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On Violence by Hannah Arendt5/10/2023 Ultimately, she argues against Mao Tse-tung's dictum that "power grow out of the barrel of a gun, " proposing instead that "power and violence are opposite where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent." She questions the nature of violent behavior and identifies the causes of its many manifestations. The public revulsion for violence that followed World War II has dissipated, as have the nonviolent philosophies of the early civil rights movement.Ĭontemplating how this reversal came about and where it might lead, Arendt examines the relationship between war and politics, violence and power. The political theorist and author of The Origins of Totalitarianism offers an "incisive, deeply probing" essay on violence and political power ( The Nation ).Īddressing the escalation of global warfare witnessed throughout the 1960s, Hannah Arendt points out that the glorification of violence is not restricted to a small minority of militants and extremists.
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Havoc at prescott high audiobook5/9/2023 And then the heroine did something which made me want to throw my Kindle across the room, so 2 stars it is!ġ7-year-old Bernadette Blackbird (beautiful, blonde hair with pink tips, BREASTS THAT ARE A G-CUP(?!?!)) lives with her mother, younger sister, and abusive stepfather who drove her older sister to commit suicide after he raped her. The first half was really cringeworthy, but then the second half improved, so I really thought I’d end up giving it 3 stars. I waffled between giving this one 2 or 3 stars. Those dirty, rotten boys are going to get revenge against everyone that’s wronged me-everyone but themselves. At their beck and call, in their beds, a part of their gang. I’ve made a pact with the Havoc Boys to get the vengeance I deserve. For an entire year, I endured their shit.īut senior year is going to be different. The Havoc Boys rule the hellhole we call Prescott High. There’s one word you don’t utter at Prescott High, not unless you want them to own you.
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'Joanna Basford's Secret Garden is an 'inky treasure hunt and colouring book' filled with intricate drawings waiting to be brought to life. These intricate, magical drawings from Secret Garden by Johanna Basford are just waiting to be brought to life.' The Guardian It has been translated into over 44 languages. Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Book was her first book. Johanna Basford has sold over 21 million books worldwide. Use felt tip pens to add a splash of colour or a black pen with a fine nib to create your own doodles and details. There are pictures to colour, mazes to solve, patterns to complete and lots of space for you to add your own inky drawings. This interactive colouring book takes you on a ramble through a garden created in beautifully detailed pen–and–ink illustrations by Johanna Basford. Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Bookby Johanna Basford is one of the world's bestselling adult colouring books with 96 colouring pages waiting to be brought to life with colour.
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Say you swear meagan brandy series5/9/2023 And she plans on making sure it stays that way. Telling her what she feels and she thinks, like he knows. Yet here he is, constantly invading her space, pushing her, and daring her to even care. The last thing at all that she wanted was his dark brown eyes and his crooked focused right on her. Until that cocksure quarterback comes into play. Smile through every day, and just avoid her at all costs. So here she is, and there is a simple plan. And she was sick of having the same tired conversation. Her family believed it was best, a new scene would be good for her, they thought. Things will get complicated.Īfter months of refusing, she has finally agreed to move to Alrick Falls. She is the impassive new girl that has got nothing left to give. He is the persistent playboy that simply refuses to walk away. “Fumbled Hearts” is the first novel in the “Fumbled Hearts” series, and was released in the year 2017. She writes the “Brayshaw High” series and the “Tender Hearts” series, as well as some stand alone work. Meagan’s debut novel, called “Fumbled Hearts”, was released in the year 2017. Words are her sanity and Starbucks is her best friend. She was born and raised in the state of California, and is a married mom of three wild boys that keep her bouncing around from one sports field to another, depending upon which season it is, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. She is one candy crazed jukebox junkie that likes to speak in song lyrics. Meagan Brandy is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of New Adult romance novels.
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My husband and i by ingrid seward5/9/2023 Now, acclaimed royal biographer Ingrid Seward sheds new light on their relationship and its impact on their family and on the nation. Throughout her record-breaking reign until Prince Philip's death on 9 April 2021, she relied on the formidable partnership she had made with her consort. When they married in Westminster Abbey in November 1947, there were 3000 guests, including six kings and seven queens. Within five years, as Queen Elizabeth II, she would ascend to the throne and later be crowned in front of millions watching through the new medium of television. When a young Princess Elizabeth met and fell in love with the dashing Naval Lieutenant Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, it wasn't without its problems. The romance between the sailor prince and the young princess brought a splash of colour to a nation still in the grip of post-war austerity. Now, in My Husband and I, Ingrid Seward reveals the real story of their loving and enduring relationship. For more than 70 years, the marriage of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip was at the centre of the nation's life.
