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Very few high school girls say, "When I graduate, I want to be a stripper." Or "I want to be an escort." Yet, walk into just about any strip club in the country, and what do you see? Young women, many just barely old enough to legally dance. The same goes for escorts. How does a young woman make the leap from innocence to escorting?This is a true story of one young newlywed's journey from respected daughter, wife, and church member to fully embracing the taboo and underground world...

Gerald reflected on the life that he lived both in the spotlight and darkness. Even in his darkest moments he still had his music but this time was different. Ten years of his life he had a source to write his music and someone to sing it to. Success was in his hands yet he was empty. Bank accounts that some wouldn’t make in a lifetime. He traveled to places that weren’t even heard of and touched women of all nationalities still he couldn’t think of being with anyone but her, even with her...

John is your typical family man. He is loyal to his wife Peggy and their son Johnny who recently receives an experimental device Wi-Fi to assist him with the management of his A.D.D . While the rest of the world is enthralled with the POST PANDEMIC TECH REVOLUTION. John and others like him Jeff (who works for a large Tech firm) Start to notice some disturbing occurrences in society and must ultimately decide what is morally and ethically right.

The saga continues...THIS BOOK IS THE 2ND OF 4 BOOKS THAT ARE PART OF THE BOOK SERIES NONPARTICIPANT. (It is a sequel to NONPARTICIPANT the first group.) NONPARTICIPANT IS A 4 BOOK SERIES.As the first group gathers individuals from dismembered sectors there is a potential threat to Green camp when Jeff goes back onto the consumer grids in an attempt to save Megan Gerhardt. Plan B and Solartech are now the acting and regulative oliga...

Children are disappearing in Venice. Rumor has it a demon is to blame, but no one knows for sure. Beatrice de la Pietà, an orphan on the brink of a new life, cannot be bothered with such stories though. Meeting the expectations of her new employer, Cassandra Fedele, is all she cares about, and she'll do anything to hold onto her new apprenticeship as a cook and maid in her household. Demons and missing children will have to wait.When Signora Fedele's requi...

The basic concept of this book is to examine the use of innovative methods augmenting traditional plant breeding towards the development of new crop varieties under different environmental conditions to achieve sustainable food production. This book consists of two volumes: Volume 1 subtitled Breeding, Biotechnology and Molecular Tools and Volume 2 subtitled Agronomic, Abiotic and Biotic Stress Traits. This is volume 2 which contains 18 chapters highlighting breeding strategies for specifi...

This important 2-volume reference book is the first comprehensive resource reflecting the current global status and prospects of date palm cultivation by country. This volume covers Africa and the Americas. Countries included are: Egypt, Algeria, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Cameroon, Djibouti, Chad, Mali Somalia, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso and Senegal, as well as the United States of America and the South American countries Chile and Peru. Topics discussed are: cultivati...

This important reference book is the first comprehensive resource worldwide that reflects research achievements in date palm biotechnology, documenting research events during the last four decades, current status, and future outlook. This book is essential for researchers, policy makers, and commercial entrepreneurs concerned with date palm. The book is invaluable for date palm biotechnology students and specialists. This monument is written by an international team of experienced ...

This book examines the development of innovative modern methodologies towards augmenting conventional plant breeding for the production of new crop varieties, under the increasingly limiting environmental and cultivation factors, to achieve sustainable agricultural production and enhanced food security. Two volumes of Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies were published in 2015 and 2016, respectively; Volume 1: Breeding, Biotechnology and Molecular Tools and Volume 2: Agronomic, Abiotic an...

Love and death and the passage between entry into the world and exit from it are the focus of this collection of short stories. Buthaina Al Nasiri is an Iraqi author who has lived in Cairo since 1979. Despite this physical and temporal distance from her homeland, much of her material derives from it and many of the stories in this collection reflect her deeply felt nostalgia for Iraq. In contrast to many contemporary female writers, she confesses to being less interested in the position of...

A selection of the most important prose and stage works of the great Egyptian playwright of the twentieth centuryThe importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898–1987) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature is second only to that of Naguib Mahfouz. If the latter put the novel among the genres of writing that are an accepted part of literary production in the Arab world today, Tawfiq al-Hakim is recognized as the undisputed creator of a literature of the theater....

Walter Johnson, Harvard historian and author of the acclaimed River of Dark Dreams, urges us to embrace a vision of justice attentive to the history of slavery—not through the lens of human rights, but instead through an honest accounting of how slavery was the foundation of capitalism, a legacy that continues to afflict people of color and the poor. Inspired by Cedric J. Robinson’s work on racial capitalism, as well as Black Lives Matter and its forebears—including the black radi...