Of Curses And Scandals

Author : Julie L. Kramer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1696451310

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Of Curses and Scandals by Julie L. Kramer Pdf

Magic is teenage sorceress Scandal Becker's world, and she even works with the police to help solve cases. When the federal government appoints their own teen sorcerer to bring in a magical arms dealer, Scandal must find some way to work with him. When threats are made against the city that Scandal loves, the identity of the villain is no longer clear and Scandal has a difficult decision to make, which side should she choose; bad or good. If she chooses good, can she do it without the aid of magic?Of Curses & Scandals is the new novel from author Julie Kramer - if you love young adult fiction and magic, this is the book for you!

Author : Sean Deveney
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780071633857

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The Original Curse: Did the Cubs Throw the 1918 World Series to Babe Ruth's Red Sox and Incite the Black Sox Scandal? by Sean Deveney Pdf

IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF EIGHT MEN OUT . . . the untold story of baseball’s ORIGINAL SCANDAL Did the Chicago Cubs throw the World Series in 1918—and get away with it? Who were the players involved—and why did they do it? Were gambling and corruption more widespread across the leagues than previously believed? Were the players and teams “cursed” by their actions? Finally, is it time to rewrite baseball history? With exclusive access to surprising new evidence, Sporting News reporter Sean Deveney details a scandal at the core of baseball’s greatest folklore—in a golden era as exciting and controversial as our sports world today. This inside look at the pivotal year of 1918 proves that baseball has always been a game overrun with colorful characters, intense human drama, and explosive controversy. "The Original Curse is not just about baseball. It is a sweeping portrait of America at war in 1918. . . . In the end, the proper question is not, ‘How could a player from that era fix the World Series?’ It’s, ‘How could he not?’” —Ken Rosenthal, FOX Sports, from the Introduction "Sean Deveney plays connect-the-dots in this intriguing account of a possible conspiracy to throw the 1918 World Series. Thoroughly researched and well written, The Original Curse is a must-read for baseball fans and anyone who loves a good mystery. Is Max Flack the Shoeless Joe of the 1918 Cubs? Deveney lays out the case and let's readers decide if the fix was in." —Paul Sullivan, Cubs beat writer, Chicago Tribune "This book gives the reader a fun and honest look at baseball as it used to be-- the good guys, the gamblers, the cheaters, the drunks, the inept leaders. But, more than that, it puts those characters into the context of Chicago, Boston and America at the time of World War I, and you wind up with a unique way to explain the motivations of those characters." —David Kaplan, host, Chicago Tribune Live and WGN's Sports Central “Deveney’s painstaking study of the 1918 World Series between the Cubs and Red Sox argues that the Black Sox scandal was not an aberration and might have had an antecedent. Deveney’s scholarship does not detract from his ability to spin a good tale: his tendency to imagine players’ conversations will remind readers of Leigh Montville’s The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth.... A welcome companion to Susan Dellinger’s Red Legs and Black Sox: Edd Roush and the Untold Story of the 1919 World Series, Deveney’s book contributes greatly to our understanding of this decisive period in baseball and American morals." —Library Journal

Author : Sandhya Menon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781534417564

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Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon Pdf

“Fans of Menon’s frothy, contemporary rom-coms will be excited for this venture into new territory.” —Booklist “[A] dreamy, sassy confection of a romance…Funny, extravagant, and satisfying.” —Shelf Awareness From the New York Times bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi comes the first novel in a brand-new series set at an elite boarding school that’s a contemporary spin on Beauty and the Beast. Will the princess save the beast? For Princess Jaya Rao, nothing is more important than family. When the loathsome Emerson clan steps up their centuries-old feud to target Jaya’s little sister, nothing will keep Jaya from exacting her revenge. Then Jaya finds out she’ll be attending the same elite boarding school as Grey Emerson, and it feels like the opportunity of a lifetime. She knows what she must do: Make Grey fall in love with her and break his heart. But much to Jaya’s annoyance, Grey’s brooding demeanor and lupine blue eyes have drawn her in. There’s simply no way she and her sworn enemy could find their fairy-tale ending…right? His Lordship Grey Emerson is a misanthrope. Thanks to an ancient curse by a Rao matriarch, Grey knows he’s doomed once he turns eighteen. Sequestered away in the mountains at St. Rosetta’s International Academy, he’s lived an isolated existence—until Jaya Rao bursts into his life, but he can’t shake the feeling that she’s hiding something. Something that might just have to do with the rose-shaped ruby pendant around her neck… As the stars conspire to keep them apart, Jaya and Grey grapple with questions of love, loyalty, and whether it’s possible to write your own happy ending.

