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Lesia and I

Author : Myron B. Kuropas
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781499068474

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Lesia and I by Myron B. Kuropas Pdf

Lesia and I is a progress report of the fifty-year marriage of Myron and Lesia Kuropas which produced two sons and six grandchildren, as well as a memoir of a Ukrainian-American whose varied career included working as a school principal in Chicago’s inner-city, a regional director of a federal agency in Chicago, a presidential special assistant in the White House, a legislative assistant in the U.S. Senate, and an adjunct professor at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. Dr. Kuropas reviews the major events in his fascinating life, his travels throughout the world, and his successes and failures in both his personal and professional life. Provided as background are historical sketches of the episodes that had a profound impact on Myron and Lesia’s life as well as the lives of their parents.

Lesia's Dream

Author : Laura Langston
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443402378

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Lesia's Dream by Laura Langston Pdf

Fifteen-year-old Lesia can hardly bear it. She and her family must leave their beloved Baba in their Ukrainian hometown in order to flee to Canada. Dreaming of fields of wheat, wealth and security, Lesia looks forward to a life in Canada, free from poverty and rumours of war. But the 160 acres of hardscrabble prairie look nothing like the wheat fields of her dreams. And even though there is no fighting in her new country, the First World War follows them there.

Into the Heart of Darkness

Author : Jacques Pauw
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781868428939

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Jacques Pauw has been an investigative journalist for more than three decades. Before the phenomenal success of The President's Keepers, he spent years tracking down apartheid death squads. Into the Heart of Darkness, first released in 1997, was the result of this work. Despite official denials and cover-ups, the rumours of apartheid's death squads have now been proved to be all too real. Hundreds of anti-apartheid activists were killed and thousands tortured by a group of bizarre assassins, the foot soldiers of apartheid's secret war. Jacques Pauw has been more closely involved with apartheid's killers than any other journalist. For more than seven years, he has hunted them down and become a witness to their secret and forbidden world. Into the Heart of Darkness will take you on a journey into the minds and lives of the men who went out to kill and kill again. What caused these souls to become so dark and guided them to so much evil?

Doctor Who - Bunker Soldiers

Author : Martin Day
Publisher : Random House
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446415269

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Doctor Who - Bunker Soldiers by Martin Day Pdf

A First Doctor, Steven and Dodo novel A fireball erupts in the forests of the Ukraine, and when the locals investigate, they find what appears to be a metal coffin at the centre of the devastation. They superstitiously conclude that the casket contains the body of an angel, sent to Earth to give hope to the people. Centuries later, the Doctor and his companions find themselves trapped in Kiev, 1240 a city under attack by the Mongols. They are enforced guests of the governor, Dmitri, whose assistant Yehven believes that if the coffin is desecrated, then all who threaten us will be destroyed. When the coffin is opened by a group of men, a terrifying, skull-faced creature is freed, and kills a member of the group before fleeing. A spate of violent deaths ensure but this creature certainly isnt killing indiscriminately. How is this creature choosing it victims, where has it come from and most importantly, can the Doctor do anything to halt its murderous trail of destruction?

A Feast of Longing

Author : Sarah Klassen
Publisher : Coteau Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 155050357X

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An intimate, powerfully written, collection of stories featuring characters who seldom find themselves present in Canadian fiction - ordinary middle class people. A Feast of Longing presents a fourteen-course banquet of characters whose common thread is their own longing D for significance, for meaning in their lives, for their troubles to pass, for guilt to let them go. Inspired by a charismatic speaker to side with the poor, a woman volunteers at a charity soup kitchen and is intimidated by one of the patrons she tries to befriend. A man whose son has been arrested for several crimes tries to find some peace in regular visits to a church. A first year university student reluctantly befriends her aunt's neighbour, a mentally challenged woman. With a poet's eye, ear and heart, sharpened over the creation of five collections of verse, Sarah Klassen brings an insight into characters and a depth to her stories that is not often found in short fiction. In every story optimism is present, but is tempered by the presence, or at least the awareness, of life's cruel underside, adding an extra power to the work."

Jettie's Journey…What a Trip

Author : Jettie Pettit
Publisher : America Star Books
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611028171

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Jettie's Journey…What a Trip by Jettie Pettit Pdf

This is the story of how a strict Southern Baptist became a dedicated Catholic evangelist and teacher. The ways that God moved in my life were indeed strange. From early childhood until now His Holy Spirit has been my guide when I would follow and the one with the cattle prod when I hesitated. Some of the experiences told about in this book may cause skepticism, but every word is true! I have told some of the stories in different places, but this is the first time that the entire story has been written. It is my prayer that any who read it will be blessed and inspired to tell their own story.

