Author: George Ancona
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780736280143
Category : Big books
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Gio and His Family
Author: George Ancona
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780736280143
Category : Big books
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780736280143
Category : Big books
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Things We Couldn't Say
Author: Jay Coles
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338734202
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
From one of the brightest and most acclaimed new lights in YA fiction, a fantastic new novel about a bi Black boy finding first love . . . and facing the return of the mother who abandoned his preacher family when he was nine. There's always been a hole in Gio's life. Not because he's into both guys and girls. Not because his father has some drinking issues. Not because his friends are always bringing him their drama. No, the hole in Gio's life takes the shape of his birth mom, who left Gio, his brother, and his father when Gio was nine years old. For eight years, he never heard a word from her . . . and now, just as he's started to get his life together, she's back. It's hard for Gio to know what to do. Can he forgive her like she wants to be forgiven? Or should he tell her she lost her chance to be in his life? Complicating things further, Gio's started to hang out with David, a new guy on the basketball team. Are they friends? More than friends? At first, Gio's not sure . . . especially because he's not sure what he wants from anyone right now. There are no easy answers to love -- whether it's family love or friend love or romantic love. In Things We Couldn't Say, Jay Coles, acclaimed author of Tyler Johnson Was Here, shows us a guy trying to navigate love in all its ambiguity -- hoping at the other end he'll be able to figure out who is and who he should be.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338734202
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
From one of the brightest and most acclaimed new lights in YA fiction, a fantastic new novel about a bi Black boy finding first love . . . and facing the return of the mother who abandoned his preacher family when he was nine. There's always been a hole in Gio's life. Not because he's into both guys and girls. Not because his father has some drinking issues. Not because his friends are always bringing him their drama. No, the hole in Gio's life takes the shape of his birth mom, who left Gio, his brother, and his father when Gio was nine years old. For eight years, he never heard a word from her . . . and now, just as he's started to get his life together, she's back. It's hard for Gio to know what to do. Can he forgive her like she wants to be forgiven? Or should he tell her she lost her chance to be in his life? Complicating things further, Gio's started to hang out with David, a new guy on the basketball team. Are they friends? More than friends? At first, Gio's not sure . . . especially because he's not sure what he wants from anyone right now. There are no easy answers to love -- whether it's family love or friend love or romantic love. In Things We Couldn't Say, Jay Coles, acclaimed author of Tyler Johnson Was Here, shows us a guy trying to navigate love in all its ambiguity -- hoping at the other end he'll be able to figure out who is and who he should be.
Gio
Author: Natalia Lourose
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
He has the money and she's driving the getaway car. Gio DelGado, a mafia capo with money in the bank and a spotless record, has hit rock bottom. After the death of his mother, his best and only friend is a bottle of whiskey. Then, she shows up. Dressed in black and driving the getaway car of the men trying to rob his bar. For some reason, Gio decides to cut her some slack. Annie Bryne sees her life flash before her eyes when a sexy man in an expensive suit catches her red-handed. But he's willing to make a deal. He'll pay her debts if she'll work for him. Can she survive being indebted to the devil himself? *This is a HEA, enemies to lovers, mafia romance.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
He has the money and she's driving the getaway car. Gio DelGado, a mafia capo with money in the bank and a spotless record, has hit rock bottom. After the death of his mother, his best and only friend is a bottle of whiskey. Then, she shows up. Dressed in black and driving the getaway car of the men trying to rob his bar. For some reason, Gio decides to cut her some slack. Annie Bryne sees her life flash before her eyes when a sexy man in an expensive suit catches her red-handed. But he's willing to make a deal. He'll pay her debts if she'll work for him. Can she survive being indebted to the devil himself? *This is a HEA, enemies to lovers, mafia romance.
Nightmare in Topamori
Author: Topic in Jesus.exe
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
A record of an unbelievable succession of events that occurred (or not occurred as the case may be), and spiralled catastrophically out of control, the grand finale is the injustice to Gio. This book is my reaction to those events and the phrase “All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing”. The blatant injustice and disregard for his human rights/life motivated me to write this book and fight for justice for Gio. Writing down the events has strengthened my emotional resilience, but that is just a bi-product as the sole purpose of writing the book is to clear Gio's name. Gio is an innocent man who doesn’t deserve the treatment he is receiving which threatens his life.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
A record of an unbelievable succession of events that occurred (or not occurred as the case may be), and spiralled catastrophically out of control, the grand finale is the injustice to Gio. This book is my reaction to those events and the phrase “All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing”. The blatant injustice and disregard for his human rights/life motivated me to write this book and fight for justice for Gio. Writing down the events has strengthened my emotional resilience, but that is just a bi-product as the sole purpose of writing the book is to clear Gio's name. Gio is an innocent man who doesn’t deserve the treatment he is receiving which threatens his life.
