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📮 Disgraced by Suzanna Krivulskaya (.ePUB) Disgraced is a sweeping religious and cultural history of Protestant sex scandals in nineteenth and twentieth century America. Suzanna Krivulskaya investigates the cultural consequences of scandal, what demands the public made of religion in response to revelations of pastoral misdeeds, and how Protestantism itself changed in the process. From the birth of the modern press to the advent of the internet age, the book traces the public downfalls of religious leaders who purported to safeguard the morality of the nation. Along the way, Protestant ministers' private transgressions journeyed from the privilege of silence to the spectacle of sensationalism. At first hesitant to report on sexual misconduct among the clergy in order to protect the reputation of Protestantism writ large, newspapers embraced the genre of pastoral scandal in the 1870s, when the biggest celebrity minister of the era, Henry Beecher, stood trial for adultery. Scandal reporting escalated in the following decades, creating multiple publicity crises, the likes of which continue to plague churches to this day. As Protestant institutions struggled to protect their reputations, they turned to secrecy and silencing-often foregoing opportunities for engaging in productive reckoning with the problem of sexual hypocrisy among their clergy. Sex scandals, it turns out, have not been mere aberrations in the history of modern Protestantism; they have, in fact, been key to its development. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Suzanna Krivulskaya Size 3MB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/yDPc9F3J0ZKZ https://devuploads.com/8e4h1w0v8v9p

📮 From Byzantium to Constantinople by John Matthews (.ePUB) The consecration of the city of Constantinople in 330 CE on the emplacement of the Greek city of Byzantium was one of the most important moments in the whole of Graeco-Roman history. The foundation of the city responded to important changes in the social, political, and cultural character of the Roman empire of the first three centuries. In its role as the capital of the Byzantine Empire, it provided a setting for a new religion and the framework for more than a thousand years of continued Roman history in the east. From Byzantium to Constantinople explores, in great detail, the Graeco-Roman context of the city and its early history in the first century of its identity as the new Rome. The book surveys the events that led to the establishment of Constantinople, the circumstances of its foundation, and the first hundred years of its development as an imperial capital city resting upon a new religious identity. Based on a description and critical evaluation of the sources of the earlier history of the city of Byzantium, it attends to one document in particular–the Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae–a regional survey of the resources and monuments of the city, written in the early fifth century but preserving many details of the city as it had developed from its Greek and Roman background. Ranging from descriptions of Constantinople's facilities for the fighting of fires and distributions of bread, to the number of churches established in this period, the Notitia allows for a study of the economic and social diversity and housing conditions of its regions. ♻️ Book's Info: Author John Matthews Size 7MB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/974Z2JjDEbpn https://devuploads.com/rjxtuc2wdukc

📮 Multicultural Britain: A People’s History by Kieran Connell (.ePUB) Between the end of the Second World War and the early twenty-first century, Britain became multicultural. This vivid book tells that remarkable story. Kieran Connell, an historian of Irish and German heritage who grew up in Balsall Heath, inner-city Bir-mingham, takes readers into multicultural communities across Britain at key moments in their development. Journeying far beyond London, Multicultural Britain explores the messy contradictions of the country's transition into today's diverse society. It reveals the ordinary people who have forged Britain's multiculturalism; skewers public leaders, from Enoch Powell to Harold Wilson to Margaret Thatcher, who have too often weaponized race for their own political ends; and shines a light on the shifting nature of British racism, revealing its enduring day-to-day impact on ethnic-minority groups. Between postcolonial reckonings and immigration anxieties, how people live together in Brexit Britain remains an urgent question for our time. Connell's fresh, thought-provoking book unveils British multiculturalism not as a problematic idea, but as a rich and complex lived reality. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Kieran Connell Size 5MB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/qK571l8QITDD https://devuploads.com/4b7pcw7g9ckw

📮 Life / Afterlife by Suzanne Lye (.ePUB) Life / Afterlife traces the development, evolution, and uses of underworld scenes in ancient Greek literature and society. Underworld scenes are a unique form of embedded storytelling, appearing across time and genres. These scenes employ a special register of language that acts as a narrative space outside of chronological time and everyday reality. Suzanne Lye shows how writers such as Homer, Hesiod, Aristophanes, Plato, and Lucian, among others, used afterlife depictions as commentaries to communicate a call to action for their audiences in response to cultural, religious, and political changes to their worlds. Using networks of underworld scenes which often featured mythic and historical figures, authors could reinforce or challenge traditional religious and cultural beliefs and practices by presenting the long-term, cosmic effects of actions in life on an individual's post-death experience. From ancient to modern times, underworld scenes have helped authors and audiences define the essential qualities of a "good life" for different social, political, and religious groups and their societies. This book offers an approach to reading underworld scenes that explains how they function and why they have persisted in various forms, both literary and artistic, from the eighth-century B.C.E. to the present day. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Suzanne Lye Size 3MB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/eB1Kq4VsnQzi https://devuploads.com/ktv5umu2ofu8

