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Es handelt sich dabei um die Geschichte eines jungen Mannes, der in seinem Leben schon so einiges erlebt hat. Von der schweren Kindheit, zum fruhen Kontakt zu berauschenden Substanzen, seine Liebe zur Musik, uber meine Frauenerfahrungen und den Hohen und Tiefen die ich durchlebt habe. Auerdem erzahle ich von meinen auergewohnlichen Erlebnissen, die sich genau so zugetragen haben wie ich sie hier berichte!Wie es weiterging und wie die Zukunft aussehen konnte!Biography about my life rich in eventBesides, it concerns the history of a young man who has experienced already thus something in his life. From the heavy childhood, to the early contact to be intoxicated substances, his love to the music, about my womens experiences and the heights and depths I lives through has. Moreover, I tell about my unusual experiences which as have taken place as I report them here!How it went on and how the future could look!

The Communist victories in Cambodia and Vietnam in 1975 end a long and devastating war, but for some, the new era is one of persecution. Quan, a boy, and his family are sent by the Khmer Rouge to a collective farm along the Thai border. Minh Chau, a young girl, is imprisoned with her mother and older sister. When Quan and Minh Chau later meet in a refugee camp in Malaysia, Quan becomes the young girls protector. When he must use violence to save her from an attack, he loses his chance to come with her to Canada. In Quebec City, Mathieu Hibou, a university student, helps Minh Chau and her family integrate into Canadian society before leaving to work as a development worker in Africa. Several years later, Mathieu suffers an unimaginable loss during the Rwandan genocide, a loss that Minh Chau will help to heal. Quan finds his way illegally to Canada and meets Minh Chau again. Through friendship and love, all three help one another overcome the pain of their pasts and live life to its fullest.Critical acclaim from other authorsThe writers understated style gently weaves this tapestry of life, trauma, love and bloodshed; and as the lives, experiences and relationships deepen - the writers passion for life and love comes into full bloom and culminate in a poignant epilogue. P.T. Straub, The Ordinary Adept, AuthorhouseSuch a moving story, well-written too. I was impressed with how you switched back and forth between the characters without getting their stories lost. Well done! Sonia Saikaley, The Lebanese Dishwasher, Quattro PressThe story is brilliantly told. I read the last three quarters of the book all in one sitting and was caught up in the narrative and the characters. Chris Turner, Denibus Ar, Innersky PressAnd from our readersA portrait of the current human condition emerges. As his many characters develop, we share their sorrows, joys and loves in a true kaleidoscope of events. Michael Scott-Harston, Ottawa, The novel really is a wonderful, touching tale of how the human spirit overcomes adversity. The author Con Cu has mastered the art of simplicity and economy of words, without foregoing the occasional stroke of poetic genius. BPOTS, Cultus Lake

Jess tried to be the supportive wife she had always said she would be, she could no longer control the suspicions that were creeping into her mind and she couldnt help but wonder if he was seeing another woman. They had always been madly in love. Even over the 10 years since they had been married, Jess would still catch women checking him out everywhere they went. He was tall with a broad physique and his dark hair and eyes gave him an air of mystery that drew women to him. She would never forget their first date and how he made her feel that night. All sexually active characters in this work are for adult readership only. (Age +18)

Sheila Willis, senior homicide investigator has a triple murder to solve. But her new inexperienced yet eager new partner presents a problem. He knows too much for his own good.Before this case ends Sheila will clean up any loose ends. And hopefully this time there will be no witnesses.Includes the bonus story, The Apprentice.

