“Me da’s a grand man!” Mary Ann Shaughnessy has spoken; question her who dare. For although Mary Ann may look quite an ordinary small girl from a dockland tenement, always hot in defense of a ne’er-do-well father, she is in fact a one-man army, armoured with faith and possessed of formidable qualities. Set on Tyneside, the part of the world which Catherine Cookson knew and understood so well, this heartwarming and humorously observed book skillfully weds an authentic and unsentimentalized background to the kind of fairytale story that we all like to believe could come true and which the Mary Ann Shaughnessys of this world know to be true.The moral of A Grand Man is simply that faith can move mountains, but the delight of the book lies in the telling and in the character of its heroine as she battles, connives, and bargains to get a better way of life for those she loves and especially for the “grand man” himself. A Grand Man is the first of the Mary Ann stories and was made into a film, Jacqueline, in 1954. Views: 71
Ripped from the headlines! Stories detailing the horrendous nocturnalactivities of sexual predators from St.Louis's infamous"Bossman "McGhee and New York's Nushawn Williams to the disturbingYou Tube viral video rantings of the self proclaimed "Trashman". Thethreat of an HIV positive individual purposely infecting scores ofunsuspecting women is unfortunately a very real and present danger inour modern society.Enter Lucien Valentino...pimp...hustler...killer. All these describe the dark traits of this ultra suave and stunningly handsome ladies' man who easily manipulates any female gullible enough to fall for his smooth talk, irresistible looks and hood rich lifestyle. However she does so at her own risk; for the womanizing Valentino is a carrier of HIV5X, a highly aggressive and drug resistant strain of the disease that quickly mutates into full blown AIDS within a few months after transmission.Behind Valentino's reign of terror lies a secretive government plot to drastically... Views: 71
Meet Gisbo, an outcast with a strange name, Gisbo is treated like a wild dog and despised in his small town. Because of this, he is driven to become a person of respect, an Elekai’ warrior. However, when the tryouts go terribly wrong, Gisbo is whisked away to a life he never believed possible and discovers that sometimes, truth is stranger than legend when you're Renegade born! Views: 71
SUMMARY:A brilliantly illuminating book on Mahatma Gandhi that enriches our understanding of his means, his accomplishments, and his failures.Gandhi has long been considered a visionary and a martyr. And certainly, he was that rare leader wholly devoted to his people. But in this ambitious, stirring, original study, Pulitzer Prize–winner Joseph Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhi’s accomplishments as a politician and an advocate for the downtrodden—against Gandhi’s own expectations and in light of his complex, conflicted feelings about his place in Indian history.Lelyveld traces the roots of Gandhi’s philosophy of reform to South Africa, exploring in unmatched depth the campaigns for social justice he undertook there, and chronicling his continued efforts when he returned to India. We see why he became known as Mahatma—Great Soul—but we also see clearly that he was unable to achieve all the goals he set for himself and his country, suffering bitter disappointment at this shortfall, most profoundly in 1947 when India was partitioned.Here is a profoundly intelligent, vital reconsideration of Gandhi’s extraordinary accomplishments, of his fierce but finally unfulfilled hopes, and of his ever-evolving legacy. Views: 71
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A chance discovery of a sepia photograph of her grandmother and her twin sister leads RCMP Constable Arabella Dryvynsydes on an investigation: how did a picture taken in 1914 in the mining town of Extension, BC end up at a garage sale in rural Saskatchewan almost one hundred years later? As Arabella sifts through long-forgotten letters and buried memories, she unearths heartbreaking truths of her family history – and in the process also resolves a century-old murder. In her debut novel, Dey skillfully moves back and forth between two time periods and two memorably resourceful heroines, each of whom must rise to challenges the other could never imagine. Views: 71
