The Second Father

Author : Domenico Cacciola
Publisher : University of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 070223852X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second Father written by Domenico Cacciola and published by University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up with racism and discrimination compelled former undercover cop and Sicilian immigrant Domenico “Mick” Cacciola into a life fighting for justice. In this gripping autobiography, Mick—who joined the Queensland Police Force—provides insight into one of Australia’s most notorious eras of police and political corruption. Exposing Mick’s long and bitter personal battle with now-disgraced police commissioner Terry Lewis and bagman Jack Herbert, this is the engrossing story of survival and endurance of an honest, young detective struggling to support a family while working for a corrupt police force.

Author : Sally Tyler Hayes
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1459279719
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Second Father written by Sally Tyler Hayes and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: …but never second choice ANOTHER MAN'S WIFE Police Detective Marc Dalton had always secretly loved his best friend's wife. Now Ginny was his best friend's widow and trying to raise her baby alone amidst troubling allegations surrounding her husband's death. Knowing he could no longer stand by in silence, Marc decided to offer Ginny his help…and his heart. Ginny had always seen Marc as a friend—a wonderful man who should already have settled down with a wife and children. But now Marc was confessing he'd always been crazy about her, that he wanted to be a second father to her little girl. How could Ginny resist such a tempting offer? How could she betray her memories and succumb to another man's embrace?

Author : John Bailey
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 1743342144
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jefferson's Second Father written by John Bailey and published by Pan. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He was my ancient master, my earliest and best friend; and to him I am indebted for first impressions which have had the most salutary influence on the course of my life." —Thomas Jefferson on George Wythe, 1806 This is the story of George Wythe, a man determined, steadfast and courageous, described by Benjamin Rush as possessing "dove-like simplicity and gentleness of manner." From his humble beginnings as a circuit lawyer in Virginia, Wythe was a prominent opponent of slavery and was instrumental in the creation of the constitution. His distinguished career saw him appointed the first professor of law in the United States. Wythe witnessed most of the great events leading to America's independence and formation as a nation and was a signatory to the Declaration of Independence. And then, in 1806, Wythe was murdered. This book tells the story of George Wythe's life, his amazing legacy, his role as second father to the fathers of the nation and offers a solution to the mystery of his bizarre and tragic death. Praise for The Lost German Slave Girl "Bailey has the gift of a novelist and a readiness to blend fact and conjecture ... What followed is a mystery, and an entirely fascinating one." - Washington Post "He has crafted a compelling tale of one woman's complex life ... and in the process he has given readers a revealing look at one of the darker periods of American history." - Miami Herald "Bailey, that rare scholar whose writing lives and breathes..." - Boston Globe "Reads like a splendid legal thriller." - Sydney Morning Herald

Author : Jeffrey Archer
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429949031
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sins of the Father written by Jeffrey Archer and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the heels of the international bestseller Only Time Will Tell, Jeffrey Archer picks up the sweeping story of the Clifton Chronicles.... Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of long-buried family secrets, and forced to accept that his desire to marry Emma Barrington will never be fulfilled, has joined the Merchant Navy. But his ship is sunk in the Atlantic by a German U-boat, drowning almost the entire crew. An American cruise liner, the SS Kansas Star, rescues a handful of sailors, among them Harry and the third officer, an American named Tom Bradshaw. When Bradshaw dies in the night, Harry seizes on the chance to escape his tangled past and assumes his identity. But on landing in America, he quickly learns the mistake he has made, when he discovers what is awaiting Bradshaw in New York. Without any way of proving his true identity, Harry Clifton is now chained to a past that could be far worse than the one he had hoped to escape.

Author : Romano Mussolini
Publisher : Kales Press
ISBN 13 : 9780967007687
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Father Il Duce written by Romano Mussolini and published by Kales Press. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Breaking a lifelong silence about his father "before it was too late," Romano Mussolini opens the floodgates to reveal the family life of one of World War II's seminal figures, Benito Mussolini. In this historical, revisionist memoir, Romano offers a son's unique perspective through never-before-published revelations steeped in intimate details of Mussolini's many adulteries; his sense of supremacy and destiny for greatness; his alliance with Hitler; and finally, his detachment from reality. Mussolini is further humanized as a caring family man who encouraged education and wept at his daughter's wedding."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Sibylle Lacan
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262039311
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Father written by Sibylle Lacan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan tries to make sense of her relationship with her father. “When I was born, my father was already no longer there.” Sibylle Lacan's memoir of her father, the influential French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, is told through fragmentary, elliptical episodes, and describes a figure who had defined himself to her as much by his absence as by his presence. Sibylle was the second daughter and unhappy last child of Lacan's first marriage: the fruit of despair (“some will say of desire, but I do not believe them”). Lacan abandoned his old family for a new one: a new partner, Sylvia Bataille (the wife of Georges Bataille), and another daughter, born a few months after Sibylle. For years, this daughter, Judith, was the only publicly recognized child of Lacan—even if, due to French law, she lacked his name. In one sense, then, A Father presents the voice of one who, while bearing his name, had been erased. If Jacques Lacan had described the word as a “presence made of absence,” Sibylle Lacan here turns to the language of the memoir as a means of piecing together the presence of a man who had entered her life in absence, and in his passing, finished in it. In its interplay of absence, naming, and the despair engendered by both, A Father ultimately poses an essential question: what is a father? This first-person account offers both a riposte and a complement to the concept (and the name) of the father as Lacan had defined him in his work, and raises difficult issues about the influence biography can have on theory—and vice versa—and the sometimes yawning divide that can open up between theory and the lives we lead.

Author : Alessandra Bucossi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317110714
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium written by Alessandra Bucossi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emperor John II Komnenos (1118–1143) has been overshadowed by both his father Alexios I and his son Manuel I. Written sources have not left us much evidence regarding his reign, although authors agree that he was an excellent emperor. However, the period witnessed territorial expansion in Asia Minor as well as the construction of the most important monastic complex of twelfth-century Constantinople. What else do we know about John’s rule and its period? This volume opens up new perspectives on John’s reign and clearly demonstrates that many innovations generally attributed to the genius of Manuel Komnenos had already been fostered during the reign of the second great Komnenos. Leading experts on twelfth-century Byzantium (Jeffreys, Magdalino, Ousterhout) are joined by representatives of a new generation of Byzantinists to produce a timely and invaluable study of the unjustly neglected figure of John Komnenos.

Author : William Whitehead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Father ... The Second Edition written by William Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ivan Turgenev
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141934654
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fathers and Sons written by Ivan Turgenev and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought with him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkady's father by criticizing the landowning way of life and by his outspoken determination to sweep away traditional values of contemporary Russian society. Turgenev's depiction of the conflict between generations and their ideals stunned readers when Fathers and Sons was first published in 1862. But many could also sympathize with Arkady's fascination with its nihilist hero whose story vividly captures the hopes and regrets of a changing Russia.

Author : Alessandro Gavazzi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orations by Father Gavazzi. (Decade the Second. With Sketches of Previous Reformers of the Italian Church.). written by Alessandro Gavazzi and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: