Author: Randy Harris Publisher: Dorrance Publishing ISBN: 1480924032 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 435
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Revenge? Redemption? Or Just for Convenience? by Randy Harris As the ex-wives of star athletes and rappers begin to die in mysterious accidents, NYPD Detective Ebony Delaney starts to suspect foul play. Connecting the dots, Delaney uncovers a murder-for-hire plot with one plain motive: Money. As she works to bring down the culprits, she’ll face the most difficult case of her career—putting her badge, and her life, on the line. Revenge? Redemption? Or Just for Convenience? is a cautionary tale about greed and the evil things people will do in pursuit of wealth. But, as the murderers begin to realize, there is always a reckoning.
Author: Ingrid Rose Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429918747 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 164
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Experiences of violence in schools are encountered much more frequently than they used to be. The shocking repercussions of these acts are felt nation-wide and particularly impact school populations, families and communities. This book undertakes to illuminate factors pertaining to the phenomenon of school violence. It is intended for professionals such as school principals, teachers, social workers, psychologists, school administrators, school counselors and all who work directly with youth in various contexts. It is also intended for parents, family and community members, youth advisors and mentors, youth group leaders, religious advisors, counsellors, and others interested in the wellbeing of children and adolescents.
Author: Pieter Wilhelm Publisher: Monsoon Books ISBN: 1912049570 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 112
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For decades, Thailand has been a hub for firms selling bogus shares to US and European nationals through high-pressure overseas telesales. Hundreds of foreigners, including cash-strapped backpackers and sexpats, work in Bangkok ‘boiler rooms’ cold-calling fellow westerners and defrauding them out of tens of millions of dollars a year. When Tony, a former US Army interrogator, travels to Thailand to track down those responsible for ripping off his father in a boiler room telesales scam, he soon finds himself embroiled in the murky underworld of illegal kickboxing gambling, money laundering, sex work and digital crime. The Second Poison explores hatred, revenge and redemption in Bangkok, Pattaya and Udon Thani from a number of perspectives: the hardened farang (Caucasian) army veteran; the compassionate Thai girl born a boy, who once murdered her sister’s rapists; the godfather of a Hong Kong gambling syndicate and the Thai cop who turns a blind eye to crimes of passion ... their stories intertwining throughout the book. In Buddhism greed, hatred and delusion are known as The Three Poisons. The most destructive of these three is hatred: The Second Poison.
Author: Christian R. Davis Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1610970640 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 131
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The goal of this book is to define and explain the archetypal pattern of redemption that underlies our whole notion of resolution in literature and to demonstrate, through multiple examples, that successful literature--poems and stories that have shown endurance or popularity--uses this pattern in specific ways. This theory should help readers to interpret both particular works of literature and the general notion of literature. The pattern of redemption employed here, in its ideal form, involves the sacrifice of an innocent redeemer to save something that has been lost. Because this pattern of redemption is typically associated with Christianity, this book can be taken as proposing a Christian theory of criticism. Current textbooks on literary criticism and theory cover a range of perspectives, such as Marxism, feminism, multiculturalism, reader response, and queer theory, but they invariably ignore the field of Christian criticism. Therefore, this book may be most useful as a supplementary text for courses in literary criticism that might include a Christian perspective. At the same time, however, the terms and methodology proposed here are not exclusive to or dependant on Christian beliefs, so readers of all types may find this approach useful. The greatest strength of this book is its application of the theory to numerous examples from a wide range of genres and periods of literature, testing the theory on classical and Shakespearean works such as the Iliad and Odyssey, Hamlet and Coriolanus; best sellers such as The Lord of the Rings, Le Petit Prince, Valley of the Dolls, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; horror stories such as Frankenstein; postcolonial novels such as Things Fall Apart and The Kite Runner; and lyric poems. Consequently, even readers who are skeptical of the assumptions used here should find the many concrete examples thought-provoking.
Author: Sumi Publisher: StarNovel (HK) Co., Limited ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 593
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The Wall Street pack had been invaded by their neighboring pack, the Crescent Moon Pack. Their Alpha and Luna were killed by Alpha D'argan. A curse of infertility was placed upon the pack. All the werewolves lost the ability to detect each other's mates after the massacre. There was a need for revenge. There was a need for redemption. Fifteen years later, a sudden mysterious pregnancy occurred between the Alpha Achilles and a slave girl Bella in the pack. The unborn child was the key to their redemption. How will they fight to keep that unborn child safe from the Crescent Moon Pack? Moreover, how will they react when they discover that the slave girl carrying their redeemer is the daughter of the Alpha D'argan who brought calamity upon them? Will the Alpha Achilles ever learn to love Bella even though she was weak as he claimed? What happens when two Alpha brothers have feelings for the same woman? Who will finally get her?
Author: Clayton Koelb Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780791403419 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 362
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This book addresses the quite timely question of the place of Nietasche's thought with respect to the Western tradition; the question whether Nietzsche defines or denies the very notion of philosophy as a tradition.
Author: Erin Bowman Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0544918886 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 389
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Ten years after the events of Vengeance Road, Reece Murphy, who has been forced to join the Rose Riders gang, must work with aspiring journalist Charlotte Vaughn to get free.
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