Megan Gerard has already survived the worst night of her life. As she buries her mother just days after a deadly car accident, she is overcome with grief at her graveside. All she wants is to have her mother back. But after she catches a glimpse of a stranger limping out from behind the trees at the cemetery, Megan has an uneasy feeling she cannot seem to shake. It turns out her intuition is spot on; the mysterious man has but one goalto kill her. After the wake, Megan receives a gift on her front porch. Inside is a music box accompanied by a sympathy card with a deadly warning: she is next to die. Terrified, Megan phones the police and immediately Detective Joseph Lentz begins questioning whether her mothers accident was really an accident after all. When Megan recruits the help from an undercover cop, the investigation evolves further with one clue after another that leads Megan to a surprising discovery that pulls her into a complex mystery surrounding her mothers secret past. In this gripping mystery, Megan must stay one step ahead of a ruthless killer as she embarks on a dangerous journey to find the answers to her mothers past and, more importantly, to her own future.
Megan Gerard has already survived the worst night of her life. As she buries her mother just days after a deadly car accident, she is overcome with grief at her graveside. All she wants is to have her mother back. But after she catches a glimpse of a stranger limping out from behind the trees at the cemetery, Megan has an uneasy feeling she cannot seem to shake. It turns out her intuition is spot on; the mysterious man has but one goalto kill her. After the wake, Megan receives a gift on her front porch. Inside is a music box accompanied by a sympathy card with a deadly warning: she is next to die. Terrified, Megan phones the police and immediately Detective Joseph Lentz begins questioning whether her mothers accident was really an accident after all. When Megan recruits the help from an undercover cop, the investigation evolves further with one clue after another that leads Megan to a surprising discovery that pulls her into a complex mystery surrounding her mothers secret past. In this gripping mystery, Megan must stay one step ahead of a ruthless killer as she embarks on a dangerous journey to find the answers to her mothers past and, more importantly, to her own future.
What happens when a mother and her 16-year-old son drop everything to bike across the country? On the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail, they struggle up hills in the pouring rain, they feel soreness in muscles they didn’t know they had, and they learn more about each other than they ever knew before. When licensed clinical therapist and self-proclaimed “reluctant adventurer” Leah Day felt herself drifting from her son, Oakley, she decided to make a drastic play to reconnect. In this memoir chronicling the journey of a lifetime, Leah and Oakley find that if they can push themselves to accomplish physically exhausting and emotionally taxing milestones on a bike, they are capable of anything!
Looking for a Happily Ever After? How about fourteen of them?! Romancing the Holidays, Volume 2 is a collection of romantic short stories all with the happy ending you crave. Genres include: contemporary, historical, paranormal, romantic suspense and young adult. And what better time to find romance than during the holidays? Escape into these Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Eve, Three Kings Day and Valentine's Day adventures, and swoon anew with each couple as they fall in love. Proceeds from this anthology benefit First Coast Romance Writers, a non-profit chapter of Romance Writers of America that helps writers hone their craft and expand their knowledge of the publishing industry.
From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban space in receiving areas. Traditionally, the Great Black Migration has been lauded as a path to general black economic progress. Leah Boustan challenges this view, arguing instead that the migration produced winners and losers within the black community. Boustan shows that migrants themselves gained tremendously, more than doubling their earnings by moving North. But these new arrivals competed with existing black workers, limiting black–white wage convergence in Northern labor markets and slowing black economic growth. Furthermore, many white households responded to the black migration by relocating to the suburbs. White flight was motivated not only by neighborhood racial change but also by the desire on the part of white residents to avoid participating in the local public services and fiscal obligations of increasingly diverse cities. Employing historical census data and state-of-the-art econometric methods, Competition in the Promised Land revises our understanding of the Great Black Migration and its role in the transformation of American society.
International law is so fundamentally distinct from domestic law that some even question whether it is the law at all. Unlike domestic law, in which the state can create, enforce, and interpret the laws, there is no higher authority above states in international law. As a result, states serve as both creators, enforcers, and adjudicators of international law and are subject to it. Most confoundingly, even though there is no higher authority than states in the international system, states tend to comply with international law most of the time. Further, when they do violation international law, they go to great lengths to defend their actions as within compliance with the law. To understand when and why states treat international “law” as the law in our international system, one must understand both the components of a sound legal argument and the political motivations shaping how laws are created, when they are followed, and when they are ignored.
