Author: Roxie Rivera
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781630420871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
After a nightmare blind date, hair stylist Holly Phillips swears off men. The only problem with that plan? Her mysterious and sinfully sexy neighbor Kostya who appeared from the shadows and saved her on that cold, scary night. Russian covert operative turned infamous mob cleaner Kostya Antonovich lives his life by one major rule: Don't Get Involved. But when the lies surrounding Holly's birth begin to unravel, Kostya's only choice is to break that rule and break it hard. He'll use every last tool in that sinister black bag of his to protect Holly from a cartel hit squad and the notorious KGB operative who has escaped a grim Russian prison to seek his revenge. For her, he'll risk it all.
Kostya
Author: Roxie Rivera
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781630420871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
After a nightmare blind date, hair stylist Holly Phillips swears off men. The only problem with that plan? Her mysterious and sinfully sexy neighbor Kostya who appeared from the shadows and saved her on that cold, scary night. Russian covert operative turned infamous mob cleaner Kostya Antonovich lives his life by one major rule: Don't Get Involved. But when the lies surrounding Holly's birth begin to unravel, Kostya's only choice is to break that rule and break it hard. He'll use every last tool in that sinister black bag of his to protect Holly from a cartel hit squad and the notorious KGB operative who has escaped a grim Russian prison to seek his revenge. For her, he'll risk it all.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781630420871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
After a nightmare blind date, hair stylist Holly Phillips swears off men. The only problem with that plan? Her mysterious and sinfully sexy neighbor Kostya who appeared from the shadows and saved her on that cold, scary night. Russian covert operative turned infamous mob cleaner Kostya Antonovich lives his life by one major rule: Don't Get Involved. But when the lies surrounding Holly's birth begin to unravel, Kostya's only choice is to break that rule and break it hard. He'll use every last tool in that sinister black bag of his to protect Holly from a cartel hit squad and the notorious KGB operative who has escaped a grim Russian prison to seek his revenge. For her, he'll risk it all.
Lasting Impact
Author: Kennedy, Kostya
Publisher: Time Inc. Books
ISBN: 1683303083
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Kostya Kennedy sets this captivating, character-rich story against the back-drop of one of the most pressing questions in sports: Should we let our sons play football? At the high end of America’s most popular game is the glittering NFL, a fan-stoked money machine and also an opaque enterprise under scrutiny for the physical dangers imposed on its players. Then there’s high school football, unrivaled for the crucial life lessons it imparts-discipline, leadership, cooperation, humility, perseverance-yet also a brain-rattling, bone-breaking game whose consequences are at best misunderstood, and, at the very worst, deadly. What is the parent of a young athlete to make of that? The New Rochelle High School team in suburban New York is like many across the country: a source of civic pride, a manhood workshop for a revered coach and an emotional proving ground for boys of widely different backgrounds. In the fall of 2014, New Rochelle’s season unfolded alongside watershed NFL head injury revelations and domestic abuse cases (remember Ray Rice?), as well as fatalities on nearby fields. The dramatic story of that season, for players, parents and coaches, underscores fundamental questions. Are football’s inherent risks so great that the sport may not survive as we know it? Or are those risks worth the rewards that the game continues to bestow, and that can stay with a young man for a lifetime?
Publisher: Time Inc. Books
ISBN: 1683303083
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Kostya Kennedy sets this captivating, character-rich story against the back-drop of one of the most pressing questions in sports: Should we let our sons play football? At the high end of America’s most popular game is the glittering NFL, a fan-stoked money machine and also an opaque enterprise under scrutiny for the physical dangers imposed on its players. Then there’s high school football, unrivaled for the crucial life lessons it imparts-discipline, leadership, cooperation, humility, perseverance-yet also a brain-rattling, bone-breaking game whose consequences are at best misunderstood, and, at the very worst, deadly. What is the parent of a young athlete to make of that? The New Rochelle High School team in suburban New York is like many across the country: a source of civic pride, a manhood workshop for a revered coach and an emotional proving ground for boys of widely different backgrounds. In the fall of 2014, New Rochelle’s season unfolded alongside watershed NFL head injury revelations and domestic abuse cases (remember Ray Rice?), as well as fatalities on nearby fields. The dramatic story of that season, for players, parents and coaches, underscores fundamental questions. Are football’s inherent risks so great that the sport may not survive as we know it? Or are those risks worth the rewards that the game continues to bestow, and that can stay with a young man for a lifetime?
