Red Stick Diaries Betrayal

Author : Diamond Ryan
Publisher : Upland Avenue Productions
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780996040105

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Red Stick Diaries: Betrayal by Diamond Ryan Pdf

The Red Stick Diaries are a set of diary entries from the heart of a young woman that finds herself enthralled in a romantic love affair after rebuilding her life from a previously traumatic relationship. Betrayal is a criminal drama that reveals the power and control that a state and local justice system has over its residents. Damian D’Vil is a smooth talker that satiates his women with good looks and impeccable charm. He is a well connected public figure that never walks away from a challenge and loves power. He uses his network to enable his behaviors as he finds his next victims. However, a strange turn of events could soon reveal his abusive, controlling and felonious secrets.

Author : Joe Khamisi
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781426986765

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The Politics of Betrayal by Joe Khamisi Pdf

In this provocative treatise, author Joe Khamisi catalogues the events that took place during one of Kenyas most important periods in history. This period began in 2002, when Daniel Arap Moi stepped down after twenty-four years as president of Kenya. Khamisi reviews events up to the time when the country exploded in post-election violence in 2007 and the subsequent formation of the Grand Coalition Government between President Mwai Kibaki and Raila Amolo Odinga the following year. Khamisi explores the leadership betrayals that he believes are responsible for the political, social, and economic rot that are pervasive in Kenya. He recounts how he helped a presidential poll loser in the 2007 elections, Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka, capture the coveted role of vice president. He also presents an in-depth analysis of Senator Barack Obamas visit to Kenya in 2006, as well as his own personal experiences with Baracks late father, who he describes as a person who chain-smoked contentedly, drank copiously, and partied spiritedly. The Politics of Betrayal is critical reading for anyone who is interested in the transformation of Kenya from a one-party dictatorship to a pluralistic nation.

Author : Susan M. Abram
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817318758

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Forging a Cherokee-American Alliance in the Creek War by Susan M. Abram Pdf

Forging a Cherokee-American Alliance in the Creek War explores how the Creek War of 1813-1814 not only affected Creek Indians but also acted as a catalyst for deep cultural and political transformation within the society of the United States' Cherokee allies.

Author : Alan Gevinson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1588 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Minorities in motion pictures
ISBN : 0520209648

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Within Our Gates by Alan Gevinson Pdf

"[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Author : Lauren Slater
Publisher : Random House
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679462798

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Prozac Diary by Lauren Slater Pdf

The author of the acclaimed Welcome to My Country describes in this provocative and funny memoir the ups and downs of living on Prozac for ten years, and the strange adjustments she had to make to living "normal life." Today millions of people take Prozac, but Lauren Slater was one of the first. In this rich and beautifully written memoir, she describes what it's like to spend most of your life feeling crazy--and then to wake up one day and find yourself in the strange state of feeling well. And then to face the challenge of creating a whole new life. Once inhibited, Slater becomes spontaneous. Once terrified of maintaining a job, she accepts a teaching position and ultimately earns several degrees in psychology. Once lonely, she finds love with a man who adores her. Slater is wonderfully thoughtful and articulate about all of these changes, and also about the downside of taking Prozac: such matters as dependency, sexual dysfunction, and Prozac "poop-out." "The beauty of Lauren Slater's prose is shocking," said Newsday about Welcome to My Country, and Slater's remarkable gifts as a writer are present here in sentences that are like elegant darts, hitting at the center of the deepest human feelings. Prozac Diary is a wonderfully written report from inside a decade on Prozac, and an original writer's acute observations on the challenges of living modern life.

Author : Kathleen Kent
Publisher : Reagan Arthur Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316122054

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The Traitor's Wife by Kathleen Kent Pdf

In the harsh wilderness of colonial Massachusetts, Martha Allen works as a servant in her cousin's household, taking charge and locking wills with everyone. Thomas Carrier labors for the family and is known both for his immense strength and size and mysterious past. The two begin a courtship that suits their independent natures, with Thomas slowly revealing the story of his part in the English Civil War. But in the rugged new world they inhabit, danger is ever present, whether it be from the assassins sent from London to kill the executioner of Charles I or the wolves -- in many forms -- who hunt for blood. A love story and a tale of courage, The Wolves of Andover confirms Kathleen Kent's ability to craft powerful stories of family from colonial history.