📮 Writing Home by Leslie A. Fiedler (.ePUB) Letters written by Leslie Fiedler to his wife Margaret from May 1944 to December 1945 while he was stationed in Hawaii and various parts of the Pacific Theater as an intelligence officer during World War II. The letters in Writing Home offer a glimpse into a crucially formative period in the life of Leslie A. Fiedler, one of the greatest literary critics and American public intellectuals of the twentieth century. Written to his wife and two sons between May 1944 and December 1945, while he was serving as a cryptologist and translator for the Office of Naval Intelligence, they contain firsthand accounts of his experiences in various locations in the Pacific Theater, including Hawai'i, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Guam, and China. Constrained by Navy censors from writing directly about his work as an intelligence officer, he writes, instead, on a variety of themes, events, places, and war situations, including the ethical contradictions between a war fought for and in the name of freedom on the one hand and the oppression of indigenous Hawai'ians and prisoners of war on the other. He also questions the mainstream, European-centered view of the war and provides new insights into the role of Jewish servicemen in World War II. Finally, the letters document the beginning of the formation of American intellectual life in the years preceding the Cold War, forcing us to rethink certain premises of American exceptionalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Taken together, they offer a unique and fascinating immersion into history through the eyes of one of the makers of post–World War II American literary culture. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Leslie A. Fiedler Size 4MB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/gggT13fCfz8W https://devuploads.com/qlycaexxs8hi

📮 Monarch of the Green by Stephen Proctor (.ePUB) Shortlisted for The Telegraph Sports Book Awards Biography of the Year 'A splendid new biography. How good was young Tom Morris? Stephen Proctor makes his case cogently. Young Tom Morris was one of the greatest of them all' - Allan Massie Young Tom Morris, the son of the legendary pioneer of golf, Tom Morris, was golf’s first superstar. Born at a pivotal moment in history, just as the new and inexpensive ‘gutty’ ball was making golf affordable and drawing thousands of new players to the game, his genius and his swashbuckling personality would set a game that had been frozen in amber for four centuries on the pathway to becoming worldwide spectator sport we know today. Exhaustively researched and beautifully illustrated, Monarch of the Green is a stirring and evocative history of Tommy’s life (which also includes, for the first time, a compilation of his competitive record in stroke-play tournaments, singles matches, and foursomes) and demonstrates how, in one dazzling decade, this young superstar dominated the sport like few others have ever done. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Stephen Proctor Size 5MB Category Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/0wCNJYlX6uRq https://devuploads.com/wwiepog84azv

📮 Norway in the Second World War by Ole Kristian Grimnes (.PDF) Covering political, military, economic and social history, Norway in the Second World War is the most authoritative book on the subject in the English language. This innovative study describes how the Germans conquered Norway in 1940 and the type of government that was then imposed. German organisations such as the Wehrmacht, the SS and the civilian Reichskommissariat are all presented, along with how they operated during the occupation. Ole Kristian Grimnes examines the Norwegian Nazi Party and the important role that it played during the period, as well as analysing how the Norwegian economy became integrated into the German war economy. The Norwegian resistance (including the Communists) and the Norwegian government-in-exile are explored in detail, while a separate chapter on the Holocaust in both Norwegian and international contexts is also included. As such, Norway in the Second World War is the definitive text on war and Nazi occupation in a nation that has been sorely neglected by the literature in the field until now. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Ole Kristian Grimnes Size 8MB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type PDF 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/JFrzNVlvZuD3 https://devuploads.com/65l7xck60b7b

