This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This is a story about cold war soldiers/warriors using intellect rather than arms to confront the enemy. The enemy being the soviet union and their eastern european subordinates who intended to occupy and rule all of europe.These are the recollections and memories of one of those cold war warriors. He reminisces, as he awaits aboard a troop ship docked in new yorkharbor to muster out of the united states army. H...

A Very Fine House is an intimate memoir of a mother's Norman Rockwell family turned upside down by her daughter's descent into meth addiction and crime. Bright and beautiful, Annie is an unlikely candidate for meth. Living fast and hard on the streets of Bend, Oregon, she commits crimes against herself, the community, and her own family.The author chronicles her child's addiction in a way that other writers have not written about addiction. What begins as an obsession to s...

If I Could Fly is a standalone novel based on characters introduced in Judith Ortiz Cofer's bestselling short story collection, An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio, which won the inaugural Pura Belpré Award.Fifteen-year-old Doris is used to taking care of herself. Her musician parents have always spent more time singing in nightclubs than watching after her. But when her ailing mother goes home to Puerto Ri...

Jordan Cofer examines the influence of the Bible upon Flannery O'Connor's fiction. While there are many studies exploring how her Catholicism affected her fiction, this book argues that O'Connor is heavily influenced by the Bible itself. Specifically, it explicates the largely undocumented ways in which she used the Bible as source material for her work. It also shows that, rhetorically, many of O'Connor's stories (and/or characters) are based upon biblical models. Furthermore, Cofer expla...

En parfaite cohérence avec le programme de DFASM et les ECNi, cet ouvrage rassemble les connaissances fondamentales en Rhumatologie. Il aborde tous les items relevant de cette spécialité avec des objectifs pédagogiques clairement définis. Il comporte deux parties : • une partie Connaissances composée de 31 chapitres consacrés chacun à un item. Chaque chapitre commence systématiquement par un rappel des objectifs pédagogiques puis développe la thématique. Le contenu, clair et didactique, es...

A Very Fine House is an intimate memoir of a mother's Norman Rockwell family turned upside down by her daughter's descent into meth addiction and crime. Bright and beautiful, Annie is an unlikely candidate for meth. Living fast and hard on the streets of Bend, Oregon, she commits crimes against herself, the community, and her own family.The author chronicles her child's addiction in a way that other writers have not written about addiction. What begins as an obsession to s...

Perspective of the Forgotten is a poetry collection that showcases a mother and son’s journey through life while providing the ups and downs of the world around them.

There are times and seasons when the pressure sooverwhelms there is only one solution. The answercomes by way of total surrender to God. This is aposition where pressure subsides, peace, joy, love,and other precious gifts of God manifest. A placeor position of surrender is that place where theemptying of the things that have held us hostage—aplace of stagnancy. These may include fear, pride,doubt, unbelief, distrust, old mindsets, old...

En parfaite conformité avec le programme de DFASM (diplôme de formation approfondie en sciences médicales) s'inscrivant dans la R2C 2021, cet ouvrage rassemble l'ensemble des connaissances indispensables à acquérir en rhumatologie. Il présente dans le détail les items du programme relevant de cette spécialité, avec des objectifs pédagogiques clairement définis, et comporte deux parties : - une partie Connaissances composée de 30 chapitres commençant systématiquement par un tableau de hiéra...

En parfaite conformité avec le programme de DFASM, cette collection permet, pour chaque spécialité, de se préparer efficacement aux nouvelles épreuves des ECNi en privilégiant des batteries d'entraînements de plusieurs types : dossiers progressifs accessibles également en ligne – voir instructions en page intérieure de couverture –, questions isolées, TCS et LCA. L'ouvrage de rhumatologie, comme tous les autres titres de la collection, est constitué de 2 parties : - la 1re partie est compo...

This is a Spanish-language edition of The Latin Deli, Judith Ortiz Cofer's prizewinning collection of short stories, personal essays, and poems. A work rich in longing, love, and remembrance, El deli latino opens a door into the lives of the Puerto Rican immigrants who live in or near an urban New Jersey tenement known as "El Building." The book was selected by Rita Dove, Ashley Montague, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. to receive the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, which recognizes...

En parfaite conformité avec le programme de DFASM (Diplôme de formation approfondie en sciences médicales) et avec les Épreuves classantes nationales (ECNi), cet ouvrage rassemble les connaissances fondamentales en rhumatologie. Il comprend deux parties : - une partie «_Connaissances_» qui traite les items des UE relevant de la spécialité de rhumatologie. Chaque item fait l'objet d'un chapitre comprenant chacun un rappel des objectifs pédagogiques et nationaux, un plan systématique et un e...