The witch's daughter
By :
Published on 1984 by
Category :"Language Arts & Disciplines"
The witch has a beautiful daughter Isis who doesn't want to be a wicked witch.
Lenght : 24
Language : en
This Book was ranked 10 by Google Books for keyword the witch s daughter
Wicked Intentions
By :"Elizabeth Hoyt"
Published on 2010-12-02 by Hachette UK
Category :"Fiction"
A man controlled by his desires . . . Infamous for his wild, sensual needs, Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire, is searching for a savage killer in St. Giles, London's most notorious slum. Widowed Temperance Dews knows St. Giles like the back of her hand - she's spent a lifetime caring for its inhabitants at the foundling home her family established. Now that home is at risk . . . A woman haunted by her past . . . Caire makes a simple offer - in return for Temperance's help navigating the perilous alleys of St. Giles, he will introduce her to London's high society so that she can find a benefactor for the home. But Temperance may not be the innocent she seems, and what begins as cold calculation soon falls prey to a passion that neither can control - one that may well destroy them both. A bargain neither could refuse.
Lenght : 400
Language : en
This Book was ranked 26 by Google Books for keyword wicked appetite
Hidden in Plain Sight
By :"Peter Wallison"
Published on 2015-01-13 by Encounter Books
Category :"Business & Economics"
The 2008 financial crisis—like the Great Depression—was a world-historical event. What caused it will be debated for years, if not generations. The conventional narrative is that the financial crisis was caused by Wall Street greed and insufficient regulation of the financial system. That narrative produced the Dodd-Frank Act, the most comprehensive financial-system regulation since the New Deal. There is evidence, however, that the Dodd-Frank Act has slowed the recovery from the recession. If insufficient regulation caused the financial crisis, then the Dodd-Frank Act will never be modified or repealed; proponents will argue that doing so will cause another crisis. A competing narrative about what caused the financial crisis has received little attention. This view, which is accepted by almost all Republicans in Congress and most conservatives, contends that the crisis was caused by government housing policies. This book extensively documents this view. For example, it shows that in June 2008, before the crisis, 56 percent of all US mortgages were subprime or otherwise low-quality. Of these, 76 percent were on the books of government agencies such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. When these mortgages defaulted in 2007 and 2008, they drove down housing prices and weakened banks and other mortgage holders, causing the crisis. After this book is published, no one will be able to claim that the financial crisis was caused by insufficient regulation, or defend Dodd-Frank, without coming to terms with the data this book contains.
Lenght : 432
Language : en
This Book was ranked 20 by Google Books for keyword the big short
The Kudzu That Ate Yazoo City
By :"William L. Jenkins"
Published on 2004-09 by Xulon Press
Category :"Fiction"
Junior Jenkins, influenced by a large family, poverty, faith, and the ever-present kudzu vine, mingles fact, fiction and homegrown wisdom to remember those cotton picking days in Yazoo City, Mississippi.
Lenght : 180
Language : en
This Book was ranked 39 by Google Books for keyword crooked letter crooked letter
Calloustown
By :"George Singleton"
Published on 2015-11-10 by
Category :"Fiction"
Calloustown, the seventh collection from master raconteur George Singleton, who’s been praised by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as the \
Lenght : 288
Language : en
This Book was ranked 27 by Google Books for keyword crooked letter crooked letter
The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove
By :"Susan Gregg Gilmore"
Published on 2010-08-17 by Crown
Category :"Fiction"
Nobody in Nashville has a bigger name to live up to than Bezellia Grove. As a Grove, she belongs to one of city’s most prominent families and is expected to embrace her position in high society. That means speaking fluent French, dancing at cotillions with boys from other important families, and mastering the art of the perfect smile. Also looming large is her given name Bezellia, which has been passed down for generations to the first daughter born to the eldest Grove. The others in the long line of Bezellias shortened the ancestral name to Bee, Zee or Zell. But Bezellia refuses all nicknames and dreams that one day she, too, will be remembered for her original namesake’s courage and passion. Though she leads a life of privilege, being a Grove is far from easy. Her mother hides her drinking but her alcoholism is hardly a secret. Her father, who spends long hours at work, is distant and inaccessible. For as long as she can remember, she’s been raised by Maizelle, the nanny, and Nathaniel, the handyman. To Bezellia, Maizelle and Nathaniel are cherished family members. To her parents, they will never be more than servants. Relationships are complicated in 1960s Nashville, where society remains neatly ordered by class, status and skin color. Black servants aren’t supposed to eat at the same table as their white employers. Black boys aren’t supposed to make conversation with white girls. And they certainly aren’t supposed to fall in love. When Bezellia has a clandestine affair with Nathaniel’s son, Samuel, their romance is met with anger and fear from both families. In a time and place where rebelling against the rules carries a steep price, Bezellia Grove must decide which of her names will be the one that defines her. From the Hardcover edition.
