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A Dark and Twisting Path

Author : Julia Buckley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698406117

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Writer's apprentice Lena London is happily working on a new collaboration with her idol and bestselling suspense novelist and friend Camilla Graham, but her joy is short-lived when a dark cloud descends upon the quaint town of Blue Lake, Indiana... Lena's best friend, Allison, is in a panic. On a walk in the woods by her home, Allison discovers the body of her mail carrier, an argumentative man who recently had a falling out with Allison's husband. Lena quickly realizes that Allison has nothing to worry about as the murder weapon points to a different suspect altogether: Lena's embattled boyfriend, Sam West. Sam was cleared of his wife's murder when she was found alive, and now someone is trying to make him look guilty again. Surveillance video of a break-in at his house shows a shadowy figure trying to incriminate him by stealing the weapon from his desk. Lena and Camilla work on a suspect list, but a threatening note and a violent intrusion at Graham House prove that the devious killer has decided to write them into the plot.

The Twisting Path of Life

Author : M. T. Hill
Publisher : Abbott Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781458202093

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Living is an ongoing learning experiencebut not all lessons are learned in time. Some people (and animals) just dont learn, it seems. One never knows where lifes path leads, and that may be the greatest challenge of being alive. Within, M. T. Hill shares a few of these life adventures, both great and small, and how we are all products of lifetime decisions made on the fly. In Tippys Tale, a young dogs adventures on the other side of the fence culminate with a ride in an animal control van to the Pound of No Return. But for this spirited runaway, what seems like the end may very well be a bright new beginning. Its every brides worst nightmare, but as one nervous young woman learns in Nuptial Thoughts, not everything is as it seems. Shes been left, not at the altar but at the rehearsal dinner. Can a brides heart learn to love again after its been broken? For both humans and animals alike, life is a series of adventures, challenges, triumphs, and heartbreak. Every life is a story, and here, Hill shares a few of hers. Some are inspired by life, and others are joyful products of her imagination. She explores the dynamic balance behind seemingly small and random decisions and how these moments can change a life forever. The many twists and turns of a life may not be as random as they seem, and these characters invite you to join them on their journeys.

Evidence for Linguistic Relativity

Author : Susanne Niemeier,René Dirven
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027284464

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Evidence for Linguistic Relativity by Susanne Niemeier,René Dirven Pdf

This volume has arisen from the 26th International LAUD Symposium on “Humboldt and Whorf Revisited. Universal and Culture-Specific Conceptualizations in Grammar and Lexis”. While contrasting two or more languages, the papers in this volume either provide empirical evidence confirming hypotheses related to linguistic relativity, or deal with methodological issues of empirical research.These new approaches to Whorf’s hypotheses do not focus on mere theorizing but provide more and more empirical evidence gathered over the last years. They prove in a very sophisticated way that Whorf’s ideas were very lucid ones, even if Whorf’s insights were framed in a terminology which lacked the flexibility of linguistic categories developed over the last quarter of this century, especially in cognitive linguistics. To date, there is sufficient proof to claim that linguistic relativity is indeed a vital issue, and the current volume confirms a more general trend for rehabilitating Whorf’s theory complex and also offers evidence for it. It contains articles written by scholars from various fields of linguistics including phonology, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, historical linguistics, anthropological linguistics and (cross-)cultural semantics, which all contribute to a re-evaluation and partial reformulation of Whorf’s thinking.

Descriptosaurus: Action & Adventure

Author : Alison Wilcox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317510994

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Descriptosaurus: Action & Adventure by Alison Wilcox Pdf

Descriptosaurus: Action & Adventure builds on the vocabulary and descriptive phrases introduced in the original bestselling Descriptosaurus and, within the context of adventure stories, develops the structure and use of the words and phrases to promote colourful cinematic writing. This essential guide will enable children to take their writing to the next level, combine their descriptions of setting and character and show how the two interact. Children can then experiment with their own adventure stories, armed with the skills, techniques and vocabulary necessary to describe their action scenes in a way that allows the reader to feel the characters’ fear and excitement, and visualise the action within the setting. This new system also provides a contextualised alternative to grammar textbooks and will assist children in acquiring, understanding and applying the grammar they will need to improve their writing, both creative and technical.

All the Spells and Whistles

Author : Ava Stone
Publisher : Ava Stone Inc
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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All the Spells and Whistles by Ava Stone Pdf

When Miss Poppy Elstone discovers she’s a witch, she doesn’t have the first clue how to use her magic or control her powers. She does know that she must keep her abilities a secret from the world or risk all kinds of danger. She now wakes every morning, having dreamt about a stranger at a crossroads until one night when the dream and the stranger in question become all too real. A shell of his former self, Captain Alec Galbraith returned from the Napoleonic battlefields, determined to make his own fortune and forge his own destiny in spite of his lost magic. When his path collides with Poppy’s one darkened night, she sparks something in his soul he thought was lost. Can Alec teach Poppy how to use her powers? Or will his dark past stand in the way?

