![]() A graveyard of shipwreck victims occupies a part of the island and, to protect the difficult trade route from further disaster, a lighthouse now dominates small Janus. Barely large enough to sustain a living for a few people, Janus inhabits troubled waters where the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean meet. Janus Rock is a tiny island off the south-western coast of Australia. ![]() A story of characters facing difficult moral choices, the reader’s admiration for this novel will have a lot to do with their ability to sympathise with the characters fateful decisions. As well as the intriguing story, the novel is laden with the ghosts of the First World War. Well-crafted, it is a light read that carries considerable emotional weight and sits comfortably on the frontier between popular and literary fiction. ![]() The Light Between Oceans is an admirable debut novel, soon to be released as a film starring Michael Fassbender, Rachel Weisz and Alicia Vikander. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Deeply in debt and down to his last farthing, he must marry nothing short of an absolute fortune, or risk utter ruin. When a rake beyond redemption A walking scandal surviving on little more than wits, whisky, and wicked skills in the bedchamber, Benedict Chatham, the new Marquess of Rutherford, is at the end of his rope. ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. 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We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() Kelley reveals how the experiences and identities of these people from Alabama's farms, factories, mines, kitchens, and city streets shaped the Party's tactics and unique political culture. ![]() The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly religious and semiliterate black laborers and sharecroppers, and a handful of whites, including unemployed industrial workers, housewives, youth, and renegade liberals. A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "e long Civil Rights movement,"e Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality. ![]() ![]() ![]() So what is most frustrating to the narrator (in the passage above) is that he senses he has all the tools to discover this on his own, but lacks a system by which to properly use those tools. In fact, much of what Ishmael teaches the narrator involves knowledge he already has - what is new is the way Ishmael arranges that information, the new perspective on it that he presents. ![]() He felt that he was being lied to about something, but could never articulate what that lie was.Īs we discover both in this passage and through the novel, the frustration comes from the difficulty, and not the desire. In his teenage years, the narrator sought a teacher who could tell him what was wrong with the world. But I didn't know that then" The Narrator, page 5Įarly on, the narrator grows indignant at Ishmael's ad, since it reminds him of earlier disappointments. In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library. "He was like me-he just yearned for there to be someone in the world like Leo, someone with a secret knowledge and a wisdom beyond his own. ![]() ![]() ![]() Above all she was struck by the extraordinary hospitality, generosity and helpfulness of the Siberians who made this strange phenomenon - a maimed Irish babushka - so welcome in their towns and homes. Although hardly able to walk, her subsequent experiences, in an unexpected place, and in an incapacitated state, provided many pleasant surprises. ![]() But by accident, or rather because she had an accident - a painful leg injury -, she found herself stymied in Eastern Siberia, a place she knew very little about. Instead she had planned to go to Ussuriland, because it appealed to her as a place free from tourism. Dervla Murphy never had any intention of spending three months in the vast territories of Siberia. Through Siberia by Accident is a book about a journey that didn't happen - and what happened instead. ![]() ![]() It’s my kind of book, sexy and witty, and the banter between the characters is off the charts. “I devoured Blurred Lines in one sitting. “I just finished Blurred Lines and I absolutely adored this outstanding story.” - New York Times bestselling author Sandi Lynn And maybe, deep down, they never want to. With their friendship on the rocks for the first time, Parker and Ben face an alarming truth: Maybe they can’t go back. And when Ben starts seeing a girl from work, Parker finds herself plagued by unfamiliar jealousy. ![]() ![]() But when Parker’s ex decides he wants her back, Ben is shocked by a fierce stab of possessiveness. The sex is mind-blowing, and their friendship remains as solid as ever, without any of the usual messy romantic entanglements. The trouble is, even with Ben as her wingman, Parker can’t seem to get the hang of casual sex-until she tries it with him. But when Parker’s boyfriend dumps her out of the blue, she starts to wonder about Ben’s no-strings-attached approach to dating. Six years later, they’re still best friends, sharing an apartment in Portland’s trendy Northwest District as they happily settle into adult life. When Parker Blanton meets Ben Olsen during her freshman year of college, the connection is immediate-and platonic. ![]() ![]() In a novel that’s perfect for fans of Alice Clayton and Emma Chase, Lauren Layne delivers a sexy take on the timeless question: Can a guy and a girl really be “just friends”?. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this new book, he tells the story of the first twenty-one months of America's violent effort to forge a new nation. Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about the Second World War has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. The war would last eight years, and though at least one in ten of the Americans who fought for independence would die for that cause, the prize was valuable beyond measure: freedom from oppression and the creation of a new republic. Less than two years later, Britain's bright future turned dark: after a series of provocations, the king's soldiers took up arms against his rebellious colonies in America. It is difficult to imagine any reader putting this beguiling book down without a smile and a tear.' New York Times In June 1773, King George III attended a grand celebration of his reign over the greatest, richest empire since ancient Rome. A powerful new voice has been added to the dialogue about origins as a people and a nation. 'To say that Atkinson can tell a story is like saying Sinatra can sing. ![]() ![]() 244), both India (with a population that is larger than that of the other 35 countries combined) and small Iceland and Luxembourg are on the left (consensual) side of the map. ![]() For instance, on the conceptual map of democracy (p. There does not seem to be a connection between size and the first dimension, which includes the characteristic of consensual decision-making that you mention. That is, the larger countries are more likely to have the five «federal» characteristics than small countries. I find that population size is significantly related to the second (federal-unitary) dimension of the contrast between majoritarian and consensus democracy. 248 of the original English-language of my Patterns of Democracy (2nd ed., 2012). I look at the relationship between country size (that is, population size) on p. ![]() Understanding that this model is probably better than a majoritarian democracy, which country size is required to be realizable and how it would be implemented? In consensual democracies, legislative decisions are taken by consensus. In «The Contemporary Democracies» we can find two models of democracy clearly identified: majoritarian democracy and consensus democracy. ![]() ![]() Love hurts, and no one knows it better than Georgina Kincaid. ![]() Urn:lcp:succubusontop00mead:epub:5a068007-69e1-4a70-b292-8f51566db9cb Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier succubusontop00mead Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6543x70t Isbn 9780758216427Ġ758216424 Lccn 2008298494 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL20637696M Openlibrary_edition Succubus On Top - Richelle Mead A succubus must balance a burgeoning romance as she fights to save a co-worker’s soul in this urban fantasy from a 1 New York Timesbestselling author. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:46:44 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA135901 Boxid_2 CH125722 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They are good for introducing farmyard vocabulary and on a first reading it is fun to ask the child if they can predict what will happen to the fox next. ![]() ![]() The simple pictures have a distinctive style and use predominantly browns, greens and yellows with a splash of red and orange. As a small child she was just amused by the trouble he got himself into, she found the bag of flour falling onto his head particularly funny. It is only now that she is older that my daughter realises that the fox’s intentions are less than honourable. Rosie is completely unaware of the fox’s presence but it is his actions that provide the humour (the fox falls in the pond, trips over a rake, gets covered in flour and straw). The story relies heavily on the pictures to show the action and some pages have no text at all. Rosie’s walk is a simple story that appeals to young children but is also great for older children who are starting to read. Unbeknown to her she is being followed by a fox who gets into various kinds of trouble before being chased away by a swarm of bees. The Story: Rosie, the hen, goes for a walk around the farmyard. I have read it to my daughter since she was small and now she is excited that she can ‘read’ it by herself, there are less than thirty five words in the story so it is a great book for a beginner reader. I often borrowed Rosie’s Walk from the library as a child and bought my own copy when I was doing my teacher training. ![]() |