Burying The Pawn

Author : Jonathan Kaufman
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1632996901
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burying the Pawn written by Jonathan Kaufman and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burying the Pawn is the uplifting story of three unconventional people facing the challenges of learning disabilities and mental health issues in America. Zeb, Kiara, and Leo have all suffered in their own ways but are determined not to let their struggles define them. As they mature from lonely and confused children into headstrong adults, they still face obstacles but seek to make a difference in a society that often overlooks those who learn differently. ​Zeb, a floundering adventure tour operator, wants to live a big, consequential life but is held back by his ADHD. Kiara, a disbarred psychologist and former soccer star, yearns to be a better person but seemingly lacks empathy for others, despite her auditory processing disorder, scoliosis, and Trinidadian immigrant heritage. Leo, a Venezuelan-born investment banker who suffers from anxiety, wants to make his family proud and repay his adopted country, but his mistreatment of Zeb, Kiara, and others might tank his chances. Individually, they struggle to keep their lives from unraveling, but their paths converge in the university town of Chapel Hill as they confront one of America’s most pressing social problems—a broken education system that leaves students with learning differences behind. With tenacity and passion, they work to change the system and give others like them a chance to succeed. At times joyful and other times heartbreaking, Burying the Pawn is a story about persistence, friendship, redemption, and taking control of your own destiny. Along the way, it offers a nuanced picture of the ways our education system fails students who learn differently and what can be done about it. Proceeds from the book will benefit the University of North Carolina Learning Center and Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities.

Author : Nicolas Wilson
Publisher : Nicolas Wilson
ISBN 13 : 1484165462
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dag written by Nicolas Wilson and published by Nicolas Wilson. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dagney Morgan, a sarcastic Department of Agriculture employee with an affinity for paperwork, has a chance run-in with a farmer covered in toxic chemicals, and walks away with a genetically modified baby, along with the seeds of a conspiracy. Before she can learn how to change a diaper, Dagney and her makeshift family are thrown into an international web of corruption and intrigue, and hounded by murderous, artificial soldiers. Their only chance at survival is to expose a plot that stretches into the highest echelons, and could start both an international arms race, and a revolution. (Keywords: Genetic Modification, Science Fiction, Conspiracy, GMO, Genetic Manipulation, Humorous Science Fiction, Mutant)

Author : Nicolas Wilson
Publisher : Nicolas Wilson
ISBN 13 : 1301673560
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nexus (Sontem Trilogy #1) written by Nicolas Wilson and published by Nicolas Wilson. This book was released on with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Anderson Grant of the corporate starship Nexus boldly explores alien worlds (and occasionally the alien women, too). Grant and his crew struggle with the company’s version of manifest destiny, as well as its attempt to coerce them into military force. They begin to question whether the largest threat to their mission and their safety will come from outside the Nexus or from the company that respects them more for their genetic possibilities than their individuality. (Keywords: Science Fiction Series, Space Opera, Space Aliens, Space Merchants, Military Scifi, Science Fiction Trilogies, Space Fiction, Space Marine, Science Fiction Romance.)

Author : Gaby Dunn
Publisher : Boom! Studios
ISBN 13 : 1641445440
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bury the Lede written by Gaby Dunn and published by Boom! Studios. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cub reporter Madison Jackson is young, scrappy, and hungry to prove that she deserves her coveted college internship at the premiere newspaper in town, The Boston Lede, so when her police scanner mentions a brutal murder tied to the prominent Boston Kennedys, Madison races to the crime scene, looking for the scoop of the century. What she finds instead is the woman who'll change her life forever: Dahlia Kennedy, celebrity socialite, now widow, covered in gore and the prime suspect in the murder of her husband and child. When Dahlia refuses to talk to anyone but Madison, they begin a dangerous game of cat and mouse that leads the young journalist down a twisted path. From Gaby Dunn (Bad with Money, I Hate Everyone But You) and Claire Roe (Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, Welcome Back) comes an all-new original graphic novel about the thrill of the chase and the dangers of going toe-to-toe with a potential killer.

