A RING FOR VINCENZO'S HEIR

Harlequin Comics

By: Jennie Lucas,Karan Dan

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A RING FOR VINCENZO'S HEIR

Harlequin Comics

By: Jennie Lucas,Karan Dan

“Help me! This man is trying to steal our baby!” Scarlett shouted at Vin after rushing into the cathedral where he was about to marry another woman. Eight months ago, Scarlett and Vin met at a bar and spent the night together. When she learned who he was, she disappeared without telling him her name. But now her boss is trying to force her to marry him and she needs Vin’s help! Surprised by her sudden appearance, Vin stops his arranged marriage and asks for a paternity test and a prenuptial contract… Was it a mistake to ask him for help?

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CONTRACT WIFE

Mills & Boon Comics

By: Karan Dan,KAY THORPE

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CONTRACT WIFE

Mills & Boon Comics

By: Karan Dan,KAY THORPE

I don’t want to relive the tragedy of our doomed marriage… Shannon’s surprised in the middle of a winter night when her estranged husband, Kyle, pays her a sudden visit. The passionate pair had married quickly after they’d met, but Shannon’s young age and Kyle’s flirtatious ways quickly led them to the verge of divorce. What could he want after all this time? Kyle shocks a confused Shannon with a hot kiss and declares that he needs her. Her heart wavers for a second, but she freezes when she realizes his request has nothing to do with love…

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SCARLET LADY

Mills & Boon Comics

By: Karan Dan,SARA WOOD

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SCARLET LADY

Mills & Boon Comics

By: Karan Dan,SARA WOOD

She's lost everything. Who can she cling to? Just when her life finally seemed to be on track, top model Ginny loses everything—a lawsuit has left her drowning in debt and her husband has divorced her. Then she discovers a newspaper article about her biological parents. Hoping to meet them, Ginny travels to the Caribbean, but once there she meets someone she never expected instead…

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A PRINCESS FOR CHRISTMAS

Harlequin Comics

By: Shirley Jump,Karan Dan

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A PRINCESS FOR CHRISTMAS

Harlequin Comics

By: Shirley Jump,Karan Dan

Concealing her identity as a princess, Mariabella was living a quiet life in a small seaside town while running her own gallery. One day an unexpected guest visits the town and begins to disturb the peace. His name is Jake, a young real-estate company CEO who is trying to transform the town into a major resort. Will Jake strip Mariabella of the only place she can live freely? To thwart his plan, Mariabella decides to keep him close and travel with him. Jake is supposed to be her enemy, and yet she soon finds herself falling for his appealing ways…

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A PRINCESS FOR CHRISTMAS Vol.2

Harlequin Comics

By: Shirley Jump,Karan Dan

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A PRINCESS FOR CHRISTMAS Vol.2

Harlequin Comics

By: Shirley Jump,Karan Dan

Wendy’s dreams of being a Hollywood actress are put on hold when she is robbed in Dallas—thrown out of her car in the middle of a snowstorm, left with nothing. Then a tall, intimidating man happens by and saves her. This motorcycle-riding bad boy takes her to his house, which is more like a warehouse than a home. He calls himself Wolfe and says he hunts down criminals for money… He’s a bounty hunter! That explains his dangerous demeanor and perfect body. He offers her a job to help pay for her travel expenses to Hollywood—Wendy’s newest acting role is as a decoy to lure in criminals!

