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The Empire of Dreams by Rae Carson
epub | 1.3 MB | English | Rae Carson | Greenwillow Books
About The Empire of Dreams by Rae Carson :
New York Times- bestselling author Rae Carson makes a triumphant return to the world of her award-winning Girl of Fire and Thorns trilogy in this extraordinary stand-alone novel.
Fans of Leigh Bardugo, Kendare Blake, and Tomi Adeyemi won't want to put this book down. *
Red Sparkle Stone is a foundling orphan with an odd name, a veiled past, and a mark of magic in her hair. But finally-after years and years of running, of fighting-she is about to be adopted into the royal family by Empress Elisa herself. She'll have a home, a family. Sixteen-year-old Red can hardly believe her luck. Then, in a stunning political masterstroke, the empress's greatest rival blocks the adoption, and everything Red has worked for crumbles before her eyes.
But Red is not about to let herself or the empress become a target again. Determined to prove her worth and protect her chosen family, she joins the Royal Guard, the world's most elite fighting force. It's no coincidence that someone wanted her to fail as a princess, though. Someone whose shadowy agenda puts everything-and every one -she loves at risk. As danger closes in, it will be up to Red to save the empire. If she can survive recruitment year-something no woman has ever done before.
New York Times-bestselling author Rae Carson returns to the world of The Girl of Fire and Thorns in this action-packed fantasy-adventure starring an iconic heroine who fights for her family and her friends, and for a place where she will belong.
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"Unique and engrossing." -- "Tamora Pierce, New York Times bestselling author, on The Girl of Fire and Thorns"
About the Author
Rae Carson is the author of the New York Times bestselling Girl of Fire and Thorns series, as well as three novellas set in the same world. Originally from California, Carson now lives in Arizona with her husband.
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The Roxy Letters by Mary Pauline Lowry
epub | 2.01 MB | Mary Pauline Lowry | Simon & Schuster
About The Roxy Letters by Mary Pauline Lowry :
Meet Roxy. She's a sometimes vegan, always broke artist with a heart the size of Texas and an ex living in her spare bedroom. Her life is messy, but with the help of a few good friends and by the grace of the goddess Venus she'll discover that good sex, true love, and her life's purpose are all closer than she realizes.
Bridget Jones penned a diary; Roxy writes letters. Specifically: she writes letters to her hapless, rent-avoidant ex-boyfriend-and current roommate-Everett. This charming and funny twenty-something is under-employed (and under-romanced), and she's decidedly fed up with the indignities she endures as a deli maid at Whole Foods (the original), and the dismaying speed at which her beloved Austin is becoming corporatized. When a new Lululemon pops up at the intersection of Sixth and Lamar where the old Waterloo Video used to be, Roxy can stay silent no longer.
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The Shadow System by Sylvia A Harvey
epub | 2.26 MB | English | Sylvia A. Harvey | 2020 | PublicAffairs
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From an award-winning journalist, a searing exposé of the effects of the mass incarceration crisis on families - including the 2.7 million American children who have a parent locked up.
In The Shadow System, award-winning journalist Sylvia A. Harvey follo the fears, challenges, and small victories of three families struggling to live within the confines of a brutal system. In Florida, a young father tries to maintain a relationship with his daughter despite a sentence of life without parole. In Kentucky, where the opioid epidemic has led to the increased incarceration of women, many of whom are white, one mother fights for custody of her children. In Mississippi, a wife steels herself for her husband's thirty-ninth year in prison and does her best to keep their sons close.
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A Secret Well Kept The Untold Story of Sir Vernon Kell, Founder of MI5
epub | 3.41 MB | English | Constance Kell | Bloomsbury Publishing
About A Secret Well Kept The Untold Story of Sir Vernon Kell, Founder of MI5 :
The United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, most commonly know as MI5, was founded in 1909 by Sir Vernon Kell KBE. Kell ('K' within the agency) not only founded MI5 but was also its Director for 31 years, the longest tenure of any head of a British government department during the twentieth century. Kell was also fluent in six foreign languages, making him arguably the most gifted linguist ever to head a Western intelligence agency.
A Secret Well Kept was written by Kell's wife, Lady Constance Kell, in the late 1940s. It is an unparalleled insight into the personal life of an extremely powerful and important man, from the one person with whom he was most intimate.
Nearly half of A Secret Well Kept is devoted to Kell's life before MI5 and about half of the section on Kell's life from 1909-1940 covers his personal life outside MI5. We also learn about the key characters and events during Kell's career with MI5...