The novel begins in 1994 with the decision of Dr. Han Thieu, who is terminally ill with cancer, to secretly take her own life. She does this in the belief that it will spare her family the impact of her drawn-out death. The chapter alludes to the main characters in the novel and to the traumas that her family has already undergone. Her daughter Minh Chau is one of the three protagonists in the novel.The novel then goes back to April 1975 when the communist forces in Cambodia and South Vietnam take power. The lives of the eight-year-old Vietnamese-Chinese boy, Quan Phoc, in Phnom Penh and of Han Thieus three-year-old daughter Minh Chau in Saigon change radically when the two cities fall to the Communists. The Khmer Rouge send Quans family to a collective farm in the distant countryside. Quans father is worked and starved to death and his mother is brutally raped to death. Quan and his sister, Hue, survive the farm thanks to Quans ability to endear himself to the Khmer Rouge guards. Minh Chaus family attempts unsuccessfully to flee Saigon. Her father, a South Vietnamese army officer is sent to a re-education camp and the rest of the family is imprisoned. Quan and sister are liberated from the farm when the Vietnamese army invades Cambodia in 1978. Traveling down the Mekong River, they try to escape Indochina by sea. Near death, they are rescued by a boat of Vietnamese refugees heading to Malaysia.After Dr. Han Thieu saves the life of a senior Communist official, the Thieu family are also given a chance to escape by sea. During the voyage, five-year-old Minh Chau is faced with the moral dilemma of saving her sister, An, from death, at the expense of the life of a neighbour and friend. This leaves her emotionally scarred. In Pulau Bidong camp in Malaysia, the Thieu family adopts Quan and Hue, and Quan is assigned the role to protect the girls in the family. When Quan is forced to kill Dahan, a drunken Malaysian camp guard, in order to save Minh Chau and his sister Hue, his chances for re-settlement in Canada with the Thieu family are dashed. The Thieu family go to Quebec City with the hope that the Canadian authorities will later accept Quan despite the killing of the guard. The Pulau Bidong chapters are marked by touching anecdotes of interaction between the camps children, the mystery of Chinese traditional medicine and swift action scenes as Quan defends the young girls from Dahan.In Canada, Mathieu Hibou, a soft-spoken university student from New Carlisle, Quebec is asked by his cousin, Marie-Christine, who was a friend of Han Thieu in Saigon, to help the Thieu family integrate into Canadian society. Mathieu devotes himself to the family and helps Han re-certify as a doctor in Canada. The Quebec chapters are a series of humourous anecdotes about the discovery by Minh Chau and An of their new country. It is also a touching expose about the hardships and success of Boat People in Canada.

In these five stories, you will meet people significant to the life of Maldito and the fictional village of Agua Rocosa. Eufemia and José, each of whom is the 13th child of a 13th child, she of a line of mothers, he of a line of fathers, are Malditos unwilling parents. Jose comes from a long line of fishermen and is witty, intelligent and above all, tough. Eufemia is obsessed with the ancients and can hold her own with anyone. Her sheer power of will is indomitable. Will their union break the curse and produce the child that will fulfill the prophecy of ancient Mayans? Of course you will meet the unfortunate Maldito himself. How will he survive a loveless home, bereft of care and any but the most basic interactions? Like all of us, he is susceptible at the spirit level to the barbs and kindnesses of others. Perhaps you will care. Perhaps you can help him as he tries to make his way. In the third story in this sequence, you will see young Maldito on the streets of Agua Rocosa, sketching the buildings and tourists there. But watch carefully! He also sketches things others are simply not able to capture on paper: the wind worrying and lost among rocks on a hillside, the sheer joy in the bright smile of the sun, the sorrow weeping from a heavily laden rain cloud. You will come to know the Storyteller himself of the Stories from the Cantina, Juan-Carlos Salazar, who witnessed the beginning of a prophecy at the age of seven and has never forgotten it. To keep his customers entertained, he relates stories of the magic that lives all around but that many forget once they don the cloak of adulthood. And finally you will be sitting at the bar when Juan-Carlos tells the story of The Man of Mud, whose unnatural birth he personally witnessed when he was only seven years old. Some forty years later, he understands what the man of mud meant when he uttered the words "one wrongly called accursed will come." Come along and witness the fulfillment of ancient prophecy. If youve enjoyed the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende, you will enjoy these Stories from the Cantina.