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Inside Al-Shabaab

The Secret History of Al-Qaeda's Most Powerful Ally

By: Dan Joseph,Harun Maruf

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Inside Al-Shabaab

The Secret History of Al-Qaeda's Most Powerful Ally

By: Dan Joseph,Harun Maruf

One of the most powerful Islamic militant groups in Africa, Al-Shabaab exerts Taliban-like rule over millions in Somalia and poses a growing threat to stability in the Horn of Africa. Somalis risk retaliation or death if they oppose or fail to comply with Al-Shabaab-imposed restrictions on aspects of everyday life such as clothing, media, sports, interpersonal relations, and prayer. Inside Al-Shabaab: The Secret History of Al-Qaeda's Most Powerful Ally recounts the rise, fall, and resurgence of this overlooked terrorist organization and provides an intimate understanding of its connections with Al-Qaeda. Drawing from interviews with former Al-Shabaab militants, including high-ranking officials, military commanders, police, and foot soldiers, authors Harun Maruf and Dan Joseph reveal the motivations of those who commit their lives to the group and its violent jihadist agenda. A wealth of sources including US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks, letters taken from the Pakistani hideout of Osama bin Laden, case files from the prosecution of American Al-Shabaab members, emails from Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, and Al-Shabaab's own statements and recruiting videos inform Maruf and Joseph's investigation of the United States' campaign against Al-Shabaab and how the 2006 US-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia gave the group the popular support it needed to radicalize ordinary citizens and become a powerful movement. The audio book is narrated by Nicholas Smith. Produced by Speechki in 2021.

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The Lost Symbol: Special Illustrated Edition

A Novel

By: Dan Brown

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The Lost Symbol: Special Illustrated Edition

A Novel

By: Dan Brown

#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • An intelligent, lightning-paced thriller set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., with surprises at every turn. “Impossible to put down.... Another mind-blowing Robert Langdon story.” —The New York Times Famed Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon answers an unexpected summons to appear at the U.S. Capitol Building. His plans are interrupted when a disturbing object—artfully encoded with five symbols—is discovered in the building. Langdon recognizes in the find an ancient invitation into a lost world of esoteric, potentially dangerous wisdom. When his mentor Peter Solomon—a long-standing Mason and beloved philanthropist—is kidnapped, Langdon realizes that the only way to save Solomon is to accept the mystical invitation and plunge headlong into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and one inconceivable truth ... all under the watchful eye of Dan Brown's most terrifying villain to date Note: This eBook edition of The Lost Symbol, Special Illustrated Edition, includes photographs that will appear on black-and-white devices but are optimized for devices that support full-color images.

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Homeworld 2

Prima's Official Strategy Guide

By: Dan Irish

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Homeworld 2

Prima's Official Strategy Guide

By: Dan Irish

HOMEWORLD 2: PRIMA'S OFFICIAL STRATEGY GUIDE gives players what they need to unravel the secrets of the Homeworld universe. Get details on each race's technology, capabilities, and tactics. Learn how to build powerful ships for victory in every mission and mode. Achieve success with expert multiplayer strategies. Let PRIMA be your guide to the ultimate space combat experience! GAME STRENGTHS Combining elements of real-time strategy and space combat, HOMEWORLD 2 delivers an all new enemy that is distinctive and menacing. The size and complexity of each ship has increased from HOMEWORLD, allowing for more strategy in each level. HOMEWORLD 2 supports 6 users in multiplayer mode, and new features like subsystems, squadrons, and shlpyards. Instead of focusing on the fate of a single planet, players now have access to the whole galaxy. Sierra Entertainment, Inc., a studio of Vivendi Universal Publishing and part of its Games division, is one of the original developers and largest worldwide publishers of interactive entertainment and productivity software. Sierra is renowned for releasing critically acclaimed and award winning titles that re

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0761542817

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Dead Crowd

A Mystery Starring Biff Kincaid

By: Dan Barton

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Dead Crowd

A Mystery Starring Biff Kincaid

By: Dan Barton

When private investigator Biff Kincaid falls under police suspicion for the murder of a comedy club owner who owes him money, he decides to investigate the crime himself.

