Psycho in Paradise
Psycho in Paradise

Author: Deborah Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2018-07-16

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780998440460

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In the Florida Keys, you have to take the shady with the sunny. And Tarpon Cove has more than fifty shades of shady going on.Shady No. 1: When Brad is framed using the dead body of his crazy ex-girlfriend, the Westin family-which now includes Fab, Didier, and Creole by default-gathers to plan a strategy. Shady No. 2: Fab is having a hard time keeping her promise to go legit. It's not her fault she tends to attract clients who want their problems solved without getting the cops involved. Trying to keep her reined in is a full-time job, and a thankless one, since Madison keeps getting roped in on "easy" jobs that wind up getting the kind of messy that requires specialized cleanup. Shady No. 3: Ferreting out the info needed to save Brad means using sources so deep in the friend-of-a-friend network they're anonymous even to Madison. The only thing not shady is Creole's love. Madison's kept her promise never to lie to him. Mostly. But when the killer wafts like smoke through the cracks in the investigation, the danger reminds her she should've eaten dessert first more often. Because once he's through with her, the mess that'll need cleaning up will be her.

Naples
Naples

Author: Diane Ketcham

Publisher:

Published: 2013-02

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780979755583

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"The teenage daughter of the chairman of the county commission is murdered a few weeks before Election Day. Cara Wicklow was blonde, beautiful and a twin. She was also the chairman's 'wild child' and was attending a local boarding school for wealthy troubled girls. Who killed Cara? Caught up in the murder investigation and a new life in Florida is transplanted New York journalist, A.J. 'Jazz' Billings. While reporting on Cara's murder and the strict school she attended, Jazz discovers a secret sorority and its dangerous initiation. Is it politics or teenage secrets that caused Cara's death? And is the sudden disappearance of the boyfriend of Jazz's new friend related? There's trouble in paradise for Jazz and her stud-dog Labrador Retriever, Willie." -- p. [4] of cover.

Revenge in Paradise
Revenge in Paradise

Author: Deborah Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2014-10-11

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9780990316640

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When a man of questionable character's corpse is found at The Cottages, beaten to death with Madison's own gardening tools, she and her partner, Fab, set out to prove that the man's abused girlfriend did not kill him. Along the way, Madison finds herself behind bars twice, held hostage in a mansion, and running from flying bullets. There is no shortage of action, suspense, comedy, or romance in this edge-of-your-seat story of two friends with a knack for getting into-and somehow out of-trouble. This time they must answer one question: Who is responsible for getting their Revenge in Paradise?

The Festivals and Their Meaning
The Festivals and Their Meaning

Author: Rudolf Steiner

Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press

Published: 2013-09-10

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1855843706

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In this selection of thirty of Rudolf Steiner's most important lectures on the Festivals, he identifies and illumines the true meaning behind Christmas, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost, and Michaelmas, emphasizing both their inner-spiritual and outer-cosmic aspects. He shows that the Festivals are not merely the commemoration of mighty historical events or truths within the Christian tradition, but are in themselves - each year - spiritual events, manifesting in seasonal and natural rhythms, which carry a significance that grows and deepens with the developing of human evolution.

Initiation Into the Grail Mysteries
Initiation Into the Grail Mysteries

Author: Grailmaster

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2001-04-24

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0595174825

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Significant new spiritual impulses come into our world through the strivings and invocations of unique men and women who have achieved a close attunement with the invisible guides of humanity known in Hermetic terms as Spiritual Hierarchy. The Temple of the Holy Grail is a new spiritual impulse given in the latter quarter of the twentieth century. It is a mystery school designed to empower spiritually mature women and men with Hierarchical attunement for esoteric world service. Thus, Hierarchy has created an initiatic mystery school based not upon secrecy, but accessibility, and not upon hidden geographical centers, but a worldwide virtual platform. T:.H:.G:. is not dependent upon secret adepts, but upon self-empowerment. It is focused not merely upon the spiritual achievements of the past, but upon the coming generation of spiritually gifted individuals who are attuning themselves to Divine Will and Hierarchy. T:.H:.G:. exists to facilitate the empowerment of those spiritually talented individuals who have the potential to contribute wonderful new achievements of soul and spirit for the sake of the New Humanity. It is a tool to be used by such people.

