Against the odds, Ana survived. Now in Lucidis, she must learn to fit into a world where she feels she doesn't belong. Will the price of salvation be her humanity? Battling with his own calling as a Guardian, Samael sees the changes occurring in himself and Ana and fears what it signifies. He isn't alone in his concerns. Cael, too, has noticed the immeasurable strength and the power lurking within her, which she can't seem to control. With each day that passes, she becomes more of a threat to herself and others. When the Tenebrian Guardians launch an attack to create chaos on Earth, it falls to Cael to keep Ana and Samael safe. But how can he protect them when it's their inherent human nature that puts them at risk? From author, Stefanie Dawn, comes the second installment to The Guardians of Angels and Fire Series, a paranormal romance filled with gritty action and sizzling passion!
Is a world plagued by Tenebrians worth saving? Earth is crumbling, the planet itself becoming unstable due to the Balance shifts. Mankind is being tormented by incessant earthquakes, violent cracks in the Earth's crust, and the collapse of homes and buildings. While the Lucidians are working tirelessly to protect humans, the roaming Tenebrians are gleefully reveling in the chaos. There may be a way to restore the Balance, but can they bring the shattered remains of the realms back together? While Samael and Cael grapple with the pieces of their lives, Ana struggles to understand, risking everything for a world that seems lost to the grips of violence. Can love be found at the end of the world? Join the apocalyptic battle, full of suspenseful thrills and steamy romance, in the highly anticipated conclusion to author Stefanie Dawn's brilliant Guardians of Angels and Fire Series!
There's nothing deadlier than a Guardian gone rogue. Once meant to protect mankind, the Tenebrian uses his destructive powers over human fear and pain to feed his own sadistic desires. But another has been called forth to stop him. One determined to vanquish the growing threat before the suffering worsens. Kyle has much to learn about the new realm he finds himself in, and how to stop Tenebrian's reign of cruelty. Yet his driving motivations shift when he meets... her. Anahera. The intriguing human who will teach Kyle the true value of humanity, and love. With her tangled up in the battle between good and evil, and Kyle's mission quickly unravelling, he finds himself facing the crushing choice between love... and sacrifice. From author Stefanie Dawn comes a sizzling paranormal romance filled with sinister darkness and compelling supernatural adventure!
The loss of someone or something we hold deara parent, friend, pet, or homecauses deep emotional distress. The author guides readers through the stages of grieving and provides concrete suggestions for coping with loss.
Rejected by her family at birth, Dawn is raised in a children's home. Released at eighteen, Dawn is labeled an Imperfect by the government. With few options, she becomes enmeshed in a new life of secret camps and illegal raids. Amidst blossoming love and whispers of death, Dawn fears she will have to sacrifice everything to survive.
A powerful cabal has fallen. A princess has chosen duty over love. An ancient threat waits amid the shadows. Wes Cervos has recovered a new portion of the Codex Veritatis, but his increased knowledge of the High One has come at a terrible price. Whitespire has been destroyed, and the realm of the dragons has fallen into chaos. Wes and his friends have once again sought refuge in the city of Auranth, but this time, they are no longer willing to hide. Across Kaveryth, confidence in King Ursa has begun to crumble, and new allies now seek to take a stand against his lust for power. As the elves threaten invasion from the west, an unexpected threat rises in the north. The forces of the Four Kingdoms have been stretched thin, and impossible decisions threaten to sever even the closest of family ties. Wes and his friends must trust in the High One to act, or all of Kaveryth will fall into darkness forever. Storm & Spire is a Christian fantasy series for readers who enjoy fantastical creatures, political intrigue, and a touch of clean romance. Perfect for readers who enjoy Patrick W. Carr, Tricia Mingerink, Morgan Busse, and Jaye L. Knight.
