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Challenging Dante (A Bride for a Billionaire #4)
Par Lynne Graham. 2013
An Italian billionaire doesn’t trust his mother’s new secretary in this contemporary romance by a USA Today–bestselling author.Unimpressed by his…
mother’s new companion, shrewd Italian billionaire Dante Leonetti is determined to oust the cuckoo from his castle. After all, what could this beautiful, intelligent young woman want with his family other than a slice of their fortune?Topaz Marshall’s search for her father brought her into Dante’s world and now she’s experiencing Leonetti’s ferocious reputation firsthand. Knowing Dante thinks she’s a gold digger, she is shocked when he turns on his legendary charm. Dante is determined to seduce the truth from her lips and Topaz must do everything in her power to resist.'Fresh, exciting and relevant! Adams has created accessible tools we can use to turn up our vibration and our greatness'…
Lewis Howes, New York Times bestselling authorJoy. Confidence. Passion. Purpose. Love. These are the things that make life really juicy, right? Then why do they so often elude us?The answer to this timeless question rests in understanding energetics. Quantum Vibes reveals how the confluence of the Law of Attraction, spirituality and science can work brilliantly to deliver you the contentment and success you've long been craving.Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and brimming with poignant and galvanizing personal stories, you will discover how to:• Turn up your vibrational frequency • Tap into the infinite realm of the quantum field • Rewire your mind to live on purpose • Turn your triggers into gold • Activate your dreams • Experience genuine miracles to reach your greatest potentialThis is your blueprint for positive change and happinessRed String Theory
Par Lauren Kung Jessen. 2024
In this charming rom-com about two star-crossed lovers, a woman whose life is guided by her belief in the red-string…
of fate finds her perfect match—but his skepticism about true love puts a knot in their chances.Just a date . . . or a twist of fate? When it comes to love and art, Rooney Gao believes in signs. Most of all, she believes in the Chinese legend that everyone is tied to their one true love by the red string of fate. And that belief has inspired her career as an artist, as well as the large art installations she makes with (obviously) red string. That is until artist&’s block strikes and Rooney begins to question everything. But then fate leads her to the perfect guy . . . Jack Liu is perfect. He&’s absurdly smart, successful, handsome, and after one enchanting New York night—under icy February skies and fueled by fried dumplings—all signs point to destiny. Only Jack doesn&’t believe. And after their magical date, it looks like they might be lost to each other forever . . . until they&’re given one more chance to reconnect. But can Rooney convince a reluctant skeptic to take a leap of fate?Old Crimes: and Other Stories
Par Jill McCorkle. 2024
Beloved author Jill McCorkle delivers a collection of masterful stories that are as complex as novels—deeply perceptive, funny, and tragic…
in equal measure—about crimes large and small. McCorkle, author of the New York Times bestselling Life After Life and the widely acclaimed Hieroglyphics (&“One of our wryest, warmest, wisest storytellers&” —Rebecca Makkai), brings us a breathtaking collection of stories that offers an intimate look at the moments when a person&’s life changes forever.Old Crimes delves into the lives of characters who hold their secrets and misdeeds close, even as the past continues to reverberate over time and across generations. And despite the characters&’ yearnings for connection, they can&’t seem to tell the whole truth. In &“Low Tones,&” a woman uses her hearing impairment as a way to guard herself from her husband&’s commentary. In &“Lineman,&” a telephone lineman strains to connect to his family even as he feels pushed aside in a digital world. In &“Confessional,&” a young couple buys a confessional booth for fun, only to discover the cost of honesty. Profoundly moving and unforgettable, for fans of Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and Lily King, the stories in Old Crimes reveal why McCorkle has long been considered a master of the form, probing lives full of great intensity, longing and affection, and deep regret. &“Jill McCorkle has had an extraordinary ear for the music of ordinary life since the beginning of her career, able to work with the voices we know so well to write these stories about what they will not tell us, what they would rather not tell us, what they hope to tell us, what too often goes unsaid. And this collection is a new wonder.&” —Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical NovelI Am a Masterpiece!: An Empowering Story About Inclusivity and Growing Up with Down Syndrome
Par Mia Armstrong. 2024
Tween actress Mia Armstrong celebrates her fun, funny, beautiful childhood living with Down syndrome in this debut picture book. Mia…
likes many of the things other people like--going to the beach, the color blue, drawing. But she doesn't like when strangers stare at her because she looks different from them. Down syndrome allows Mia to see and understand the world in a way that may not make sense to others. She considers it her superpower--and instead of it making her strange, she considers herself a masterpiece. As we all are. In this sparkling picture book, Mia offers a glimpse into the life of a child with Down syndrome, helping some readers see themselves in a book and helping others understand those friends, classmates, and family members who are neurodivergent.A Bean to Die For (A Coffee Lover's Mystery #4)
Par Tara Lush. 2024
