Author: Marisa Labozzetta
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781771830508
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Births mark beginnings, while funerals toll in endings. Yet there resides so much in-between drama in the timeline of an extended family: moments of intense joy, times of heart-wrenching grief, and the day-to-day plodding of ups and downs that color the struggle with loss in all of human existence. In a series of linked short stories that superbly capture the emotions her characters' experience, the author deftly chronicles the personal episodes that transform the lives of five Italian-American cousins during the final years before the death of one of the family patriarchs.
Author: Wilbert Williams Jr. M.D.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466968443
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 381
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In July 1978, Dr. Wilbert Williams Jr. was standing on a street corner in Brooklyn, New York, afraid for his life. It had been less than three months since he was awarded a medical degree from Albany Medical College in upstate New York; yet there he wasenduring racial slurs from a group of angry white people who hated him simply because of the color of his skin. Even as the police stood guarding him, the group continued to taunt him with the words, He can go back where he came from. In his poignant memoir, Williams narrates the story of how he beat overwhelming odds, as an African American youth growing up in a public housing project in Brooklyn, New York, to eventually become a physician. While chronicling a journey that took him from the streets of New York through the challenges of medical school to the beautiful Caribbean island of St. Croix, he details how he learned to prevail over racism, anxiety, and depression in order to achieve his dream of becoming a doctor. Dr. Williamss inspiring story offers motivation to soar over the challenges of life and reach for the stars.
Author: Marisa Labozzetta
Publisher: Guernica Editions
ISBN: 9781550710762
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Johnny and Carla DiGiacomo are the hub of a big, extended, in many ways, conventional Italian American family. But less than conventional choice made early in their marriage--to take in the orphaned daughter of distant relations will test their notions of love and loyalty, as well as the sexual boundaries within which families exist. Told with earthy humor, Stay With Me, Lella is about the arrangements and rearrangements Italian Americans coped with in the years after World War II, as they began to make their way into the mainstream. Marisa Labozzetta lives with her husband and three children in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Author: Daniel Arenson
Publisher: Moonclipse
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 940
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Dragons. Beasts of legend and wonder. Since ancient times, they ruled the sky. But now a dark goddess invades. Dragonfire cannot burn her. Claws cannot cut her. Only Princess Fira, a young red dragon, can stop her. This box set contains the complete Dragonfire Rain trilogy, a saga set in the bestselling world of Requiem. Book 1: Blood of Dragons – Nemoria, an evil goddess, invades the kingdom of dragons. Armies shatter before her. The young Princess Fira has a special power. Only her dragonfire can burn Nemoria. Can Fira find the courage to face the dark goddess? Book 2: Rage of Dragons – Valkyries invade. They are immortal warriors, sworn to the goddess Nemoria. With swords of light, with wings of steel, they slaughter dragons. Fira flies on a desperate quest. She must find the Mirror of Many Worlds, a magical artifact which can banish the valkyries. Book 3: Flight of Dragons – Titans rampage. They are gargantuan beasts, taller than mountains. As Requiem shatters, her dragons gather for their final stand. They must invade the realm of the gods. They must do the impossible – slay a goddess. Since 2011, the Requiem novels have captivated readers, selling over 500,000 copies and hitting the USA Today bestsellers list. Dragonfire Rain is a trilogy set in this world of magic, honor, and dragonfire. _____________ THE REQUIEM SERIES: Dawn of Dragons Book 1: Requiem's Song Book 2: Requiem's Hope Book 3: Requiem's Prayer Song of Dragons Book 1: Blood of Requiem Book 2: Tears of Requiem Book 3: Light of Requiem Dragonlore Book 1: A Dawn of Dragonfire Book 2: A Day of Dragon Blood Book 3: A Night of Dragon Wings The Dragon War Book 1: A Legacy of Light Book 2: A Birthright of Blood Book 3: A Memory of Fire Requiem for Dragons Book 1: Dragons Lost Book 2: Dragons Reborn Book 3: Dragons Rising Flame of Requiem Book 1: Forged in Dragonfire Book 2: Crown of Dragonfire Book 3: Pillars of Dragonfire Dragonfire Rain Book 1: Blood of Dragons Book 2: Rage of Dragons Book 3: Flight of Dragons
Author: Marisa Labozzetta
Publisher: Guernica World Editions
ISBN: 9781771833820
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"When thirty-two-year-old Eric Boulanger returns to his Vermont hometown to care for his ailing mother, he attempts to aid the town's failing economy by drumming up a contest that offers a free wedding, The winner is Bostonian Ryan Toscano, whose fiancé has left her to become a Jesuit. Urged by her beloved, outspoken grandmother, Faye, to find a substitute in time, the contest sets the young people, as well as the citizens of the town of Brackton, on an odyssey that will challenge their belief systems, positions in society, and notions of loyalty, and life and death."--
