Cecilia: 681 books

On the Road to Victory: Our Struggle as Immigrants in America is a compelling journey of a family who overcomes enormous obstacles in search of the American dream. Dulcelina Moore, a black Hispanic (Afro-Caribbean) woman native to Costa Rica, transports you through the many facets of her personal...

A HISTORY of Milan, under the House of Sforza, can hardly incur the charge of being superfluous. While Rome, Florence and Venice have each found English historians, and while fresh books on Renaissance Italy appear every day, no English writer has told the story of the Sforza as a whole. The scant...

This book is an account of our lives over the last, almost three years since September 17th 2006, when my husband Jeff and I were in an accident on our motorcycle. It is about our injuries and our treatments and the people who touched our lives and how our lives may have touched theirs. It is about...

This free guide gives parents and caregivers research-based tips for making learning to read easier and more fun for children. A quick and colorful read, specially formatted for mobile devices, this eBook takes only minutes to read but can save hours of frustration for emergent readers. The guide covers...

A compelling historical thriller set in 1700s Sweden from an exciting new literary talent. "Exquisitely suspenseful, beautifully written, and highly recommended." -Lee Child "Visually acute, skillfully written; it won't easily erase its tracks in the reader's mind." -...

We see the bloodshed, the hatred, the greed, the ruthless brutality in the world, and then we look to see who is making or letting this madness happen. We find that male excesses, not male needs – certainly not women's and children's needs – drive the world.

Over the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have bemoaned a “crisis of criticism” and mourned the “death of the critic.” Now that well-paying jobs in film criticism have largely evaporated, while blogs, message boards, and social media have...

El Paso�s African American community can trace its origins back to the 16th century, when the black Moor known as Esteban roamed the southwest and, more significantly, those Africans in the party of conquistador Juan de O�ate crossed the Rio Grande in 1598. The modern El Paso African American community...

The BLOG & the JOURNAL explores the fascination of keeping a journal which is the very fascination of life, - its novelty, its unpredictability, its new twists. By expressing yourself in your solitude, you can digest these ever-changing influences in your life and move on a wiser person. The many functions...

She was entranced by his power, his prowess and his desire for her… In this modern addition to the tradition of “Emmanuel” and “The Story of O”, a ordinary woman embarks on a voyage of sensual discovery with an enigmatic and more experienced man. She’d met him at a chance encounter in...

An intriguing creature with its graceful sail-like dorsal fin, and willing to take your fly almost endlessly, the Arctic grayling is a fish like no other. Add to that its preferred habitat of the cold, clear streams of the northern wilderness and some of your dreams of fishing perfection will come...

Every time we pick up a golf magazine we read about increasing power through speeding up the clubhead. However, whenever we try and directly speed the clubhead up, we actually lose power because we become disconnected from our body’s central core, which is the source of our power. We will address these issues and fixes in this book.

Across Latin America, indigenous women are organizing to challenge racial, gender, and class discrimination through the courts. Collectively, by engaging with various forms of law, they are forging new definitions of what justice and security mean within their own contexts and struggles. They have...

Esta es la historia de Homero, que es el hombre más rico del mundo después de pasar muchas calamidades en su país adoptivo de Colombia y el mundo. Todo empieza cuando el nace en un eclipse del sol, aunque el recuerda llegando al mundo entre las hormigas del jardín, cuando el tío Hugo lo vino...