![]() You'll also meet another ghost, Pearlin' Jane, who teams up with the Virgin Bride.ĭo enjoy Sinjun. When she overhears Colin complain that he must find a wealthy bride quickly in order to survive, Sinjun promptly introduces herself as the answer to his prayers.ĭespite all odds, Sinjun manages an elopement to Scotland to begin her life in a drafty old castle that holds more revelations and surprises than Sinjun could ever imagine. She is also bored with the London Season until she spies Colin Kinross, the Scottish earl of Ashburnham, across the dance floor at a London ball. Now she's nineteen, blessed with Sherbrooke blue eyes, wit to burn, and a wonderful sense of humor. You met Sinjun Sherbrooke in The Sherbrooke Bride and in The Hellion Bride, a delightful, quite endearing fifteen-year-old who, I hope, charmed your socks off. ![]() ![]() ![]() Welcome to the exciting conclusion of the English Regency Bride Trilogy, The Heiress Bride. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. ![]() Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries―panic, exhaustion, heat, noise―and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. "America's funniest science writer" ( Washington Post ) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mark Morris (born 15 June 1963) is an English author known for his series of horror novels, although he has also written several novels based on the BBC Television series Doctor Who. by Morris, Mark Bookseller World of Books Ltd GB (GB) Format/Binding Hardback Book Condition Used - Very Good Quantity Available 1 Binding Hardcover ISBN. ![]() ![]() ![]() As her husband's debts overwhelm them, Lizzy's very life is threatened and John unravels into desperation. ![]() As the revolution in France comes to its frenzied zenith, Tredevant's creditors balk, and his project for a terrace of houses in Bristol collapses. Lizzy and her mother are very close when tragedy visits Julia's household, Lizzy is left with an enormous responsibility. He also resents Lizzy's susceptibility to the influence of her mother and Julia's entourage of English radicals. The willful Lizzy has married John Diner Tredevant, an ambitious builder with a dark past, who is hostile to the new political ideas making their way to England from Paris, ideas he believes may destroy his business prospects. Dunmore then leads the reader back 200 years to the cover-up of a murder, and then to Lizzy Fawkes Tredevant daughter of the aforementioned Julia, raised among radicals in the English city of Bristol during the tumultuous period of the French Revolution. This brilliant novel from the late Dunmore addresses the very issues with which all authors must grapple: What does one leave behind as a writer? What is the mark writers leave upon time? The layered story begins with a man coming across the 18th-century headstone of Julia Elizabeth Fawkes, inscribed, "Her Words Remain Our Inheritance." But no record of her writing survives. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If management doesn't change, reengineering will be stopped in its tracks. Something's gotta give, and history shows that it's not going to be free enterprise. It can be done for a while, but no one supposes that such an arrangement can last. Champy writes: Anything less than a fundamental revolution in actual management practice, we discovered, is like a communist regime introducing free enterprise into a controlled economy while trying to hold on to power. Unfortunately, ma nagement, which made reengineering possible in the first place, was the sam e group that was limiting its potential. But not to the degree that Champy thought possible. And, indeed, mo st companies that took up the banner of reengineering saw dramatic improvem ents. In Reengineering the Corporation, they showed how companies could dramatically improve performance by delegating responsibility and authority throughout the enterprise-to the sales clerk, the shipping manager, the customer-service representative. ![]() Thanks to James Champy and Michael Hammer, reengineering will remembered as the business buzzword of the 1990s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Regie führte Saul Dibb, der gemeinsam mit Jeffrey Hatcher und Anders Thomas Jensen auch das Drehbuch anhand der Biografie Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire von Amanda Foreman schrieb. Die Herzogin (englischsprachiger Originaltitel: The Duchess) ist ein britisches Filmdrama aus dem Jahr 2008.Snímek získal cenu Americké akademie filmových umění a věd Oscara za nejlepší kostýmy. Ralph Fiennes, Hayley Atwell a Charlotte Rampling. Titulní roli ve filmu ztvárnila Keira Knightley, další postavy mj. Původně film měla režírovat Susanne Bier, nakonec se této práce ujal. Scénář filmu byl vytvořen podle románu, který