It's Team Guardian versus a mad super villain. They just might get lucky with SWEET MERCY. On the run from a rogue Talent, psychometrist Beth Talbot makes a leap of faith to connect with Team Guardian leader David Connolly in SAFE HAVEN. In SHINING HOPE, Illusionist Sophia Alvarez seems perfect as far as teleporter Tom Stanton is concerned, but stopping a killer Chameleon calls her loyalties into question, putting both their hearts in peril.
Greg Roberts ha estado enamorado de la chica de al lado desde que ambos tenían doce años, pero Gloria Torkenson está comprometida para casarse con otra persona. A Greg no le queda más que respetar su decisión, hasta que su hada madrina aparece con una idea diferente. Como misterioso superhéroe enmascarado, Greg puede presentarse ante Gloria bajo una nueva luz y ganarse su amor. Pero ser superhéroe es más complicado de lo que Greg creía, ya que crea sus propios problemas y descubre que en su mundo existen fuerzas malignas que nunca sospechó. Tendrá que descubrir al verdadero héroe que hay en él antes de poder arreglar las cosas y conquistar el amor.
Als im Herzen der USA eine Probabilitätsbombe explodiert, kann niemand die Folgen voraussehen. Chaos breitet sich aus. Tausende kommen um. Anderen fallen außergewöhnliche Kräfte zu. Zehn Jahre später hat sich die Welt grundlegend verändert. Als Rachel Connolly, eine Umgekehrte Empathin, und Franklin Luke Delano (Fluke), ein Probabilitätstalent, sich am Tatort eines Möchtegern-Bombenanschlags kennenlernen, finden sie wenig Zeit, um ihre starke Bindung zu erforschen, weil sie einen verrückten Puppenspieler zur Strecke bringen müssen. Beth Talbots Psychometrietalent ist ein Segen und ein Fluch, und die Zeit ist für sie nicht ein stetig fließender Fluss, sondern eher ein sturmgepeitscher Ozean. Für sie ist David Connolly ein Fels in der Brandung, denn sein Talent neutralisiert die Kräfte anderer. Aber wie kann sie seine Aufmerksamkeit wecken, wenn das gesamte Team Guardian ihn braucht, insbesondere als ein Talent die Kontrolle über sämtliche Informatik- und Bankensysteme der ganzen Welt zu übernehmen droht? Vielleicht hätte Tom einen anderen Illusionisten rufen können, aber Sophia Alvarez ist die Beste, und sie geht ihm seit der letzten gemeinsamen Mission nicht mehr aus dem Kopf. Tom übernimmt die Autorität und Verantwortung für das Team - gerade rechtzeitig, um dem FBI dabei zu helfen, eine Mordserie aufzudecken, hinter der sie ein Vigilante-Talent vermuten, das es auf Sexualstraftätern abgesehen hat.
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery on the Road 2014 James Beard Award Nominee and 2014 Society of Travel Writers Foundation Thomas Lowell Travel Journalism Bronze Award Winner for Travel Book Join us at the table for this 34-course banquet of original stories from food-obsessed writers and chefs sharing their life-changing food experiences. The dubious joy of a Twinkie, the hunger-sauced rhapsody of fish heads, the grand celebration of an Indian wedding feast; the things we eat and the people we eat with remain powerful signposts in our memories, long after the plates have been cleared. Tuck in, and bon appetit! Featuring tales from: James Oseland, Frances Mayes, Giles Coren, Curtis Stone, Annabel Langbein, Neil Perry, Tamasin Day-Lewis, Jay Rayner, Madhur Jaffrey, Michael Pollan, Josh Ozersky, Marcus Samuelsson, Naomi Duguid, Jane and Michael Stern, Francine Prose, Ma Thanegi, Kaui Hart Hemmings, Rita Mae Brown, Monique Truong, Fuschia Dunlop, David Kamp, Mas Masumoto, Daniel Vaughn, Tom Carson, Andre Aciman, MJ Hyland, Alan Richman, Beth Kracklauer, Sigrid Nunez, Chang Rae Lee, Julia Reed, Gael Greene About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, a suite of inspiring travel pictorials, literature, and references, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travelers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
More Light and Whimsical Magical Fantasy from Naomi Stone: Sometimes True Love needs a little help. That's where the Fairy Godmothers' Union, True Love Local steps in. 'Mission Improbable is the story of a couple in trouble - until a fairy godmother helps them to see each other a little differently... In 'Unmasking' it takes a fairy godmother's interference to get Rosalie the right costume to wear to the Comix Convention where she and Steele can each discover the other's true identity. 'Switcheroo' and 'Switchertoo' tell the stories of two college room mates with very different lives. A fairy godmother's magic allows them to learn what they need to know to improve their love lives by stepping into one another's shoes.