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Knack Treehouses

A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing & Building a Safe & Sound Structure

By: Lon Levin,Dan Wright

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Knack Treehouses

A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing & Building a Safe & Sound Structure

By: Lon Levin,Dan Wright

Part dreambook and part practical guide, Knack Treehouses takes the reader a big step closer to having a house in the treetops. Replete with 450 full-color photographs, it covers all there is to know about designing, building, and enjoying unique elevated dwellings—both for kids and for adults. It also includes extensive information on materials and building techniques, including tips on tree selection and evaluation. Specific plans are given for trunk treehouses, branch treehouses, and treehouses between two trees, with each plan including step-by-step instructions for safe construction.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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The New Rules of Business

Leading Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Secrets for Success

By: Dan Matthews

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The New Rules of Business

Leading Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Secrets for Success

By: Dan Matthews

Drawing on the experiences of some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs and executives, this guide to winning in business provides a candid look into what it takes to thrive as an entrepreneur.

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Superbia!

31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods

By: Dan Chiras,Dave Wann

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Superbia!

31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods

By: Dan Chiras,Dave Wann

The only book that shows how to transform existing suburbs to create environment- and people-friendly neighborhoods...

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Erin Go Bloody

By: Dan Andriacco

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Erin Go Bloody

By: Dan Andriacco

When Erin, Ohio native Jamie Ellicott returns home as best-selling author James Ivanhoe after a 13-year absence, it's like the return of the Prodigal Son. His ill and aging father welcomes him with open arms. Ivanhoe's two brothers, however, are less forgiving. The whole town gets drawn into the family drama when Ivanhoe seeks to march in the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade under the banner of an anti-technology group called the Ned Ludd Society. That’s a thumb in the collective eye of his siblings, who own a company that makes microcircuits. As a member of the parade committee, St. Benignus University communications director Jeff Cody has a stake in what soon becomes a heated national debate. But to his genius brother-in-law Sebastian McCabe, the contretemps becomes less important than investigating murder in the Ellicott family. Erin Go Bloody once again demonstrates the skill that caused best-selling novelist Bonnie MacBird to call Dan Andriacco “a master of mystery plotting.”

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Andrews UK Limited

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The Lost Symbol

By: Dan Brown

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The Lost Symbol

By: Dan Brown

#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • An intelligent, lightning-paced thriller set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., with surprises at every turn. • Don’t miss the Peacock original series Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol! “Impossible to put down.... Another mind-blowing Robert Langdon story.” —The New York Times Famed Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon answers an unexpected summons to appear at the U.S. Capitol Building. His plans are interrupted when a disturbing object—artfully encoded with five symbols—is discovered in the building. Langdon recognizes in the find an ancient invitation into a lost world of esoteric, potentially dangerous wisdom. When his mentor Peter Solomon—a long-standing Mason and beloved philanthropist—is kidnapped, Langdon realizes that the only way to save Solomon is to accept the mystical invitation and plunge headlong into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and one inconceivable truth ... all under the watchful eye of Dan Brown's most terrifying villain to date.

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Anchor

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48 Days to the Work You Love, Trade Paper with CD

An Interactive Study with CD (Audio)

By: Dan Miller

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48 Days to the Work You Love, Trade Paper with CD

An Interactive Study with CD (Audio)

By: Dan Miller

The next-step companion to the trade book, this study includes a 48-day schedule, life plan and two audio CDs with work/life lessons.

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The Montepulciano Mob

A Memoir

By: Dan Spahr

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The Montepulciano Mob

A Memoir

By: Dan Spahr

Take a journey through the eyes of a freshman in college as he spends his first time being away from his family as he study's abroad and learns about himself, his peers, and the world away from his micro-climate on Long Island. What he's learned here will change his life forever as he becomes who he is suppose to be while trying to keep grounded as he falls in love with someone he shouldn't. Along the way he makes connections with his peers for the first time, and can call them life long friends as the travel throughout Italy on a five week adventure that will last forever in the heart of one young man.

