Giovanni

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Everyman Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1841593729

Get Book

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin Pdf

"The groundbreaking novel by one of the most important twentieth-century American writers--now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. With sharp, probing insight, James Baldwin's classic narrative delves into the mystery of love and tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart. Introduction by Colm Toibin"--

Author : Natasha Knight
Publisher : Natasha Knight
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

Giovanni: a Dark Mafia Romance by Natasha Knight Pdf

Author : Natasha Knight
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1722475978

Get Book

Giovanni by Natasha Knight Pdf

I'm the right-hand man of the mafia king. She's a girl with a past she's desperate to hide. But I need something from her. And I know she won't help me. Not willingly.She'll need some persuading. Lucky for her, I can do that. Something about this girl makes me curious, though, and it's more than the scars that line her back. She's on the edge of something. Something bad. She's like a perfect, beautiful doll coming apart at the seams. And the last string is about to snap. She thinks I'll hurt her. Break her. But thing is, she's already broken. And she and I, we're two peas in a pod. She's my match, the perfect opponent. She'll fight me to the finish, but I'll win. I always do. Because I'm a man used to getting what I want. And what I want is her. Author's Note: Giovanni is a STANDALONE dark mafia romance set in the Benedetti Brothers Mafia World. It's an emotionally gripping enemies-to-lovers romance with a hard-earned HEA.

Author : Richard Will
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226815411

Get Book

"Don Giovanni" Captured by Richard Will Pdf

Part I. Clouds of feeling: excerpt audio recordings. Imagining excerpts; Rhetorics of seduction; Demons and dandies; All too human -- Part II. Invented works : complete audio records. The visual stage; Cruel laughter; Dancing in time -- Part III. Partial visions : video recordings. Zooming in, gazing back; Trauma retold; Libertines punished.

Author : Frederick Bonnart
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595358953

Get Book

Giovanni's Return by Frederick Bonnart Pdf

It is the 17th century in quiet Castile, northern Spain. Giovanni, an orphan at an early age, is brought up with a duke's youngest son on the duke's country estate, where his father, a minor Italian noble, had been the administrator. A combination of his aristocratic environment and his own inferior position, as well as a childhood romance with a bitter end, influence his character. Succeeding in his first ambition, he is commissioned in the duke's regiment in the Spanish Army, which takes him from Northern Italy through Germany to the Low Countries in the battles of the 30-Years War. He distinguishes himself in these but meets misfortune as well as success. Wrongly accused of murder and rape, he has to fight for his life against greed, jealousy and prejudice; in this his loyal friends provide help and support. His romantic engagements begin early and continue lightly, some of them more seriously than others, until one of them results in a fundamental change of his life. A powerful dream provides a thread for him throughout his adventures and seems to lead him on to great heights, but his biggest test comes when he has to face reality in the end.

Author : Nikki Giovanni
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780061734137

Get Book

Acolytes by Nikki Giovanni Pdf

A collection of eighty all new poems, Acolytes is distinctly Nikki Giovanni, but different. Not softened, but more inspired by love, celebration, memories and even nostalgia. She aims her intimate and sparing words at family and friends, the deaths of heroes and friends, favorite meals and candy, nature, libraries, and theatre. But in between, the deep and edgy conscience that has defined her for decades shines through when she writes about Rosa Parks, hurricane Katrina, and Emmett Till's disappearance, leaving no doubt that Nikki has not traded one approach for another, but simply made room for both.

Author : Nikki Giovanni
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781429939676

Get Book

Rosa by Nikki Giovanni Pdf

She had not sought this moment but she was ready for it. When the policeman bent down to ask "Auntie, are you going to move?" all the strength of all the people through all those many years joined in her. She said, "No." An inspiring account of an event that shaped American history Fifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement. This picture- book tribute to Mrs. Parks is a celebration of her courageous action and the events that followed. Award-winning poet, writer, and activist Nikki Giovanni's evocative text combines with Bryan Collier's striking cut-paper images to retell the story of this historic event from a wholly unique and original perspective. Rosa is a 2006 Caldecott Honor Book and the winner of the 2006 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award.

Author : Nikki Giovanni
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780062399472

Get Book

A Good Cry by Nikki Giovanni Pdf

The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who has spoken out on the sensitive issues that touch our national consciousness, including race and gender, social justice, protest, violence in the home and in the streets, and why black lives matter. One of America’s most celebrated poets looks inward in this powerful collection, a rumination on her life and the people who have shaped her. As energetic and relevant as ever, Nikki now offers us an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart. In A Good Cry, she takes us into her confidence, describing the joy and peril of aging and recalling the violence that permeated her parents’ marriage and her early life. She pays homage to the people who have given her life meaning and joy: her grandparents, who took her in and saved her life; the poets and thinkers who have influenced her; and the students who have surrounded her. Nikki also celebrates her good friend, Maya Angelou, and the many years of friendship, poetry, and kitchen-table laughter they shared before Angelou’s death in 2014.

Author : Giovanni Rocco,Douglas Schofield
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781641603539

Get Book

Giovanni's Ring by Giovanni Rocco,Douglas Schofield Pdf

The story of a former FBI undercover task force officer who spent years penetrating New Jersey's DeCavalcante crime family, the criminal organization known to law enforcement as "the real Sopranos" Giovanni's Ring is the story of "Giovanni Rocco," a New Jersey police officer, known undercover as "Giovanni Gatto," who was the mysterious agent at the epicenter of Operation Charlie Horse, a federal undercover operation that ultimately brought down ten members and associates of New Jersey's DeCavalcante Mafia family, the criminal organization known as "the real Sopranos." Giovanni spent nearly three years working his way into the DeCavalcante hierarchy. That lethal assignment brought the undercover operation to an end in March 2015, and the resulting string of high-profile arrests eviscerated the criminal organization. ?Giovanni's Ring is not simply a chronicle of Giovanni Rocco's adventures in the murky and dangerous Mafia world he inhabited, but also a fascinating window into the psychological struggles that such a life inevitably entails.