Kostya
Author: Kostya Tszyu
Publisher: Bond University Press
ISBN: 9780733315923
Category : Boxers (Sports)
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Revised edition of the bestselling autobiography of Kostya Tszyu, including his extraordinary win against Sharmba Mitchell in late 2004.
Publisher: Bond University Press
ISBN: 9780733315923
Category : Boxers (Sports)
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Revised edition of the bestselling autobiography of Kostya Tszyu, including his extraordinary win against Sharmba Mitchell in late 2004.
Summary of Kostya Kennedy's Pete Rose
Author: Everest Media,
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
ISBN: 1669398617
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 At the center of Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, diagonally across from the old Cooperstown Diner, sits one of the village’s numerous baseball merchandise and memorabilia shops: Safe At Home Ballpark Collectibles. Here you can purchase all manner of items invoking baseball’s past and present. #2 Rose still attracts a large following, and generates more conversation than other baseball greats. He has not been a constant fixture, however. In recent years, he has been more impatient and irked by the lack of progress made toward reinstatement, and has decided to come back up this year. #3 Rose is a legend in his own town, and has become a sort of legend in baseball. He is not avuncular, and he is not grandfatherly. He is genuine and to admire, and there is a sense of mystery about him. #4 The induction weekend in Cooperstown remains largely the same, with fans being welcome to come and get signatures from the many baseball greats.
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
ISBN: 1669398617
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 At the center of Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, diagonally across from the old Cooperstown Diner, sits one of the village’s numerous baseball merchandise and memorabilia shops: Safe At Home Ballpark Collectibles. Here you can purchase all manner of items invoking baseball’s past and present. #2 Rose still attracts a large following, and generates more conversation than other baseball greats. He has not been a constant fixture, however. In recent years, he has been more impatient and irked by the lack of progress made toward reinstatement, and has decided to come back up this year. #3 Rose is a legend in his own town, and has become a sort of legend in baseball. He is not avuncular, and he is not grandfatherly. He is genuine and to admire, and there is a sense of mystery about him. #4 The induction weekend in Cooperstown remains largely the same, with fans being welcome to come and get signatures from the many baseball greats.
Pete Rose
Author: Kostya Kennedy
Publisher: Time Home Entertainment
ISBN: 1618939238
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Best-selling author Kostya Kennedy delivers evocative answers in his fascinating reexamination of Pete Rose’s life; from his cocky and charismatic early years through his storied playing career to his bitter war against baseball’s hierarchy to the man we find today—still incorrigible, still adored by many. Where has his improbable saga landed him in the redefined, post-steroid world? Do we feel any differently about Pete Rose today? Should we?
Publisher: Time Home Entertainment
ISBN: 1618939238
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Best-selling author Kostya Kennedy delivers evocative answers in his fascinating reexamination of Pete Rose’s life; from his cocky and charismatic early years through his storied playing career to his bitter war against baseball’s hierarchy to the man we find today—still incorrigible, still adored by many. Where has his improbable saga landed him in the redefined, post-steroid world? Do we feel any differently about Pete Rose today? Should we?
Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights
Author: Roman Kozyrchikov
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350203793
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights is the first anthology of LGBTQ-themed plays written by Russian queer authors and straight allies in the 21st century. The book features plays by established and emergent playwrights of the Russian drama scene, including Roman Kozyrchikov, Andrey Rodionov and Ekaterina Troepolskaya, Valery Pecheykin, Natalya Milanteva, Olzhas Zhanaydarov, Vladimir Zaytsev, and Elizaveta Letter. Writing for children, teenagers, and adults, these authors explore gay, lesbian, trans, and other queer lives in prose and in verse. From a confession-style solo play to poetic satire on contemporary Russia; from a play for children to love dramas that have been staged for adult-only audiences in Moscow and other cities, this important anthology features work that was written around or after 2013-the year when the law on the prohibition of “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors” was passed by the Russian government. These plays are universal stories of humanity that spread a message of tolerance, acceptance, and love and make clear that a queer scenario does not necessarily have to end in a tragedy just because it was imagined and set in Russia. They show that breathing, growing old, falling in love, falling out of love, and falling in love again can be just as challenging and rewarding in Moscow and elsewhere in Russia as it can be in New York, Tokyo, Johannesburg, or Buenos Aires.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350203793
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights is the first anthology of LGBTQ-themed plays written by Russian queer authors and straight allies in the 21st century. The book features plays by established and emergent playwrights of the Russian drama scene, including Roman Kozyrchikov, Andrey Rodionov and Ekaterina Troepolskaya, Valery Pecheykin, Natalya Milanteva, Olzhas Zhanaydarov, Vladimir Zaytsev, and Elizaveta Letter. Writing for children, teenagers, and adults, these authors explore gay, lesbian, trans, and other queer lives in prose and in verse. From a confession-style solo play to poetic satire on contemporary Russia; from a play for children to love dramas that have been staged for adult-only audiences in Moscow and other cities, this important anthology features work that was written around or after 2013-the year when the law on the prohibition of “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors” was passed by the Russian government. These plays are universal stories of humanity that spread a message of tolerance, acceptance, and love and make clear that a queer scenario does not necessarily have to end in a tragedy just because it was imagined and set in Russia. They show that breathing, growing old, falling in love, falling out of love, and falling in love again can be just as challenging and rewarding in Moscow and elsewhere in Russia as it can be in New York, Tokyo, Johannesburg, or Buenos Aires.
Dragon Fall
Author: Katie MacAlister
Publisher: Forever
ISBN: 1455559229
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
You Flirt With Fire... For Aoife Dakar, seeing is believing-and she's seen some extraordinary things. It's too bad no one else believes that she witnessed a supernatural murder at an outdoor fair. Returning to the scene for proof, Aoife encounters a wise-cracking demon dog-and a gloriously naked man who can shift into a dragon and kiss like a god. Now thrust into a fantastical world that's both exhilarating and terrifying, Aoife is about to learn just how hot a dragon's fire burns. When You Date a Dragon Kostya has no time for a human woman with endless questions, no matter how gorgeous or tempting she is. He must break the curse that has splintered the dragon clans before more of his kind die. But his powerful attraction to Aoife runs much deeper than the physical-and there may be more to her than even his sharp dragon eyes can see. To survive the coming battle for the fate of his race, he needs a mate of true heart and soul . . .
Publisher: Forever
ISBN: 1455559229
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
You Flirt With Fire... For Aoife Dakar, seeing is believing-and she's seen some extraordinary things. It's too bad no one else believes that she witnessed a supernatural murder at an outdoor fair. Returning to the scene for proof, Aoife encounters a wise-cracking demon dog-and a gloriously naked man who can shift into a dragon and kiss like a god. Now thrust into a fantastical world that's both exhilarating and terrifying, Aoife is about to learn just how hot a dragon's fire burns. When You Date a Dragon Kostya has no time for a human woman with endless questions, no matter how gorgeous or tempting she is. He must break the curse that has splintered the dragon clans before more of his kind die. But his powerful attraction to Aoife runs much deeper than the physical-and there may be more to her than even his sharp dragon eyes can see. To survive the coming battle for the fate of his race, he needs a mate of true heart and soul . . .
