A situationship, a heartbreak, a mistake—you can call it what you want. But was it love? It's 2016, and Sloane Hart's senior year of college is bound to be the best one yet. Her nights consist of drinking cheap vodka and singing along to The Chainsmokers with her friends, and her days are spent writing as she prepares for the post-grad life in New York City she's always dreamed of. The last thing she needs is for a guy to get in the way of her goals. With graduation so close, she just needs to focus on landing a job and enjoying this last year with her best friends all under one roof. But that plan becomes a little more complicated when her upstairs neighbor, Ethan Brady, enters the picture. Ethan's pull is undeniable. He's tall, mysterious, and handsome as hell, and when Sloane is with him, the entire world slows to a halt. But Ethan's guarded past is too hurtful for him to face, and if letting Sloane in means that the walls he's built around his heart would come crumbling down, he may not be willing to let that happen. As their chemistry and connection intensify, Sloane finds herself falling deeper and deeper, but will Ethan ever be ready to catch her? Nostalgic, heartfelt, and profoundly cathartic, Call It What You Want is an ode to almost-love stories—the kinds with no labels, no promises, and the potential to turn your entire world upside down.
Scilla Davis must soon stand trial for her involvement in a deadly speedboat accident. With the possibility of conviction looming, life seems utterly hopeless. An FBI agent—eager to crack down on a dangerous new drug sweeping the nation—offers her a way out of this nightmare. Can Scilla betray her drug-dealing boyfriend to save herself?
Meet the clique that rules Fidelity High: Olivia, Zelda, Nordica, and Shelly, each one handpicked by the über-popular Hamilton Best. But lies and secrets are tearing apart the elite entourage. Hamilton has the biggest secret, one that only her boyfriend knows. If the truth got out, it would shock everyone and destroy Hamilton’s fragile world.
To Aggie Harper every day is Christmas. Even if that means late nights and a non-existent love life to keep her beloved mother’s knitting store that specializes in ugly Christmas sweaters afloat. She loves her small Texas town life and believes she is living her dream until a big city stranger strides through the front door of her store and has her question what she really wants from life. Since the death of his mother, corporate lawyer Mason Firth lives to work, especially when tinsel adorns storefronts and he can’t escape the aroma of gingerbread. A mysterious unpaid family loan sends him to Last Stand, but instead of discovering any answers he finds himself risking a sugar coma from Christmas baked goods, making barbed wire Christmas wreaths and losing focus whenever around warm hearted Aggie. Can a woman determined to spread Christmas joy and a man resistant to emotion and all things mistletoe, create their own Christmas miracle?
Northwords is a cross-platform project that takes urban Canadian writers Joseph Boyden, Sarah Leavitt, Rabindranth Maharaj, Noah Richler, and Alissa York to some of the world’s most extreme environments, to join the conversation about the north. Introduced by award-winning journalist and radio personality Shelagh Rogers, Northwords is a collection of stories written by acclaimed Canadian authors as they experienced one of Canada’s most awe-inspiring northern national parks Torngat Mountains National Park, the country’s newest national park, and a place steeped in geological and human history. The cross-platform project, which includes a documentary film that follows the authors as they explored the harsh and stunning terrain, had adventures, and created these new works, adds to the continuing story of the North. The stories explore the idea of the North, and what happens when the country’s best writers tackle its most overwhelmingly beautiful places. Taking advantage of opportunities presented by transmedia integration, users can experience the stories in the writers’ own words through Anansi Digital, as well as learn more about their processes and what inspired them through interactive content. Users will have access to film and audio content, and together, these related media will create a larger story web, allowing the audience to truly immerse themselves in the sights, sounds, and stories of the North.
En quittant son époux Byron, célèbre PDG d’un empire technologique, après dix ans de mariage, Hazel s’attendait – légitimement – au pire. Qu’il la traque, qu’il la force à regagner le foyer conjugal, voire qu’il la tue. Elle n’avait cependant pas envisagé qu’il ait pu implanter un dispositif de surveillance dans son cerveau, ni que son père, chez qui elle trouve refuge, ait choisi de partager ses vieux jours avec une poupée sexuelle. Décidément, la vie est pleine de (mauvaises) surprises. Alissa Nutting signe une comédie noire délicieusement grinçante et follement divertissante sur l’amour, la famille et un monde obsédé par la technologie et la prospérité.
Young and naïve, Alice Einsam lands in Wisconsin with her mistrusting family and has to go through the hardships of a new high school. She soon confides in a gang of boys who share pasts almost as broken as hers. Finding love within this wrong setting as she was warned about by her best friend Bucky Coleowski, she finds herself on a twisted path of love, hate, fighting, secrets, confusion, and a conclusion of a murder that was destined to begin with. As the walls around crumble, she soon realizes too late of the ones who are most important while trapped in the hands of another.
We measure the gains from phasing out coal as the social cost of carbon times the quantity of avoided emissions. By comparing the present value of the benefits from avoided emissions against the present value of costs of ending coal plus the costs of replacing it with renewable energy, our baseline estimate is that the world can realize a net gain of 77.89 trillion USD. This represents around 1.2% of current world GDP every year until 2100. The net benefits from ending coal are so large that renewed efforts, carbon pricing, and other financing policies we discuss, should be pursued.
Madame et Alice is written by a high school teacher of French along with one of her students who studied five years of French.Dr. Soper, the teacher-author, opens the book by describing her responsibilities along with different teaching techniques for promoting and enhancing student learning. At the end of each chapter Alice, the student co-author, adds a student's perspective to Dr. Soper's teaching techniques.The book concludes with two chapters that depict Dr. Soper's educational and personal philosophies. As a 32-year educator, Dr. Soper incorporates change into her teaching by being the same person.
Power and Responsibility in Biblical Interpretation' addresses the interpretive challenges now facing much biblical interpretation. Incorporating the methodologies of poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and liberation theology, the study presents a possible methodology which integrates scholarly and vernacular hermeneutics. The approach is based on the theories of Edward Said, adapting his concept of contrapuntal reading to the interpretation of 'Job'. The book sets this study in the broader context of a survey of current work in the field. The analysis of 'Job' examines the possibilities for dialogue between those interpretations that view suffering as a key theme in the book and those that do not. Interpretations of the 'Book of Job' are then compared to the psychology of suffering as experienced in various contexts today. The conclusion argues for pedagogical reform based upon the ethical and interpretive insights of contrapuntal hermeneutics.
This book offers a significant reinterpretation of the history of republican political thought and of Niccol- Machiavelli's place within it. It locates Machiavelli's political thought within enduring debates about the proper size of republics. From the sixteenth century onward, as states grew larger, it was believed only monarchies could govern large territories effectively. Republicanism was a form of government relegated to urban city-states, anachronisms in the new age of the territorial state. For centuries, history and theory were in agreement: constructing an extended republic was as futile as trying to square the circle; but then James Madison devised a compound representative republic that enabled popular government to take on renewed life in the modern era. This work argues that Machiavelli had his own Madisonian impulse and deserves to be recognized as the first modern political theorist to envision the possibility of a republic with a large population extending over a broad territory.
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