Author : David Instone-Brewer
Publisher : Monarch Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857212658

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The Jesus Scandals by David Instone-Brewer Pdf

The author's aim is to help thinking lay persons and people preparing sermons to apply NT ethics within a modern culture, while still remaining faithful to the text - by taking into account the ancient culture. This is high quality scholarship at a very accessible level. Over the centuries Jesus's teaching on ethical matters has often become muted and distorted. This book sets the matter straight. Here are 30 areas of ethical debate: in each context Jesus offered insights which would have left his contemporaries agape. They range from singleness (rare: could Jesus be trusted?) to abortion (unwanted children were strangled, and the early church notably took a strong stance against this practice) to sexual immorality (the NT church had an unusually high number of people who had been sexually promiscuous) to boasting (Jesus taught his disciples to take lowly titles as he did for himself, but the church ignored him).

Author : Sandhya Menon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781534417557

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Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon Pdf

"A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jacket.

Author : Aimée Carter
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780593485958

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Royal Scandal by Aimée Carter Pdf

The second book in the Royal Blood series about an American girl who threatens the royal family by exposing their darkest scandals—even as they get more sinister. American girl turned monarchy nightmare, Evan Bright, has gotten used to the press about her but the media attention has only seemed to get worse. From desperate clickbait articles about her and the President's son to Royal Record headlines pitting her against Princess Maisie, it seems everyone is dying for Evan to return back to America for good. Meanwhile Evan is receiving mysterious threats about her real story being reveiled in a tell-all biography. When more information is leaked about Evan, she fears she will always be Britain's media villain. But the threats escalate when there is an attempted assassination with no suspects...and Evan believes the person is in the palace's walls. They say what doesn't kill you will make you stronger...but what if it's the royal family who wants you dead?

Author : John W. Rogerson
Publisher : SLG Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780728301801

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Strength in Weakness: The Scandal of the Cross by John W. Rogerson Pdf

Fairacres Publications 160 These theological reflections on the Cross and Passion of Jesus Christ touch upon some central paradoxes of the Christian faith. Jesus was put to death publicly by crucifixion which, according to traditional Jewish teaching, was a scandal and an affront to God. Yet a Roman centurion present was able to exclaim in awe, ‘Truly this man was the Son of God!’ The book invites us to ponder instances where strength was manifested in weakness, not only for Jesus – in Gethsemane, at his Trial and on the Cross – but also for those two pillars of the early Church, Peter and Paul, as they too wrestled with ‘the Scandal of the Cross’.

Author : Manfred Lütz, M.D.
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621642619

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The Scandal of the Scandals by Manfred Lütz, M.D. Pdf

Mahatma Gandhi once chided a Christian friend, "All you Christians, missionaries and all, must begin to live more like Jesus Christ." And what Christian among us would disagree with him? After the holy wars and witch-hunts, after persecutions and political machinations, there is a broad sense today that the Church, however well-meaning, is on the wrong side of history. But do we really know our history? In this collaboration with historian Arnold Angenendt, best-selling German author Manfred Lütz dares to show us what contemporary historians actually say about Christianity's track record over the ages. This detailed overview begins with the ancient pagans, passing through Israel, the early Church martyrs, Constantine's Rome, the reign of Charlemagne, the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Reformation, the Borgia popes, the Galileo affair, the conquistadores, the French Revolution, the slave trade, the Holocaust, the sex abuse crisis, and more. The Scandal of the Scandals separates myth from fact, giving us a candid portrait of Christendom with its scars and all. Prepare to be amazed at how little you really knew about Christianity.

Author : Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781368044332

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Deadly Little Scandals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes Pdf

No one is quite who they seem to be in the twisty, soapy, gasp-inducing world of the Debutantes by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #1 bestselling author of The Inheritance Games. Think of the White Gloves like the Junior League— by way of Skull and Bones. Reluctant debutante Sawyer Taft joined Southern high society for one reason and one reason alone: to identify and locate her biological father. But the answers Sawyer found during her debutante year only left her with more questions and one potentially life-ruining secret. When her cousin Lily ropes her into pledging a mysterious, elite, and all-female secret society called the White Gloves, Sawyer soon discovers that someone in the group's ranks may have the answers she's looking for. Things are looking up . . . until Sawyer and the White Gloves make a disturbing discovery near the family's summer home—and uncover a twisted secret, decades in the making. ** Check out Jennifer Lynn Barnes’s bestselling The Naturals and Inheritance Games series!!

