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For fans of Raymond Chandler, Sunset Boulevard, and all things noir... It's Los Angeles. Jake Logan, a struggling young actor with a Harvard background, hasn't gotten a part in months. A chance meeting with an old friend leads to an unusual new gig-as a private tutor for April Kim, a highly intelligent seventeen-year-old from a wealthy Asian family. Her life goal: to attend Harvard University. But there's a big problem. Jake soon discovers tha...

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On November 29, 1864, over 150 Native Americans, mostly women, children, and elderly, were slaughtered in one of the most infamous cases of state-sponsored violence in U.S. history. Kelman examines how generations of Americans have struggled with the question of whether the nation s crimes, as well as its achievements, should be memorialized.

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When Jace walked through the doors of Aggie's dungeon, the last thing he expected was to find self-forgiveness and the love of a remarkable woman. But when a terrible accident sidelines Jace during the band's tour, the burdensome chains of his past wrap ferociously around his heart. Determined to crack through Jace's armored shell, Aggie must go beyond her usual methods to mend his heart to love again.

When Jace walked through the doors of Aggie's dungeon, the last thing he expected was to find self-forgiveness and the love of a remarkable woman. But when a terrible accident sidelines Jace during the band's tour, the burdensome chains of his past wrap ferociously around his heart. Determined to crack through Jace's armored shell, Aggie must go beyond her usual methods to mend his heart to love again.

For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth--by sail, steam, or liquid fuel, by cycling, driving, flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily power. The story begins with the first centuries of circumnavigation, when few survived the attempt: in 1519, Ferdinand Magellan left Spain with five ships and two hundred and seventy men, but only one ship and thirty-five men returned, not includin...

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Run Fast, Keep Low is something soldiers say to each other before they go on tour. It was also my prayer for my son every time he was deployed. My son suffered a seizure while on active duty in Afghanistan in 2009. He never fully recovered and was medically discharged from the army in 2011. We were advised his seizure was caused by the combat stress of completing 3 overseas tours in 3 years. He served in Iraq in 2007 and in Kosovo in 2008. He ...

I so longed to brush his cheek with my finger, to put my lips to his, to kiss him awake, to touch him as someone more than a pal with the aching tenderness that coursed my immobile body.' Neil Raffan exposes his personal vulnerability, both emotional and physical, through Lost in translation and What Phou respectively, whilst other more robust entries focus on the likes of vascular dementia and carmine bee-eaters, family hiatus and travel h...

Edwin Birch coughs up an (slightly fictionalized) autobiographical novel on Charles Babbage--inventor of the Analytical Engine, father of the Computer Age--& his diminutive friend, Jiffy: "Hello Jiffy, " Babbage murmured, utterly bewildered and transfixed by the strange entity on his lap. "What were you doing in my throat?" he managed at last. It was a reasonable question, and it received a reasonable answer: "I don't know. What's a throat...

A collection of pieces of writing reflecting the sidelong and cynical view on life of a retired Hampshire schoolmaster.

Modern nutritional principles for enhancing long-term health explained in a simple, understandable manner, with a daily guide for the adoption of a healthier diet and a collection of satisfying recipes, many of restaurant quality, for home dining enjoyment.