My Brothers' Footsteps

My Brothers' Footsteps
Author: Gloria Marshall
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2014-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1452517967
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My Brothers' Footsteps will take you back one hundred years in Canada's history. Young men and women answered the call, boarded ships, and sailed to the battlefield in Europe. The unspeakable horrors of war awaited them as they fought bravely for their king and country. My Brothers' Footsteps take you into the rat infested trenches, the battlefield riddled with shell holes, and the pain and suffering of the wounded. Many never returned home, and those that did were broken in body and spirit. This was a time of fierce loyalty and pride. The Great War forged a nation but it came with tremendous sacrifice. This is a must-read for every Canadian, whether young or old!

A Life in Smoke

A Life in Smoke
Author: Julia Hansen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2006-11-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1416542590
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"I accepted the certainty of my untimely death with gallows humor and a calculator. I'd read somewhere that each cigarette you smoke knocks seven minutes off your time on the planet. To amuse myself, I did the math: 153,000 cigarettes = two years of my life, up in smoke." Julia Hansen first lit up at nineteen. Twenty years later, she was editing books about health -- and smoking a pack or two a day. She denied her son fast food, but smoked in the house and car; curtailed his video games, but lit up at his soccer matches. Despite repeated attempts to quit, she always crawled back to her beloved menthol lights. Smoking had become a metaphorical chain around her neck, shackling her to an early death. Haunted by a nightmarish vision of her future -- her son at her deathbed, begging her not to leave him -- Hansen devised a drastic quit method. She bought a 72-foot length of chain that was "unwieldy as a corpse" and locked herself to a radiator in her dining room. What followed: seven days of cold-turkey misery, comic absurdity, and revelation as Hansen stepped from behind her wall of smoke to face her addiction to nicotine -- and some painful truths. Clanking around her house like Marley's ghost, white-knuckling cravings, and struggling to understand tobacco's unyielding grip on her, Hansen confronted her life in smoke: fractured relationships, lifelong battles with alcohol and depression, and a profound sense of emptiness. On day 1, the chain was her addiction to nicotine, each link a story about cigarettes and self-loathing. By day 7, it had revealed its ringing, rattling truth -- that every smoker has a story, and it always centers on clinging to a comfort that can kill you. In the end, Hansen's story was painfully simple: She smoked to survive her life. And then, to save it, she quit. Fierce and funny, honest and utterly absorbing, A Life in Smoke is Julia Hansen's evocative and inspiring account of the extreme measures she took to quit smoking -- decidedly not recommended by the medical profession.

Nightshadow Chronicles

Nightshadow Chronicles
Author: Christopher Scott
Publisher: Booktango
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2016-05-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1468951521
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The book is set in a seemingly normal part of New York. However all is not as it seems as a object of incredible magical power is stolen. A group of warriors known as the Nightshadows are tasked with finding and retrieving the object with help from the high races. By accident Katarina, is thrust into this world after a post concert attack by something. With a chance two Nightshadows manage to save her from the attack. Purposefully given something that would make her forget. An accidental encounter a few days later, after she recognizes one her saviors at a record store. She takes an exciting and dangerous journey, into the world just beneath our own.

Kids of New York

Kids of New York
Author: Anthony Colon
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2023-11-21
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN:
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The author was born in the South Bronx in 1970, a time when chaos and despair wreaked havoc on the community, in a place where crime ruled the streets, where hope and poverty lived on the same side of the block. A young mother decided to take her baby boy and ran. She packed up and moved to a better place, a town called Springfield. It was a new home, where the butterflies hummed and the hummingbirds chirped to a new melody. The young boy lived his younger years in a state of bliss, that is until the dark clouds rolled in. The family fell on hard times. The author's biggest worries were where was the next meal coming from or how to stay warm in a frigid apartment. Times were tough, but the young boy kept his resolve and was undeterred by all the misery around him. He found a better place, a place inside himself. Even though everything around him was falling apart--including his family life, school, and friendships--he never faltered and kept his chin up. When you hit rock bottom, there is only one way to go: up. Like the saying goes, "Seven times down, eight times up." Throughout the years, the author was able to overcome great adversity and make a better life for himself. He has owned and operated several martial arts schools in the New York City area. The author also founded the Kids of New York, an organization which holds free events for city youth including breaking (breakdance) and martial arts. Hope is what gives us direction. Passion is the wings beneath are feet. Anything is possible despite the obstacles we may face. Just keep moving forward, and you will surely reach a better place. Karate, Anthony.