The fourth edition of the Oxford Handbook of Urology has been fully updated to reflect the significant advances in medical and surgical opportunities since the previous edition, including pelvic laparoscopic and robotic surgery, new drugs in incontinence and male sexual health, and new laser devices for prostate surgery. Guidelines from the European Association of Urology, the American Association of Urology, and the British Association of Urology, as well as NICE, have all been updated to reflect the best evidence-based clinical practice. Featuring both additional and expanded topics, the new edition is up to date for use in everyday urological clinical practice, and now includes recent urological controversies such as the use of vaginal mesh, to offer the newest guidance to help with doctors' consultations with the patient. The handbook is a comprehensive and concise resource, spanning the whole field of urology in an easily digestible format, including the basics of patient assessment and investigations. Providing bite-sized topics with easily navigable sections and summary diagrams and photographs, it is a key source for quick reference during clinical duties in clinics, theatre, and A&E settings, whilst providing enough information for urology doctors taking the FRCS exam. The authors have a wide range of subspecialist interests, and have welcomed a brand new co-author to ensure coverage of the needs of junior doctors. The Oxford Handbook of Urology is an invaluable resource for junior urology doctors, A&E and general surgery doctors, urology ward and theatre nurses, and medical students.
Résumé de l'éditeur: "On Sympathetic Grounds lays out sympathy's vital place in shaping North America. Naomi Greyser intersperses theoretical reflection on the affective production of space with analysis of vales of tears, heart-rending oratory, and emplotment of narrative and land in work by Sojourner Truth, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others.
Follow Naomi as she talks to women working in brothels in Mumbai; survivors of an Indonesian tsunami in which more than 160,000 lives were lost; a young girl waiting on an operation to save her life; and victims of domestic violence horrifically burned by fire. Be still with her when she realizes the pain she feels in the face of these extreme injustices reveals a common struggle that exists within all of humanity. And rise with her as she wrestles with confusion over her identity, comes face to face with redemption, and then begins to understand her own story . . . and to find her calling. The Scent of Water will open your eyes to the complexities of the world, showing you pain can also be beauty, and how each are found in the unlikeliest of places. Zacharias doesn't have all the answers. But she has hope and encouragement that will empower you to find and begin the adventure of your life.
Ben and Naomi had ten beloved children. Like a warm flickering campfire feared by predators of the night, this family was stamped out and scattered . . . "The book of Seven Flames and Burning Coals" is what remains. Herein are poems, parables, and letters addressed to the lost and broken children, touching on such things as marriage, sex, heaven, and the resurrection of us all.
In the 1960s and ‘70s the long forgotten and forbidden Great Goddess roused herself from millennia of slumber and took possession of young women’s imaginations. That cast out She offered a Faustian bargain—She would rip you out of your narrow domesticated self image, thrust you into the wilds of sex, power and creativity, initiate you into the mysteries of Earth and Starry Heaven, but you would owe Her your soul. A generation of women followed Her. Some knew her as Feminism, some knew her as the Deep Feminine, many as both. The Faust Woman Poems trace one woman’s Faustian adventures through that time. Most of a lifetime later the Great Goddess returns to the poet. As oceans rise and species die She demands Her due.
Each element, or fundamental, uses theory and contemporary and historical references to illustrate the richness and diversity of design practice. The book contains five sections which together encapsulate the principle ideas, skills and knowledge that are employed in the creation of spatial solutions that support the needs of the client and which recognize the qualities of the building and its situation. Using illustrations and photographs these elements are identified and described in a way that makes them accessible to the reader.
The body is an emissary. We know little of our own feelings or the feelings of others, but that ignorance is mediated through our organ of touch, the skin. The term 'consensuality' stands for the co-presence of perceptions on the skin, which is the backcloth to sensation and thought. If the intelligence of the body is the basis of both sense and consent, consensuality also has to do with human relations based on the sense of touch, particularly the mother-child couple and the relation of desire, love and loss. This book touches on a range of cultural figures including Gide, Princess Diana, Kafka, Gautier and Rilke, and such films as Gattaca, The Talented Mr Ripley, Being John Malkovich, The Piano and The Truman Show, together with theories of the caress, phantom limbs and replacement children. Connecting all these is the work of psychoanalyst Didier Anzieu, who wrote on group psychology, psychodrama, psychic envelopes, creativity and thought; he also published a study of May '68 written from the heart of Nanterre. He was analysed by Lacan, not knowing at the time that the latter had treated Anzieu's mother. His Le Moi-peau (The Skin-ego) shows how the psychic skin holds, protects and communicates but can also constrict or tear. If love enwraps and loss flays, how do we mourn?
In this poignant debut novel, a woman finds herself caught between the Orthodox Jewish community that raised her and the secular world that changed her.
In the haunting prologue, an Indian sachem vanquishes a sorcerer's evil spirit by ritualistically planting a cedar sapling over the grave where he was buried alive. Centuries later, the tree falls to man's hungry saws, and the Caliban is out of the bag. Stokes's voice takes on a hypnotic hush for the Indian legends".--The New York Times Book Review.
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