Clio and Her Cousins

Clio and Her Cousins PDF Author: William Bennett Munro
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ISBN:
Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 8

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Clio and Her Cousins

Clio and Her Cousins PDF Author: William Bennett Munro
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Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 8

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Gregorio's Bride

Gregorio's Bride PDF Author: CC MacKenzie
Publisher: More Press
ISBN: 1909331511
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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"Some women want diamonds and pearls. Give me music, hot chocolate, and peace and quiet..." Since Clio Heyland turned twelve, she hated Christmas. Now a famous Golddigger, Clio can't wait for the festive season to be gone, baby. Gone. However, this year she's maid of honor at a winter wedding held at Ludlow Hall. And as if romance and holly and yo-ho-ho wasn't bad enough, she's caught the attention of brooding bachelor and business magnet, Gregorio Ancelotti. After a shaky start, their mutual attraction burns too hot, too fast. With her heart on the line, dangerous secrets from Clio's past return to threaten her success and any chance of personal happiness... But Gregorio's a man with dark secrets of his own, and a man who is prepared to fight for the woman he loves...

Sleeping Beauties

Sleeping Beauties PDF Author: Susanna Moore
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307767051
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Like her much-acclaimed previous novels, Susanna Moore's Sleeping Beauties is set in Hawaii, whose shimmering beauty and melancholy traditions are both seductive and dangerously hard to leave. Or so they prove for Clio, who marries a well-known Hollywood actor--providing her with the promise of escape from the entanglements of island life.

At the Heart of the Universe

At the Heart of the Universe PDF Author: Samuel Shem
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609806425
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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The story of two mothers and a father in love with the same daughter, Samuel Shem's At the Heart of the Universe is an epic novel set deep in rural China against the backdrop of an ancient mountain monastery during the time of the one-child-per-family policy. Inspired by the author's experiences as parent of an adopted child, it describes the drama of adoption and the journey of loss and rebirth that can happen when a daughter brings together her adopted mother and father with her birth mother high on a mountaintop. Set in 1991 in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, as a Chinese woman abandons her one-month-old daughter in a pile of celery in a busy market, and then shifting to Changsha ten years later as the daughter returns with her adopted American parents, the story moves across southern China until, high atop Emei San, one of China's "sacred mountains" with a Buddhist temple, the four are brought together in the wilderness—a perilous and explosive time that unleashes their heartbreak and suffering and, remarkably, transcends it to shared compassion, and new beginnings.

Runway Riot

Runway Riot PDF Author: MJ Green
Publisher: NaomiAoki
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Modelling wasn’t the glamourous job portrayed in the media. It wasn’t all glitzy parties, fashion shows, and photoshoots. There were also the long hours spent being fitted for garments, of being told how to walk and when to smile. But for Addison, none of that mattered so long as she got paid. Several years on the streets after living in a world of excess had given her a new look on life, and she no longer took anything for granted. But there was a darker side to the modelling world that wasn’t talked about. There were people who viewed models as nothing more than mannequins with a heartbeat. Men who refused to take ‘No’ for an answer…and those who thought Addison’s sexuality was something that could be changed with the right cock… Yeah, that wasn’t happening. Then there were the stalkers. Addison had had her fair share of them since taking up the modelling contract with House of Bolton. But none of them had required Addison being saddled with a bodyguard, Clio Di’lorio. Until this one. And the man behind all the threats might be closer than Addison or Clio realise. Runway Riot is a 59k fluffy dark, sapphic, mafia romance novel set in Melbourne, Australia. It involves a feisty bisexual bodyguard falling for her client, and a model with a dangerous stalker problem. Each book in the House of Bolton series can be read standalone.

Clio's Bastards

Clio's Bastards PDF Author: Curtis R. McManus
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460288688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Clio’s Bastards uses an examination of the discipline of history in Canadian universities as the point of entry for a much larger exploration of the intellectual, spiritual, and moral crisis confronting Western civilization today. Over the past four decades, academic history was slowly perverted as historians adopted new sociological approaches to the study of the past. Historians altered the content, purpose, and goals of the discipline as they sought not Truth but Justice as part of a larger ideological program of radical social change. And today, the pervasive sociological way of seeing, understanding, and explaining our world has become the “new common sense” right across the Western world, both inside and outside the academy. Sociological thought, however, is neither “new” nor “advanced” nor is it “progressive” as its adherents claim: it is simply recrudescent Sophistry and Cynicism, destructive philosophies which ruined and fouled ancient Athens, the source and inspiration for Western civilization.

