![]() ![]() ![]() She has just recently returned to town in the mysterious manner in which she left. ![]() The main character is called Olivia Limoges, and people are constantly gossiping about her. When murder happens in this community, a group of writers are there for the story. The setting is a small coastal town of Oyster Bay in North Carolina, and here you will find plenty of characters, including ne’er-do-wells, and some celebrities who are trying to hide from the paparazzi. The first installment in this series is called “A Killer Plot”. ![]() She is now a full-time writer and has written many books including a series called “A Books by the Bay Mysteries”. All the while, she was writing poems, novels and children’s books. In the course of her career, she has held numerous jobs, including teacher, tutor, tech writer, car salesperson, retail clerk and caterer. Her adult life has been spent in various landlocked towns, and she cherishes the memories of the open water, violent storms and the familiar smell from the sea. Ellery Adams grew up on a beach near the Long Island Sound. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin's scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar's crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move. After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Sunshine, remember? Makes vampires go poof?” Simon couldn’t believe his voice wasn’t shaking. “You going to let me out of here, or what?” she asked. Simon looked down to realize he had taken the dagger into his hand. Presumably you want to keep it that way.” “You want to be careful with that thing, Daylighter,” she said. It had never occurred to Simon that the vampire would be his age, or at least look it. “And then there were two,” the girl said, and smirked. She was, in other words, exactly Simon’s type-except for the fangs glinting in his flashlight beam and the inhuman speed with which she streaked across the room and kicked Jon Cartwright in the head. Her brown hair was pulled back into a high ponytail, her glasses were dark pink and horn-rimmed vintage, and her T-shirt featured a bloody, crimson-shirted Star Trek officer and read, LIVE FAST, DIE RED. The girl who melted out of the shadows looked to be about his age. And the picture was enough to make him want to bolt for the door, slip through it into the daylight, and keep running until he was back home, doors locked, safely under the bed, where he’d once hidden from imaginary monsters. Simon had seen enough horror movies to get the picture. ![]() His eyes were riveted on a spot just over Simon’s shoulder. His hand floundered at his belt, fingers stretching for the seraph blade but coming nowhere near it. Jon made a noise that sounded suspiciously like a whimper. ![]() ![]() People-not only women-have sent me photographs of their bodies with phrases from The Handmaid’s Tale tattooed upon them, Nolite te bastardes carborundorum and Are there any questions? being the most frequent. It has been expelled from high schools, and has inspired odd website blogs discussing its descriptions of the repression of women as if they were recipes. It has become a sort of tag for those writing about shifts towards policies aimed at controlling women, and especially women’s bodies and reproductive functions: “Like something out of The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Here comes The Handmaid’s Tale” have become familiar phrases. It has sold millions of copies worldwide and has appeared in a bewildering number of translations and editions. ![]() The Handmaid’s Tale has not been out of print since it was first published, back in 1985. ![]() ![]() ![]() Day shrugs and asks her whether it really matters. She wants to know how Day escaped the labor camp he was sent to at age ten, where records say he died of smallpox. Day accuses her of killing his mother, and June apologizes, adding that she didn’t intend to kill any civilians. Day admits he threw a knife that hit Metias in the shoulder, but he is positive that he didn’t kill him. When June asks him about the hospital raid, he confesses that he robbed the hospital but insists that he didn’t kill Metias, even when June threatens to cut off John’s fingers. Day confesses to many of his crimes, most of which involved helping other people. June interrogates him, threatening to torture John and Eden if he lies to her. Although Day hates her, he also finds her breathtaking. She has lost her street urchin disguise and is back in her military uniform. ![]() Commander Jameson checks in on him briefly, and then June enters. He is in agonizing pain from his leg wound. ![]() ![]() ![]() It features paintings, illustrations, and drawings from such prominent artists as Donato Giancola, Tomasz Jedruszek, Martina Pilcerova, Michael Komarck, and many others. This gorgeous volume collects art inspired by Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, one of the most popular science fiction series of all time. The book is fine in a fine dust jacket, but for the slightest pushing at the top of the spine, and comes from a smoke-free home. Donato Giancola, Tomasz Jedruszek, Martina Pilcerova, Michael Komarck, et al. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Martin s acclaimed A Song of Ice and Fire series. A lovely signed copy of this fourth book in George R.R. ![]() Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. Book is like new clean with no writing or names. Signed by author on title page (flat signed not inscribed). Black cloth over black boards stamped in red with cartographic endpapers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite his father’s arguments about racism, the narrator believed that there was no real widespread racism anymore. For example, he would line the narrator’s crib with toy police cars and Richard Nixon campaign buttons while firing a gun and shouting “Nigger, go back to Africa!” Since the narrator’s father saw racism all around him, he decided to home school his son rather than have him attend white-run public schools. The father saw the narrator as a social experiment rather than a son. The narrator, a resident of Dickens, California, was born to a single father who was a sociology professor. ![]() The narrator recounts to the Supreme Court the events that brought him to the present time. The book revolves around the unnamed, black narrator who is coming before the Supreme Court on charges of slave holding and re-instituting segregation. The Sellout, by Paul Beatty, is an African-American novel of satire on race relations in the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Doreen’s latest book, Diary of a Worm, she explores the daily life of a lovable worm. She then teamed up once again with illustrator Betsy Lewin to write another hilarious barnyard tale, Giggle, Giggle, Quack, that continues the escapades of these lovable animals on a farm. ![]() The busy life of a writer left no room for courtroom litigation and arbitration so Doreen made the leap to being a full-time children’s book author. Five years after submitting the original manuscript she got a call from a publisher who wanted to turn her story into a book and the rest is history! In fact, she had written this barnyard tale even before attending law school but only received rejection letters from publishers. But her book was not published overnight. Doreen Cronin was a practicing attorney in Manhattan when her first book Click, Clack Moo: Cows That Type became a publishing success. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was while teaching a course called ‘ The Black Woman’ to middle school girls in 1970 that Collins realised the dearth of intellectual material on the lives of African-American women and the significance of this dearth. Collins worked as a school teacher and curriculum expert at schools in Boston. It was during this time that her worldview and horizon expanded and she got exposed to the sociology of knowledge which later proved fundamental in her development of the concept of ‘standpoint epistemology’. She completed her Bachelors in Sociology from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1969 and Masters in teaching from Harvard University in 1970. She later works on the intersectionality between race, class, gender was influenced by her early childhood experiences of being the only African-American or first African-American woman in her educational environment. Patricia Hill Collins born to Albert Hill and Eunice Rudolph Hill on May 1 st, 1948 in Philadelphia grew up in a middle-class family as an only child. ![]() ![]() It points to a new truth: Today, connected individuals can do what once only large organizations could. While it’s almost passé now to talk of how Obama organized a large community to sweep into the presidency, Shirky’s book is textbook quality for what will happen next. “A few years back, I took out Clay Shirky’s book and found it filled with scribbles. ![]() Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations Why? Because all progress is made by those that are change masters. Even though The Change Masters was published forty years ago, it’s relevant. Rosabeth Moss Kanter helped coined the idea and term ’empowerment’ in the 1970s, a sure sign she was ahead of her time. When a colleague recently switched careers, I lent her this incredibly dog-eared book from college days. ![]() “A foundational book for your collection. Ready to level up your working knowledge of business? Here’s what to read now - and next. ![]() |