Download or read book Serendipitous The Brilliance Saga written by Stacey Earle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could you risk everything for the ones you love-sacrifice your soul and kill for them? Orphaned at age seven, Cecily Vale is on a personal crusade to avenge her family's murder at any cost. The twenty-five year old is in over her head, when she stumbles into the path of elite assassin, Ethan Drake. A highly specialized eradicator, only weeks away from marrying the daughter of a mobster-a debt acquired from his reckless youth. Ethan makes another risky move, taking Cecily captive. Two people who never thought love was possible, open up their hearts, tear down their walls, and dive into a passionate life together in Miami Beach. Ethan's lavish world of wealth and luxury, becomes Cecily's. But what all the money in the world can't buy her, and the only thing she longs for, is time with her beloved Ethan. Cecily's biggest weakness, is the size of her heart and her best weapon, is being underestimated. Stalked by death her entire life, what will happen when she finds herself cornered once again?
Download or read book Incognito written by Charlene Namdhari and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***THIS STANDALONE TABOO LOVE TRIANGLE, IS BEST ENJOYED WHEN YOU DON'T READ ANY REVIEWS OR SPOILERS BEFOREHAND. GOING IN WITH AN OPEN MIND IS BEST.*** "Believe. Sometimes the unreal is more powerful than the real." My Past: She was my wife until death did us part. My Present: I don't believe in ghosts. But eyes that have haunted me before, now full of secrets, have me questioning fate, just once. My Future: I'll do whatever it takes to prove to her she's mine. Even if she belongs to another. Note: Please be aware this book deals with sensitive topics..
Download or read book The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity written by Robert K. Merton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-22 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity--that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered not quite by accident--is today ubiquitous. This book traces the word's eventful history from its 1754 coinage into the twentieth century--chronicling along the way much of what we now call the natural and social sciences. The book charts where the term went, with whom it resided, and how it fared. We cross oceans and academic specialties and meet those people, both famous and now obscure, who have used and abused serendipity. We encounter a linguistic sage, walk down the illustrious halls of the Harvard Medical School, attend the (serendipitous) birth of penicillin, and meet someone who "manages serendipity" for the U.S. Navy. The story of serendipity is fascinating; that of The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity, equally so. Written in the 1950s by already-eminent sociologist Robert Merton and Elinor Barber, the book--though occasionally and most tantalizingly cited--was intentionally never published. This is all the more curious because it so remarkably anticipated subsequent battles over research and funding--many of which centered on the role of serendipity in science. Finally, shortly after his ninety-first birthday, following Barber's death and preceding his own by but a little, Merton agreed to expand and publish this major work. Beautifully written, the book is permeated by the prodigious intellectual curiosity and generosity that characterized Merton's influential On the Shoulders of Giants. Absolutely entertaining as the history of a word, the book is also tremendously important to all who value the miracle of intellectual discovery. It represents Merton's lifelong protest against that rhetoric of science that defines discovery as anything other than a messy blend of inspiration, perspiration, error, and happy chance--anything other than serendipity.
Download or read book The Genesis of General Relativity written by Jürgen Renn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-16 with total page 2072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume work represents the most comprehensive documentation and study of the creation of general relativity. Einstein’s 1912 Zurich notebook is published for the first time in facsimile and transcript and commented on by today’s major historians of science. Additional sources from Einstein and others, who from the late 19th to the early 20th century contributed to this monumental development, are presented here in translation for the first time. The volumes offer detailed commentaries and analyses of these sources that are based on a close reading of these documents supplemented by interpretations by the leading historians of relativity.
Download or read book Bipolar Faith written by Monica A. Coleman and published by Broadleaf Books . This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overcome with mental anguish, Monica A. Coleman's great-grandfather had his two young sons pull the chair out from beneath him when he hanged himself. That noose remained tied to a rafter in the shed, where it hung above the heads of his eight children who played there for years to come. As it had for generations before her, a heaviness hung over Monica throughout her young life. As an adult, this rising star in the academy saw career successes often fueled by the modulated highs of undiagnosed Bipolar II Disorder, as she hid deep depression that even her doctors skimmed past in disbelief. Serendipitous encounters with Black intellectuals like Henry Louis Gates Jr., Angela Davis, and Renita Weems were countered by long nights of stark loneliness. Only as Coleman began to face her illness was she able to live honestly and faithfully in the world. And in the process, she discovered a new and liberating vision of God. Written in crackling prose, Monica's spiritual autobiography examines her long dance with trauma, depression, and the threat of death in light of the legacies of slavery, war, sharecropping, poverty, and alcoholism that masked her family history of mental illness for generations.