The Hybrid's Mate

The Hybrid's Mate
Author: Morgan Dawson
Publisher: Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2021-10-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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Bronwen James has a complicated life. She lives in a small Massachusetts town with her Dad and her older brother, Alec. Her Dad is quiet notorious around town, but not for any reason that's good. He's known as the town drunk who killed his wife. Bronwen is known around school as the chunky, nerdy girl with the weird name and drunk murderer for a father. Life is hell. Add in an intense, long time crush on a guy who only pays attention to her when he's telling her what's wrong with her body... Things change when she meets the new kids at school. A dangerously sexy bad boy and his overly friendly sister. There is something strange about the pair, but she can't place what is off about them. But when her new friend offers to give her a makeover, to make her the kind of girl no guy can resist, how far is she willing to take it? Bronwen wants to get the boy, but she's beginning to wonder which boy she wants. The sexy bad boy or her brother's best friend? When she becomes the vampire's project, how far will they take it? Will she trade in her average life to become a vampire herself?

Voices of Resistance

Voices of Resistance
Author: Judy Maloof
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2014-07-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0813148138
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Latin American women were among those who led the suffrage movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and their opposition to military dictatorships has galvanized more recent political movements throughout the region. But because of the continuous attempts to silence them, activists have struggled to make their voices heard. At the heart of Voices of Resistance are the testimonies of thirteen women who fought for human rights and social justice in their communities. Some played significant roles in the Cuban Revolution of 1959, while others organized grassroots resistance to the seventeen-year Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Though the women share many objectives, they are a diverse group, ranging in age from thirty to eighty and coming from varied ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. The Cuban and Chilean women Judy Maloof interviewed use the narrative form to reinvent themselves. Maloof includes narratives from a poet, a tobacco worker, a political prisoner, an artist, and a social worker to demonstrate the different faces of their struggle. In the process, these women were able to begin to put together their fragmented lives. Speaking out is both a means for personal liberation and a political act of protest against authoritarian regimes. The bond that these women have is not simply that they have suffered; they share a commitment to resisting violence and confronting inequities at great personal risk.