The Gebusi
The Gebusi

Author: Bruce Knauft

Publisher: Waveland Press

Published: 2015-10-22

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1478631805

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One of the most popular anthropological case studies published in the last two decades, the latest edition of The Gebusi incorporates important new fieldwork, bringing ethnographic excellence and a riveting story fully up to date. Readers are welcomed into the lives of Papua New Guinea rainforest dwellers to witness a dramatic arc of cultural change and human transformation. When Knauft first studied them, Gebusi practiced powerful spirit séances and sorcery divinations, held resplendent initiations that included distinctive sexual customs, and endured high rates of violence. Sixteen years later, he found them participating in market activity, schooling, government programs, and sports; performing their own popular music; and practicing Christianity. More recently, Gebusi have been battered by economic hardship and withdrawal of government services—but have admirably revitalized their culture and livelihood. Sustained by traditions, access to land and waterways, and a keen sense of humor and vitality, Gebusi exhibit resilience and dignity amid conditions of continuing uncertainty and change. An absorbing, well-written, and humanistic account based on profound scholarship, The Gebusi, 4/E includes end-of-chapter “Broader Connections” that link Gebusi experiences to major anthropological topics—subsistence, kinship and marriage, politics, religion, gender and sexuality, ethnicity, nationalism, modernity, and the ethics of engaged and applied anthropology. A stunning full-color photo insert accentuates Knauft’s absorbing narrative. Callouts to instructional videos recorded with Gebusi and to an extensive online image bank on the author’s website further enrich the ethnography.

Lady in the Labyrinth
Lady in the Labyrinth

Author: William Shullenberger

Publisher: Associated University Presse

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780838641743

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The book's study of Milton's identification with his female hero, and his advocacy of women's ethical, sexual, and political autonomy, gives a jolt to ongoing debates about Milton and feminism"--Book jacket

Nectar #28
Nectar #28

Author: Babaji Bob Kindler

Publisher: Sarada Ramakrishna Vivekananda Associations

Published: 2013-01-13

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13:

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With the incomparable blessing of the principle of Universality as our underlying foundation and confirmed philosophical perspective, Nectar of Non-Dual Truth and its staff launches into its twenty-eighth issue, every one of them dedicated to the truth of Nonduality, or Advaita, as it appears in all of the religious traditions of the world. Like previous offerings, this issue of our one-of-a-kind religious magazine has a rich store of wisdom teachings contained within it. One only has to turn to any of its many pages to find a glowing testament to the Truth and its veracious expression through so many illumined vehicles. In this regard we humbly offer our gratitude to the enterprising writers, authors, teachers, and practitioners who generously contributed both time and wisdom towards this positive outcome. Though this work of religious and philosophical egalitarianism may not reflect it outwardly, it is quite a task to find even a small host of open-minded individuals to share essential parts of their respective traditions in a congenial manner in this day and age. That it has been accomplished, and will continue to be, is valid and substantial proof that the spirit of Universality is alive and well in the world. Both care and effort must be taken in the future to ensure that it will never die out.

Restoring Paradise
Restoring Paradise

Author: Arthur Versluis

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780791484852

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Focusing on how spiritual initiation takes place in Western esoteric religious, literary, and artistic traditions from antiquity to the present, Restoring Paradise provides an introduction to Western esotericism, including early modern esoteric movements like alchemy, Christian theosophy, and Rosicrucianism. The author argues that European and American literature and art often entail a written transmission of spiritual knowledge in which writing itself works to transmute consciousness, to generate, provoke, or convey spiritual awakening. He focuses on several important figures whose work has not received the attention it deserves, including American writer and Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) and British painter Cecil Collins, among others. While Arthur Versluis presents a new way of understanding Western esotericism in a contemporary light, above all he has crafted a book about knowing, and about how we come to know, and what "knowing" by way of literature and language actually means.

Population Homeostasis
Population Homeostasis

Author: Christopher J. Paradise

Publisher: Momentum Press

Published: 2016-04-27

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1606509764

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This book will synthesize the concepts of selection against individuals in response to environmental change to illustrate how selection against individuals results in homeostasis at the population level. For instance, selection against the light phenotype of the peppered moth during the early part of the industrial revolution led to an increase of the dark phenotype, which was better camouflaged against the soot that accumulated on tree bark as a result of burning coal. Populations are shown to be regulated by feedback mechanisms, several of which are discussed here. Populations are regulated by extrinsic factors, such as competition and predation, and that lead to changes in intrinsic factors, such as reproduction. Changes in population density often lead to initiation of feedback mechanisms, such as changes in birth or death rates. In a final example, pollutants are shown to be a factor that can disrupt homeostasis of populations. In particular, populations of top predators, such as raptors, have suffered due to bio­magnification of toxins.