Download or read book Inexpressible Island written by Paullina Simons and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were ready for anything ... except the end. The must-read conclusion to the epic End of Forever saga by Paullina Simons. Julian has lost everything he ever loved and is almost out of time. His life and death struggle against fate offers him one last chance to do the impossible and save the woman to whom he is permanently bound. Together, Julian and Josephine must wage war against the relentless dark force that threatens to destroy them. This fight will take everything they have and everything they are as they try once more to give each other their unfinished lives back. As time runs out for the star-crossed lovers, Julian learns that fate has one last cruel trick in store for them -- and that even a man who has lost everything still has something left to lose. Following on from the heartbreaking The Tiger Catcher and A Beggar's Kingdom, Inexpressible Island is the unmissable conclusion to the epic End of Forever saga.
Download or read book Always Magic in the Air written by Ken Emerson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 1950s and early 1960s, after the shock of Elvis Presley and before the Beatles spearheaded the British Invasion, fourteen gifted young songwriters huddled in midtown Manhattan's legendary Brill Building and a warren of offices a bit farther uptown and composed some of the most beguiling and enduring entries in the Great American Songbook. Always Magic in the Air is the first thorough history of these renowned songwriters-tunesmiths who melded black, white, and Latino sounds, integrated audiences before America desegregated its schools, and brought a new social consciousness to pop music.
Download or read book The BMW 507 Saga II written by Thomas S. Pesikey and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The BMW 507 Saga II By: Thomas S. Pesikey This book is the true story of one man’s decades long quest for his personal automotive “Holy Grail.” In his own words along with copious amounts of images, Thomas S. Pesikey presents his lifelong passion for one of BMW’s most prized and rare automobile models: the BMW 507. Records show that only 254 were built, between 1956 and 1959, and the 507 has been widely praised as one of the most stunningly beautiful automobiles ever made.
Download or read book Success Built to Last written by Jerry Porras and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenal follow-up to the bestselling Built to Last Imagine discovering what successful people have in common, distilling it into a set of simple practices, and using them to transform your career and your life. That's what Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson, leading thinkers in organizational development and self-improvement, have done in Success Built to Last. Two hundred remarkable people are included, notably: -Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO, Amazon.com -Warren Buffett -Bill Clinton -Frances Hesselbein, former CEO, Girl Scouts of America -Maya Angelou -Bill Gates Each shares how he or she harvested victories, learned from failures, and found the courage to be true to their passions. By following a set of simple principles culled from these inspiring interviews, readers can transform their business and personal lives, and discover the true meaning of success.
Download or read book Can t Buy Me Love written by Susan May Warren and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He can't buy his way out of trouble this time?Housekeeper-slash-entrepreneur Ella Bradley prides herself on being ready for anything. After all, with a father who died-and lied to her-and a stepmom and stepsister who despise her, she has no one else to depend on. But on the biggest night of her life, she's unprepared to be trapped in an elevator with the man of her dreams.Wealthy prince-to-a-fortune Adrian Vassos wants nothing more than to shed his reputation as a party boy and prove that he is a savvy businessman. Even, a gentleman. But when he's trapped with a woman who knows his reputation but not his face, he gives into the temptation to be someone else-and lies.When serendipity brings them together again-this time to work off community service-can their combined sentences spark a new ending? Maybe?if Adrian's lies don't find him out. Again.The magic of Deep Haven enchants in this modern-day Cinderella story.
Download or read book Serendipity written by Elise Bryant and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is in the air in Serendipity, a collection of stories inspired by romantic tropes and edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer. The secret admirer. The fake relationship. The matchmaker. From stories of first love, unrequited love, love that surprises, love that’s been there all along, 10 of the brightest and award-winning authors writing YA have taken on some of your favorite romantic tropes, embracing them and turning them on their heads. Readers will fall for this collection of stories that celebrate love at its most humorous, inclusive, heart-expanding, and serendipitous. Contributors include Elise Bryant, Elizabeth Eulberg, Leah Johnson, Anna-Marie McLemore, Marissa Meyer, Sandhya Menon, Julie Murphy, Caleb Roehrig, Sarah Winifred Searle, and Abigail Hing Wen.