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Chinese Walled Cities 221 BC AD 1644
epub | 20.43 MB | English | Stephen Turnbull | Osprey Publishing
About Chinese Walled Cities 221 BC AD 1644 :
It has been said in China that a city without a wall would be as inconceivable as a house without a roof. Even the smallest village invariably had some form of defensive wall, while the Great Wall of China was an attempt to build a barrier along the most vulnerable border of the entire country. Yet the finest examples of walled communities were China's walled cities, whose defensive architecture surpassed anything along the Great Wall. This book traces the evolution of the walled city from the 3,000 year old remains of the beaten earth walls of the Shang dynasty to the huge stone fortifications of the Ming dynasty. Stephen Turnbull, expert military historian, reveals the defensive structures from all the major ancient Chinese cities, and discusses how they protected entire communities, and not just castle dwellers, with colour artwork reconstructions, maps and archive photographs.
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Contraband Cocktails How America Drank When It Wasn't Supposed To
epub | 3.27 MB | English | Paul Dickson | 2015 | Melville House
About Contraband Cocktails How America Drank When It Wasn't Supposed To :
In 48 recipes and dozens of illustrations, a lively and informative guide to the most popular cocktails from Prohibition
Americans weren't supposed to drink at all during prohibition, but that's not how things worked out. Cocktail culture, mixology, the Bloody Mary, and 100 other essentials of drinking life owe their origins to the dark days and boozy nights of the 1920s, and in Contraband Cocktails, Paul Dickson pours us an intoxicating account of how we used to drink.
Rich in Hollywood lore, stories of bootlegging too wild to be fiction, and recipes by everyone from Audrey Hepburn to Ernest Hemingway, Contraband Cocktails is chock-full of history and craft cocktail techniques that will surprise even the most seasoned bartender. No bathtub gin required.
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Defense of the Third Reich 1941 45
epub | 23.06 MB | English | Steven Zaloga | Osprey Publishing
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Starting in 1940, Germany was subjected to a growing threat of Allied bomber attack. The RAF night bombing offensive built up slowly but uled to an unrelenting crescendo through the Ruhr campaign in the summer of 1944, and culminated in the attacks on Berlin in the autumn and early winter of 1943-44. They were joined by US daylight raids which first began to have a serious impact on German industry in the autumn of 1943. This book focuses on the land-based infrastructure of Germany's defense against the air onslaught.
The Third Reich created the most lavish Flak defenses of any country in World War II. This book provides an overview of the Flak artillery, with a special emphasis on how Flak was deployed and some of the unique fortified structures that were created to enhance Flak performance such as the legendary Flak towers of the German cities. It also briefly examines the revolutionary potential of anti-aircraft missiles for Flak defense that were on the verge of...
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DNA Is Not Destiny The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship between You and Your Genes
epub | 1.12 MB | English | Steven J. Heine | 2017 | W. W. Norton & Company
About DNA Is Not Destiny The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship between You and Your Genes :
One of the world's leading cultural psychologists debunks the hype surrounding DNA testing and puts to rest our mistaken anxieties about our genes.
Around 250,000 people have had their genomes sequenced, and scientists expect that number to rise to one billion by 2025. Professor Steven J. Heine argues that the first thing we will do on receiving our DNA test results is to misinterpret them completely. Despite breathless (often lightly researched) media coverage about newly discovered "cancer" or "divorce" or "IQ" genes, the prospect of a DNA test forecasting how your life is going to turn out is vanishingly small.
In DNA Is Not Destiny, Heine shares his research-and his own genome sequencing results-to not only show what your genes can actually tell you about your health, intelligence, ethnic identity, and family but also highlight the psychological biases that make us so vulnerable to the media hype. Heine's fresh, surprising conclusions about the...
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I Love You with All My Butt! An Illustrated Book of Big Thoughts from Little Kids
epub | 225.49 MB | English | Martin Bruckner | Workman Publishing Company
About I Love You with All My Butt! An Illustrated Book of Big Thoughts from Little Kids :
We just can't get enough of the funny stuff kids say. We share our own children's gems with friends and family. If we're smart, we write down these scraps of accidental poetry. And we turn them into books. Martin Bruckner is an artist and father who not only recorded the sayings of his daughter, Harper, but used each as the inspiration for a work of art. After posting them on social media, Bruckner became the artist that other parents sought out to transform their own children's funny words into artwork. Collected here are 100 mini-posters of pure delight, a marriage of the children's surprising wisdom and the artist's nimble style, plus the occasional backstory that amplifies both. Every parent will recognize the spirited declarations of personality-"I'm training to be a wolf." The endearing mangling of language-"Mommy, I don't need your mouth to talk to me right now." The creative mixing of metaphors-"I need a tissue to wipe my feelings." Those...
