Author: J. S. Wood
Publisher: Small Frye Publishing
ISBN: 9780997890853
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Elena Ransom, Austin Haddock, and Gribbin Pigg have been friends since childhood. However, their fourth year at Grimsby School of the Republic will test their friendship in ways that Elena never imagined. After her induction to the new Special Ops division, Elena realizes that the rigorous schedule, ridiculous training hours, and intense leadership will push her to the breaking point. In addition, Elena's camaraderie with Declan, Abria, Kidd, and Fergie is challenged in new ways as the friends deal with the mounting stress of their environment.As she struggles with her relationships at school, Elena is often plagued by visions of Imperator. Will Imperator finally capture and imprison her? Will her friendships be lost? Will she make it through another year at school unscathed? Only time will tell.
Elena Ransom and the Lost Son
Author: J. S. Wood
Publisher: Small Frye Publishing
ISBN: 9780997890853
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Elena Ransom, Austin Haddock, and Gribbin Pigg have been friends since childhood. However, their fourth year at Grimsby School of the Republic will test their friendship in ways that Elena never imagined. After her induction to the new Special Ops division, Elena realizes that the rigorous schedule, ridiculous training hours, and intense leadership will push her to the breaking point. In addition, Elena's camaraderie with Declan, Abria, Kidd, and Fergie is challenged in new ways as the friends deal with the mounting stress of their environment.As she struggles with her relationships at school, Elena is often plagued by visions of Imperator. Will Imperator finally capture and imprison her? Will her friendships be lost? Will she make it through another year at school unscathed? Only time will tell.
Publisher: Small Frye Publishing
ISBN: 9780997890853
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Elena Ransom, Austin Haddock, and Gribbin Pigg have been friends since childhood. However, their fourth year at Grimsby School of the Republic will test their friendship in ways that Elena never imagined. After her induction to the new Special Ops division, Elena realizes that the rigorous schedule, ridiculous training hours, and intense leadership will push her to the breaking point. In addition, Elena's camaraderie with Declan, Abria, Kidd, and Fergie is challenged in new ways as the friends deal with the mounting stress of their environment.As she struggles with her relationships at school, Elena is often plagued by visions of Imperator. Will Imperator finally capture and imprison her? Will her friendships be lost? Will she make it through another year at school unscathed? Only time will tell.
Elena
Author: Thomas H. Cook
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 145322811X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
DIVDIVA brother recalls the magnificent life of his sister, the greatest writer of her age/divDIV /divDIVA launch party is underway for a hotly anticipated biography, the life story of Elena Franklin. As a young woman, Elena was one of the most promising literary talents of the 1920s, and over the years her legend grew. Her biographer, Martha Farrell, has combed through all the evidence of Elena’s genius and passion, from her early years in New York to her expatriate life in Paris. The result is a monumental work – but among the party’s crowd is the man who knows the book is an empty shell./divDIV /divDIVOnly William, Elena’s brother, knew the truth about the famed author. Martha’s flawed biography spurs his memory, and he recalls how the temperamental baby grew into a legend. He knew Elena’s hidden pain, shared their family secrets, and draws his own portrait of the troubled soul that lay behind her artistic gifts./div/div
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 145322811X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
DIVDIVA brother recalls the magnificent life of his sister, the greatest writer of her age/divDIV /divDIVA launch party is underway for a hotly anticipated biography, the life story of Elena Franklin. As a young woman, Elena was one of the most promising literary talents of the 1920s, and over the years her legend grew. Her biographer, Martha Farrell, has combed through all the evidence of Elena’s genius and passion, from her early years in New York to her expatriate life in Paris. The result is a monumental work – but among the party’s crowd is the man who knows the book is an empty shell./divDIV /divDIVOnly William, Elena’s brother, knew the truth about the famed author. Martha’s flawed biography spurs his memory, and he recalls how the temperamental baby grew into a legend. He knew Elena’s hidden pain, shared their family secrets, and draws his own portrait of the troubled soul that lay behind her artistic gifts./div/div
Vulnerable Victimizations
Author: Phil Mulvey
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000934462
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This edited volume showcases research on vulnerable victimizations, or more specifically, on individuals and/or populations that, due to their status, have less power in society, are socially controlled in unique ways in the criminal–legal system, or are members of marginalized groups with specialized considerations surrounding their victimization experiences, such as LGBTQIA+ individuals, immigrants, incarcerated persons, children, and females. The scholarship focuses on the overall victimization experience, and at the same time is also centered on the victimization experiences of historically ignored and/or marginalized groups. Victimization of vulnerable individuals in the United States is increasing at a moment when marginalized groups continue to confront legislative and policy reforms that would undermine their liberty. It is as important now, as it has ever been, for the field of victimology to consider those who historically may not have the loudest (or any) voice to spotlight and investigate their experiences. Vulnerable Victimizations will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Victimology, Criminology and Criminal Justice. The chapters included in this book were originally published in Victims & Offenders.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000934462
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This edited volume showcases research on vulnerable victimizations, or more specifically, on individuals and/or populations that, due to their status, have less power in society, are socially controlled in unique ways in the criminal–legal system, or are members of marginalized groups with specialized considerations surrounding their victimization experiences, such as LGBTQIA+ individuals, immigrants, incarcerated persons, children, and females. The scholarship focuses on the overall victimization experience, and at the same time is also centered on the victimization experiences of historically ignored and/or marginalized groups. Victimization of vulnerable individuals in the United States is increasing at a moment when marginalized groups continue to confront legislative and policy reforms that would undermine their liberty. It is as important now, as it has ever been, for the field of victimology to consider those who historically may not have the loudest (or any) voice to spotlight and investigate their experiences. Vulnerable Victimizations will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Victimology, Criminology and Criminal Justice. The chapters included in this book were originally published in Victims & Offenders.
