Download or read book Unexpected Sparks written by Gina L. Dartt and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling in love is complicated enough without adding murder to the mix. In the midst of bookstore owner Kate Shannon's growing feelings for a much younger Nikki Harris, a fatal fire in an insurance office across the street adds another challenge--and one that could be deadly. Subsequent fires make life hot as they rush against time to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of Sam Madison, all the while dealing with their newfound attraction. Will the unexpected sparks between these two very different women blind them to the true identity of the arsonist? Or will they be able to stop a killer before anything else goes up in flames?
Download or read book The Daily Doses of Deborah written by Deborah Mills and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-12-05 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daily meditations to inspire, give us hope, and knowledge of miracles.
Download or read book Sparks Like Stars written by Nadia Hashimi and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Suspenseful…emotionally compelling. I found myself eagerly following in a way I hadn’t remembered for a long time, impatient for the next twist and turn of the story."—NPR An Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family and the tragedy that destroyed their lives in this brilliant and compelling novel from the bestselling author of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell, The House Without Windows, and When the Moon Is Low. Kabul, 1978: The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zamani lives a privileged life in Afghanistan’s thriving cosmopolitan capital. The 1970s are a time of remarkable promise under the leadership of people like Sardar Daoud, Afghanistan’s progressive president, and Sitara’s beloved father, his right-hand man. But the ten-year-old Sitara’s world is shattered when communists stage a coup, assassinating the president and Sitara’s entire family. Only she survives. Smuggled out of the palace by a guard named Shair, Sitara finds her way to the home of a female American diplomat, who adopts her and raises her in America. In her new country, Sitara takes on a new name—Aryana Shepherd—and throws herself into her studies, eventually becoming a renowned surgeon. A survivor, Aryana has refused to look back, choosing instead to bury the trauma and devastating loss she endured. New York, 2008: Thirty years after that fatal night in Kabul, Aryana’s world is rocked again when an elderly patient appears in her examination room—a man she never expected to see again. It is Shair, the soldier who saved her, yet may have murdered her entire family. Seeing him awakens Aryana’s fury and desire for answers—and, perhaps, revenge. Realizing that she cannot go on without finding the truth, Aryana embarks on a quest that takes her back to Kabul—a battleground between the corrupt government and the fundamentalist Taliban—and through shadowy memories of the world she loved and lost. Bold, illuminating, heartbreaking, yet hopeful, Sparks Like Stars is a story of home—of America and Afghanistan, tragedy and survival, reinvention and remembrance, told in Nadia Hashimi’s singular voice.
Download or read book The Amateur written by Saikat Majumdar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can ignorance, mistake, failure shape ways of reading, or do they disrupt its proper practice? What happens when the authority of modern education and culture places canonical western texts in the way of readers who live in worlds remote from their material contexts? The Amateur reads patterns of autodidactism and intellectual self-formation under systems of colonial education that are variously repressive, exclusionary, broken, or narrowly instrumental. It outlines the development of a wide range of writers, activists, and thinkers whose failed relationships with institutions of knowledge curiously enabled their later success as popular intellectuals. Bringing current debates around reading together with the history of higher education in the postcolony, it focuses on three primary locations: Black intellectuals in apartheid-era South Africa in the aftermath of the Bantu Education Act of 1953, 20th century Caribbean writers who sought to understand the disembodied legacy of the diaspora through accidental encounters with literature and history, and writers from late-colonial and postcolonial India whose disruptive self-formation departed from the administrative project of professionalizing a particular kind of colonial subject. Celebrating flawed and accidental forms of reading, writing, and learning along the periphery of the historical British Empire, Majumdar reveals an unexpected account of the humanities in the postcolony.
Download or read book Works written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book An essay on the life and genius of Samuel Johnson written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Samuel Johnson LL D An essay on the life and genius of Samuel Johnson written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Murphy s essay The rambler The adventurer The idler Rasselas Tales of the imagination Letters Irene Miscellaneous poems written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Echo written by Jael Allen and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jade Avery is away on a business trip when her young cousin disappears. Easton Cooper is a Seattle cop who moonlights at the club where a waitress, a woman he was dating, has gone missing. Months later, both cases have gone cold. Jade and Easton connect over the missing women, sharing their guilt over those lost on their watch, unaware that a vengeful spirit follows the killer. Intense sexual temptation rapidly develops between Easton and Jade while they grapple with fears that the worst has happened to the missing women. The killer continues to hunt for his next prey, even as strange occurrences befall him. Will the new lovers find closure and hold on to their burgeoning attraction? Can the victim's ghost serve justice cold before another woman is taken?
