Five pathways to Pemberley! It's the best of all worlds in this collection of five short Pride & Prejudice variations by bestselling writer Abigail Reynolds. Can Mr. Darcy win Elizabeth Bennet's heart... or are they doomed to misunderstand one another forever? Can Mr. Darcy stand by and watch while Elizabeth loses everything she holds precious... including him? Views: 220
To the Nines: Stephanie Plum Novels Views: 220
After her narrow brush with death in Holy Hell, you'd think Lillian Byrd would have learned to keep her head down, but when a friend in crisis calls from California, Lillian jumps on a plane and wings her way from Detroit to Palm Springs-and danger. It's the weekend of the Dinah Shore golf tournament, the wildest women's sporting event in the world, when thousands of lesbians descend on the desert community and take over. At a pre-championship party, Lillian leaps into a slippery romance with a top LPGA star. But her superstar athlete has a secret: Someone is quietly terrorizing her. Lillian, eager to help, goes undercover as a high-profile reporter, an unhinged nun, and a professional caddie while uncovering layer after disturbing layer of the golfer's past. Finally, with violence erupting at every turn, Lillian discovers her lover's ultimate horrifying secret-and it is not at all what she had guessed. Views: 219
On
one hand, this ‘book of logic ‘n reasoning’ appraises the Islamic faith shaped
by the sublimity of Muhammad's preaching in Mecca and the severity of his
sermons in Medina, which together make it Janus-faced to bedevil the minds of
the Musalmans. That apart, aided by “I’m Ok – You’re Ok”, the
path-breaking work of Thomas A. Harris and Roland E Miller’s “Muslim
Friends–Their Faith and Feeling”, this work for the first time ever,
psycho-analyses the imperatives of the Muslim upbringing that has the potential
to turn a faithful and a renegade alike into a fidayēn.
On the other hand, this work,
besides appraising the monumental rise and the decadent fall of Hindu intellectualism,
analyses how the sanātana dharma came to survive in India, in
spite of the combined onslaught of Islam and the Christianity on Hinduism for
over a millennium.
Also, besides providing a panoramic view of the Indian
history, this thought-provoking book appraises the way Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Azad,
Ambedkar, Indira Gandhi, Narasimha Rao, Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi,
Narendra Modi et al made or unmade the post-colonial India.Possibly in a new genre this free eBook is a book
for our times.Contents
Preface of Strife Chapters1. Advent of Dharma2. God’s quid pro Quo3. Pyramids of Wisdom4. Ascent to Descent5. The Zero People6. Coming of the Christ7. Legacy of Prophecy8. War of Words9. Czar of Medina10. Angels of War11. Privates of ‘the God’12. Playing to the Gallery13. Perils of History14. Pitfalls of Faith15. Blinkers of Belief16. Shackles of Sharia17. Anatomy of Islam18. Fight for the Souls19. India in Coma20. Double Jeopardy21. Paradise of Parasites22. The Number Game23. Winds of Change24. Ant Grows Wings25. Constitutional Amnesia26. The Stymied State27. The Wages of God28. Delusions of Grandeur29. Ways of the Bigots30. The Rift Within31. The Way Around32. The Hindu Rebound33. Italian Interregnum34. Rama Rajya
35. Wait for the Savant
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Webster\'s edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of synonyms and antonyms for difficult and often ambiguous English words that are encountered in other works of literature, conversation, or academic examinations. Extremely rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority in the notes compared to words which are ¿difficult, and often encountered¿ in examinations. Rather than supply a single synonym, many are provided for a variety of meanings, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of the English language, and avoid using the notes as a pure crutch. Having the reader decipher a word\'s meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is not noted on a page, chances are that it has been highlighted on a previous page. A more complete thesaurus is supplied at the end of the book; synonyms and antonyms are extracted from Webster\'s Online Dictionary. PSAT¿ is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT¿ is a registered trademark of the College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE¿, AP¿ and Advanced Placement¿ are registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book, GMAT¿ is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT¿ is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved.
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Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef by James Fenimore Cooper Views: 214
Love is everywhere. . .
When does a gift become a curse?
Matt Stone doesn't believe in ghosts. But there are those who are convinced his home, a historic Virginia estate that dates back to the Revolutionary War, is haunted. Pressured to get at the truth about some strange happenings at Melody House, he agrees to let Harrison Investigations explore the house. But he isn't ready for beautiful, intriguing Darcy Tremayne.
