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Based on the life stories and personal memories of the author's mother, uncle, and aunt, "Fall River" is a multi-dimensional exploration of how family history, Ukrainian roots, and European war shaped the personal destinies of three Ukrainian Americans who were born in Fall River, grew up in interwar Poland, and returned to an America that was as alienating as it was welcoming. Narrated from different, though intersecting, perspectives, "Fall River" paints a complex portrait of American emigrants forced by fate to become Ukrainian refugees and European immigrants.

In the mountains of Yemen, rebellion brews and spits out terror into the world. In Pakistan, a nuclear scientist escapes. And an agent in America, Justice, sees this and understands that the world is in danger. He must find the scientist before the terrorists do. If he doesn't millions will die. Will he save the day? As he peers deeper into the world of terrorism and the war on terror, Justice finds that things are never as they seem to be. Not your average spy or thriller novel, this looks deep into the heart of terror. Dare to look inside!

The only friend Tom ever had is murdered. And the emptiness of the land has not been filled by the new commune. Tom struggles to move away from his past and find peace. But all he finds is that he's good at killing. And he does just that, and comes home a hero. But this isn't normal life. This post-nuclear wasteland is treacherous, and being a hero is just the thing to get you killed. Tom soon finds that he needs to choose his friends wisely, and that cruelty in these times is forever useful. Can he be a force for good? Will he even survive to make such a choice?

As Coral slides into a mansion stuffed with historical artifacts for another heist, she has no clue what awaits on the other side of the door. She escapes with the stolen goods only to find that her father has been killed in retaliation; his charred remains found in her childhood home. Now she must come out of the shadows and find out who did this. When she does, she realizes that the forces she faces might be too much for her. Meanwhile, Matt works at a shadow private intelligence agency. When a thief steals from his boss, he must track down those responsible and punish them-no matter how tired his heart is. Who will come out on top? Unlike any other Heist novel, Thief is a well paced, concise, and thoughtful book that you must check out today!

Alone again in the vast wasteland, Tom is haunted by ghosts. Images of people he loved, killed, float through his head. He moves to escape his sins, and he's thrust into the arms of a new power in the land. This power, a group of survivalists, tolerates no dissent. Tom feels himself swept up by their ways, but soon his hopes are shattered when he is forced to choose between a new close friend and himself... between his past sins and a new future. After he chooses he will never be the same... but will he at least have a soul?

John lives alone with his mother, who is much too protective for his tastes. He gets made fun of at school, and hates every minute he spends there. He's resigned himself to surviving high school by not being seen. One day the school bullies push him too far, and he strikes back. But the consequences are too much for him to handle. He knows he's special, his mother always says so, but these new powers might be too special for his own good. Before he knows it, John is thrown into a world, where people try to hunt him down. With his life on the line, he cannot fathom what will happen to him next. How will he survive now?

Matt, a mercenary, lives in the city and is happily married. One day he sets his eyes on the most beautiful woman in the world. His heart throbs. Against his best instincts, he follows her. But nothing in this world is as it seems. And between trips to war, talking with his distant wife, and now trying to juggle a lover, he cannot seem to find time to ground himself. The world moves away from him. What transpires is a trip down a rabbit hole that will forever change him.

