Author: Ardain Isma
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595303218
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Alicia Maldonado is the tumultuous and tormented story of a beautiful, aristrocratic and universally enchanting white woman born in Cuba in 1943 to a well-to-do landowning family. She arrives in Haiti with her parents after they flee Cuba following the Batista regime's political turmoil. The family settles in Les Cayes, on the exotic Caribbean coast, where the young lady blossoms within a tropical paradise. She grows up to marry Richard Laveaux, the son of a wealthy mulatto family, despite her mother's protests. Following the sudden death of her alcoholic husband, the young woman, her mother, and her two children move to Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, where she meets and marries Georges Duplan, a young officer of the Haitian army. But after discovering her husband cheating on her with the vibrant and exciting Rosita, she becomes severely depressed. What is her life about, why do such things always spoil her happiness? Unable to cope with her problems, Alicia leaves Haiti and vanishes without a trace. For twelve long years no one knows her exact whereabouts, until one day in 1984, on a rainy Tuesday morning, in a crowded Miami Laundromat.
Alicia Maldonado
Author: Ardain Isma
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595303218
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Alicia Maldonado is the tumultuous and tormented story of a beautiful, aristrocratic and universally enchanting white woman born in Cuba in 1943 to a well-to-do landowning family. She arrives in Haiti with her parents after they flee Cuba following the Batista regime's political turmoil. The family settles in Les Cayes, on the exotic Caribbean coast, where the young lady blossoms within a tropical paradise. She grows up to marry Richard Laveaux, the son of a wealthy mulatto family, despite her mother's protests. Following the sudden death of her alcoholic husband, the young woman, her mother, and her two children move to Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, where she meets and marries Georges Duplan, a young officer of the Haitian army. But after discovering her husband cheating on her with the vibrant and exciting Rosita, she becomes severely depressed. What is her life about, why do such things always spoil her happiness? Unable to cope with her problems, Alicia leaves Haiti and vanishes without a trace. For twelve long years no one knows her exact whereabouts, until one day in 1984, on a rainy Tuesday morning, in a crowded Miami Laundromat.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595303218
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Alicia Maldonado is the tumultuous and tormented story of a beautiful, aristrocratic and universally enchanting white woman born in Cuba in 1943 to a well-to-do landowning family. She arrives in Haiti with her parents after they flee Cuba following the Batista regime's political turmoil. The family settles in Les Cayes, on the exotic Caribbean coast, where the young lady blossoms within a tropical paradise. She grows up to marry Richard Laveaux, the son of a wealthy mulatto family, despite her mother's protests. Following the sudden death of her alcoholic husband, the young woman, her mother, and her two children move to Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, where she meets and marries Georges Duplan, a young officer of the Haitian army. But after discovering her husband cheating on her with the vibrant and exciting Rosita, she becomes severely depressed. What is her life about, why do such things always spoil her happiness? Unable to cope with her problems, Alicia leaves Haiti and vanishes without a trace. For twelve long years no one knows her exact whereabouts, until one day in 1984, on a rainy Tuesday morning, in a crowded Miami Laundromat.
The Master Showmen of King Ranch
Author: Betty Bailey Colley
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292782551
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Winner, San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2011 Texas's King Ranch has become legendary for a long list of innovations, the most enduring of which is the development of the first official cattle breed in the Americas, the Santa Gertrudis. Among those who played a crucial role in the breed's success were Librado and Alberto "Beto" Maldonado, master showmen of the King Ranch. A true "bull whisperer," Librado Maldonado developed a method for gentling and training cattle that allowed him and his son Beto to show the Santa Gertrudis to their best advantage at venues ranging from the famous King Ranch auctions to a Chicago television studio to the Dallas–Fort Worth airport. They even boarded a plane with the cattle en route to the International Fair in Casablanca, Morocco, where they introduced the Santa Gertrudis to the African continent. In The Master Showmen of King Ranch, Beto Maldonado recalls an eventful life of training and showing King Ranch Santa Gertrudis. He engagingly describes the process of teaching two-thousand-pound bulls to behave "like gentlemen" in the show ring, as well as the significant logistical challenges of transporting them to various high-profile venues around the world. His reminiscences, which span more than seventy years of King Ranch history, combine with quotes from other Maldonado family members, co-workers, and ranch owners to shed light on many aspects of ranch life, including day-to-day work routines, family relations, women's roles, annual celebrations, and the enduring ties between King Ranch owners and the vaquero families who worked on the ranch through several generations.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292782551
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Winner, San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2011 Texas's King Ranch has become legendary for a long list of innovations, the most enduring of which is the development of the first official cattle breed in the Americas, the Santa Gertrudis. Among those who played a crucial role in the breed's success were Librado and Alberto "Beto" Maldonado, master showmen of the King Ranch. A true "bull whisperer," Librado Maldonado developed a method for gentling and training cattle that allowed him and his son Beto to show the Santa Gertrudis to their best advantage at venues ranging from the famous King Ranch auctions to a Chicago television studio to the Dallas–Fort Worth airport. They even boarded a plane with the cattle en route to the International Fair in Casablanca, Morocco, where they introduced the Santa Gertrudis to the African continent. In The Master Showmen of King Ranch, Beto Maldonado recalls an eventful life of training and showing King Ranch Santa Gertrudis. He engagingly describes the process of teaching two-thousand-pound bulls to behave "like gentlemen" in the show ring, as well as the significant logistical challenges of transporting them to various high-profile venues around the world. His reminiscences, which span more than seventy years of King Ranch history, combine with quotes from other Maldonado family members, co-workers, and ranch owners to shed light on many aspects of ranch life, including day-to-day work routines, family relations, women's roles, annual celebrations, and the enduring ties between King Ranch owners and the vaquero families who worked on the ranch through several generations.