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The line of beauty novel5/9/2023 Toby lives with his father Gerald, his mother Rachel and his manic-depressive sister Catherine in Notting Hill, a wealthy area of London. After graduating, Nick moves into Kensington Park Gardens, the home of Oxford classmate Toby Feddens. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly funny, this is a major work by one of our finest writers. Nick Guest, aged twenty, is a recent graduate of Oxford. An affair with a young black clerk gives him his first experience of romance, but it is a later affair with a beautiful millionaire that will change his life drastically and bring into question the larger fantasies of a ruthless decade.įramed by the two general elections that returned Margaret Thatcher to power, The Line of Beauty unfurls through four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. In an era of endless possibility, he finds himself able to pursue his own private obsession with beauty-a prize as compelling to him as power and riches to his friends. It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions, who becomes both a friend to Nick and his uneasy responsibility.Īs the boom years of the mid-eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in matters of politics and money, becomes caught up in the Feddens' world-its grand parties, its surprising alliances, its parade of monsters both comic and menacing.
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Between the oceans book5/9/2023 Tom is haunted by what he witnessed-and what he did-during his enlistment in World War I. Sometimes it’s good to leave the past in the past.”(pages 44-45) Do you think it is possible to leave the past in the past? What do you think of Tom’s opinion that it’s a “pity” that we’re a product of our family’s past? What does this tell you about his character? Discuss the impact of family history on Tom, Isabel, Hannah, and Frank.ĥ. When Isabel tries to get Tom to open up about his family, he responds: “I’ll tell you if you really want. Why do you think each of them is drawn to live on Janus Rock? Do you think, in the moments when we are unobserved, we are different people?Ĥ. On the Offshore Lights you can live any story you want to tell yourself, and no one will say you’re wrong: not the seagulls, not the prisms, not the wind.” (page 110) Discuss the impact of living in seclusion on both Tom and Isabel. The island knows no other human voices, no other footprints. “The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm-the turning of the light. Is there a particular passage or scene that stood out to you? What role does the natural world play in Tom and Isabel’s life?ģ. The novel is rich with detailed descriptions of the ocean, the sky, and the wild landscape of Janus Rock. Why do you think the author selected this title? What do you visualize when you hear or read The Light Between Oceans?Ģ. Discuss the novel’s title, The Light Between Oceans.
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Vampire hunter d omnibus book 25/8/2023 These are only the beginnings of the strange adventure stories into which steps Vampire Hunter D! Yet humanity too remains as quick as ever to prey upon itself, and where the law can’t bring safety or justice, the crescent blade of D will-assuming you meet the half-vampire wanderer’s price!Ī wondrous floating city, long a drifting sanctuary against marauding creatures, has its peace violently shattered by invasion…a village where humans and vampires live in harmony hangs upon the endless sleep of a beautiful dreamer, bitten decades past by the undead Nobility…a wizened crone named Granny Viper with a reputation for recovering abductees on the Frontier finds she’s chosen the wrong allies in rescuing a young girl. The hunt continues in the bizarre far future of 12,090 A.D, where the immortal vampire lords who were the only winners of mankind’s nuclear war still oppress the human survivors who have pushed the blood-drinking fiends back to the lawless Frontier. A new omnibus collecting volumes four, five and six of the Vampire Hunter D horror novel series!
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I just like it when the mmc goes, 'What do you mean she left me?!' or 'What do you mean you're leaving?!' If you have a book where the fmc almost left him, like the mmc just caught her in time before she actually leaves, that would be great too!įor references, here are some books with the trope I'm looking for: It Happened One Summer By Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl by Tessa Bailey and The Duchess Hunt by Lorraine Heath. What Price Paradise by Katherine Allred 3.94 Rating details 8,494 ratings 644 reviews All his life Tate McCullom has been taught to be responsible, and he is the very model of what a respectable man should be. What Price Paradise Paperback Jby Katherine Allred (Author) 114 ratings 3.9 on Goodreads 8,762 ratings See all formats and editions Paperback 49.99 1 Used from 49.99 All his life Tate McCullom has been taught to be responsible, and he is the very model of what a respectable man should be. I really love this type of trope/scene, because I like seeing the mmc getting desperate just to get the fmc back. Hello! I'm looking for book recommendations where the FMC leaves the MMC for a reason (maybe because she thinks that she isn't good enough for him and deserves someone better or maybe for other reasons as well) and when the MMC finds out she left, he panics and does everything he can to find her. John Miltons celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of mans existence A Penguin Classic In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time, populated by a memorable gallery of grotesques.
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Marcus and Julia and, finally, Atretes, come to realize that God’s love can heal all scars and bring forth a new dawn. From their first meeting, the two are caught in a stormy battle of wills. Atretes did not count on Rizpah’s fiery resistance to having “her son” taken away, nor is he prepared for the woman’s strength and beauty. Only one thing stands in his way: Rizpah, a Christian widow who has cared for the baby since his birth. Meanwhile, Atretes, the Germanic warrior, vows to move heaven and earth to find his son-the baby he thought was dead and whose life Hadassah saved-and take him back to Germania. With Hadassah confined to the cells below the arena, facing death once again, and his sister Julia dying of a strange new illness and longing for a forgiveness beyond her reach, Marcus goes in search of God. This classic series has inspired millions of readers around the world! The thrilling conclusion of the story of faithful Hadassah and aristocratic Marcus, also of Atretes, the Germanic warrior searching for his lost son, set in 70 AD Jerusalem. |