Navlipi, Volume 2, A New, Universal, Script ("Alphabet") Accommodating the Phonemic Idiosyncrasies of All the World's Languages. Volume 2, Another Look At Phonic and Phonemic Classification: Navlipi, By Prasanna Chandrasekhar. This book presents a new, universal script, denoted NAVLIPI, capable of expressing all the world's languages, from English and Arabic, to tonal languages such as Mandarin, to click languages such as !Xo Bushman. Based on the Roman script, NAVLIPI uses just five new or transformed letters (glyphs) in addition to the 26 letters of the Roman script; it uses no diacritics, rather making heavy use of "post-ops", post-positional operators. Its expression is very facile and intuitive and highly amenable to cursive writing as well as keyboarding and voice transcription. More scientifically and systematically organized than even Hangul, NAVLIPI incorporates essential features of a universal script, thus far present in no world script to date, such as universality, completeness, distinctiveness, and practical phonemic application. It addresses the serious deficiencies of the alphabet of the International Phonetic Association. Most importantly, NAVLIPI addresses phonemic idiosyncrasy, for the first time ever in any world script; among other things, phonemic idiosyncrasy makes transcription, in the same script, of, e.g. Mandarin and English, or Hindi/Urdu and Tamil, extremely difficult. It is felt that NAVLIPI is introduced at an appropriate time for a globalized world, which needs a single script in which it is easy and intuitive to transcribe all of the world's languages; it may also assist in the preservation of endangered languages. Apart from presenting the new script, the book also presents a thorough review of nearly all prior art through five millennia to the present, a basic discussion of phonetic and phonemic classification, "exercises" in coming up with new scripts, a glossary of terms, and more than 620 detailed references in linguistics and related fields. Nicholas Ostler makes the following observation: "NAVLIPI is a systematic extension of Roman script with a number of aims in view: To be a practical (legible and writable) script for all the world's languages, but at the same time to represent the languages' sounds exactly and consistently, making no compromises on the phonemic principle. In this ambitious goal, it goes beyond existing scripts: Beyond ordinary Roman scripts, because it requires that its symbols are interpreted the same way everywhere; beyond phonetic scripts such as the International Phonetic Alphabet, by representing phonemes singly, rather than as a set of phones; and beyond all the other scripts, by attempting to replace every single one of them without loss of significant phonetic detail. This is a stupendous aim for a single system created by a single scholar. The main obstacle to Chandrasekhar's achievement is the phenomenon of "phonemic idiosyncrasy", whereby the actual speech sounds are organized into different, and cross-cutting, significant sets in various languages: For example, p, whether aspirated or un-aspirated, is the same phoneme in English, but the two versions belong to contrasting phonemes in Hindi, where (however) f is heard as the same sound as aspirated-p. By juxtaposing letters, Chandrasekhar conjures up new symbols that represent directly the complex phonemic reality. The attempt to have all the possible virtues of a phonetic writing system at once - on the basis of a single man's ideal - is what makes this a heroic endeavour."

This book presents a new, universal script, denoted NAVLIPI, capable of expressing all the world's languages, from English and Arabic, to tonal languages such as Mandarin, to click languages such as !Xo Bushman. Based on the Roman script, NAVLIPI uses just five new or transformed letters (glyphs) in addition to the 26 letters of the Roman script; it uses no diacritics, rather making heavy use of "post-ops", post-positional operators. Its expression is very facile and intuitive and highly amenable to cursive writing as well as keyboarding and voice transcription. More scientifically and systematically organized than even Hangul, NAVLIPI incorporates essential features of a universal script, thus far present in no world script to date, such as universality, completeness, distinctiveness, and practical phonemic application. It addresses the serious deficiencies of the alphabet of the International Phonetic Association. Most importantly, NAVLIPI addresses phonemic idiosyncrasy, for the first time ever in any world script; among other things, phonemic idiosyncrasy makes transcription, in the same script, of, e.g. Mandarin and English, or Hindi/Urdu and Tamil, extremely difficult. It is felt that NAVLIPI is introduced at an appropriate time for a globalized world, which needs a single script in which it is easy and intuitive to transcribe all of the world's languages; it may also assist in the preservation of endangered languages. Apart from presenting the new script, the book also presents a thorough review of nearly all prior art through five millennia to the present, a basic discussion of phonetic and phonemic classification, "exercises" in coming up with new scripts, a glossary of terms, and more than 620 detailed references in linguistics and related fields. Nicholas Ostler makes the following observation: "NAVLIPI is a systematic extension of Roman script with a number of aims in view: To be a practical (legible and writable) script for all the world's languages, but at the same time to represent the languages' sounds exactly and consistently, making no compromises on the phonemic principle. In this ambitious goal, it goes beyond existing scripts: Beyond ordinary Roman scripts, because it requires that its symbols are interpreted the same way everywhere; beyond phonetic scripts such as the International Phonetic Alphabet, by representing phonemes singly, rather than as a set of phones; and beyond all the other scripts, by attempting to replace every single one of them without loss of significant phonetic detail. This is a stupendous aim for a single system created by a single scholar. "The main obstacle to Chandrasekhar's achievement is the phenomenon of "phonemic idiosyncrasy", whereby the actual speech sounds are organized into different, and cross-cutting, significant sets in various languages: For example, p, whether aspirated or un-aspirated, is the same phoneme in English, but the two versions belong to contrasting phonemes in Hindi, where (however) f is heard as the same sound as aspirated-p. By juxtaposing letters, Chandrasekhar conjures up new symbols that represent directly the complex phonemic reality. The attempt to have all the possible virtues of a phonetic writing system at once - on the basis of a single man's ideal - is what makes this a heroic endeavor." Dr. Chandrasekhar was born in India and lives and works in America. He is a chemist and business owner active in the U.S. defense contracting industry, but his ethnic background places him in a multilingual, multiscriptal society. An idea like Navlipi was most likely to arise in India, where numerous scripts compete for the eye's attention in everyday life, and an inquiring mind such as the author's was moved to try to distil them into a single uniform writing system.