God's Sky

Author : Pearl Smithern
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781098056292

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Lesia's life in volume one and two took her on a journey from Jerusalem, Rome, Patra, Greece, and Ukraine. She kept the heartbeat of love inside her mind, reminding her that soon she would be reunited with her soul mate. Things did not go as she had hoped. A big dream was born inside this new-age woman. She will break the mold of where and what women were doing in her timeline. She now accepts the challenge of building an Andrew School for children and especially orphans. Her children would for sure not have slave-posted ears. Her slave earring is gone, but memories would sometimes surface. She ponders that maybe she will be only an old school maid. Her sandals were divided; she gave Jacob the right one, and is now unhappy with her decision. She decides she would never separate them again. Now, the sandal, with God's help, begins an important maze journey for Jacob, Nathanael, Philip, and his sister, Mariamne, along with Mugface and his family. With ensuing international turmoil in the latter end of the maze, Lee Chin meets the Zhang Family. Speculus the gladiator has now gotten into her human desire! Was her last hug with Dylan leaving the mark of a son on her heart? Will this child face his destiny with no parents or country? Will everyone reach the end and be one big family? My novel was written in volumes, bringing my dream to life! Hopefully someday as a movie and enjoyment for all ages.

God's Sky Volume II

Author : Pearl Smithern
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645155324

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God's Sky Volume II by Pearl Smithern Pdf

Lesia's and Andrew's lives intertwine with other characters into a maze. She has met this challenge with an enduring attitude. Yet, like the creatures we are, she soon finds life has sorrow and unanswered questions. Dreams of fear and doubt are now in the maze making her unsure about her future. Maze of life is seeing, not seeing- hearing, and not hearing, those ahead of you. If you have ever been in a maze, you want to hurry to exit, but a wrong choice can be costly. What will complete her loveless life? Will it be the handsome gladiator with his son, or the sandals of Andrew? God-Sky volumes III Maze Continues.

In the Labyrinth of the KGB

Author : Olga Bertelsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793608932

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In the Labyrinth of the KGB by Olga Bertelsen Pdf

2024 Winner, Kjetil Hatlebrekke Memorial Book Prize, King's College Centre for the Study of Intelligence This book focuses on the generation of the sixties and seventies in Kharkiv, Soviet Ukraine, a milieu of writers who lived through the Thaw and the processes of de-Stalinization and re-Stalinization. Special attention is paid to KGB operations against what came to be known as the dissident milieu, and the interaction of Ukrainians, Jews, and Russians in the movement, their persona friendships, formal and informal interactions, and the ways they dealt with repression and arrests. This study demonstrates that the KGB unintentionally facilitated the transnational and intercultural links among the Kharkiv multi-ethnic community of writers and their mutual enrichment. Post-Khrushchev Kharkiv is analyzed as a political space and a place of state violence aimed at combating Ukrainian nationalism and Zionism, two major targets in the 1960s–1970s. Despite their various cultural and social backgrounds, the Kharkiv literati might be identified as a distinct bohemian group possessing shared aesthetic and political values that emerged as the result of de-Stalinization under Khrushchev. Archival documents, diaries, and memoirs suggest that the 1960s–1970s was a period of intense KGB operations, “active measures” designed to disrupt a community of intellectuals and to fragment friendships, bonds, and support among Ukrainians, Russians, and Jews along ethnic lines domestically and abroad.

Unclenching Our Fists

Author : Sara Elinoff Acker
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826519436

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Unclenching Our Fists by Sara Elinoff Acker Pdf

This book features eleven first-person stories of men from diverse class and racial backgrounds who have made a long-term commitment to end their physical and emotional abuse and controlling behaviors. These men speak frankly about the abuse they inflicted on their families, what it took to get them to face themselves, and how they feel about the damage they have caused. All participated in violence intervention programs, some for as long as ten years. To put a face on violence and to encourage activism for reform, most of the eleven have allowed their photos and real names to be used in the book. Surrounding this material are chapters that provide context about the disputes among researchers about whether batterer intervention programs work (only a small number of batterers renounce their abuse) and chapters that address the reactions of partners to these stories. "When the Man You Love is Abusive" is designed to caution women not to be manipulated by accounts of change and to outline the stages men need to pass through in the long process of becoming accountable. "The Last Word: Voices of Survivors" ends the book with a focus group discussion in which former abuse victims and advocates respond candidly to the men's stories.

