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Author: Craig Alanson
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Published: 2017-10-30
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9781973182801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBook '3.5' in the ExForce series: While the crew of the UN Expeditionary Force's pirate starship Flying Dutchman are enjoying a luxury vacation cruise (not!), UNEF troops are still stranded on an alien-controlled planet. Major Emily Perkins and her team are busy picking up the pieces, and it's not easy, because there is trouble on Paradise...
Author: Robert B. Parker
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1999-10-01
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1101546328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJesse Stone returns in this New York Times bestselling novel of death and deception from Robert B. Parker. Stiles Island is a wealthy and exclusive enclave separated by a bridge from the Massachusetts coast town of Paradise. James Macklin sees the Island as the ultimate investment opportunity: all he needs to do is invade it, blow the bridge, and loot the island. To realize his scheme, Macklin, along with his devoted girlfriend, Faye, assembles a crew of fellow ex-cons—all experts in their fields—including Wilson Cromartie, a fearsome Apache. James Macklin is a bad man, a very bad man. And Wilson Cromartie, known as Crow, is even worse. As Macklin plans his crime, Paradise police chief Jesse Stone has his hands full. He faces romantic entanglements in triplicate: his ex-wife, Jenn, is in the Paradise jail for assault, he’s begun a new relationship with a Stiles Island realtor named Marcy Campbell, and he’s still sorting out his feelings for attorney Abby Taylor. When Macklin’s attack on Stiles Island is set in motion, both Marcy and Abby are put in jeopardy. As the casualties mount, it’s up to Jesse to keep both women from harm.
Author: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2014-11-27
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0141979550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Žižek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism. There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist paradise. But why do we find it so difficult to imagine a way out of the crisis we're in? It is as if the trouble feeds on itself: the march of capitalism has become inexorable, the only game in town. Setting out to diagnose the condition of global capitalism, the ideological constraints we are faced with in our daily lives, and the bleak future promised by this system, Slavoj Žižek explores the possibilities - and the traps - of new emancipatory struggles. Drawing insights from phenomena as diverse as Gangnam Style to Marx, The Dark Knight to Thatcher, Trouble in Paradise is an incisive dissection of the world we inhabit, and the new order to come. 'The most dangerous philosopher in the West' - Adam Kirsch, New Republic 'The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in many decades' - Terry Eagleton 'Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation' - New Yorker Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, critique of ideology and art, including Less Than Nothing, Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce and, most recently, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously.
Author: Aimee Friedman
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2018-10-30
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1338310194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerfect for fans of Let It Snow, this irresistible collection of wintry love stories is guaranteed to bring on the warm fuzzies. What's better than one deliciously cozy, swoon-worthy holiday story?Four of them, from some of today's bestselling authors.From KASIE WEST, a snowy road trip takes an unexpected detour when secrets and crushes are revealed.From AIMEE FRIEDMAN, a Hanukkah miracle may just happen when a Jewish girl working as a department store elf finds love.From MELISSA DE LA CRUZ, Christmas Eve gets a plot twist when a high school couple exchange surprising presents.From NIC STONE, a scavenger hunt amid the holiday crowds at an airport turns totally romantic.So grab a mug of hot cocoa, snuggle up, and get ready to fall in love...
Author: J Roberts Timmons
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-07-03
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1136745505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnvironmental degradation in Latin America has become one of the most pressing issues on the international agenda. The volume began to crescendo when space shuttle astronauts photographed five thousand fires on a single night in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondonia in 1985, and grew shrill when rubbertapper Chico Mendes was shot in 1988 trying to
Author: Deborah Perlberg
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780671040574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStephanie and Michelle head to Hawaii on vacation with their father. Stephanie is mistaken for a guest at a ritzy hotel and tries to keep up the charade as she hangs with a new group of friends, including a cute boy. Michelle, meanwhile, provokes the wrath of an evil spirit during her island exploration.