📮 Cellular Radio Access Networks by Ivo Maljević (.ePUB)+ This textbook goes to the heart of telecommunications engineering by developing the underlying concepts and linking them to how system specifications are determined by standards bodies – and how systems are designed and implemented by equipment manufacturers. In this regard, the book is comprehensive in covering all important aspects of wireless networks. Tailored to undergraduate/graduate students and practicing engineers, this book presents the fundamental concepts in a concise manner, while retaining the rigor needed to truly understand wireless communications. Importantly, the book ties these developments to how these concepts are implemented in fielded systems, discussing the motivations behind the design choices made in 4G and 5G wireless communications. The book bridges the gap between theory and application, presenting key practical issues. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Ivo Maljević Size 41.5MB Category Non-Fiction > Tech & Devices File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/yEz16OugEpRl https://devuploads.com/f9c5whr04q0c

📮 Creepy Nebraska by Samuel Fort (.ePUB) Just a glimpse of the Niobrara River ghost child is an omen of death. That giant glowing thing in the sky that crashed into a Nebraska field in 1884 and spewed glowing-hot metal parts everywhere? Probably not an airship. Then there's the screaming ghost of the Blackbird Hill... Many Americans view Nebraska as...well, boring. And flat. To those who don't know better, it's just a badly drawn square on a map of the United States. When viewed or photographed from outer space, nocturnal Nebraska is dark except for a few pinpoints of light hinting at the existence of Omaha and Lincoln. But beneath that dark canopy, separated by hundreds of miles of lonely and eerily silent roads, there are communities of people who, for more than a century, have seen and experienced strange and curious things. Creepy things. Most of them go unreported. But not all. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Samuel Fort Size 2MB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/nmunpX7XL8UA https://devuploads.com/87pygualewoy

📮 Grim Almanac of Jack the Ripper by Neil R. Storey (.ePUB) Jostling for position in this cornucopia of the criminal and the curious are diverse tales of baby farmers, garrotters, murderers, poisoners, prostitutes, pimps, rioters and rebels. Other tales tell of those who walked the poverty-stricken streets of 'the abyss', trying to earn a few honest coppers by the most unusual and desperate occupations, from tater man to tosher. This colourful cast of characters is accompanied by accounts of prisons and punishments, as well as a liberal smattering of funerals, executions, disasters and bizarre events. If it's horrible, if it's ghastly, if it's strange, its here - and if you have the stomach for it, then read on. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Neil R. Storey Size 5MB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/Sz28EANWbQDL https://devuploads.com/0mq3brja3zl9

📮 The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard (.ePUB) In the early eighteenth century a number of the great pirate captains, including Edward "Blackbeard" Teach and "Black Sam" Bellamy, joined forces. This infamous "Flying Gang" was more than simply a thieving band of brothers. Many of its members had come to piracy as a revolt against conditions in the merchant fleet and in the cities and plantations in the Old and New Worlds. Inspired by notions of self-government, they established a crude but distinctive form of democracy in the Bahamas, carving out their own zone of freedom in which indentured servants were released and leaders chosen or deposed by a vote. They were ultimately overcome by their archnemesis, Captain Woodes Rogers—a merchant fleet owner and former privateer—and the brief though glorious moment of the Republic of Pirates came to an end. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Colin Woodard Size 966KB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/jgVXVLbwRbve https://devuploads.com/3kstd3oleqpm

📮 The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth by Adrian Duncan (.ePUB) In this moving new novel, award-winning Irish writer Adrian Duncan explores love and grief while finding their resonance in works of artAN IRISH INDEPENDENT AND IRISH TIMES BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2025 During winter season in a secluded Alpine city, John Molloy, an Irish restorative sculptor, meets Bernadette, an enigmatic Italian sociologist. As John falls in love, a distressing moment from his youth rises into view, the disastrous fallout of which has reverberated unchecked through his life. Years later, a letter from home arrives, asking him to pray for the speedy death of an ailing friend. Over a day-long odyssey through the ancient streets and churches of Bologna, John is forced to confront his present, his past and the bedrock of his psyche. A delicately crafted novel of two halves, a decade apart,The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earthis a masterful excavation of human desires, inhibitions, and the patterns of habit to which we unwittingly fall prey. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Adrian Duncan Size 370KB Category Fiction > General Fiction/Classics File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/PdxASChXe0w8 https://devuploads.com/emx366ngjd8z