Elena Ransom and the Firebird Unit
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997890808
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997890808
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Lost Souls
Author: Poppy Brite
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0307768287
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Vampires . . . they ache, they love, they thirst for the forbidden. They are your friends and lovers, and your worst fears. “A major new voice in horror fiction . . . an electric style and no shortage of nerve.”—Booklist At a club in Missing Mile, N.C., the children of the night gather, dressed in black, look for acceptance. Among them are Ghost, who sees what others do not; Ann, longing for love; and Jason, whose real name is Nothing, newly awakened to an ancient, deathless truth about his father, and himself. Others are coming to Missing Mile tonight. Three beautiful, hip vagabonds—Molochai, Twig, and the seductive Zillah, whose eyes are as green as limes—are on their own lost journey, slaking their ancient thirst for blood, looking for supple young flesh. They find it in Nothing and Ann, leading them on a mad, illicit road trip south to New Orleans. Over miles of dark highway, Ghost pursues, his powers guiding him on a journey to reach his destiny, to save Ann from her new companions, to save Nothing from himself. . . . “An important and original work . . . a gritty, highly literate blend of brutality and sentiment, hope and despair.”—Science Fiction Chronicle
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0307768287
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Vampires . . . they ache, they love, they thirst for the forbidden. They are your friends and lovers, and your worst fears. “A major new voice in horror fiction . . . an electric style and no shortage of nerve.”—Booklist At a club in Missing Mile, N.C., the children of the night gather, dressed in black, look for acceptance. Among them are Ghost, who sees what others do not; Ann, longing for love; and Jason, whose real name is Nothing, newly awakened to an ancient, deathless truth about his father, and himself. Others are coming to Missing Mile tonight. Three beautiful, hip vagabonds—Molochai, Twig, and the seductive Zillah, whose eyes are as green as limes—are on their own lost journey, slaking their ancient thirst for blood, looking for supple young flesh. They find it in Nothing and Ann, leading them on a mad, illicit road trip south to New Orleans. Over miles of dark highway, Ghost pursues, his powers guiding him on a journey to reach his destiny, to save Ann from her new companions, to save Nothing from himself. . . . “An important and original work . . . a gritty, highly literate blend of brutality and sentiment, hope and despair.”—Science Fiction Chronicle
Second Sight
Author: Chris Archer
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504089030
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
In the fourth book of this middle grade sci-fi series, an alien encounter gives a teen with psychic powers a dangerous premonition. Elena Vargas has lived in Metier, Wisconsin, her whole life. But that doesn’t mean she actually believes all the rumors about UFO sightings in her small town. That is until one night when she sees a glowing ship in the sky and a man who could be the father that walked out when she was just a child. Now Elena is having visions of the future. Small things at first, like weather predictions or pop quizzes. Soon everyone at Metier Junior High thinks Elena is the coolest, but Elena isn’t feeling so hot when the aliens return, and this time they want something from her . . .
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504089030
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
In the fourth book of this middle grade sci-fi series, an alien encounter gives a teen with psychic powers a dangerous premonition. Elena Vargas has lived in Metier, Wisconsin, her whole life. But that doesn’t mean she actually believes all the rumors about UFO sightings in her small town. That is until one night when she sees a glowing ship in the sky and a man who could be the father that walked out when she was just a child. Now Elena is having visions of the future. Small things at first, like weather predictions or pop quizzes. Soon everyone at Metier Junior High thinks Elena is the coolest, but Elena isn’t feeling so hot when the aliens return, and this time they want something from her . . .
Trick Mirror
Author: Jia Tolentino
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0525510559
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time.”—Vulture FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND HARVARD CRIMSON AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • Chicago Tribune • The Washington Post • NPR • Variety • Esquire • Vox • Elle • Glamour • GQ • Good Housekeeping • The Paris Review • Paste • Town & Country • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • BookRiot • Shelf Awareness Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity. Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine’s journey from brave to blank to bitter; the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die. Gleaming with Tolentino’s sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet. FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0525510559
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time.”—Vulture FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND HARVARD CRIMSON AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • Chicago Tribune • The Washington Post • NPR • Variety • Esquire • Vox • Elle • Glamour • GQ • Good Housekeeping • The Paris Review • Paste • Town & Country • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • BookRiot • Shelf Awareness Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity. Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine’s journey from brave to blank to bitter; the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die. Gleaming with Tolentino’s sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet. FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
Forever My Princess
Author: Tamara Gill
Publisher: Tamara Gill
ISBN: 0645321605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
She’s not who he thinks she is. But she just might be everything he needs… Tired doesn’t even begin to describe how Princess Elena of Atharia is feeling. A brief respite from the pressures of her position will do her good. Unfortunately, rest isn’t something royalty is typically afforded. But she’ll do what is necessary to escape her responsibilities for a time—even if it means becoming someone else entirely… Lord Theodore Ward has no love for the wealthy. But if he doesn’t marry well soon, he’ll lose everything. And his hunt for a perfect bride cannot begin while his mother is unwell and unattended. So, hiring a lady’s companion is the only option. Then the lovely Elena Smith arrives at his door and his plans become infinitely more complicated… When all the truths and secrets come to light, can these opposites find their way to happily ever after? Or will Theo lose his princess forever?
