Author: Carie Ageneau Publisher: ISBN: 9781088010723 Category : Languages : en Pages : 398
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Thalia, a senator's adolescent daughter, moves from Britannia to live amongst the late-first century Roman elite, separating her from her childhood slave love, Aledus, and leaving her to wonder if their paths will ever cross again. When she's forced to marry a former consul, she must choose between remaining amidst the elite world to which she doesn't belong or escape back to the most undesirable corner of the empire with the one she loves.
Author: Various Authors Publisher: ISBN: 9781622034109 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 264
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The guidance presented here supports traditional psychotherapy and medication as valuable tools, as well as radically shifting the way that we perceive the experience and offering insights and practices that reach beyond conventional models.
Author: Max Allan Collins Publisher: Del Rey ISBN: 0345463218 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
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The explosive prequel to the hit TV series. Never-before-told tales of action and adventure revealing the early days of Dark Angel! Los Angeles, 2019. Large sections of Tinseltown are in Richter-scale ruins in the aftermath of the Pulse and a devastating earthquake. Surviving among a ragtag pack of street kids, agile as a cat, and an expert thief, Max steals from the rich and gives to Moody, her mentor in crime and leader of the gang. But with no real family to speak of, Max longs for her missing “brothers and sisters” from Manticore, the covert agency with a sinister history of militaristic manipulation and control. By chance, Max sees a news story on TV about a dissident cyberjournalist in Seattle, known to everyone as “Eyes Only.” The police are searching for his accomplice, a young rebel whose image flashes on the screen. Max immediately recognizes Seth, one of her Manticore siblings. She mounts her motorcycle and hightails it north. What she rides into is an elaborate web of betrayal, greed, revenge, and selfless heroism that will only further fuel her quest to uncover the secrets of her past—and seize hope for the future. . . .
Author: Theresa Castro Publisher: H&e Publishing/Healing & Enlightment Center ISBN: 9780974522135 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 0
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The author, Theresa Castro, writes from her personal experiences about her journey to self-discovery. Her journey began as a result of her unhappiness and frustration with her career, relationship and everyday life. In addition, she experienced an end to a ten year relationship that caused her to search for a deeper meaning to her life. She discovered that there are many self-help books yet they are written by individuals who lack the personal experience of the topic of which they are writing. Moreover, many of these books lack the thought provoking questions and activities necessary for significant change to occur. As a result of these findings, Theresa Castro shares the insight that she gained through the writing of The Dark Before the Dawn: 70 Secrets to Self-discovery. The Dark Before the Dawn: 70 Secrets to Self-discovery is a road map designed to release oneself from an unhappy and unfulfilled life. The author gives a step-by-step approach of the changes that she made in order to transform her own life after a painful and challenging time. The chapters are structured to assist the readers move beyond despair and get what they want out of life.
Author: Sharon M. Draper Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1442489154 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 23
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Recovering from the recent suicide of her ex-boyfriend, senior class president Keisha Montgomery finds herself attracted to a dangerous, older man.
Author: Maya Banks Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0698176189 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 386
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THE ALL-NEW KGI NOVEL from the “incredibly awesome" (Jaci Burton) #1 New York Times bestselling author of When Day Breaks. The Kelly Group International (KGI): A super-elite, top secret, family-run business. Qualifications: High intelligence, rock-hard body, military background. Mission: Hostage/kidnap victim recovery. Intelligence gathering. Handling jobs the U.S. government can’t... The enigmatic Hancock has been both opponent and ally to the KGI teams for as long as they've known him. Always working a deep game, Hancock's true allegiance has never been apparent, but one thing is for certain—he never lets anything get in the way of duty. But now, his absolute belief in the primacy of his ultimate goal is challenged by a captive he's been ordered to guard, no matter how much she suffers in her prison. She's the only woman who's ever managed to penetrate the rigid walls surrounding his icy heart, but will he allow his perplexing feelings for the beautiful victim to destroy a mission he's spent years working to complete or will he be forced to sacrifice her for “the greater good.”
Author: Publisher: powerHouse Books ISBN: 1576875687 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 82
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For nearly a decade, through his enigmatic and compellingPolaroids, Jeremy Kost has been telling the stories of NewYork nights from within its hottest party spots. In 2002, while staying with friends in Chelsea, Kost borrowedthe camera of one of his hosts and took it to The Cock. Eversince that fateful night, year after year, Kost has been thesole photographer to capture a complete millennial portraitof New York's famed drag queens, go-go boys, transsexuals,and wild-partying celebrities. An exhilarating trip through underground New York, It's AlwaysDarkest Before Dawn puts you on the guest list for a worldof vivacious creativity, performance, costume, and evidence(if you needed it) that a certain kind of fabulous madnessain't dead yet, and was around way before Lady Gaga! Celebration, angst, drunken revelry, joy, exhaustion,vulnerability, honesty, and pomp and circumstance areall captured in the uncompromising immediacy of Kost'sPolaroids of personalities such as Amanda Lepore, SophiaLamar, and oddly enough even former President Bill Clinton,Pamela Andersen, Paris Hilton, and many more. It's Always Darkest Before Dawn is Kost's first monograph andcollects the best, most outstanding images of New York'sclub culture created in the new millennium.
Author: Stevie J Cole Publisher: Stevie J Cole ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 234
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Sixty-four days in captivity. Sixty-four days to lose yourself—or find yourself. Sixty-four days that gave me a love most people will never have, and my freedom took it all away. Constantly wondering when and how you will die, that does something to your mind. But what happens when it does something to your heart? What do you do when the presence of the man holding you captive becomes a comfort you crave—when you love him even though you shouldn’t? You smile and tell yourself it’s okay because love has no morals. I’m Ava Donovan. I was abducted at the age of nineteen. I’m told I’m a survivor, but the truth is, I only survived because he saved me.
Author: Beverly Jenkins Publisher: Avon ISBN: 9780380813759 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 384
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Leah Barnett can't believe how far fate has carried her: from Boston to the towering Colorado Rockies...and into the life of an angry, ruggedly sexy man. Ryder Damien is not about to welcome this beauty with open arms, however, especially since Leah was the one who won the affection of Ryder's late father and now may inherit, his considerable wealth. But when she stands before him in the flesh -- proud, vulnerable, and intoxicatingly lovely -- desire replaces hatred in Ryder's heart. Yet can passion survive this wild land and its dangerous men...and the most breathtaking peril: untamed love?
Author: Nicholas Wade Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 110105283X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 370
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“Meaty, well-written.” —Kirkus Reviews “Timely and informative.” —The New York Times Book Review “By far the best book I have ever read on humanity’s deep history.” —E. O. Wilson, biologist and author of The Ants and On Human Nature Nicholas Wade’s articles are a major reason why the science section has become the most popular, nationwide, in the New York Times. In his groundbreaking Before the Dawn, Wade reveals humanity’s origins as never before—a journey made possible only recently by genetic science, whose incredible findings have answered such questions as: What was the first human language like? How large were the first societies, and how warlike were they? When did our ancestors first leave Africa, and by what route did they leave? By eloquently solving these and numerous other mysteries, Wade offers nothing less than a uniquely complete retelling of a story that began 500 centuries ago.
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