Perfect for fans of Cleo Coyle and Lucy Burdette, reporter-turned-barista Lana Lewis is back on the case when a body…
is dug up in the community garden.Lana Lewis is brewing up new concoctions at Perkatory, a popular café in Devil&’s Beach, when she decides she wants to try her hand at growing her own coffee. She secures a gardening plot in the community garden, thanks to her father and the garden&’s owner, Darla. Darla&’s list of rules is long, but that doesn&’t stop someone from leaving Jack Daggett&’s body amongst the gardening plots.Jack, an environmental activist, had been banned from the garden previously, because of his many fights with Darla about organic produce. Lana promises her boyfriend, police chief Noah, that she&’s going to stay out of this case, having been too involved in previous cases. But when she learns that Jack died from an accidental overdose, and Darla is the top suspect because of her shady past, Lana can't help but poke around in an attempt to clear Darla's name.As Lana dives deeper into the case, she learns that Jack had more enemies than she realized. When Darla turns up dead, Lana has to turn up the heat on her investigation. With Lana on the case, it won&’t be long before someone spills the beans to crack this case wide open. But will she able to find the killer before they strike again?Birthday Bling: Spending (Dollars to Doughnuts #1)
Par Catherine Daly. 2024
From budgeting to spending, from credit cards to gift cards, this new early chapter book series tackles and explains big…
financial topics for kids, Dollars to Doughnuts!When Lucy&’s aunt gives her a card—the plastic kind—for her birthday, Lucy knows just the blinged-out sweatshirt to spend it on. She plunks the card down at the store, but, cringe, it comes up short! Wait, what&’s the difference between a gift card and a credit card? In this early chapter book designed to help kids decipher finance facts and fallacies, Lucy and her best friend, Julian, find out about the pros and cons of gift cards versus credit cards.Tales from the Merged Realms (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))
Par Random House. 2024
New heroes, new villains—and dragons!—collide in this full-color chapter book, featuring three action-packed stories based on the all-new LEGO® NINJAGO®:…
Dragon Rising animated series!The world of LEGO NINJAGO is changing as many legendary realms have suddenly combined into one world! The adventures of Sora and Arin take readers on an amazing journey across the lush world of Dragons Rising, the newest LEGO NINJAGO animated series. Kids 6-9 will love this full-color chapter book, featuring three new and exciting adventure stories.LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Brick and Knob configurations, the Minifigure and NINJAGO are trademarks of the LEGO Group. ©2024 The LEGO Group.An expanded edition of the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground—with the first biography of Coil, Current 93,…
and Nurse With Wound.This newly expanded edition of England's Hidden Reverse, the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground that includes the first, and only, biographies of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound, is based on exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to all three bands&’ personal archives. Together, these genre-defying bands and their circles represent the English underground in all its cultural, artistic, and sexual variety. Over four decades, the three intertwined groups have maintained a symbiotic, yet uneasy, relationship with the mainstream of popular culture, even as their music, beliefs, and practices have repelled them from it. Theirs was a clandestine scene whose work accents the many occulted peculiarities of Englishness that flow through generations of outsiders, channeling personalities as diverse as Aleister Crowley, Arthur Machen, Joe Orton, Shirley Collins, Björk, and Marc Almond. The story of this Hidden Reverse has, necessarily, remained a secret. Until now. This new volume contains almost 100 pages of extra material culled from Furfur, a collection of interviews with musicians and artists whose careers intersected with the bands&’, initially published alongside Strange Attractor's first limited edition of the book.Batter Splatter: Making a Budget (Dollars to Doughnuts #2)
Par Catherine Daly. 2024
From budgeting to spending, to credit cards and gift cards, this new early chapter book series tackles and explains big…
financial topics for kids, Dollars to Doughnuts!After a batter disaster, Julian and Lucy&’s cooking class needs a kitchen cleanup, including a new paint job. Luckily, they have a plan to make things right—they&’ll simply throw the bake sale of the century! But their sweet dreams dissolve like sugar when faced with the b-word: Budget. What is a budget and how are they ever supposed to stay within it? In this early chapter book designed to help kids decipher finance facts and fallacies, Lucy and Julian discover the ins and outs of budgeting.The Sign of Four Spirits (A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery #9)
Par Vicki Delany. 2024
Gemma Doyle won&’t be spooked when a body shows up at the psychic fair in bestselling author Vicki Delany&’s ninth…
Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery.When a psychic fair arrives in West London, Gemma Doyle, owner of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, wants nothing to do with it. But somehow, at the urging of Donald Morris, an enthusiastic Sherlockian, she finds herself talked into attending a séance, along with baker and best friend Jayne Wilson, store assistant, Ashleigh, and former pop star Bunny Leigh.But to her surprise, Gemma finds herself banned from the séance and shown the door. Curious, she listens in from outside the room. The medium informs a disappointed Donald that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will not be able to make it tonight. Then, Gemma hears a voice cut off, a cry for help, a scream. Gemma bursts into the library to see that someone has collapsed on the table--dead. The windows are all locked, and Gemma was guarding the only door. Someone in this room is a murderer. But who?The game is once again afoot for Gemma Doyle, as she hunts a killer. But, this time, is the killer of flesh and blood or had the medium summoned doom from beyond the veil?Death at a Scottish Wedding (A Scottish Isle Mystery #2)
