Just Another Innocent Life

Just Another Innocent Life
Author: Algernon
Publisher: Undefined Publishing
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2016-02-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780997071207

The death of a police detective's young daughter rocks a town and creates a scandal, which exposes many dark secrets as the lover of the cop's wife is charged in the unthinkable crime. - BASED ON ACTUAL EVENTS

Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China

Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China
Author: Kang Zhengguo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 720
Release: 2008-06-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393069761

"A mesmerizing read…A literary work of high distinction.” —William Grimes, New York Times This “gripping and poignant memoir” (New York Times Book Review) draws us into the intersections of everyday life and Communist power from the first days of “Liberation” in 1949 through the post-Mao era. The son of a professional family, Kang Zhengguo is a free spirit, drawn to literature. In Mao’s China, these innocuous circumstances expose him at age twenty to a fierce struggle session, expulsion from university, and a four-year term of hard labor. So begins his long stay in the prison-camp system. He finally escapes the Chinese gulag by forfeiting his identity: at age twenty-eight he is adopted by an aging bachelor in a peasant village, which enables him to start a new life.

Dare To Stay

Dare To Stay
Author: Jen McLaughlin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2016-08-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0698410939

The sizzling second novel in the gritty contemporary Sons of Steel Row series from the author of Dare to Run. Bruised and bloodied on Boston’s mean streets, Chris O’Brien is reeling from the loss of his childhood best friend. But after barely escaping a hit placed on his head, Chris is desperate to live. A chance encounter leads him to the perfect safe haven—the home of a girl from his childhood, Molly Lachlan. Before he has fully considered what it would mean to involve her in his mess, he lets her take him home. For Molly, letting Chris into her house means also letting him into her life. Danger and desperation are coming off of him like steam, and yet she can’t bring herself to turn him away. His bad boy charm always had a hold on her, but now there’s a soulfulness and sorrow in him that she’s never seen before. And despite the heart-stopping risk of helping him, she hopes against all reason that he’ll stay...

Model for a Better Future

Model for a Better Future
Author: Kim Alexis
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
Total Pages: 175
Release: 1999-01-12
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1418561703

Before achieving international fame as the world's most photographed supermodel, Kim Alexis was a small-town girl with small-town aspirations. Her Cinderella-like discovery by a New York talent scout whisked her into the glittering but high-pressure world of professional modeling at age eighteen. Kim scarcely had time to catch her breath in the fast-lane life of supermodel, surrounded by superstars, the super-rich, and the super-powerful. The things she witnessed sent her small-town sensibilities reeling: a supermodel friend ho destroyed her life with heroin hairdressers and makeup artists dying of a strange new plague called AIDS casual drug use and immorality at New York's infamous Studio 54 In this deeply personal and powerful book, famed supermodel, actress, athlete, spokesperson, wife, and mother Kim Alexis tells how she escaped the snares and temptations that destroyed many of her peers. With frankness and conviction, warmth and humor, she brings you in close for a one on one conversation on how to build a stable home, how to be an effective parent, and how to combat the moral population that threatens families, communities, and the nation. If you've ever wondered what one person can do to change the world, then this book is for you. "God works through little people like you and me," writes Kim Alexis-and in A Model for a Better Future she shows how you can make a difference for a better tomorrow.

After Botham

After Botham
Author: Allisa Charles-Findley
Publisher: Chalice Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2023-09-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 082720115X

On September 6, 2018, White Dallas police officer Amber Guyger opened the door of Apartment 1478. Inside, Botham Jean lay on his couch, having hung up from the daily call with his sister, Allisa. She’d encouraged her brother to stay home for the night’s opening Dallas Cowboys game as sports bars would be too dangerous. Guyger instantly assumed the large black man watching the game was a burglar in her home. She shot him, then failed to render aid as he succumbed to the wound she’d inflicted. Officer Guyger forever altered the lives of the hundreds who knew and loved this kind-hearted young man who lead worship at his church and worked diligently at Price Waterhouse Cooper. This is Allisa’s story of what happened to her brother, and how she fought through the aftermath to find life After Botham.

The Sun Does Shine

The Sun Does Shine
Author: Anthony Ray Hinton
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2018-03-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250124719

"A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--

BAHKRUUNE

BAHKRUUNE
Author: Yuriy Ivanov
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2022-04-20
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1637109474

BAHKRUUNE means to revert with a duel purpose. The rune is old Norse meaning, return ill will to the originator. I hope you will understand by the time you finished reading my autobiography of my life and will understand why I chose to use the rune and the name of my own design for the intent of insight and understanding of the choices that are given to us and how and why to that which affects us and others around us. Only an Earl of Norway from a Noble inheritance or birthright can enact BloodEagle on it's Subjects given the severity of the wrongful actions against its victims. Should the punished scream before the ritual of BloodEagle is finished, Odin will deny the right of passage to the halls of Valhalla. Had my heart been poisonous in the form of Vengeance and Hatred and if it were up to me and if I was a Earl of Norway, I would enact such measures of BloodEagle on my adopted parents given the severity of their actions towards me to where the punishment is equal to how I have felt for the last 26 years of my life. The Super Nova that is inside my heart that has been boiling is currently being held at bay of my own free will knowing the choices that can be given from the premeditated offensive actions that can cause and effect that is around me most inflicting what I care about the most, for which I cannot allow. YURIY MIKHAYLOVICH IVANOV

Social and Political Philosophy

Social and Political Philosophy
Author: James P. Sterba
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2002-11-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134602456

Social and Political Philosophy introduces some of the most important topics in contemporary political philosophy and questions whether these can be accommodated within the framework of liberal theory. It consists of specially written essays by prominent figures in social and political philosophy. Each essay carefully considers both the theoretical and practical problems of a major topic. Traditional perspectives are balanced with new challenges. Topics include: * Moral Methodology * Libertarianism * Socialism * Lesbian and Gay Perspectives * Feminism * Racial and Multicultural Perspectives * Rationality * Welfare Liberalism * Environmentalism * Virtue Ethics and Community * Just War Theory and Pacifism * Civil Disobedience.

Dying To Exist

Dying To Exist
Author: K. M. Ryan
Publisher: K. M. Ryan
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN:

"Dying To Exist" offers 104 uplifting stories of women and men who planned on aborting their babies when they found out they were pregnant but changed their minds and had them. These true, heartwarming and inspiring stories share how the abortions had been planned but were not carried through; all had considered abortions but changed their minds. Some women decided on abortions quickly due to an unplanned teenage pregnancy while others thought about it for a while or were pressured into it. Some told close friends and families about their pregnancies when they first discovered they were pregnant; others didn't tell anyone or told only one person - the father, a parent or friend. Some agonized over whether to go through with an abortion due to their beliefs while others considered abortion because they did not have the financial resources to raise a child. Still others weighed both physical and psychological effects of abortion as they struggled with thoughts of terminating their pregnancies. You'll read stories of mothers and fathers who live with the regret, shame and guilt of considering abortion. Some parents who chose not to abort say their babies are gifts from God or that having their babies was something that was meant to be. All look at their babies today and say how they have turned into the biggest blessings of their lives. They all knew their lives would change if they had an abortion - and if they did not have an abortion. You'll read touching stories from women who had support from their families and the fathers, and others who did not. While most of the mothers and fathers chose to raise their babies, some decided on giving up baby for adoption. These moving and poignant real-life stories are comforting and encouraging. They speak of women and men who do not regret having their babies and who feel they could never have lived with themselves if they had gone through with the abortions. All feel that having their babies has given them a new life's purpose and that their lives are forever changed by their children's births. We know you'll be filled with inspiration, comfort and hope as you read about mothers and fathers who now have a new outlook on pregnancy and abortion; who now believe that life and babies are beautiful gifts. "Dying To Exist" is good for crisis pregnancy centers, abortion alternative centers, counselors, psychologists, pastors, family and friends of women and men facing unexpected pregnancies, and anyone who finds themselves with an unplanned pregnancy and isn't sure what to do or where to turn.

Quality of Life

Quality of Life
Author: James J. Walter
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1990
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780809131914

For the first time this book brings together many of the important essays that have shaped the debate on the quality of life.