Promises Made Promises Still Unkept

Author : Fritz Bartel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674976789
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Triumph of Broken Promises written by Fritz Bartel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communist and capitalist states alike were scarred by the economic shocks of the 1970s. Why did only communist governments fall in their wake? Fritz Bartel argues that Western democracies were insulated by neoliberalism. While austerity was fatal to the legitimacy of communism, democratic politicians could win votes by pushing market discipline.

Author : Jude Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995110168
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unkept Promises written by Jude Knight and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She wants to negotiate a comfortable marriage; he wants her in his bed Naval captain Jules Redepenning has spent his adult life away from England, and at war. He rarely thinks of the bride he married for her own protection, and if he does, he remembers the child he left after their wedding seven years ago. He doesn't expect to find her in his Cape Town home, a woman grown and a lovely one, too. Mia Redepenning sails to Cape Town to nurse her husband's dying mistress and adopt his children. She hopes to negotiate a comfortable married life with the man while she's there. Falling in love is not on her to-do list. Before they can do more than glimpse a possible future together, their duties force them apart. At home in England, Mia must fight for the safety of Jules's children. Imprisoned in France, Jules must battle for his self-respect and his life. Only by vanquishing their foes can they start to make their dreams come true. Not your usual Regency Jude Knight writes historical fiction with a large helping of romance, a splash of Regency, and a side order of suspense.

Author : K’wan
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1799961370
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promise Broken written by K’wan and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beware of the company you keep. K’wan’s urban fiction coming-of-age novel, Promise Broken, is set in the gritty streets of Newark, New Jersey. The story follows seventeen-year-old Promise Mohammed as she attempts to uphold friendships and new relationships—even if they lead to her demise. After Promise’s mother dies in a tragic car accident, it leaves a void in Promise’s life that she is yearning to fill. This titular novel finds Promise spiraling into a life of crime and drug affiliation by the company she chooses to keep. Also coping with abandonment and a lifelong broken commitment from her biological father, Promise ultimately has two goals: to graduate from high school and to be loved. But can she find the love that she seeks from her aunt Dell, two best friends, Mouse and Keys, or drug-dealer Asher—the man who captivates her—despite the fact that each relationship will lead to life-altering events? Only time will tell.

Author : Linwood Barclay
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698182251
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broken Promise written by Linwood Barclay and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay comes an explosive novel set in the peaceful small town of Promise Falls, where secrets can always be buried—but never forgotten… After his wife’s death and the collapse of his newspaper, David Harwood has no choice but to uproot his nine-year-old son and move back into his childhood home in Promise Falls, New York. David believes his life is in free fall, and he can’t find a way to stop his descent. Then he comes across a family secret of epic proportions. A year after a devastating miscarriage, David’s cousin Marla has continued to struggle. But when David’s mother asks him to check on her, he’s horrified to discover that she’s been secretly raising a child who is not her own—a baby she claims was a gift from an “angel” left on her porch. When the baby’s real mother is found murdered, David can’t help wanting to piece together what happened—even if it means proving his own cousin’s guilt. But as he uncovers each piece of evidence, David realizes that Marla’s mysterious child is just the tip of the iceberg. Other strange things are happening. Animals are found ritually slaughtered. An ominous abandoned Ferris wheel seems to stand as a warning that something dark has infected Promise Falls. And someone has decided that the entire town must pay for the sins of its past…in blood.

Author : Jaclyn Rosamond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781081769703
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promises Made Promises Kept? written by Jaclyn Rosamond and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Rose marries Eddie, she believes promises made will be promises kept. But home from their honeymoon everything changes. Has he lost interest? Why doesn't he spend time with her anymore? Rose finds out the hard way about her husband's secrets and betrayals, they go deeper than she could ever have guessed. With promises broken, she leaves behind her tattered marriage to begin a new life. But sudden tragedy brings her back to her marital home. Can she cope with ex-husband Eddie, his new wife, and a fight to the death? Amidst chaos, is there hope for happiness?"--Back cover.