📮 Dancing on Knives by Joanne Rush (.ePUB) Laura, a Bosnian war survivor and Cambridge University librarian, has long tried to forget the horrors of her past. But when she falls in love with Balkan languages student Adam, disturbing memories start to emerge. As Adam's work leaves Laura increasingly isolated, she is visited by the ghosts of those murdered in the conflict. They don’t haunt her; instead they share stories, cook familiar meals and tell Bosnian folktales, reminding her of the home she once lost. However, when their longing for vengeance becomes clear, Laura must decide: are her guests a sign that she is unravelling, or can they help her confront the past she has fled for so long? ♻️ Book's Info: Author Joanne Rush Size 611KB Category Fiction > General Fiction/Classics File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/ZWuEOEsfrXNi https://devuploads.com/l734gvu176cs

📮 Bethnal Green by Amélie Skoda (.ePUB) Penang, 1971.When Suyin Lim is offered the opportunity of a lifetime - a place as a trainee nurse in London's Bethnal Green Hospital - she jumps at the chance to leave her job as a seamstress and unite with her sister, who left for the same path a year before. However, without warning her sister returns to Penang, a shadow of her former self and Suyin is forced to leave without any answers. Suyin soon finds herself starting a new life in London, falling in love with the vibrant city and its people and as she immerses herself in the gruelling but rewarding work of caring for her patients, she begins to understand what she really wants out of life . . . BETHNAL GREENexplores the themes of sacrifice and heartbreak, the power of using your voice and the will to build a life of one's own against the odds. It is also a powerful love letter to dedicated NHS workers from around the world, whose work touches countless lives every day. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Amélie Skoda Size 358KB Category Fiction > General Fiction/Classics File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/qdJdnDKk72bq https://devuploads.com/m90v81cafazx

📮 Homesick by Silvia Saunders (.ePUB) A story of falling out of love from the winner of the Comedy Women in Print Award, for fans of Monica Heisey and Dolly Alderton Mara longs to escape the London rental market and the small, damp flat she shares with her housemate, Lewis (who refuses to wash up cutlery because it makes him feel weird). She wants nothing more than to get into her pyjamas at 6pm and watchReal Housewivesin a judgement-free zone. Then Mara’s prayers are answered as she unexpectedly comes into some money that helps her find a home of her own. She just needs her long-term boyfriend, Tom, to move in so they can be happy and grown-up together. Except Tom has decided to leave London – and Mara. Just as her life should be coming together, everything starts to unravel. Navigating a break-up/non-break-up, a best friend accusing her of being self-involved, and a fixation with her new neighbours, will Mara ever be able to shake this homesick feeling? ♻️ Book's Info: Author Silvia Saunders Size 716KB Category Fiction > General Fiction/Classics, Women's Fiction File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/0ncszGxoufHT https://devuploads.com/vi0kkmzv2083

📮 The Wedding Date Disaster by Kate Mathieson (.ePUB) Gemma thought she had The One until she met her Plus One… Gemma Evans goes from being on the brink of everything she’s ever dreamed of, to the brink of a nervous breakdown when she’s passed over for a promotion and forced to watch her work nemesis, Ben McDonald, become the new Chief Editor at Peacock Press. To add insult to injury, she’s got to attend a family wedding in Italy and her date can’t make it. No way is Gemma showing up alone so she asks a friend to help her secure a ‘date’. But Gemma’s blind date turns out to be her worst nightmare… ♻️ Book's Info: Author Kate Mathieson Size 1MB Category Fiction > Romance File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/nIqdNYEPtN1j https://devuploads.com/hq3ilmri7o3x

📮 The Train from Platform 2 by Stephanie Steel (.ePUB) You’re trapped underground. There’s no way out. And there’s a killer on the loose… When former Detective Inspector Jess boards the London Underground, it should be just a few short stops home. But as the tube barrels towards Baker Street, it’s brought to an abrupt stop, and they’re plunged into the darkness. And then she hears the screeching. Jess pushes through into the driver’s cabin. There, she finds his lifeless body, and stab wounds in his neck, still bleeding. With no escape from the train, and in the pitch black, Jess is thrust into a deadly game. In a race against the unknown murderer, Jess must unravel the sinister truth before the killer commuter strikes again… A nail-biting, addictive thriller, perfect for fans of Lucy Foley and Sarah Pearse. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Stephanie Steel Size 2MB Category Fiction > Mystery/Thriller File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/88ny2qp8yEb2 https://devuploads.com/i2bh3ilo0rvi