Pagan Portals - Guided Visualisations

Author : Lucya Starza
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789045680

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Pagan Portals - Guided Visualisations by Lucya Starza Pdf

The journeys in this book are all ones using the mind. Guided visualisations use an interactive story to help people know themselves better, find solutions to problems and get ideas for creative projects. They can also be used as a wellbeing tool using relaxation techniques. Many guided visualisations also have spiritual aspects. Within this book are visualisations created for those on the paths of paganism, witchcraft and earth-based spirituality. They were written to follow the Wheel of the Year, embrace the power of the moon and the elements, and develop magical wisdom. Through the pages of this book you will be guided to amazing places. It will be an adventure...

DON'T ASK FOR SUGAR

Author : Bernhard Christoph Lichtinger
Publisher : B.C. Lichtinger
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781738612314

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LEARN FROM THE MISSTEPS OF A GLOBETROTTER in the Australian desert and from his adventurous travels in Asia - through Sri Lanka, Thailand, India and Nepal. Get inspired on your personal journey by his dearly paid experiences. Believe in yourself, guard your thoughts, keep your sense of humour, find great love and never get down on your luck! DON'T ASK FOR SUGAR is a true and captivating love story that only real life can write down. The reader accompanies the young European Christoph on his daring enterprises until he regains his consciousness in an East German prison cell after a stopover in Moscow. BUT FIRST, the year is 1985. Christoph is in Bangkok and has just fallen madly in love with a beautiful New Zealander woman who has been touring the world for years. The two have a happy life in Western Australia. Christoph, who struggles along as a garden helper for lack of a work permit, admires the experienced Suzanne, who works as a well-paid model at Perth's university. One weekend, the future is predicted for both of them. The fortune teller in the small chapel says that Suzanne will soon be living far to the south, but when she holds Christoph's hand, the seer suddenly trembles and sees dark forces and sinister demons. Shortly afterwards, Suzanne is offered an extraordinarily cheap plane ticket to New Zealand, and as she hasn't been home for a very long time, she makes a spontaneous decision, whereupon the world falls apart for Christoph as he loses the love of his life. A FEW DAYS LATER, Christoph pulls himself together, sells his car and hitchhikes through the middle of the Australian desert to get some fresh ideas from new impressions. After three weeks in New South Wales, he meets Dave, an Australian, and Bryce, a Scotsman, who have been in a car accident. Pulling the mudguard out again, the three young men decide to drive north for two days because the small coastal town of Cairns on the Great Barrier Reef turns into a party hotspot at the end of the year when divers from all over the world wash up on its beaches along with jellyfish. But can Christoph forget his Suzanne just like that?

Mercy Never Sleeps

Author : Jamie Blaine
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718032975

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Maybe God still moves and speaks in mysterious ways—some even stranger than we might ever expect. Jamie Blaine’s life isn’t exactly going as planned. When a twist of fate places the late-night psychiatric crisis guy on 24/7 call, his insomnia ramps up to desperate stages as he veers closer to becoming the very kind of person he’s trying to save. After a well-meaning colleague offers a workbook promising “the divine secret of life,” Blaine throws himself into the stereotypical journey of self-discovery with hilarious and heartbreaking conclusions that are anything but clichéd. Jamie travels time to untangle his own story of God through the wilderness, battling alligators, acrophobia, anaphylactic shock, Christian tricksters, Christmas, insomnia zombies, hymn-singing bridge jumpers, preteen bullies, paranoid ER patients armed with knives, hatchet-wielding housewives, septuagenarian pugilists, locust swarms, and ghosts of the present, future, and past. If you’ve ever felt lost and stumbling, like you’ll never find your way to purpose, plans, or the promised land, Mercy Never Sleeps is a traveling companion, a field guide to making peace with your own rambling path home.

Carnal Sacraments

Author : Perry Brass
Publisher : Perry Brass
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781892149053

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Futurist Faustian pact: 2075. Jeffrey Cooper, Alabama-raised design superstar in Americanized Germany, is 78 but looks 40 years younger due to the perks of his stressful job. Meeting an impulsive, gifted man will destroy the life he has painfully built for himself, but allow him to reclaim his own soul.

Death Waits in the Dark

Author : Julia Buckley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451491923

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Writer's apprentice Lena London is back and better than ever when her friend bestselling suspense novelist Camilla Graham needs help solving a town murder that hits a little too close to home... It's summertime, and Lena and Camilla are busy working away while a town vandal runs amok. Things get even more complicated when Jane Wyland pays Camilla a not-so-friendly visit and gives her an ultimatum: reveal Camilla's husband James's family secret, or she will. Lena assures Camilla that nothing will come of the woman's threats, since the family has no secrets to hide. When Jane Wyland is later found dead, they're convinced that whatever secret she was planning to expose led to her death. With Lena's assistance, Camilla is determined to solve the case before the finger points at her...

