![]() ![]() Kat writes novels about the world’s sexiest rugby team. Kats other career involves writing and editing for charities, and shes traveled to Kenya, Ethiopia and India to meet heroic people helping their communities survive disasters. She taught English in Prague and worked as an editor in London before she and her British husband moved to the Netherlands. Kat Latham is a California girl who moved to Europe the day after graduating from UCLA, ditching her tank tops for raincoats. So I was thrilled when the awesome Kat Latham agreed to visit downunder and showcase her new release Playing it Close, book two in the London Legends series. There is nothing I love more than a good sports romance but if you know me at all you can appreciate that I have a special place in my heart for rugby themed books. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “A receptionist, no less aware of the solemnity of her role than a priestess at the Temple of Delphi, is on hand for a short initiation ceremony, handing you a badge and directing you to the sofas with a tenuous promise of rescue. Thus when de Botton is being kept waiting in the reception area of a grand building on one of the multiple red leather sofas, he notes that the experience “enforces the impression of the importance of one’s hosts in the upper floors. The most mundane activity is brought to life. ![]() ![]() Jinxed focuses on upcoming seventh grader, Lacey Chu, who dreams of becoming a companioneer for MONCHA - the Apple of the future. This book is pure fun to read and by the end I guarantee you’ll want to trade in your old smart phone for a customized baku too. Move over sci-fy/dystopia/futuristic YA novels! It’s the middle grade fiction’s time to shine! And Jinxed by Amy McCulloch is just the novel to lead the way. ![]() ![]() Verdict: Jinxed is a fun and much-needed unique addition to the children’s collection and contains elements that will make this book a win-win for everyone! ![]() ![]() ![]() Chou had one court official flayed, and another carved up into meat strops and hung to dry. ![]() Shang Dynasty: Nobleman suspected of disloyalty were forced to lie on a red-hot rack. Fathers killed sons and sons killed fathers wives poisoned their husbands and husbands banished their wives, all in an effort to climb a royal throne or to remain perched on it. Indeed, the history of the ancient world is a history of the slaughter of one’s enemies. It will encourage you.Īmerican political squabbles seem like playground shoving matches compared to the bloodshed that accompanies the rise and fall of nations, especially Rome. If this upcoming election has you worried for the fate of America, read The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome. ![]() ![]() In the author's own words, the purpose of The Other Einstein is not to diminish Albert Einstein's contribution to humanity and science. The first thing to note is that this book is dubbed historical fiction. And about her hunger for science, her inner turmoil regarding the inequality between men and women, the thrills she feels with innovations such as seeing an electric tram for the first time, and about the choices she had to make to care for her children. The Other Einstein is an emotional book - but never sentimental, I needed no box of tissues - about the highs and lows of her life with the famous Einstein. No friends, no love, all she wants is to succeed and proof to Professor Weber that she is as good as any of the male students. Falling in love with Albert Einstein might be keeping her from working towards this goal, she thinks. ![]() Therefore she made it her goal to become a scientist, and started her career by being one of the few female students to go the Polytechnic university studying Physics. ![]() From the moment she understood that she was smarter than her fellow classmates, she never thought she could make friends. ![]() If you love biographical novels like I do, this is a must-read. ![]() ![]() The Thirty Years War involved numerous agents within and outside the elaborate system of polities known as the Holy Roman Empire. A full bibliography would list hundreds of thousands of works over four hundred years here are several. Sterile debates that occupied the entire 19th and early 20th centuries are now barely even remembered. Some tenacious misunderstandings about the way early-17th-century strategy and combat worked are being rooted out. This is an excellent time for Thirty Years War research. Compared to the population at the time, it may have been proportionally more deadly than any war in western or central Europe before or since. Although the fighting took place primarily in central Europe, this complex multifaceted struggle eventually sucked in people from Ireland to Muscovy west to east, and from Norway to Italy north to south. ![]() This Thirty Years War was one of the most destructive conflicts on earth. Although it is largely accepted that this is “The Thirty Years War,” and indeed some people called it that shortly after it was over, some historians use this phrase to denote other wars, beginning earlier or ending later. ![]() Historians still debate what to call the conflict that convulsed Central Europe from 1618 to 1648. ![]() ![]() In fact, almost one tenth of the men who identified as straight in a population-based sample in New York City reported having sexual intercourse with men only in the previous year ( Pathela et al., 2006). ![]() ![]() Identity, however, is not always consistent with behavior for example, some gay-identified men also have sex with women, and some heterosexually identified men also have sex with men ( Doll et al., 1992 Montgomery, Mokotoff, Gentry, & Blair, 2003 Ross, Essien, Williams, & Fernandez-Esquer, 2003). One aspect of self-concept is sexual orientation identity, which includes, among others, definitions of the self as heterosexual or straight, homosexual or gay, and bisexual. ![]() Conceptions of self can have consequences for health in general, and sexual risk in particular ( Courtenay, 2000 Goodyear, Newcomb, & Allison, 2000 Marín, Gómez, Tschann, & Gregorich, 1997). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Trasks and the Hamiltons, whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve as well as the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, also often brutal novel, follows the intertwined destinies of two families. 'There is only one book to a man' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden. General wear and loss to dust jacket, especially the spine, there is a closed tear to the front too. There are stamp marks to the front endpage and the title page. Medium format hardback in very good condition. ![]() ![]() As she sees her choices being rapidly whittled down, she must apply her unique talents in ways she never dreamed of. Resolving to meet the threat head-on, she prepares for the toughest fight of her life but finds herself falling for a man who can only complicate her likelihood of survival. To her horror, the information she acquires only makes her situation more dangerous. But it means taking one last job for her ex-employers. When her former handler offers her a way out, she realizes it's her only chance to erase the giant target on her back. They've killed the only other person she trusted, but something she knows still poses a threat. Now she rarely stays in the same place or uses the same name for long. And when they decided she was a liability, they came for her without warning. An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't even have a name. ![]() government, but very few people ever knew that. In this gripping page-turner, an ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life. ![]() ![]() Rising young statesman Pericles commissions Nicolaos to find the assassin. This one is the politician Ephialtes, who only days before had turned Athens into a democracy. A dead man falls from the sky, landing at the feet of a surprised Nicolaos. ![]() Gary Corby has not only made Greek history accessible – he's made it first-rate entertainment.' Kelli Stanley, award-winning author of Nox Dormienda and City of DragonsĪthens, 461BC. ![]() 'A rollicking romp through ancient Athens, with captivating characters and engrossing, suspense-filled turns. Gary Corby has not only made Greek history accessible - he's made it first-rate entertainment.' Kelli Stanley, award-winning author of Nox Dormienda and City of Dragons ![]() |