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...

From gold medalist and reality TV star Shawn Johnson comes an “absorbing portrait of a young athlete’s quest to achieve her Olympic dreams” (Kirkus Reviews) inspired by her own experiences as an elite teenage gymnast.Charlie Ryland has a secret.She may seem like your average high school sophomore—but she’s just really good at pretending.Because outside of school Charlie spends all her waking hours training to become one of the best...

Human rights should protect the dignity and well-being of all people. But in today's deeply divided world, some argue that cultural differences and economic inequality undermine their universality.In Human Rights in a Divided World, David Hollenbach offers a comprehensive and cohesive analysis of the challenges to human rights, suggesting that today's global realities call for important developments rooted in Catholic ethics. This work of theological social ethics draws on...

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...

Prepare for an extraordinary literary journey with "Short Science Fiction Collection 055 (Unabridged)." This captivating anthology showcases a diverse array of tales that explore the boundless realms of science fiction. From thought-provoking explorations of the future to thrilling adventures in uncharted territories, each story ignites the imagination and challenges the boundaries of human knowledge. Immerse yourself in a world where technology intertwines with humanity, where the unknown...

The Living Animals of the Natural world, subtitled "a popular Natural History", proposed to present the most updated version of the wonders of the Animal World in a new and clearer form. It used photography instead of the traditional illustrations of the life of beasts, birds, fishes, insects, corals, and the subjects photographed were obtained from every part of the world, many of them from the most distant islands of the Southern Ocean, the great barrier reef of Australia, the New Zealan...

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...

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...

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...

In brief summary, Gospel in your character, is all about understanding Christ, His nature and effect of living his life in your character in order to win many back to the kingdom of God through such character. The Gospel is the good news that Christ has risen and is alive living in heaven and in the heart all that receive him. When you have this understanding you begin to experience Christ presence through the help of the Holy Spirit, which is the spirit of God living in your heart, making...

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....