📮 Helle and Death series by Oskar Jensen (.ePUB) Oskar Jensen is an author and academic. He researches songs at Newcastle University, and has written scholarly tomes on Napoleon, ballad-singing, and most recently the London streets, with 2022's Vagabonds. He is a BBC New Generation Thinker, appearing frequently on Radios 3 and 4, as well as showing up in the New Statesman, on Who Do You Think You Are?, and as historical advisor for 2018's Vanity Fair and a forthcoming major motion picture. His debut adult novel,Helle and Death, was published in 2023. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Oskar Jensen Size 628KB Category Fiction > Mystery/Thriller File Type ePUB 1. Helle and Death1. Helle and Death A witty modern murder mystery, which reinvents the Golden Age country house whodunnit for the twenty-first century.A snowstorm. A country house. Old friends reunited.It's going to be murder... A witty modern murder mystery, which reinvents the Golden Age country house whodunnit for the twenty-first century. A snowstorm. A country house. Old friends reunited. It's going to be murder... Torben Helle - art historian, Danish expat and owner of several excellent Scandinavian jumpers - has been dragged to a remote snowbound Northumbrian mansion for a ten-year reunion with old university friends. Things start to go sideways when their host, a reclusive and irritating tech entrepreneur, makes some shocking revelations at the dinner table. And when these are followed by an apparent suicide, the group faces a test of their wits... and their trust. Snowed in and cut off, surrounded by enigmatic housekeepers and off-duty police inspectors, not to mention a peculiar last will and testament, suspicion and sarcasm quickly turn to panic. As the temperature drops and the tension mounts, Torben decides to draw upon all the tricks of Golden Age detectives past in order to solve the mystery: how much money would it take to turn one of his old friends into a murderer? But he'd better be quick, or someone else might end up dead... This witty murder mystery puts a modern spin on the classic country house whodunnit. A must-read for fans of Agatha Christie, Richard Osman and Janice Hallett. This witty murder mystery puts a modern spin on the classic country house whodunnit. A must-read for fans of Agatha Christie, Richard Osman and Janice Hallett. 2. Helle's Hound2. Helle's Hound The new novel from the highly acclaimed author of Helle and Death, this is Golden Age crime for the twenty-first centuryA dead art historian. Cold War skulduggery.A reluctant Danish sleuth. And an extremely hungry dog. The new novel from the highly acclaimed author of Helle and Death, this is Golden Age crime for the twenty-first century A dead art historian. Cold War skulduggery. A reluctant Danish sleuth. And an extremely hungry dog. Dame Charlotte Lazerton - eminent art historian and mentor of Danish academic Torben Helle - is dead. And to make things worse, she was found partially eaten by her Irish wolfhound, Mortimer. While the police believe that she died of natural causes, Torben becomes convinced that Charlotte was murdered, although as usual no one pays any attention to him. That is, until he gains the confidence of a policeman who has watched too many Nordic Noir television shows and is ready to listen to any Scandinavian in a fetching woolly jumper. Aided by his old friend Leyla, Torben soon realises that there are plenty of people who might have wanted Dame Charlotte dead, from her competitors for a prestigious academic presidency to old enemies from her time in intelligence during the Cold War. One thing is for sure: Torben Helle is woefully unqualified to catch a killer, and the killer knows it... This witty murder mystery puts a modern spin on the classic Golden Age whodunnit. A must-read for fans of Tom Hindle, Richard Osman and Janice Hallett. This witty murder mystery puts a modern spin on the classic Golden Age whodunnit. A must-read for fans of Tom Hindle, Richard Osman and Janice Hallett. 📥 Download Links: Book 2: https://uploda.sh/Gk184UGfDf38 https://devuploads.com/0xqx7b1wibt2