As a paranormal investigator, Darcy has learned to believe in the unbelievable. And she's given Matt fair warning: sometimes people don't like the skeletons she finds. She never dreamed that the warning would apply to herself. For she's about to discover that Melody House holds much more than a simple mystery form the distant past. What it holds is a very real and lethal danger, one that will cast her into a struggle against the worlds of both the living and the dead. Views: 213
Wealthy, confident and handsome, Sir Charles Van Drift spends his time jetting to exotic locales with his wife and in-laws. But on one fateful trip to the Riviera, Van Drift meets his match in Colonel Clay. Posing alternately as a seer, a curate, and a German professor, the master of disguise swindles Van Drift through three continents and poses a serious risk to his South African diamond fortune. Colonel Clay, the notorious con artist and thief, has triumphed. But who is this master of disguise, really? First serialized in The Strand in 1896, the adventures that comprise An African Millionaire are widely regarded as the first to feature a criminal protagonist and will be greeted enthusiastically by fans and scholars of classic crime fiction. Views: 213
Set in 1778 in old Vincennes on the Wabash, during the Revolutionary peroid. Views: 212
Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon is not like other boys his age. His uncle Press is a Traveler, and, as Bobby has learned, that means Uncle Press is responsible, through his journeys, for solving interdimensional conflict wherever he encounters it. His mission is nothing less than to save the universe from ultimate evil. And he's taking Bobby along for the ride.
Fresh from his first adventure on Denduron, Bobby finds himself in the territory of Cloral, a vast world that is entirely covered by water. Cloral is nearing a disaster of huge proportions. Reading the journals Bobby sends home, his friends learn that the desperate citizens of the endangered floating cities are on the brink of war. Can Bobby—suburban basketball star and all-around nice guy—help rid the area of marauders, and locate the legendary lost land of Faar, which may hold the key to Cloral's survival?
Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here CLORAL Views: 212
Berserker(r) Series, a chronicle of a war between humanity and the
terrifying race of sentient machines bent on death and destruction. Pilot
Harry Silver's name is known throughout the galaxy-and that notoriety
does not always work in his favor. While he has defeated his share of
Berserkers, he has also stolen a powerful weapon from the Space Force,
making him a fugitive from the life he once knew. Looking for an
adventure, and not one to turn down a lot of cash, Harry agrees to bring
a passenger aboard his ship, Lily, a woman who is on a quest to
retrieve her husband.It won't be easy, as Lily's husband has
joined a secretive religious cult on Maracanda, an almost-planet lodged
between a shifting black hole and a neutron star. While the landscape of
Maracanda is treacherous, so, too, may be the people around Harry
Silver. As the search for Lily's husband deepens, Harry finds
himself investigating a larger mystery and looking for missing person,
almost ending up one himself. And as always, there is the threat of
death from above, in the path of a machine whose only intent is to kill.
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At the heart of the universe is a steady, insistent beat, the sound of cycles in sync. Along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies congregate and flash in unison; the moon spins in perfect resonance with its orbit around the earth; our hearts depend on the synchronous firing of ten thousand pacemaker cells. While the forces that synchronize the flashing of fireflies may seem to have nothing to do with our heart cells, there is in fact a deep connection. Synchrony is a science in its infancy, and Strogatz is a pioneer in this new frontier in which mathematicians and physicists attempt to pinpoint just how spontaneous order emerges from chaos. From underground caves in Texas where a French scientist spent six months alone tracking his sleep-wake cycle, to the home of a Dutch physicist who in 1665 discovered two of his pendulum clocks swinging in perfect time, this fascinating book spans disciplines, continents, and centuries. Engagingly written for readers of... Views: 210
The California Coast: Off San Miguel Island a fishing boat struggles in the battering-ram seas and blinding rain of a sudden squall... On the beach near his home, private investigator Wil Hardesty is approached by a Vietnamese fisherman. Vinh Tien is not convinced the disappearance at sea of his only son was the accident it was ruled. His son had fallen in with evil personified: a man who came to America the same time Vinh did, a Vietnamese boat person like himself... For once at peace with his dead, Wil resists digging up the ghosts of those he fought and bled with in-country. But he is moved by Vinh Tien's hardship and loss. For Wil, too, has lost a son to the ocean... What Wil discovers brings him into a shadowy world of Asian gangs—dragons that prey upon their own—contraband of the most insidious sort, corruption that reaches unexpected heights...played out against a background as exotic as the Vietnamese culture, as violent as the code of... Views: 209
Augusta Jane Wilson, or Augusta Evans Wilson, (May 8, 1835 – May 9, 1909) was an American Southern author and one of the pillars of Southern literature. She was born Augusta Jane Evans on May 8, 1835, in Columbus, Georgia. The area of her birth was then known as Wynnton (now MidTown). As a young girl in 19th-century America she received little in the way of a formal education. However, she became a voracious reader at an early age. Her father, Matthew Evans, suffered bankruptcy and lost the family\'s Sherwood Hall property in the 1840s. He moved his family of 10 from Georgia to San Antonio, Texas, in 1845. Wilson wrote in the domestic sentimental style of the Victorian Age. Critics have praised the intellectual competence of her female characters, but as her heroes eventually succumb to traditional values, Evans has been described as an antifeminist. Of St. Elmo one critic maintained, "the trouble with the heroine of St. Elmo was that she swallowed an unabridged dictionary." Wilson was the first American woman author to earn over $100,000. This would be a record unsurpassed until Edith Wharton. Views: 209
