Treacherous Truths
Treacherous Truths

Author: Kay Riley

Publisher:

Published: 2022-03-10

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781737567479

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The truth shall NOT set me free.Running away seven years ago did nothing but delay the life chosen for me before I even had my first kiss. Leaving isn't an option anymore. Staying might break me.The unraveling secrets are exposing more than just my family's past. They're revealing burdens of the man who is determined to prove our story isn't finished. My trust is the one thing Kyro refuses to stop chasing, even when everything is attempting to tear us apart.And for the truths I so desperately wanted to learn? They're twisting the key, locking me in the cage known as Suncrest Bay.The promise I made to never stop fighting is being threatened by ghosts of my past. Maybe the easiest thing is to give into what my enemies want.But I never was one for easy.I'm a perfect storm and I'll destroy them all.**This is the second book in the Suncrest Bay Series and ends in a cliffhanger. Book one, Fateful Secrets must be read first. It is an enemies-to-lovers, contemporary dark romance. Content Warnings include graphic violence, foul language, sexual scenes, and a possessive anti-hero. Suitable for readers 18+**

Treacherous Alliance
Treacherous Alliance

Author: Trita Parsi

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2007-10-01

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 0300138067

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This award-winning study traces the shifting relations between Israel, Iran, and the U.S. since 1948—including secret alliances and treacherous acts. Vitriolic exchanges between the leaders of Iran and Israel are a disturbingly common feature of the news cycle. But the real roots of their enmity mystify Washington policymakers, leaving no promising pathways to stability. In Treacherous Alliance, U.S. foreign policy expert Trita Parsi untangles to complex and often duplicitous relationship among Israel, Iran, and the United States from 1948 to the present. In the process, he reveals shocking details of unsavory political maneuverings that have undermined Middle Eastern peace and disrupted U.S. foreign policy initiatives in the region. Parsi draws on his unique access to senior American, Iranian, and Israeli decision makers to present behind-the-scenes revelations that will surprise even the most knowledgeable readers: Iran’s prime minister asks Israel to assassinate Khomeini; Israel reaches out to Saddam Hussein after the Gulf War; the United States foils Iran’s plan to withdraw support from Hamas and Hezbollah; and more. Treacherous Alliance not only revises our understanding of the recent past, it also spells out a course for the future. An Arthur Ross Book Award Silver Medal Winner A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title

A Treacherous Curse
A Treacherous Curse

Author: Deanna Raybourn

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-01-16

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0698198409

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Members of an Egyptian expedition fall victim to an ancient mummy’s curse in this thrilling Veronica Speedwell novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries. London, 1888. As colorful and unfettered as the butterflies she collects, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell can’t resist the allure of an exotic mystery—particularly one involving her enigmatic colleague, Stoker. His former expedition partner has vanished from an archaeological dig with a priceless diadem unearthed from the newly discovered tomb of an Egyptian princess. This disappearance is just the latest in a string of unfortunate events that have plagued the controversial expedition, and rumors abound that the curse of the vengeful princess has been unleashed as the shadowy figure of Anubis himself stalks the streets of London. But the perils of an ancient curse are not the only challenges Veronica must face as sordid details and malevolent enemies emerge from Stoker’s past. Caught in a tangle of conspiracies and threats—and thrust into the public eye by an enterprising new foe—Veronica must separate facts from fantasy to unravel a web of duplicity that threatens to cost Stoker everything...

Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths
Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths

Author: Shimon Edelman

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2022-06-28

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0262542781

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A guide for making sense of life--from action (good except when it's not) to thinking (depressing) to youth (a treasure). This book offers a guide to human nature and human experience--a reference book for making sense of life. In thirty-eight short, interconnected essays, Shimon Edelman considers the parameters of the human condition, addressing them in alphabetical order, from action (good except when it's not) to love (only makes sense to the lovers) to thinking (should not be so depressing) to youth (a treasure). In a style that is by turns personal and philosophical, at once informative and entertaining, Edelman offers a series of illuminating takes on the most important aspects of living in the world.