Under the tutelage of his father and the memory of his grandfather, both having fought against tyranny and injustice their entire lives, Drew Keller became an assassin for the Israeli Mossad. After many years on the job, disillusioned by the growing political nature of his assignments and near death injuries sustained on the job, Drew took a break only to become a contract killer for the CIA under the guidance of Fred Jones, who saved his live. Drews exploits and unrivaled accomplishments gained him infamy, eventually earning him a reputation as the most dangerous man alive in certain circles, first as The Leopard when he was Mossad, later as Trudy with the CIA.Lisimba Badawi was a happy child growing up in Egypt until his father was killed while on a business trip to Libya as an American cruise missile on a retaliatory strike aimed at Tripoli veered off course. Lisimbas course changed that day, sending him on a path of death and destruction and revenge.Local militia leader Leroy Jefferson Davis spent nearly six years in a federal prison after his attempt to blow up government buildings in Phoenix was foiled by an informant. Once out, he is at it again, but this time, he has help. In an uneasy alliance, Leroy and Lisimba plot to carry out Leroys original plans, but Lisimba has a different target in mind, an even more heinous target.After a decade together, Drew and Fred finally had enough of their thankless and perilous lives and go their separate ways into the serenity and relative safety of the public sector. As a small business owner, Drew finds it increasingly difficult to escape conflict, this time instead of fighting terrorists in far away countries, he faces local gangs in his own neighborhood, first in Chicago, then in Milwaukee. Despite that, he is content, until word reaches him that his friend and mentor, Freddie Jones, has been killed in an apparent robbery gone wrong.Drew Keller travels to Phoenix to look into Freds unsolved murder. While there, he reunites with Trudy Wilson, a special agent with the FBI. They met briefly years before in Afghanistan. Neither forgot the encounter, each fantasizing about the other ever since. Together, as their unexpected reunion blossoms from unrequited dreams into overwhelming reality, they battle home grown and foreign terrorists across the valley of the sun, uncovering a plot to kill tens of thousands of innocent Americans. Eventually, they learn of Lisimbas ultimate target and the pressure to succeed intensifies with a likely conclusion of a massive death toll and an explosive conflagration, bringing America to her knees and striking a devastating blow for terrorism around the world.

Desert Heat,Darryl MacArthur (Mac) Lester and Raymond Vincent (Raven) Watkins help people while running Macs laundry and dry cleaning business. You have a child in trouble? You have a problem with crime in your neighborhood? If you have a loved one go missing? They will help you. Mac, a college graduate with a degree in cultural Anthropology, never able to ply his trade as a vocation due to inheriting the laundry from his ailing father, now uses what he learned in college as an avocation in the real world. Ray quit college his freshman year due to the murders of his pregnant wife, his cop brother and his brothers wife along with Ray, himself, taking two bullets to the chest. He went into the military after he recovered physically and remained there until the rage ebbed. Still troubled, he returned and went to work for Mac. In the years since, he has built a reputation as a crime fighting urban legend.Julia Olson, an award winning investigative reporter who, three years ago, lost her beautiful younger cousin forever as she tried to come from Mexico across the desert to live the American dream, specializes in writing about Americas immigration issues. Julia is a strong voice for immigrants rights within a sane American immigration policy. She digs deep, leaving no stone unturned, practices fair reporting but remains thorough and tough when she has to be.Somewhere in the desert south of Tucson, Arizona, a truckload of recent arrivals to America are gunned down. Julia comes down from Phoenix for the story. Mac and Ray come down because they believe the daughter of one of their employees might be among the dead. Together, the three of them investigate the incident that takes them back to Phoenix and a human and drug smuggling operation run by evil and greedy men who slough off human life for the almighty buck.As Ray fights his own demons and Julia and Mac find each other, they come up against ruthless drug and human smugglers and a Mexican drug cartel that will stop at nothing to protect their operation and themselves.The action spans the valley of the sun ending up all the way down to Mexico as the passion of love, the bittersweet taste of revenge and the challenge to stay alive against unbeatable odds reverberates from every page until the final fiery confrontation.

"Middlemarch" es una novela clásica escrita por George Eliot, seudónimo de la autora británica Mary Ann Evans. Publicada entre 1871 y 1872, la historia retrata la vida de personajes en una ciudad ficticia, abordando temas como el matrimonio, la politica y el estatus social. George Eliot es conocida por su estilo de escritura realista y su profunda exploracion psicologica, desafiando las normas sociales al utilizar un seudonimo masculino. "Middlemarch" se considera una de las grandes obras de la literatura inglesa. y forma parte de la famosa coleccion "1001 libros que que hay que leer antes de morir"

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The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device.

Rudyard Kipling foi um dos escritores mais populares da Inglaterra. Foi laureado com o Nobel de Literatura de 1907, tornando-se o primeiro autor de língua inglesa a receber esse prêmio e, até hoje, o

É notável a quantidade e diversidade de estilos dos contistas brasileiros. De tal forma que a LeBooks editora, com muito orgulho, amplia o leque de contos e contistas brasileiros por meio deste segundo volume de Os Melhores Contos Brasileiros. A obra traz desde o nosso grande Machado de Assis, passando por Monteiro Lobato, outro icone da literatura brasileira, Lima Barreto, Alvares de Azevedo e diversos outros contistas extremamente talentosos que iro encantar o leitor com seus belissimos contos. Seja bem-vindo aos Melhores Contos Brasileiros Vol II.

