“This is both a literary page turner and an accurate portrayal of Ukraine’s resistance to Russian aggression.,” Fox News\n“a riveting retelling of the heroism of ordinary Ukrainian citizens whose thirst for democracy and freedom refused to be quenched,” USA Today\nUkraine is the "new Berlin," the front line of Russian American confrontation. It's a place of intrigue, corruption, political blackmail and, yes, romance. The Accidental Oligarch reveals how Ukraine's fate is intimately entangled with our own.\nAfter Yuri Yavlinsky is laid off from his job shoveling shit at the Kyiv Zoo, he is promptly arrested for failing to pay a $30 million tax bill. Yuri's ID had been used to create several offshore shell companies to hide the assets of the oligarch who is the principal backer of Ukraine's president. Dora Osatinskaya, the Ukrainian lawyer who heads an anti-corruption organization, persuades Yuri to retrieve the mogul's bank records used for money laundering. But Yuri doesn't stop there. Infuriated by the corruption that is sucking the life out of his country, he uses his wits and street smarts to hijack the companies and their billion dollars in assets. It takes an oligarch to fight an oligarch.\nThe novel climaxes during the 2014 Euromaidan "Revolution of Dignity," where Yuri and his band of savvy saboteurs fight oligarchs, the government, a cabal of mobsters and moguls, and stealth Russian forces, as they strive to save themselves and the battered country they believe in.\n**The author is donating all profits from this book to Internews to help Ukrainian journalists**\n“Hoffman artfully begins with an inventively comic premise and from there constructs a complex and nuanced account of corruption in Ukraine. Raskolnovitch explains it plainly and powerfully: “Ukraine is very dangerous. Many scores to settle. Many gangs. There are powerful crime families. Some control ports, shipping, cars. Some liquor. Some prostitutes. Everyone wants to control politics.” The author deftly ties the briskly paced plot to the real political turbulence in Ukraine and paints an endearing tableau of the romance that blossoms between Yuri and Dora. While the story as a whole has a whiff of the fantastical about it, its ultimate implausibility doesn’t undermine its dramatic energy. For those readers in search of an intelligently conceived portrayal of contemporary Ukraine as well as a gripping tale of political intrigue, this is an enticing option. An entertaining and edifying crime drama." 
Kirkus Review

The Accidental Oligarch: A Ukrainian Saga

Literature & Fiction

Hoffman, David

Genre Fiction

Cutting Edge Press

Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni: The True Story

Based on exclusive interviews with France's First Lady and others of the French elite close to her and the President, the true and previously untold story of Europe's most glamorous couple A gripping and dramatic tale of modern romance played out in the public eye, this is a modern fairytale with no damsel in distress, but rather, equally heroic partners. Nicolas Sarkozy was elected President of France with a broken heart. Shortly after he took office, his second wife, Cecelia, left him for another man. After weeks of brooding alone by night in the Presidential Palace, he asked a friend to arrange a dinner party, and former supermodel turned chart-topping singer/songwriter Carla Bruni was on the guest list. Though her former suitors included Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Prime Minister Laurent Fabius, and billionaire Donald Trump, she had never found her heart's true desire: a man with, as she put it, "nuclear power"—and Sarkozy had his finger on the button. The two flirted all night, and within a few short months, the President of France had a new fiancée. This is the story of how they met, fell instantly in love, and married, to the amazement of the world's press.

Benaim, Valerie

Azeroual, Yven

Humor & Entertainment

A classic, hilarious coming out novel about growing up in the 1960s—can Benson be both gay and Catholic? Gay and happy? What do you do when you're fat, 14, and your obsessions include the Catholic Church, doing the right thing, scones and sweets, and other boys and their private parts? Well, if you're Benson, you panic and flee, hiding from the flesh as a novice in a monastery. Alas, St. Finbar's monastery is as full of temptation as the grammar school he'd left behind. The devils of desire find Benson once again and throw him back into the world from which he’d tried to escape. Returned to school, Benson is still trying to square the circle of his conflicting enthusiasms and desires. This comic epic is a warm, funny, and bold reminder of just how new, and superficial, sexual tolerance in contemporary society really is. 

Sucking Sherbet Lemons

Carson, Michael

Humor & Satire

Book by Paulina and Cheryl Snedecker Perez

Special Women: The Role of the Professional Labor Assistant

Paulina and Cheryl Snedecker Perez

A stimulating history covering Freud's cocaine use, its effect on his work, the relationship between cocaine and psychiatry, and the beginnings of the "war on drugs" Before he'd thought of putting patients on the couch, the young Sigmund Freud did a lot of coke, and here is the whole sordid story. Desperate to make his reputation quickly, he read and swallowed, without question, claims made by an American pharmaceutical company, Parke-Davis, on behalf of their new "wonder drug," cocaine hydrochloride. He ordered a gram and though he would claim, for years, that it was not addictive, his first taste led him to another and another, forming a habit that would last for 15 years. Situating his cocaine experiments in an introspective drug-using tradition that has included William James, Aldous Huxley, Havelock Ellis, and Timothy Leary, this book explores its influence on Freud's later thought and the subsequent relationship between psychology, psychiatry, drugs, and culture. It also includes analysis of the modern cocaine trade. As even President Obama, an admitted past cocaine user himself, acknowledges the legitimacy of questioning the global "War on Drugs," this is a timely, secret history of how that war began.