Federal Communications Commission Reports
Author: United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radio
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radio
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
Book Description
TOEIC Practice Exams: 6 Practice Tests + Online Audio, Sixth Edition
Author: Lin Lougheed
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1506290744
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Barron’s TOEIC Practice Exams is designed for ESL students preparing to take the Test of English for International Communication. This manual provides students with extensive practice in the actual test-taking experience as an efficient way of improving their score when they take the actual TOEIC. Inside students will find Six full-length practice exams that reflect the actual TOEIC in length, subject matter, question types, and degree of difficulty. Answer explanations for all questions Online audio for all six TOEIC listening comprehension sections Recommendations for web-based self-study activities
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1506290744
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Barron’s TOEIC Practice Exams is designed for ESL students preparing to take the Test of English for International Communication. This manual provides students with extensive practice in the actual test-taking experience as an efficient way of improving their score when they take the actual TOEIC. Inside students will find Six full-length practice exams that reflect the actual TOEIC in length, subject matter, question types, and degree of difficulty. Answer explanations for all questions Online audio for all six TOEIC listening comprehension sections Recommendations for web-based self-study activities
TOEIC Practice Exams: 6 Practice Tests + Online Audio, Sixth Edition
Author: Lin Lougheed
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1506288227
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
"This manual provides students with extensive practice in the actual test-taking experience as an efficient way of improving their score when they take the actual TOEIC. Inside students will find: Six full-length practice exams that reflect the actual TOEIC in length, subject matter, question types, and degree of difficulty, Answer explanations for all questions, Online audio for all six TOEIC listening comprehension sections, Recommendations for web-based self-study activities."--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1506288227
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
"This manual provides students with extensive practice in the actual test-taking experience as an efficient way of improving their score when they take the actual TOEIC. Inside students will find: Six full-length practice exams that reflect the actual TOEIC in length, subject matter, question types, and degree of difficulty, Answer explanations for all questions, Online audio for all six TOEIC listening comprehension sections, Recommendations for web-based self-study activities."--
Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Volume 34 (2018)
Author: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004530614
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 937
Book Description
The print edition is available as a set of three volumes (9789004393219).
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004530614
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 937
Book Description
The print edition is available as a set of three volumes (9789004393219).
Voices from the Wild Horse Desert
Author: Jane Clements Monday
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292785461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Founded before the Civil War, the King and Kenedy Ranches have become legendary for their size, their wealth, and their endless herds of cattle. A major factor in the longevity of these ranches has always been the loyal workforce of vaqueros (Mexican and Mexican American cowboys) and their families. Some of the vaquero families have worked on the ranches through five or six generations. In this book, Jane Clements Monday and Betty Bailey Colley bring together the voices of these men and women who make ranching possible in the Wild Horse Desert. From 1989 to 1995, the authors interviewed more than sixty members of vaquero families, ranging in age from 20 to 93. Their words provide a panoramic view of ranch work and life that spans most of the twentieth century. The vaqueros and their families describe all aspects of life on the ranches, from working cattle and doing many kinds of ranch maintenance to the home chores of raising children, cooking, and cleaning. The elders recall a life of endless manual labor that nonetheless afforded the satisfaction of jobs done with skill and pride. The younger people describe how modernization has affected the ranches and changed the lifeways of the people who work there.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292785461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Founded before the Civil War, the King and Kenedy Ranches have become legendary for their size, their wealth, and their endless herds of cattle. A major factor in the longevity of these ranches has always been the loyal workforce of vaqueros (Mexican and Mexican American cowboys) and their families. Some of the vaquero families have worked on the ranches through five or six generations. In this book, Jane Clements Monday and Betty Bailey Colley bring together the voices of these men and women who make ranching possible in the Wild Horse Desert. From 1989 to 1995, the authors interviewed more than sixty members of vaquero families, ranging in age from 20 to 93. Their words provide a panoramic view of ranch work and life that spans most of the twentieth century. The vaqueros and their families describe all aspects of life on the ranches, from working cattle and doing many kinds of ranch maintenance to the home chores of raising children, cooking, and cleaning. The elders recall a life of endless manual labor that nonetheless afforded the satisfaction of jobs done with skill and pride. The younger people describe how modernization has affected the ranches and changed the lifeways of the people who work there.
