It's Great to Work Together
Author: Jordan Collins
Publisher: Children's Press
Published: 2020-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780531132548
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Introduces the reader on how to work together in certain situations"--
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Twenty-One Truths About Love
Author: Matthew Dicks
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2019-11-19
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1250103495
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the beloved author of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend comes a wonderful new novel about a struggling man, written entirely in lists. Daniel Mayrock's life is at a crossroads. He knows the following to be true: 1. He loves his wife Jill... more than anything. 2. He only regrets quitting his job and opening a bookshop a little (maybe more than a little) 3. Jill is ready to have a baby. 4. The bookshop isn’t doing well. Financial crisis is imminent. Dan doesn't know how to fix it. 5. Dan hasn’t told Jill about their financial trouble. 6. Then Jill gets pregnant. This heartfelt story is about the lengths one man will go to and the risks he will take to save his family. But Dan doesn’t just want to save his failing bookstore and his family’s finances: 1. Dan wants to do something special. 2. He’s a man who is tired of feeling ordinary. 3. He’s sick of feeling like a failure. 4. He doesn't want to live in the shadow of his wife’s deceased first husband. Dan is also an obsessive list maker; his story unfolds entirely in his lists, which are brimming with Dan’s hilarious sense of humor, unique world-view, and deeply personal thoughts. When read in full, his lists paint a picture of a man struggling to be a man, a man who has reached a point where he’s willing to do anything for the love (and soon-to-be new love) of his life.
Kingdom of Barracks
Author: Katarzyna Nowak
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2023-07-15
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0228018374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter World War II displaced more than sixty million people, Cold War politics opened global eyes and wallets to European displaced persons. The postwar experiences of more than three million forcibly displaced Polish people illuminate the painfully long process of reckoning with war and its fallout. Drawing on rich primary material unearthed in over a dozen archives, Kingdom of Barracks depicts the texture of everyday life in refugee camps in post–World War II Europe within a panorama of the social and cultural history of the twentieth century. Western Allies and Polish social elites construed the camps as spaces for rehabilitating and “re-civilizing” refugees to prepare them for the reconstruction of war-torn countries and a rebirth of the nation. On the ground, refugees lived in close proximity, sharing bug-infested barracks with people from other regions, social classes, and wartime experiences. Taking a bottom-up perspective and exploring the formation of cultural identity in exile through the lenses of class, gender, body, and nationality, Katarzyna Nowak argues that Polish DPs’ experiences of displacement stimulated a personal and a collective revival understood in religious and national terms. In an age of intensifying forced displacement, Kingdom of Barracks sheds new light on past experiences of war and migration that are still deeply relevant in the present.
Inside Story
Author: Martin Amis
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2020-10-27
Total Pages: 623
ISBN-13: 0593318307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn autobiographical novel that’s a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to die—from “the Mick Jagger of literature ... Amis is the most dazzling prose stylist in post-war British fiction” (The Daily Telegraph). “[A] charismatic compound of fact and fiction ... Martin Amis has retained the power to surprise.” —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times This novel had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that Inside Story unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements and the latest literary gossip (not to mention ideas, books, and where to lunch), Hitch was Amis's wingman and adviser, especially in the matter of the alluringly amoral Phoebe Phelps—an obsession Amis must somehow put behind him if he is ever to find love, marriage, a plausible run at happiness. Other figures competing as Amis's main influencers are his literary fathers—Kingsley, of course; his hero Saul Bellow; the weirdly self-finessing poet Philip Larkin—and his significant literary mothers, including Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Jane Howard. Moving among these greats to set his own path, he winds up surveying the horrors of the twentieth century, and the still-unfolding impact of the 9/11 attacks on the twenty-first—and considers what all of this has taught him about how to live and how to be a writer. The result is a love letter to life—and to the people in his life—that achieves a new level of confidentiality with his readers, giving us the previously unseen portrait of his extraordinary world.
The Informant
Author: Kurt Eichenwald
Publisher: Portobello Books
Published: 2012-02-09
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1846274648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Informant is Mark Whitacre, a senior executive with America's most powerful food giant, who put his career and his family's safety at risk to become a confidential government witness. Using Whitacre's secret recordings and a team of agents, the FBI uncovered the corporation's scheme to steal millions of dollars from its own customers. But as the FBI closed in on their target, they suddenly realized that Whitacre wasn't quite playing the game they'd thought ... This is the gripping account of how a corporate golden boy became an FBI mole and went on to double-cross both the authorities and his employers in one of the most extraordinary cases of global corporate corruption of the last thirty years.
Autobiography
Author: Jesus Christ (Spirit)
Publisher:
Published: 1894
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoosevelt Ranch
Author: Elise Faber
Publisher: Elise Faber
Published: 2021-02-22
Total Pages: 940
ISBN-13: 1637490208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDisaster at Roosevelt Ranch I slept with the wrong twin. And all I got for it in return was a broken heart. Oh yeah, and a baby on the way—there was that, too. But I’m determined to make it on my own. I don’t need a man, thank you very much. Not rich, charismatic, and decidedly flighty Rex Roosevelt, and especially not his twin brother, Justin. The trouble was, Justin refused to leave me be. And deep down, I don’t want to avoid him. Deep down, I want to be even closer. Heartbreak at Roosevelt Ranch I had it all. Two beautiful children. A gainfully employed husband. A successful food blog. The only thing missing from my life was . . . heat. And I wanted to live. To live loudly and without fear. But something was happening with Rob. Had he fallen out of love with me? Had he found someone else? Was I not—Sigh. Was I not enough? Collision at Roosevelt Ranch It began with a collision. Not in the sense of souls colliding or even stars aligning, but in a real-life, totally her fault, bumpers-crunching, frames-bending, airbags-deploying crash. Haley. Oh Haley. Why was she such a mess? Regret at Roosevelt Ranch Henry Miller was nobody. He used to be an up-and-coming chef in New York City, training under one of the most famous celebrity chefs in the world, with a gorgeous fiancé at his side. But that had been five years before. Then his ex, Isabella, showed up in town with a new fiancé in tow. Then he found out why she had left. And . . . it changed everything. Desire at Roosevelt Ranch Rex Roosevelt doesn’t believe in love. He believes in women, in sex, and in avoiding any and all types of responsibility. He also definitely doesn’t believe in is playing the white knight by rescuing women . . . but he’d saved Tilly. She’d needed rescuing and even though Rex didn’t know the first damned thing about being a white knight, he’d helped her. And then? Well, she made him feel something he’d never thought his cold, dead heart would ever feel again. Love. Christmas at Roosevelt Ranch Ah. Christmas. The most miserable time of the year. Elizabeth hated it. She had too much work to do to stop and hang lights or wrap presents or waste time beneath the mistletoe. Or maybe she hated it—and especially the mistletoe—because she didn’t have anyone to kiss. Yeah, maybe that, too. But the she was derailed by a flat tire, a broken doorknob, and . . . an extremely handsome mechanic. And perhaps the best laid plans were made to be broken, especially when this Christmas might prove to warm even her Scroogey heart.