Batya
Author: Arman Ordian
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1420836641
Category : Organized crime
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
· Did the Bible predict the invention of the computer? · Did the Bible predict the Internet? · What can a 2,500-year-old prophecy teach you about your stock options? · Did the Bible predict the rise of Bill Gates as the richest man in the world? · What do the Scriptures say about your kitchen utensils and the kind of soda cans you will drink from...hundreds of years in advance? · Will terrorist use the Internet to dominate the world? Ray Edwards invites you on a journey to uncover some dramatic secrets locked away in an ancient Bible prophecy. A prophecy that has been studied for hundreds of years but never thought to reveal so accurately the technolo
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1420836641
Category : Organized crime
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
· Did the Bible predict the invention of the computer? · Did the Bible predict the Internet? · What can a 2,500-year-old prophecy teach you about your stock options? · Did the Bible predict the rise of Bill Gates as the richest man in the world? · What do the Scriptures say about your kitchen utensils and the kind of soda cans you will drink from...hundreds of years in advance? · Will terrorist use the Internet to dominate the world? Ray Edwards invites you on a journey to uncover some dramatic secrets locked away in an ancient Bible prophecy. A prophecy that has been studied for hundreds of years but never thought to reveal so accurately the technolo
Kostya
Author: Kostya Tszyu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780733315985
Category : Boxers (Sports)
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Kostya: From Russia With Gloves is a fully illustrated pictorial biography of this Undisputed World Champion boxer from Russia who has embraced Australia as his home. It is filled with never before seen behind-the-scenes snapshots as well as featuring photos of this powerful boxer in action in the ring. A must for all Kostya fans.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780733315985
Category : Boxers (Sports)
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Kostya: From Russia With Gloves is a fully illustrated pictorial biography of this Undisputed World Champion boxer from Russia who has embraced Australia as his home. It is filled with never before seen behind-the-scenes snapshots as well as featuring photos of this powerful boxer in action in the ring. A must for all Kostya fans.
Screening Solidarity
Author: Helga Druxes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Western neoliberalism is a predatory outgrowth of late capitalism that overvalues competition, transferring the laws of the market to human relationships. This book advances the argument that anti-neoliberal cinemas of Europe, the United States, and the Russian Federation imagine and visualize alternatives to the non-sovereign realities of a neoliberal workplace that unequivocally endorses dangerous risk-taking, self-optimizing neoliberal subjects, and corporate 'entrepreneurs of self.' Always at stake in the examination of neoliberalism's consequences is a human being who is indexed by race, gender, nation, ability, and economic performance. Drawing on film theory, transnational social histories, critical race theory, and Marxist and Foucauldian interpretive models, this book rediscovers a cinema that imagines a social contract focused on the common good and ethical standards for the social state. Anti-neoliberal cinema empowers the viewer as agentive through narratives that detail resistance to Western neoliberal modes of living and working. These filmmakers dramatize the labor of making solidarity across different groups.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Western neoliberalism is a predatory outgrowth of late capitalism that overvalues competition, transferring the laws of the market to human relationships. This book advances the argument that anti-neoliberal cinemas of Europe, the United States, and the Russian Federation imagine and visualize alternatives to the non-sovereign realities of a neoliberal workplace that unequivocally endorses dangerous risk-taking, self-optimizing neoliberal subjects, and corporate 'entrepreneurs of self.' Always at stake in the examination of neoliberalism's consequences is a human being who is indexed by race, gender, nation, ability, and economic performance. Drawing on film theory, transnational social histories, critical race theory, and Marxist and Foucauldian interpretive models, this book rediscovers a cinema that imagines a social contract focused on the common good and ethical standards for the social state. Anti-neoliberal cinema empowers the viewer as agentive through narratives that detail resistance to Western neoliberal modes of living and working. These filmmakers dramatize the labor of making solidarity across different groups.