Where can you see the Eiffel Tower, Caesar's centurions, the Sphinx, and an active volcano all on the same boulevard? Las Vegas, of course! This iconic city attracts more than 40 million visitors each year, and this definitive guide covers every aspect of its appeal. With a checkered history and a passion for fun, Las Vegas changes more rapidly than any other city in the United States, and it draws business and pleasure travelers from all over the world, offering them every luxury and amusement imaginable. The authors, longtime Las Vegas residents, strive to make sure every visitor has the vacation experience he or she is looking for. In their comprehensive guide you’ll get the insider’s scoop on the best restaurants and clubs; what to see and do both on and off the Strip; an overview of popular shows along with tips on booking tickets; and valuable info on the area’s many outdoor recreation options.
Bad Girls examines representational practices of film and television stories beginning with post-Vietnam cinema and ending with postfeminisms and contemporary public disputes over women in the military. The book explores a diverse range of popular media texts, from the Alien saga to Ally McBeal and Sex and the City, from The Net and VR5 to Sportsnight and G.I. Jane. The research is framed as a study of intergenerational tensions in portrayals of women and public institutions - in careers, governmental service, and interactions with technology. Using iconic texts and their contexts as a primary focus, this book offers a rhetorical and cultural history of the tensions between remembering and forgetting in representations of the American feminist movement between 1979 and 2005. Looking forward, the book sets an agenda for discussion of gender issues over the next twenty-five years and articulates with authority the manner in which «transgression» itself has become a site of struggle.
The international refugee regime is fundamentally broken. Designed in the wake of World War II to provide protection and assistance, the system is unable to address the record numbers of persons displaced by conflict and violence today. States have put up fences and adopted policies to deny, deter, and detain asylum seekers. People recognized as refugees are routinely denied rights guaranteed by international law. The results are dismal for the millions of refugees around the world who are left with slender prospects to rebuild their lives or contribute to host communities. T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Leah Zamore lay bare the underlying global crisis of responsibility. The Arc of Protection adopts a revisionist and critical perspective that examines the original premises of the international refugee regime. Aleinikoff and Zamore identify compromises at the founding of the system that attempted to balance humanitarian ideals and sovereign control of their borders by states. This book offers a way out of the current international morass through refocusing on responsibility-sharing, seeing the humanitarian-development divide in a new light, and putting refugee rights front and center.
It explores how, and to what extent, temporary work is becoming the norm for a diverse group of workers in the labour market, taking gender as the central lens of analysis.".
What if you were ten years old and thrown into prison with hardened criminals? That's just what happens to Jake Oliver Evans. Inspired by a true account of a prisoner in the Idaho Territorial Penitentiary in 1885, Jake's story is as affecting as it is shocking. Convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to five years, Jake is taken under the wing of a young guard and the kindly warden, as well as a few fellow prisoners. He is taught to read and given a job tending hogs at a nearby farm. In prison, Jake finds a home he has never had in a place most people are desperate to leave. But when he has to make a choice about right and wrong during an explosive escape attempt, Jake jeopardizes his friendships and his security. Debut novelist Leah Pileggi introduces a strong yet vulnerable character in an exciting and harrowing story of a child growing up on his own in America's Old West.
Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum With its unique combination of primary sources and historical narrative, Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1944–1946, provides an important new perspective on Holocaust history. Covering the final year of Nazi destruction and the immediate postwar years, it traces the increasingly urgent Jewish struggle for survival, which included armed resistance and organized escape attempts. Shedding light on the personal and public lives of Jews, this book provides compelling insights into a wide range of Jewish experiences during the Holocaust. Jewish individuals and communities suffered through this devastating period and reflected on the Holocaust differently, depending on their nationality, personal and communal histories and traditions, political beliefs, economic situations, and other life history. The rich spectrum of primary source material collected, including letters, diary entries, photographs, transcripts of speeches and radio addresses, newspaper articles, drawings, and official government and institutional memos and reports, makes this volume an essential research tool and curriculum companion.
What happens when a mother and her 16-year-old son drop everything to bike across the country? On the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail, they struggle up hills in the pouring rain, they feel soreness in muscles they didn’t know they had, and they learn more about each other than they ever knew before. When licensed clinical therapist and self-proclaimed “reluctant adventurer” Leah Day felt herself drifting from her son, Oakley, she decided to make a drastic play to reconnect. In this memoir chronicling the journey of a lifetime, Leah and Oakley find that if they can push themselves to accomplish physically exhausting and emotionally taxing milestones on a bike, they are capable of anything!
