Join Sonny on his travels around the world! Sonny the Dachshund loves to make new friends. He travels the world and meets new people along the way. While doing so, he learns many different languages, so he will have friends for life. There are many different ways to say "hello" throughout the world. Join Sonny as he travels the world and experiences new and exciting languages. This book is fun and caters to all ages. Sonny the Dachshund would love to have you join him on his travels!
"Sonny's World" is an epic tale of romance, passion, violence, revenge, betrayal, and, ultimately, healing. Each scene is an intense (but never gratuitous) glimpse into the human psyche. Its characters are believable and likable (if not always ethical). It is a wild ride on the rollercoaster of Fate, where what is "right" and what is "meant to be" are not always the same. Paradoxically the Mafia underworld and the world of high society mix perfectly. Danny Falcone has created a commercially appealing and always enthralling masterpiece.
What happens when you mix a beautiful socialite and a mafia solider? Sonny is an insider's view of a mobster's world torn by different loyalties, competing priorities and above all, the need to stay alive. It's a fast-paced tale of romance, passion, violence, revenge and betrayal where paradoxically the Mafia underworld and the world of high society mix perfectly. With its roots in the New York Mafia, the story unfolds against the counterpoint of high society and wealth. The two worlds collide and lives change, some for better, some for worse. All scores are settled and the stage is set for the next battle as the book concludes with a happy ending, for most Sonny is the debut novel in a continuing series where Santino Caperelli (Sonny Cap) has one foot in the upper echelons of organized crime and the other foot out the door, running the streets and answering to no one. Sonny is capable, charming, and ruthless when he has to be. The story begins with a chance encounter in Central Park between Sonny and a little girl. Her socialite mother and psychopathic stockbroker boyfriend weave an unexpected and dangerous relationship into Sonny's life. A mob war, a high energy trial and the score of a lifetime pull him from the grim reaper's grasp and catapult him to the top of the world, Sonny's World Sonny is one of a series of four.
"Not all creatures are night animals, but all creatures respond the moon. Beautiful counting verse and luminous artwork bring to life the mystery and wonder of moonlight's effect on us all."--Back cover.
This is a heartbreaking yet triumphant story about two girls growing up in the 60s and 70s in the households with street gangster fathers who present them with twisted, dark, and challenging scenarios to overcome. However, it would be one girl through her courage and unyielding faith as instilled in her from the words of her dying great grandmother who decided she would resist all the negative forces coming up against her by attaining education and standing firmly on her spiritual legacy as a means to fight the negative effects of male dominance coupled with mental illness, drugs, and sex all the while resisting but still curious about the street life. This personal journey evokes a rollercoaster of emotions from sadness to happiness and demonstrates elements of suffering and struggle along with love, friendships, resistance, patience, and perseverance. Courageously sacrificing her own safety, Kathleen, returns to her dangerous and wicked environment to help her mother and good friend escape the obstacles hindering them from living decent and happy lives. It gives a riveting account of survival when you find yourself in circumstances beyond your control. Kathleen beginning at the young age of 10 years old decided to fight, not die, and live realizing then there was nothing else to depend on except God.
In Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker’s steamiest novel yet, we meet the four deliciously dramatic, designer-clad divas from prime time’s new hit reality show, The Millionaire Wives Club. Evan: Married to a pro-football star who isn’t in love with her anymore, Evan is digging her freshly manicured nails in ever deeper as she fights to keep the husband who loves someone else. Milan: Half Dominican, half black, and beautifully exotic-looking, Milan is watching her has-been husband’s fortune fade fast–while her romantic attachment to Evan’s husband is heating up. Jaise: Divorced from a former boxing star who’s now married to a white woman, Jaise is trying to raise her sixteen-year-old son on her own. Will her huge alimony checks keep her from falling in love? Chaunci: Editor of the hottest black women’s magazine, Chaunci is now engaged to the high-powered man who helped finance her magazine when she was just a struggling single mom. But when a onetime passionate flame reignites, Chaunci may not be able to resist its charms. When these starlets’ private lives run as wild as their emotions, their relationships with one another inevitably turn into high-profile catfights. Through it all, the cameras never stop rolling on TV’s guiltiest pleasure, where power–and diamonds–are alwaysa girl’s best friend.
He'll do whatever it takes to find his missing sister. But playing a killer is a dangerous game... 'Eerie, smart and brutal - this is a proper chiller' HEAT Darren Evans was only eleven when his sister Carly disappeared, along with four other teenage girls. Eventually, a woman confessed to their murders. But Olivia Duvall never told the police where the girls' bodies were buried. Ten years later, Darren gets a job in the psychiatric hospital where Olivia was committed, hoping he can make her tell him his sister's fate once and for all. And so begins a chilling game of cat and mouse - one which will put Darren and those he loves in danger...
The Donors takes the concept of organized crime to a new and horrifying level. When an LA based crime sydicate made up of thugs, corrupt cops, and evil doctors, starts to sell stolen organs on the black market, their operation is comprimised by an unknowing local talent agent, Sonny Davis. When Davis¡_ family gets trapped in the web of crime, his fiancee is kidnapped and his life is threatened. Will he be able to discover who¡_s behind the threat to kill him in time to save his life and family?
Never Say Uncle invokes that childhood catchphrase seniors know all too well. When need be remembering that old saying will offer the needed strength to face any adversity. The story you're about to embark upon is not about in-depth characterizations or intricate plots. Pure and simple it's about being entertained. Nostalgic fun-filled comedy that'll have you laughing like a kid again. Join Sonny as he discovers his long lost uncle Luigi Fettuccini is a resident at Dumpsters', a home for the aged. The 93-year old Luigi is the inspirational leader of the constipated gang residing at Dumpsters. In Revisiting The Good Old Days, Sonny rediscovers his proud Italian beginnings. In A Day At The Races you'll ride side-by-side as residents jockey for position, as they race to the cafeteria via souped-up wheelchairs. Wet your drawers as you listen to Luigi tell his nephew Sonny about his scary encounters in Nightmares For Nincompoops. In Married To The Devil's Daughter and The Second Time Around, Luigi discovers the idiosyncrasies and frustrations of married life. Sit front-row-center as old-time burlesque comic Jorge` Washington Rabinowitz delivers material never heard before, in Showtime At Dumpsters. At the conclusion of Even Rainbows End, the reader will be left both laughing and crying. PLEASE NO PEEKING!
Winning the Lotto of over 650 million brought a great change in the lives of Huey and Bobbie Parkman as they were adopting four orphans left homeless from the attack upon Earth by the Permits as Earth was becoming a new member within the Novo Nation of Water Worlds. Earth by now was beginning to recover from the attack and had just begun reaping the benefits of being a member of the Novo Nation as merchants from around the Universe begun arriving upon Earth. After much ado, the Parkmans buy a Robot Operated Space Ship and also use their winnings to help establish a shuttle surface for Earthlings to visit other planets and stay if they wanted too. Eventually they left Earth and traveled to one of the near Solar Systems where Huey and Bobbie was taken captive by the local Lion King. Their adventure really begins as they and the children interact with the locals as they try to escape the predicament they found themselves in.