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Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage

By: Dan Malika Gunasekera

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Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage

By: Dan Malika Gunasekera

This book deals with the liability conventions brought into existence by the International Maritime Organization and concentrates on the newly adopted instrument dealing with bunker oil pollution as an area of great concern for every stakeholder involved in shipping business. The work covers a wide spectrum ranging from the Convention itself to its scope of application, liable and aggrieved parties, jurisdiction, requirements of liability and admissibility of claims, defences and exoneration from liability. It addresses many areas of interest and of importance to international and national legal advisors, lawyers, law students and anyone interested in the relevant field such as shipowners, charterers, shipbrokers, ship personnel and associated contractors and sub-contractors.

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Peter Lang

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3631604602

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Molly Bit

A Novel

By: Dan Bevacqua

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Molly Bit

A Novel

By: Dan Bevacqua

Molly Bit doesn't believe she's destined for success - she knows it. This certainly helps her get through the countless auditions featuring actors who look and dress just like she does; helps her swallow the indignity of less talented actors landing roles; even helps her endure the industry's aggressive over-sexualizing of young women. When Molly is offered a lead role in a major film, she knows, too, that to seize this opportunity she must sacrifice everything. Even her commitment to an old friend. It's her big break, and Molly becomes a star. But she soon learns the hardest part of fame is everything after."--Publisher description.

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Simon and Schuster

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1982104562

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Close Enough to Perfect

By: Dan Williams

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Close Enough to Perfect

By: Dan Williams

Rick Harmond moves from his small hometown, where he worked on his father’s ranch, to a bigger city for college. In his cowboy boots and hat, he immediately feels out of place but he refuses to let his reluctance get the better of him - he’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime! He’s been given a full-ride scholarship thanks to his affinity for math. One of the stipulations to receive the scholarship is that he join his college’s Gamma Sigma Gamma fraternity chapter. They’re not the kind of people he would usually be around, but he needs the scholarship - farming can’t pay his tuition. He endures the ribbing given by his fellow pledges and the frat brothers, and he also befriends a sorority sister, Rosanna, a popular cheerleader. Rick also meets Rosanna’s roommate: Lorraine, whose double-leg amputation has confined her to a wheelchair. Lorraine, a former cheerleader in high school, has become withdrawn, even standoffish, since her accident. And she has good reason to be defensive: Every day she gets looks of pity, looks of disgust, and hears people talking behind her back, thanking God they’re not in her position. Rick is intrigued by her and finds an opportunity to get to know her: He can help her with her algebra assignments, and she can help him with his English assignments. But soon word of his friendship with Lorraine gets back to the leaders of Gamma Sigma Gamma and a meeting is called: Rick, as well as his fellow pledges, are told they are not to associate with undesirable people because it reflects badly on Gamma Sigma Gamma. Rick then finds himself in an impossible situation - he doesn’t want to stop seeing Lorraine but the consequences set his world on fire. How can he remain Lorraine’s friend but also afford to stay in college?

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"Close Enough to Perfect by Dan Williams is the story of anyone who has ever been outside of the 'In' crowd for any reason. Williams has created strong characters which will resonate with our own struggles about staying true to ourselves; our values; and how we interact with others along the way. I found myself cheering on Rick Harmond as he steps out of his comfort zone and into a culture that is too self-absorbed to even notice its bad manners (or even flat-out rudeness). During this tumultuous upheaval, he has to make extremely hard choices and finds almost too late what is most important to him."

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"(Williams) has taken the subjects of disability and difference and written about them so that anyone could see themselves in the place of the character. He then evolves the characters to be more than they thought they could be. It is an engaging story with likable characters which also happen to be real. A great read."

-Di Davis, Amazon customer, 5-star review

"I liked the very accurate portrayal of a young woman going through experiences in high school and college as an amputee. The brutal honesty of how the public deals with her new body and how she deals with it herself...Great work, descriptions and dialogue."

