Author: C. S. Harris
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101210788
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
THE FIRST SEBASTIAN ST. CYR MYSTERY! “The combined elements of historical fiction, romance, and mystery in this fog-enshrouded London puzzler will appeal to fans of Anne Perry.”—Booklist It’s 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III’s England. Then the body of a beautiful young woman is found savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey. A dueling pistol discovered at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man: Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, a brilliant young nobleman shattered by his experiences in the Napoleonic Wars. Now a fugitive running for his life, Sebastian calls upon his skill as an officer during the war to catch the killer and prove his own innocence. In the process, he accumulates a band of unlikely allies, including the enigmatic beauty Kat Boleyn, who broke Sebastian’s heart years ago. In Sebastian’s world of intrigue and espionage, nothing is as it seems, yet the truth may hold the key to the future of the British monarchy, as well as to Sebastian’s own salvation....
What Angels Fear
Author: C. S. Harris
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101210788
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
THE FIRST SEBASTIAN ST. CYR MYSTERY! “The combined elements of historical fiction, romance, and mystery in this fog-enshrouded London puzzler will appeal to fans of Anne Perry.”—Booklist It’s 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III’s England. Then the body of a beautiful young woman is found savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey. A dueling pistol discovered at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man: Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, a brilliant young nobleman shattered by his experiences in the Napoleonic Wars. Now a fugitive running for his life, Sebastian calls upon his skill as an officer during the war to catch the killer and prove his own innocence. In the process, he accumulates a band of unlikely allies, including the enigmatic beauty Kat Boleyn, who broke Sebastian’s heart years ago. In Sebastian’s world of intrigue and espionage, nothing is as it seems, yet the truth may hold the key to the future of the British monarchy, as well as to Sebastian’s own salvation....
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101210788
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
THE FIRST SEBASTIAN ST. CYR MYSTERY! “The combined elements of historical fiction, romance, and mystery in this fog-enshrouded London puzzler will appeal to fans of Anne Perry.”—Booklist It’s 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III’s England. Then the body of a beautiful young woman is found savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey. A dueling pistol discovered at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man: Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, a brilliant young nobleman shattered by his experiences in the Napoleonic Wars. Now a fugitive running for his life, Sebastian calls upon his skill as an officer during the war to catch the killer and prove his own innocence. In the process, he accumulates a band of unlikely allies, including the enigmatic beauty Kat Boleyn, who broke Sebastian’s heart years ago. In Sebastian’s world of intrigue and espionage, nothing is as it seems, yet the truth may hold the key to the future of the British monarchy, as well as to Sebastian’s own salvation....
Angels Fear
Author: Gregory Bateson
Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)
ISBN: 9781572735941
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Angels fear is the final sustained thinking of the great Gregory Bateson, written in collaboration with his anthropologist daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. Here we have set out before us Bateson's natural history of the relationship between ideas. Gregory Bateson, one of the most influential and original thinkers of the 20th century, spent his life (he died in 1980 before completing this book) exploring the nature of mental process and its connection with the biological world. His search to fine "the pattern which connects all living things culminated in the writing he did for Angels fear." "The book incorporates writing by both father and daughter, including essays written by Gregory in the last years before his death."--BOOK JACKET
Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)
ISBN: 9781572735941
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Angels fear is the final sustained thinking of the great Gregory Bateson, written in collaboration with his anthropologist daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. Here we have set out before us Bateson's natural history of the relationship between ideas. Gregory Bateson, one of the most influential and original thinkers of the 20th century, spent his life (he died in 1980 before completing this book) exploring the nature of mental process and its connection with the biological world. His search to fine "the pattern which connects all living things culminated in the writing he did for Angels fear." "The book incorporates writing by both father and daughter, including essays written by Gregory in the last years before his death."--BOOK JACKET
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Author: Edward Morgan Forster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Culture conflict
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
After a rich Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome but poor Tuscan dentist and dies in childbirth, her English relatives try to gain custody of the baby.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Culture conflict
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
After a rich Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome but poor Tuscan dentist and dies in childbirth, her English relatives try to gain custody of the baby.
