Ben Stemptons Boy

Author : Ron Yates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950730124
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ben Stempton's Boy written by Ron Yates and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orphan Randy Walls hitchhikes to Georgia seeking family. He endures culture shock, hard labor, funerals, hatred, and thwarted love to finally achieve his goal.

Author : Naeem Murr
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588366642
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Man written by Naeem Murr and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Europe and South Asia. Winner of the 2008 PEN Beyond Margins Award. Identity, friendship, and a long-hidden crime lie at the heart of Naeem Murr’s captivating novel about five friends growing up in a small 1950s Missouri river town. A contender for the Man Booker Prize, this exhilarating story beautifully evokes the extreme joys, as well as the dark and shameful desires, of childhood. Young Rajiv Travers hasn’t had much luck fitting in anywhere. Born to an Indian mother who was sold to his English father for £20, Raj is abandoned by his relatives into the reluctant care of Ruth, an American romance writer living in Pisgah, Missouri. While his skin color unsettles most of the townsfolk, who are used to seeing things in black and white, the quick-witted Raj soon finds his place among a group of children his own age. While the friends remain loyal to one another through the years, it becomes clear that their paths will veer in markedly different directions. But breaking free of the demands of their families and their community, as well as one another, comes at a devastating price: As the chilling secrets of Pisgah’s residents surface, the madness that erupts will cost Raj his closest friend even as it offers him the life he always dreamed of. Taking us into the intimate life of small-town America, The Perfect Man explores both the power of the secrets that shape us and the capacity of love in all its guises to heal even the most damaged of souls.

Author : Ron Yates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781640660656
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make It Right written by Ron Yates and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The characters in Make It Right and the other stories are defined by bad choices that reverberate, resulting in multigenerational damage. Each story-through people, places, and conflicts we recognize-asks, how can this mess be fixed? Readers will want to dig for answers, and those who look for rays of hope will find them.

Author : Mike Burrell
Publisher : Livingston Press (AL)
ISBN 13 : 9781604892062
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of Grace written by Mike Burrell and published by Livingston Press (AL). This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Looking like Elvis and sounding like Elvis are not enough for tribute artist Doyle Brisendine. Deep in his heart, Doyle wants to be Elvis. After performing in front of a wildly enthusiastic group of seniors, he realizes the absurdity of his fantasy and sees a dead end looming. Then, in the midst of his despondency, his world brightens as a beautiful young woman offers him not only flattery and a dinner invitation, but a pile of cash and a ride in an antique pink Cadillac. He thinks he's died and gone to Elvis heaven after she takes him to a replica of Elvis's Graceland. At first he believes the place is an amusement park staffed by actors portraying characters from Presley's life, including the Memphis Mafia and the man known as the King--an Elvis impersonator who looks like the singer in his final years. The longer he stays, the more he realizes he's in the company of a zealous cult, ruled by a ruthless matriarch called Mama and founded on worshiping the King. At his first hint of leaving, his status changes from honored guest in the mansion to shackled prisoner in a copy of Elvis's humble Tupelo birthplace. There he's fed a daily regimen of Elvis-centric gospel, laced with potent drugs. Escape seems impossible..."--Page [4] of cover.

Author : Omaima Al-Khamis
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1649030592
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book Smuggler written by Omaima Al-Khamis and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical story of a Crusade-era bookseller who embarks on a journey through the Islamic world’s great medieval cities, winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature In the epic fashion of the great Arab explorers and travel writers of the Middle Ages, scribe and bookworm Mazid al-Hanafi narrates this journey from his remote village in the Arabian Desert. Dreaming of grand libraries, his passion for the written word draws him into a secret society of book smugglers and into the famed cultural capitals of the period—Baghdad, Jerusalem, Cairo, Granada, and Cordoba. He discovers a dangerous new world of ideas and experiences the cultural diversity of the Islamic Golden Age, its sects, philosophical schools, wars, and ways of life. Omaima Al-Khamis’s magical storytelling and her vivid descriptions of time and place trace a route through ancient cities and cultures and immerse us in a distant era, uncovering the intellectual debates and struggles which continue to rage today.

