Author: Frauke Bagusche
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN: 1771646055
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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An intimate account of the beauty, mystery, and amazing science of the ocean. In The Blue Wonder, marine biologist and diver Frauke Bagusche brings readers on a fascinating and beautiful deep-sea dive into the ocean. Drawing on scientific discoveries and her own research, she uses photographs and playful prose to reveal: deep-sea reefs that glitter like glass fish that converse with each other by singing––loudly an octopus that imitates more than fifteen other animals the secret behind why the sea glows at night “weddings” that happen amongst the coral underwater “drugstores” and even fish that clean her own teeth! Humans know more about the moon’s surface than we do about the ocean. There is so much to be discovered, under the sea. With the heart of a poet and the mind of a scientist, Frauke Bagusche re-awakens our love for the sea and ignites a desire to protect this vital habitat.
Author: Abigail Padgett
Publisher: Bywater Books
ISBN: 1612942105
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Blue McCarron has a Ph.D. in social psychology. She teaches and writes while living reclusively in an abandoned motel in the middle of the California desert with her Doberman, Bronte. A minister's kid, she has an imprisoned felon for a twin and a broken heart from grieving over her lost lover, Misha. When a body is found trussed up in a public freezer and widow Muffin Crandall claims she killed an intruder in self-defense and then did some dumb things, including freezing the corpse for five years, Muffin’s brother Dan hires Blue to free his much older sister by analyzing her. It is apparent to Blue and forensic psychiatrist Rox that Muffin's story is a hoax. But who is Muffin protecting? Who wants her dead? And, maybe more important, will Blue ever resolve her love for Misha and love again? Complete with commentary by a Rastafarian Greek chorus in the form of ex-felon BB the Punk, the witty, suspenseful lesbian-detective thriller is hard to resist. This is the first Blue McCarron mystery by Agatha Award-winning author, Abigail Padgett.
Author: Alexis Murrell
Publisher: Lex Sip and Read LLC
ISBN: 1955760004
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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I never intended on returning home after everything that transpired between my family and me, which led to my mother's death. But new evidence has come to light that my father wasn't the only one involved in her death. Someone else close to me wanted her gone too. So I'm back to finish getting the justice she deserves, hoping I can finally move on once this is over. But then my plans are interrupted when I see the love of my life, Edith, whom I hadn't seen since the last time we were together, but I have thought about almost every day, in the arms of my brother. Now I must choose what's more important, taking the life of the person who took my mother away from me or saving the woman who still holds my heart. This is the second book in the Edith's Fatal Love trilogy. If you've read the first book then you already know what to expect see in this second book.
Author: João Costa
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110197391
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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European Portuguese, like other Romance languages, display a great amount of word order variation. Out of the six logically possible permutations between Subject, Verb and Complement in a transitive sentence, five are possible: SVO, VSO, VOS, OVS and OSV. The primary goal of this book is to provide an analysis of the several positions where the subject may surface in European Portuguese. Departing from an architecture of the clause as sketched in early minimalist work, containing two subject-related functional categories above VP (AgrP and TP), it is shown that the subject may surface in all potential landing sites: Spec,AgrP, Spec,TP and Spec,VP. Moreover, just like any other argument of the clause, it is claimed that subjects also have the possibility of surfacing in a left-dislocated position, arguably adjoining to the clause's left periphery. It is shown that there is no free variation. Each of these positions may be occupied by the subject, only if two requirements are met: i) The position is made available by syntax; ii) The position does not violate any interface condition. In other words, the following model is argued for: syntax generates legitimate outputs. At the interface levels, each output may be selected or filtred out, according to requirements of the interface. The picture emerging from the proposal made in this book is the following: syntax proper does not need to refer to conditions best placed at the interface. All that is needed from syntax is that it generates an array of well-formed outputs. Such outputs may be evaluated a posteriori by each of the interfaces. If they meet requirements of the interface, they are selected as legitimate. If, on the contrary, some interface condition is violated, they are ruled out. Under this approach, three in-dependent results are derived: i) an explanation is found for the patterns of word order variation; ii) syntax proper may be reduced to its own tools, not having to manipulate semantic, discourse or prosodic variables; iii) the intuition that European Portuguese is an SVO language is derived: this word order corresponds to the one in which the subject occupies the only specifier position in which the other interfaces play no role.
