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A TRUE STORY How a family in the Philippines survived Japanese occupation in WWII Commemorating 70 years since the end of WWII (1945 - 2015) Jose Miguel C Fernandez was born in 1884 when the Philippines was still a Spanish colony, and educated during the American Commonwealth. He was a prolific writer of short stories and poems often enjoyed only by his immediate family. He wrote his memoirs giving account of Philippine society at the turn of ...

All Violet Ellison wanted was her hard work to pay off, and maybe just one of her dreams to come true. Little did she know it would happen the moment she found the chess piece on the sidewalk. Who knew her 'Cinderella' turn would put that knight on horseback in to play? Be careful what you wish for...

Every week thousands of women across the country participate in ladies tennis league matches. From the least experienced tennis players to some of the most, all enjoy the friendly competition offered by league play. Fashion, food, and fun social interaction are all part of the morning's activities, besides the pure pleasure of running around a tennis court chasing a little yellow ball. Some of the finer points of league tennis are explained in...

All three book in the New York Times, USA Today, and International bestselling series together in one book! FADING (book 1) Can a guilty conscience keep wounds from healing? Fine arts major, Candace Parker, grew up with a mother who thinks image is everything, and her daughter's perfection will never be good enough. About to graduate college and pursue her dreams of becoming a professional ballerina, Candace decides it's time to let go and hav...

How to recognize destructive patterns, and their root origins. How and when to engage in Spiritual Warfare, and the effective forms of engagement. How to teach our children, and why these things occur through the generations. These topics and much more are shared in the pages of this manual.We need to learn the dangers of ungodly soul ties, how they are formed, how to undo them and live free from their return... and what to do, if they do! The...

Coffee with a double shot of voodoo and vengeance. Meet Howard Danishefsky. He's a smart-mouthed chemist working for his ex-lover turned tight-skirted, ball-busting boss, Melinda Carpenter, in the shiny downtown office of an international coffee conglomerate known as the Robusta Corporation. He has a legendary astrophysicist father in the Consortium of Evil that he's never met, a dead Russian mother who still keeps in touch, and a brilliant yo...

** This book is a memoir ** An innocent child named Brock Talon longs for the Jehovah's Witness paradise, but in time finds it isn't all it's cracked up to be. With Armageddon ever looming, his life becomes an endless stream of restrictions and mandated works, harsh discipline and conditional relationships. Join Brock's struggle with apostasy and persecution, sanctioned abuse and God-like elders. Learn with him about his faith's built-in sexua...

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Follow E.H., Buffalo's reigning drug lord, as he negotiates the mean city streets with the meticulous precision of a four star general. Earl's drug tentacles have spread far and wide. Those who side with him long for his blessing and favor and those who oppose him fear and respect his grind.A tale where life, drugs and the game are meant to be sold, not told. When E.H. and his ace partners, Jermaine and Carey, run into a maze of intricately se...

He was my older brother's best friend. He was never supposed to be mine. I thought we would get it out of our system and move on. One of us did. One of us left. Now he's back, looking at me like he wants to devour me. And all those feelings I'd turned into anger are brewing into something else, something that terrifies me. He broke my heart last time. This time he'll obliterate it.

A scientist. A shaman. A rebel. A recorder. A schism, anywhere else. Not in Mississauga. Not in a land of landed migrants, not in a country mosaic'd together from the myriad landscapes of the globe. Here, Henryk Zdicz, Atlas Sangman, Simon Arcan, and Martin O'Neill form a profound friendship that helps each find life in all Life. Arranged in haibun vignettes, the Homeboys' everyday shananigans and illuminations compose a mirror of urban millen...

Reine is born during the chaos of World War I. She grows up in Germany unaware of the political struggles that surround her family. It seems her life is orchestrated by a dark, unseen hand. Repeatedly she struggles with tragedy and an insatiable need for love. In a Yugoslavian town, Stefan is raised among Jews, Muslim, and Orthodox Serbs who happily coexist despite their cultural differences. As he matures into adulthood, Stefan eagerly learns...

Vienna is a special girl with special needs. The children at her old school made fun of her because of her disabilities, so Vienna's parents move her to a new school. Will she finally find the acceptance she longs for?

In Chinese Australians: Politics, Engagement and Resistance key scholars of Chinese-Australian history explore how Chinese Australians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced the communities in which they lived on a civic or individual level.

In A Cultural History of Aramaic, Holger Gzella comprehensively describes the history of Aramaic and its socio-cultural underpinnings as an ongoing linguistic evolution between its emergence and the spread of Arabic through the Near East (ca. 1000 BCE-700 CE).

Promising Practices explores the ways women's participation in contemporary Japanese religious civic organizations can work as a gateway toward participatory democracy and presents new perspectives on values and social interactions that embed democracy in the everyday women's lives.

Roots of Empire examines the forest management policies of Spain's global monarchy from the sixteenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century, connecting imperial strategies with local lived experiences in forest communities impacted by this manifestation of expanded state power.

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