6/12/2023 0 Comments Angels Would Fall by J.S. Wayne![]() Not to be with you, because I've always been with you, just like I promised Teal'c. God, Sam, you have no idea how hard it is for me to be here. I can't look you in the eyes because I know the questions I'd find there: why did I show myself to Jack and Teal'c before now, but never you? Where was I when you needed me? And why, now, have I all but ignored you? Not because of any special powers that come with ascension-although I could probably do that too if I wanted to-but because I know you. ![]() I don't even have to look at you to know I've hurt you. So I'll come by and see you again I'll have to be a very good friend If I whisper they will know I'll just turn around and go You will never know my sin -Melissa Etheridge, "Angels Would Fall"Īnd I'd give up forever to touch you 'Cause I know that you feel me somehow -Goo Goo Dolls, "Iris" ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Don't Plan to Stay by Kaje Harper![]() ![]() ![]() So when Donnie shows up in Tallbridge, Adam's ready to fight for more than three words of goodbye. And yet, he never found another guy he cared about the same way. Without so much as a letter back from Donnie in all this time, Adam's tried to move on. He missed that chance after the accident, fighting for his life in a hospital bed as Donnie pled guilty and disappeared into the justice system. He doesn't plan to stay.Īdam Lindberg's been waiting six years to get closure with Donnie. Just a fast look, to make sure Adam's doing all right, before Donnie starts his new life. But with the holidays approaching, he can't resist a quick trip home to Tallbridge, North Dakota, and the man he left behind. Now he's twenty-four, out of prison, and bitterly determined to start over. At eighteen, Donnie Kagan's plans for graduation, and maybe even college, were derailed by a beer, a stoplight, and a fatal crash. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Indiscretion by Hannah Fielding![]() Indiscretion is a story of love and identity, and the clash of ideals in the pursuit of happiness. ![]() read more My Books All my books are available as ePUB, PDF, Mobi free downloads and in Paperback. ![]() Torn between revenge and love, her own identity and the dictates of society, finally she must face the truth of her own heart. What does Alexandra's destiny hold for her in this flamboyant land of drama and all-consuming passions, where blood is ritually poured on to the sands of sun-drenched bullfighting arenas, mysterious gypsies are embroiled in magic and revenge, and beautiful dark-eyed dancers hide their secrets behind elegant lacy fans? A young nurse returns to her homeland after World War Two, unprepared for the trials that await her. Indiscretion Hannah Fielding Author (2015) Princes Gate Mark Ellis Author (2015) The Echoes of Love Hannah Fielding Author (2014) Merlin at War Mark. But their path is strewn with obstacles: dangerous rivals, unpredictable events, and inevitable indiscretions. Instead of providing the sense of belonging she yearns for, the de Fallas are riven by seething emotions, and in the grip of the wild customs and traditions of Andalucía, all of which are alien to Alexandra.Īmong the strange characters and sultry heat of this country, she meets the man who awakens emotions she hardly knew existed. ![]() Alexandra de Falla, a half-English, half-Spanish youngwriter abandons her privileged but suffocating life in London and travels to Spain to be reunited with her long-estranged family. ![]() A young woman's journey of discovery takes her to a world of forbidden passion, savage beauty – and revenge. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Rusty marching powder![]() ![]() 'All the staples of the prison memoir are here: sadistic guards, an attempted break-out, the terrors of solitary confinement, the joys of freedom. Sometimes shocking, sometimes funny, MARCHING POWDER is an always riveting story of survival. When he was told that for a bribe of $5000 his sentence could be overturned, it was the many backpackers who'd passed through who sent him the money. The Marching Powder film, was a planned movie adaptation of the book of the same name by Rusty Young, which had been given the green light to be released on a number of occasions. Thomas ended up making a living by giving backpackers tours of the prison - he became a fixture on the backpacking circuit and was named in the Lonely Planet guide to Bolivia. It is based on the true story of a British-Tanzanian man, Thomas McFadden, who was apprehended in 1996 at La Paz airport in Bolivia with five kilos of cocaine in his suitcase and incarcerated in San Pedro prison. ![]() Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas. Marching Powder is a 2003 non-fiction book written by Australian author Rusty Young. Prisoners have to pay an entrance fee and buy their own cells (the alternative is to sleep outside and die of exposure), prisoners' wives and children often live inside too, high quality cocaine is manufactured and sold from the prison. Buy a cheap copy of Marching Powder: A True Story of. ![]() He found himself in a bizarre world, the prison reflecting all that is wrong with South American society. MARCHING POWDER is the story of Thomas McFadden, a small-time English drug smuggler who was arrested in Bolivia and thrown inside the notorious San Pedro prison. ![]() ![]() ![]() If only they were like that in the camps I've been to. ![]() The cabins would have to be my favourite feature of the camp, though. I could imagine everything vividly and I like to think that I know the camp from back to front. RR seriously out did himself with writing the camp. Well, it sure seemed better than the budget summer camps I've been to. I've always taken an interest in Greek Mythology and I thought Rick Riordan's take on it was very unique, and unlike anything I've read before. Because without his unfreakingbelieveable hotness, I wouldn't have watched the movie, and I would've never read the awesomeness of The Lightning Thief. What did I tell you? (I do imagine that you probably won't read the rest of the review anf just stare at this gif instead, but that's no reason not to like my review! :D)īut, I really have to thank Logan. But I'm even more ashamed that I watched the movie only to experience the hotness that is Logan Lerman.