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Camping with the Communists : Karen Gilden
Camping with the Communists: The Adventures of an American Family in the Soviet Union
If you’ve forgotten—or never knew—what it was like to live with MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) or if you suddenly find yourself missing the Iron Curtain, it’s time to join the Gildens as they drive 3,800 miles through the Soviet Union in a VW camper. Stand beside them as they struggle with the Soviet bureaucracy, join the lines to buy food, come face to face with the KGB, smuggle a diamond ring out of the country, steal toilet paper, and more.
During the 1970s about 20,000 Americans visited the USSR on guided tours each year, but almost no U.S. tourists camped for six weeks in the country commonly called “our enemy.”
This smart, personal, compelling, and funny memoir will bring the USSR back to life in a way you won’t soon forget.
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The Punjabi’s Wife : Lara Lyons
The Punjabi’s Wife
During changing American social conditions in 1968, a naïve nineteen year old Midwestern girl marries an older Pakistani man and moves to Lahore where she lives as a Muslim wife for almost two years.
This young girl does not realize that her new husband married her to gain American citizenship and return to the United States.
Her life in Pakistan is filled with adventures shopping bazaars, dancing girls, an Islamic red light district, historical Moghal architecture and social turmoil. Slowly these Pakistani real life experience begin to teach this girl how Muslims control and mistreat their women.
The danger of fanatic Shiite religious practices and exciting road travel are all balanced with her status as a blond American woman in a foreign land at the mercy of her Muslim husband. This true story unveils an informed observation of Muslim women’s status in Pakistani society.
The Punjabi’s Wife is a book that asserts itself as a true American odyssey, a brave young woman’s adventure story and lessons for western women contemplating relationships with any Muslim man.
Dying Phoenix : Loretta Proctor
Dying Phoenix
Dying Phoenix is set against a background of fear and torture, under a military dictatorship in Greece. Tumultous couple Max and Nina Hammett struggle to preserve a marriage that has become fraught with jealousy and despair.
In April 1967, a totally unexpected military coup throws Greece into turmoil. People vanish amid terrified rumours of torture and murder. As these events unravel, so does Nina and Max’s marriage. Nina doesn’t trust Max, and leaves him in a jealous rage. But the truth of the matter is that Max was trying to help an abused woman escape her tormentor, not taking her to his bed as Nina imagines.
Young, flighty Zoe’s angst puts Max in terrible danger from a ruthless murderer. At the same time, he must also try to find Nina, who has disappeared into the shadowy depths of Athens. He knows that her wilful nature, along with her refusal to cater to the military, could get her killed.
Hearing that she is in danger, he sets off on a journey across Greece to find her – and to escape his own past…
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At Her Beck and Call – Part II : Mistress Benay
At Her Beck and Call – Part II
Mistress Benay is back with Part II of “At Her Beck and Call”, her exciting new novel where She answers many of the questions which readers sent to her after her first book was published.
In Part II of “At Her Beck and Call”, we find out much more about her personal slave Troy, and She gives us in-depth descriptions of the many Training and Punishment techniques She uses with him. The Mistress also describes for us the Male Chastity Techniques which She uses to keep her slave attentive and obedient at all times, as well as helpful tips for Women who have thought about introducing Male Chastity into their relationship with their husband or partner.
Mistress Benay takes us into her Dungeon as She describes, with all the exciting details, some of her Double Domination Sessions with Mistress Jill and Mistress Susan, her recent Cuckolding of her slave Troy, and She lays out a step by step guide for Females who want to take control of their Marriage or Relationship, and have their male kneeling at that feet, ready at their Beck and Call.
If you enjoyed her first book, you will absolutely love this bigger follow up novel by one of America’s most Exciting Female Domination Authors. Only a Dominatrix with Mistress Benay’s experience could present Female Domination and Male Chastity in such a simple to understand, Sensual, and Exciting manner.