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Manufacturing Consent The Political Economy of the Mass Media
epub | 2.79 MB | English | Edward S. Herman | 2002 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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An intellectual dissection of the modern media to show how an underlying economics of publishing warps the ne.
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Mind Over Mind The Surprising Power of Expectations
epub | 847.77 KB | English | Chris Berdik | 2012 | Penguin Publishing Group
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"Our brains can't help but look forward. We spend very little of our mental lives completely in the here and now. Indeed, the power of expectations is so pervasive that we may notice only when somebody pulls back the curtain to reveal a few of the cogs and levers responsible for the big show."
We all know expectations matter-in college, in sports, in the stock market. From a healing placebo to a run on the bank, hints of their self-fulfilling potential have been observed for years. But now researchers in fields ranging from medicine to education to criminal justice are moving beyond observation to investigate exactly how expectations work-and when they don't.
In Mind Over Mind, journalist Chris Berdik offers a captivating look at the frontiers of expectations research, revealing how our brains work in the future tense and how our assumptions-about the next few milliseconds or the next few years-bend reality. We learn how...
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Leipzig 1813 The Battle of the Nations
epub | 87.5 MB | English | Peter Hofschroer | 1993 | Osprey Publishing
About Leipzig 1813 The Battle of the Nations :
The battle of Leipzig was, in terms of the number of combatants involved, the largest engagement of the entire Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). It was the only battle of the wars in which all Allied armies (including even the Swedes) fielded troops against Napoleon. Peter Hofschroer looks at the run-up to this crucial encounter as well as the battle itself. A wealth of background information is chronicled, including the strategies of both sides and detailed information on each of the combatant forces. The numerous battles leading up to Leipzig are also discussed, providing a fascinating and illuminating overview of the whole campaign.
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New Ways with Jelly Rolls 12 Reversible Modern Jelly Roll Quilts
epub | 10.15 MB | English | Pam Lintott, Nicky Lintott | 2014 | F+W Media
About New Ways with Jelly Rolls 12 Reversible Modern Jelly Roll Quilts :
12 Reversible Modern Jelly Roll Quilts
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Perfect Rigour A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century
epub | 760.48 KB | English | Masha Gessen | 2009 | Icon Books
About Perfect Rigour A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century :
In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincare conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. In 2000, the Clay Institute in Boston named it one of seven great unsolved mathematical problems, and promised a million dollars to anyone who could find a solution. Perelman was awarded the prize this year - and declined the money. Journalist Masha Gessen was determined to find out why. Drawing on intervie with Perelman's teachers, classmates, coaches, teammates, and colleagues in Russia and the US - and informed by her own background as a math whiz raised in Russia - she set out to uncover the nature of Perelman's astonishing abilities. In telling his story, Masha Gessen has constructed a gripping and tragic tale that sheds rare light on the unique burden of genius.
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Leyte 1944 Return to the Philippines
epub | 50.34 MB | English | Clayton Chun | 2015 | Osprey Publishing
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The loss of the Phillipines in 1942 was the worst defeat in American military history. General Douglas MacArthur, the 'Lion of Luzon', was evacuated by order of the President just before the fall, but he vowed to return, and in August 1944 he kept his word when he led the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific War to date on the island of Leyte. This is the full story of that fateful battle, one of the most ferocious campaigns of World War II and one of huge strategic and symbolic significance. Preceding it had been the largest naval battle ever fought: the battle of Leyte Gulf, in which the Imperial Japanese Navy was decisively crushed. This paved the way for four divisions of Lieutenant-General Krueger's Sixth Army to spear-head the assault. In the face of stubborn Japanese resistance, including the first systematic use of kamikaze attacks, the US forces ground slowly forwards before another amphibious assault took the vital position of Ormoc in the last ...