It Tolls For Thee is a stirring depiction of a soldier's struggle to cope with the loss and betrayal in combat. Get ready for an emotional and physical roller coaster that will leave you breathless. Follow Dan Ross in his drive for revenge. Be enlightened by the broad indictment of the war mongers, who have their own selfish motives for igniting the conflict. Learn the secret to the triumphant peace found in the hearts of those unable to escape their chaotic corner of the world. Experience the love and redemption only God can facilitate.

Meet William, a man who's living in a future where the government is an all controlling behemoth and one must watch one's step at all times. To unthinking William, this is all part of life, a way to separate the good from the bad. But one day the curtain is pulled back. One day, William is forced to choose, to think. He comes face to face to reality and realizes that what is bad isn't what he thinks. Soon he must choose between what is right and the safety of his family. William will never be the same, but will he be able to survive? Read this thrilling and engrossing novel and find out.

During the summer before his final year at Columbia University, Sam Steele was lucky enough to have gotten stoned, which nearly caused him to jump to his death off of a desert cliff. He did not jump. But he did shatter. Psychologically broken, Sam does his best to put himself back together. While his brother flirts with domestic life-wife, children, and a job-Sam's relationship with his girlfriend ends, he is involved in a sex-scandal with a crazy professor/poet, he ditches old 'friends' for actual ones, performs at a concert, gaining rock-star status on campus. But will this be enough? And can Sam find that in life which will bring him happiness?

To make a choice in the City is impossible. The line between a detective, a renegade cop, and a criminal blur to the point that one can be forgiven if they fail to see the difference. Is the City large enough for the three of them? Or will they bring the City down with them? Find out in this thrilling book about Ogun's struggles to clean up a city from the evil men in this world.

Are you or a loved one looking for a Nursing Home? When the moment comes to take this important step in life, you must be prepared. This book will provide you innovative ways to confront the many situations you may face when researching, choosing, and deciding upon a Nursing Home. Written by A. Frank Rushton, PhD, someone who has been through the torrid experience of choosing a nursing home without any information, this book manages to cover the small, usually ignored details that will help to make this transition that much easier and even enjoyable. In doing so he has managed to write a concise and informative survival manual what will be able to help you get through the process of finding a Nursing Home. He also manages to find ways to help someone actually gain from this experience. Buy this book today and make sure you don't go anywhere without it.

