![]() Oblivious to the storm gathering around the White House, Amanda arrives in the nation’s capitol only to discover her first assignment is far from routine. But when complications of big city life and romance intervene, Amanda discovers that being a “detective” is nothing like she expected. She’d fled her small, rural town on the promise that Pinkerton Agent, Christopher Garrety, would make her his partner and perhaps something more. ![]() ![]() Newly inducted into Allan Pinkerton’s Female Detective’s Bureau, Amanda Brown was a fugitive from an unhappy past. In May, just one month before Guiteau’s first attempt on the President’s life, a lone woman was tasked with rooting out the threat to Garfield and his administration. But to the impressionable mind of an unbalanced observer named Charles Guiteau, there seemed only one way to relieve the tensions mounting in Washington D.C.- remove the man at the center of the controversy. Contentious appointment hearings, political backbiting, and scandal were nothing new. For months, factions of the Republican Party had been locked in an escalating tug of war, exacerbated by the surprise election of James A. In the spring of 1881, the United States was on the cusp of a national tragedy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I hugged a rain-soaked wall as people poured past me, bumping and shoving in their panic as though I weren't six feet tall and plenty solid. The mob in the square boiled apart, flinging sticks and pieces of brick as they fled the line of cavalrymen who'd entered the far side of the square. Sharp as a whip-crack, a shot echoed through the mists in Hanover Square. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locales or organizations is entirely coincidental. The names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the writer's imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. ![]() If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the author. This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. Published 2011 by Jennifer Ashley (Ashley Gardner) Book 1 of the Captain Lacey Regency MysteriesĬopyright 2003 by Jennifer Ashley (Ashley Gardner) ![]() ![]() Her books are suspenseful, spooky, and straight up awesome. Tracey Baptiste: The author of The Jumbies now has a sequel out called, Rise of the Jumbies. But if we may be so bold as to make a few blog connections to this year’s festival attendees? Here’s the 2018 line-up if you’d like to see it. ![]() The public library always invites terrific authors and illustrators. My library was there in 2010 as well, doing a “ Books Done Wrong” activity! ![]() My personal highlights over the past 12 years of the book festival…receiving writing advice from Rebecca Stead, seeing my buddy Galen Longstreth sharing her adorable book, Yes, Let’s, and having a breakfast chat with Pseudonymous Bosch before the event. Poster art by Angela Dominguezįriends! Romans! Tri-State Countrymen! Travel henceforth to Princeton this weekend for the Princeton Public Library‘s legendary Children’s Book Festival! Every year, scores of talented authors and illustrators gather under the library’s big white tents in Hinds Plaza, meeting fans and signing books. ![]() Presented by the Princeton Public Library with sponsorship by jaZams. ![]() ![]() Van Allsburg's illustrations have a beautiful simplicity of design, balance, texture, and a subtle intelligence beyond the call of illustration." The New York Timesġ. Chris Van Allsburg is a former instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design.ġ. In 1982, Jumanji was nominated for a National Book Award and in 1996, it was made into a popular feature film. The author and illustrator of numerous picture books for children, he has also been awarded the Regina Medal for lifetime achievement in children s literature. ![]() This special edition of Jumanji contains a CD of the renowned actor Robin Williams reading the timeless tale."Ĭhris Van Allsburg is the winner of two Caldecott Medals, for Jumanji and The Polar Express, as well as the recipient of a Caldecott Honor Book for The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. Since its original publication, Jumanji has been honored with many awards, including the Caldecott Medal, and in 1996, the surreal story was adapted to fit the big screen. Over thirty years ago, Peter and Judy first found the game Jumanji with the instructions that once the game is started, it must be finished or it will go on forever and it was then, with this same wonderment, readers found Jumanji, too. ![]() ![]() This special anniversary edition contains a CD of renowned actor Robin Williams reading the timeless tale. Since its original publication, "Jumanji" has been honored with many awards, including the Caldecott Medal, and in 1996, the surreal story was adapted to fit the big screen. ![]() ![]() In that spirit, let me offer up another way to look at white space - a very specific meaning I think would be particularly useful to Tim Armstrong and to any other top executive engaged in strategy formulation. Still others use it, as Tim Armstrong has, to refer to gaps in existing markets or product lines.įor all its ambiguity, though, white space is undoubtedly a metaphor about opportunity different thinkers define it differently because they take varying approaches to capturing opportunity. ![]() Some people define it as a place where there’s no competition. There may be as many definitions circulating as there are business thinkers. ![]() In this context, white space basically means “a place where a company might have room to maneuver in a crowded playing field.”