Freud on Coke

Politics & Social Sciences

Cohen, David

Social Sciences

The final work of a comics visionary, this intense, hallucinatory story with artwork of breathtaking intensity is a true graphic novel, engaging ultimate themes of life, death, and salvation The late John Hicklenton was one of Britain's leading comic book artists, famous for the brutal, visceral draughtsmanship he brought to the 2000AD/Judge Dredd titles and Nemesis the Warlock. His final graphic novel is a parable of environmental devastation, depicting the quest of Mara, Warrior and Earth Goddess, as she seeks revenge against the Longpig: a Satanic personification of capitalism, red in tooth and claw, whose followers, a legion of the damned, look quite a lot like us. The world of the Longpig is rich in killing fields and scenes of mass crucifixion that recall Goya, Blake, and Bacon, and represents a true crossover of the graphic novel form with fine art. John took his own life with the help of an assisted dying group, following a heroic struggle with multiple sclerosis. This book was drawn and written in foreknowledge of his imminent death, and its insight into universal themes of life, death, salvation, and damnation seems to come from a place between worlds. Its words those of a prophet, its artwork transcending the comic book form, 100 Months will redefine the adult graphic novel.

100 Months

Comics & Graphic Novels

Hicklenton, John

Graphic Novels

The great comic hero of Sucking Sherbet Lemons, now embracing hard-won sobriety, contemplates the ultimate commitment of civil partnershipMartin Benson, after a lifetime away, has made it home to Merseyside, his sherbet lemons all sucked down, his penguins all stripped bare. He's bought a house at the top of his town and filled it with souvenirs of a wandering life. He lives with his memories and with a stern partner, Ted, a motorcycle test examiner who tripped over him comatose one dark night on the prom, sensed that Mr. Benson was at battle with the bottle, took him to a meeting of QA (Queer Alcoholics), and moved in. After a life spent in the shallows, Benson has come to the point when he must face reality.

Benson at Sixty

NEW Third Edition! Revised and Enlarged! This book is for anyone who needs to help a laboring woman like dad, friends, nurses, midwives, doulas, montrices and childbirth educators. With this book you have one-stop shopping for the knowlege and skills you can use to provide support throughout the entire birthing process.This valuable book covers the unique art form of emotionally and physically assisting the laboring mother. Labor support is the human part of what we do in the birth room and the heart of this book centers around the supportive care given to the laboring mother and details the labor support techniques useful when caring for the laboring woman. The topics include let's talk about pain, trusting relationships, the value of education, communications skills and tools, relaxation, affirmation, visualization, touch and massage, aromatherapy, music therapy, visualization,breathing techniques, focusing, rituals, therapeutic use of water, reflexology, acupressure, reflexology, maternal positioning, and other strategies and techniques like the birth ball, lunge, dangle, towel pull, pelvic circles and the use of the rebozo in perinatal care. Nancy Travis, a director of a busy busy obstetrical unit says the following- I recommend this book to all of my new nursing staff to assist them with the development of their hands-on labor support skills. From aromatherapy, birth balls and communication skills, to positioning and rebozo use this book has it all! Perez says that often society has difficulty accepting that something intensely painful or demanding like birth might also encompass a feeling of empowerment. Empowerment begins with connecting with the patient or staff member as a person and building rapport with them. Empowering them is one of the best ways that we can show them that we care an essential ingredient is the health care system. A good nurse, midwife, or doula practices her craft with pride and care that is developed by understanding her patients needs and wants. Empowerment is close to our concept of mastery and locus of control. Being empowered emphasizes our feeling of having control over our own destiny. Always remember that you are the backbone of our maternity care system and your wisdom and strong, yet gentle support will help change the portrait of birth that each mother paints for herself to include strokes of confidence, courage, power, strength, and dignity. Seize the opportunity to use the information in this book to educate yourself about new ways to care for laboring women. Adapt this material to the needs of each laboring woman you work with.

The Nurturing Touch at Birth: a Labor Support Handbook- Third Edition

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Paulina Perez

Women's Health

Doula Programs is an practical &amp; essential resource for all who are currently running or plan to run a birth or postpartum doula program. It fills an important gap in the literature on doula programs. As a 30 year veteran of doula program consulting, Perez passion for women and their babies radiates throughout this definitive book as she throughly guides readers on how to develop a top-notch doula program as she covers every aspect from A to Z in this hands-on manual. She writes in clear and down-to-earth style and describes the nitty-gritty of the business of running a doula program. This second edition is exactly what a new doula business person needs to get her business skills on a sound footing. The information in the book can be used to ensure that doula programs succeed long term. In this second edition, Perez has added a new exciting chapter titled Established Programs Around the World. The information in this chapter is the only listing of its kind in print and was written so that novice and/or experienced doulas can prevent having to re-invent the wheel all the time. The appendix includes a listing of URL s and a extensive resource title listing and much more. This goldmine of a book not only gives valuable information it stirs the need for change within the reader and the birthing community. As the book points out, Change is necessary to keep maternity care vibrant and growing. . By combining advocacy and activism, this book contributes importantly to movement and maternity care services. Although this book is written with doula programs in mind, the information in it can be used for anyone wanting to start a small business- especially other perinatal care oriented ones (childbirth educators, massage therapists, and midwives) .

Doula Programs: How to Start and Run a Private or Hospital-Based Program with Success!

Paulina Perez with Deaun Thelen

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The Accidental Oligarch: A Ukrainian Saga

Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni: The True Story

Sucking Sherbet Lemons

Special Women: The Role of the Professional Labor Assistant

Freud on Coke

100 Months

Benson at Sixty

Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni: The True Story

The Nurturing Touch at Birth: a Labor Support Handbook- Third Edition

Doula Programs: How to Start and Run a Private or Hospital-Based Program with Success!