Author : Rebecca Giggs
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 198212069X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fathoms written by Rebecca Giggs and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction * Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A “delving, haunted, and poetic debut” (The New York Times Book Review) about the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about ourselves, our planet, and our relationship with other species. When writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australia, she began to wonder how the lives of whales reflect the condition of our oceans. Fathoms: The World in the Whale is “a work of bright and careful genius” (Robert Moor, New York Times bestselling author of On Trails), one that blends natural history, philosophy, and science to explore: How do whales experience ecological change? How has whale culture been both understood and changed by human technology? What can observing whales teach us about the complexity, splendor, and fragility of life on earth? In Fathoms, we learn about whales so rare they have never been named, whale songs that sweep across hemispheres in annual waves of popularity, and whales that have modified the chemical composition of our planet’s atmosphere. We travel to Japan to board the ships that hunt whales and delve into the deepest seas to discover how plastic pollution pervades our earth’s undersea environment. With the immediacy of Rachel Carson and the lush prose of Annie Dillard, Giggs gives us a “masterly” (The New Yorker) exploration of the natural world even as she addresses what it means to write about nature at a time of environmental crisis. With depth and clarity, she outlines the challenges we face as we attempt to understand the perspectives of other living beings, and our own place on an evolving planet. Evocative and inspiring, Fathoms “immediately earns its place in the pantheon of classics of the new golden age of environmental writing” (Literary Hub).

Author : Randy Boodram
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781800740174
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mercenary of Navigon: The Compass of Power written by Randy Boodram and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mercenary of Navigon Part One: The Compass of Power is a fantasy novel written by Randy Boodram. It takes place on the supercontinent of Arcadia and begins with the Council of Navigon assigning Kratos to locate the missing Princess Krystoria. He agrees to the mission in return for a payment and is given the Compass of Power, an ancient artifact with over four thousand years of history, to aid in his quest. Kratos must travel across Arcadia, to the four sister nations, in order to acquire clues, but encounters trials in the process. He then questions the validity of his mission, despite him being a mercenary, as he learns of a secret rooted alongside the Compass of Power's foregone history. This forces him to choose between his code or his morals. This novel is the perfect read for anyone who enjoys fantasy, action, romance, and the thrill of adventure.

Author : Gregory L. Reece
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elvis Religion written by Gregory L. Reece and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2006-05-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the rise of the King of Rock 'n' Roll to god-like status

Author : Francis Dane
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039108660
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secrets Revealed written by Francis Dane and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daughter of a wealthy investment banker and growing up on a lavish ranch in Texas, Ashley Williams has everything going for her. She’s beautiful, she’s a talented dancer headed for Julliard, she’s an academic achiever, she’s got loads of friends, and her family is warm and loving. But when Ashley is sixteen, her world comes crashing down with her beloved mother’s cancer diagnosis. And though her father and brother love her mother deeply, they check out emotionally, leaving only Ashley with the strength to tend to her mother’s needs. Six years later, estranged from her surviving family, Ashley has fled Texas for New York City, where she tells no one about her shattered heart and focuses on earning a business degree. After graduation, she enters the working world as personal assistant for a difficult, demanding insurance company CEO, Marcus Jackson. But despite his tough and off-putting façade, Marcus is nursing an emotional devastation of his own, and though he and Ashley are strictly professional with each other, neither can tamp down a steadily mounting attraction. So when there’s a crisis at work and Marcus and Ashley have to take an unexpected business trip to Germany together, the attraction flares up to a white-hot heat. A sizzling, erotic romance, Secrets Revealed features compelling characters whose growing passion restores parts of themselves they thought forever lost.

Author : Frances Badalamenti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947021884
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Don't Blame You written by Frances Badalamenti and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Don't Blame You is the story of losing a mother a mere two months before becoming a mother. It follows Ana through a year of going between her home in Portland and her mother's home base in New Jersey-as her mother battled cancer and as Ana grew a baby.