The chance of a lifetime . . . or just another bad decision? Delaney Lavender Brooks needs to grow up. At least, according to her parents. After getting evicted from her apartment and wrecking her car, Laney is almost ready to trade in her paintbrushes and surrender to a more sensible 9-to-5 existence. Almost. Until she's awarded an internship at a prestigious art gallery in Paris. What else can the free-spirited artist do but follow her dreams? Even if her latest attempt at chasing rainbows might cost her a real future . . . Once in the city of lights, Laney is almost undone by the glaring truth: maybe she isn't sophisticated or talented enough to make it as an artist-or an independent woman, for that matter. And when she's hotly pursued by a seductive Frenchman, she has to wonder if she's about to be a fool for love, too. Soon Laney's greatest challenge is not proving herself to her parents, but having the courage to live the life-and love-of her dreams . . . "Leah Marie Brown has a wily way of bringing her stories to life with sharp dialogue and drop-dead sexy characters." -Cindy Miles, National Bestselling Author "When it comes to crafting clever, intelligent, wonderful escapist fiction with a heroine every woman wants to know, Leah Marie Brown is a new voice to watch. Prepare to fall in love " -Renee Ryan, Daphne du Maurier Award-Winning Author
Do you like your cowboys hot, hard and ready to ride? There’s a code these cowboys live by, and they’re tough, uncompromising, taciturn and guarded. They’re also impossibly loyal, honorable, passionate, and their love—once bestowed—is everlasting. We wouldn’t have them any other way! Most Dangerous Cowboy by Megan Crane There’s only one thing more dangerous than riding bulls—and that’s love. And cowboy Cody’s too busy pursuing whiskey, winning, women, and glory to even consider it. Until pretty little Skylar Grey decides to impersonate a buckle bunny and lights a fire in his heart. What is love? All Cody knows is that he’s going down hard. A Doctor For The Cowboy by Amy Andrews Cocky Aussie bull rider Troy has been busted down to the pro-circuit. He needs wins to get him back into the big league, but an injury forces him off the circuit and into the arms of gorgeous doctor Joss. She patches him up, tells him it’s time to stop riding, and somehow he winds up playing father figure to her wayward teenage son. Will passion, purpose and love tempt this playboy cowboy to finally settle down? The Cowboy’s Redemption by Paula Altenberg She’s done with cowboys for good… Barrel racer Dana’s last romance with a rodeo cowboy ended in tragedy—and was definitely not the fairy tale love story rodeo fans chose to see. Dana needs a fresh start, a new horse, a few wins, and emphatically no steamy encounters with her late fiancé’s best friend! The Rebel and The Cowboy by Sarah Mayberry He’s got a lean, hard body and the heart of a poet… Sparks fly when born-and-bred cowboy Casey meets urban artist Eva, but he’ll never turn away from his responsibilities to his family and the ranch. There’ll be no chasing music-making dreams for him, even if Eva takes his heart with her when she leaves… Her Cowboy Baby Daddy by Jeannie Watt When cowboy Spence returns home to the Keller ranch to negotiate water rights with the neighboring rancher, gorgeous Hayley’s counteroffer leaves him speechless. Spence is definitely up for a no-strings affair with Hayley, but father a child and walk away? Never. The Cowboy Doctor by Leah Vale She lives for the thrill. He’s tasked with keeping her safe… Can rodeo doctor Drew keep daredevil bucking bronc rider Peyton safe? Or is it a case of opposites attract for the cowgirl and the rodeo doctor, and someone’s bound to get hurt?
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ________________ No sleep for twenty hours. No food for ten. And a ward full of soon-to-be mothers... Midwives are there for us at some of the most challenging, empowering and defining moments of our lives. From heart-wrenching grief to the pure joy of a new-born baby, midwife Leah Hazard has seen it all. But life on the NHS front line, working within a system at breaking point, is more extreme than you could ever imagine. Moving and compassionate, funny and unexpected, Leah shares her experiences in this extraordinary love letter to new mothers and fellow midwives everywhere. _____________________ 'The stories in Hard Pushed highlight the bravery of our midwives, and the women they care for.' CHRISTIE WATSON, author of The Language of Kindness 'Heart-rending, inspiring and funny, Hard Pushed brings alive the world of midwifery in all its complexity and radiates love and respect for women.' PROFESSOR LESLEY PAGE CBE, former president of the Royal College of Midwives 'It is Leah Hazard's capacity to love and give so personally to the many thousands of women she has worked with which imbues this book with its power.' JULIA SAMUEL, author of Grief Works 'Not only powerful but well written too . . . a worthwhile addition to a genre fast becoming as crowded as a busy maternity unit.' DAILY EXPRESS 'A riveting read- heartwarming and heartbreaking' SHEENA BYROM OBE, midwifery consultant and author of Catching Babies 'A beautifully written, intimate portrait of the extraordinary work that midwives carry out each and every day.' CAROLINE ELTON, author of Also Human- The Inner Lives of Doctors
Ever since her boat drifted up against the mammoth docks in Milwaukee's harbor, Leah Dobkin has been enthralled by the evolution of the port and the city so firmly moored to it. From an era when it was a "Milwaukee Miracle" to make landfall without losing luggage to a promising future powered by alternative energy, Soul of a Port is steered by that same sense of wonder. And since the port's story is not just one of nuts, bolts and cranes, Dobkin's narrative is also well crewed by the characters who have given the place such a fascinating legacy. Settle in for an entertaining passage that includes a longshoreman's poetry, the Milwaukee Clipper's recipe for prime rib, a tugboat ghost story and much, much more.