Author : Stacy Woodson
Publisher : Down & Out Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Tamales, One Tokarev, and a Lifetime of Broken Promises written by Stacy Woodson and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A minister, a taco truck, and a gun, what could possibly go wrong? Vivian, an ex-con turned prison minister, discovers her brother, Tommy, is in debt to the Chicago Outfit. And they’re calling the note—20 grand plus the juice. If Tommy doesn’t come up with the money in 72 hours, he will be a permanent resident of Lake Michigan. As kids, she and her brother grew up on the streets and lived by a set of rules: #1 no drugs, #2 no turning tricks, #3 no tangling with the mob. And they’d have each other’s back—always. Vivian can’t abandon her brother, despite the risk to her church and the new life she’s built for herself. So, she comes up with a plan—a way to turn the tables on the Outfit and save her brother. An Eastside bookie, a taco truck, and a Russian-made pistol are key. But even she knows the plan is a long shot. There was a reason why she made rule #3. When it comes to the mob, someone always pays a price. “Buckle up for a gritty trip through Chicago’s seedy underbelly! Come along as Viv, an ex-con minister, struggles to provide salvation for her brother with the help of the Good Book—and a Tokarev. Stacy Woodson’s snappy voice sparkles in this tense tale of family loyalty. A winner!” —Alan Orloff, ITW Thriller- and Derringer-award winning writer

Author : Mabior P. Mach
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532019920
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Broken Promise written by Mabior P. Mach and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makeer is a man of high hopes. Intelligent and educated, he is a teacher in Sudan when he leaves his home and family for the bush, to fight for freedom and human dignity. At home, his sons must fight their own battles, as violence and death by malnutrition increase. Yet, nothing is quite as horrific as the way man treats man in the African battle for peace. The Broken Promise is based on the true terrors of the Sudanese Civil War. Fighting for the prosperity of his country, Makeer is blind-sided by the hypocrisy of his leaders while dodging bullets and watching his family die. He finds strength in moments of hope, mixed with intense despair, but is hope enough to keep him fighting while the world goes mad? Makeer might glimpse ultimate victorytouch for a moment high ideals and moralitybut he soon comes face to face with blackmail and murder in South Sudan, a new country he helped curve out of the Sudan. War is a thing of corruption and betrayal, which Makeer learns fi rst hand. However, he fights onward, proving that no amount of suffering will ever suppress the quest for human dignity.

Author : Lee Jones
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000977307
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making it on Broken Promises written by Lee Jones and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides an occasion to examine the complex conjuncture between the White supremacist realities of the American Academy and the often threatening presence of brilliant Black men in the Academy. This challenging book should also serve as an inspiration for a new generation of Black men deeply devoted to the life of the mind in or outside the Academy." —From the foreward by Cornel West.Sixteen of America's leading scholars offer an uncompromising critique of the academy from their perspective as African American men. They challenge dominant majority assumptions about the culture of higher education, most particularly its claims of openness to diversity and divergent traditions.They take issue with the processes that determine what is legitimized as scholarship, as well as with who wields the power to authenticate it. They describe the debilitating pressures to subordinate Black identity to a supposedly universal but hegemonic Eurocentric culture. They question the academy's valuing of individuality and its privileging of dichotomy over their cultural styles of community, humanism and synthesis. They also range over such issues as culturally mediated styles of cognition, the misuse of standardized testing, the disproportionate burden of service placed on African American faculty and a reward system that discounts it.

Author : David Mack
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439160651
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 4400: Promises Broken written by David Mack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4400 taken, 4400 returned. All were given startling new abilities. Now, if you are willing to risk it all, you too can be extraordinary. Is this what the future intended to ensure the survival of the human race? Promicin -- which kills half of those who dare to inject it and grants paranormal abilities to those who survive -- is spreading across the globe and threatening to plunge the entire world into chaos. One year has passed since Jordan Collier and his followers seized control of Seattle and renamed it Promise City. U.S. armed forces have surrounded Seattle, and each day brings Collier and his Promicin-Positive Movement closer to all-out war with the world's greatest military superpower. However, the real threats are the Marked -- agents from the future whose identities are encoded into body-hijacking nanites. They were sent back to thwart the efforts of the 4400. The last three surviving Marked lurk in the shadows, working in secret as they prepare to deliver a deathblow to the planet. Caught in the crossfire are NTAC agents Tom Baldwin and Diana Skouris. His son, Kyle, and her thirteen-year-old adopted daughter, Maia, are both more loyal to Jordan's movement than to them. And when the standoff between Collier and the U.S. military explodes into open conflict, Tom, Diana, and fellow agents wind up outnumbered and outgunned. In the end, the fate of all mankind will rest in the hands of one man: Tom Baldwin.

Author : Ginger Suzanne Frost
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813916101
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promises Broken written by Ginger Suzanne Frost and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COURTSHIP, CLASS AND GENDER IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND.