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Sweet Blessings is the first book in the Be Strong Enough Series Spin Off. Michael and Christine's Story.A captivating and bittersweet romance.Michael and Christine had it all. A great marriage, beautiful daughter, wonderful friends and, they were living their dream - working together at The Inn in Rhode Island.The only thing Christine wanted to do was...take her daughter to dance class. She never expected to come face-to-face with Brin's identical. That day, Christine discovered her husband was keeping a secret from her; leaving their world upside down. Trying to sort through the madness of it all, Christine takes her daughter and heads back to where it all began for her and Michael - the bakery. Unbeknownst to Christine, she too is carrying her own secret. Despite her fears and apprehension, she knows she must deal with both situations because everyone's future depends on it.

The historic coastal town that is a tourist destination for the most fascinated with the history of Portugal and for the scenic locations that the town can provide. It has caves and an old castle that was once a part of the slave trade. There were secret tunnels that lead from the castle to the caves along the shoreline.There was a caretaker that lived at the castle who had been violent and short tempered. He had murdered and tortured many former slaves and kidnapped woman. They were raped and some managed to escape. The men attacked the castle in retaliation of their woman being kidnapped and raped and mistreated. The castle caretakers had many weapons and was able to have several men arrested and tortured.

Meet Cardinal Wolf, a young man trying to find meaning in a world through newfound powerful vision. Cardinal Wolf endures a traumatic event that grants him the power to see what others fail to. This power grants him the ability to see invisible, dapper dressed, androgenous, and faceless creatures he relates to as Suits. These Suits find refuge in their home the Heart of Man where they submit to the authority of their leader, while domineering their rivals, Virtues which Cardinal relates to as Hoodies. Walk through life with Cardinal as he wrestles with understanding the power he was gifted with, the purpose of the Suits and Hoodies, and preparing for the perplexing paradigm shift in the world.Endorsement:I Am Cardinal Wolf by Roderick Kenney II is a must-read for anyone seeking a candid and intimate portrayal of the struggles and challenges that come with life after sexual abuse. Kenney's raw, authentic and deeply moving storytelling takes the reader on a journey of pain, triumph and self-acceptance that is truly remarkable. The cardinal wolf serves as a poignant metaphor for the author's own journey toward recovery, adding depth and complexity to the story. Kenney's courageous and honest storytelling is a true testament to the strength of the human spirit and the transformative power of literature.¿Chad Herold, Pastor at Richmond Point Church Missouri City, TxAbout the Author:Roderick Christopher Kenney II was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in Vallejo, California with his 6 siblings. Roderick was raised by both parents in a strict Christian household. Roderick attended Saint Mary's College of California, where he met his wife Aleysha Kenney, and received a degree in business marketing. After receiving his degree, he pursued his dream to become a professional golfer on the PGA tour. Roderick currently resides in Houston, Texas.

Italy, 1943. With tears in her eyes, Giulia listens out for the sound of bombers flying overhead and thinks of the baby growing inside of her. Through the fabric of her lace dress her fingers touch the cold bullets carefully sewn into the seams. Luca might never forgive her, but she has to do this... New York, present day. When Tori Coleman discovers that her mother was adopted, her whole world shatters. Jeremy, her boyfriend, wants to get married, but how can Tori commit when she doesn't know who she truly is? The only clue to the identity of her biological family is a mysterious postcard with a photograph of an ornate wedding dress her grandmother Giulia made, which she's told was gifted to a museum on an Italian island... Tori arrives on Ciani island, surrounded by turquoise Mediterranean waters, with the sweet smell of orange blossom filling the air. She soon finds the museum and learns that Giulia was Jewish, and secretly lived there during World War Two. She thought her grandmother abandoned her mother, but was she forced to leave and give up her child? Just as she's getting closer to answers, an unexpected call from Jeremy stops Tori in her tracks. As he passionately urges her to find out the truth, suddenly Tori wishes he were in Italy by her side, ready to propose again. But then Tori is shocked to find bullets sewn into the lining of one of Giulia's dresses and a notebook claiming she did something terrible during World War Two. Will the secrets in her family help her follow her own heart, or send her home from Italy with it finally broken forever? An enchanting, unforgettable novel about desperate decisions in the dark days of war and the uplifting power of true love. Perfect for fans of Lucinda Riley, Soraya Lane and Victoria Hislop. What readers are saying about Barbara Josselsohn: "Totally enchanting. I was immediately under the spell of the characters, it's gorgeous setting and the fast-paced plot... will capture your heart." Goodreads reviewer, ¿¿¿¿¿ "The epitome of enchanting... phenomenal... magic... I cannot recommend it enough. I even stopped reading halfway through to check to see if there would be more in the series." Goodreads reviewer, ¿¿¿¿¿ "Phenomenal... will rank in my top 2023 historical fiction reads!... It grabbed my attention immediately and had me eagerly flipping pages by the end of the first chapter!... There's so much to love about this story!... I know I've found an auto-read author. I can't wait for the second instalment." Goodreads reviewer, ¿¿¿¿¿

This special edition includes Despot Times, an even more absurd alternate version of the almost, but not quite, award-winning book, Small Stories: A Perfectly Absurd Novel. The Town Administrator is extorting residents!Subversive senior citizens are on the march!Crazed ponies rampage through the streets!Exclamation marks keep popping! up! everywhere!Duncan and Maya Small have just relocated to a new town. Again. And almost immediately, Duncan is ready to move on thanks to a power-obsessed local official who has it out for him. But Maya has ideas of her own.The Smalls soon discover nothing in their new town is at it seems, but one thing is certain - there's something funny going on.Small Stories: A Perfectly Absurd Novel, is a comic tale about life, power, and new beginnings in a quirky little town that's decidedly off-the-wall, yet remarkably familiar. It's about the last Welcome Wagon, secret societies, and bake sales. It's about Duncan Small's fixation on process and Maya Small's unforeseen celebrity. It's about unexpected friendships, which may turn out to be the best kind there are. In this alternate version, Despot TImes, Maya and Duncan face all the challenges of the original story, but now they also have to contend with a host of history's B-list monarchs, one of whom is trying to make a comeback and isn't about to let a little thing like being dead for centuries stand in the way.

Slavery. A crime against humanity and the basis for a whole economy in one of the most shameful aspects of our history is the backdrop against which Lucky Nat is painted. Based on a true and all but forgotten incident, part sea chase and part courtroom drama, it is the story of the capture, trial, and execution of Captain Nathanial Gordon, the only slaver executed for piracy using an 1820 law that declared all slavers to be pirates and if found guilty hanged, Commander Sylvanus Godon of the US Navy's Africa Squadron, who captured him at sea, and those men who brought him to justice and fought in his defense in a controversial landmark case that reaches from the Circuit Court of the Southern District of New York City to Washington and the newly elected President Lincoln.

A book of collected poems on topics ranging from poetry itself to the unanswerable questions.On Poetry, A Few Greeks, The Presence of Absence, Cycles, Copper Pennies, Months, Wanderings and Wonderings, H2O, Family, Progression, Currents, War, Music, My Yard, Pen to Paper, Closing Lines, One Absolutely Last Poem

1939. Small town, Western Australia. As the world slides into war, Dorothy and Mick's marriage slides into deeper and deeper trouble. Even the welcome arrival of a child can't save the situation and eventually, with no options left, Dorothy takes her daughter and moves back in with her parents. For Mick, the failed marriage is a catalyst for him to escape a lonely exile by enlisting in the Australian Army. He finds the swell of patriotism sweeping the nation grants him equal plaudits of admiration for his courage and sympathy for his family situation. Dorothy, returned to her domineering Father's abode, is eyed by her neighbours. She is expected to be an exemplary mother, a dutiful daughter and step up to fulfil the requirements and demands of a country at war. She must be seen to be faultless. As Mick is sent overseas and into the hell of the North African Campaign, from the siege of Tobruk to the victory at El Alamein, Dorothy is seconded by the War Effort Manpower act to work within the Western Australian lunatic asylum. From the North African desert to Jungle Warfare training in readiness for the nightmares of New Guinea and Borneo, and from small town attitudes to the living torture of the asylum, the war years will test the resilience of all. For love, courage, despair or happiness have no regard for rank or status, and neither will circumstances grant wish-upon-a-star moments. What matters is your ability to cope with what life brings; be that over here, or over there. An Australian saga of love, war, family, friendships, darkness and lightand one woman's ability to survive it all.