Lenght : 272
Language : en
This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword crooked letter crooked letter
Crooked Letter i
By :"Elizabeth Craven","Logan Knight","Thom Koch","Jeff Mann","Beth Richards","Jack","Christina Holzhauser","B. Andrew Plant","Merril Mushroom","Suzanne Lea","Susan Benton","Stephanie Woolley-Larrea","James Villanueva","Vickie Spray","Ed Madden","Louie Crew"
Published on 2015-08-21 by NewSouth Books
Category :"Biography & Autobiography"
Crooked Letter i offers a collection of first-person nonfiction narratives that reflect the distinct 'coming out' experiences of a complex cross-section of gay, lesbian, and transgendered Southerners from all walks of life and at different stages in their lives. The experiences represented here pivot around a central theme -- finally finding language to understand one's identity, and then discovering we were never the only ones. Revealing a vibrant cross-section of Southerners, the writers of these narratives have in common the experience of being Southern and different, but determined against all odds.
Lenght : 208
Language : en
This Book was ranked 20 by Google Books for keyword crooked letter crooked letter
Dare Me
By :"Megan Abbott"
Published on 2012-07-31 by Hachette UK
Category :"Fiction"
Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and trusted lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. Now they're seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer squad, feared and followed by the other girls -- until the young new coach arrives. Cool and commanding, an emissary from the adult world just beyond their reach, Coach Colette French draws Addy and the other cheerleaders into her life. Only Beth, unsettled by the new regime, remains outside Coach's golden circle, waging a subtle but vicious campaign to regain her position as \
Lenght : 300
Language : en
This Book was ranked 16 by Google Books for keyword crooked letter crooked letter
Stephenie Meyer
By :"James Blasingame Jr.","Kathleen Deakin","Laura A. Walsh"
Published on 2012-06-07 by Scarecrow Press
Category :"Biography & Autobiography"
Inspired by a vivid dream, Stephenie Meyer, a stay-at-home mom, wrote a manuscript that started a worldwide sensation that has yet to abate. In 2005 her debut novel, Twilight, crashed onto the shore of teen literature like a literary tsunami. Four books later, she had become the top-selling author in the world. When the final book in the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn, was released in 2008, more than a million copies were sold on the first day alone. The popular culture phenomenon of Stephenie Meyer and her writing is much more than the sum total of her weeks on the bestseller list, however. Stephenie Meyer: In the Twilight looks at the life and work of this author, beginning with her childhood and covering her teen years and life before stardom. This volume also profiles Meyer’s world since becoming a cultural icon. In addition to discussing Meyer’s writing style, the chapters also explore each of her books, with a final chapter focusing on her presence in social media and public events. As young and old continue to devour her every word, this volume puts into perspective the work and impact that Meyer has around the world. Stephenie Meyer: In the Twilight will be of interest to teachers and librarians, as well as to middle and high school students—not to mention adults—who are interested in learning more about their favorite author.