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0999843230

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Risk Rules

How Local Politics Threaten the Global Economy

By: Marvin Zonis,Dan Lefkovitz,Sam Wilkin,Joseph Yackley

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Risk Rules

How Local Politics Threaten the Global Economy

By: Marvin Zonis,Dan Lefkovitz,Sam Wilkin,Joseph Yackley

Globalization Hype Has Obscured a Few Basic Truths-that political stability and economic growth are usually determined on the local level, and that they're most affected by local institutions, local leadership, and other such factors. Risk Rules shows that globalization (and events like the recent overthrow of long-time leaders in Egypt and Tunis; the global recession triggered by the U.S. credit crisis in 2008; and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan) makes understanding the political economies of different countries more important than ever. This book analyzes the fifteen main principles of how countries work, providing a powerful, intuitive framework for understanding international developments. Doing globalization right means understanding local economic, cultural, and political realties. This truth holds for companies, policymakers, small investors, voters, and everyone whose lives and finances are affected by distant world events. Book jacket.

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Agate Publishing

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1932841598

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Lacan, Foucault, and the Malleable Subject in Early Modern English Utopian Literature

By: Dan Mills

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Lacan, Foucault, and the Malleable Subject in Early Modern English Utopian Literature

By: Dan Mills

Theoretically informed scholarship on early modern English utopian literature has largely focused on Marxist interpretation of these texts in an attempt to characterize them as proto- Marxist. The present volume instead focuses on subjectivity in early modern English utopian writing by using these texts as case studies to explore intersections of the thought of Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault. Both Lacan and Foucault moved back and forth between structuralist and post-structuralist intellectual trends and ultimately both defy strict categorization into either camp. Although numerous studies have appeared that compare Lacan’s and Foucault’s thought, there have been relatively few applications of their thought together onto literature. By applying the thought of both theorists, who were not literary critics, to readings of early modern English utopian literature, this study will, on the one hand, describe the formation of utopian subjectivity that is both psychoanalytically (Oedipal and pre-Oedipal) and socially constructed, and, on the other hand, demonstrate new ways in which the thought of Lacan and Foucault inform and complement each other when applied to literary texts. The utopian subject is a malleable subject, a subject whose linguistic, psychoanalytical subjectivity determines the extent to which environmental and social factors manifest in an identity that moves among Lacan’s Symbolic, Imaginary, and Real.

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Routledge

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1000732002

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A Land Gone Lonesome

An Inland Voyage Along the Yukon River

By: Dan O'Neill

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A Land Gone Lonesome

An Inland Voyage Along the Yukon River

By: Dan O'Neill

In his square-sterned canoe, Alaskan author Dan O'Neill set off down the majestic Yukon River, beginning at Dawson, Yukon Territory, site of the Klondike gold rush. The journey he makes to Circle City, Alaska, is more than a voyage into northern wilderness, it is an expedition into the history of the river and a record of the inimitable inhabitants of the region, historic and contemporary. A literary kin of John Muir's Travels in Alaska and John McPhee's Coming into the Country, A Land Gone Lonesome is the book on Alaska for the new century. Though he treks through a beautiful and hostile wilderness, the heart of O'Neill's story is his exploration of the lives of a few tough souls clinging to the old ways-even as government policies are extinguishing their way of life. More than just colorful anachronisms, these wilderness dwellers-both men and women-are a living archive of North American pioneer values. As O'Neill encounters these natives, he finds himself drawn into the bare-knuckle melodrama of frontier life-and further back still into the very origins of the Yukon river world. With the rare perspective of an insider, O'Neill here gives us an intelligent, lyrical-and ultimately, probably the last-portrait of the river people along the upper Yukon.