īut, come on! Someone tell me that this, is not hot: I'm slightly ashamed to say that I watched the movie before I read the book. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The Best Gift by Eli Easton![]() ![]() The book will never let you go out of the pace until you reach the last page. A compelling and original thriller loaded with unpredictable twists and tales and amazing relationships. is an easy to read and intriguing read which is fast-paced and finishes quickly. This author beautifully develops characters that show us natural feelings and emotions of love and care in our lives. The stories of this author are always fascinating and memorable. It is a completely excellent tale of the supernatural featuring different effects of fiction, fantasy, suspense, thriller, romance, action, drama, and fear.Įli Easton is the writer of this elegant novel. ![]() ![]() The suspense of this book is so undoubted that it will produce eager inside readers to get their hands on it and horrified to read it. The Best Gift is a novel which everyone should read, there is no age group criteria. Description Of The Best Gift by Eli Easton A marvelous story from a phenomenal writer who has the potential to clearly describe every situation in the story. A page-turning roller coaster that grabs the reader from the first page to the last page. Having this book you couldn’t ask for anything because it can easily keep your attention. The Best Gift by Eli Easton pdf ePub free is an addicting story that can help the reader pass the time. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Steven pinker rationality book![]() ![]() The writing in between is always engaging despite being so faithful to facts, the recitation of which in other hands might prove tedious. True, there’s a long way to go in many parts of the US and the planet to reach anything like an optimum distribution of such goods, but the arc of progress thus far is irrefutable according to the meticulously researched data Pinker presents, averaging a graph every three or four pages in the middle chapters. He finds fault with the “progressophobes” who, he says, unreasonably deny or downplay the hard facts of our betterment over the centuries: we are as a species richer in opportunity, education, freedom, security, human rights and social equality than ever before. Elaborating on a theme of his earlier publication, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Pinker marshals a wealth of evidence for the proposition that globally we’ve made immense progress in just about all domains of human flourishing. With the very idea of a shared, objective reality in question, we’re fortunate that Steven Pinker offers a spirited defense of reason and science, and the progressive, humanistic fruits thereof, in his new book Enlightenment Now. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is the focus of Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland, in which he becomes a knight after rescuing King Lell and his pair of dragons. He has a friend named Vertex in Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone, and plays an important role in both Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi and The Sword in the Cone first by turning his father to a dragon and back, and later assisting Vertex in becoming King. Radius is the son of Di of Ameter and Sir Cumference. In the first book, she came up with all the different shapes of the table (parallelogram, square, etc.) and in Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi, she stayed with Sir Cumference when he turned into a dragon. He has a wife called Lady Di of Ameter and a son named Radius.ĭi of Ameter is the wife of Sir Cumference. Sir Cumference is a knight in the kingdom of Camelot. Most of the characters of the book are named after math terms, such as Sir Cumference ( circumference). The books have been studied for their use in mathematics education. ![]() ![]() Sir Cumference is a series of children's educational books about math by Cindy Neuschwander and Wayne Geehan. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. ![]() This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The power broker author![]() ![]() Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. ![]() And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens-the way things really get done in America's City Halls and Statehouses-and brings to light a bonanza of vital information about such national figures as Alfred E. One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() She ran towards the man, launched into a few flips and somersaults, and then, while the man just stared, gave him a kick to the elbow that sent the arrow flying wildly. “Hold still and draw his fire,” Clara hissed at the Fire Prince, who seemed to be frozen as he stared at the arrow. “So, you’re the Water Princess and Fire Prince that Dular and Alith told me about.” He held a loaded bow, which was pointed directly at them, but there was an almost friendly smile on his face as he approached them. She gasped as a man dressed completely in gray dropped out of an open window on the other side of the empty courtyard. Now, could you please show yourself? I really don’t like talking to invisible people.” “I have sapphires, and I’m not sure what I have as the pommel. Tell me, how many rubies are on your sword, Water Princess?” ![]() “The Water Princess and Fire Prince?” said the voice. ![]() |