The two martial arts masters in this book are the teachers featured in the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The first master, Chiang Shiao-ho, wrote and compiled the manual from which the hidden dragon learned martial arts. He and his sweetheart have to confront their conflicted feelings of love and the duty of revenge. The second master, Lee Mo-bai, struggles with his complicated feelings for Yu Ceo-lian. They are the older couple depicted in the movie. These two tragic love stories set in nineteenth-century China reflect the wishes of the Chinese people to eradicate two cruel traditions: an eye for eye vengeance and a living widow.
This is a collection of short stories about historical figures from different periods whose lives have somehow influenced our own lives and times. The book contains pieces about the following characters: Isaac Newton, Adolf Hitler, Vincent van Gogh, Bobby Fisher, Rafael Trujillo, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernest Hemingway, Sigmund Freud, Nikola Tesla, Yukio Mishima, John F. Kennedy, The Unknown Soldier, Charles Darwin, Galileo Galilei, Franz Kafka, Carl Gustav Jung and Leonardo da Vinci. Even though the stories are rooted in reality, they contain fictional elements based on legends and speculations surrounding each of the characters. This work is the result of several years of research into their lives and works. In addition, there is a Voice in all the stories that has its own personality and sets the rhythm of the plot and the tone of the collection as a whole.
Once you look at the world through Jimmy's eyes, you'll never see it the same again. Jimmy's world is a place where a boy can grow to be a man, even if he's "special." Where angels hover, mostly unseen. Where danger can happen, and hearts can falter—but love is never wasted. From best-selling author Robert Whitlow comes a poignant tale of innocence and courage in the tradition of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill A Mockingbird.
With the wicked humor and imagination that made readers fall in love with his novel I Am God, Giacomo Sartori brings us a madcap story of family dysfunction, (dis)ability, intelligent robots, bees, and a family of misfit savants living outside the bounds. In the singular world of the young, deaf narrator of Bug, there are just a handful of people who try to understand him when he gets into trouble at school. His father, a data analyst for Nutella whose real job is to pinpoint terrorists, is clueless about humans in real life. His brilliant brother, called IQ in public and Robin Hood in the hackersphere, has his back but is ever busier training his robot. His grandfather, a retired anarchist-guerilla-turned-nematologist, chides him for misbehaving when he takes him hunting for worms. Meanwhile, his Buddhist beekeeper mother, ordinarily his closest confidante, has been in a coma ever since a terrible car accident. Just when the family’s survival in their converted chicken coop seems most precarious, someone—or something—new enters his life: Bug. This self-declared “fast friend” seems to know all about his family and has some creative, if not strictly legal, ideas about how to help . . . Praise for Bug “A witty tale of family resilience and a dangerous, homemade AI bot…. the characters’ antics escalate in inventive and unexpected ways. This is worth a spin.”—Publishers Weekly “A lonely boy befriends a charming but dangerous robot in Giacomo Sartori’s science fiction novel Bug. . . . The prose is lively, intense, and full of perceptive similes. The boy’s voice is unique and memorable as he records his daily adventures at school and at home. . . . Whether real or imagined or both, the boy’s adventures show him to be resilient, vulnerable, caring, and inquisitive—but above all else, he is a neglected child who wants his mother back.”—Eileen Gonzalez, Foreword Reviews “With wry attention to the gorgeous frailty of human behavior and a wicked sense of humor, Sartori brings us a family that is utterly unremarkable and unforgettable. Living in a chicken coop as his family goes through emotional and financial turmoil, the narrator, a ten-year-old boy, pulls the reader into his head. When language fails him (‘...words lend themselves without restraint to confecting colossal lies, you might even say they enjoy it.’), he turns to an unpredictable online friend. With the same messy heartbeat he gave us in I Am God, Sartori's newest novel is pure delight.”—Shawn, Mara, and Marisa, Chapter One Book Store (Hamilton, MT)
Olivia's grandparents opened their hearts and home to her from the day they laid eyes on her. She is smart, curious, and sassy. Her grandfather often joked, "You have a plaster for every sore." She is witty. Life after the death of her grandmother was like an emotional rollercoaster; however, she persevered.