Stefanie Pintoff's combination of vital characters and a fascinating case set amongst the sometimes brutal and sometimes glittering history of turn-of-the-century New York makes for totally compelling reading in Secret of the White Rose, the third novel in her Edgar Award–winning series. The murder of Judge Hugo Jackson is out of Detective Simon Ziele's jurisdiction in more ways than one. For one, it's high-profile enough to command the attention of the notorious new police commissioner, since Judge Jackson was presiding over the sensational trial of Al Drayson. Drayson, an anarchist, set off a bomb at a Carnegie family wedding, but instead of killing millionaires, it killed passersby, including a child. The dramatic trial has captured the full attention of 1906 New York City. Furthermore, Simon's assigned precinct on Manhattan's West Side includes the gritty Tenderloin but not the tonier Gramercy Park, which is where the judge is found in his locked town house with his throat slashed on the night before the jury is set to deliberate. But his widow insists on calling her husband's old classmate criminologist, Alistair Sinclair, who in turn enlists Ziele's help. Together they must steer Sinclair's unorthodox methods past a police force that is so focused on rounding up Drayson's supporters that they've all but rejected any other possibilities.
Disability and Political Representation explores how disabled people experience the various stages and aspects of the representation process, drawing upon extensive empirical research and a variety of qualitative and quantitative data. It discusses why increasing the number of disabled politicians matters, not only as a matter of justice and equality but also to better represent the issues and interests of importance to disabled people. Evans and Reher identify a variety of ableist barriers prevent disabled people from fully participating in the political process, from disenfranchisement and inaccessible polling stations to prejudice within parties and a lack of financial support for candidates who require adjustments. The work shows that while the preferences of disabled citizens are currently under-represented in parliament, disabled representatives often draw on their lived experience to advocate for their interests. The concept of experiential representation is developed to help scholars and practitioners better navigate the concept of political representation, specifically as it relates to disability. Thus, the book explores how disability can help us think about the contours of political representation. It presents and analyses a range of diverse and original data, including qualitative data generated from interviews with disabled politicians and activists in the UK, quantitative survey data on the political attitudes and participation of disabled citizens from across Europe, and data from survey experiments examining voter perceptions of disabled politicians in the UK and the US.
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Stefanie Sloane's The Saint Who Stole My Heart. In Stefanie Sloane’s spirited and witty new series of intrigue and passion, a dedicated spy learns the meaning of surrender. To Young Corinthian agent Marcus MacInnes, the Earl of Weston, his latest mission involving a smuggling ring with ties to Napoleon seems ridiculous at first, but becomes all too threatening as pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place. And the most troubling piece of all? Miss Sarah Tisdale, an unconventional beauty whose lust for life is rivaled only by her ability to drive Marcus to distraction. When her family comes under suspicion, Marcus must watch her very closely—even if her touch ignites the fiery desire burning beneath his cool façade. When it comes to suitors, Sarah’s lush curves and kissable lips aren’t enough to compensate for her willful nature. She’s tasted disappointment before, but flirting with the sinfully handsome Marcus is a pastime worth savoring—even when it leads to wicked pleasures. When Sarah’s life is in jeopardy, Marcus discovers that the passion between them can no longer be denied—and he’ll do anything to keep her in his arms.
This book explores the nature of cognitive representations and processes in speech motor control, based primarily on evidence from speech timing. It engages with the key question of whether phonological representations are spatio-temporal, as in the Articulatory Phonology approach, or symbolic (atemporal and non-quantitative); this issue has fundamental implications for the architecture of the speech production planning system, particularly with regard to the number of planning components and the type of timing mechanisms. Alice Turk and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel outline a number of arguments in favour of an alternative to the Articulatory Phonology/Task Dynamics model. They demonstrate that a different framework is needed to account for evidence from speech and non-speech timing behaviour, and specifically that three separate planning components must be posited: Phonological Planning, Phonetic Planning, and Motor-Sensory Implementation. The approach proposed in the book provides a clearer and more comprehensive account of what is known about motor timing in general and speech timing in particular. It will be of interest to phoneticians and phonologists from all theoretical backgrounds as well as to speech clinicians and technologists.
Popular mommy blogger Stefanie Wilder-Taylor is officially fed up with the endless mommy fads, trends, studies, findings, and facts about how to raise children. Tiger Mom or Cool Mom? Organic or vegan? In her latest book the mother of three young girls has decided to find out how to be a mom all on her own. Filled with sage advice and hilarious stories, Gummi Bears Should Not Be Organic is sure to appeal to any and every renegade mom who has forged her own path to childrearing.