Author : Sandra Brown
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781455546268

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Breath of Scandal by Sandra Brown Pdf

AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK FOR THE FIRST TIME! On a rainy Southern night, Jade Sperry endured a young woman's worst nightmare at the hands of three local hell-raisers. Robbed of her youthful ideals and at the center of scandal and tragedy, Jade ran as far and as fast as she could. But she never forgot the sleepy "company town" where every man, woman, and child was dependent on one wealthy family. And she never forgot their spoiled son, who, with his two friends, changed her life forever. Someday, somehow, she'd return, exact a just revenge -- and free herself from fear, and the powerful family that could destroy her.

Author : Nicholas Shaxson
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780802146380

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The Finance Curse by Nicholas Shaxson Pdf

An “artfully presented [and] engaging” look at the insidious effects of financialization on our lives and politics by the author of Treasure Islands (The Boston Globe). How didthe banking sector grow from a supporter of business to the biggest business in the world? Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson takes us on a terrifying journey through the world economy, exposing tax havens, monopolists, megabanks, private equity firms, Eurobond traders, lobbyists, and a menagerie of scoundrels quietly financializing our entire society, hurting both business and individuals. Shaxson shows how we got here, telling the story of how finance re-engineered the global economic order in the last half-century, with the aim not of creating wealth but extracting it from the underlying economy. Under the twin gospels of “national competitiveness” and “shareholder value,” megabanks and financialized corporations have provoked a race to the bottom between states to provide the most subsidized environment for big business, encouraged a brain drain into finance, fostered instability and inequality, and turned a blind eye to the spoils of organized crime. From Ireland to Iowa, he shows the insidious effects of financialization on our politics and on communities who were promised paradise but got poverty wages instead. We need a strong financial system—but when it grows too big it becomes a monster. The Finance Curse is the explosive story of how finance got a stranglehold on society, and reveals how we might release ourselves from its grasp. Revised with new chapters “[Discusses] corrupt financiers in London and New York City, geographically obscure tax havens, the bizarre realm of wealth managers in South Dakota, a ravaged newspaper in New Jersey, and a shattered farm economy in Iowa . . . A vivid demonstration of how corruption and greed have become the main organizing principles in the finance industry.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Jonathan Di John
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780271076904

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From Windfall to Curse? by Jonathan Di John Pdf

Since the discovery of abundant oil resources in the 1920s, Venezuela has had an economically privileged position among the nations of Latin America, which has led to its being treated by economic and political analysts as an exceptional case. In her well-known study of Venezuela’s political economy, The Paradox of Plenty (1997), Stanford political scientist Terry Karl argued that this oil wealth induced extraordinary corruption, rent-seeking, and centralized intervention that resulted in restricting productivity and growth. What this and other studies of Venezuela’s economy fail to explain, however, is how such conditions have accompanied both growth and stagnation at different periods of Venezuela’s history and why countries experiencing similar levels of corruption and rent-seeking produce divergent developmental outcomes. By investigating the record of economic development in Venezuela from 1920 to the present, Jonathan Di John shows that the key to explaining why the economy performed much better between 1920 and 1980 than in the post-1980 period is to understand how political strategies interacted with economic strategies—specifically, how politics determined state capacity at any given time and how the stage of development and development strategies affected the nature of political conflicts. In emphasizing the importance of an approach that looks at the political economy, not just at the economy alone, Di John advances the field methodologically while he contributes to a long-needed history of Venezuela’s economic performance in the twentieth century.

Author : Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : English drama
ISBN : UOM:39015091109135

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The school for scandal. The critic. Pizarro. Verses to the memory of Garrick. The camp by Richard Brinsley Sheridan Pdf

Author : Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018121185

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The Select Dramatic Works of Sheridan, Containing: The School for Scandal ... The Rivals ... Pizarro, Etc by Richard Brinsley Sheridan Pdf

Author : Emma Lea
Publisher : Emma Lea
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Scandal by Emma Lea Pdf

Parker Grey, gossip columnist and author of The Locker Room blog had an unwanted houseguest. Well, not unwanted, exactly. In fact, there were a lot of people who wanted her…Parker included, but she was off-limits. Talia Jane was definitely someone Parker should not get involved with, especially while she was hiding out in his apartment. Natalie Beckett, better known as Talia Jane, actress and Australia’s favourite girl-next-door, was on the run. Okay, not on-the-run in a criminal sense, but she is definitely staying on the down-low for the foreseeable future. In a desperate attempt to get out of a contract, she did something stupid and now she was paying the price of fame. Hiding out in a journalist’s apartment while hiding from the media? Not the best plan she’d ever had, but then again, it wasn’t her plan. Now that she was there, she didn’t have much choice but to stay put until the media storm died down. But that wasn’t as easy as it seemed because not only was Parker Grey a gossip-monger who could potentially blow up her career, she was also a teenie, tiny bit attracted to him…not exactly an ideal situation for her to find herself in, but what choice did she have?