Last Family Standing

Author : Jennifer Allee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781682998243

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Last Family Standing by Jennifer Allee Pdf

Twenty-five years ago, Monica Stanton gave up a baby girl for adoption. Now, the thing Monica didn't dare hope for has happened: Jessica has reentered her life . . . and brought a little drama and competition with her. Jessica is willing to meet her birth mother, but she wants the reunion to air on a reality TV show. Monica would rather chew glass than appear on TV. But she'll swallow her pride—and a few other unsavory items—if that's what it takes to reconnect. As if getting to know her grown daughter while competing on a remote island isn't hard enough, Monica is further confused when Jessica's long-lost birth father shows up, complicating both her relationship with her daughter and the attraction Monica has to the hunky reality show host. The fruit-basket upset of emotions, accusations, and regrets might make for good TV, but will it destroy the family in the process?

Author : G. Giuliani
Publisher : Banking on Vendetta
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780578088501

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Banking on Vendetta by G. Giuliani Pdf

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1663608199

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Last Lecture by Perfection Learning Corporation Pdf

Author : Katie Zhao
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338741513

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Last Gamer Standing by Katie Zhao Pdf

Ready Player One meets the action of battle royale video games in this middle-grade sci-fi perfect for fans of Fortnite. In twelve-year-old Reyna Cheng's world, gaming is everything. Professional esports teams are the mainstream celebrities. Kids begin training from a young age, aspiring for the big leagues. Reyna is the up-and-coming junior amateur Dayhold gamer, competing in a VR battle royale against AI monsters and human players. But despite Reyna's rising popularity and skills, no one knows who she is. Gaming is still a boys' club and to protect herself against trolls and their harassment, she games the mysterious TheRuiNar. When Reyna qualifies for the Dayhold Junior Tournament, she knows she's got what it takes to win the championship title and the $10,000 prize. It's a chance to make a step forward towards her professional esports dreams and to help her family with the costs of her mother's hospital bills. But when she's blackmailed and threatened to be doxed by an anonymous troll, Reyna has to confront the toxic gaming community head-on. With her dreams and the cash prize on the line, it's game on!

Author : Francis A Doherty
Publisher : Air World
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399057059

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Only The Light Moves by Francis A Doherty Pdf

Only the Light Moves tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old US Army pilot who volunteered to fly covert S.O.G., or Studies and Observations Group, reconnaissance missions over the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a region that came to represent not only the United States’ war with Vietnam, but also the “secret war” with Laos and Cambodia. But this is not simply a war story; it is a love story about flying. Captain Francis A. Doherty spent every day for ten months above the jungle battlefield in a Cessna O-1 Bird Dog. The first all-metal fixed-wing aircraft ordered for and by the United States Army following the Army Air Forces' separation from it in 1947, the single-engine Bird Dog was a liaison and observation aircraft. And for this role, it was completely unarmed. It was from the cockpit of a Bird Dog that Captain Doherty observed this illusive war, perhaps searching out enemy troop movements or calling down waiting F-4 Phantoms to strike a new target. It was a war in which he followed his father’s footsteps in his dream to become a pilot, and where he learned a compassion that extended both to his comrades and the civilians caught in the middle of that terrible war. In Only the Light Moves Captain Doherty only reveals the highs and lows of his year at war in Vietnam but expands beyond his time in the conflict. He explores the emotional struggle he and his comrades faced after they returned home, reconciliations with lost faith, and the incredible impact of war on families. We are also given an insight into Francis’ subsequent journey to becoming a commercial airline pilot. His story makes no effort to glorify the violence that took the lives of so many. There are no broad stroke proclamations about the war, only a very personal, sensitive account of a terrible conflict seen through the eyes of a then young pilot in the air, illuminating the reality and the cost of when one's country decides to go to war.

Author : Winona LaDuke
Publisher : Portage & Main Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781774920534

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Last Standing Woman by Winona LaDuke Pdf

Born at the turn of the 21st century, The Storyteller, also known as Ishkwegaabawiikwe (Last Standing Woman), carries her people’s past within her memories. The White Earth Anishinaabe people have lived on the same land for over a thousand years. Among the towering white pines and rolling hills, the people of each generation are born, live out their lives, and are buried. The arrival of European missionaries changes the community forever. Government policies begin to rob the people of their land, piece by piece. Missionaries and Indian agents work to outlaw ceremonies the Anishinaabeg have practised for centuries. Grave-robbing anthropologists dig up ancestors and whisk them away to museums as artifacts. Logging operations destroy traditional sources of food, pushing the White Earth people to the brink of starvation. Battling addiction, violence, and corruption, each member of White Earth must find their own path of resistance as they struggle to reclaim stewardship of their land, bring their ancestors home, and stay connected to their culture and to each other. In this highly anticipated 25th anniversary edition of her debut novel, Winona LaDuke weaves a nonlinear narrative of struggle and triumph, resistance and resilience, spanning seven generations from the 1800s to the early 2000s.