In the Drink
Author: Allyson K. Abbott
Publisher: Kensington Cozies
ISBN: 0758280203
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The author of Murder with a Twist serves up “a great mix of wonderful characters, mind-bending puzzles, with a dash of romance” (Fresh Fiction). Mack’s Bar and its crime-solving clientele are quickly gaining notoriety for helping solve some high-profile cases. But Mack is learning the hard way that not all press is good press . . . By day, Mackenzie “Mack” Dalton is the proprietress of a popular Milwaukee watering hole. But after last call, she uses her unique cocktail of extra perceptive senses to help solve some of the city’s most grisly homicides. Now, Mack and her barstool detectives are happy to help when Tiny, one of the bar’s newest patrons, asks them to look into his sister’s murder. Though the case has gone cold, Mack’s heightened senses quickly put her on the killer’s trail. But when a throng of reporters intrigued by her talents descends on Mack’s Bar, her efforts are muddled as a real-life Moriarty begins putting her infamous skills to the test, leaving Mack feeling shaken and stirred . . . Includes drink recipes! Praise for the Mack’s Bar Mysteries “The first book in the Mack’s Bar Mystery series is a hit!” —RT Book Reviews “Murder with a Twist has a lot of sleuthing pleasure packed into its pages.” —Fresh Fiction “A good book that was hard to put down. The plot was quite interesting especially Mack’s unique talent which added intrigue to this finely turned drama.” —Dru’s Book Musings
Publisher: Kensington Cozies
ISBN: 0758280203
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The author of Murder with a Twist serves up “a great mix of wonderful characters, mind-bending puzzles, with a dash of romance” (Fresh Fiction). Mack’s Bar and its crime-solving clientele are quickly gaining notoriety for helping solve some high-profile cases. But Mack is learning the hard way that not all press is good press . . . By day, Mackenzie “Mack” Dalton is the proprietress of a popular Milwaukee watering hole. But after last call, she uses her unique cocktail of extra perceptive senses to help solve some of the city’s most grisly homicides. Now, Mack and her barstool detectives are happy to help when Tiny, one of the bar’s newest patrons, asks them to look into his sister’s murder. Though the case has gone cold, Mack’s heightened senses quickly put her on the killer’s trail. But when a throng of reporters intrigued by her talents descends on Mack’s Bar, her efforts are muddled as a real-life Moriarty begins putting her infamous skills to the test, leaving Mack feeling shaken and stirred . . . Includes drink recipes! Praise for the Mack’s Bar Mysteries “The first book in the Mack’s Bar Mystery series is a hit!” —RT Book Reviews “Murder with a Twist has a lot of sleuthing pleasure packed into its pages.” —Fresh Fiction “A good book that was hard to put down. The plot was quite interesting especially Mack’s unique talent which added intrigue to this finely turned drama.” —Dru’s Book Musings
Trio
Author: Elizabeth Fritz
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595468071
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Clare Verney watched from the airport's arrival lounge as the plane landed and taxied toward the terminal. Single, 42, a successful businesswoman, she was about to take on fulltime guardianship of a trio of children with a troubled past, children she had never before seen or spoken to. Her sister's children, now aged sixteen, fourteen, and four, had been born, reared, and orphaned at a mission station in Africa, shuffled off for a brief stay with a grandparent in England, and sent to live with Clare in an unremarkable Pennsylvania town. Now, seeing them standing in the open door of the plane, Clare sensed an imperceptible bond welding the trio into a compelling unity. Her mind wrestled with questions: What were they like? How would they adjust to a world they had never known? Would they accept her? What did she know about being a foster parent? How was she to cope? The next few months would test her and the children as the trio adapted to a new life. Together they would know agony when Clare's serious injury puts the fate of the youngest child in the balance.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595468071
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Clare Verney watched from the airport's arrival lounge as the plane landed and taxied toward the terminal. Single, 42, a successful businesswoman, she was about to take on fulltime guardianship of a trio of children with a troubled past, children she had never before seen or spoken to. Her sister's children, now aged sixteen, fourteen, and four, had been born, reared, and orphaned at a mission station in Africa, shuffled off for a brief stay with a grandparent in England, and sent to live with Clare in an unremarkable Pennsylvania town. Now, seeing them standing in the open door of the plane, Clare sensed an imperceptible bond welding the trio into a compelling unity. Her mind wrestled with questions: What were they like? How would they adjust to a world they had never known? Would they accept her? What did she know about being a foster parent? How was she to cope? The next few months would test her and the children as the trio adapted to a new life. Together they would know agony when Clare's serious injury puts the fate of the youngest child in the balance.
Decisions, Etc
Author: California. Agricultural Labor Relations Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description