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Ruth 66 : Elizabeth Barlo
Ruth 66
He is sixteen years old, his name is Charlie, but he doesn’t know whether he’s coming or going. His family has fallen apart and to top it all off, his grandfather and fellow music aficionado, opa Bill, dies suddenly.
The morning he’s supposed to start his dream job at the record store, his grandmother and country club maven, oma Ruth, shows up out of the blue. She’s dressed like a hippie, drives a rickety old bus with Bill’s ashes on the dash, and claims she’s going on a road-trip in the spirit of the sixties, along Route 66. Before Charlie knows it he is on a roller coaster ride down the Mother Road, banned from using social media, and forced to put up with his crazy grandmother and her wild antics.
But then he discovers Ruth’s hidden agenda, meets a beautiful, mysterious girl in the middle of nowhere and suddenly the trip takes an unexpected turn into the unknown. As role models fall off their pedestals, hormones go haywire and a dark family secret is revealed, Charlie goes through a rite of passage that will change his life forever.
The setting is the iconic Route 66, the characters are rich and real, and the soundtrack is epic. This is Ruth 66, a fun coming-of-age novel about family dynamics, accepting the past and finding inner strength.
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Bitter Fruits : Sarah Daltry
Bitter Fruits
Attending a vampire-themed masquerade party seems like a strange way to spend a night, but Nora is sick of frat parties and bars. Meeting Alec was just a bonus. Despite their immediate attraction, however, Alec is wary of involving himself with Nora, and when she pushes it, she discovers that Alec has secrets that could destroy them both.
Is she willing to risk everything for a man she hardly knows? How far into darkness will he take her?
When Nora attempts to follow, however, things grow more complicated. Someone is hunting her – someone tied to a secret that goes back to the beginning of man. Soon, Nora finds herself drawn to two men, each with his own agenda.
Can she save them both when one is destined to die?
Teaching Kids Business : Jeff M. Brown
Teaching Kids Business: Why, What, When, Where, How & Impact
Simple and effective strategies and activities to develop life skills and experiences that prepare kids of all ages for business. Provides progressive thinking, ideas to implement, teaching techniques, and a solid framework to teach kids business. The use of this content will help to; encourage business conversations; help children to become more engaged in learning about business.
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Midnight Riders : Pete Clark
Midnight Riders
“Gather ‘round people and you shall hear
about a bunch of bullshit that is clear.
Of riders and horses and monsters too;
your parents lied – they can still get you.
Hardly anyone who was there is alive
to dispel the rumor, uncover the lies,
but there was more than one man who rode that day
and more than just Redcoats who got in their way.”
Along the way, Longfellow lost something in his translation it seems.
Everyone has heard of the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. However, they have not heard about them this way! The American founding fathers had a lot more to deal with at the end of the 18th century than tariffs and tea; avoiding hurled trees from Wendigos and gargoyles falling from the sky took a lot of patience. How is Samuel Prescott supposed to hunt the leader of the Rippers when the British keep infringing upon the colonists’ rights?
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Silent Screams : D. Cross
Silent Screams
Silent Screams is a stunning memoir that recounts one woman’s painful struggle following a severe psychological crisis leading to a suicide attempt. When the author’s relationship with her psychiatrist is revealed, and years of psychotherapy provide no answers, she embarks on a journey of self-awareness and insight, recounting the events that she feels led up to this critical point in her life.
Emotional trauma and illness played a crucial part in her life since childhood and more than once, she feels, her life was changed by fate. As a young adult, she enters academia in a quest for psychological insight, and to gain what her psychiatrist called, “an intellectual understanding” of her experience. After a time of social outreach, many more experiences and tests then unfold and relationships provide further insight.
Later on, when she feels life‘s major tests are in the past, she is presented with what will become the most painful test of all in the form of a debilitating, incurable disease that will dictate how her physical life must now be lived.
Silent Screams is a frank, uncompromising look at a woman’s personal journey through trauma and illness framed through the psychosocial events that surrounded that journey.
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