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Putting a Name to It Diagnosis in Contemporary Society
epub | 1.82 MB | English | Annemarie Goldstein Jutel | Johns Hopkins University Press
About Putting a Name to It Diagnosis in Contemporary Society :
Over a decade after medical sociologist Phil Brown called for a sociology of diagnosis, Putting a Name to It provides the first book-length, comprehensive framework for this emerging subdiscipline of medical sociology.Diagnosis is central to medicine. It creates social order, explains illness, identifies treatments, and predicts outcomes. Using concepts of medical sociology, Annemarie Goldstein Jutel sheds light on current knowledge about the components of diagnosis to outline how a sociology of diagnosis would function. She situates it within the broader discipline, lays out the directions it should explore, and discusses how the classification of illness and framing of diagnosis relate to social status and order. Jutel explains why this matters not just to doctor-patient relationships but also to the entire medical system. As a result, she argues, the sociological realm of diagnosis encompasses not only the ongoing controversy surrounding revisions to the...
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Royal Navy Handbook 1939 1945
epub | 323.41 KB | English | David Wragg | The History Press
About Royal Navy Handbook 1939 1945 :
<div>The service had to learn fast. It soon became clear that the Germans would not provide an opportunity for a major battleship-to-battleship fleet action along the lines of Jutland, but that submarine warfare and surface raiders were to be just as effective at undermining the British war effort. The Royal Navy was expected to be active in the North Atlantic and in British waters, and then, after the Soviet Union was invaded by Germany, it had to protect the Arctic convoys. Meanwhile, it also had to keep control of the Mediterranean, alone after the fall of France, supporting ground forces in North Africa and then in Greece, send convoys to Malta and disrupt the Axis supply lines both in the Mediterranean and off the coast of Norway, before facing the Japanese in the Far East.</div>
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Smart Mom's Guide to Essential Oils Natural Solutions for a Healthy Family, Toxin Free Home and Happier You
epub | 1.94 MB | English | Mariza Snyder | Ulysses Press
About Smart Mom's Guide to Essential Oils Natural Solutions for a Healthy Family, Toxin Free Home and Happier You :
Offers over 50 of the most useful essential oil recipes for tackling every mom's daily needs
As a mother, you are always looking for ways to make your family safer, happier and healthier. This book sho how essential oils can help you achieve all those things. And you'll save money!
An easy-to-use handbook for creating natural solutions, green cleaners and toxin-free personal care items, the Smart Mom's Guide to Essential Oils provides pure and potent recipes, including:
•Peppermint and Gbangfruit energizing air diffusion •Fennel and Eucalyptus respiratory relief rub •Citrus-infused cleaning spray and scrub •Lavender and Melaleuca skin-soothing salve •Chamomile and Vetiver stress reliever •Spearmint-powered digestive aid
Your family's wellness starts with you. That's why this helpful handbook also features a powerful regimen to reduce stress, increase energy and sustain your own personal vitality.
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911 1945
epub | 81.71 MB | English | Barbara W. Tuchman | 1971 | Random House Publishing Group
About Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911 1945 :
Barbara W. Tuchman won her second Pulitzer Prize for this nonfiction masterpiece-an authoritative work of history that recounts the birth of modern China through the eyes of one extraordinary American.
General Joseph W. Stilwell was a man who loved China deeply and knew its people as few Americans ever have. Barbara W. Tuchman's groundbreaking narrative follo Stilwell from the time he arrived in China during the Revolution of 1911, through his tours of duty in Peking and Tientsin in the 1920s and '30s, to his return as theater commander in World War II, when the Nationalist government faced attack from both Japanese invaders and Communist insurgents. Peopled by warlords, ambassadors, and missionaries, this classic biography of the cantankerous but level-headed "Vinegar Joe" sparkles with Tuchman's genius for animating the people who shaped history.
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Tales from the Tao The Wisdom of the Taoist Masters
epub | 73.88 MB | English | Solala Towler | 2017 | Watkins Media
About Tales from the Tao The Wisdom of the Taoist Masters :
For thousands of years, students of the Tao have gleaned inspiration and illumination from its parables, and these thought-provoking examples discuss topics ranging from dignity in the face of challenge, to judging character, to how to deal with loss. Whether solidifying a spiritual truth, unravelling a puzzle for contemplation, or providing a moment of humour, these tales are a mainstay of Eastern philosophy. This unique collection brings together the most inspiring, illuminating and downright funny stories from the classical works of Taoist masters, alongside new writing inspired by traditional tales. Set against a backdrop of the mountains, waterfalls and gorges of China, these tales introduce important Taoist ideas about many of the most basic human experiences - including birth, death, loss, pleasure, and how to surrender to the most fundamental experience of the Tao itself. Interwoven with classic Taoist quotations and illustrated with beautiful photography throughout,...
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