FBI undercover agent Marc Devaux and kindergarten teacher Rusti Collins are thrown together when Devaux mistakes her for her identical twin. He passes her a jeweled box containing incriminating microfilm. Rusti wants no part of this blue-eyed devil. But after she discovers her sister stabbed in the heart and her own life plunges into jeopardy, she takes a chance. Views: 59
What happens when the right people meet, at the wrong time? Melanie McQuaid is firmly fixated on the future, whilst troubled journalist Richard Blake is stuck resolutely in the past. Sparks fly when they first meet, until Richard's past catches up with him and a dramatic turn of events changes the course of both their lives. Disillusioned from a broken engagement, Melanie chooses to keep life simple by avoiding love altogether. Pushed to her limit, she eventually embarks on a life-changing trip to the Norwegian fjords. Richard is meanwhile furious at his assignment to report on the international anti-whaling campaign. Alone at sea, a family tragedy back home finally forces him to confront his demons. On opposite sides of the world, they look into the eye of a whale—two magical moments which ultimately bring them back together; but can the time ever be right for Richard and Melanie? Set in the twilight years of Celtic Tiger Ireland, Look into the Eye takes readers on a... Views: 59
Kirbie Amor may have made it into the music industry, but she's starting to sense that it's just as treacherous as the drug game she left behind. Her first professional recording ends in a violent assault and she's learning that there's something strange going on with the company she's signed to. And what she doesn't know might hurt her. She tries to ignore it all and focus on the music and her longtime friend Coras Bane—instead of her fiancé Archie—but when she learns that Coras is back with his ex Monifa Chavis, Kirbie regrets ever letting Coras touch her sexually and vows to never let it happen again. But it's too late—her body has become accustomed to the touch of another man. And she's battling with the fact that she's attracted to not just Coras, but other men in her life besides Archie.With plans to leave New York, La'Renz Taylor suspects that his enemy Eliyah Golomb has found out that Sundi is working for him as a mole. After she gets fired and La'Renz discovers that he's... Views: 59
The stunning true story of an untouchable family who become teachers, and one, a poet and revolutionaryLike one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s, making it possible for Gidla to attend elite schools and move to America at the age of twenty-six. It was only then that she saw how extraordinary—and yet how typical—her family history truly was. Her mother, Manjula, and uncles Satyam and Carey were born in the last days of British colonial rule. They grew up in a world marked by poverty and injustice, but also full of possibility. In the slums where they lived, everyone had a political side, and rallies, agitations, and arrests were commonplace. The Independence movement promised freedom. Yet for untouchables and other poor and working people, little changed. Satyam, the eldest, switched allegiance to the Communist Party. Gidla... Views: 59
In 2003, 85 years after the armistice, it took Richard Rubin months to find just one living American veteran of World War I. But then, he found another. And another. Eventually he managed to find dozens, aged 101 to 113, and interview them. All are gone now.A decade-long odyssey to recover the story of a forgotten generation and their Great War led Rubin across the United States and France, through archives, private collections, and battlefields, literature, propaganda, and even music. But at the center of it all were the last of the last, the men and women he met: a new immigrant, drafted and sent to France, whose life was saved by a horse; a Connecticut Yankee who volunteered and fought in every major American battle; a Cajun artilleryman nearly killed by a German aeroplane; an 18-year-old Bronx girl "drafted" to work for the War Department; a machine-gunner from Montana; a Marine wounded at Belleau Wood; the 16-year-old who became America's last WWI veteran; and many,... Views: 59
ReviewNovel by John Hersey, published in 1944 and awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1945. The novel's action takes place during World War II after the occupation of Sicily by Allied forces. Major Victor Joppolo, an American army officer of Italian descent, is part of the Allied military government ruling the town of Adano. In his attempts to reform the town and bring democracy to the people by treating them with respect and decency, Joppolo comes into conflict with his commanding officer, a hard-nosed general who eventually has Joppolo transferred because of his refusal to follow orders. Joppolo's concern for the town is epitomized by his efforts to replace a bell that the fascists had melted down to use for ammunition. -- __Product DescriptionAn Italian-American major in World War II wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700 year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists. SUMMARY:An Italian-American major in World War II wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700 year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists. Views: 59
A "sardonic and brutal" journey into Serbia's underground secret societies and conspiracy theories (TheIndependent). The place is Serbia, the time is the late 1990s. Our protagonist, a single man, writes a regular op-ed column for a Belgrade newspaper and spends the rest of his time with his best friend, smoking pot and talking about sex, politics, and life in general. One day on the shore of the Danube he spots a man slapping a beautiful woman. Intrigued, he follows the woman into the tangled streets of the city until he loses sight of her. A few days later he receives a mysterious manuscript whose contents seem to mutate each time he opens it. To decipher the manuscript—a collection of fragments on the Kabbalah and the history of the Jews of Zemun and Belgrade—he contacts an old schoolmate, now an eccentric mathematician, and a group of men from the Jewish community. As the narrator delves deeper into arcane topics, he begins to... Views: 59