Tina Edwards loved her childhood and creating fairy houses, a passion shared with her father, a world-renowned architect. But at nine years old, she found him dead at his desk and is haunted by this memory. Tina's mother abruptly moved away leaving Tina with feelings of abandonment and suspicion. Raised by her loving, wheelchair-bound Aunt Liddy, her father's sister, 33 year old Tina has become a miniature room artist and cherishes the control she has over her life in Northeast Georgia as she works hard to please her beloved dead father's wishes of following in his footsteps in art and history. At the same time Mr. Jake Martin, all six-foot three of him, with a heavy southern drawl and winsome dimple, hires Tina to build replicas of the original rooms of his own family's Victorian mansion purchased to turn into a B&B, Tina's estranged, dying mother re-enters her life with family secrets that must be told. Amid their research for Jake, Tina and her assistant find out that stories from his past were unfounded and prove that miscommunications and misperceptions passed down through families create unwarranted, painful separations, echoing Tina's life story.

Homers Ilias, der Kampf um Troja, ist eine Mischung von Sympathie, Esprit und Gänsehaut, ein inspiratives Feuerwerk ¿ ein Geschenk. Doch ja, die Geschichte ist schon spannend, viel Waffengeklirr auf beiden Seiten, viel Action, Mord und Totschlag ¿ und viel Sex, mehr oder minder freizügig. Aber da war doch? Richtig! Das hölzerne Pferd, die versteckten Griechen, die geöffneten Tore, die Eroberung der Stadt, Totschlag, Verwüstung, Plünderung und Brandschatzung. Und, vor allem, was ist aus der schönen Helena geworden, um die so lange erbittert gekämpft worden war? Und was aus ihrem Lover, Paris, mit seiner Apfelwahl auf dem Ida der eigentliche Verursacher des ganzen Debakels? Damit Sie sich ein Bild machen können, erzähle ich Ihnen hier die Geschichte mit einer Auswahl der fulminantesten oder megacoolsten Highlights. Um dem Original Rechnung zu tragen, kommt Homer selbst mit der Ilias immer wieder zu Wort. Und wenn Sie erst einmal Ihre Antipathien gegen und vor allem Sympathien für einige Helden oder vielleicht auch Götter verteilt haben, wird die Geschichte Sie nicht mehr loslassen, denn Sie tauchen ein in ihr Schicksal. Es bleibt die Frage: Was heißt und zu welchem Ende werden Kriege geführt? Wie oft werden ganze Völker, die in Frieden leben, aufgewiegelt, in einen Krieg, in Tod und Zerstörung gezogen, den ihnen eine Religion, eine Ideologie, eine Politik, eine Utopie aufzwingt, weil Einzelne eigensüchtig ihren Willen hypertroph durchsetzen wollen? Die Quintessenz der Ilias: Was auch immer Du tust, tue es überlegt und bedenke das Ende eine Regel, die, missachtet, zu allen Zeiten viel Unheil angerichtet hat. Homer zeigt zum ersten Mal in der Menschheitsgeschichte alle Facetten dieser Missachtung. Seit dreitausend Jahren wiederholen sich die Vorgänge ¿ bis heute.

A factual report that deals with the topic of Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) after a divorce. Presented from the perspective of a father who tried for seven years to maintain contact with his child and dramatically describes how there are hardly any socio-pedagogical and legal options to counteract this. It clearly shows how those involved in German family law play for time. Children's rights and intact social ties are accepted as collateral damage.

Pin darf auf keinen Fall werden wie ihre Mutter, aber niemand will ihr sagen, warum. Sie sucht nach Hinweisen in den bunten Köstlichkeiten, die die Mutter je nach Gemütslage in der Küche zaubert - roter Chili steht für Gefahr, Kohl in Kokossauce für >alles paletti< -, wenn sie nicht gerade andere Kämpfe austrägt: als Stipendiatin an einer Eliteschule, als sichtbare Punjabi in der multikulturellen Metropole Singapur, Tag für Tag rassistisch angegangen vom Schulbusfahrer, als einziges Mädchen in einer Jungenclique. Ihr Rückzugsort ist ihre kleine Familie, ihre zärtliche Beziehung zum Vater - bis die übergriffige Großmutter zu ihnen in die kleine Wohnung zieht, das Porträt eines wachsamen Sikh-Gurus an die Wohnzimmerwand hängt und eine neue Hausordnung installiert. Gut gehütete Geheimnisse aus der Vergangenheit drängen ans Licht. Ist Pin stark genug, um die Wahrheit auszuhalten? Ein komplexes Familiendrama, das die Spannungen zwischen Moderne und Tradition auslotet, und eine sehr tiefgehende, schmerzhaft-warmherzige Geschichte über Kindheit und Erwachsenwerden. Voll von Farben, Gerüchen, Geschäckern - von Leben.Shortlist Singapore Book Awards und Singapore Literature Prize