napsala. Vévodkyně, anglicky The Duchess, je britský hraný film z roku 2008, založený na biografii anglické aristokratky Georgiany Cavendish, vévodkyně z Devonshire, která žila v 18. ![]() ![]() This haunting, heartbreaking, and healing coming-of-age story explores disability and mental illness by centering a character who is learning to acknowledge and navigate feeling overwhelmed by anxiety as well as ashamed of her diagnoses, which include OCD, ADHD, and seasonal affective disorder. As Brynn gets to know Skylar, she hyperfixates on learning the truth about the circumstances surrounding her death. In the bayou, Brynn meets Skylar, a hot girl with sharp edges and a secret-she died five years ago. ![]() She hasn’t seen him since fifth grade, but now she is spending the next three months alone with him, all because she shared a post on Tumblr that she should have deleted, a post she now regrets. When Brynn’s parents divorced, her father left Ohio to live off the grid on a houseboat in Florida. ![]() Exiled to live with her father, 15-year-old queer girl Brynn faces a summer without the internet, her phone, or her friends. ![]() ![]() And perhaps the most dangerous threat of all: her forbidden yet irresistible feelings for Cai, a young Roman soldier. Now Fallon must overcome vicious rivalries and deadly fights-in and out of the arena. In a cruel twist of fate, the man who destroyed Fallon’s family might be her only hope of survival. ![]() ![]() She never gets the chance.įallon is captured and sold to an elite training school for female gladiators-owned by none other than Julius Caesar. Now, on the eve of her seventeenth birthday, Fallon is eager to follow in her sister’s footsteps and earn her place in the fearsome Cantii war band. When Fallon was a child, Caesar’s armies invaded her homeland, and her beloved sister was killed in battle. ![]() Published by Razorbill on February 14th 2017įallon is the daughter of a proud Celtic king, the sister of the legendary warrior Sorcha, and the sworn enemy of Julius Caesar. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both countries, at one time or another, assaulted the Chinese world image as represented by "yellow monkeys", or the "yellow peril." Both the US and Japan made excellent use of the "war poster", but among the most striking was an American-created image of a naked white woman slung over the shoulder of a Japanese officer, as if the entire American nation would be raped if the empire was allowed to prevail. ![]() ![]() In the years leading up to World War II, an intense study led by the Japanese government delved into the details of American culture and customs, particularly those dear to men of fighting age. While the US lacked any international audience, preaching mostly to its own, Japan disseminated propagandistic material throughout all the Asian countries it eventually intended to conquer. Japanese propaganda was not a new invention to be used only against the United States. Every nation involved in the Second World War, whether of the Allies or Axis, possessed an agency devoted to the mission of demoralizing and misleading the enemy, and virtually all artistic genres participated. However, its potential for mass psychological impact created a new paradigm with the invention of modern electronic communications. The subtle art of propaganda campaigns directed against one's enemies has been a feature of war since ancient times. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Most men don’t, but the twinkling irony with which Miss Marple nudges blustering, blowhard cops in the right direction demonstrates how the Queen of Crime inherited just as much from Jane Austen as Arthur Conan Doyle, employing the sly humor that is a hallmark of British domestic fiction. She said that Miss Marple and Poirot never solved a mystery together because “Poirot, a complete egoist, would not like being taught his business or having suggestions made to him by an elderly spinster lady.” It must have been a relief for Christie, in novels starting with The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930, to write about Miss Marple, her little old lady heroine, whose quiet expertise in the comings and goings of village life and the universality of human nature made her an unlikely master detective. She had grown to despise her most famous detective, Hercule Poirot, whom she described as “an egocentric creep.” But her readers had loved the high maintenance Poirot since his first appearance in 1920 - his perfectly groomed moustache, his patent leather shoes, his delicate stomach - so much that he was the only fictional character ever to receive an obituary in the New York Times. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work.īy 1960, Agatha Christie was apparently exhausted with male know-it-alls. ![]() |