The career of Stefanie Powers is one of so many stage, screen, and television credits that her name alone recalls memories as varied as her roles—on screen and off. From movie roles including John Wayne’s daughter in McLintock! and Lana Turner’s rival in Love Has Many Faces, to being terrorized by Tallulah Bankhead in Die, Die My Darling and befriending a Volkswagen in Herbie Rides Again, she stepped onto the television screen as the sexy secret agent April Dancer in The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. and the jet-setting, crime-solving wife of Robert Wagner in Hart to Hart. She is also an award-winning stage actress, fitness advocate, and an internationally recognized animal conservationist. A natural beauty groomed for show business at an early age, Stefanie Powers began her career at the tail end of the Studio System, a dynamic education in star quality and Hollywood history she happily admits was “one hell of a ride.” Privileged to have worked with some of the greatest names in the Hollywood firmament, Stefanie tells of the time she broke down in tears at a party over her divorce from actor Gary Lockwood, only to be comforted with a cocktail and the hard-won, been-there advice from two guests she had never met: Elizabeth Taylor and Ava Gardner. Costarring with Robert Wagner in Hart to Hart not only brought her five Emmy Award nominations but it created a working relationship that endured more than fifteen years. Through it all, Stefanie treasured the camaraderie of her close-knit community, and here she shares the priceless lessons she learned. But in a lifetime of dear friends and associates, no other had such a significant effect on Stefanie than one man: Oscar-winning actor William Holden. In One from the Hart, Stefanie reveals for the first time the extraordinary nine-year relationship they shared, a transcendent love story that ended with his tragic death as a result of lifelong struggles with alcoholism and depression. It was Holden, “a man of great fun, depth, and adventure,” who introduced to Stefanie a distinctive and enriching personal obsession in East Africa: the Mount Kenya Game Ranch. His work in the conservation and preservation of endangered species in East Africa began long before the issue became popular, and he pioneered the concept of a game ranch in Kenya. After his death, Powers established the William Holden Wildlife Foundation to carry on with his passion and his legacy to her. She built her own oasis on the foothills of Mount Kenya and lives part time in one of the most magnificent landscapes on Earth. This is One from the Hart, Stefanie Powers’s story of a resourceful, empowered, and atypical celebrity life, told with all the candor, wit, and wisdom that have come to embody the woman herself.
"These days, I am less heart, more break... but soon I'll be more bloom than wounds." From poet Stefanie Briar, bestselling author of "Burn" and "Surrender", comes her highly anticipated 6th book, "Iron & Velvet". "Iron & Velvet" is a powerful poetic journey through heartbreak and eventual healing (breaking and blooming). The words inside will break your heart and then kiss the wounds closed. Anyone who has ever loved and lost (and made it to the other side) will find themselves between every line. This is the perfect book for lovers of modern poetry and fans of Whitney Hanson, Beau Taplin, Isabella Dorta, FS Yousaf, Shelby Leigh, Michaela Angemeer, Zara Bas, and Amanda Lovelace. Read it and let yourself feel.
The loss of someone or something we hold deara parent, friend, pet, or homecauses deep emotional distress. The author guides readers through the stages of grieving and provides concrete suggestions for coping with loss.
The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life considers the rise of a hybrid generic form, the verse-novel, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Such poems combined epic length with novelistic plots in the attempt to capture not a heroic past but the quotidian present. Victorian verse-novels also tended to be rough-mixed, their narrative sections interspersed with shorter, lyrical verses in varied measures. In flouting the rules of contemporary genre theory, which saw poetry as the purview of the eternal and ideal and relegated the everyday to the domain of novelistic prose, verse-novels proved well suited to upsetting other hierarchies, as well, including those of gender and class. The genre's radical energies often emerge from the competition between lyric and narrative drives, between the desire for transcendence and the quest to find meaning in what happens next; the unusual marriage plots that structure such poems prove crucibles of these rival forces. Generic tensions also yield complex attitudes towards time and space: the book's first half considers the temporality of love, while its second looks at generic geography through the engagement of novels in verse with Europe and the form's transatlantic travels. Both well-known verse-novels (Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, Arthur Hugh Clough's Amours de Voyage, Coventry Patmore's The Angel in the House) and lesser-known examples are read closely alongside a few nearly related works (Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book). An Afterword traces the verse-novel's substantial influence on the modernist novel.
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