The Inner World of a Suicidal Youth (revised edition)

The Inner World of a Suicidal Youth (revised edition) PDF Author: Millie Osborne
Publisher: Millie Osborne
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 181

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Suicide has been a public health crisis for at least the last two decades. When this book was first published in 2007, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), suicide was the third leading cause of death for youths ages 15 to 24, and the fourth leading cause of death for youths ages 10 to 14. Suicide rates have steadily increased so much that, since 2017, it is the second leading cause of death for youths in both age groups, 15-24, 10-14. The rate of suicide attempts has increased even more rapidly over the last two decades, by more than 400%. The U.S. data captured by the CDC is an unfortunate reflection of a global epidemic of suicide. As author Osborne explains, existing approaches to preventing youth suicide have had little impact on reducing the number of suicides and suicide attempts across America. While there are countries with suicide rates higher than the U.S., there are even more countries with rates that are lower. What can we, and should we, seek to learn from countries with much lower suicide rates than the U.S., countries like Barbados, Jamaica, Italy, Peru, and Panama? Like many youths, Electra is a well-loved, beautiful, highly intelligent teenager. By unveiling the private thoughts of a suicidal teenager in this unprecedented book, Osborne hopes that Electra’s diary, which spans 7 years from age 15 to 22, will provide an understanding of the adolescent mind that will spur more effective means to recognize, treat, and heal those at risk, and so vastly reduce suicide among our youth.

All My Sins Remembered

All My Sins Remembered PDF Author: Rosie Thomas
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468315366
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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From the acclaimed author of Sun at Midnight comes a saga of family, love, and betrayal set against the backdrop of two world wars. Cousins Clio Hirsh and Grace Stretton were born within hours of each other and raised as sisters in the innocent days before the Great War. But as they grow up, Grace is the one who enchants all those who meet her, leaving shy and quiet Clio to fade into the background. Even as time, ambition, and the winds of war take their lives in different directions—Grace into the arms of a dependable stockbroker and Clio into the literary world of Paris and Berlin—jealousy and bitterness simmer beneath their friendship. Decades later, Clio recounts the story of her family to her biographer. She tells of her brother Jake’s wartime experiences and medical career; Clio and Grace’s early years in bohemian London; younger brother Julius’s career as a concert violinist. But for herself, Clio remembers a different story―one of tragedy, heartbreak, and secrets. And above all, the surprising truth about her mesmerizing cousin Grace. “A master storyteller.” —Cosmopolitan

Fountain of Dreams

Fountain of Dreams PDF Author: Josie Litton
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553897675
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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New York Times bestselling author Josie Litton captivated readers with tales of the passionate--sometimes forbidden--unions between the fiery men and women of the island nation of Akora and those of mighty England. Now the next generation of lovers longs to follow suit--but new conflicts may prevent history from repeating itself.... Fountain of Dreams Lovely, loyal, and strong-willed as her parents before her, Amelia Darcourt is nonetheless entirely unprepared for her reaction to her family’s compelling American visitor. The handsome young man is a match not only for her wits but for her heart. Yet no sooner does Amelia discover the attraction is mutual than she learns of a secret that may destroy her happiness. Could the man she is so drawn to have an ulterior motive for returning her affections--one involving the beloved island whose blood courses through her veins? Charged with a secret mission to investigate the disappearance of several American seamen believed imprisoned on Akora, Niels has come to England seeking Lord Alex Darcourt’s help in entering the fortress kingdom. But in spirited Amelia Darcourt he has found so much more. Their burgeoning passion has him caught between duty and desire. Loath to leave her side, Niels resolves to win her heart upon his return. But just as the two are destined to be together, they are destined to face the challenges that threaten to keep them apart. Only then will they be free to seal their love.

Into Temptation

Into Temptation PDF Author: Penny Vincenzi
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1590208005
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 782

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A widowed matriarch’s well-to-do English family is rocked by her plan to remarry in this “page-turner” from the bestselling author of No Angel (Publishers Weekly). Rescued from the slums as a baby by Celia Lytton and now living in New York, Barty Miller heads more than half of the Lyttons publishing house. But as they fall on bad times in the years after World War II, the family is worried that Barty will make a business decision that would be devastating to them. But will she? As events unfold, long-buried secrets concerning the whole family are revealed—and Celia makes a shocking announcement that she is leaving the company and getting remarried—shaking the very foundations of the Lyttons’ world . . . “Vincenzi writes . . . fast-paced novels with plots and subplots so deftly manipulated that it’s impossible to start reading one and still lead a productive life.” —The Washington Post