Lenght : 146
Language : en
This Book was ranked 30 by Google Books for keyword the short second life of bree
Quicklet on Steve Martin's An Object of Beauty
By :"Vivian Wagner"
Published on 2012-02-16 by Hyperink Inc
Category :"Study Aids"
ABOUT THE BOOK I love Steve Martin’s An Object of Beauty for the same reasons I love the novels of Edith Wharton. It’s about a doomed heroine who seeks to make her fortune and seems to have the world by the tail, even as she and society both have fatal flaws that lead to her downfall. It’s full of richly-detailed characters and descriptions of the turn-of-the-twenty-first-century art world, and it is a true portrait of the modern age. An Object of Beauty also includes a number of full-color reproductions of paintings, which are central to the book’s story-telling and plot. The reproductions – including James Tissot’s La Mondaine, Ed Ruscha’s Los Angeles County Museum on Fire, Joseph Beuys’ Felt Suit, and many others – are almost as much fun to look at as the novel is to read, and they flesh out the storytelling in surprising ways. I found myself going back and forth between reading the novel and looking at the images of art, and this back-and-forth motion between text and image is one of the novel’s primary delights. This is a novel for people who love novels and art. It’s a pleasure to read, and it leaves you wanting more of this story. When I first read it, I wanted to go back and read all of Edith Wharton’s repertoire again, and I know it will do the same for other readers. Anyone who enjoys nineteenth-century novels of manners will enjoy this novel, and it’s all the more enjoyable because it updates those story lines and brings them to life in the modern era. MEET THE AUTHOR professional writer Vivian Wagner has wide-ranging interests, from technology and business to music and motorcycles. She writes features regularly for ECT News Network, and her work has also appeared in American Profile, Entrepreneur, Bluegrass Unlimited, and many other publications. She is also the author of Fiddle: One Woman, Four Strings, and 8,000 Miles of Music (Citadel 2010). For more about her, visit her website at www.vivianwagner.net. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK An Object of Beauty is divided in three sections. Part I begins by introducing the voice of the narrator, Daniel Franks. It opens with Daniel giving us a sense of who he is, as a relatively distant, and yet involved, narrator: “I am tired, so very tired of thinking about Lacey Yeager, yet I worry that unless I write her story down, and see it bound and tidy on my bookshelf, I will be unable to write about anything else.” The occasion of this writing – trying to get down the story of Lacey once and for all – returns throughout the novel, as the narrator tries to come to terms with his complicated feelings for Lacey. This first book sets up their rocky relationship, and it also shows us the beginnings of Lacey’s career in the art world of New York in the 1990s, where she works in the basement of Sotheby’s preparing paintings for auction. She and Daniel share some features of their careers, since they’re both involved in art, though he’s more interested in the aesthetics, whereas she gradually becomes more interested in the monetary value of that art. When the story opens, they’re both 23 years old, fresh out of college, and eager to make it in the big world. This first part of the novel shows Lacey coming of age, becoming an adult, and growing beyond the furniture and boyfriends of her past. Buy a copy to keep reading!
Lenght : 19
Language : en
This Book was ranked 34 by Google Books for keyword an object of beauty
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
By :"Adam Smith (économiste)"
Published on 1761 by
Category :
Lenght : 436
Language : en
This Book was ranked 32 by Google Books for keyword an object of beauty
Symptom of Beauty
By :"Francette Pacteau"
Published on 2013-06-01 by Reaktion Books
Category :"Art"
For a woman in the Western world, there is no escaping beauty. Either she possesses it, or she lacks it. If she lacks it, she may hope to gain it. If she already has it, she will certainly lose it. But what is \
Lenght : 232
Language : en
This Book was ranked 15 by Google Books for keyword an object of beauty
The Pleasure of My Company
By :"Steve Martin"
Published on 2003-10-01 by Hachette Books
Category :"Fiction"
From the bestselling author of Shopgirl comes the tender story of a troubled man who finds love, and life, in the most unexpected place. Daniel resides in his Santa Monica apartment, living much of his life as a bystander: He watches from his window as the world goes by, and his only relationships seem to be with people who barely know he exists. He passes the time idly filling out contest applications, counting ceiling tiles, and estimating the wattage of light bulbs. It is through Daniel's growing attachment to Clarissa, and to Teddy, that he finally gains the courage to begin to engage the world outside, and in doing so, he discovers love, and life, in the most surprising places. Filled with his trademark humor, tenderness, and out and out hilarious wordplay, The Pleasure of My Company is a tour de force sure to delight all of Steve Martin's fans.