Par Lucy Connelly. 2024
Dr. Emilia McRoy is back on the case in the second book in the Scottish Isle mystery series, perfect for…
fans of Sheila Connolly and Charlene O&’Connor.Something old, something new, something borrowed and someone&’s blue… Finally feeling like Sea Isle, Scotland is becoming her new home, American doctor Emilia McRoy is delighted when she is invited to a wedding at Morrigan's Castle. Her friends have warned her that it's a three-day party and it's bound to get wild, not to mention the impending snowstorm. Constable Ewan Campbell, owner of the castle, ensures their safety with the blizzard. What he didn&’t ensure, is that all of his guests would survive the night alive. When Emilia explores the impressive castle, she finds a dead man in one of the turrets. The snowstorm hits and the local police can&’t reach the castle until it lets up. With no one able to leave, the family insists they carry on with the wedding, which makes Emilia's job as the coroner a bit easier—the suspects are in one place––and complicated because the killer has Emilia in his sights. The fact no one claims to know the victim isn't helping. Why would someone no one knows be murdered at a castle in the middle of nowhere?It&’s up to Emilia to uncover the mystery who the victim is, so the killer doesn&’t get away Scot free.For readers of adrienne maree brown, Staci K. Haines, and Robin Wall KimmererA body-based healing model that interrogates what we&’ve…
been wrongly taught about hierarchies of nature and the body—and pushes back against the white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism embedded in modern embodiment practices.Pushing back against a consumerist, pleasure-centric somatics industry that privileges product over process, Abigail Rose Clarke reminds us that truly meaningful embodiment practice nurtures our relationships among self, nature, and community.Combining the rigor of the scientific method with the poetry and lyricism of movement and somatic studies, Clarke&’s somatic learning system—The Embodied Life Method—centers the body as a guide through today&’s most seemingly intractable social and environmental challenges, reclaiming the body as a source of liberatory comfort in times of great uncertainty and yet, possibility. With tools and practices to help us better understand and dismantle the many ways our bodies are weaponized to serve domination systems, topics covered include:Harnessing the vitality of curiosity and experimentationUsing nature as a guide to possibilityEmbracing the necessity of differenceExposing the lie of universal isolationDismantling the fallacy of hierarchyUncovering the truth of endless capacityAwe as a driving force for transformationWith methods honed over decades of inquiry, teaching, and practice, Returning Home to Our Bodies provides a lucid, body-based model of healing and restoration—one that imagines a world beyond systems of domination, marginalization, and isolation to nurture embodied, whole-community liberation.Maya Iconography
Par Elizabeth P. Benson, Gillett G. Griffin. 2024
A landmark work on the iconography of one of the world&’s great civilizationsThis book presents foundational work on Maya iconography…
from leading practitioners in fields ranging from archaeology, anthropology, and art history to linguistics, astronomy, photography, and medicine. The period discussed runs from the last centuries B.C. through the great Maya Classic period, with some discussion of later eras and of regions outside the Maya area. Featuring an incisive introduction by Elizabeth Benson and Gillett Griffin, Maya Iconography demonstrates how Maya beliefs developed over time and makes important connections between Preclassic and Classic iconography.The contributors are John Carlson, Michael Coe, David Freidel, Donald Hales, Norman Hammond, Nicholas Hellmuth, John Justeson, Barbara Kerr, Justin Kerr, Mary Ellen Miller, William Norman, Lee Parsons, Francis Robicsek, Linda Schele, David Stuart, and Karl Taube.Hugo Wolf: The Vocal Music
Par Susan Youens. 2024
A groundbreaking look at one of the great song composers of the late Romantic periodIn the virtual cottage industry of…
works on fin de siècle Vienna, Hugo Wolf (1860–1903) has been somewhat neglected, perhaps because he was the master of a small genre—the late Romantic lied—and never truly made his mark in the larger forms that command greater public attention. But in the realm of song, he is among the greatest inheritors of Schubert and Schumann, one who was both a traditionalist and a modernist. When the Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick disapprovingly dubbed Wolf &“the Richard Wagner of the lied,&” he was paying oblique homage to Wolf&’s genius as a song composer in the most modern manner.In this book, Susan Youens examines five aspects of Wolf&’s compositional art, each exemplifying a different synthesis of traditionalism and modernity and spanning his entire, tragically brief creative life, from his first efforts to his lapse into insanity in 1897. She discusses Wolf&’s youthful imitations of Schumann, his genius for comic songs of a kind unlike any of his predecessors, his part in the ballad revival of the late nineteenth century, Wolf in relation to his contemporaries, and his pursuit of operatic fame. Youens looks as closely at the poetic texts as she does the music and includes numerous previously unpublished sketches and fragments, examples from songs now long out of print and difficult to obtain, and citations from Wolf&’s vivid letters and other sources of the period.Rembrandt: The Nightwatch
