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Free Download John Silvester, Andrew Rule, "Underbelly : A Tale of Two Cities"
English | 2009 | pages: 324 | ISBN: 0977544095, 1844540065 | EPUB | 3,5 mb
Chris ‘Rentakill’ Flannery was a Melbourne gunman who sold his services to Sin City’s highest bidder. He went on the missing list because he didn’t realise the future belonged to those who controlled pills and powders, not pistols. A world of corrupt cops, bent politicians and beautiful women who fell for the rich gangsters, And a few detectives trying to stop the tidal wave. This was Australia’s underbelly.

Free Download The Planning Role in Stretching the City: A Tale of Two London Neighbourhoods
by Shlomit Flint Ashery
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031354826 | 113 Pages | True PDF | 4.77 MB

Free Download Mayako Murai, "Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations Across Cultures "
English | ISBN: 0814345360 | 2020 | 424 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures seeks to "re-orient" the fairy tale across different cultures, media, and disciplines and proposes new approaches to the ever-expanding fairy-tale web in a global context with a special emphasis on non-Euro-American materials. Editors Mayako Murai and Luciana Cardi bring together emerging and established researchers in various disciplines from around the world to decenter existing cultural and methodological assumptions underlying fairy-tale studies and suggest new avenues into the increasingly complex world of fairy-tale cultures today.

Free Download S. A. An-sky, Michael R. Katz, "Pioneers: A Tale of Russian-Jewish Life in the 1880s (Jewish Literature and Culture)"
English | 2014 | pages: 164 | ISBN: 0253012120, 0253012090 | EPUB | 1,1 mb
S. A. An-sky’s novel dramatizes the dilemmas of Jewish young people in late Tsarist Russia as they strive to throw off their traditional religious upbringing to adopt a secular and modern identity. The action unfolds in the town of M. in the Pale of Settlement, where an engaging cast of characters wrestles with cultural and social issues. Their exploits culminate in helping a young Jewish woman evade an arranged marriage and a young Russian woman leave home so she can pursue her studies at a European university. This startling novel reveals the tensions and triumphs of coming of age in a revolutionary time.

Free Download Muhammad Bin Tughlaq: Tale of a Tyrant By Anuja Chandramouli
2019 | 225 Pages | ISBN: 0143446649 | PDF | 4 MB
When his father dies, Prince Jauna Khan succeeds to the throne of Delhi as Muhammad bin Tughlaq. His reign will prove to be epic and bloody, but unsurpassed in splendour, innovation and defeat.A formidable strategist and remarkable scholar, the Sultan will go down in history for his brutality as well as his brilliance, unfairly remembered only as a cruel tyrant who might have been raving mad. His high-flown aspirations and grandiose ambitions may have met with crushing failure, but even so, Tughlaq was a great hero of the fourteenth century, albeit a tragic and fatally flawed one.In this fictional retelling, Anuja Chandramouli, one of India’s best mythology writers, reimagines Muhammad bin Tughlaq’s life and times in incredible detail to bring to life the man behind the monarch.

Free Download Belle Yang, "Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale"
English | 2010 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 039306834X, 0393339963 | EPUB | 76,2 mb
Celebrated artist and writer Belle Yang makes a stunning debut as a graphic memoirist with this story of crisis and survival.

Free Download Mark Schone, "Son of a Grifter: The Twisted Tale of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the Most Notorious Con Artists in America: A Memoir by the Other Son"
English | 2006 | pages: 416 | ISBN: 0060188650, 0061031690 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
In 1998 a troubled young man and his flamboyant mother were arrested for murdering a wealthy widow in her New York City mansion. Suddenly, America was transfixed by a pair of real-life film noir characters, an Oedipal team of scam artists who left a trail of blood, lies, and larceny from coast to coast. The media couldn’t get enough of the twisted relationship between Sante Kimes and her twenty-three-year-old son Kenny.

Free Download Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy, "Otogizoshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu"
English | 2011 | pages: 142 | ISBN: 4902075407 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
Momotarō, Click-Clack Mountain, The Sparrow Who Lost Her Tongue, The Stolen Wen, Urashima-san . . . The father reads these old tales to the children. Though he’s shabbily dressed and looks to be a complete fool, this father is a singular man in his own right. He has an unusual knack for making up stories.Once upon a time, long, long ago . . .Even as he reads the picture book aloud in a strangely imbecilic voice, another, somewhat more elaborate tale is brewing inside him.Dazai Osamu wrote The Fairy Tale Book (Otogizōshi) in the last months of the Pacific War. The traditional tales upon which Dazai’s retellings are based are well known to every Japanese schoolchild, but this is no children’s book. In Dazai’s hands such stock characters as the kindhearted Ojī-san to Obā-san ("Grandmother and Grandfather"), the mischievous tanuki badger, the fearsome Oni ogres, the greedy old man, the "tongue-cut" sparrow, and of course Urashima Tarō (the Japanese Rip van Winkle) become complex individuals facing difficult and nuanced moral dilemmas. The resulting stories are thought-provoking, slyly subversive, and often hilarious.

Free Download Neil Chenoweth, "Packer’s Lunch: A Rollicking Tale Of Swiss Bank Accounts and Money-making Adventurers in The Roaring ’90’s"
English | 2007 | pages: 377 | ISBN: 1741753236, 1741145465 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
This title covers dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted current affairs and social studies media. The dark channel of money and power that flow beneath the relaxed surface of Australian culture are perilous places.Behind the gossip columns and headlines, the famous names and celebrity makeovers, life hangs precariously by a thread – one wrong move spells disaster. For this is the world of networkers and social climbers, the games they play, the places they go and the circles they swim in determine who is in and who is out, who’s rich and who’s going belly-up.For years Graham Richardson, Trevor Kennedy and Rene Rivkin, high profile politicians and business men, deftly navigated these murky waters with the secret help of offshore advisors. The eventual exposure of their hidden Swiss bank accounts uncovered a world of hidden secrets that rocked the nation.This best-selling and award-winning volume, now in paperback, takes readers through all the twists and turns that led to the discovery of one of Australia’s greatest political and financial scandals.

Free Download Jennifer Horne, Sara Sheckells (Narrator), "Odyssey of a Wandering Mind: The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author"
English | ASIN: B0CRHYNPHF | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~13:07:00 | 368 MB
Sara Mayfield was born into Alabama’s governing elite in 1905 and grew up in a social circle that included Zelda Sayre, Sara Haardt, and Tallulah and Eugenia Bankhead. After winning a Goucher College short story contest judged by H. L. Mencken, Mayfield became friends with Mencken and his circle, then visited with Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and hobnobbed with the literati while traveling in Europe after a failed marriage. Back in Tuscaloosa after the war, however, she became increasingly paranoid about perceived conspiracies arrayed against her. Finally, her mother and brother committed her to Bryce Hospital for the Insane, where she remained for the next seventeen years.
Throughout her life, Mayfield kept journals, wrote fiction, and produced thousands of letters while nursing the ambition that had driven her since childhood: to write and publish books. During her confinement, Mayfield assiduously recorded her experiences and her determined efforts-sometimes delusional, always savvy-to overturn her diagnosis and return to the world as a sane, independent adult. At fifty-nine, she was released from Bryce and later obtained a decree of "having been restored to sanity." She went on to publish noteworthy literary biographies of the Menckens and the Fitzgeralds, finally achieving her quest to become the author of books and her own life.