Author : Rich Haney
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469112639
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fawn written by Rich Haney and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-05-17 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pk Nations
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1620240963
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redeeming Pawn Ticket written by Pk Nations and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Monday, September 1, 1951, Deborah Faye Banks gave birth to a seven-pound, six-ounce, little, pink bundle of joy. The only problem was no one bothered to explain to Deborah Faye the joy part. In fact, twelve weeks later, when prodded by her landlord to give her child a name, she announced, 'Mrs. Thatcher, I'd like you to meet Miss Pawn Ticket Banks. Miss Pawn Ticket Banks, I'd like you to meet Mrs. Thatcher.' A few days later, Deborah Faye Banks disappears from Catalpa, Louisiana, leaving Mrs. Rose Thatcher the unorthodox guardian of little Pawn Ticket. Though Rose is in her fifties and has no experience raising children of her own, she takes on the job of taking care of Pawn willingly. To her greater surprise, after many years of close friendship with her dearest friend, Henry, she receives an offer of marriage-which she accepts-making Pawn, Rose, and Henry a happy family. Together, the family teaches Pawn self-confidence, honesty, friendship, and love in a Christian home. However, lingering doubts play in the back of her mind as Rose fears that Deborah Faye will one day return to take Pawn away from her. And worse, she worries that Pawn will want to go with her. Will Deborah return for her child? Will Rose and Henry be able to give her up? Will Pawn leave the only home she's ever known? Find out in PK Nations's heartwarming and enchanting story of love and an unusual family, Redeeming Pawn Ticket.

Author : Nicolas Wilson
Publisher : Nicolas Wilson
ISBN 13 : 131045065X
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Necromancer's Gambit (The Gambit #1) written by Nicolas Wilson and published by Nicolas Wilson. This book was released on with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knight, the sheriff of a local magical government known as "the Gambit," is called to recover a mutilated body, tainted with magic and dumped at a popular haunt. When the corpse is identified as a close associate of the Gambit, it threatens the safety of the community he protects, and those he cares about most. As the fragile peace amongst the city's magic-wielding factions disintegrates, Knight must track down a cadre of murderers before his friends are picked off, one by one- with each death used to strengthen the spells cast against the Gambit. (Keywords: Urban Fantasy, Dark Urban Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Fantasy Urban, Fantasy Witch, Horror Fantasy, Horror Pulps, Film Noir, Urban Fantasy Thriller, Fantasy Thriller, Fantasy Pulp.)

Author : Edward Lewis Wallant
Publisher : Fig Tree Books
ISBN 13 : 1941493157
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pawnbroker written by Edward Lewis Wallant and published by Fig Tree Books. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of us, remembering the Holocaust requires effort; we listen to stories, watch films, read histories. But the people who came to be called “survivors” could not avoid their memories. Sol Nazerman, protagonist of Edward Lewis Wallant’s The Pawnbroker, is one such sufferer. At 45, Nazerman, who survived Bergen-Belsen although his wife and children did not, runs a Harlem pawnshop. But the operation is only a front for a gangster who pays Nazerman a comfortable salary for his services. Nazerman’s dreams are haunted by visions of his past tortures. (Dramatizations of these scenes in Sidney Lumet’s 1964 film version are famous for being the first time the extermination camps were depicted in a Hollywood movie.) Remarkable for its attempts to dramatize the aftereffects of the Holocaust, The Pawnbroker is likewise valuable as an exploration of the fraught relationships between Jews and other American minority groups. That this novel, a National Book Award finalist, remains so powerful today makes it all the more tragic that its talented author died, at age 36, the year after its publication. The book sold more than 500,000 copies soon after it was published.

Author : Harry Armstrong
Publisher : Arena books
ISBN 13 : 1909421057
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pawn's Gambit written by Harry Armstrong and published by Arena books. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an enthralling political thriller. Starting from one seemingly inconsequential event, it escalates to embrace contemporary political events on an epic scale. Though a work of fiction, the author's detailed research into this world, the institutions and the places involved, give a startling authenticity to the tale which emerges. Kate Kimball, a publisher, returns from a business trip in California to find that her partner, Paul Emmerson, an Engineering Professor at Oxford University has mysteriously disappeared. The police, at first helpful, become increasingly and inexplicably obstructive; until Kate realises that if she is to discover what really happened, she must carry out her own investigation. With only a minor clue to go on the task at first seems insurmountable.As she struggles to unravel what happened to Paul, Kate's life descends into a tangle of deceptions. She is increasingly sucked into a murky terrorist event of thirty years before; and then into the most lethal political conspiracy of modern times. Unwittingly, as she seeks to establish Paul's fate, she becomes a pawn in the biggest international crisis since the ending of the Cold War; and her life now endangered, she finds herself confronting the hidden powers of the State. With little room for manoeuvre, she responds with a highly dangerous ploy, a daring plan that represents her only chance of survival - a pawn's gambit which will determine the course of world history.

Author : Hans Renette
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147664442X
Total Pages : 1118 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emanuel Lasker written by Hans Renette and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941) had the longest reign of any world champion in chess--27 years. From 1894 through 1921, he wielded exceptional dominance over several generations of contemporaries and is still regarded as one of the strongest players the world has seen. A multifaceted personality, he excelled in other fields as well, and his life has been the subject of a recent deep-digging biographic trilogy. This book presents for the first time a detailed examination of Lasker's chess career, with a complete collection of games, many presented with analysis by Lasker and other first rank masters.