Author : Michael Parker
Publisher : William Heinemann
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1785151940

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On the Red Hill by Michael Parker Pdf

A multi-layered memoir of love, acceptance, finding home and the redemptive power of nature.In the early 2000s Mike Parker and his partner Peredur (Preds) moved into a small village in remote West Wales. A few weeks after arriving, they met Reg and George, a couple for over sixty years, who had arrived in the village at a time when their relationship could have landed them in prison. The four men became acquaintances, and over the years, firm friends. When Reg and George died, within a few weeks of each other, Mike and Preds discovered that they had been left their home- a whitewashed 'house from the children?s stories?, buried deep within the hills. All four men had arrived at the house following different paths. All four shouldn't have stayed. But they did. On the Red Hilltells the story of Rhiw Goch, the Red Hill, but also the story of a community, and of a remarkable relationship blossoming against the backdrop of rural life. On The Red Hillcelebrates the ebb and flow of seasons, of ever-changing landscapes, and the family (both beloved and infuriating) that you find when you least expect it. Taking the four seasons, the four elements and four extraordinary individuals as his structure, Mike Parker creates a lyrical but clear-eyed exploration of the natural world, one?s place in it, and what it means to find a home.

Author : Anne Frank
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385508476

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The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank Pdf

Diary of the adolescent Jewish girl who ultimately perished in the Nazi death camps.

Author : Michael Dobbs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857203694

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A Sentimental Traitor by Michael Dobbs Pdf

A missile tears a passenger plane from the skies over London. Everyone on board is killed, including thirty-seven special children. As terror turns to international chaos, can the government survive...? Who would have killed them? And why? When Harry Jones starts searching for answers, he stumbles into the middle of a plot that stretches from Russia to the Islamic revolution in Egypt, from the shores of the Caspian Sea to an ancient church in rural Wiltshire. Yet every lead he pursues finds its way back to the secret corners of Brussels and a British woman named Patricia Vaine. She and Harry are doomed to fight their battle to the death. Their own lives, and the future of an entire continent, are at stake in what develops into the greatest political power game since the end of the Second World War. For this is a plot not just to take over one country but the whole of Europe. And in this deadly game, the victors will claim total victory - unless Harry Jones can stop them...

Author : Eduardo D. Faingold,Juan Buchas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0739128906

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The Kalamata Diary by Eduardo D. Faingold,Juan Buchas Pdf

Pt. 1. War and emigration -- War -- Emigration -- pt. 2. The Kalamata diary -- October 1940 -- November 1940 -- December 1940 -- January 1941 -- February 1941 -- March 1941 -- April 1941 -- Dates of heroic achievements -- Leaving Greece -- On the beauties of Athens -- From Athens to Rome -- In beautiful Switzerland -- From Switzerland to Belgium -- My impressions of my father -- Facsimile sample from the diary

Author : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher : New York : Funk & Wagnalls
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433073357091

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Mumu, and The Diary of a Superfluous Man by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Pdf

Author : Peter Downham
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783400256

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Diary of an Old Contemptible by Peter Downham Pdf

“First class . . . a book that helps the reader to understand just what the ordinary soldier thought about his lot in the Great War.” —The Western Front Association This is a most unusual chronicle of the events of one man during the Great War. A professional soldier at the outbreak, Edward Roe was one of the first to cross over to France in 1914 and as such fought in the early battles of the war and took part in the Retreat from Mons. He was there for the crossing of the Marne and Aisne, the dreadful fighting at Ploegsteert and for the extraordinary events during the first Christmas. Remarkably he witnessed the debacle at Gallipoli and was part of the rear-guard of the Army during the re-embarkation and evacuation of the Peninsula. Thereafter the scene shifts to Mesopotamia and the Tigris Corps in the attempt to relieve General Townshend at Kut. Wounded he returned for the final campaign that captured Baghdad. “The author of these unique and extraordinarily moving diaries, which are supported by excellent maps and footnotes, was Edward Roe, an Irishman who had already served nine years with the British Army by the outbreak of the first world war.” —The Times