Daughter’s Exchange opens a conversation wherein we can reevaluate a figure like Zora Neale Hurston, whose marginal engagement with the intellectual marketplace during her lifetime is rarely discussed outside of a specialized audience.  Daughter’s Exchange seeks to address those who teach the next generation—a generation who seem more fractured than ever due to their access to the technological advancements of our times—in order to challenge them to consider the role of assigning value within the intellectual marketplace.  Daughter’s Exchange finds a place in classrooms interested in women’s studies, African and African American culture, and pedagogical practice.  Traditional academic discourse favors the semblance of objective, universal truth by masking the agent behind the language, but Daughter’s Exchange resists this move by drawing upon oriki as an African and woman centered oral practice.  In Yoruba West Africa, women find relative expressive freedom in the private, public space of their ile.  On these homegrounds, where people recognize bonds of kinship, women are able to call for help from the living and the dead, draw power from their God, give voice to fear, offer praise to great men, memorialize the past, name the present, predict the future, and readily add their voices to a dynamic art.  The hope here is to continually remind the reader of the agents behind the text rather than to obscure those collectively engaged in defining the discursive community.  Nevertheless, the liberatory nature of word play has its limits.  That is why Daughter’s Exchange privileges experience over the word.  The incontrovertible evidence of African American history is recorded in their lives, consequently the lived experiences of African American women is inherently valuable.  Of course, the marketplace does not agree.  The woman-centered Nigerian market, which might be read as liberatory, is circumscribed by the slave market and the more immediate pressures of the academic market.  The effort here is to subvert the established order that exiled African American ancestors and subjected them to the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.  And to speak from the chasm in patriarchal discourse, be it Eurocentric or Afrocentric, into which the African American woman’s experience has been discarded.  Daughter’s Exchange defines the dimensions of a homeground of sorts that affords others access, if not to the broader marketplace, then to a more private audience where bonds of kinship permit them to speak.

A Brain. A Heart. The Nerve. is a fictional biography of Meinhardt Raabe, a midget hired to play a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz. Meinhardt wants the dignity and respect given normal people, yet his disability makes him mistrust even those who can see past it. He devotes his life to succeeding in work, but wonders if it has been at the cost of friendship and love. The narrative follows Meinhardt from 1935 pre-war Berlin, where he is the victim of Nazi social hygiene policies, to his star turn in the movie, through decades of social change in the United States, and ends in 1980 with his pilgrimage to the small town in Germany where the grandmother (Oma) who raised him was born. There he confronts the choice to maintain the safety of his isolation or, at the age of 65, to at last take the risk of opening his heart. Secondary characters, based on imagined and historical figures, include Rodge Smythe, an aphorism-spouting legless Great War veteran; Margaret Hamilton, the actress who played the wicked witch in The Wizard of Oz; Charles Becker, another Munchkin, who marries a fellow cast member and is the father of one normal child and one midget; and Celia Posy, a beautiful fashion model, half-again Meinhardt’s height, with whom he falls in love but who has a hidden disability of her own. Settings in Europe and the United States during bygone eras, together with characters who range from seamstresses to salesmen and bartenders to buskers, bring alive the struggles of a memorable character, with a memorable name, as he learns his true measure. The book is entertaining, appealing to generations of readers who share the author’s fascination with the magic of Oz. While she is not a midget, she is a very short person who can thus identify with the protagonists’s logistical challenges and struggle for full-size respect. However, A Brain. A Heart. The Nerve. is much more than an inside look at a classic movie or the trials of a little person. The book matters because justice is the pursuit and right of everyone who is discriminated against due to disability, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, appearance, and/or other aspect of identity. Though set in the past, A Brain. A Heart. The Nerve. is with us today, wherever bigotry lives. In its pages, readers will find the intelligence, love, and courage to follow the yellow brick road to the safe home we all deserve.

What's a girl to do when her brand loses its juice and her product stops moving? Where does she go after the sinister agents visit and her friends start to disappear? How does she respond to the tweeting President and his repertoire of vaguely threatening reality shows? How does she get her own show back up and running? Faced with such puzzling questions, Britt and her friend Jimmy decide the time has come to take off through the nighttime streets of the depopulated and collapsing city to find some real answers - at the pits, where everything goes to die. On their quest, they encounter a sheaf of characters - the limbless gurney boy who speaks in riddles and sings to the dark and empty streets; the one-legged former Tumorthon emcee, who had the whole world in his hand and lost it all to the boy with the tumor in his brain; the enigmatic shopkeeper who stocks his shelves with the cast-offs from a long-gone world. Through these encounters, pursued by agents operating a vast surveillance network, Britt and Jimmy finally reach the pits and find answers to questions they hadn't even thought to ask.