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Basic Books

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0786722126

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An Elizabethan Adventurer

The Remarkable Life of Sir Anthony Sherley

By: Dan O'Sullivan

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An Elizabethan Adventurer

The Remarkable Life of Sir Anthony Sherley

By: Dan O'Sullivan

Anthony Sherley (1565-1633) was one of three brothers from a Sussex gentry family, whose adventures abroad fascinated their contemporaries. Their doings were celebrated and exaggerated in printed pamphlets and a play on the London stage, but are scarcely known today. Anthony was a soldier fighting in France and the Netherlands, and then an unsuccessful privateer, before his patron, the earl of Essex, chose him to lead a group on a mission to Ferrara, which proved abortive. Sherley then undertook on his own initiative to take his followers on a highly risky journey across Turkey to Persia. He hoped to persuade the Shah to ally with the West against their mutual enemy, Ottoman Turkey. Surprisingly, Shah Abbas the Great (1587-1629) approved the plan, and sent Sherley back to Europe as his ambassador. But after that things went badly wrong. Essex lost all influence at court, and was eventually executed for treason. Sherley was refused permission to return to England. He was on his own, and had to find new ways of living and earning. After various episodes in Venice and Morocco he ended up in the pay of Spain, and was chosen to command a fleet created to stop pirates from attacking Spanish possessions. After the failure of this project he was forced to retire to Granada, and lived the rest of his life on a meagre royal pension. But he continued trying to give advice, based on his past experiences, to the king of Spain and his ministers. The book will concentrate on Sherley’s career, but will broaden the theme by including chapters on his father and his two brothers, and in particular on Persia and Shah Abbas, the Persian king whom he met. Anthony was an irascible, complex character, often derided and disliked. This biography is more sympathetic than previous ones, and discusses his self-fashioning and his belief in his personal honour, both of which might account for some of his misdemeanours, especially after the death of his patron.

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Pen and Sword History

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1399007432

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All the Little Birdies

By: Dan Allison

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All the Little Birdies

By: Dan Allison

Jake Murdock takes plenty of wild rides with customers in his taxi on Florida’s humid Gulf Coast. When Murdock is befriended by millionaire Robin Bayliss, they spend their days watching the bikinis and sunsets at Nora’s Beach Bar on Treasure Island. But when extortionists target Bayliss and the dead bodies start showing up, Murdock finds he’s in for the ride of his life—maybe his final ride. In a fractured landscape where loyalties mean nothing and nature itself has spun haywire, Jake Murdock and Robin Bayliss meet All the Little Birdies. Combining the madcap zaniness of Carl Hiaasen and Tim Dorsey with the lyrical poignancy of James W. Hall and Randy Wayne White, All the Little Birdies is evocative Florida noir.

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iUniverse

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0595202985

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Global Nomad

Travels and Travails

By: Dan Mayur

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Global Nomad

Travels and Travails

By: Dan Mayur

Global Nomad provides fascinating glimpses of Dan Mayur’s peripatetic life. In a lifetime of exploring the globe, he has traveled to over seventy countries visiting some of them multiple times. He is Indian by birth, American by education, and global nomad by choice. “The world is a mirror,” he says, “it reflects you. If you are good, it is good to you.” This book is an entertaining and informative rumination of a few of his selected travels covering parts of India, Australia, Bali, Cambodia, Thailand, Egypt, Greece, Russia, Peru, Chile, and Argentina. In the delightful narration of his experiences he creates vivid word pictures in the reader’s mind with his trademark lucid language using sensitivity, wit, humor, and an unmistakable philosophic undertone. Global Nomad will appeal to a wide audience of students, teachers, and travelers, indeed anybody with the slightest curiosity about our beautiful world.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1664136983