Lenght : 176
Language : en
This Book was ranked 7 by Google Books for keyword an object of beauty
Dear Killer
By :"Katherine Ewell"
Published on 2014-04-01 by Harper Collins
Category :"Young Adult Fiction"
Full of \
Lenght : 368
Language : en
This Book was ranked 7 by Google Books for keyword i am not a serial killer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
By :"Renate Wind"
Published on 1992-04-01 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Category :"Biography & Autobiography"
A concise biography of the German theologian offers an impression of Bonhoeffer's complex personality
Lenght : 182
Language : en
This Book was ranked 27 by Google Books for keyword bonhoeffer
Designus Maximus Unleashed!
By :"Clive Maxfield"
Published on 1998 by Newnes
Category :"Technology & Engineering"
Based on the \
Lenght : 458
Language : en
This Book was ranked 32 by Google Books for keyword unleashed
C# 4.0 Unleashed
By :"Bart De Smet"
Published on 2011-01-04 by Pearson Education
Category :"Computers"
C# 4.0 Unleashed is a practical reference focusing on the C# language and the .NET platform as a whole. While covering the language in lots of detail, it also provides enough coverage of various popular .NET technologies and techniques (such as debugging) for the reader to be successful on the .NET platform. The in-depth coverage of the language features is crucial to the success of a developer. Knowing exactly where and why to use certain language features can boost efficiency significantly. This book differs from other works by going into enough depth on how things work, while not being a clone of the formal language specification. Concise anecdotes with concrete samples illustrate how certain language features behave, and also point out possible caveats in using them. On the side of platform coverage, the author provides a gentle introduction to the wide landscape of the .NET platform, following a logical structure that reflects the high-level architecture of an application: presentation, logic, data, connectivity, etc. In the .NET part of the book there's coverage of relevant new technologies such as cloud computing, modeling, and parallel programming - things that will gain much more attention moving forward. Provides valuable insight into the C# language and the .NET Framework - not just \
Lenght : 1080
Language : en
This Book was ranked 30 by Google Books for keyword unleashed
The SPEED of Trust
By :"Stephen M.R. Covey"
Published on 2006-10-17 by Simon and Schuster
Category :"Self-Help"
From Stephen R. Covey's eldest son comes a revolutionary new path towards productivity and satisfaction. Trust, says Stephen M.R. Covey, is the very basis of the new global economy, and he shows how trust—and the speed at which it is established with clients, employees and constituents—is the essential ingredient for any high–performance, successful organization. For business leaders and public figures in any arena, The Speed of Trust offers an unprecedented and eminently practical look at exactly how trust functions in our every transaction and relationship—from the most personal to the broadest, most indirect interaction—and how to establish trust immediately so that you and your organization can forego the time–killing, bureaucratic check–and–balance processes so often deployed in lieu of actual trust.