Helen Leah Reed's "Irma in Italy" transports readers on a captivating journey through the picturesque landscapes of Italy. The narrative follows the adventures of Irma, a young protagonist, as she embarks on a transformative trip to Italy. Set against the backdrop of Italy's rich history and culture, the story unfolds with themes of exploration, self-discovery, and the magic of travel. Irma's experiences as she navigates the art, architecture, and vibrant scenes of Italy lead to personal growth and new perspectives. The novel delves into themes of friendship, cultural immersion, and the power of embracing new experiences. As Irma forms connections with fellow travelers and encounters the beauty of Italy, she learns valuable lessons about the significance of stepping outside one's comfort zone. "Irma in Italy" captures the allure of wanderlust and the profound impact of travel on the soul. Helen Leah Reed's storytelling transports readers to the heart of Italy's enchanting cities and landscapes, offering a glimpse into the transformative power of exploration.
In the tradition of Zoe Heller's What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal, a darkly sophisticated novel about an old woman's curiosity that turns into a dangerous obsession as she becomes involved in her new neighbor's complicated and cloaked life"--
Advice on how to have a dream wedding-at a fraction of the cost ... The average cost of a wedding in the United States is now nearly $30,000, but most couples would prefer to have what others are having, but not at the price others are paying. Tie the Knot on a Shoestring shows couples how to budget a wedding and enables them to have the wedding they desire while bringing down the costs. This engaging guide includes: --Advice on how to keep the cost of a wedding down without going cheap --Ways to save money on attire, from the bridal gown and groom's garments to the attendants --Tasteful tips on how to save on the ceremonial site, the reception, flowers, decorations, music, entertainment, photography and video, and even the honeymoon --Ways to save money by having a destination wedding instead of a wedding where you live.
Haven't you ever told a little lie in the name of love? Vivia Grant couldn’t be happier. She has her dream job and is about to marry her dream man. Does it really matter that she’s led him to believe she’s a virgin? After all, being in love makes every experience feel like the first time anyway! But an unexpected encounter with an ex-lover is about to expose her embarrassing lie... When Vivia’s fiancé discovers the truth, he ends their engagement—via text—and uses his connections to get her fired. Unemployed and heartbroken, Vivia begins planning her new future—as a homeless spinster. But her best friend has a better idea. They’ll skip the Ben & Jerry’s binge and go on Vivia’s honeymoon instead. Two weeks cycling through Provence and Tuscany, with Luc de Caumont, a sexy French bike guide. Too bad Vivia’s not a big fan of biking. And she’s abysmal at languages. Will she fib her way through the adventure, or finally learn to love herself—and Luc—flaws and all? 69,306 Words “Leah Marie Brown has a wily way of bringing her stories to life with sharp dialogue and drop-dead sexy characters.” --Cindy Miles, National Bestselling Author “Prepare to laugh, to sigh, to turn pages fast! I want a one-way ticket to Vivia's world.” --Kieran Kramer, USA Today Bestselling Author “A funny, romantic, fast-paced, all-expense-paid pleasure read through France and Tuscany you don't want to miss.” --Gretchen Galway, Bestselling Author of This Time Next Door “When it comes to crafting clever, intelligent, wonderful escapist fiction with a heroine every woman wants to know, Leah Marie Brown is a new voice to watch. Prepare to fall in love!” --Renee Ryan, Daphne du Maurier Award-Winning Author “Audacious, adorable and addictive! Perpetual Virgin is a one-sitting read!” -Catherine Mann, USA Today bestselling author
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