Band 3 der Stadt.Geschichte.Basel untersucht, wie sich Basel im Spätmittelalter von einer kleinen Bischofsstadt zur mittelgrossen Zunftstadt entwickelt. Bauliche Verdichtung, Bevölkerungswachstum und politischer Wandel prägen die Stadt zwischen 1250 und 1530 in einer bis heute spürbaren Weise. Von den Bettelorden zu Humanismus und Reformation, von einer christlichen Mehrheitsgesellschaft zur rein christlichen Stadt, von den Dienstleuten des Bischofs zu den Zünften, vom Gewerbe zu den Handelsgesellschaften und vom Städtebund zur Eidgenossenschaft: Dieser Wandel musste stets ausgehandelt werden und verlieh der Stadt und der Gesellschaft ein Gesicht, das wir zu kennen meinen. Doch der Eindruck trügt, und so zeigt der Band in Vertrautem Unbekanntes, in Gewohntem Entferntes und in Kontinuitäten historische Differenz.

James Baldwins (1924-1987) Essay «Stranger in the Village», den der grosse amerikanische Schriftsteller Anfang der 1950er Jahre während eines Aufenthalts im Schweizer Alpendorf Leukerbad verfasst hat, ist Ausgangspunkt für dieses Buch. Es dokumentiert eine künstlerische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema Rassismus in der Schweiz und insbesondere im Kunst- und Kulturbetrieb. Werke internationaler zeitgenössischen Kunstschaffenden wie Igshaan Adams, Kader Attia, Omar Ba, James Bantone, Marlene Dumas, Melanie Grauer, Jonathan Horowitz, Sasha Huber, Pierre Koralnik, Glenn Ligon, Martine Syms und anderen reagieren darin auf Baldwins literarisch-politische Abhandlung. Texte ausgewiesener Expertinnen und Experten begleiten die künstlerische Auseinandersetzung und geben fundierten Einblick in die Folgen des herrschenden strukturellen Rassismus. Der Band Stranger in the Village ist eine Aufforderung zum Tabubruch, indem er uns einen Spiegel vorhält. Er stellt Fragen, die uns alle angehen und lässt uns die Brisanz des Alltagsrassismus durch die Kunst erkennen.

Schon kurz nach seiner Hochzeit wird Commander Henry du Valle mit seiner Sloop Mermaid zurück ins Mittelmeer beordert. Auf See ist die Royal Navy zwar die uneingeschränkte Herrscherin, doch an den Küsten sind ihre Feinde auf dem Vormarsch. Besonders der junge französische General Napoleon Bonaparte eilt in Ägypten von Sieg zu Sieg. Als er sich nach Norden wendet, scheint ihn niemand aufhalten zu können. Im alten Kreuzfahrerhafen Akkon stellt sich ihm Kommodore Sir Sidney Smith entgegen. Henry du Valle soll ihn in seinem Kampf gegen die französische Übermacht unterstützen.

Discover the ageless knowledge of one of the most remarkable civilizations in the annals of human history by immersing yourself in the enthralling world of Mayan legends. Within the pages of this book, which has been meticulously researched, the author takes you on a journey through the epic stories that are at the core of Mayan culture.Learn about the exploits of the twin heroes Hunahpu and Xbalanque, who are on a quest to find their way to divinity, and allow yourself to be captivated by the mysterious prophecies of the Mayan calendar. Learn more about the mysteries that surround King Pacal and his journey through death, the afterlife, and rebirth.The legends are not the only thing that this book has to offer. It demonstrates how the knowledge of the Maya continues to have an effect in the present day and locates significance in the world that we live in today. From the astronomical orientation of their buildings to the sacred architecture that they left behind, from the fascinating calendar systems that they left behind to the influences that they had on art and science, the Maya leave behind a legacy that both inspires and challenges us for the future.This book takes us on a journey into a world that no longer exists, while simultaneously enhancing our knowledge of history, culture, and ourselves. Get a new perspective on Mayan mythology and allow yourself to be captivated by the profound wisdom it contains.

In dem Roman geht es um den feinfühligen Umgang mit Demenz. Sich auf die Welt des Dementen einzulassen und nicht umgekehrt. Außerdem beschreibt das Buch die ganz besondere Beziehung zwischen Enkelin und ihrem Großvater - und wie sich diese durch die Erkrankung verändert.