Assim como ocorre com outros volumes da Coleção Melhores Contos, esta coletânea reúne contos dos mais expressivos autores de diversos países. Nesta edição o leitor conhecerá grandes contistas portugu

"A Popular History of Ireland" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:Volume 1:The First InhabitantsThe First AgesChristianity Preached at TaraReign of Hugh IIKings of the Seventh CenturyKings of the Eighth CenturyThe Danish InvasionKings of the Ninth CenturyKings of the Tenth CenturyThe Contest between the North and SouthState of Religion and Learning among the Irish previous to the Anglo-Norman InvasionThe First Expedition of the Normans into IrelandThe First Campaign of Earl RichardSiege of DublinHenry II in IrelandEvents of the Thirteenth CenturyThe Rise of "the Red Earl"Relations of Ireland and ScotlandCivil War in EnglandChange of Dynasty in EnglandState of Religion and Learning during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth CenturiesIrish Policy of Henry the Eighth during the Lifetime of Cardinal WolseyFirst Attempts to Introduce the Protestant ReformationParliament of 1541The Crowns UnitedVolume 2:Parliament of 1569The Second "Geraldine League"Parliament of 1585The Ulster ConfederacyEssexs Campaign of 1599The Conquest of MunsterState of Religion and Learning during the Reign of ElizabethJames IThe Insurrection of 1641The Catholic ConfederationThe Confederate WarThe Cessation and its ConsequencesCromwells Campaign (1649-1650)Ireland under the ProtectorateReign of Charles IIThe State of Religion and Learning in Ireland during the Seventeenth CenturyAccession of James IIIrish Parliament of 1689The Revolutionary WarCapitulation of LimerickReign of King WilliamReign of Queen AnneReign of George IIAccession of George IIIFloods LeadershipGrattans LeadershipThe Era of IndependenceThe United IrishmenThe Insurrection of 1798Last Session of the Irish ParliamentThe Legislative Union of Great Britain and IrelandOConnells LeadershipThe Catholic AssociationEmancipation of the Catholics

Jean Websters novel Daddy-Long-Legs is a timeless classic that follows the story of Jerusha Abbott, a young orphan who is sent to college by an unknown benefactor whom she calls Daddy-Long-Legs. The book is written in the form of letters from Jerusha to her mysterious patron, offering a unique and intimate glimpse into her thoughts and experiences as she navigates the challenges and joys of higher education. Websters writing style is charming and humorous, capturing the essence of early 20th-century American literature while also addressing important social issues such as womens education and independence. The novels epistolary format adds depth to the narrative, allowing readers to connect with Jerusha on a personal level. Jean Webster, a graduate of Vassar College, wrote Daddy-Long-Legs as a reflection of her own experiences as a young woman striving for academic and personal success. Her background in womens rights and education shines through in the themes and characters of the book, making it a compelling and thought-provoking read for readers of all ages. I highly recommend Daddy-Long-Legs to anyone interested in exploring the complexities of female identity, empowerment, and growth in a changing society.

No dia 27 de dezembro de 1897, estreava em Paris, com estrondoso sucesso, Cyrano de Bergerac. A peça, livremente inspirada na vida e na obra do escritor libertino Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655), se tornou uma das mais populares do teatro frances e a mais famosa do seu autor, Edmond Rostand. Chegou tambem ao cinema em inumeras e premiadas verses. Dizem os criticos de teatro, que o sucesso de Cyrano de Bergerac, deve-se principalmente ao fato de ter-se convertido num simbolo popular, na encarnaço do ideal do povo, apresentando o homem que nutre desprezo pelos poderosos, que e corajoso, nobre de sentimentos, sensivel e capaz de se sacrificar pela felicidade alheia. O fato inconteste e que Cyrano, em suas multiplas verses, ja arrebatou milhes de pessoas em todo o mundo. E uma obra atemporal que, sem duvida, merece ser vista e lida.

Isaac Asimov é considerado por muitos como o melhor escritor de ficção científica do século XX e nos legou mais de 500 publicações, entre ficcionais e técnicas, boa parte das quais na forma de geniai

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