Fateful Secrets
Fateful Secrets

Author: Kay Riley

Publisher:

Published: 2022-02-28

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781737567455

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It was a mistake thinking Kyro would choose me over his family. Even love doesn't come before his own blood.I betrayed him and then ran like hell.I buried Vanessa Ace and became someone new. For seven years. Until Kyro found me and dragged me back to the life that I never expected to survive.His father's gang needs my help and they're taking it, without giving me a choice. They're after paperwork my parents hid before they were murdered. I need to get out of this city before my own secret gets me killed.Kyro and the gang must have forgotten I used to be a part of their dark world, and I relished every second of it. I'll remind them I don't break.And for the person who taught me that love is grief? He says I'm his until we find the paperwork. But the longer I'm chained to his side, the more I fear he'll never let me go.That can't happen.I gave him my heart once and he shredded it. I put it back together, promising no one will ever own it again.Except vengeance.

Robotica
Robotica

Author: Ronald K. L. Collins

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 131699760X

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In every era of communications technology - whether print, radio, television, or Internet - some form of government censorship follows to regulate the medium and its messages. Today we are seeing the phenomenon of 'machine speech' enhanced by the development of sophisticated artificial intelligence. Ronald K. L. Collins and David M. Skover argue that the First Amendment must provide defenses and justifications for covering and protecting robotic expression. It is irrelevant that a robot is not human and cannot have intentions; what matters is that a human experiences robotic speech as meaningful. This is the constitutional recognition of 'intentionless free speech' at the interface of the robot and receiver. Robotica is the first book to develop the legal arguments for these purposes. Aimed at law and communication scholars, lawyers, and free speech activists, this work explores important new problems and solutions at the interface of law and technology.

A Treacherous Country
A Treacherous Country

Author: K.M. Kruimink

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published: 2020-04-21

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1760873950

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The winner of the prestigious literary award that has launched over a hundred authors - The Australian/Vogel's Literary award. WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN/VOGEL'S LITERARY AWARD There is a woman, somewhere, here, in Van Diemen's Land, unless she had died or otherwise departed, called Maryanne Maginn. Gabriel Fox, the young son of an old English house, arrives in a land both ancient and new. Drawn by the promise of his heart's desire, and compelled to distance himself from pain at home, Gabriel begins his quest into Van Diemen's Land. His guide, a Cannibal who is not all he seems, leads him north where Gabriel might free himself of his distracting burden and seek the woman he must find. As Gabriel traverses this wild country, he uncovers new truths buried within his own memory. Authentic, original and playful, A Treacherous Country is a novel of loyalty, wisdom and the freedom to act. 'Warm and lively ... a witty Tasmanian Moby Dick' -Tegan Bennett Daylight, acclaimed author of Six Bedrooms

Ancestral Truths
Ancestral Truths

Author: Sara Maitland

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2014-09-23

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1466881720

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There were three possible reasons given for the disappearance of the two hikers on Mount Nyangani: the treacherous terrain and climate; the banditos armados; the unforgiving spirit called Chirikuzi. In David' case there was a fourth--that Clare might have killed him. Unable to remember exacly what happened on the mountain in Zimbabwe and trying to come to terms with the loss of her hand in the accident, Clare is taken home to Scotland where her large, loving, questioning, and uncomfortably acute family become almost unbearable. She had wanted David dead, but did that mean she had killed him? Her mother's High Church concern, Anni's sharp-tongued radicalism, santly Felicity's internal fury, and her deaf niece Alice's fascination with the prosthetic hand seem at first to distract from Clare's problems, until the aristocratic family's pieties pierce her cocoon of post-traumatic amnesia. Family resentments flare and fade, divisions fester and heal, and as clare uncovers buried fears, she comes to understand that the real question about the accident on Mount Nyangani is less what she has forgotten than why. Intricate in design, disturbing in its explorations of mind and spirit, and with a surprising twist at the end, Ancestral Truths employs a striking narrative voice to explore the shifting relations between belief and truth, love and desire, to reveal that beauty and danger walk hand in hand. Sara Maitland summons her knowledge of theology, mysticism, mathematics, and human nature to give this deeply perceptive novel its wit and cohesive richness. As Ms. Maitland's characters gradually recognize the inseparability of their strengths and weaknesses, the authof of Three Times Table raises her art to a new pitch of excitement and originality.