The Natashas
The Natashas

Author: Victor Malarek

Publisher: Penguin Canada

Published: 2004-10-05

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0143181688

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The buying and selling of human beings for the worldwide sex industry is organized crime’s fastest-growing business with up to two million people globally—mostly women and children—being trafficked into the sex trade every year. In The Natashas, leading investigate journalist Victor Malarek details the tragic lives of the women and girls ensnared in the most recent wave of this brutal trade. He unearths evidence of training centers in Serbia where teenage girls from Ukraine, Moldova and Romania are viciously indoctrinated into the world of prostitution. He travels to war-torn countries such as Kosovo and Bosnia where he exposes corruption involving United Nations peacekeepers. And he uncovers scandalous situations throughout Europe, Israel and North America where the trafficking trade continues to flourish. Shocking stories of corrupt cops, complicit government officials and complacent politicians combine to form a powerful truth—one that Malarek hopes will not be ignored.

The Natashas
The Natashas

Author: Victor Malarek

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Published: 2011-09

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1611453267

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A blistering, eye-opening look at the horrific global phenomenon of sexual trafficking... This is 21st century slavery.

The Natashas
The Natashas

Author: YELENA. MOSKOVICH

Publisher:

Published: 2019-01-03

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781781254592

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Béatrice, a solitary young jazz singer from a genteel Parisian suburb, meets a mysterious woman named Polina. Polina visits her at night and whispers in her ear: 'There are people who leave their bodies and their bodies go on living without them. These people are named Natasha.'César, a lonely Mexican actor working in a call centre, receives the opportunity of a lifetime: a role as a serial killer on a French TV series. But as he prepares for the audition, he starts falling in love with the psychopath he is to play. Béatrice and César are drawn deeper into a city populated with visions and warnings, taunted by the chorusing of a group of young women, trapped in a windowless room, who all share the same name ... Natasha.A startlingly original novel that recalls the unsettling visual worlds of Cindy Sherman and David Lynch and the writing of Angela Carter and Haruki Murakami, The Natashas establishes Yelena Moskovich as one of the most exciting young writers of her generation.

Natasha's Dance
Natasha's Dance

Author: Orlando Figes

Publisher: Metropolitan Books

Published: 2014-02-11

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 1466862890

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History on a grand scale--an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's most vibrant civilizations A People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know." Now, in Natasha's Dance, internationally renowned historian Orlando Figes does the same for Russian culture, summoning the myriad elements that formed a nation and held it together. Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. Petersburg--a "window on the West"--and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself--its character, spiritual essence, and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the great works--by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall--with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons, and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world. Figes's characters range high and low: the revered Tolstoy, who left his deathbed to search for the Kingdom of God, as well as the serf girl Praskovya, who became Russian opera's first superstar and shocked society by becoming her owner's wife. Like the European-schooled countess Natasha performing an impromptu folk dance in Tolstoy's War and Peace, the spirit of "Russianness" is revealed by Figes as rich and uplifting, complex and contradictory--a powerful force that unified a vast country and proved more lasting than any Russian ruler or state.

The Johns
The Johns

Author: Victor Malarek

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Published: 2011-08

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1611450128

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"Read it, weep, and begin to humanize the idea that 'masculinity' requires dominance and humiliation."--Gloria...

Natasha's Not My Name
Natasha's Not My Name

Author: Isabella Grosso

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-15

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781948598378

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Natasha's Not My Name introduces readers to the complex underground of the strip club industry from the perspective of a sixteen-year-old. Groomed by her cousin, supported by older dancers, and paid by strangers for lap dances, the memoir follows Isabella Grosso's adolescence and young adult years as she struggles, succeeds, and ultimately survives as a child-turned-adult with a double life. ?Natasha's Not My Name dives deep into the dark pockets of sexual abuse, suicide, drug use, exploitation, and the inner strength it takes for a wounded child to grow up to be a strong woman, and what ultimately saves her: a love for dance and the arts, and a desire to share her story to help girls in equally vulnerable situations.?Introspective, unapologetic, and brave, Natasha's Not My Name is inspirational reading for all women.

Natasha's Will
Natasha's Will

Author: Joan Lingard

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2000-08-03

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0141928093

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Natasha's story is set against the background of the Russian Revolution as she and her family flee persecution. Her story is dramatically and cleverly linked with the present as her heirs search for her will. The will can only be found through a trail of literary clues from classic children's books.

Southern Keto
Southern Keto

Author: Natasha Newton

Publisher: Victory Belt Publishing

Published: 2018-11-20

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 1628602325

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Comforting food that’s good for you, too! Many people think that going keto means they have to give up good-tasting food—especially classic Southern comfort foods. But with a little creativity, most of your favorite foods can be made keto. Southern Keto shows you how to make your favorite comfort foods delicious and low-carb without requiring lots of specialty ingredients or giving up breading, cheesecake, pan-fried chicken, or biscuits. In this book, bestselling author Natasha "Tasha" Newton shares her struggles from childhood obesity and years of yo-yo and how keto helped her to lose weight and gain freedom from sugar and food addiction. She compassionately offers advice to help you on your own journey to good health and lower weight. Best of all, Natasha serves up delicious and healthy keto meals! Being a Southern girl, she knows that her family won’t be interested in any food that doesn’t taste great, so she prides herself on re-creating her family’s favorite foods, keto style. In this book you'll find: • Over 100 delicious keto recipes that use ingredients that are likely already stocked in your kitchen • Sample menus to help you put together delicious meals for any occasion • Comprehensive grocery lists • Storage information to help you meal plan for the week • Nutrition facts to help you easily track your macros • Useful tips and tricks for getting started • And more! If you've put off trying the keto diet for fear of missing out on your favorite foods, fear no more. Southern Keto makes sure flavor comes first while changing your health!

Virtuoso
Virtuoso

Author: Yelena Moskovich

Publisher: Serpent's Tail

Published: 2019-01-17

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1782834346

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Longlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize 2020 'A hint of Lynch, a touch of Ferrante, the cruel absurdity of Antonin Artaud, the fierce candour of Anaïs Nin, the stylish languor of a Lana del Rey song ... Moskovich writes sentences that lilt and slink, her plots developing as a slow seduction and then clouding like a smoke-filled room.' Guardian Zorka. She had eyebrows like her name. 1980s Prague. For Jana, childhood means ration queues and the smell of boiled potatoes on the grey winter air. But just before Jana's seventh birthday, a new family moves in to their building: a bird-eyed mamka in a fox-fur coat, a stubble-faced papka - and a raven-haired girl named Zorka. As the first cracks begin to appear in the communist regime, Zorka teaches Jana to look beyond their building, beyond Prague, beyond Czechoslovakia ... and then, Zorka just disappears. Jana, now an interpreter in Paris for a Czech medical supply company, hasn't seen her in a decade. As Jana and Zorka's stories slowly circle across the surreal fluctuations of the past and present, the streets of 1980s Prague, the suburbs of 1990s Wisconsin and the lesbian bars of present-day Paris, they lead inexorably to a mysterious door on the Rue de Prague ... Written with the dramatic tension of Euripidean tragedy and the dreamlike quality of a David Lynch film, Virtuoso is an audacious, mesmerising novel of love in the post-communist diaspora.

Natasha's Story
Natasha's Story

Author: Michael Nicholson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780330370660

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This is the story of ITN reporter Michael Nicholson's rescue of Natasha, a nine-year-old orphan from war-torn Sarajevo. The book tells of Michael's encounter with 200 children in an orphanage, the bond he developed with Natasha and their escape to England.