Gio's Heart
Author: Amir Alexander
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737713807
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The story of Gio's Heart was inspired by the life of my son, Gianni "Gio" Young, who was born with a congenital heart defect called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome or HLHS. Gio's Heart embellishes on personal lessons learned throughout a challenging ICU experience to illustrate the effect that one child's heart had on all who were connected to him. Gio's Heart encourages the spread of love, forgiveness, hope, and kindness, as well as allows young readers to practice visual recognition, use their motor skills, and use their imagination. Gio's Heart was written and illustrated with young children who have brief or extended stays in the ICU, as well as their parents and family members in mind. It is our hope that you can find support, representation, and encouragement within this book. Gio's Heart is dedicated to Gio and to all of the brave children with congenital heart defects worldwide.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737713807
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The story of Gio's Heart was inspired by the life of my son, Gianni "Gio" Young, who was born with a congenital heart defect called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome or HLHS. Gio's Heart embellishes on personal lessons learned throughout a challenging ICU experience to illustrate the effect that one child's heart had on all who were connected to him. Gio's Heart encourages the spread of love, forgiveness, hope, and kindness, as well as allows young readers to practice visual recognition, use their motor skills, and use their imagination. Gio's Heart was written and illustrated with young children who have brief or extended stays in the ICU, as well as their parents and family members in mind. It is our hope that you can find support, representation, and encouragement within this book. Gio's Heart is dedicated to Gio and to all of the brave children with congenital heart defects worldwide.
The Making of the Modern Corporation
Author: Carlo Taviani
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000590291
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This book traces the origins of a financial institution, the modern corporation, in Genoa and reconstructs its diffusion in England, the Netherlands, and France. At its inception, the Casa di San Giorgio (1407–1805) was entrusted with managing the public debt in Genoa. Over time, it took on powers we now ascribe to banks and states, accruing financial characteristics and fiscal, political, and territorial powers. As one of the earliest central banks, it ruled territories and local populations for almost a century. It controlled strategic Genoese possessions near and far, including the island of Corsica, the city of Famagusta (in Cyprus), and trading posts in Crimea, the Black Sea, the Lunigiana in northern Tuscany, and various towns in Liguria. In the early sixteenth century, in his Florentine Histories (Book VIII, Chapter 29), Niccolò Machiavelli was the first to analyze the relationship between the Casa di San Giorgio’s financial and territorial powers, declaring its possession of territories as the basis of its ascendancy. Later, the founders of some of the earliest corporations, including the Dutch East India Company (1602), the Bank of England (1694), and John Law’s Mississippi Company (1720) in France, referenced the model of the Casa di San Giorgio.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000590291
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This book traces the origins of a financial institution, the modern corporation, in Genoa and reconstructs its diffusion in England, the Netherlands, and France. At its inception, the Casa di San Giorgio (1407–1805) was entrusted with managing the public debt in Genoa. Over time, it took on powers we now ascribe to banks and states, accruing financial characteristics and fiscal, political, and territorial powers. As one of the earliest central banks, it ruled territories and local populations for almost a century. It controlled strategic Genoese possessions near and far, including the island of Corsica, the city of Famagusta (in Cyprus), and trading posts in Crimea, the Black Sea, the Lunigiana in northern Tuscany, and various towns in Liguria. In the early sixteenth century, in his Florentine Histories (Book VIII, Chapter 29), Niccolò Machiavelli was the first to analyze the relationship between the Casa di San Giorgio’s financial and territorial powers, declaring its possession of territories as the basis of its ascendancy. Later, the founders of some of the earliest corporations, including the Dutch East India Company (1602), the Bank of England (1694), and John Law’s Mississippi Company (1720) in France, referenced the model of the Casa di San Giorgio.
How Are You Going to Save Yourself
Author: JM Holmes
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031651487X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale" (Kirkus, starred review). Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, struggle to liberate themselves from the legacies left to them as black men in America. With potent immediacy and bracing candor, this provocative debut follows a decade in the lives of Dub, Rolls, Rye, and Gio as they each grapple with the complexity of their family histories, the newfound power of sex and drugs, and the ferocity of their desires. Gio proves himself an unforgettable narrator, beautifully flawed and unstintingly honest, as he recounts both the friends' conflicts and their triumphs. Whether it's a fraught family cookout, a charged altercation on the block, a raucous night in high-society Manhattan gone wrong, or the troubled efforts of a drug hustler to go clean, JM Holmes brings the thump and the heat of his scenes to life with the kind of ease that makes us not just eavesdroppers but participants. How Are You Going to Save Yourself illuminates in breathtaking detail an entire world-one that has been underrepresented in American fiction. At times funny, often uncomfortable, occasionally disturbing, these stories fearlessly engage with issues of race, sex, drugs, class, and family. Holmes's blistering and timely new voice, richly infused with the unmistakable rhythms of hip-hop that form the sound track to his characters' lives, delivers an indelible fiction that has never been more vital and necessary.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031651487X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale" (Kirkus, starred review). Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, struggle to liberate themselves from the legacies left to them as black men in America. With potent immediacy and bracing candor, this provocative debut follows a decade in the lives of Dub, Rolls, Rye, and Gio as they each grapple with the complexity of their family histories, the newfound power of sex and drugs, and the ferocity of their desires. Gio proves himself an unforgettable narrator, beautifully flawed and unstintingly honest, as he recounts both the friends' conflicts and their triumphs. Whether it's a fraught family cookout, a charged altercation on the block, a raucous night in high-society Manhattan gone wrong, or the troubled efforts of a drug hustler to go clean, JM Holmes brings the thump and the heat of his scenes to life with the kind of ease that makes us not just eavesdroppers but participants. How Are You Going to Save Yourself illuminates in breathtaking detail an entire world-one that has been underrepresented in American fiction. At times funny, often uncomfortable, occasionally disturbing, these stories fearlessly engage with issues of race, sex, drugs, class, and family. Holmes's blistering and timely new voice, richly infused with the unmistakable rhythms of hip-hop that form the sound track to his characters' lives, delivers an indelible fiction that has never been more vital and necessary.
