Ghost in the Desert (Misfits of Gambria Book 3)

Ghost in the Desert (Misfits of Gambria Book 3)
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Publisher : Trimble Hollow Press
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 9781946495464
ISBN-13 : 1946495468
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Ghost in the Desert (Misfits of Gambria Book 3) by : pdmac

Duncan’s ambitions have been destroyed. Removed as High Priest, he and his pregnant lover have been exiled to the wastelands, a land so desolate that it’s merely a matter of days before their dried-up shriveled bodies are food for the jackals. Unable to save Duncan, Alexis retreats to the Tarrac pastures only to discover her adoptive father Menec has decided he’s had enough of palace intrigue and is off to the far north to find out what happened to his father all those years ago. Unfortunately, as the new Tarrac Master and nation’s Berserker, Alexis’ loyalty and obedience are demanded by the very man who sent Duncan to his death. However, things aren’t going too well for King Diad as he finally realizes he has run out of time and quickly discovers he doesn’t have the necessary forces to prevent his brother’s quest to rule Gambria. With his brother marching on Mull, Diad must find a way to save himself. Back in the Temple, life seems to have returned to the dark days when Vix was High Priest as Cattwg has finally achieved his greatest ambition. Yet there are many in the Temple who remember the vibrance of life during the brief time when Duncan was in charge. Though they are silent, their thoughts are the same – if only Duncan was still here.

The Voice of Thunder (Misfits of Gambria Book 2)

The Voice of Thunder (Misfits of Gambria Book 2)
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Publisher : Trimble Hollow Press
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 9781946495440
ISBN-13 : 1946495441
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis The Voice of Thunder (Misfits of Gambria Book 2) by : pdmac

Be careful when you get what you ask for… Especially when others believe they deserve the prize more than you. And some will do everything necessary to get what they want, even murder. Duncan’s confidence has failed to account for a paranoid High Priest, a jealous King unhappy with the way the people have taken to this stranger, and a certain ambitious Priest who wants nothing better than to get rid of the High Priest and Duncan at the same time. Unfortunately, Vix, Gambria’s High Priest, has a more immediate problem. He must eliminate Duncan before the contest reveals Vix is a fraud. It’s time to call in assassins and eliminate this obnoxious threat. And where is Alexis when you need her? Unhappy with a woman as Berserker, especially one who is untested in battle and still learning the language, King Diad tells his Battle Commander to place her on a weak flank against the Rugian army. Hopefully, they can take care of the problem and Gambria can find a new Berserker. Then there’s Bradwr, King Diad’s brother, who believes Diad is no longer worthy of being king and has determined that the title is now within his reach. This is a revamping of a former series titled Wolf 359. The Misfit series is geared to a wider audience and age groups.

Lord of Innis Torr: A GameLit Adventure Series (Bridge Quest Book 3)

Lord of Innis Torr: A GameLit Adventure Series (Bridge Quest Book 3)
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Publisher : Trimble Hollow Press
Total Pages : 547
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ISBN-10 : 9781946495204
ISBN-13 : 1946495204
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Lord of Innis Torr: A GameLit Adventure Series (Bridge Quest Book 3) by : pdmac

Back in the game, Karl quickly learns that his friends are imprisoned and the evil assassin and nemesis, Kevin, now occupies the throne in a kingdom far from united. Graft and corruption permeate the land and highwaymen roam at will. Having already experienced Kevin’s treachery, Karl conceals his return until he can liberate his team, soon discovering there is a traitor among them. His problems are further compounded for the wicked sorceress Eleris has the magic-enhancing Delf Stone and if Karl intends to conquer Innis Torr and regain his kingdom, he must first steal the Delf Stone.

Speedboat

Speedboat
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Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 9781590176337
ISBN-13 : 1590176332
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Speedboat by : Renata Adler

Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, this is one of the defining books of the 1970s, an experimental novel about a young journalist trying to navigate life in America. When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice, ambivalent, curious, wry, the voice of Jen Fain, a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of contemporary urban America. Party guests, taxi drivers, brownstone dwellers, professors, journalists, presidents, and debutantes fill these dispatches from the world as Jen finds it. A touchstone over the years for writers as different as David Foster Wallace and Elizabeth Hardwick, Speedboat returns to enthrall a new generation of readers.