Essays on Language Function and Language Type

Author : Joan L. Bybee,John Haiman,Sandra A. Thompson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027274212

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Essays on Language Function and Language Type by Joan L. Bybee,John Haiman,Sandra A. Thompson Pdf

In their subject matter and in their theoretical orientation all the papers in this volume reflect the powerful influence of T. Givón. Most of them deal with questions of morphosyntactic typology, pragmatics, and grammaticalization theory. Many of them are directly based on extensive fieldwork on local languages of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Others are based on statistical analyses of extensive written and spoken corpora of texts.

The Rising of the Fifth Sun

Author : Michael Cantwell
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 146207202X

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Peter Collins and Rosa Guzman, having passed their first round of tests in ancient Mexico, are again summoned by the Plumed Serpent who flies them back in time to the first morning of the world. There, the sixth graders witness the origins of human sacrifice as gods throw themselves into the sluggish sun that refuses to rise despite receiving divine fuel. Finally, Quetzalcoatl, the Serpent, blows a hurricane-force wind that lifts the sun and whisks the children to Tollan Two in tenth century Mexico. They meet the young king, Topiltzin, who has banned human sacrifice in Tollan. But his neighbors, the Chiminec, worship Smoking Mirror who demands mass human sacrifice as the price for military victories. The Chiminec declare war on Tollan. Topiltzin proposes an alternative to war. He challenges his neighbor to the sacred ball game which re-enacts the drama of the rising of the Fifth Sun. The winner is to be given complete power over the loser. All members of the losing team will be put to death. Tollans team includes Topiltzin, three of his finest warriors, and Peter, who volunteers despite Rosas protests. The outcome of the game produces profound changes in Mexico as well as in the lives of Peter and Rosa.

Tea Leaves and Tarot Cards

Author : Jacqueline Seewald
Publisher : Luminosity Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Tea Leaves and Tarot Cards by Jacqueline Seewald Pdf

In this historical romance set in the Regency London of 1816, dashing but cynical Marquess of Huntingdon has heard much gossip regarding the mysterious “Princess” Maeve and her second sight. He is intrigued by her dark, exotic beauty and believes she would make a passionate mistress. Maeve, considered an original by the ton, does not intend to belong to any man, even the devastatingly handsome Marquess, but she does want him to help her friend, Lady Caroline, with a problem of the heart. The lovers are simultaneously attracted to each other and yet antagonistic, often moving at cross-purposes. This sensual, entertaining, historical romance provides a charming, witty, fast-paced read with overtones of mystery, the paranormal, and romantic suspense. PUBLISHER NOTE: Regency Romance. M/F. HEA. 92,500 words. All characters depicted in this work of fiction are 18 years of age or older. PRAISE FOR TEA LEAVES AND TAROT CARDS: “Jacqueline Seewald’s Tea Leaves and Tarot Cards delivers an unusual and intriguing heroine together with fast-paced historical romantic-suspense. Seewald is very much at home in her early 19th,century setting.” — Jayne Ann Krentz (Amanda Quick)

DwarrowDelve: Paths of Rock and Shadow

Author : Nicholas. P. Turner
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781398433243

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DwarrowDelve: Paths of Rock and Shadow by Nicholas. P. Turner Pdf

In a world where Light threatens to corrupt and conquer, Taithe, a prisoner, possesses something invaluable: a formidable sword. This relic lures enemies from every corner – human, Effelin, and Dwarf alike – all desperate to claim its power and conceal their betrayals. But amidst this chaos, dark magic rises, vying to curb Light’s dominance. Rescued from the clutches of the malevolent Spite and on the brink of death, Taithe is transported to Dwarrowdelve, the fabled lost mine of Dwarvern legends. Here, alongside the fierce Effelin Caliphe and the legendary Tunnel-Hunters, The Styx, he confronts a multitude of foes, from vicious black wolves to lurking Orcs and other treacherous beings. But the most insidious threat of all is the Imp who shadows Taithe, hungry for the stolen treasure. In the depths of Dwarrowdelve, alliances will be tested, loyalties forged, and a choice must be made: to stand with the Light or embrace the Rock and Shadows. The balance of the world teeters on this decision, with Spite’s freedom – and the potential downfall of all – in the balance. The true enemy isn’t always as it seems; will they discern it in time?

Dance of the Bacca

Author : HW Coyle
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Gender identity
ISBN : 9781304680822

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"Customs and traditions, like ancient hatreds, have the power to wreck havoc on the lives of the people they touch. It is a lesson that Jordan Allen Wallace, a veteran and student at NYU discovers when he becomes involved in the war on terror in a most curious and unexpected way. With a physical appearance that is distinctly feminine, Jordan has little in the way of a social life. That quickly changes as a comedy of errors turns serious when his sister's boyfriend, an agent with the FBI seizes upon his unique qualities to help him solve a problem. While Jordan understands the need to cooperate with the FBI by informing on a professor at NYU, the role he is asked to play involves an Afghan custom of having adolescent males dress as females to entertain their master. In doing so Jordan finds he must come to terms with his own sexuality and gender. He also discovers that he has entered into a world of shadows and lies, a place where neither friend nor lover can be trusted."--Back cover.