6/29/2023 0 Comments A woman of no importance sonia![]() Her bravery and passion for France made her an attractive recruit for Britain’s Special Operations Executive, the secretive spy organization given the nod by Winston Churchill to fight the Nazis through James Bond-style espionage. Despite near-fatal blood infections and the pain of walking with a prosthetic, Hall later volunteered as an ambulance driver for the French army in 1939. Hall was stationed as a clerk in Turkey when a hunting accident resulted in the loss of her left leg. But despite superior language skills and test results, Hall found herself stuck in low-level clerical jobs as result of the era’s ingrained sexism. Purnell’s subject is Virginia Hall, the daughter of a proper Maryland family, who sought to elude her mother’s social control and embrace her own desire for an adventurous life by applying with the U.S. ![]() Winston Churchill, captures the thrilling story of a female spy in A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II, a groundbreaking biography that reads like a spy thriller. Sonia Purnell, the bestselling author of Clementine: The Life of Mrs. ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Book tokyo ever after![]() ![]() Izumi soon finds herself caught between worlds, and between versions of herself-back home, she was never “American” enough, and in Japan, she must prove she’s “Japanese” enough. There are conniving cousins, a hungry press, a scowling but handsome bodyguard who just might be her soulmate, and thousands of years of tradition and customs to learn practically overnight. But being a princess isn’t all ball gowns and tiaras. In a whirlwind, Izumi travels to Japan to meet the father she never knew and discover the country she always dreamed of. Which means outspoken, irreverent Izzy is literally a princess. But then Izumi discovers a clue to her previously unknown father’s identity…and he’s none other than the Crown Prince of Japan. ![]() Raised by a single mother, it’s always been Izumi-or Izzy, because “It’s easier this way”-and her mom against the world. Izumi Tanaka has never really felt like she fit in-it isn’t easy being Japanese American in her small, mostly white, northern California town. Emiko Jean’s New York Times bestseller and Reese Book Club Pick Tokyo Ever After is the “refreshing, spot-on” ( Booklist, starred review) story of an ordinary Japanese American girl who discovers that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan! ![]() ![]() ![]() When a friend in Cambridgeshire falls ill, Allie is sent to Ely, where her path will cross with Lord Peverill, a young aristocrat who would be a most suitable match for the young healer. if they can find a man who will appreciate a woman with such unusual gifts. But the young woman is nearly twenty, and her father, Rowley, Bishop of Saint Albans, and his patron, the formidable Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, have plans to marry Allie to an influential husband. Allie is already a skilled healer, with a particular gift for treating animals. After the death of her friend and patron, King Henry II, Adelia Aguilar, England’s vaunted Mistress of the Art of Death, is living comfortably in retirement and training her daughter, Allie, to carry on her craft-sharing the practical knowledge of anatomy, forensics, and sleuthing that catches murderers. The much-anticipated final installment in Ariana Franklin’s popular Mistress of the Art of Death historical mystery series, finished by the author’s daughter after her death.Įngland. “Superb.an appropriate homage”-Marilyn Stasio, New York Times ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The Peacekeeper by Zoe Saadia![]() ![]() We witness how they handle testing situations, such as the threat of a bloody confrontation with the “savages from across the Great Sparkling Water” who attack a hunting party. Not only does it explore intrigue and politics, but it follows the characters she created so we can see them change grow. Zoe Saadia has a profound passion for the lost culture of the pre-Columbian Americas, and she uses her research into it to enrich The Peacemaker series, weaving fact into fiction, which is evident in the fourth volume, The Peacemaker. But he suspects that the devious Tadodaho, who has been appointed the Head of the Great Council, is up to no good. Don’t let the title fool you: this story is packed with action and drama: “The arrows came out of nowhere, showering down on the clearing like an early rain, making people gasp and scatter, darting for cover.” Now that peace is finally here-or is it, really?-Tekeni could relax and enjoy it. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Preacher, Volume 2 by Garth Ennis![]() ![]() ![]() It's not perfect - there are times when it's perhaps too over the top in particular the character of Arseface. ![]() The mixture of action and humour makes it stand out, as well. As for those characters - wow! Jesse is a brilliant main man, while ex-girlfriend Tulip and hard-drinking Irishman Cassidy - both with serious secrets of their own - are also excellent. For those who can handle it, though, the combination of Garth Ennis's crazy but well-plotted story, and the gritty art from Steve Dillon which captures the sleazy characters and the seedy joints they hang around in so perfectly makes this one well worth reading. Full of blood, blasphemy, sex, booze, and brutality, it's definitely aimed at mature readers - and only those with strong stomachs, at that. ![]() After one incredible event, Jesse's life is turned upside down, and he sets out on a road trip that will lead him to try and get answers from God himself - if Heaven's angels, and the Saint of Killers, don't cut him down first.įirst things first - this is one comic which definitely isn't for kids. Reverend Jesse Custer is losing his faith in God - but he's about to find out that He exists, and He isn't all that He's cracked up to be. Summary: While it's definitely only for mature readers not offended by blood, booze and blasphemy, this is a gloriously over the top mixture of action and humour, with brilliant artwork. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Charlie bone book series in order![]() In 1986 her book 'The Snow Spider' won the Smarties Grand Prix and, in 1987, was awarded the Tir na n'Og by the Welsh Arts Council. She cannot help using magic in her work because myths legends and fairy-tales were her favourite reading as a child, and they have remained at the back of her mind ever since. She begn to write her own stories when she was ten. ![]() She was six when she went to boarding school and reading was a wonderful escape, it allowed her to believe that she was somewhere else. For as long as she can remember, Jenny has loved books. She has worked in the theatre, in television and as a governess in Italy. ![]() Her husband is a painter and printmaker and they have three children and three grandchildren. Jenny Nimmo was born in Berkshire, but has lived in a converted watermill in Wales for the past thirty four years. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Speaking of jane roberts![]() ![]() He remains a constant source of knowledge and inspiration in my life.” - Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love “Seth was one of my first metaphysical teachers. The amazing in-depth information in the Seth books is as relevant today as it was in the early ’70s when Jane Roberts first channeled this material.” - Louise Hay, author of You Can Heal Your Life ![]() ![]() “I would like to see the Seth books as required reading for anyone on their spiritual pathway. useful to all explorers of consciousness.” - Deepak Chopra, M.D., author of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success “The Seth books present an alternate map of reality with a new diagram of the psyche. Here’s what other bestselling authors have to say about the Seth Books… Seth Speaks, the first of Jane Roberts’ international bestselling series of “Seth Books,” has withstood the test of time and is still considered one of the most dynamic and brilliant maps of inner reality and human potential available today.Īn essential guide to conscious living, Seth Speaks clearly articulates the furthest reaches of human potential, and presents the concept that we are independent of our physical image and have access to intuitional knowledge and other dimensions of reality. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Emma chase tangled series![]() ![]() When Katherine Brooks is hired as the new associate at Drew’s father’s investment banking firm, every aspect of the dashing playboy’s life is thrown into a tailspin. So why has he been shuttered in his apartment for seven days, miserable and depressed? He’ll tell you he has the flu, but we all know that’s not really true. When rich, handsome, and arrogant meets beautiful, brilliant, and ambitious, things are bound to get tangled.ĭrew Evans makes multimillion-dollar business deals and seduces New York’s most beautiful women with just a smile. In New York Times bestselling author Emma Chase’s sizzling and hilarious debut novel, Drew Evans-gorgeous, arrogant, irreverent, and irresistibly charming-meets his match in new colleague Kate Brooks. This purchase includes book 1, 2 & 3 of the series. Shop All Electronics VR, AR & Accessories ![]() Shop All Electronics Video Games & Consoles Shop All Electronics Tablets & Accessories Shop All Electronics Computers, Laptops & Parts Shop All Electronics Cell Phones & Accessories Shop All Electronics Cameras, Photo & Video ![]() ![]() ![]() Melanie Martins writes provocative love stories laced with thriller, anti-heroes, controversies, and erotism. A Dutch nobleman, known as an unrepentant heartbreaker, twenty-three years her senior, and who is, above all else, her beloved godfather.A twisted obsession for some, unconditional love for others, but one thing is sure: it’s a relationship that might cost them everything. From her internship at his hedge fund firm on Wall Street to her degree in Economics at Columbia University, Petra is all set for a bright future in finance.But everything falls apart when she develops a dangerous relationship with her father’s business partner and utmost confident, Alexander Van Dieren. Synopsis: Petra, a seventeen-year-old Dutch-American and the only heir of finance tycoon Roy Van Gatt, has always had her life rigorously planned and supervised by her strict father. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Remarks on Impossibility, Incompleteness, Paraconsistency, Un... by Michael Starks![]() ![]() I define a procedure running on contextual parameters (partiality, perspective and approximation) as a means of representing the role of pragmatics as a filter for semantic interpretation. Definite descriptions express (i) what a speaker should have in mind in using certain words in a certain context and (ii) what a normal speaker is justified in saying in a context, given a common basic knowledge of the lexicon. I suggest an alternative approach to DD as contextuals, under a normative epistemic stance. I briefly discuss Michael Devitt’s and Joseph Almog’s treatments of referential descriptions, showing that they find it difficult to explain misdescriptions. I then accept the challenge of treating misdescriptions as a key to solving the problem of context dependent descriptions. I then show that this proposal seems unable to treat the normal uses of misdescriptions. ) unificationist “explicit” approach given by Buchanan and Ostertag. I examine one of the best versions of the (. I explain what I mean by "essentially" incomplete descriptions: incomplete descriptions are context dependent descriptions. With regard to the debate between a unificationist and an ambiguity approach to the formal treatment of definite descriptions (introduction), I will support the former against the latter. In this paper I offer a defence of a Russellian analysis of the referential uses of incomplete (mis)descriptions, in a contextual setting. ![]() |