Claimed by the Moon

Claimed by the Moon
Author: L.P. Dover
Publisher: Books by L.P. Dover, LLC
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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Sexy wolves and heart-stopping action await in Claimed by the Moon, the highly-anticipated continuation of the Royal Shifters series by New York Times and USA Today best-selling author L.P. Dover! In his 200 years of life, Zayne Lyall has made his share of enemies. The most ruthless of all being Knox Channon, who seeks vengeance for a pack war that took place over a hundred years ago. To gain information he can use to bring Zayne down, Knox reconnects with Amelie Graye, a past love who joined the Royal pack Zayne belongs to. Unfortunately, Amelie doesn't know much about the royal arctic... despite a longing within her to be near him. Amelie and Knox have a tumultuous past that ended after she and her family went rogue following an attack by the Sierra pack. While she has no details to offer about Zayne, Knox sniffing around her leaves his inner wolf snarling. More than anything Zayne wants to charge in and protect the woman his heart aches for. But he has a secret... and it could cost him everything. Amelie is his fated mate. If Knox were to discover this, he would know hurting her would be the key to destroying Zayne. Torn between his desire to claim Amelie as his own and his ferocious passion to protect her, can Zayne find a way to bring down his malicious enemy? Or will an age old vendetta rob him of a blissful future with his bonded mate? *** The ROYAL SHIFTERS series Turn of the Moon Resisting the Moon Rise of the Moon Unleashed by the Moon Bound by the Moon Claimed by the Moon Taken Under the Moon Awakened by the Moon This book will resonate with people looking to read: free ebook, free paranormal romance, free werewolf books, free werewolf romance, free reads, free shifter book, free shifter romance, paranormal romance, hot paranormal romance, steamy paranormal romance, shifter romance, sexy shifter romance, paranormal romance for adults, spicy shifter romance, werewolf books, werewolf romance, alpha wolf romance, fated mates, fated mates romance, blood bond, wolf bond, shifter romance for adults, royal shifters, royal shifters series, fae romance, L.P. Dover, complete series, werewolf series, shifters series, dark magic, fae, magic, claiming, mate bond, werewolves, small-town romance, feel-good romance, contemporary romance, romantic comedy, series, romantic comedy series, racy, sexy, heartwarming, heart-warming romance, family, love, love books, kissing books, emotional journey, contemporary, contemporary romance, romance series, long series, long romance series, sassy, captivating romance, hot, hot romance, forbidden love, sparks, loyalty, swoon, beach romance, books for summer, books for the beach, beach series, books for winter, love in bloom, wicked, dirty, fierce, alpha heroes, funny romance, laugh romance, modern romance, smart romance, something funny to read, billionaire, billionaire romance, love story, millionaire, wealthy heroes, happily ever after, happy ending, dark romance, hot romance, romance for adults, contemporary romance, funny romance, funny romance new, swoonworthy, romance series, romance series, romance books, beach reads, new adult, small-town, funny, female, stories, sensual, sensual romance, alpha male, dominant male, hot guy, fun summer reads, love and friendship, new romance series, hot romance series, new beach read, free beach house book, free beach romance, free summer romance, free vacation romance, free summer book, steamy romance, romance series, family romance, big family, friend romance, friends to lovers, contemporary crush, love story, romance love, new adult romance, billionaire romance, contemporary romance and sex, friendship.

Haunted

Haunted
Author: Jeanne C. Stein
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2012-08-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 110161126X
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Anna Strong—kick-ass bounty hunter and vampire—has made some enemies in her time. But it’s not just her old foes she should be worried about in this novel in Jeanne C. Stein's national bestselling series. Anna’s shape-shifting friend Culebra finally opens up to her about his life before he owned Beso de la Muerte, a bar catering to supernatural clientele. As if summoned by the conversation, Culebra’s past stumbles into his bar in the form of an old buddy cashing in a favor. Soon Anna, Culebra and her ex, DEA agent Max, find themselves deep in Mexico, dealing with drug cartel infighting, old vendettas and missing girls. Mexico just may prove to be Anna’s best match yet...

State of Summer

State of Summer
Author:
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2014-01-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 148080438X
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Summer Hayes is new to heartbreak when a guy shes dating cheats on her during her first year of college in Los Angeles. Now distrusting men and determined to take advantage of her new single lifestyle, Summer decides to record every detail of her journey to redefine herself. She has no idea that her decision will soon lead her down a dangerous path and send her life spinning out of control. After surviving a freshman year that turns out to be even more superficial than high school, Summer moves back into the dorms at her dream school, where she has the coolest job on campus and a new group of friends. Unfortunately, there is only one thing missing: the perfect guy. Even as a past love captivates her thoughts, Summer willingly accepts lust instead of love and abandons all personal responsibility. Led by a desire for revenge, she engages in late-night debauchery, choosing to live without regrets. Now only time will tell if she can live up to her new mantra and finally forget about the one person who constantly occupies her thoughts. State of Summer shares the compelling journey of a California college student as she struggles to keep pace with the life she has created for herself and faces the consequences of her lost innocence.

Dick Merriwell's Assurance; Or, In His Brother's Footsteps

Dick Merriwell's Assurance; Or, In His Brother's Footsteps
Author: Burt L. Standish
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2021-11-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:
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Frank Merriwell goes on yet another of his boyish escapades to help Fardale Military Academy beat Great Northern A.A. in baseball. The Merriwell series is rich in fun and thrills in all branches of sports and athletics with high moral expectations sure to enlighten readers everywhere.