Author : Mary Beth Hinton
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0815607148

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The Diaries of Marya Zaturenska, 1938-1944 by Mary Beth Hinton Pdf

At age thirty-six, acclaimed poet Marya Zaturenska's work reached its full potential even as she battled emotional and physical illness. Recently rediscovered diaries, published here for the first time, reflect that crucial period in the poet's life. Born in Kiev, Russia, Marya Zaturenska moved to New York City at the age of eight. To help support her family, she dropped out of public high school and held various jobs in a factory, a publishing house, and bookstore. By taking night courses she managed to complete high school. Meanwhile, she wrote poetry, some of which appeared in national magazines. In time, Zaturenska would publish eight books of poetry and a biography of Christina Rossetti for which she won critical acclaim. With her husband, Horace Gregory, she wrote A History of American Poetry, 1900-1940—and counted among her literary contemporaries Willa Cather, Theodore Raethke, May Sarton, Muriel Rukeyser, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Padraic and Mary Colum, and Malcolm Cowley. Significantly, these papers reveal a woman whose life brimmed with creativity, love of family, and good humor in the face of despair. Her keen poet's eye offers biting commentary on New York's literary scene. Furthermore, she not only chronicles the onset of World War II but also observes how the war reshaped American literary tastes and attitudes.

Author : Don Gillmor
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345814166

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Long Change by Don Gillmor Pdf

Don Gillmor's brilliant new novel, Long Change, examines the world of oil through the life and loves of one man; both stories are epic. Fleeing his violent, Pentecostal father, as well as a crime he committed in the parking lot of the first bar he ever entered, Ritt Devlin leaves Texas at fifteen, crossing the border into Alberta. Big for his age, he soon finds work on an oil rig on the outskirts of Medicine Hat. But that's not the life he wants, and he saves up to study geology. By the time he's in his early twenties he's the head of his own oil company. Spanning almost seventy years, and following the geology and politics of oil from Texas to the Canadian oil patch, to Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Azerbaijan, various political capitals, and the Arctic, Long Change is divided into three parts, each of them framed by one of Ritt's marriages. The first, to his great love, Oda, shows the beginnings of his company; that marriage is cut short when Oda dies of cancer while carrying their first child. His second wife is Deirdre, an elegant lawyer who helps Ritt expand Mackenzie Oil, but who needs more than business from her marriage. Then there is Alexa, a late middle age fling, a bad idea on both sides, in some ways as violent and delusional as the oil business. The vision that drives Ritt throughout his life is to drill in pristine Arctic waters, and he pulls it off. But then comes the inevitable disaster. Ritt, now in his eighties, is not the man he was in any sense of the word. As he staggers away from the scene of the disaster, through the Arctic night, we know the dream of oil and of his own company is also burning in the night...

Author : Thomas Minehan
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496843630

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Boy and Girl Tramps of America by Thomas Minehan Pdf

In 1933 and 1934, Thomas Minehan, a young sociologist at the University of Minnesota, joined the ranks of a roving army of 250,000 boys and girls torn from their homes during the Great Depression. Disguised in old clothes, he hopped freight trains crisscrossing six midwestern states. While undercover, Minehan associated on terms of social equality with several thousand transients, collecting five hundred life histories of the young migrants. The result was a vivid and intimate portrayal of a harrowing existence, one in which young people suffered some of the deadliest blows of the economic disaster. Boy and Girl Tramps of America reveals the poignant experiences of American youth who were sent out on the road by grinding poverty, shattered family relationships, and financially strapped schools that locked their doors. For these young people, danger was a constant companion that could turn deadly in an instant. The book documents the hunger and hardships these youth faced, capturing an appalling spectacle and social problem in America’s history before any effort was made to meet the problem on a nationwide basis by the federal government. Boy and Girl Tramps of America is a work unique in its ability to extend beyond statistical analyses to uncover the opinions, ideas, and attitudes of the boxcar boys and girls. Originally published in 1934, it remains highly relevant to the turbulent moments of the twenty-first century. This reprint features an introduction by scholar Susan Honeyman that puts the work into our current context.