Where Demons Fear to Tread
Author: Stephanie Chong
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 077831247X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Fledging guardian angel and yoga teacher Serena St. Clair dares to enter Devil's Paradise nightclub on a mission—to retrieve the wayward Hollywood "It Boy" she's assigned to protect. But she's ambushed by the club's owner, arch demon Julian Ascher. The most powerful demonic entity in Los Angeles, Julian is handsome as sin, a master of temptation who loves nothing more than corrupting pleasure-seeking humans. He won't release the lost soul Serena is supposed to guard. Unless she accepts his dangerous wager… After the disastrous way his human life ended, Julian vowed that no woman would get the better of him again. Yet this sexy-sweet angel, smelling of fresh ocean air and happiness, triggers centuries-old feelings. Now, their high-stakes game of seduction, where angels fall from grace and where demons fear to tread, will lead them either to an eternity in hell…or a deliciously hot heaven.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 077831247X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Fledging guardian angel and yoga teacher Serena St. Clair dares to enter Devil's Paradise nightclub on a mission—to retrieve the wayward Hollywood "It Boy" she's assigned to protect. But she's ambushed by the club's owner, arch demon Julian Ascher. The most powerful demonic entity in Los Angeles, Julian is handsome as sin, a master of temptation who loves nothing more than corrupting pleasure-seeking humans. He won't release the lost soul Serena is supposed to guard. Unless she accepts his dangerous wager… After the disastrous way his human life ended, Julian vowed that no woman would get the better of him again. Yet this sexy-sweet angel, smelling of fresh ocean air and happiness, triggers centuries-old feelings. Now, their high-stakes game of seduction, where angels fall from grace and where demons fear to tread, will lead them either to an eternity in hell…or a deliciously hot heaven.
Humanitarianism Contested
Author: Michael Barnett
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136814388
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
This book provides a succinct but sophisticated understanding of humanitarianism and insight into the on-going dilemmas and tensions that have accompanied it since its origins in the early nineteenth century. Combining theoretical and historical exposition with a broad range of contemporary case studies, the book: provides a brief survey of the history of humanitarianism, beginning with the anti-slavery movement in the early nineteenth century and continuing to today’s challenge of post-conflict reconstruction and saving failed states explains the evolution of humanitarianism. Not only has it evolved over the decades, but since the end of the Cold War, humanitarianism has exploded in scope, scale, and significance presents an overview of the contemporary humanitarian sector, including briefly who the key actors are, how they are funded and what they do with their money analyses the ethical dilemmas confronted by humanitarian organization, not only in the abstract but also, and most importantly, in real situations and when lives are at stake examines how humanitarianism poses fundamental ethical questions regarding the kind of world we want to live in, what kind of world is possible, and how we might get there. An accessible and engaging work by two of the leading scholars in the field, Humanitarianism Contested is essential reading for all those concerned with the future of human rights and international relations.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136814388
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
This book provides a succinct but sophisticated understanding of humanitarianism and insight into the on-going dilemmas and tensions that have accompanied it since its origins in the early nineteenth century. Combining theoretical and historical exposition with a broad range of contemporary case studies, the book: provides a brief survey of the history of humanitarianism, beginning with the anti-slavery movement in the early nineteenth century and continuing to today’s challenge of post-conflict reconstruction and saving failed states explains the evolution of humanitarianism. Not only has it evolved over the decades, but since the end of the Cold War, humanitarianism has exploded in scope, scale, and significance presents an overview of the contemporary humanitarian sector, including briefly who the key actors are, how they are funded and what they do with their money analyses the ethical dilemmas confronted by humanitarian organization, not only in the abstract but also, and most importantly, in real situations and when lives are at stake examines how humanitarianism poses fundamental ethical questions regarding the kind of world we want to live in, what kind of world is possible, and how we might get there. An accessible and engaging work by two of the leading scholars in the field, Humanitarianism Contested is essential reading for all those concerned with the future of human rights and international relations.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Author: Thomas E. Sniegoski
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101185856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Six year-old Zoe York has been taken and her mother has come to Remy for help. She shows him crude, childlike drawings that she claims are Zoe's visions of the future, everything leading up to her abduction, and some beyond. Like the picture of a man with wings who would come and save her-a man who is an angel. Zoe's preternatural gifts have made her a target for those who wish to exploit her power to their own destructive ends. The search will take Remy to dark places he would rather avoid. But to save an innocent, Remy will ally himself with a variety of lesser evils-and his soul may pay the price...
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101185856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Six year-old Zoe York has been taken and her mother has come to Remy for help. She shows him crude, childlike drawings that she claims are Zoe's visions of the future, everything leading up to her abduction, and some beyond. Like the picture of a man with wings who would come and save her-a man who is an angel. Zoe's preternatural gifts have made her a target for those who wish to exploit her power to their own destructive ends. The search will take Remy to dark places he would rather avoid. But to save an innocent, Remy will ally himself with a variety of lesser evils-and his soul may pay the price...