Every Ending Has A New Beginning is a book of nine fiction short stories that were inspired by real life experiences. The book is filled with interesting, funny, shocking, chilling, touching, honest and wild stories. It will definitely ignite a familiarity to someone you know. It touches on all aspects of life-prayer, rape, child abuse, relationship drama, family drama, drugs, happiness, sadness, illness, encouragement and love. Every story shows some type of strength that these characters had to have in order to conquer their problems. The book also shows how people can get caught-up and postpone happiness and lose his or her way. Instead, they end up settling for less. It also shows how you can be in a rut, yet you can always pull yourself back up again. In addition, it shows 1) that sometimes we're just a victim or innocent bystander and unbeknownst to us trouble finds us wherever we go; 2) that we can be anything we want to be; 3) that life is what we make it; and 4) that we do have choices. Too often we make the wrong choices and no matter what Every Ending Has A New Beginning. It's up to us to change and grow. If there's no room for change, then there's no room for growth. You can expect to feel a lot of emotions. I basically stretched and twisted the truth to enhance your reading and entertainment pleasure, while making the best of my writing talent and creativity. Enjoy!
Layla has never spent more than a few months in any one town, but when her mother decides to move them back to her childhood home, she has to get used to staying put. As she spends more time with her grandfather, she starts to unravel the rivalry that sparked between him and her mother, the fight that's kept her on the run her whole life. Between a secret werewolf ancestry and trying to find her place in a new school, Layla has a lot to learn about herself if she wants to survive. ... The sequel is now being released! Check out The Clash of the Alpha's Ancestors, exclusively on Dreame! Updates are released Tuesday and Friday!
Thruway Diaries Summary In Thruway Diaries, the Cadillac, that Black American symbol of achievement and success, having made it, provides no immunity to Big T and his family as they travel from Chicago to his native Mississippi in the early sixties and find themselves the target of police officers hell bent on making sure they know their place. It is even more unfortunate for Big T and his family that they are making the trip only a few years after Rosa Parks has refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking a bus boycott that fuels the Civil Rights Movement. Even a car representing success can be seen as an affront to the status quo. God forbid one should display an ounce of visible pride, which could easily be interpreted as an act of defiance, an action that could land the unwary in a shallow grave. There are other places to vacationNew York and Chicagoto show off the Cadillac, as Big T knows and hears in no uncertain terms from his children. But home is where the heart is and millions of African Americans returned home each year to visit family and display their new found status. Some, like my Uncle Albert and Uncle John Dew, escaped Mississippi under the cover of darkness to avoid the penury system that held blacks in a state of economic servitude that was little better than slavery. So returning home in a modern car, sometimes a Cadillac as my Uncle Albert did, displaying the latest fashions, was an act of liberation, of financial independence, if not outright defiance. But Big T learns a harsh lesson that compels him to put his Cadillac on the blocks. Family comes first. Big Ts wife, Naomi, while willing to share in her husbands wishes to see his Mother, harbors a disturbing secret of her own from her days as a maid in a white household when the white master still took advantage of young black women without fear of being charged with sexual abuse. She has fled to Chicago to escape in the arms of Big T. Her experience leaves her on an emotional edge that is soothed only by the comfort of family, the distance from her native home and her hope for the future of her family. But what happens almost forty years later when a retired Big T pulls his Cadillac off the blocks and travels with his family to the Southeast, this time through Pennsylvania, Washington, D. C., and to Virginia? There are three generations instead of two in his Cadillac setting out to enjoy that dream vacation that includes a visit to the Washington, D. C. Vietnam Veterans Memorial to see a family member and to walk his granddaughter down the aisle. They could not be happier and they are very comfortable. The Cadillac Eldorado, after all, has been modernized and updated by grandson Tyrone, known also as Little T, himself an automotive design student at a prestigious Midwestern university. The past, the present, and the future are represented in Big Ts Cadillac. As with the typical family, they are not perfect, there is laughter and joking, stories from the past and some tension between mother and son about relationships, in this case an interracial one. But for Big T and Naomi, the golden years have been good to them. Naomi has hand stitched her granddaughters wedding dress. The dream wedding that she never had will be lived through her granddaughter as she walks down the aisle in the perfect dress, one that is without blemish. The wholesome family of law-abiding, God-fearing Americans heading on a vacation in their modernized Cadillac is driving into a very different world than the early sixties. It is world at the mercy of America's War on Drugs into which they are driving. In the security of their home and local community in which Big T travels, it mattered little to them that the United States Supreme Court has validated stop and frisk by police; that the Court has further ruled that any traffic offense committed by a driver, no matter how minor, is a legitimate legal basis
Aimee had been married to the president of the Carter Group, Penn, for three years, and finally ended up with divorce. 6 years after the divorce, she turned into a world-famous incense maker and returned with her two children. Countless people scrambled to marry her, and Penn was also attracted by her.A battle of lover purchasing began
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