📮 Kitty Collins series by Katy Brent (.ePUB) Katy is an author and award-winning journalist from the UK. She has worked on newspapers, magazines and websites since 2005, writing about popular culture. How To Kill Men and Get Away With It (HQ, 2022) is her first novel. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Katy Brent Size 1.7MB Category Fiction > Mystery/Thriller File Type ePUB 1. How to Kill Men and Get Away With It1. How to Kill Men and Get Away With It Meet Kitty Collins.FRIEND. LOVER. KILLER. Meet Kitty Collins. FRIEND. LOVER. KILLER. Have you ever walked home at night, keys in hand, ready to throw a punch in self-defence? That’s how it all started. The killing spree, I mean. I sort of tripped into this role… Literally. The first one was following me. That guy from the nightclub who wouldn’t leave me alone. I pushed him, he stumbled, and fell onto his own broken wine bottle. Oops. It was such a waste of a good house white. But now I can’t seem to stop and nor do I want to… I’ve got a taste for revenge and quite frankly, I’m killing it I’m killing it . 2. I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin2. I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin Our favourite anti-heroine, Kitty Collins, is back! Expect more wit, sass, and, of course, murder…My name is Kitty Collins and I’m a serial killer. Our favourite anti-heroine, Kitty Collins, is back! Expect more wit, sass, and, of course, murder… My name is Kitty Collins and I’m a serial killer. I don’t want to kill. It’s just so hard to resist. Some men really, really deserve it. Men like Blaze Bundy, an anonymous influencer spreading misogyny online. He’s making it very hard for me to control my murderous urges. Meanwhile I’m in the South of France to watch my mother marry a man I’ve never met. I should be drinking cocktails and focusing on my tan, not plotting a murder. But a woman’s work is never done. Surely one more teensy little kill wouldn’t hurt, would it? From the author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With It and The Murder After the Night Before, don't miss this deliciously dark, hilariously twisted story about friendship, love, and murder. Fans of My Sister the Serial Killer, How to Kill Your Family and Killing Eve will love this wickedly clever novel! From the author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With It and The Murder After the Night Before, don't miss this deliciously dark, hilariously twisted story about friendship, love, and murder. Fans of My Sister the Serial Killer, How to Kill Your Family and Killing Eve will love this wickedly clever novel! 📥 Download Links: HtKMaGAWI: https://uploda.sh/pfnZY5D8GDuk https://devuploads.com/90wdjr4h7o5g IBYLGiaC: https://uploda.sh/vlYHTRpZd3av https://devuploads.com/6d55rxl0drtq

📮 The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji (.ePUB) An irreverent and deeply-felt debut novel about a family confronting a past that is both keeping them together and preventing them from breaking free.Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they’re nobodies. First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose who stayed in Tehran during the revolution. She lives in a shabby apartment, paranoid and alone. Except when she is visited by Niaz, her Islamic-law-breaking granddaughter who takes her debauchery with a side of purpose, and yet somehow manages to survive. Elizabeth’s daughters left for America in 1979: Shirin, a charismatic yet outrageous event planner in Houston who considers herself the family’s future, and Seema, a dreamy idealist-turned-housewife languishing in the chaparral-filled hills of Los Angeles. And then there’s the other granddaughter Bita, the self-righteous but lost law student spending her days in New York City eating pancakes and quietly giving away her belongings. When an annual vacation in Aspen goes wildly awry and Shirin ends up being bailed out of jail by Bita, the family’s brittle status quo is cracked open. Shirin embarks upon a grand but half-baked quest to restore the family name. But what does that even mean in a country where the Valiats never mattered? Will they ever realize that life is more than just an old story? These are five women who are pulled apart and brought together by revolution. Here is their past, present, and future. By turns satirical and philosophical, traveling from the 1940s Iran into a splintered 2000s,The Persiansis a mordantly funny, heartbreakingly sad, and profoundly searching portrait of a family in crisis at the turn of the century, an American family saga reinvented. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Sanam Mahloudji Size 1.5MB Category Fiction > General Fiction/Classics File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: [UK] https://uploda.sh/PmGr1IoCbkaw https://devuploads.com/q2fj7z27qtfo [US] https://uploda.sh/4DZE3hUOROY9 https://devuploads.com/f3n6uomer58u

📮 It Comes from the River by Rachel Bower (.ePUB) The three women flinch: feel something pass outside. A reek of singed fur, scorching damp. Flaming eyes. A creature. It knows these women. They feel its wanting.From the river it comes.To the river it always returns. Alex is trying to hold her growing family together with a husband who is becoming more and more difficult to keep happy. Lauren hopes that the new man in her life might present a fresh start for her and her two boys. And Nancy's son has moved her into a care home where she feels entirely out of place, longing for her lost dog while dreaming of her own escape. But there is something else at play here. Something lurking in the water or at the end of an unlit street; a shadow in a bag of strangers' clothing; a chorus of voices calling in the distance. As each woman's world spirals from her grasp, they feel it getting closer, revealing the truth of what binds them together, and what must be done to set each of them free . . . ♻️ Book's Info: Author Rachel Bower Size 1.2MB Category Fiction > Horror File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/dHiI3W7AK6ty https://devuploads.com/au89sq81eclw