Download or read book Exempli Gratia written by Jeroen Poblome and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project has made interdisciplinary practices part of its scientific strategy from the very beginning. The project is internationally acknowledged for important achievements in this respect. Aspects of its approach to ancient Sagalassos can be considered ground-breaking for the archaeology of Anatolia and the wider fields of classical and Roman archaeology. Now that its first project director, Professor Marc Waelkens - University of Leuven -, is at the stage of shifting practices, from an active academic career to an active academic retirement, this volume represents an excellent opportunity to reflect on the wider impact of the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project. The contributors to the honorific publication build on the methods and practices of interdisciplinary archaeology from a wide variety of angles, in order to highlight the crucial role of interdisciplinary research for creating progress in the interpretation of the human past or nurture developments in their own disciplines. In particular, the contributors consider how the parcours of the Sagalassos Project helped to pave their ways. Contributors are international authorities in the field of Anatolian and classical archaeology, bio-archaeology, geo-archaeology, history and cultural heritage.
Download or read book I won t mind written by Asif Seraj and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÿWhat would you do if someone you love departs from your life? What if you could not bear the trauma of separation? What if love knocks at your door once again in your life? Would you accept it or would you leave it? ÿ ÿ Sahil, a class ninth student, feels himself a failure in love and is traumatized by the untold rejection of Zoya. But, at the brightest side of his life, he is blessed with a true friend, Ashima. The school life, the infatuation and friendship is effectively represented here. ÿ ÿ How hard work and dedication can surpass the bad percentage of board exams to get into IIT, the prestigious technical institution of the country. How Sahil bears mental torture and frustration in IIT and how he comes up with the hectic IIT schedule. Being an average pointer, how he steps on a foreign land for a foreign intern. ÿ ÿ But then, destiny changes his life. After a long interval of time, one day, love knocks at his door once again. Love, romance and trust prevail over his life. He is the happiest guy now. ÿ ÿ And then?.. The Unexpected!!!
Download or read book Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 H R 3616 and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs Before the Committee on National Security House of Representatives One Hundred Fifth Congress Second Session written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security. Military Personnel Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ink Iron and Glass written by Gwendolyn Clare and published by Imprint. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In debut author Gwendolyn Clare's thrilling Ink, Iron, and Glass, worlds collide as Elsa unveils a deep political conspiracy seeking to unlock the most dangerous weapon ever created—and only she can stop it. Can she write a world gone wrong? A certain pen, a certain book, and a certain person can craft entirely new worlds through a branch of science called scriptology. Elsa comes from one such world that was written into creation, where her mother—a noted scriptologist—constantly alters and expands their reality. But when her home is attacked and her mother kidnapped, Elsa is forced to cross into the real world and use her own scriptology gifts to find her. In an alternative Victorian Italy, Elsa finds a secret society of young scientists with a gift for mechanics, alchemy, or scriptology—and meets Leo, a gorgeous mechanist with a smart mouth and tragic past. She recruits the help of these fellow geniuses just as an assassin arrives on their doorstep. An Imprint Book “The novel samples historical figures the way a hip-hop album might sample a classic riff: it opens a window to European history, lets in fresh air, and sends facts flying... This novel is a source of serious fun.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “This debut novel is fully realized steampunk-fantasy, offering an alternate history that deftly and creatively adopts the politics of 19th-century Italy to create a compellingly unique world.... Exciting and original.” —Kirkus (starred review) “Clare's debut is built upon an intriguing premise... A solid series starter featuring a competent, flawed heroine that’s built for sf fans.” —Booklist “There’s much more to uncover in the political machinations of each world, and a gasp-worthy ending ensures a sequel.” —BCCB
Download or read book The Marriage Act written by Alyssa Everett and published by Carina Press. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1821 When John, Viscount Welford, proposed to Caroline Fleetwood, the only daughter of the Bishop of Essex, he thought he knew exactly what he was getting—a lovely, innocent bride. Five years later, he knows better. The woman who ran to another man on their wedding night—after they'd consummated the marriage—is hardly innocent. Years spent apart while John served as a diplomatic attaché have allowed them to save face in society, but all good pretenses must come to an end. When Caroline receives word that her father is dying, she begs John to accompany her on one last journey to see him. But there's an added problem—Caroline never told her father that her marriage to John was a farce. As they play-act for others, Caroline is delighted to find she never really knew her husband at all. But can she be the kind of wife he needs—and does she want to be? 85,950 words
Download or read book To Knit or Not to Knit written by Elvira Woodruff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Knit or Not to Knit is a unique Dear Abby/mini-knitting essay collection, offering humorous tales of triumph and terror on the needles, with a witty nod to the famous and infamous throughout history. As Mrs. Wicks happily quotes everyone from William Shakespeare to Beatrix Potter, she adds her own wit and wisdom to answer a variety of questions on knitting ranging from, Is there a quick fix for dropped stitches? to My boyfriend says my passion for knitting is stronger than my passion for him—what should I do? A number of Mrs. Wicks’ own patterns are sprinkled throughout, along with her sound advice for stitches dropped and love gone wrong. Ever the optimist, she advises her readers to pick up their needles, dust off their hearts, and cast on without looking back. Knitter and non-knitters alike will enjoy this literary look at life lessons offered through a wooly lens, from Pablo Narudo’s poem “Ode to My Socks” (hand knit of course), to Ogden Nash’s witty words on the frustration of being married to a knitter, To Knit or Not to Knit is a quirky, enjoyable read, making it the perfect gift for the passionate knitter and thoughtful reader alike.
