![]() ![]() ![]() Helen complicates things further when she finds herself in a Pride and Prejudice-style love triangle with men on opposite sides of the conflict. Marsden's young daughter Helen, a progressive lady ahead of her time who is both an egalitarian and a feminist, boldly inserts herself into the clash between the Irish convict, her father and Moreton Bay's other iron-fisted rulers. They include Moreton Bay's tyrannical, opium-addicted commandant Lord Cheetham, the dashing yet warlike Lieutenant Hogan, native tracker Barega and the penal settlement's captain, Tom Marsden. Attempts to recapture Graham are orchestrated by a variety of contrasting characters working for the all-pervasive British Empire. After escaping from the notorious Moreton Bay Penal Settlement, Graham finds refuge with the Kabi, a tribe of Aborigines who eventually accept him as one of their own. īased on the remarkable true story of Irish convict John Graham, WHITE SPIRIT is an epic historical adventure set in 19th Century Australia. ![]() They include Moreton Bay's tyrannical, opium-addicted commandant Lord Cheetham, the. Based on the remarkable true story of Irish convict John Graham, WHITE SPIRIT is an epic historical adventure set in 19th Century Australia. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Fuhrman claims that an alternative medicine therapy recommended by a naturopath helped speed his recovery, and led him to become interested in alternative medicine. In 1973, he suffered a heel injury which prevented him from competing. He was a member of the US World Figure Skating Team and placed second in the US National Pairs Championship in 1973. He was a competitor in the amateur figure skating circuit. He sells a related line of nutrition related products.įuhrman was born in New York City, on December 2, 1953. He has written books promoting his dietary approaches including the bestsellers Eat to Live, Super Immunity, The Eat to Live Cookbook, The End of Dieting (2016) and The End of Heart Disease (2016). His practice is based on his nutrition-based approach to obesity and chronic disease, as well as promoting his products and books. ![]() Joel Fuhrman (born December 2, 1953) is an American celebrity doctor who advocates a plant-based diet termed the nutritarian diet which emphasizes nutrient dense foods. Nutritarian diet, ANDI, micronutrient-rich dietĮat to Live The End of Diabetes Eat for Health: Lose Weight Keep It Off and Look Younger Live Longer. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania), 1988 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I think my problem was that I went into this contemporary with the same high expectations that I had from her collection of sci-fi and fantasy novels. Not to mention, I just adore her writing it really immerses you into her stories. I think her storytelling is always intricate and well thought-out, her worldbuilding is inspiring, and her character work is incredible. I am a huge Marissa Meyer fan, and I have read and loved every book that she has released. I’ll be honest: when I first started reading this book, I was disappointed. Soon, Pru begins to uncover truths about Quint, her peers, and even herself that reveal how thin the line is between virtue and vanity, generosity and greed. Pru giddily makes use of the power, punishing everyone from public vandals to karaoke hecklers, but there is one person on whom her powers consistently backfire: Quint Erickson, her slacker of a lab partner and all-around mortal enemy. Her dreams of karmic justice are fulfilled when, after a night out with her friends, she wakes up with the sudden ability to cast instant karma on those around her. In this young adult contemporary romance, a girl is suddenly gifted with the ability to cast instant karma on those around her-both good and bad.Ĭhronic overachiever Prudence Barnett is always quick to cast judgment on the lazy, rude, and arrogant residents of her coastal town. ![]() ![]() The body-count is mounting and a deadly and relentless manhunt begins. Alex's task is to track down and eliminate the killer, and to assist him he is assigned an MI5 liaison officer - the attractive but abrasive Dawn Harding. ![]() Someone has been murdering MI5 officers and it looks as if the killer is an insider, one of the Regiment's own. SAS Captain Alex Temple is on an urgent mission. ![]() 'The usual Chris Ryan "edge of your seat" read' - ***** Reader review 'Difficult to put down once I started it' - ***** Reader review 'Fast paced, loads of action and I couldn't put it down' - ***** Reader review 'Best I've read in a while and I'm a voracious reader' - ***** Reader review 'A truly excellent work' - ***** Reader review 'Fast-paced, sexy, violent' - Sunday Mercury 'Pure, unadulterated violence-all part of the myth and mystique of the SAS' - Mirror This high-octane, adrenalin-fuelled thriller from multi-million copy bestseller Chris Ryan is perfect for fans of Andy McNab, Lee Child, Clive Cussler and Stephen Leather. A duel to death between an SAS soldier and the man who taught him everything he knows. ![]() ![]() ![]() “His rabid fan base is graying,” said Annalee Newitz, who writes about science fiction for Wired and Gawker. Dick, the drug-addled oddball who was a footnote during the field’s golden age. Most of his work is in print, but opinions vary wildly about how important a writer Heinlein was: He’s both a life-changing inspiration and a “dinosaur” who exerts less cultural presence than, say, Philip K. ![]() ![]() Heinlein, the California-based science-fiction writer who stood over the midcentury decades like a colossus, casts a different kind of shadow now, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, as his archives, held by UC Santa Cruz, are being placed online, making his work even more accessible to scholars and fans. ![]() He predicted the European Union and invented the water bed.īut Robert A. He won admiration from Ronald Reagan, who enlisted his ideas in his “Star Wars” missile shield, and Charles Manson, who was captured with the novel “Stranger in a Strange Land” in his backpack. He was a onetime utopian socialist who became an assertive right-winger, a libertarian nudist with a military-hardware fetish, a cold warrior who penned an Age of Aquarius sensation with a hero who preached free love. ![]() ![]() ![]() Extraordinarily, her line has continued through every single monarch of England or Britain from that time to the present day. Hanley highlights how Matilda fought for the throne, and argues that although she never sat on it herself her reward was to see her son become king. ![]() ![]() Catherine Hanley provides fresh insight into Matilda's campaign to claim the title of queen, her approach to allied kingdoms and rival rulers, and her role in the succession crisis. This new biography explores Matilda's achievements as military and political leader, and sets her life and career in full context. Matilda decided to fight and although she didnt become queen, her son claimed the throne through her. ![]() She almost became queen of England in her own right but when her father, Henry I, died, her royal inheritance was stolen from her by Stephen, her first cousin. A life of Matilda-empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown-the first woman ever to hold the position-and an able military general. Empress Matilda is a fascinating historical character. Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. "A lively and authoritative account."-Katherine Harvey, Times Literary Supplement " will attract a growing audience interested in stories of women challenging the male-dominated European past."-Alexandra Locking, Medieval Review A life of Matilda-empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages ![]() ![]() ![]() The Passionate Winter tells the story of Leigh, who falls in love with Piers-the wise and sophisticated father of her boyfriend, Gavin. This would start the career of a truly innovative pioneer in the romance literary genre and sub-genres. However, a later attempt was ultimately published by Harlequin Mills and Boon as The Passionate Winter in 1978. She sent her manuscript to the Harlequin Mills and Boon publisher in the UK, but this first attempt was rejected. She became infatuated with this literature, and always had a deep-seeded intention to create fiction such as this. ![]() She initially studied nursing, but soon left her studies on account of a back injury to work as a supervisor for a stationary company, where she began writing her first manuscript at a very young age.Ĭarole grew up reading Harlequin Mills and Boon fiction, allegedly starting to read their romance novels at around the age of eleven years old. She was the youngest of three children, with two older brothers. She has authored dozens of novels and several series, as well as contributing to several multi-author collections.Ĭarole Mortimer was born in a very rural section of east England. She was born in or around 1960 in England, and grew up to be a prominent voice in the romance literary genre. A Puppy for Christmas (With: Myrna Mackenzie,Nikki Logan)Ĭarole Mortimer is a prolific British author who has been active since about 1978. ![]() ![]() I love that this fantasy is non-human, and I love the characters themselves, the world and the relationships. ![]() Using its foreign protagonist to delve into the politics of gender and belonging, this is a book SF readers who are looking for something out of the ordinary will find fascinating. more look like), Wells manages to power through on utter creativity and characterization. Despite her lack in description (we're never really clear on what non-Raksura "groundlings". ![]() Wells' follow up The Cloud Roads widens the Raksura mythos that introduces us to a whole new civilization including a city that is built on the back of a giant beast, powerful sorcerers and a populace that views Raksurans as monsters. Now he must search high and low using his place in matriarchal Raksura society and his experience as an outside to hunt down the thing that could save their home. He soon realizes that being a consort has its share of responsibilities, particularly when the colony returns to their ancestral forest after fleeing the conquering Fell only to find it deserted and dying. ![]() Review 1: Once a lonely wanderer, Moon is now consort to Jade, sister of the Inidgo Cloud Court. ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. From sold out arena tours to her incessant battles with her record label to her love for her husband that kept her grounded, this book offers an open and fascinating look at one of rock music's most storied performers. Winner of an unprecented four consecutive Grammys for best female rock performance, Benatar details a unique time in music history, demonstrating how the advent of music videos turned musicians into platinum selling stars overnight, but also set the stakes for being a female sex symbol in the male-dominated world of the music business. ![]() ![]() The first solo female rocker ever to appear on MTV, Benatar writes with the same edge and attitude that was a hallmark of her. ![]() As the first woman ever to be featured on MTV, Benetar's story is an incredible inside look at the integral role that the nascent cable network played in shaping the face of music in the 1980s, helping to propel rock anthems like "Heartbreaker and Love Is a Battlefield" to the top of the charts. One of the best-selling female rock stars of all time, the incomparable Pat Benatar writes about her life, rock n roll, and how her generation changed music forever in Between a Heart and a Rock Place. Part of the first generation of female rock stars to put the women's movement into practice, Benatar's career has embodied the defiant attitude and rebellious edge that has long been associated with her music. Now, this rock legend tells her story as she saw it, recalling her rise to fame, life in the MTV generation, her tours, the fans, and how she managed to avoid the trappings of rock stardom. For 30 years, Pat Benatar has been one of the most influential women in popular music. ![]() ![]() The tender and moving novella from the author of A Man Called Ove and Anxious People Wise and heartbreaking, Backman's slim novella celebrates the joy of connecting even in the midst of letting go' People Magazine ![]() And here is where they will learn to say goodbye, the scent of hyacinths in the air, nothing to fear. Grandpa, Ted and Noah all meet here, in this peculiar space that is growing dimmer and more confusing all the time. But in their love of Noah, they have found a common bond. Sometimes Grandpa sits on the bench next to Ted, Noah's father - Ted who never liked maths, prefers writing and playing guitar, and has waited his entire life for his father to have time for him, to accept him. She's as real to him now as the first day he met her, but he dreads the day when he won't remember her. ![]() Grandpa recalls what it was like to fall in love with his wife, what it was like to lose her. As they wait together on the bench, they tell jokes and discuss their shared love of mathematics. ![]() The tender and moving novella from the author of A Man Called Ove and Anxious People 'I read this beautifully imagined and moving novella in one sitting, utterly wowed, wanting to share it with everyone I know' Lisa Genova, New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice _ Grandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that keeps getting smaller every day. ![]() |