![]() ![]() Instead of using the code-locked secret tunnel from his garage to his house, Hudson traversed the short stretch of driveway to the kitchen door. “No,” I sputtered, even as my temper crowed Yes! “You’re raring for a fight tonight, aren’t you?” he growled as he wrenched the gearshift into Park. He let out his grumble-sigh-hitching breath, his can’t react don’t react noise. ![]() Out of the corner of my eye, I saw his jaw tighten as he guided his monstrous red muscle car into the detached garage at the back of his property. It made me edgy and crabby, so when Hudson pulled up to his house, I couldn’t hold in my annoyance. If I were into anthropomorphizing things, I’d say it was angry at being teased with freedom and usage earlier only for me to contain it again. My magic throbbed in my head like an oddly placed toothache. ![]() By the time Hudson and I left the office at two, I was ready for some downtime. Lexi headed home to dive into research, and Iskander, Hudson, and I spent the rest of the night planning out the next steps on our active cases. ![]()
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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 08:06:27 Associated-names Carney, Elizabeth Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40319119 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is a lucid answer to a crucial question in world history how the exceptionally homogeneous Mediterranean world of c. Peter Brown, Professor of History at Princeton University, examines these changes and men's reactions to them, but his account shows that the period was also one of outstanding new beginnings and defines the far-reaching impact both of Christianity on Europe and of Islam on the Near East. By 476 the Roman empire had vanished from western Europe by 655 the Persian empire had vanished from the Near East. These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. 750, came to differ from "Classical civilization." This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s chaos embodied, not his type, and married, but none of that can stop his eyes from following her wherever she goes.All along, she doesn’t even know that she’s his-his frustration, his fascination.His maddest obsession.*Can be read as a standalone She hates him-his stone-cold demeanor, his arrogance and too-perceptive eye-but over the years, even as their games consist of insulting each other’s looks and intelligence, she begins to live to play with him.Nowhere in Christian’s plans had he ever prepared for Gianna. One winter night and their lives intertwine. With a proclivity for order and the number three, he’s never been tempted to veer off course. Christian Allister has always followed the life plan he’d envisioned in his youth, beneath the harsh lights of a frigid, damp cell. In the New York underworld, others know him as a hustler, a killer, his nature as cold as the heart of ice in his chest. no one anyway, until he comes along.Most see a paragon of morality a special agent upholding the law. ![]() Little do most know it’s just a sparkly disguise, there to hide one panic attack at a time.Nobody can crack Gianna’s facade. ![]() She laughs too loudly, eats without decorum, and mixes up most sayings in the book. She fears the dark.He rules it.Her dresses are too tight, her heels too tall. ![]() ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. The UFOs represent, in Jung's phrase, "a modern myth." ![]() Rather than speculate about their possible nature and extraterrestrial origin as alleged spacecraft, he asks what it may signify that these phenomena, whether real or imagined, are seen in such numbers just at a time when humankind is menaced as never before in history. Jung's primary concern in Flying Saucers is not with the reality or unreality of UFOs but with their psychic aspect. Under these circumstances it would not be at all surprising if those sections of the community who ask themselves nothing were visited by visions, ' by a widespread myth seriously believed in by some and rejected as absurd by others."-C. ![]() Even people who would never have thought that a religious problem could be a serious matter that concerned them personally are beginning to ask themselves fundamental questions. ![]() "In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and powers into the heavens, into interstellar space, where the rulers of human fate, the gods, once had their abode in the planets. ![]() ![]() ![]() But it is also misunderstood and often romanticized, its history and politics simplified for Western headlines. Hong Kong has long been known as a city of extremes: a former colony of the United Kingdom that today exists at the margins of an authoritarian, ascendant China a city rocked by mass protests, where residents once rallied against threats to their democracy and freedoms. But in a place that never allowed you to write your own history, even remembrance can be a radical act. Hong Kong has long been An insider’s account of Hong Kong–from its tenacious counterculture and robust underground music scene, to its unique history of youth-led protest–that explores what it means to survive in a city of broken promises. ![]() You can read this before The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Īn insider’s account of Hong Kong–from its tenacious counterculture and robust underground music scene, to its unique history of youth-led protest–that explores what it means to survive in a city of broken promises. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir written by Karen Cheung which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir by Karen Cheung ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Black and Blue tells her shocking story and of her quest for justice. However, Parm's time on the force was chequered throughout with incidents of racial and gender discrimination. During her thirty-year career, Parm worked in everything from crime prevention to counter-terrorism, as well as police corruption. Forced into an abusive arranged marriage aged just 16, Parm eventually picked up her new born son and escaped to London. Forced into an abusive arranged marriage aged sixteen, Parm escaped to London with her newborn son and joined the police. In an enthralling narrative, Parm chronicles her journey from life in 1960s Birmingham as the fourth child of immigrants from the Punjab to the senior ranks of the Met. In this enthralling memoir, Parm chronicles her journey from life in Birmingham as the fourth child of Punjab immigrants to the upper echelons of the Met. She was also the only non-white female to have been promoted through the ranks from constable to chief superintendent in the Met's history. "Parm Sandhu's story is an inspiration to anyone who has found themselves struggling against adversity." MEERA SYAL At the point of her retirement from the Metropolitan Police Service in 2019, Parm Sandhu was the most senior BAME woman in the capital's police force. One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Other YA series books, featuring Jinian, Marianne, and Mavin Manyshaped, followed, along with a few standalone books – including The Revenants (1984) and After Long Silence (1987). The first fantasy novel she wrote was The Revenants, but the Ace editor thought it was too complicated for a first novel, so she quickly wrote the ''True Game'' books: King's Blood Four and Necromancer Nine (both 1983), and Wizard's Eleven (1984). ![]() Eberhart, she wrote some poetry and children's stories in the early '60s, including ''Lullaby, 1990'' in the December 1963 Galaxy, but devoted most of her time to her children and the job with Planned Parenthood, until the early '80s. She runs a guest ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico.Īs Sheri S. She married Gene Tepper in the late '60s. She married for the first time at age 20, but divorced ''when I was 26 or 27, so I became a single mother of two kids, and spent ten years on my own, working all kinds of different jobs.'' That included a clerical job with international relief agency CARE, but her major career was with what was then called Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, where she stayed for 24 years (1962-1986), eventually becoming Executive Director. Tepper was born Shirley Stewart Douglas, July 16, 1929, near Littleton, Colorado. (excerpted from Locus Magazine, September 1998) ![]() ![]() ![]() Robin Brande's first novel, Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature, explores what happens when a teenager is forced to reconcile her faith, her sense of what is right, and her growing interest in science. ADAPTATIONS:Įvolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature was adapted as an audiobook, Random House Audio. WRITINGS:Įvolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature, Knopf ( New York, NY), 2007. AWARDS, HONORS:īest Books for Young Adults citation, American Library Association (ALA) Young Adult Library Services Association division (YALSA), Amelia Bloomer List inclusion, ALA Feminist Task Force, and Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies citation, National Council of Social Studies/Children's Book Council, all 2008, all for Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature. Has also worked as a trial lawyer, entrepreneur, community college instructor, yoga instructor, and insurance agent. ![]() Hobbies and other interests: Backpacking, watching movies, reading. ![]() ![]() Captain Blood was adapted for the screen in 1935. Of course he escapes, and becomes a savvy pirate! While Captain Blood is fictional, he was inspired by the real-life John Coad, who was involved in and convicted for the Monmouth revolution, transported, and eventually found his way home (I read about him in Condemned by Graham Seal). The sentence however, is not hanging but transportation and Peter finds himself a slave in the West Indies. Peter ends up connected with the Monmouth Rebellion when he attends to some wounded, and is sentenced by the famous Judge Jeffreys of the Bloody Assizes. Many of his books became bestsellers.Ĭaptain Blood, first published in 1922 (which makes it 100 this year), tells the story of fictional Irish physician Peter Blood, who has a career as a soldier and sailor. Quite prolific, he wrote 34 novels, short-story collections, non fiction, as well as several uncollected short stories. Born in Italy in 1875, Sabatini was the writer of swashbuckling and seafaring historical fiction. The book is Captain Blood, the first in a trilogy of the same name by Rafael Sabatini. ![]() Today’s pick is a classic which has been on my ebook pile for a fairly long time, well over 5 years I think. ![]() |