My Name Is Not Leila

My Name Is Not Leila
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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages : 138
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ISBN-10 : 9781638673019
ISBN-13 : 1638673012
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis My Name Is Not Leila by : Ahmed Amr

My Name Is Not Leila By: Ahmed Amr As British and German forces battle for control of North Africa, a young woman survivor of the eight month siege of Tobruk seeks refuge in Egypt. After having a passionate affair with a young cosmopolitan Alexandrian surgeon, she mysteriously disappears. Her obsessed lover goes searching for her in a desolate city living in the shadow of the epic battle of El Alamein only to find her ensnared in a brutal murder.

Give Work

Give Work
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9780735211902
ISBN-13 : 0735211906
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Give Work by : Leila Janah

Want to end poverty for good? Entrepreneur and Samasource founder Leila Janah has the solution—give work, not aid. “An audacious, inspiring, and practical book. Leila shows how it’s possible to build a successful business that lifts people out of poverty—not by giving them money but by giving them work. It’s required reading for anyone who’s passionate about solving real problems.” —Adam Grant, author of Give and Take and Originals Despite trillions of dollars in Western aid, 2.8 billion people worldwide still struggle in abject poverty. Yet the world’s richest countries continue to send money—mostly to governments—targeting the symptoms, rather than the root causes of poverty. We need a better solution. In Give Work, Leila Janah offers a much-needed solution to solving poverty: incentivize everyone from entrepreneurs to big companies to give dignified, steady, fair-wage work to low-income people. Her social business, Samasource, connects people living below the poverty line—on roughly $2 a day—to digital work for major tech companies. To date, the organization has provided over $10 million in direct income to tens of thousands of people the world had written off, dramatically altering the trajectory of entire communities for the better. Janah and her team go into the world’s poorest regions—from refugee camps in Kenya to the Mississippi Delta in Arkansas—and train people to do digital work for companies like Google, Walmart, and Microsoft. Janah has tested various Give Work business models in all corners of the world. She shares poignant stories of people who have benefited from Samasource’s work, where and why it hasn’t worked, and offers a blueprint to fight poverty with an evidence-based, economically sustainable model. We can end extreme poverty in our lifetimes. Give work, and you give the poorest people on the planet a chance at happiness. Give work, and you give people the freedom to choose how to develop their own communities. Give work, and you create infinite possibilities.

A Bottle in the Smoke: A Tale of Anglo-Indian Life

A Bottle in the Smoke: A Tale of Anglo-Indian Life
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Publisher : DigiCat
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : EAN:8596547363750
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Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis A Bottle in the Smoke: A Tale of Anglo-Indian Life by : Janet Milne Rae

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Bottle in the Smoke: A Tale of Anglo-Indian Life" by Janet Milne Rae. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Murder of the Hula Dancers (Leila Kahana Mysteries, Book 3)

Murder of the Hula Dancers (Leila Kahana Mysteries, Book 3)
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Publisher : R. Barri Flowers
Total Pages : 205
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Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Synopsis Murder of the Hula Dancers (Leila Kahana Mysteries, Book 3) by : R. Barri Flowers

Murder of the Hula Dancers is the third book in the popular Leila Kahana series of Maui mystery and suspense novels, following Murder in Maui and Murder on Kaanapali Beach, by bestselling crime writer R. Barri Flowers. Maui County homicide detective and composite sketch artist Leila Kahana and her partner Detective Jonny Chung investigate the murders of beautiful hula dancers by a serial killer dubbed the "Hula Killer." Each victim was stabbed to death. As they chase leads and suspects, Leila starts to believe that Chung might be a dirty cop. But should she act on her suspicions and report it to her boss Lieutenant Blake Seymour? In the meantime, Leila is in the midst of a new relationship with handsome restaurateur Maxwell Kishimoto. When he asks her to marry him, she's conflicted due to her conservative upbringing, career, and independence. Also in the Homicide Unit, Detectives Trent Ferguson and Rachel Lancaster investigate the murder of a woman whose charred corpse was found in a vehicle along a deserted road. Could solving one case help solve the other? Or be an impediment? As the Hula Killer continues to evade capture with the body count rising, Leila volunteers to go undercover as a hula dancer to try and flush out the murderer. But is the cunning killer one step ahead of them? Is Leila putting her life at risk to become another one of his victims? Bonus material includes an excerpt from book four in the Leila Kahana Mysteries, Murder in Upcountry; as well as excerpts from other Hawaii series by R. Barri Flowers, Dead in Kihei (An Eddie Naku Maui Mystery) and Murder on the Big Island (A Hawaii FBI Thriller). The romantic suspense novelette, Kaanapali Beach Paradise-Part 2, and the complete suspense thriller short story, Kill and Say Goodbye, are also included. Fans of the first two books in the Leila Kahana series of mysteries will find Murder of the Hula Dancers the perfect follow up and prelude to future books in the series. Aloha!

The Orion

The Orion
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 460
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ISBN-10 : PRNC:32101064050436
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis The Orion by : William Carey Richards

The Lucy Falls Series Box Set

The Lucy Falls Series Box Set
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Publisher : Whyte House Publications
Total Pages : 1007
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Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Synopsis The Lucy Falls Series Box Set by : E.R. Whyte

For the men of small-town Lucy Falls, protecting the women they love is something that comes naturally. In Play Me False, a professor discovers her husband was never really hers…but maybe her hot teacher's assistant is? Will they have a chance at a happy-ever-after, though, when her deranged ex has other ideas? In the duet Speak No Secrets & Tell No Lies, a student uncovers his young teacher’s dirty little secret. He has a thing for her...but a stalker does, too. In Trust the Liar, an inactive duty officer fleeing from a past full of secrets runs headfirst into the arms of the man who is supposed to kill her. Instead of carrying out his assignment…he kidnaps her, spiriting her away to a remote cabin in a frozen wilderness. Readers call these books “engaging,” “heart-pounding,” and “all-consuming.” In Lucy Falls, the town may be small, but the suspense is chilling, and the heat is anything but. Pick up anywhere in the series and start reading today!

Victoria Magazine

Victoria Magazine
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 626
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433081655973
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Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Victoria Magazine by :

Floodgates

Floodgates
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Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages : 272
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781615952342
ISBN-13 : 1615952349
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Floodgates by : Mary Anna Evans

2011 - Mississippi Author Award Winner "Evans has written a fascinating tale linking the history of New Orleans' levee system to the present and weaving into the story aspects of the city's widely diverse cultures." —Booklist STARRED review Centuries of tragedy shadow New Orleans: wars, slavery, and a monumental flood that killed a thousand people and still threatens to wash all that history away. Faye Longchamp and her team of archaeologists, fighting to save New Orleans' past, are horrified when they discover a corpse that's far too new to be an archaeological find. The police presume it's just another dead body in the long, sad sequence of bodies left by Hurricane Katrina, until Faye shows them a truth that only an archaeologist could see: the debris piled on top of the dead woman is all wrong. Someone brought Shelly Broussard to this flooded-out house and left her dead body behind. Faye and her assistant Joe Wolf Mantooth are drawn into the investigation by a detective who believes their professional expertise is critical to the case. They quickly learn that trouble swirled around the victim like winds around the eye of a hurricane. Is Shelly's heroic rescue work in the aftermath of Katrina the reason for her death? Or does the sheaf of photos in her work files hold the answer? Will Faye and Joe be the next victims engulfed in this deadly deception?