Par Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann. 2024
A landmark book that casts critical light on one of Rembrandt&’s most iconic paintingsIn The Nightwatch, Rembrandt turns his portrayal…
of eighteen prominent Amsterdam citizens as members of a militia company into one of the world&’s most fascinating works of art, one that evokes censure as well as praise. The painting, however, was not an eccentric vision but a thoughtful reworking of a longstanding tradition of militia portraiture. In this classic book, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann shows how Rembrandt chose motifs, colors, actions, and setting to emphasize the historic role of the militia in Amsterdam and the social standing of the men portrayed, and how contemporary viewers associated costumes and actions with events of the past and familiar circumstances of the period when the painting was made. Meticulously reconstructing the artist&’s intentions and the viewer&’s response, Haverkamp-Begemann sheds critical light on the startling young woman in gold and other visual elements of this remarkable work.Keats: The Religious Sense
Par Robert M. Ryan. 2024
A landmark account of how Keat&’s religion shaped his life and poetryJohn Keats (1795–1821) was an earnest seeker after truth…
who believed in the existence of a Supreme Being and felt a need to investigate the consequences and ramifications of that belief. Keats: The Religious Sense reconstructs the historical, social, and intellectual environment that fostered Keats&’s religious convictions and describes the faith he adopted for himself. In this landmark book, Robert Ryan follows Keats&’s religious development through its observable chronological stages, beginning with the process by which he abandoned the Christian faith of his upbringing. Ryan shows how religious speculation and discussion played a significant formative role in the poet&’s intellectual development, especially in the years of his greatest achievement, and argues that Keats&’s critical judgments of Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth—as well as some of his famous theoretical pronouncements on poetry, including his remarks on &“negative capability&” and &“the truth of Imagination&”—cannot be fully understood without understanding the religious context in which they were made.Goethe, Volume 5: From My Life: Campaign in France 1792-Siege of Mainz
Par Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 2024
An authoritative English translation of Goethe&’s classic autobiographical account of war and conquest in the age of revolutionIn August 1792,…
Goethe accompanied Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, during the Prusso-Austrian invasion of revolutionary France to restore Louis XVI as king. After the Cannonade of Valmy that September, the German armies were forced to retreat, never again to threaten the heart of France until the end of the Napoleonic era. The French subsequently invaded the Rhineland and captured the city of Mainz, claiming it for the French Republic. When German armies besieged Mainz, Goethe witnessed the capture of the city at the close of 1793.Goethe&’s narrative of these events has become a classic text for the history of Franco-German relations during the revolutionary period. A product of recollection, historical hindsight, and considerable study of other published sources, it is a fascinating document of the military catastrophe exposing the decline of Prussian power since the death of Frederick II, which eventually culminated in Napoleon&’s devastating 1806 victory at Jena and Auerstedt.Jung on Alchemy
Par C. G. Jung. 2024
Illuminating selections from Jung&’s writings on alchemy and the transformation of the human spiritThe ancient practice of alchemy, which thrived…
in Europe until the seventeenth century, dealt with the phenomenon of transformation—not only of ore into gold but also of the self into Other. Through their work in the material realm, alchemists discovered personal rebirth as well as a linking between outer and inner dimensions.C. G. Jung first turned to alchemy for personal illumination in coping with trauma brought on by his break with Freud. Alchemical symbolism eventually suggested to Jung that there was a process in the unconscious, one that had a goal beyond discharging tension and hiding pain. In this book, Nathan Schwartz-Salant brings together key selections of Jung&’s writings on the subject. These writings expose us to Jung&’s fascinating reflections on the symbols of alchemy—such as the three-headed Mercurial dragon, hermaphrodites, and lions devouring the sun—and brings us closer to the spirit of his approach to the unconscious, closer than his purely scientific concepts often allow.Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
Par Mircea Eliade. 2024
The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperbackShamanism is an essential work on the study of…
this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade surveys the tradition through two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia—where shamanism was first observed—to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond. In this authoritative survey, Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give primacy of place to the figure of the shaman—at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, priest, mystic, and poet. Synthesizing the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology, Shamanism remains the reference book of choice for those interested in this practice.