Lenght : 384
Language : en
This Book was ranked 14 by Google Books for keyword the 9th judgment
9th Judgement
By :"James Patterson"
Published on 2011 by Random House
Category :"Boxer, Lindsay (Fictitious character)"
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Lenght : 455
Language : en
This Book was ranked 9 by Google Books for keyword the 9th judgment
Judgment and Decision Making
By :"David K. Hardman","David Hardman"
Published on 2009-02-09 by John Wiley & Sons
Category :"Psychology"
Judgment and Decision Making is a refreshingly accessibletext that explores the wide variety of ways people make judgments. An accessible examination of the wide variety of ways peoplemake judgments Features up-to-date theoretical coverage, includingperspectives from evolutionary psychology and neuroscience Covers dynamic decision making, everyday decision making,individual differences, group decision making, and the nature ofmind and brain in relation to judgment and decision making Illustrates key concepts with boxed case studies andcartoons
Lenght : 221
Language : en
This Book was ranked 7 by Google Books for keyword the 9th judgment
Documentary Arabic Private and Business Letters on Papyrus
By :"Eva Mira Grob"
Published on 2010 by Walter de Gruyter
Category :"History"
Arabic letters on papyrus challenge the modern reader. There are few to no diacritical dots to distinguish homographs, no systematic spacing between single words, and in the majority of cases a low degree of graphical structuring. However, contemporary readers usually read and understood these documents easily probably because the recipient of a letter knew what to expect. The letters are formulaic, and their information packaging follows an algorithm typical for their time and content. Here formulaic letter writing means not only the reuse of the same formulae or topoi but expressing thoughts in a predictable linguistic way and order, both as a matter of readability and as one of adequacy and politeness. The main concern of this work is to discover these unwritten rules and norms behind Arabic letter writing on papyrus.\
Lenght : 269
Language : en
This Book was ranked 38 by Google Books for keyword private
Private Life Under Socialism
By :"Yunxiang Yan"
Published on 2003-03-12 by Stanford University Press
Category :"Social Science"
For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years’ fieldwork that has resulted in this book—a comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China from 1949 to 1999. The author’s focus on the personal and the emotional sets this book apart from most studies of the Chinese family. Yan explores private lives to examine areas of family life that have been largely overlooked, such as emotion, desire, intimacy, privacy, conjugality, and individuality. He concludes that the past five decades have witnessed a dual transformation of private life: the rise of the private family, within which the private lives of individual women and men are thriving.
Lenght : 320
Language : en
This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword private
Full Tilt
By :"Janet Evanovich","Charlotte Hughes"
Published on 2010-03-30 by Macmillan
Category :"Fiction"
Jamie Swift's job running the local newspaper in Beaumont is complicated by the arrival of her silent partner, Maximilian Holt, who is in town supporting his brother-in-law, former wrestler Frankie Fontana, in his campaign for mayor.
Lenght : 352
Language : en
This Book was ranked 39 by Google Books for keyword sizzling sixteen
Curious Minds
By :"Janet Evanovich","Phoef Sutton"
Published on 2016-08-16 by Bantam
Category :"Fiction"
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Janet Evanovich, bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, teams up with Emmy-winning writer Phoef Sutton for a brand-new series of mysteries featuring Emerson Knight and Riley Moon, a dynamic duo with instant and undeniable chemistry. Emerson Knight is introverted, eccentric, and has little to no sense of social etiquette. Good thing he’s also brilliant, rich, and (some people might say) handsome, or he’d probably be homeless. Riley Moon has just graduated from Harvard Business and Harvard Law. Her aggressive Texas spitfire attitude has helped her land her dream job as a junior analyst with mega-bank Blane-Grunwald. At least Riley Moon thought it was her dream job, until she is given her first assignment: babysitting Emerson Knight. What starts off as an inquiry about missing bank funds in the Knight account leads to inquiries about a missing man, missing gold, and a life-and-death race across the country. Through the streets of Washington, D.C., and down into the underground vault of the Federal Reserve in New York City, an evil plan is exposed. A plan so sinister that only a megalomaniac could think it up, and only the unlikely duo of the irrepressibly charming Emerson Knight and the tenacious Riley Moon can stop it. From the Hardcover edition.
Lenght : 336
Language : en
This Book was ranked 22 by Google Books for keyword sizzling sixteen
Sizzling Sixteen
By :"Janet Evanovich"
Published on 2010-06-22 by Macmillan
Category :"Fiction"
Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has inherited a \
Lenght : 320
Language : en
This Book was ranked 1 by Google Books for keyword sizzling sixteen
