![]() And with no clue Connor is her bodyguard, Alicia tries to elude her Secret Service agents and lead Connor astray. For Connor discovers that the first daughter, Alicia, doesn't want to be guarded. Training in surveillance, anti-ambush exercises, hostage survival and unarmed combat, he's put through his paces and wonders if he will actually survive the course.īut when the US president summons Connor to protect his impulsive teenage daughter, Connor's training is put to the ultimate test. ![]() Recruited into the ranks of a covert young bodyguard squad, 14-year-old Connor Reeves embarks on a rigorous close protection course. That's why they need a young bodyguard like Connor Reeves to protect them. With the rise of teen stars, the intense media focus on celeb families, and a new wave of billionaires, adults are no longer the only targets for hostage taking, blackmail and assassination-kids are too. This is Lee Child for younger readers-Jason Bourne for the next generation. ![]() Bodyguard is a bulletproof action-adventure series that fans of Cherub and Alex Rider will love. Hostage is the first installment from the Bodyguard series by Chris Bradford, best-selling author of Young Samurai. In a dangerous world, everyone needs protection. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves?fingersmiths?for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home. Sucksby, a “baby farmer,” who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. ![]() Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Publication date: First published in 2002 Genre: Historical Fiction, Gothic, Romance, LGQBT Today, Ana reads her first ever Sarah Waters (I KNOW). What better way to snap out of a reading fugue than to take a mini-vacation into the past? We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped) books. ![]() Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature. ![]() ![]() ![]() himself - He can’t forgive the insult External – Montresor vs. Montresor tells the story 50 years later.ħ Conflict Internal – Montresor vs. He finds Fortunato at Carnival, who has been drinking, and entices him to follow him home and verify the contents of a cask of rare wine.ĥ Summary continued He shackles him to a wall in the family catacombs and builds a wall around him leaving him to die.Ħ POINT OF VIEW: This short story is told from the first person point of view. 2 SHORT STORY SUMMARY TITLE: “The Cask of Amontillado”ĪUTHOR: Edgar Allan Poe SETTING (Time and Place): Italy, late 1700’s-early 1800’s during Carnivalģ CHARACTERS (List and describe on separate lines):įortunato – drunk, wealthy, respected, feared, has a bad cold, wine expert, prideful, stubborn, insulted Montresor Montresor – deceptive, wants revenge against Fortunato, wealthy, cunning, devious, his family’s coat of arms is a foot crushing a snakeĤ SUMMARY: Montresor has been insulted by Fortunato and vows to get revenge without suffering from harm or punishment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper. Students of both classic and modern architecture and engineering will find much of interest in this fully illustrated reproduction of the 1914 edition translated by Morris Hicky Morgan. ![]() "Ten Books on Architecture" is not only an excellent historical reference into ancient construction methods and aesthetics but also a manual providing direction and wisdom that can be applied to architecture today. Vitruvius dedicated this work to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus, and included information on both Roman and Greek buildings, detailed directions on how to build military camps, his theories on city planning, and guidance on how to construct large public structures, such as aqueducts, public baths, harbors, and buildings, as well as small, more personal items, such as measuring devices and instruments. Vitruvius lived during the first century BC and was an important architect, as well as a civil and military engineer, in the Roman Empire. "Ten Books on Architecture", or "De Architectura", by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, is the most complete treatise on the subject of architecture to survive from antiquity and has influenced the construction and design of major buildings since the Renaissance. ![]() ![]() ![]() She first robs him, then saves him from a deadly enemy, and finally forces Kell to spirit her to another world for a proper adventure. After an exchange goes awry, Kell escapes to Grey London and runs into Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations. It's a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences, which Kell is now seeing firsthand. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they'll never see. ![]() Kell was raised in Arnes -Red London -and officially serves the Maresh Empire as an ambassador, traveling between the frequent bloody regime changes in White London and the court of George III in the dullest of Londons, the one without any magic left to see. Schwab Kell is one of the last Antari -magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black. A Darker Shade of Magic, from #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E. ![]() ![]() ![]() They're both looking for a place to belong, and if they're able to let go of past mistakes and learn to trust again, they might just find what they need in Knights Bridge.and each other. Get 50 off this audiobook at the AudiobooksNow online audio book store and download or stream. Kylie and Russ have more in common than they or anyone else would ever expect. Download or stream The Spring at Moss Hill by Carla Neggers. ![]() But his bigger challenge is getting Kylie to let loose a little.like the adventurous characters she depicts in her work. Her opposition to converting part of the old hat factory into a theater is a challenge. Keeping tabs on Daphne while she considers starting a small children's theater in town doesn't seem like a tough job until he runs into Kylie. Russ is in Knights Bridge to keep his client and friend, eccentric Hollywood costume designer Daphne Stewart, out of trouble. And then California private investigator Russ Colton moves in. carefully guards her privacy in the refurbished nineteenth-century hat factory where she has a loft. New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers returns to charming Swift River Valley, where spring is the time for fresh starts and new beginnings Kylie Shaw has. No one seems to know her here-and she likes it that way. ![]() Kylie Shaw has found a home and a quiet place to work as an illustrator of children's books in little Knights Bridge, Massachusetts. /rebates/2fThe-Spring-at-Moss-Hill-Carla-Neggers2fbook2f33073351&. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She also had four step-children through her fourth marriage: Adam, Sara, Joshua and Paul Boettiger.Īffect phobias is an exceptionally clear and useful reformulation of psychodynamic conflicts in behavioral terms. She had a daughter, Kelly McCullough, with her first husband, and a son, Scott Hudspeth, with her second. Her fourth marriage in 2005 was to John Roosevelt Boettiger, grandson of President Franklin D. She married George Vaillant on December 4, 1993, in Washington, Connecticut. On August 29, 1964, in Pass Christian, Mississippi, she married Robert Milton Hudspeth. ![]() She had two siblings, James Melbourne Colson III and Douglas Steven Colson. She was the daughter of James Melbourne Colson Jr. McCullough was born Mary Lee Colson on June 5, 1945, in Kingsville, Texas. Her treatment model focused on the learned fears of experiencing certain emotions, or what she called affect phobias. Leigh McCullough (J– June 7, 2012) was an American psychotherapist, researcher, educator, and the pioneer of short-term dynamic psychotherapy (STDP). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Responsible for a terrified, overwhelmed young man, and desperately trying to keep abreast of the atevi associations, how can Bren possibly find a way to save two species from a three-sided conflict that no one can win? Bren himself is unable to return home for fear of being arrested or assassinated by the powerful arch conservative element who wish to bar the atevi from space. On the atevi mainland, human ambassador Bren Cameron, in a desperate attempt to maintain the peace, has arranged for one human representative from the Phoenix to take up residence with him in his apartments, and for another to be stationed on humanity's island enclave. But the return of the Phoenix has added a frighteningly powerful third party to an already volatile situation, polarizing both human and atevi political factions, and making the possibility of all-out planetary war an even more likely threat. During these six months, the atevi have reconfigured their fledgling space program in a bid to take their place in the heavens alongside humans. Six months have passed since the reappearance of the starship Phoenix-the same ship which brought a colony of humans to the hostile environment of alien atevi nearly two hundred years ago. The third novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences… ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() video, above, which provides a great introduction. To know more background, I think you’ll enjoy the 5:29 min. The oldest existing copy is from 206 or 195 BC. Click here or on the ebook’s cover to download your free Tao Te Ching ebookĪccording to tradition, the work originates around the fourth century BC. With regards spelling, I believe that any of the following are acceptable… dao, tao, de, teh, te, Lao Zi, Lao Tzu, Lao Tze, Dao De Jing, Tao Teh Ching, Tao Te King. Written more than 2,000 years ago, the Tao Te Ching is one of the classics of spiritual reading. The Tao Te Ching has served as a foundation for centuries of philosophy and wisdom. There are many more that I found which are more poetic and had a little more ‘soul’, if you like. Personally, I find it the least attractive of the available translations. Legge (Sacred Books of the East, Vol 39) James Legge was a Scottish sinologist, missionary, and scholar, best known as an early and prolific translator of Classical Chinese texts into English. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu as translated by J. This blog will also host any relevant topics that can be connected to the wisdom of Lao Tzu’s famous teachings and books. Quotations, sayings, audios, resources, writings and any discussion about the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "My mouth starts watering and a gurgle emanates from my stomach. You disappear for nineteen years and then show up at my lab looking like you haven’t aged a day, with a comatose boy in your arms dressed like he just got back from the Renaissance Fair, and all you can say is ‘he needs help’?” "It occurs to me that I’ve just discovered our first similarity: it appears I can’t be trusted either." Really great read,can't wait to read the last book.I have a feeling it will be messed up. "Now it’s my turn to be completely rocked by the truth. It appears that this series is getting better and better.And just like Project Paper Doll,the second book in the series doesn't suffer the middle book syndrome-it's actually waaaay better than the first one.I kinda knew that things wouldn't work out in the 1609,but I didn't know that it would be that bad.Also,we're introduced to a new character,Kaelen,who I suppose will be a big part of the story in the next book.I kind of liked Kaelen and I wanted to find out what exactly is the connection between him and Sera.However,since Zen is sick through this whole book,I missed him a lot.But the most important thing is that CODY IS BACK!I MISSED HIM SO MUCH AND I WAS SOOOO HAPPY WHEN HE FINALLY APPEARED.Sera's reaction was priceless,tho. It’s an ancient Sanskrit symbol that,according to Zen, represents the flowing of time and movement within all that is eternal. ![]() |