Touched by Angels
Author: Eileen Elias Freeman
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0759522065
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
In this enlightening book, those who have been influenced by angels tell their inspiring stories, including a workaholic saved from self-destruction by his guardian angel, a girl whose fear of death was dispelled by an angel's comforting words, and more uplifting accounts.
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0759522065
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
In this enlightening book, those who have been influenced by angels tell their inspiring stories, including a workaholic saved from self-destruction by his guardian angel, a girl whose fear of death was dispelled by an angel's comforting words, and more uplifting accounts.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Author: Morgan Robertson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
When Angels Fear
Author: Polly J Mordant
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781838199944
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Exhausted, desperately seeking sanctuary, Emma arrives in the pretty English village of Flammark. But she cannot rest. A strange sleeping sickness stalks the village and a young woman has disappeared. Why won't the police investigate? As events unfold, Emma becomes embattled yet again, compelled to fight for her life against a deadly curse linked to a past about which she had no knowledge. She is the only one able to vanquish the evil, but doing so will entail confronting an horrific and all-too-familiar enemy. The question is, will she be strong enough?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781838199944
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Exhausted, desperately seeking sanctuary, Emma arrives in the pretty English village of Flammark. But she cannot rest. A strange sleeping sickness stalks the village and a young woman has disappeared. Why won't the police investigate? As events unfold, Emma becomes embattled yet again, compelled to fight for her life against a deadly curse linked to a past about which she had no knowledge. She is the only one able to vanquish the evil, but doing so will entail confronting an horrific and all-too-familiar enemy. The question is, will she be strong enough?
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Author: Bridget O. Juwah
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1436304024
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Bridget Juwah is currently a doctoral degree student, with two Master of Science degrees in Sociology and Political Science from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Ife, Nigeria. A graduate of Life Theological Seminary, Lagos, Nigeria, Bridget invaded three notorious drug ghettoes of Kalakuta Republic Lagos Nigeria, the Bar Beach drug joints Lagos Nigeria, and also the Downtown Los Angeles drug joint USA, with evangelistic messages, getting tremendous results. Bridget is also utilizing the anointing in the Gay Clubs of Hollywood USA, touching the hearts of stone. Her work is a testament that God is calling out the remnants who would defy the natural and dare the supernatural in order to confound the world with the demonstration of the power of the Holy Spirit. Her book beckons on the church to arise in the might of the Holy Spirit in the amazing work of reaching out to vagrant psychotics so that the world might have peace and bequeath a healthy legacy to the upcoming generation. Her book is an expose' on identifying behavioral changes/panacea for this hydra-headed social malaise that intimidate the world. This is a clarion call to governments of nations and the society at large to give priority attention to this topic under exposition. Formerly a student union activist at the University of Ife Nigeria, Bridget is a social crusader, a scholar of distinction as well as a servant of God with atypical anointing. Bridget is the President of Health Foundation and she now lives in California, United States of America.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1436304024
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Bridget Juwah is currently a doctoral degree student, with two Master of Science degrees in Sociology and Political Science from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Ife, Nigeria. A graduate of Life Theological Seminary, Lagos, Nigeria, Bridget invaded three notorious drug ghettoes of Kalakuta Republic Lagos Nigeria, the Bar Beach drug joints Lagos Nigeria, and also the Downtown Los Angeles drug joint USA, with evangelistic messages, getting tremendous results. Bridget is also utilizing the anointing in the Gay Clubs of Hollywood USA, touching the hearts of stone. Her work is a testament that God is calling out the remnants who would defy the natural and dare the supernatural in order to confound the world with the demonstration of the power of the Holy Spirit. Her book beckons on the church to arise in the might of the Holy Spirit in the amazing work of reaching out to vagrant psychotics so that the world might have peace and bequeath a healthy legacy to the upcoming generation. Her book is an expose' on identifying behavioral changes/panacea for this hydra-headed social malaise that intimidate the world. This is a clarion call to governments of nations and the society at large to give priority attention to this topic under exposition. Formerly a student union activist at the University of Ife Nigeria, Bridget is a social crusader, a scholar of distinction as well as a servant of God with atypical anointing. Bridget is the President of Health Foundation and she now lives in California, United States of America.