Author: Omar El Akkad
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2021-07-20
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0525657916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the widely acclaimed, bestselling author of American War—a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving novel that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child. "Told from the point of view of two children, on the ground and at sea, the story so astutely unpacks the us-versus-them dynamics of our divided world that it deserves to be an instant classic." —The New York Times Book Review More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their homelands. But miraculously, someone has survived the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who is soon rescued by Vänna. Vänna is a teenage girl, who, despite being native to the island, experiences her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though Vänna and Amir are complete strangers, though they don’t speak a common language, Vänna is determined to do whatever it takes to save the boy. In alternating chapters, we learn about Amir’s life and how he came to be on the boat, and we follow him and the girl as they make their way toward safety. What Strange Paradise is the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world. But it is also a story of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair—and about the way each of those things can blind us to reality.
Author: Juliette Duncan
Publisher:
Published: 2020-06-09
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn May 2021, the original second book in the series, Slow Journey to Joy, was unpublished and the content incorporated into the end of Slow Road to Love and the beginning of Slow Path to Peace. If you purchased the original version of Slow Road to Love which ended with Maggie dashing off to Paris, you'll need to download the first 12 chapters of Slow Journey to Joy before reading Slow Path to Peace. You'll find the download link inside your copy of Slow Path to Peace. Married at last, life is bliss for Frank and Maggie, until storm clouds gather over Goddard Downs Frank and Maggie are enjoying married life, but all is not well on the home front. The whole family's livelihood comes under threat when the government declares a ban on live cattle exports. How will they survive? Will they lose everything they've worked so hard for? Serena used to be young and beautiful. Now, her face is scarred for life. Will there ever come a time when she can look in the mirror and not be repulsed by her horrid, charred skin? Will she ever see herself as God sees her? As a precious, much-loved daughter of the King? David is riddled with guilt. He thought that caring for Serena would assuage that guilt. It didn't. Maybe fighting a raging fire will help. Unless he dies in the process. But what does it matter now that Serena has rejected him? Maggie longs to help her daughter find peace, but can she balance her new marriage to Frank at the same time? Slow Path to Peace is Book Two in the Sunburned Land Series, a mature-age Christian romance set in the beautiful, rugged and remote Kimberley area of northern Australia. Continue Frank and Maggie's heartwarming love story today.
Author: Michael Cavanagh
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2020-02-21
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0813232465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA record of a teacher’s lifelong love affair with the beauty, wit, and profundity of Paradise Lost, celebrating John Milton’s un-doctrinal, complex, and therefore deeply satisfying perception of the human condition. After surveying Milton’s recurrent struggle as a reconciler of conflicting ideals, this Primer undertakes a book-by-book reading of Paradise Lost, reviewing key features of Milton’s “various style,” and why we treasure that style. Cavanagh constantly revisits Milton the singer and maker, and the artistic problems he faced in writing this almost impossible poem. This book is emphatically for first-time readers of Milton, with little or no prior exposure, but with ambition to encounter challenging poetry. These are readers who tell you they “have always been meaning to read Paradise Lost,” who seek to enjoy the epic without being overwhelmed by its daunting learning and expansive frame of reference. Avoiding the narrowly specialized focus of most Milton scholarship, Cavanagh deals forthrightly with issues that recur across generations of readers, gathering selected voices—from scholars and poets alike—from 1674 through the present. Lively and jargon-free, this Primer makes Paradise Lost accessible and fresh, offering a credible beginning to what is a great intellectual and aesthetic adventure.
Author: Elin Hilderbrand
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2020-10-06
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0316435619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTravel to the bright Caribbean for love, romance, and passion in this sizzling summer read from a nationally bestselling author and "Queen of the Summer Novel" (People). After uprooting her life in the States, Irene Steele has just settled in at the villa on St. John where her husband Russ had been living a double life. But a visit from the FBI shakes her foundations, and Irene once again learns just how little she knew about the man she loved. With help from their friends, Irene and her sons set up their lives while evidence mounts that the helicopter crash that killed Russ may not have been an accident. Meanwhile, the island watches this drama unfold—including the driver of a Jeep with tinted windows who seems to be shadowing the Steele family. As a storm gathers strength in the Atlantic, surprises are in store for the Steeles: help from a mysterious source, and a new beginning in the paradise that has become their home. At last all will be revealed about the secrets and lies that brought Irene and her sons to St. John—and the truth that transformed them all.