The Heirs She Carried
Author: Lynne Graham
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369762355
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
USA TODAY bestselling author Lynne Graham captivates with this emotional surprise pregnancy billionaire romance, part of The Stefanos Legacy miniseries! How do you tell your billionaire boss…you’re expecting his babies? Orphaned Leah has never had it easy in life. Desperate for a job, she agrees to become ruthless Giovanni Zanetti’s housekeeper and finally gain some security. What she never expected was that being between his billion-dollar sheets would be so undeniably tempting… Gio’s forbidden night with the totally off-limits innocent was a strictly one-time indiscretion. Anything more than that would require a level of trust he no longer has to give. Then Leah returns with a revelation that rocks the Italian’s carefully constructed world: she’s pregnant…with his twins! Previously published as “The Heirs His Housekeeper Carried”. From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Read all The Stefanos Legacy books: Book 1: Promoted to the Greek's Wife Book 2: The Heirs She Carried Book 3: King’s Christmas Heir
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369762355
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
USA TODAY bestselling author Lynne Graham captivates with this emotional surprise pregnancy billionaire romance, part of The Stefanos Legacy miniseries! How do you tell your billionaire boss…you’re expecting his babies? Orphaned Leah has never had it easy in life. Desperate for a job, she agrees to become ruthless Giovanni Zanetti’s housekeeper and finally gain some security. What she never expected was that being between his billion-dollar sheets would be so undeniably tempting… Gio’s forbidden night with the totally off-limits innocent was a strictly one-time indiscretion. Anything more than that would require a level of trust he no longer has to give. Then Leah returns with a revelation that rocks the Italian’s carefully constructed world: she’s pregnant…with his twins! Previously published as “The Heirs His Housekeeper Carried”. From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Read all The Stefanos Legacy books: Book 1: Promoted to the Greek's Wife Book 2: The Heirs She Carried Book 3: King’s Christmas Heir
A SHADOW OF GUILT
Author: Seyu Karikawa
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596485828
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Hating you was supposed to make me forget these thoughts… Valentina is visited by Gio Corretti, the heir of a famous Sicilian family. He is the only one who can save her from the trouble she’s in. However, Gio is also the last person she should rely on, since he was involved in her brother’s tragic accident seven years ago. Back then, Valentina was torn between her grief over the loss of her brother and her complicated love for Gio. But meeting him again now, her hidden feelings are overflowing…
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596485828
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Hating you was supposed to make me forget these thoughts… Valentina is visited by Gio Corretti, the heir of a famous Sicilian family. He is the only one who can save her from the trouble she’s in. However, Gio is also the last person she should rely on, since he was involved in her brother’s tragic accident seven years ago. Back then, Valentina was torn between her grief over the loss of her brother and her complicated love for Gio. But meeting him again now, her hidden feelings are overflowing…
The Valtieri Baby
Author: Caroline Anderson
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373178298
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Wedding planner Anita della Rossa is an expert in arranging happy-ever-afters--except her own, that is. Five years ago her childhood sweetheart Giovanni Valtieri ended their relationship abruptly, keeping his reasons as secret as the love he still feels for Anita. When Gio and Anita find themselves alone in a Tuscan hideaway, familiar passion rises to the surface once more. Gio is still struggling to open his heart...but with Anita's baby bombshell ringing in his ears can this brooding Italian finally make all Anita's dreams come true?
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373178298
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Wedding planner Anita della Rossa is an expert in arranging happy-ever-afters--except her own, that is. Five years ago her childhood sweetheart Giovanni Valtieri ended their relationship abruptly, keeping his reasons as secret as the love he still feels for Anita. When Gio and Anita find themselves alone in a Tuscan hideaway, familiar passion rises to the surface once more. Gio is still struggling to open his heart...but with Anita's baby bombshell ringing in his ears can this brooding Italian finally make all Anita's dreams come true?