Author: Carol Mavor
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822352710
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Audacious and genre-defying, Black and Blue is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Roland Barthes and Marcel Proust are inspirations for and subjects of Carol Mavor's exquisite, image-filled rumination on efforts to capture fleeting moments and to comprehend the incomprehensible. At the book's heart are one book and three films—Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, Chris Marker's La Jetée and Sans soleil, and Marguerite Duras's and Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour—postwar French works that register disturbing truths about loss and regret, and violence and history, through aesthetic refinement. Personal recollections punctuate Mavor's dazzling interpretations of these and many other works of art and criticism. Childhood memories become Proust's "small-scale contrivances," tiny sensations that open onto panoramas. Mavor's mother lost her memory to Alzheimer's, and Black and Blue is framed by the author's memories of her mother and effort to understand what it means to not be recognized by one to whom you were once so known.
Author: William H. Gass
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590177185
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 113
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On Being Blue is a book about everything blue—sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things—and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do. Gass writes: Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up. Among the ancient elements, blue occurs everywhere: in ice and water, in the flame as purely as in the flower, overhead and inside caves, covering fruit and oozing out of clay. Although green enlivens the earth and mixes in the ocean, and we find it, copperish, in fire; green air, green skies, are rare. Gray and brown are widely distributed, but there are no joyful swatches of either, or any of exuberant black, sullen pink, or acquiescent orange. Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life. Whether slick light sharp high bright thin quick sour new and cool or low deep sweet dark soft slow smooth heavy old and warm: blue moves easily among them all, and all profoundly qualify our states of feeling.
Author: Tanya Barfield
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822222095
Category : African American theater
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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THE STORY: Lewis is a tenured professor of mathematics at a well-regarded university. Underneath his veneer of success, however, lies a soul troubled by questions of personal and cultural identity. When his wife leaves him, apparently due to the fa
Author: Esther Supernault
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426989881
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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Esther Supernault put her life on the line for her beliefs. In Blue Diamond Journey, she shares her secret gift of insight and guidance from the world of spirit. Born of a Celtic and Native American heritage of seers, she narrates how she received incredibly detailed, sometimes humorous messages from her dreams, visions, and meditations—messages that she then validated with solid medical research. Day by day she was guided to specific foods, helpers, therapists, doctors, and books to heal her breast cancer—without chemo or radiation. Every person is part of an interconnected web as vast as this universe, rather than a collection of parts. Our innate, inner soul contains incredible healing wisdoms. Real healing honours this web of interaction—far beyond scientific logic or fact. What causes an illness will also help heal it. All the answers we need to heal are within us, and Esther demonstrates how to listen to those answers. Her journey slowly uncovers a rare diamond in the rough—the dawning evolution of a seer, visionary, and wisdom keeper. With her gifted, gentle healing messages, Esther weaves a marvelous, magical, true tale in Blue Diamond Journey.
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Languages : en
Pages : 1232
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Author: Miranda Parker
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 0758259530
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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"Parker has readers engrossed in the world of shady characters, secrets, romance and lies." --APOOO BookClub Beautiful, brainy, and tough-as-nails, single mom and bail recovery agent turned sleuth Angel Crawford has a lot on her plate. But between crime-solving and kindergarten carpool, it's all in a day's work. . . Ordered to take a vacation, Angel gives in--and sets out to solve the mystery that's got her living on the edge: a disturbing delivery and haunting message that transports her back to the tragic day her fiancé, Gabriel Hwang, was murdered. Convinced the trail to the killer is no longer cold after six long years, Angel embarks on a hunt for the truth that propels her into Atlanta's secretive speakeasy society and a romp around a swamp with a handsome U.S. Marshal that may ruin her future with Pastor Justus Too-Hot-To-Be-Holy Morgan. That is, providing she has a future. . . . Praise for the novels of Miranda Parker "By far one of the most captivating books to read this summer, a page turner with super juicy plot twists." --Fiction Addict on Can't Keep a Bad Bride Down "Parker combines murder, romance, and church scandals amid plenty of suggestive sexuality." --Publishers Weekly on A Good Excuse to Be Bad