Seven Million Sunflowers

Author : Malcolm Duffy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781800241695

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Seven Million Sunflowers by Malcolm Duffy Pdf

Escaping war is only half the battle as the Kovalenko family swap Ukrainian dangers for life with a British family. 15-year-old Kateryno and her family live in Kharkiv. Their lives are shattered when on February 24th 2022 the Russian army invades. Their apartment block is struck by a missile. After weeks living in their basement, Kateryno, her mother, and brother, decide to leave, joining seven million Ukrainian refugees. They come to England and meet their host family, the Hawkins. But their new beginning brings a whole new set of problems.

Handbook of Intercultural Communication

Author : Helga Kotthoff,Helen Spencer-Oatey
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110198584

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Handbook of Intercultural Communication by Helga Kotthoff,Helen Spencer-Oatey Pdf

In today’s globalized world of international contact and multicultural interaction, effective intercultural communication is increasingly seen as a pre-requisite for social harmony and organisational success. This handbook takes a ?problem-solving? approach to the various issues that arise in real-life intercultural interaction. The editors have brought together experts from a range of disciplines, including linguistics, psychology and anthropology, to provide a multidisciplinary perspective on the field, whilst simultaneously anchoring it in Applied Linguistics. Key features: provides a state-of-the-art description of different areas in the context of intercultural communication presents a critical appraisal of the relevance of the field offers solutions of everyday language-related problems international handbook with contributions from renown experts in the field

Operation Lancaster

Author : Roger Londoniary
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780557814305

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Operation Lancaster by Roger Londoniary Pdf

Ernest Livington is set on a mission in Germany, and not just that is also is ordered to blowup a Nazi artillery plant. His lover and date is a Nazi. He is secretly been spying on her. However, he goes undercover in doing so. Along with this, Livington has to contact Lesia Stock is his partner in the mission undercover though. Not just that but also they encounter some obstacles on the way.

Discourse and Identity

Author : Anna De Fina,Deborah Schiffrin,Michael Bamberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107320604

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Discourse and Identity by Anna De Fina,Deborah Schiffrin,Michael Bamberg Pdf

The relationship between language, discourse and identity has always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation. In more recent times, the field has been revolutionized as previous models - which assumed our identities to be based on stable relationships between linguistic and social variables - have been challenged by pioneering new approaches to the topic. This volume brings together a team of leading experts to explore discourse in a range of social contexts. By applying a variety of analytical tools and concepts, the contributors show how we build images of ourselves through language, how society moulds us into different categories, and how we negotiate our membership of those categories. Drawing on numerous interactional settings (the workplace; medical interviews; education), in a variety of genres (narrative; conversation; interviews), and amongst different communities (immigrants; patients; adolescents; teachers), this revealing volume sheds light on how our social practices can help to shape our identities.

Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children’s Historical Fiction

Author : Mateusz Świetlicki
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000839081

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Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children’s Historical Fiction by Mateusz Świetlicki Pdf

This is the first book monograph devoted to Anglophone Ukrainian Canadian children’s historical fiction published between 1991 and 2021. It consists of five chapters offering cross-sectional and interdisciplinary readings of 41 books – novels, novellas, picturebooks, short stories, and a graphic novel. The first three chapters focus on texts about the complex process of becoming Ukrainian Canadian, showcasing the experiences of the first two waves of Ukrainian immigration to Canada, including encounters with Indigenous Peoples and the First World War Internment. The last two chapters are devoted to the significance of the cultural memory of the Holodomor, the Great Famine of 1932-1933, and the Second World War for Ukrainian Canadians. All the chapters demonstrate the entanglements of Ukrainian and Canadian history and point to the role Anglophone children’s literature can play in preventing the symbolical seeds of memory from withering. This volume argues that reading, imagining, and reimagining history can lead to the formation of beyond-textual next-generation memory. Such memory created through reading is multidimensional as it involves the interpretation of both the present and the past by an individual whose reality has been directly or indirectly shaped by the past over which they have no influence. Next-generation memory is of anticipatory character, which means that authors of historical fiction anticipate the readers – both present-day and future – not to have direct links to any witnesses of the events they discuss and to have little knowledge of the transcultural character of the Ukrainian Canadian diaspora.