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The Kids Are All Right

A Memoir

By: Diana Welch,Liz Welch,Amanda Welch,Dan Welch

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The Kids Are All Right

A Memoir

By: Diana Welch,Liz Welch,Amanda Welch,Dan Welch

A blisteringly funny, heart-scorching tale of remarkable kids shattered by tragedy and finally brought back together by love."—People Somehow, between their father’s mysterious death, their glamorous soap-opera-star mother’s cancer diagnosis, and a phalanx of lawyers intent on bankruptcy proceedings, the four Welch siblings managed to handle each new heartbreaking misfortune together. All that changed with the death of their mother. While nineteen-year-old Amanda was legally on her own, the three younger siblings–Liz, sixteen; Dan, fourteen; and Diana, eight–were each dispatched to a different set of family friends. Quick-witted and sharp-tongued, Amanda headed for college in New York City and immersed herself in an ’80s world of alternative music and drugs. Liz, living with the couple for whom she babysat, followed in Amanda’s footsteps until high school graduation when she took a job in Norway as a nanny. Mischievous, rebellious Dan, bounced from guardian to boarding school and back again, getting deeper into trouble and drugs. And Diana, the red-haired baby of the family, was given a new life and identity and told to forget her past. But Diana’s siblings refused to forget her--or let her go. Told in the alternating voices of the four siblings, their poignant, harrowing story of unbreakable bonds unfolds with ferocious emotion. Despite the Welch children’s wrenching loss and subsequent separation, they retained the resilience and humor that both their mother and father endowed them with--growing up as lost souls, taking disastrous turns along the way, but eventually coming out right side up. The kids are not only all right; they’re back together.

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The Person

A New Introduction to Personality Psychology

By: Dan P. McAdams,William L. Dunlop

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The Person

A New Introduction to Personality Psychology

By: Dan P. McAdams,William L. Dunlop

The latest edition of a leading and engaging discussion of personality psychology In the newly revised, sixth edition of The Person: A New Introduction to Personality Psychology, a team of distinguished researchers delivers an engaging and personal introduction to personality science as it is currently expressed in contemporary research and theory and in the context of specific individual lives. The authors show how cutting edge research and theory help us understand the complex dynamics of real human lives, including the life of the reader. They also present a developmental perspective from which to understand personality. This book includes the presentation of 29 individual case studies of well-known personalities, from Lady Gaga to Charles Darwin, each of which illustrates a key area or idea in personality psychology. Following the development of personality from the display of infantile temperament traits through the evolution of a person's life goals, values, and integrative stories that we construct and internalize to make narrative sense of our lives, The Person also includes: A thoroughly engaging story about what it means to be a good person and how people are different from one another Comprehensive explorations of the latest research in personality science as applied to case studies of contemporary and historical persons Practical discussions of how both human evolution and human culture shape our lives A literate and compelling style that engages the reader in a personal relationship with the authors Perfect for undergraduate students of personality psychology, The Person: A New Introduction to Personality Psychology will aso benefit non-psychology majors and a broad audience of students and laypeople with an interest in what makes different personalities unique and interesting.

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1119983584

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A BRIDE FOR THE BOSS

Mills & Boon Comics

By: Harlequin Books S.A.,Karan Dan

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A BRIDE FOR THE BOSS

Mills & Boon Comics

By: Harlequin Books S.A.,Karan Dan

Andrea decided to quit her job as a secretary after working for six years without rest for her boss, Mac. She was sick of being treated like office property and being ordered around in both her professional and personal life. Also, he never noticed she was in love with him. So Andrea moved into an old house and began to renovate it in order to forget Mac. But then he appeared before her and said that he had taken two weeks off to help her! What will happen if she and Mac spend so much time together?

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Divorce Yourself

The National No-Fault Divorce Kit

By: Dan Sitarz

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Divorce Yourself

The National No-Fault Divorce Kit

By: Dan Sitarz

Over 1.5 million people will obtain a divorce this year, but divorce laws are undergoing changes in many states. This new updated 4th edition of the best-selling divorce guide provides all of the details of the latest legal changes. Written in understandable language by an experienced attorney, this book provides a detailed explanation of the process of divorce. A wealth of practical legal information is furnished on the topics of property division, alimony, child support, and child custody and visitation. Helpful checklists, questionnaires, worksheets, and sample forms are provided for those readers who wish to understand and use the legal system for themselves.

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