Download or read book Redemption in Indigo written by Karen Lord and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enchanting tale of mischief and myth—inspired by West African folklore—that became a fantasy classic, from the award-winning author of The Blue, Beautiful World Paama is a marvelous cook who’s had the bad fortune to marry Ansige. He was the least eligible bachelor in his village: self-centered, foolish, and food-obsessed. Paama has had enough of this miserable life with her gluttonous husband, and so leaves him to return to her old life with her family. But Paama does not know that this is the beginning of a remarkable adventure. Because the Undying Ones are watching her. These spirits observe the follies of mortal life . . . and sometimes meddle and make mischief. One of these beings presents her with a magical artifact known as the Chaos Stick, which he says is “great for stirring things up.” As Paama gets to know the powers of this marvelous gift, she learns that the Chaos Stick was stolen from a rival spirit, who decides to stir up some trouble of his own. But mastering this magical artifact is only the beginning of Paama’s quest. Although Paama has been granted great power by the Undying Ones, her real journey is to find the magic that lies within herself.
Download or read book The Circle of Ceridwen written by Octavia Randolph and published by Pyewacket Press. This book was released on 2019-11-02 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in Hard Cover - The Complete Saga! It is the year 871. Of seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, five have fallen to the invading Vikings. . Across this war-torn landscape travels fifteen year old Ceridwen, now thrust into the lives of the conquerors... Epic...immensely satisfying...an impressive achievement - Historical Novel Society
Download or read book Eifelheim written by Michael Flynn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Carl Sagan meets Umberto Eco. . . . Bursting with pungent historical detail . . . this dense, provocative novel offers big rewards to patient readers.” —Entertainment Weekly The alien world of medieval Europe lives again, transformed by the physics of the future, by a winner of the Heinlein Award. Over the centuries, one small town in Germany has disappeared and never been resettled. Tom, a historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend Sharon, become interested. By all logic, the town should have survived. What’s so special about Eifelheim? Father Dietrich is the village priest of Eifelheim, in the year 1348, when the Black Death is gathering strength but is still not nearby. Dietrich is an educated man, and to his astonishment becomes the first contact person between humanity and an alien race from a distant star, when their ship crashes in the nearby forest. It is a time of wonders, in the shadow of the plague. Tom and Sharon, and Father Deitrich have a strange destiny of tragedy and triumph in Eifelheim, the brilliant science fiction novel by Michael Flynn. “Heartbreaking. . . . Flynn masterfully achieves an intricate panorama of medieval life, full of fascinatingly realized human and [alien] characters whose fates interconnect with poignant irony.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Meticulously researched, intense, mesmerizing novel . . . for readers seeking thoughtful science fiction of the highest order.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Eifelheim may turn out to be the best science fiction novel this year.” —Orson Scott Card, Hugo Award–winning author of Ender’s Game
Download or read book Brotherhood in Death written by J. D. Robb and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thrilling novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series, Lieutenant Eve Dallas finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy when she investigates the disappearance of a former U.S. Senator. Just as Dennis Mira is about to confront his cousin Edward about selling the West Village brownstone that belonged to their grandfather, he gets a shock: Edward is in front of him, bruised and bloody...and then everything goes black. When Dennis comes to, Edward is gone. Luckily Dennis’s wife is a top profiler for the NYPSD—and a close colleague of Lieutenant Eve Dallas. Now Eve is determined to uncover the secrets of Edward Mira and learn what enemies he may have made in his long career as a lawyer, judge, and senator. A badge and a billionaire husband can get you access to places others can’t go, and Eve intends to shine some light on the dirty deals and dark motives behind the disappearance of a powerful man, the family discord over a multimillion-dollar piece of real estate...and a new case that no one saw coming.
Download or read book Maze Runner Series The Fever Code written by James Dashner and published by Chicken House. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prequel to the worldwide 'Maze Runner' phenomenon, 'The Fever Code' is the book that holds all the answers. How did WICKED find the Gladers? Who are Group B? And what side are Thomas and Teresa really on? Lies will be exposed. Secrets uncovered. Loyalties proven. You'll never see the truth coming ...
Download or read book The Success Gurus written by Andrew Clancy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insightful and easy-to-read summaries of fifteen great books. There are dozens of leadership and career books published every year, each promising a different path to success. How are readers expected to get the information they need without reading every one of them? Soundview Executive Book Summaries has developed a reputation for being the premier business book selection service in the country. Each month Soundview editors select and summarize the best books so that readers can get a better idea of what's out there and which books will give them an edge. Soundview follows up its previous books (The Marketing Gurus, The Management Gurus, and The Sales Gurus) with this collection of fifteen synopses of definitive books from authors who know the challenges of having a great career. They include Daniel Pink, Seth Godin, Stephen R. Covey, and Marchall Goldsmith. Two of the summaries have never been published. Each book is represented by main points, key examples, best quotes, and more.