Publisher: Tamara Gill
ISBN: 0645321605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
She’s not who he thinks she is. But she just might be everything he needs… Tired doesn’t even begin to describe how Princess Elena of Atharia is feeling. A brief respite from the pressures of her position will do her good. Unfortunately, rest isn’t something royalty is typically afforded. But she’ll do what is necessary to escape her responsibilities for a time—even if it means becoming someone else entirely… Lord Theodore Ward has no love for the wealthy. But if he doesn’t marry well soon, he’ll lose everything. And his hunt for a perfect bride cannot begin while his mother is unwell and unattended. So, hiring a lady’s companion is the only option. Then the lovely Elena Smith arrives at his door and his plans become infinitely more complicated… When all the truths and secrets come to light, can these opposites find their way to happily ever after? Or will Theo lose his princess forever?
The Lost Boy
Author: Camilla Lackberg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681772728
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Detective Patrik Hedstrom is no stranger to tragedy. A murder case concerning Fjällbacka’s dead financial director, Mats Sverin, is a grim but useful distraction from his recent family misfortunes.It seems Sverin was a man who everybody liked yet nobody really knew — a man with something to hide . . .His high school sweetheart, Nathalie, has just returned to Fjällbacka with her five-year-old son — perhaps can she shed some light on who Sverin really was?However, Nathalie has her own secret. If it’s discovered, she will lose her only child. As the investigation stalls, the police have many questions. But there is only one that matters: Is there anything a mother would not do to protect her child?
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681772728
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Detective Patrik Hedstrom is no stranger to tragedy. A murder case concerning Fjällbacka’s dead financial director, Mats Sverin, is a grim but useful distraction from his recent family misfortunes.It seems Sverin was a man who everybody liked yet nobody really knew — a man with something to hide . . .His high school sweetheart, Nathalie, has just returned to Fjällbacka with her five-year-old son — perhaps can she shed some light on who Sverin really was?However, Nathalie has her own secret. If it’s discovered, she will lose her only child. As the investigation stalls, the police have many questions. But there is only one that matters: Is there anything a mother would not do to protect her child?
Ransom Kidnapping in Italy
Author: Alessandra Montalbano
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487546874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
For over thirty years, modern Italy was plagued by ransom kidnappings perpetrated by bandits and organized crime syndicates. Nearly 700 men, women, and children were abducted from across the country between the late 1960s and the late 1990s, held hostage by members of the Sardinian banditry, Cosa Nostra, and the ’Ndrangheta. Subjected to harsh captivities and psychological abuse, the victims spent months and even years in isolation while law enforcement and the state struggled to find them. Ransom Kidnapping in Italy examines this Italian criminal phenomenon. Alessandra Montalbano argues that abduction is a key vantage point from which to understand modern Italy: it troubled the law, terrified society, ignited juridical and parliamentary debates, and mobilized citizens. Bringing together archival and media materials with the victims’ accounts and diverse forms of cultural response, the book examines ransom kidnapping through the lenses of historiography, law, literary criticism, trauma studies, phenomenology, and political philosophy. Ransom Kidnapping in Italy traces how and at what price Italians became aware of living in a country that was being blackmailed by criminal organizations that arguably jeoparded the nation even more than terrorism.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487546874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
For over thirty years, modern Italy was plagued by ransom kidnappings perpetrated by bandits and organized crime syndicates. Nearly 700 men, women, and children were abducted from across the country between the late 1960s and the late 1990s, held hostage by members of the Sardinian banditry, Cosa Nostra, and the ’Ndrangheta. Subjected to harsh captivities and psychological abuse, the victims spent months and even years in isolation while law enforcement and the state struggled to find them. Ransom Kidnapping in Italy examines this Italian criminal phenomenon. Alessandra Montalbano argues that abduction is a key vantage point from which to understand modern Italy: it troubled the law, terrified society, ignited juridical and parliamentary debates, and mobilized citizens. Bringing together archival and media materials with the victims’ accounts and diverse forms of cultural response, the book examines ransom kidnapping through the lenses of historiography, law, literary criticism, trauma studies, phenomenology, and political philosophy. Ransom Kidnapping in Italy traces how and at what price Italians became aware of living in a country that was being blackmailed by criminal organizations that arguably jeoparded the nation even more than terrorism.