Īs a metaphor, white space is at once ubiquitous and frustratingly ambiguous. That’s America Online (AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong recently explaining to a group of investors how AOL’s “digitizing towns” initiative (to offer one-stop website-management services to municipalities all across the U.S.) would position the company to compete against the likes of Google, Yelp, and CitySearch as the company looks for a clear path away from the disappearing dial-up subscription market. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Atwood reveals her concerns with feminist issues and women’s problems, such as women’s limited work opportunities, their expected goals of marriage and pregnancy, as well as the other social stereotypes and their reactions. Though the novel was written in 1960’s, not much has changed, it still reflects the face of our woman. The Edible Woman highlights Cannibalism, suppression, Obligation to behave in a determined way and the quest to find oneself through the life of Marian, the Protagonist. This has been done by reading the textbook. The goal is to explore Margaret Atwood’s first novel, The Edible Woman. The purpose of this project is to identify Feminist Elements and Ideas of Margaret Atwood. Feminist Elements and Ideas of Margaret Atwood in The Edible Womanīy – Ms Gur Kiran Toor (introduction at the end of the paper), Vol. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dubus was interviewed in response to the re-launch of his father's fiction in a three-volume set of “Collected Short Stories and Novellas” by David R. The following interview was done via email, with technical help from Joshua Bodwell, and has been lightly edited for content. He is also a 2012 recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. He teaches full-time at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Fontaine, and their three children. Dubus has been a finalist for the National Book Award and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Magazine Award for Fiction. ![]() His most recent book, Gone So Long, was published this month. Andre Dubus III is the author of several books, including the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days and his memoir, Townie. ![]() ![]() ![]() It includes more than 500 pages of vintage Clowes: seminal serialized graphic novels, strips, and rants, such as Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, Ghost World, Pussey, I Hate You Deeply, Sexual Frustration, Ugly Girls, Why I Hate Christians, Message to the People of the Future, Paranoid, My Suicide, Chicago, Art School Confidential, On Sports, Zubrick and Pogeybait, Hippypants and Peace-Bear, Grip Glutz, The Sensual Santa, Feldman, and many more. Now, Fantagraphics is collecting every single page of these long out-of-print issues in a paperback edition. From 1989 to 1997, he produced 18 issues of what is still widely considered one of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time. The beloved comic book series Eightball made Daniel Clowes' name even before he gained fame as a bestselling graphic novelist ( Ghost World, Patience, David Boring, Ice Haven) and screenwriter. ![]() ![]() Or the quiet painterly tension in Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, which I liked almost as much. I said I would because I'm not sure anything Maguire does will compare with the freshness, the intrigue and the delight I found in Wicked. Agnes yesterday and she chided me for buying this when I said I'd probably dislike it. ![]() Shana and I were at the Used Book Sale at St. ![]() The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say. She plots a dire fate for the young girl in the woods below the farm, but in the dark forest there can be found salvation as well. When Borgia sends Don Vicente on a years-long quest to reclaim a relic of the original Tree of Knowledge, he leaves Bianca under the care - so to speak - of Lucrezia. In the presence of Cesare Borgia and his sister, the lovely and vain Lucrezia - decadent children of a wicked pope - no one can claim innocence for very long. There she spends her days cosseted by Primavera Vecchia, the earthy cook, and Fra Ludovico, a priest who tends to their souls between bites of ham and sips of wine.īut one day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding slopes to the farm - and the world comes to Montefiore. ![]() The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. The world was called Montefiore, as far as she knew, and from her aerie on every side all the world descended. ![]() ![]() ![]() FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description It's getting toward Christmas at the Bing Cherry Hotel, and Auntie Claus is preparing for her annual "business trip." Just before she is ready to leave, her favorite nephew, Christopher Kringle, begins to have doubts about the family business. The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Auntie Claus and the Key to Christmas by Elise Primavera It's getting toward Christmas at the Bing Cherry Hotel, and Auntie Claus is preparing for her annual "business trip." Just before she is ready to leave, her favorite nephew, Christopher Kringle, begins to have doubts about the family business. ![]() To settle the matter, Auntie Claus summons Chris for tea, but like any self-respecting Kringle, Chris decides to take matters into his own hands: He plans to get on the Bad-Boys-and-Girls List on purpose Even after his older sister, Sophie, reveals that their great-aunt, Auntie Claus, is really Santa's sister, Chris needs to see for himself, in order to believe. Numero oggetto: 385488544664 Auntie Claus and the Key to Christmas: A Christmas Holiday Book for Kids by Elis. Luogo in cui si trova l'oggetto: Ohio, US, ![]() |