A body is found, naked and mutilated in a house. Two men, Iraq war veterans, must find out who did it and set out for revenge. As they do, they must confront their past and the evil that they themselves as wrought. They soon are facing the might of the mafia, and as they prepare for one more battle, they realize that they must use everything that they've learned in war or else they might not live...

Bernadette "Bernie" Sheridan, has the Carlos Lunas case in the bag. She's smart, confident, and fueled by personal tragedy. She knows all too well what's at stake for the six-year-old, Mexican-American boy, who lost his parents to a drunk driver. After all, her own mother and father-her adopted parents-died tragically when she was only thirteen, and she's been struggling with the emotional loss ever since. Now, nearing forty and jaded as ever, she's adamant about saving Carlos from a fate similar to her own, even if only by winning him a healthy monetary settlement. Even if it means she must harken back to a painful childhood in order to do so. There are other obstacles waiting for Bernie: a hotshot, misogynist defense attorney will challenge her case; her beloved grandmother's deteriorating health will threaten her only semblance of family; and a handsome economist will begin to test her iron-clad vulnerability. Surely, she'll be able to forge past all this chaos. For Carlos's sake. But what will happen when her birth mother, Julie, tries to reenter the picture thirty-seven years after giving her away? Will Bernie decide to toss that aside too, on her martyrly mission for justice? Meeting Julie may be just the thing Bernie needs to win the Lunas case in the end. And learning her harrowing story may also provide the missing piece in the tragic puzzle of her haunted childhood. Told through the verging, alternating viewpoints of two broken women in two different eras, The Circle Game is at once a thoughtful commentary on female agency, racial bias, and domestic abuse, as well as a nuanced novel wrought with literary heft and profound psychological tension."Tanya Nichols' The Circle Game sets two memorable characters on a collision course: Bernadette, an idealistic attorney overwhelmed by courtroom challenges and more personal questions of identity and purpose; and Julie, her anonymous birth mother, whose story unfolds decades earlier in a dingy trailer parked behind a biker bar. Nichols' prose consistently grabs the reader with its lyrical clarity, and implicates us in the lives of complex and engaging characters. The novel moves us deeply in all the best ways..." --John Hales, author of Shooting Polaris: A Personal Survey in the American West"California's great Central Valley long has been fertile ground for novelists eager to write about immigrants, busted dreams and the moral questions facing real people in their everyday lives. With The Circle Game, where the ghosts of the past lurk in the corners of every chapter, Tanya Nichols zeroes in on good intentions that lead to fatal consequences. It's a tale of families, motorcycle outlaws, lovers, and redemption. You won't soon forget it."--Bill McEwen, GV Wire"The Circle Game has the power to show us that, even after years of great tragedy and loneliness, only forgiveness can open the circle of family and let in those we need most."-- Kristin FitzPatrick, author of My Pulse is and Earthquake

Ghetto Dogs is a biracial love story seen through the violent prism of dogfighting and drug dealing. While on his way to apply for a teaching job in Harlem, Vincent DeRosa saves a young boy from being mauled by a runaway pit bull. Looking on in horror, the boy's mother watches as the white man is in turn attacked and nearly killed. It is only later, under very different circumstances that Vincent and Desiree meet again and fall in love. But their love is challenged from a number of angles, not least of which is Desiree's ex­ boyfriend, Rosco, a notorious drug dealer and dogfighter who has decided to re-­enter the life of his young son.    

Mayme Holloway knows how to keep secrets. Wounded outlaws often call on her medical skills and trust her silence. When Charley Floyd and his wife pay their old friends, Mayme and O.C. a visit, everything changes. Charley, aka Pretty Boy Floyd, is wanted for killing a lawman. His wounds require more help than Mayme can provide which forces her to break her silence and seek help from Dr. Joe Stern. While O.C., safely cuts hair at his barbershop, whistling hymns and telling jokes, Mayme and Dr. Stern venture out into the Cookson Hills to treat Pretty Boy Floyd. Over time, Joe and Mayme forge a strong bond as they care for other wounded men. They share dangerous secrets, dangerous lives, dangerous patients and a dangerous love.