nosair shot and killed the leader of the Jewish Defense League. While in prison, Nosair helped plan the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. In one of his infamous video messages, Osama bin Laden urged the world to “Remember El-Sayyid Nosair.” For Zak Ebrahim, a childhood amongst terrorism was all he knew. After his father’s incarceration, his family moved often, and as the perpetual new kid in class, he faced constant teasing and exclusion. Yet, though his radicalized father and uncles modeled fanatical beliefs, to Ebrahim something never felt right. To the shy, awkward boy, something about the hateful feelings just felt unnatural. In this book, Ebrahim dispels the myth that terrorism is a foregone conclusion for people trained to hate. Based on his own remarkable journey, he shows that hate is always a choice—but so is tolerance. Though Ebrahim was subjected to a violent, intolerant ideology throughout his childhood, he did not become radicalized. Ebrahim argues that people conditioned to be terrorists are actually well positioned to combat terrorism, because of their ability to bring seemingly incompatible ideologies together in conversation and advocate in the fight for peace. Ebrahim argues that everyone, regardless of their upbringing or circumstances, can learn to tap into their inherent empathy and embrace tolerance over hatred. His original, urgent message is fresh, groundbreaking, and essential to the current discussion about terrorism.
Author : Daniel Magariel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501156160
"A ... debut about two young brothers and their physically and psychologically abusive father"--
Author : Matthew Biberman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101029269
Read Matthew Biberman's posts on the Penguin Blog. "If you believe it is possible to fall in love with a motorcycle, you will love this book." -Jay Leno When Big Sid had a heart attack and gave up the will to live, his son Matthew Biberman panicked. Impulsively, Matthew promised his father that they would build a Vincati together. This fusion of two legendary motorcycles, the Vincent Black Shadow and the Ducati GT, a Vincati was considered near-impossible to build. But if anyone could do it, Matthew knew his father could. Big Sid was the mechanic to see about repairing Vincents for nearly sixty years. But now, Sid was old, busted up and broke. Matthew, despite sharing his dad's passion, had become a Shakespearean scholar. The two men hadn't spoken in years-but called a truce to attempt a shared dream. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance meets Shop Class as Soulcraft, in this heartfelt memoir that shows how two very different men built a legendary motorcycle, and along the way, discovered what it means to be father and son.
Author : Robin Yocum
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 35,22 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1628721219
Narrator of Favorite Sons Hutch Van Buren is fifteen years old, playing sports and searching for arrowheads in a small industrial town in Ohio with his three closest friends when an altercation between the comrades and Petey Sanchez, a troubled seventeen- year-old, leads to Petey’s accidental death. Together, Hutch and his friends become ensnared in a web of secrets and moral dilemmas. A local ne’er-do-well goes to jail for the crime while the boys keep their pact of silence. Each boy shoulders the burden of truth in his own way as each attempts to leave the past behind. Thirty-three years later, in 2004, Van Buren is the prosecuting attorney in Summit County, Ohio, and a candidate for state attorney general when he learns that he and his boyhood friends weren’t the only ones keeping a secret about Petey’s death. A convicted sex offender in need of a favor attempts to blackmail Van Buren in return for his silence. Van Buren must decide between his political career and the duty of the office he has sworn to uphold. With the clock ticking, Van Buren has a week to seek out his boyhood friends and search his soul while he sorts out three decades of deceit he helped create. Favorite Sons is a wonderful, suspenseful novel with nuanced, memorable characters and unpredictable plot twists.
Author : Anant Pai
Publisher : Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 1971-04-01
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 8189999257
No one dared challenge the might of King Rama of Ayodhya. Famous for his valour and skill as a warrior, he confidently set out to become the King of the World. But then, his force came up against two little boys roaming the forest wilds. Luv and Kush laug
Author : John Connell
Publisher : Ecco
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1328577996
Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, after more than a decade away, he finds himself back on the farm.