Author : Zoological Society of London
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Zoology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006867852

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The Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London by Zoological Society of London Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Russians
ISBN : UOM:39015021269439

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Russian Student in the American College and University by Anonim Pdf

Author : Larry McShane,Dan Pearson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781250095886

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Last Don Standing by Larry McShane,Dan Pearson Pdf

As the last Don of the Philadelphia mob, Ralph Natale, the first-ever mob boss to turn state’s evidence, provides an insider’s perspective on the mafia. Natale’s reign atop the Philadelphia and New Jersey underworlds brought the region’s mafia back to prominence in the 1990s. Smart, savvy, and articulate, Natale came up in the mob and saw first-hand as it hatched its plan to control Atlantic City’s casino unions. Later on, after spending 16 years in prison, he reclaimed the family as his own after a bloody mob war that left bodies scattered across South Philly. He forged connections around the country, invigorated the family with more allies than it had in two decades, and achieved a status within the mob never seen before or since until he was betrayed by his men and decided to testify against them in a stunning turn of events. Using dozens of hours of interviews with Natale along with research and interviews with FBI agents, this book delivers revelatory insights into seminal events in American mob history, including: - The truth about Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance - The murder of Jewish mob icon Bugsy Siegel - The identity of the man who created modern-day Las Vegas With the full cooperation of Natale, New York Daily News reporter Larry McShane and producer Dan Pearson uncover the deadly reign of the last great mob boss of Philadelphia, a tale that covers a half-century of mob lore—and gore.

Author : Tanya Heaslip
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781760871185

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Alice to Prague by Tanya Heaslip Pdf

'I loved it! I laughed and cried and it was very hard to put down.' Fleur McDonald, bestselling author of Where the River Runs 'A story of love for country, for home.' Toni Tapp Coutts, author of A Sunburnt Childhood In 1994, with a battered copy of Let's Go Europe stuffed in her backpack, Tanya Heaslip left her safe life as a lawyer in outback Australia and travelled to the post-communist Czech Republic. Dismissing concerns from family and friends that her safety and career were at risk, she arrived with no teaching experience whatsoever, to work at a high school in a town she'd never heard of, where the winters are frigid and plunge to sub-zero temperatures. During her childhood on an isolated cattle station in Central Australia, Tanya had always dreamed of adventure and romance in Europe but the Czech Republic was not the stuff of her dreams. On arrival, however, she falls headlong into misadventures that change her life forever. This land of castles, history and culture opened up to her and she to it. In love with Prague and her people, particularly with the charismatic Karel, who takes her into his home, his family and as far as he can into his heart, Tanya learns about lives very different to hers. Alice to Prague is a bittersweet story of a search for identity, belonging and love, set in a time, a place and with a man that fill Tanya's life with contradictions. 'Vivid and detailed . . . questions what it is to belong.' Kathryn Heyman, author of Storm and Grace 'A brave, open-hearted and emotionally intense journey.' Liz Harfull, author of Women of the Land

Author : Davide Longo
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623650353

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The Last Man Standing by Davide Longo Pdf

GQ (Italy) called Davide Longo, "the most talented and intense Italian novelist of his generation." In this dystopian, post-apocalyptic literary novel, Italy is on the brink of collapse: borders are closed, banks are refusing to distribute money to their clients, the postal service is shuttered, and food supplies are running short. Armed gangs of drug-fueled youth rampage through the countryside as the nation descends into chaos. Leonardo was once a famous writer and professor before a sex scandal ended his marriage and his career. With society collapsing around them, his ex-wife leaves their daughter and son in his care as she sets off in search of her new husband, who is missing. Ultimately, Leonardo is forced to evacuate and take his children to safety, but to do so he will have to summon a quality he has never exhibited before: courage.

Author : Dan Luvisi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Bounty hunters
ISBN : 1616552611

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Last Man Standing by Dan Luvisi Pdf

Meet Gabriel--last of a genetically engineered breed of supersoldiers known as the Paladin. After winning an interstellar war, he is celebrated back home and given the title of Protector of Amerika. As Gabriel is distracted by his duties, a terrorist organization known as Pandemonium frames the hero. Stripped of his title and prestige, Gabriel is sentenced to the notorious Level-9 facility, where he endures nine years of torture. But as the clock ticks down to Gabriel's eventual demise, he is introduced to Agent O, who offers the Paladin a chance at redemption. Learn his story--and that of his allies and enemies--as he begins to orchestrate his revenge.

Author : Damodaran Nair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Agricultural extension work
ISBN : MSU:31293101641292

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A Descriptive Study of the Characteristics, Goals and Values of Small Farm Families as Compared with Commercial Farm Families, and Implications for Continuing Education by Damodaran Nair Pdf

Author : Ellen Tucker Emerson
Publisher : Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015047764256

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The Letters of Ellen Tucker Emerson by Ellen Tucker Emerson Pdf

Author : Duff McDonald
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781439109717

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Last Man Standing by Duff McDonald Pdf

In the midst of the most disastrous economic climate of Wall Street’s history, one executive has weathered the storm more deftly than any other: Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase. In 2008, while Dimon’s competitors watched their companies crumble, JPMorgan not only survived, it made an astonishing $5 billion profit. Dimon’s continued triumph in the face of an industry-wide meltdown has made him a paragon of finance. In Last Man Standing, award-winning journalist Duff McDonald provides an unprecedented and deeply personal look at the extraordinary figure behind JPMorgan’s success. Using countless hours of interviews with Dimon and his full circle of friends, family, and colleagues, this definitive biography is by far the most comprehensive portrait of the man known as the Savior of Wall Street. Now, in an updated prologue, McDonald offers insight into the future of Wall Street and how Dimon will overcome the challenge of aggressive new regulation from Washington—and how he plans to continue to thrive as the world’s preeminent banker.