Security in Africa

Security in Africa
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 157
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ISBN-10 : 9781442239562
ISBN-13 : 1442239565
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Security in Africa by : Claire Metelits

Security in Africa: A Critical Approach to Western Indicators of Threat questions the dominant Western narrative of security threats in Africa. Based on an analysis traditional security studies and Western security policy, it argues that commonly used indicators are based on mainstream security studies and provide only circumscribed analyses of threats to international security. By assessing the origins of this traditional approach to security and problematizing failed states, political instability, Muslim populations, and poverty among others, it makes the case for a critical approach to framing security challenges in Africa.

White Trash

White Trash
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 482
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ISBN-10 : 9781101608487
ISBN-13 : 110160848X
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis White Trash by : Nancy Isenberg

The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2016: 100 recommended books A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016 Globe & Mail 100 Best of 2016 “Formidable and truth-dealing . . . necessary.” —The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” —O Magazine In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash. “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity. We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.

The Rough Guide Book of Playlists

The Rough Guide Book of Playlists
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1843537281
ISBN-13 : 9781843537281
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis The Rough Guide Book of Playlists by : Mark Ellingham

This second edition of the Rough Guide Book of Playlistscontains more than 500 lists of which 50 are new to this edition. The lists are recommendations of ten songs (sometimes a couple more, sometimes a couple less), covering artists (Rufus Wainwright to Thelonius Monk, Al Green to Manu Chao, Glenn Gould to Julie Andrews), genres (Bebop Classics to Reggae Toasters to Punk Originals to Hot Club jazz), songs (10 best Dylan covers; 8 classic versions of Summertime; 10 love songs that don't cloy), quirks and silliness (Songs about Chickens and Insects; Who let the frogs out?; Big Pizza Pie crooners; Take this Job and Shove it!). There's even a literary edge with playlists like '10 songs raved about in Murakami novels'. Each of the Playlists has a nugget about the song (why you want it on your iPod), and a listings of where it's from (remember CDs?).

Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung Fu Cavemen from the Future

Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung Fu Cavemen from the Future
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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages : 657
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ISBN-10 : 9780545513166
ISBN-13 : 0545513162
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung Fu Cavemen from the Future by : Dav Pilkey

Tra-la-laaa! Dav Pilkey -- ahem -- we mean, George and Harold, the authors of SUPER DIAPER BABY, are back with their second epic novel! Meet Ook and Gluk, the stars of this sensationally silly graphic novel from the creators of Captain Underpants! It's 500,001 BC, and Ook and Gluk's hometown of Caveland, Ohio, is under attack by an evil corporation from the future. When Ook, Gluk, and their little dinosaur pal Lily are pulled through a time portal to 2222, they discover a future world that's even more devastated than their own. Luckily, they find a friend in Master Wong, a martial arts instructor who trains them in the ways of kung fu. Now all they have to do is travel back in time 502,223 years and save the day!

Afterlife of Empire

Afterlife of Empire
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 381
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ISBN-10 : 9780520289475
ISBN-13 : 0520289471
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Afterlife of Empire by : Jordanna Bailkin

This book investigates how decolonization transformed British society in the 1950s and 1960s, and examines the relationship between the postwar and the postimperial.

The Leaving

The Leaving
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 412
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ISBN-10 : 9781619638044
ISBN-13 : 1619638045
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis The Leaving by : Tara Altebrando

Six were taken. Eleven years later, five come back--with no idea of where they've been. A riveting mystery for fans of We Were Liars. Eleven years ago, six kindergartners went missing without a trace. After all that time, the people left behind moved on, or tried to. Until today. Today five of those kids return. They're sixteen, and they are . . . fine. Scarlett comes home and finds a mom she barely recognizes, and doesn't really recognize the person she's supposed to be, either. But she thinks she remembers Lucas. Lucas remembers Scarlett, too, except they're entirely unable to recall where they've been or what happened to them. Neither of them remember the sixth victim, Max--the only one who hasn't come back. Which leaves Max's sister, Avery, wanting answers. She wants to find her brother--dead or alive--and isn't buying this whole memory-loss story. But as details of the disappearance begin to unfold, no one is prepared for the truth. This unforgettable novel--with its rich characters, high stakes, and plot twists--will leave readers breathless.