Author: Hakeem Jaffer Publisher: StarNovel (HK) Co., Limited ISBN: Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 265
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"It is a troublesome place to live. I would advice you not to take this journey. However, it's absolutely impossible that I can persuade you to return with us."I shook my head. "There's no life for me in Calabria. Not any longer.""You could choose a different island to stay on; elsewhere next to Dartmoor."I hesitated for a moment before speaking; I was just being clueless about the whole thing. "I'm a shifter. I don't expect you to understand my plight." In a place where prejudice and betrayal run rampant, Bianca Walkden a half-shifter from the blood moon pack in Toledo, a small village south of Calabria tries to navigate a subversive path to find acceptance and love.Born of mixed blood, her half-shifter lineage sets her apart from her pack, leaving her vulnerable to their disdain. After being rejected by her fated mate she is being cast out and scarred, Bianca finds refuge on Dartmoor Island, only to be thrust into a battle for survival against a ruthless Alpha, Logan. As she grapples with her past and her uncertain future, Bianca discovers a newfound love in the arms of two Alphas, Carlos and Fletcher who lead a group of fugitives known as the Belmont pack on east of Dartmoor Island. But when faced with an ultimatum that could change everything, Bianca must choose between her newfound family and a dangerous threat that could tear it all apart. Bianca must confront her inner demons and make a decision that will forever alter the course of her fate. Will she choose to stand by her newfound family and fight for a future of unity and acceptance, or will the shadows of her past lead her down a path of solitude and despair?
Author: Carl Hiaasen Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ISBN: 0307594386 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 353
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A hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane from “Florida’s most entertainingly indignant social critic” (The New York Times Book Review) and the national bestselling author of Squeeze Me. Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster. Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her “undercover stunt double,” Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too “indisposed”—meaning wasted—to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott. Now the challenge for Cherry’s handlers (über–stage mother; horndog record producer; nipped, tucked, and Botoxed twin publicists; weed whacker–wielding bodyguard) is to rescue Ann while keeping her existence a secret from Cherry’s public—and from Cherry herself. The situation is more complicated than they know. Ann has had a bewitching encounter with Skink—the unhinged former governor of Florida living wild in a mangrove swamp—and now he’s heading for Miami to find her . . . Will Bang Abbott achieve his fantasy of a lucrative private photo session with Cherry Pye? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip-synch her way through her concert tour? Will Skink track down Ann DeLusia before Cherry’s motley posse does? BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Carl Hiaasen's Bad Monkey.
Author: Don Winslow Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439183384 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 322
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel, The Force, and The Border A New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Chicago Sun-Times Favorite Book of the Year “A revelation…This is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid on autoload.” —Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly “Startling…Stylish…Mega-cool.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times Ben, Chon, and O are twentysomething best friends living the dream in Southern California. Together they have made a small fortune producing premium grade marijuana, a product so potent that the Mexican Baja Cartel demands a cut. When Ben and Chon refuse to back down, the cartel kidnaps O, igniting a dizzying array of high-octane negotiations and stunning plot twists as they risk everything to free her. The result is a provocative, sexy, and darkly engrossing thrill ride, an ultracontemporary love story that will leave you breathless.
Author: Brett Rushforth Publisher: ISBN: Category : Canada Languages : en Pages : 554
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This dissertation analyzes these seemingly contradictory elements of French-Indian relations, arguing that French-Indian alliances paradoxically generated the practice of Indian slavery, and that slavery in turn influenced the structure of the alliance throughout the eighteenth century.
Author: Philip Morgan Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 0820342742 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 372
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The lush landscape and subtropical climate of the Georgia coast only enhance the air of mystery enveloping some of its inhabitants--people who owe, in some ways, as much to Africa as to America. As the ten previously unpublished essays in this volume examine various aspects of Georgia lowcountry life, they often engage a central dilemma: the region's physical and cultural remoteness helps to preserve the venerable ways of its black inhabitants, but it can also marginalize the vital place of lowcountry blacks in the Atlantic World. The essays, which range in coverage from the founding of the Georgia colony in the early 1700s through the present era, explore a range of topics, all within the larger context of the Atlantic world. Included are essays on the double-edged freedom that the American Revolution made possible to black women, the lowcountry as site of the largest gathering of African Muslims in early North America, and the coexisting worlds of Christianity and conjuring in coastal Georgia and the links (with variations) to African practices. A number of fascinating, memorable characters emerge, among them the defiant Mustapha Shaw, who felt entitled to land on Ossabaw Island and resisted its seizure by whites only to become embroiled in struggles with other blacks; Betty, the slave woman who, in the spirit of the American Revolution, presented a "list of grievances" to her master; and S'Quash, the Arabic-speaking Muslim who arrived on one of the last legal transatlantic slavers and became a head man on a North Carolina plantation. Published in association with the Georgia Humanities Council.
Author: Diana Paton Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 9780822333982 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 316
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DIVThe author analyzes punishment as a way to explore the dynamic of state formation in a colonial society making the transition from slavery to freedom./div
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