![]() ![]() Haha, great beginning! I've often been very paranoid like the female lead character Reese when by myself in a parking garage. If only she can let her robe down while keeping her guard up. No! Bad hormones, bad! Still, spending time with that unbelievably broad chest up close and personal might just add, um, depth to her story. She'll just have to outsmart the certifiably insane Fed with the movie-star good looks. Reese Hampton is not giving up the envelope she found in her rental car-the one with the story that could take her from journalistic Siberia straight to the front page. Something like, "By holding on to that evidence, you're interfering with FBI business, ma'am, and by the way, those long, gorgeous legs of yours would look awfully good wrapped around my." Sure, losing all sense of professionalism may not help his career, but the off-duty perks would be sensational. But standing in a Chicago hotel room with a cub reporter as obstinate as she is hot, FBI agent Derek Knight knows he has to play it charming. ![]() In another time and place, that might have a nice ring to it. "I'll leave as soon as you give me what I want." ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:oclc:46385663 Republisher_date 20180802124211 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 236 Scandate 20180731083158 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Top_six true Tts_version v1. Featuring fascinating descriptions of over a hundred goddesses, this book is a perfect gift for mothers, daughters and friends. OL5830075W Page_number_confidence 78.41 Pages 90 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1841480479 For thousands of years, stories of goddesses have inspired women and girls from the world over. Now, the strength and power of these divine women has been collected into one breathtaking volume, featuring fascinating descriptions by goddess expert Burleigh Muten of over one hundred of the worlds most celebrated goddesses. Urn:lcp:ladyoftenthousan00burl:lcpdf:19c2f1e1-1a38-4686-8681-632ddf00efd1 For many thousands of years, stories of goddesses have inspired women and girls from all over the world. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:59:44 Boxid IA1285505 Boxid_2 CH116201 City Cambridge, Donorīelvederetiburonlibrary External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() This gem had to be read ASAP!īest friends Fox and Dana are having a sleepover. I scooped it up and bolted for the checkout. I was shocked speechless and silly! Haha…I honestly just stood there staring at the cover for a full minute before my slow, o-my-goodness-this-is-so-coming-home-with-me smile spread across my face. It!!! The X-Files in picture book form! *cue up the theme music* My jaw dropped at first contact. Let me try to set up the scene here…I’m walking around my bookstore (aka home away from home) when I spotted it. There's not really a clear plot or moral/idea that brought the end of the story together like a good children's book would. However, there really isn't too much in it besides some gorgeous artwork and some slight throwback fun. Overall, it was just a quick, fun read that is fun for any X-Files fan. Usually children's books are pulled together by a big moral or, well, a point, but I'm just really confused by what the point was of this novel? Yes, it was adorable and fun and had just fantastic things in it for true X-Files fans, but there really was no reason for things happening besides you just being a fan of X-Files. ![]() ![]() My biggest complaint was that I didn't understand the point of the book. ![]() Okay, this was adorableeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, but that's kind of about it.īABY MULDER AND BABY SCULLY ARE JUST SO CUTE AND BABY ALIENS TOO AND I JUST CAN'T DEAL WITH ALL OF THE CUTENESS. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Maya can’t wait to welcome Cat into the family and hopes that by having a sister, her parents might learn to ‘chill out’ and give Maya a bit more freedom. Cat’s spent her life protecting her mum and keeping some dark secrets all she wants is to be left alone.īut Cat and Maya’s worlds collide when Cat is taken into care and Maya’s parents make the life-changing decision to adopt her. She’s never known her dad and her mum’s an alcoholic and is not capable of looking after herself, let alone her 11 year old daughter. But as an only child, Maya feels smothered by her parents’ love and longs to be a given more freedom and independence but what Maya wants more than anything is a sister. She has a cosy, comfy life with her slightly hippy mum and dad by the sea in Cornwall. ![]() Two girls with two very different lives come together in this beautiful and moving story of friendship and family, by a major new voice in girls’ fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now free-market economics is dominant, the doctrine has spread to most of the globe and private companies are able to make millions more than they used to. What happened next was that the shock doctrine espoused by these economists was thrust upon countries such as Chile despite the voters there voting in a left-wing government. They put forward their ideas for the solution to the stagflation crisis which had befallen the world. Keynesian economics ruled the roost and those who advocated for the free-markets, such as Milton Friedman, were outsiders.