📮 Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East by Hugh Kennedy (.ePUB) Part of the rich legacy of the Middle East is a poetic record stretching back five millennia. This unparalleled repository of knowledge - across different languages, cultures and religions - allows us to examine continuity and change in human expression from the beginnings of writing to the present day. In Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East leading scholars draw upon this legacy to explore the ways in which poets, from the third millennium bc to the present day, have responded to effects of war. The contributors deal with material in a wide variety of languages - including Sumerian, Hittite, Akkadian, biblical and modern Hebrew, and classical and contemporary Arabic - and range from the Sumerian lament on the destruction of Ur and the Assyrian conquest of Jerusalem to the al-Rumiyyit of the poet and warrior prince Abu Firas al-Hamdani, the popular Arabic epics and romances that form the siyar, to the contemporary poetry of Hamas and Hezbollah. Some of the poems are heroic in tone celebrating victory and the prowess of warriors and soldiers; others reflect keenly on the pity and destruction of warfare, on the grief and suffering that war causes. The result is a work that provides a unique reflection upon the ways in which this most violent and pervasive of human activities has been reflected in different cultures. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Hugh Kennedy Size 2MB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/JJcLdphVH8od https://devuploads.com/xavq9h7fzfie

📮 A Life of Contrasts by Diana Mosley (.ePUB) The Crown and Downton Abbey imagine the twentieth century through aristocrat eyes. But what about a real aristocrat? In A Life of Contrasts, the honourable Diana Mitford, the most glamorous of Britain’s Bright Young Things, rivetingly narrates her long life in her own inimitable Mitford way. Author Evelyn Waugh and politician Oswald Mosley fell in love with her, as well as Britain’s richest man, and she knew not only Winston Churchill - her uncle - but also Adolf Hitler. She was a guest in the grandest houses in Britain but also lived in Holloway Prison, London. Later the Duke and Duchess of Windsor entered her life, followed by Nelson Mandela… Hers is a uniquely intimate memoir from an exceptional perspective. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Diana Mosley Size 300KB Category Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/ZifUslBUZveR https://devuploads.com/xyg2zr0sm67h

📮 What God Would Have Known by J. L. Schellenberg (.ePUB) Classical Christian ideas loom large in philosophy of religion today. But arguments against Christian doctrine have been neglected. J. L. Schellenberg's new book remedies this neglect. And it does so in a novel way, by linking facts about human intellectual and moral development to what God would have known at the time of Jesus. The tide of human development, which the early Christians might have expected to corroborate their teaching, has in fact brought many results that run contrary to that teaching. Or at least it will be seen to have done so, says Schellenberg, when we think about the consequences of any God existent then being fully cognizant, when Christian doctrine was first formed, of all that we have laboriously learned since then. Newly discovered facts, not just about such things as evolution and the formation of the New Testament but also about mental illness, violent punishment, the relations between women and men, and the status of same-sex intimacy, suggest detailed new arguments against the content of the Christian revelation–Schellenberg designs and defends twenty–when the prior understanding of the purported revealer is taken into account. ♻️ Book's Info: Author J. L. Schellenberg Size 3MB Category Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/RcwzMEvMkr3x https://devuploads.com/b5s16f31b4f3

📮 Thanks for Nothing by Nicholas H. Wolfinger (.ePUB) In 1980, single mother families were five times more likely than two-parent families to be poor. Forty years later, single-mother families are still five times more likely to be poor. How can this be given the vast increases in education and employment achieved by American women over this period? In Thanks for Nothing, Nicholas H. Wolfinger and Matthew McKeever explore the contradictions that lie at the heart of single motherhood. Drawing on forty years of data from two large national surveys, they find that the mystery of single mothers' economic stagnation can be explained by changes in the kind of women most likely to become single mothers. In 1980, most single mothers were divorced women; forty years later, the majority are mothers who gave birth out of wedlock. On paper, divorced women look a lot like their married contemporaries, but with one income instead of two. Never-married mothers are a completely different population–they have less education, work less, and receive lower economic returns on their educational credentials when they do work. They're also far more likely to have grown up in underprivileged families. Ultimately, Wolfinger and McKeever find that some single mothers are doing better even as others have fallen through the cracks. Providing an in-depth look into the economics of single motherhood, Thanks for Nothing offers the most detailed statistical portrait of single mothers to date and, importantly, provides concrete suggestions for how policymakers should respond to persisting inequalities among mothers. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Nicholas H. Wolfinger Size 6MB Category Non-Fiction > Educational File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/ZZBHv2voTxeW https://devuploads.com/o7g2vyahbc0j