Author : Janine di Giovanni
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541756687

Get Book

The Vanishing by Janine di Giovanni Pdf

The Vanishing reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities across Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine after 2,000 years in their historical homeland. Some of the countries that first nurtured and characterized Christianity - along the North African Coast, on the Euphrates and across the Middle East and Arabia - are the ones in which it is likely to first go extinct. Christians are already vanishing. We are past the tipping point, now tilted toward the end of Christianity in its historical homeland. Christians have fled the lands where their prophets wandered, where Jesus Christ preached, where the great Doctors and hierarchs of the early church established the doctrinal norms that would last millennia. From Syria to Egypt, the cities of northern Iraq to the Gaza Strip, ancient communities, the birthplaces of prophets and saints, are losing any living connection to the religion that once was such a characteristic feature of their social and cultural lives. In The Vanishing, Janine di Giovanni has combined astonishing journalistic work to discover the last traces of small, hardy communities that have become wisely fearful of outsiders and where ancient rituals are quietly preserved amid 360 degree threats. Di Giovanni's riveting personal stories and her conception of faith and hope are intertwined throughout the chapters. The book is a unique act of pre-archeology: the last chance to visit the living religion before all that will be left are the stones of the past.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Signet
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Americans
ISBN : 0451015592

Get Book

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin Pdf

Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.

Author : Rala I. Diakité,Matthew T. Sneider
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501514265

Get Book

The Eleventh and Twelfth Books of Giovanni Villani’s “New Chronicle” by Rala I. Diakité,Matthew T. Sneider Pdf

Giovanni Villani’s New Chronicle traces the history of Europe, Italy, and Florence over a vast sweep of time – from the Tower of Babel to the great earthquake of 1348. In the eleventh and twelfth books, Villani depicts a particularly eventful period in the history of Florence, whose grandeur is illustrated in several famous chapters describing the city’s income, expenses, and magnificence. The dramatic account follows Florence’s internal affairs as well as its conflicts with powerful lords like Castruccio Castracani and Mastino della Scala. The chronicler’s perspective, however, ranges beyond his city, as he documents such events as the imperial coronation of Louis of Bavaria, the penitential pilgrimage of Venturino da Bergamo, and the first campaigns of the Hundred Year’s War.

Author : Cassandra Giovanni
Publisher : Show n'ot Tell Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781478118190

Get Book

Walking in the Shadows by Cassandra Giovanni Pdf

Seconds seem like a lifetime when the life you lived is slowly drained out of you by those who care not what you felt, hoped, or dreamed. When the darkness comes it is all-consuming; there is no light and there is no pain. It is the never-ending loss of hope that now consumes me as I die in his arms.This is Abigail Martin's nightmare. After her parents become the first victims of a serial killer obsessed with the vampire saga, "Crimson Reign," Abigail does the only thing that she thinks will save her from her parent's fate–she becomes some one else. As Vera MacIntrye, she falls in love with the very handsome Tad Knightley, and then walks into her first day at her new school to see him standing at the front of the classroom. He's every teenage girls fantasy, but as he writes “Mr. Knightley: AP British Literature” across the white board Vera realizes the one person who filled the gaping hole in her heart will soon rip it wide open again.Vera struggles to adjust to being a 'normal' teenager with very adult responsibilities like paying the rent, buying groceries and making sure that lights stay on, while being drawn time and time again back to her off-limits teacher. What's worse is he is drawn to her too, and their worlds refuse to stay apart when Tad finds Vera screaming in terror in the parking lot after the winter formal. The murderer has struck again and is getting closer to the next target–Vera. Tad will do whatever he can to save her, even if it means losing his dream job, but will it be enough when the murderer is closer than anyone ever thought?

Author : Justin Achilli
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

Clan Novel Giovanni by Justin Achilli Pdf

The Vampire the Masquerade Clan Novel Saga is a thirteen-volume masterpiece, presenting the war between the established Camarilla leadership and the growing power of the brutal Sabbat on the East Coast of the United States. Each novel is told from the perspective of one of the thirteen clans, intertwining with the others, and filling in missing pieces artfully as we follow battle after battle, intrigue after intrigue—and the appearance of a strange artifact that falls into the hands of a solitary Toreador sculptor. Clan Novel Giovanni is the tenth novel in the series. Benito Giovanni has vanished. Enter Chas Giovanni Tello, Mob strong-arm and part of the New World Giovanni. Chas finds himself ordered to Las Vegas where he meets the Old World scion of the necromancers' clan, Isabel, who shares his interest in locating the missing Benito. Soon, though, the mismatched pair find themselves embroiled in affairs beyond both of their reckoning. The search for Benito must take a back seat to the impending clash between sects in Boston. Thereafter, an even greater threat looms–one that surfaces from the family's treacherous past and threatens the very existence of Clan Giovanni. This series is a monumental, 13-novel exploration of the forbidden world of the Kindred. What began in Clan Novel: Toreador continues here, and its ending will determine the fate of every human–and inhuman–being in the world.

Author : Anna Smucker
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780802854209

Get Book

Brother Giovanni's Little Reward by Anna Smucker Pdf

Brother Giovanni is a happy man and the best baker his monastery has ever seen, but when he is tasked with preparing the children for the Bishop's visit, he has no luck until he twists some bread dough into a special shape, sprinkles it with salt, and offers it as a reward for learning prayers.