Showing results for "Urban Life" in Biographical Fiction

A former inmate, who is now an assistant stock broker and a part-time gang counselor, details his life on the inner city streets of Atlanta as a notorious drug dealer, vividly recreating the his struggle to break the cycle and walk the straight and narrow.

Kometa zdaje w tym roku maturę, przestała ćpać, zmieniła środowisko. Ładnie się ubiera i uśmiecha się do wszystkich. Nikt nie wie, że wstąpiła do „Rodziny”, niebezpiecznej sekty wabiącej obietnicami wyzwolenia ciała i duszy, której swoistą biblią jest "Tykanedia". Destrukcyjny kult kontroli umysłu nie cofa się przed niczym, aby zdobyć, a później - zatrzymać swoich członków.

Wooed away from a top job at a competing firm by Ed Roth with promises of breaking the glass ceiling when she succeeds him as the head of the investment bank Drake Carlson, Kate learns that she has real potential for the top spot. First, she must prove her worth by unconventionally putting together an IPO for a small games maker whose most valuable but unknown asset may be a painting stolen from a Jewish family as they fled Austria after the Nazi invasion. Kate’s professional challenges play out amid a family crisis: Her husband’s company is imploding and he may have to relocate to a remote part of China to save even a small portion of his business.