ĭuring the economic crises of the 1970s, free marketers seized their opportunity and pounced. ![]() It’s hard to imagine but free-market economics used to be on the periphery of the debate. I was vaguely aware of some of the history in the book, I had come across some of it while studying history, but I didn’t know about it in depth. It’s safe to say that this book blew my mind. The book looks at the history of shock therapy and how it dovetails with disaster capitalism to subvert the democratic wishes of the population. The Shock Doctrine is one of the most interesting books I have ever read. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sei Somoy continues to be a best seller more than two decade after its first publication. His historical fiction Sei Somoy (translated into English by Aruna Chakravorty as Those Days) received the Indian Sahitya Akademi award in 1985. ![]() Arjun, Pratidwandi, filmed by Satyajit Ray (English title: The Adversary), Aranyer Din-Raatri ( The Days and Nights of the Forest, also filmed by Satyajit Ray), Ekaa ebong Koyekjon are some of his well known works of fiction. His Nikhilesh and Neera series of poems (some of which have been translated as For You, Neera and Murmur in the Woods) have been extremely popular.Īs in poetry, Sunil is known for his unique style in prose. Author of well over 200 books, Sunil is a prolific writer who has excelled in different genres but declares poetry to be his "first love". ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfolding across decades-from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century-and across continents-from Germany to Africa and the Arctic, from the Baltic Sea to the German south-west-Olga is an epic romance, and a wrenching tale of a woman’s devotion to a restless man in an age of constant change. Her love for Herbert goes against all odds and encounters many obstacles, but even when they are separated, it endures While Herbert indulges his thirst for exploration and adventure, Olga is limited by her gender and circumstance. ![]() When Olga falls in love with her neighbor, Herbert, the son of a local aristocrat, her life is irremediably changed. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against ingrained chauvinism to find her place in a world run by lesser men. “A brilliant novel about history and the nature of memory.”- Evening StandardĪ sweeping novel of love and passion from author of the international bestseller The Reader about a woman out of step with her time, whose life is witness to some of the most tumultuous events of modern age.Ībandoned by her parents, young Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village in the early years of the twentieth century. “Two world wars and the passage of more than a century do not overshadow story of lovers who never fully belong to each other, just as they never fully belonged to the world.”- Booklist ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In another rhetorical question, his response is that she cannot as the blur of “the white rush” of the feather of swan may not let her feel the heartbeat of his body. Yeats rhetorically questions whether Leda has enough power in her fingers to prevent parting of her thighs and preventing her ruin. In this assault, Zeus is trying to rape the girl. He puts his beak on her neck and overpowers her. This violent grab continues with his wings beating the girl and feet grabbing her. It is the Greek god, Zeus, who has taken the form of a swan and attacked the girl to sexually rape her. “ Leda and the Swan” As a Representative of Sex and Violence: The poet opens the poem with the swan beating his wings on the girl.The popularity of the poem, however, lies in its mythical relations of the Irish national struggle. Later, Yeats included it in his collection that appeared in the same year under the title of, The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems. It, however, first appeared in the month of June in 1924 in a magazine, The Dial. Popularity of “Leda and the Swan”: “Leda and The Swan” by William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet, is an interesting piece. ![]() ![]() There were two pageboys: Tom Pettifer, eight, and William (Billy) Lowther-Pinkerton, ten.īilly is the son of William's private secretary, Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton. Her parents are Viscount and Viscountess Linley. The fourth, and eldest of the girls is t he Hon Margarita Armstrong-Jones, eight. Grace van Cutsem, also three, is William's goddaughter - the daughter of his close friends Rose Astor and Hugh van Cutsem. L ady Louise Windsor, seven, is the daughter of Edward and Sophie, the Count and Countess of Wessex, making her the Prince's cousin.Įliza Lopes, three, is the child of the Duchess of Cornwall's daughter Laura and her husband Harry Lopes. ![]() All the children have close ties to the Royal couple - especially William. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Applying the same determination that lifted her from a humble background as the daughter of immigrants, to becoming a doctor –often the only woman in the room-she hunts down the monster where it lurks: in the blood. But Dorothy Horstmann is not focused on beating her colleagues to the vaccine. Some of the world’s best minds are engaged in the race to find a vaccine. Outbreaks of the virus across the country regularly put American cities in lockdown. No one’s life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, particularly children. In 1940s and ’50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. women have always been in science-despite those who would pretend otherwise.” -Bonnie Garmus, New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry She gave up everything - and changed the world. ![]() |