Author: Jack Getze
Publisher: Down & Out Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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A Special Operations “fixer” for Homeland Security, U.S. Marine General Ray Hauser, teams up with Air Force Special Agent Sunny Hicks to recover a stolen GAU-8, the Gatling-gun like nose cannon of the military’s most destructive gunship, the A-10 Warthog. The weapon fires three thousand rounds a minute, each round’s explosive power equal to a stick of dynamite. Attached to a flatbed trailer, parked near Los Angeles traffic at rush hour, three thousand people could die within police response time. Ray has another, more personal incentive to find those who stole the horrific weapon. His wife, Alissa, went missing years ago investigating a similar theft inside the same Arizona desert. If he can solve the GAU-8 case, there’s a chance he can discover what happened to his presumably dead wife, even catch her killers. But that stolen Gatling-gun-like cannon also holds special attraction for Jessie Maris, unhappy wife of the weapon’s chief thief, Nolan Maris, a career criminal who plans to sell the GAU-8 for half a million. Jessie has been abused all her life, especially by the judge in a Family Court case many years ago. When her husband Nolan keeps her in the dark about his plans, then physically beats her, Jessie goes on a rampage that leads her and the GAU-8 to an old abuser and a crowd of innocents. Can Hicks and Hauser stop her? U.S. Special Operations never dealt with a battered, over-the-edge woman like Jessie before.
Author: Bessie Head
Publisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478611677
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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Rural Botswana is the backdrop for When Rain Clouds Gather, the first novel published by one of Africa’s leading woman writers in English, Bessie Head (1937–1986). Inspired by her own traumatic life experiences as an outcast in Apartheid South African society and as a refugee living at the Bamangwato Development Association Farm in Botswana, Head’s tough and telling classic work is set in the poverty-stricken village of Golema Mmidi, a haven to exiles. A South African political refugee and an Englishman join forces to revolutionize the villagers’ traditional farming methods, but their task is fraught with hazards as the pressures of tradition, opposition from the local chief, and the unrelenting climate threaten to divide and devastate the fragile community. Head’s layered, compelling story confronts the complexities of such topics as social and political change, conflict between science and traditional ways, tribalism, the role of traditional African chiefs, religion, race relations, and male–female relations.
Author: John D. MacDonald
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812984129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Lonely Silver Rain is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat. Travis McGee has luck to thank for his reputation as a first-rate salvager of stolen boats. Now Billy Ingraham, a self-made tycoon, is betting that McGee can locate his $700,000 custom cruiser. McGee isn’t so sure. He knows all too well the dangerous link between Florida boatjackings and the drug trade, and he’s vowed never to swim with the sharks—but if he wants to keep his head (AKA finances) above water, swim he will. “As a young writer, all I ever wanted was to touch readers as powerfully as John D. MacDonald touched me.”—Dean Koontz Even though McGee doesn’t feel like sticking out his neck for this case, Billy’s wife, Millis, convinces him to step up to the challenge. Sort of. After a pilot friend leads him to the stolen vessel, McGee immediately regrets not going with his gut. The yacht is no longer an ordinary boat. It’s a slaughterhouse. After witnessing the sordid scene, McGee realizes he’s knee-deep in the white-hot center of an international cocaine ring. In the midst of this terrifying ordeal and an affair with a very dangerous woman, McGee is shocked by the return of a secret from his past. Over the years, McGee has recovered many wrecks—now he’ll need to salvage his own life. Features a new Introduction by Lee Child
Author: Glenda Silver
Publisher: WestBowPress
ISBN: 1490804897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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A princess sacrifices her marriage and her soul to a dead tree disguised as a dear friend called the Valentine tree.
Author: Eternal Doctrine
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480929832
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1115
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Eternal Doctrine: The Bible in Sequence, Edition 1 By: Eternal Doctrine The Bible in Sequence: Eternal Doctrine: Volume 1 presents an in-depth analysis of the bible is presented as a contemporary version of the King James Bible. With commentary, analysis, and further enhancement of the familiar Bible text, the books of the Bible are introduced in a way that lends itself to readability and new viewpoints. Presenting both the Old and New Testaments in sequence and by events rather than the typical order, this volume fully explores the Bible and extends the opportunity to scholars and readers for a greater understanding and appreciation.
