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Insurgent book5/13/2023 ![]() "Hardcover editions of Divergent and Insurgent. Slip/case is in Near Fine condition with faint edge wear. Both hardcovers are green/blue with gilt, headbands, 487, 525 pages, Near Fine condition, dust jackets are in Near Fine condition, booklet is a soft cover, tight square and clean, 48 pages, 1st Edition 1st Pinting. # 011274 - The scans you see are the books you get. Joel Tippie slipcase & jacket artist (illustrator). ![]() But radical new discoveries and shifting relationships mean that she must fully embrace her Divergence - even though she cannot know what might be lost in doing so. ![]() Tris has already paid a terrible price for survival and is wracked by haunting grief and guilt. War seems inevitable and in times of war sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge and choices will become ever more irrevocable. Now unrest surges in the factions around her as conflict between their ideologies grows. Tris Prior's initiation day should have been marked by victorious celebrations with her chosen faction instead it ended with unspeakable horrors. One choice can transform you - or it can destroy you. ![]() The thrillingly dark sequel to New York Times bestseller, DIVERGENT - a major motion picture in 2014. Spine has slight slant and wrinkle, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Teal green boards with gilt tree in circle (Faction Symbol Art by Rhythm & Hues Design) on front and gilt letters on spine. ![]()
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Blame It on the Fruitcake by Pat Henshaw5/13/2023 ![]() Fortunately it hadn’t happened at the bank when I was presenting my case for a loan to a guy who looked like him, or I’d have been fucked. If I wasn’t bullshitting with friends, my words usually dried up. I couldn’t figure out how I was supposed to act. He looked like he cared whether I was having a good time or not. He was a couple inches shorter than me, with conservative-cut hair, blue eyes, and a trustworthy face. ![]() Only not like me, since I looked like the bike mechanic I am, he looked like one of the bankers I’d talked to last week. Like me, on the street, nobody’d probably guess he was gay. ![]() Did I hear you say you’re the neighbor from down the hall?” At my nod, the new guy added, “Let’s get you a drink and introduce you to a few people.” ![]()
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![]() ![]() Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won’t protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. Fikry: On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, GoodReads, Oprah Dailyįrom the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. "Delightful and absorbing." - The New York Times It is a love story, but not one you have read before. Sam and Sadie-two college friends, often in love, but never lovers-become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It neither commenced according to any fixed period, nor was the time of its cessation uniform but it seized upon some places at the commencement of winter, others in the course of the spring, others during the summer, and in some cases, when the autumn was advanced. ![]() Some cities were so severely afflicted as to be altogether depopulated, though in other places the visitation was less violent. It took its rise from Aethiopia, as is now reported, and made a circuit of the whole world in succession, leaving, as I suppose, no part of the human race unvisited by the disease. Two years after the capture of Antioch by the Persians, a pestilence broke out, in some respects similar to that described by Thucydides, in others widely different. I WILL also describe the circumstances of the pestilence which commenced at that period, and has now prevailed and extended over the whole world for fifty-two years a circumstance such as has never before been recorded. Walford (1846) Book 4, Chapter XXIX: Pestillence Du er her: Hjem > MedHist > Sygdomme > EvagriusScholasticus.php Evagrius Scholasticus: Ecclesiastical History Translated by E. ![]()
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Bell hooks on teaching5/13/2023 ![]() However, her outstanding legacy may be her pivotal contribution to Black feminist thought, first articulated in her 1981 book Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, which examined both historical racism and sexism, going back to the treatment of Black women from enslavement to give context to continuing racial and sexual injustice. Using storytelling as effectively as social theory, she was creatively agile in a range of genres, including poetry, essays, memoir, self-help and children’s books, as well as appearing in documentary films and working in academia. Exploring the intersecting oppressions of gender, race and class, her writings additionally reflected her concerns with issues related to art, history, sexuality, psychology and spirituality, ultimately with love at the heart of community healing. ![]() ![]() ![]() A trailblazing cultural theorist and activist, public intellectual, teacher and feminist writer, bell hooks, who has died of kidney failure aged 69, authored around 40 books in a career spanning more than four decades. ![]()
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Melvilles budd5/13/2023 ![]() When Moby-Dick began to be considered one of the great American novels.īilly Budd, Sailor is a novella by American writer Herman Melville left unfinished at Melville's death in 1891. The centennial of his birth in 1919 was the starting point of a Melville revival, Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. He was an American novelist, short story writer and poet of the American Renaissance period. In New York City on the 1st of August 1819. Following his death in New York City in 1891, he posthumously came to be regarded as one of the great American writers. Our view he was lobbying for the whales, the innocent victims in his ![]() Whaling industry at its peak, showcasing the rebellious white whale, in ![]() The commercial hunting of whales for oil and meat. ![]() Melville was the author of a novel abut what we'd now consider an illegal ![]()
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The Clare Kane Identity by L.M. Severin5/13/2023 ![]() I have Master’s degrees in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Sacred Heart University, in Literature from the University of Edinburgh, and in Theology from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of America. My educational and working background is similarly integrative. These include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Schema Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Gestalt Therapy. To do this, I draw from several research-based and trauma-informed modalities that combine counseling interventions with traditional psychoanalytic approaches. As such, I integrate a both/and approach in my work - one in which I help clients both process the past and integrate changes in the present moment that help them realize their hopes for the future. ![]() ![]() What clients are experiencing in the present moment is often shaped both by their past and by the There is no cookie-cutter path to healing, and my first and most important job as a therapist is to create a safe space for each client and their unique story to be heard and accepted. ![]()
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Anywhere you run wanda morris5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() With the help of her white beau, Violet escapes. Before anyone can find the body or finger her as the killer, she decides to run. But with the color of Violet’s skin, there is no way she can escape Jim Crow justice in Jackson, Mississippi. Suffering a brutal attack of her own, she kills the man responsible. Against this backdrop, twenty-one year old Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she’s ever been in her life. It’s the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. but can they escape the secrets they left behind? Called One of the Best Crime Novels of the Year by New York Times * NPR * New York Post * Washington Post * Buzzfeed * South Florida Sun-Sentinel * Library Journal * CrimeReadsįrom the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets comes yet another gripping, suspenseful novel where, after the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country. ![]()
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Forty Acres by Dwayne Alexander Smith5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Martin finds out that his glittering new friends are part of a secret society dedicated to the preservation of the institution of slavery - but this time around, the black men are called "Master." Joining them seems to guarantee a future without limits rebuking them almost certainly guarantees his death. ![]() But far from home and cut off from everyone he loves, he discovers a disturbing secret that challenges some of his deepest convictions. They invite him for a weekend away from it all - no wives, no cell phones, no talk of business. ![]() He's dazzled by what they've accomplished, and they seem to think he has the potential to be as successful as they are. Martin Grey, a smart, talented black lawyer working out of a storefront in Queens, becomes friendly with a group of some of the most powerful, wealthy, and esteemed black men in America. What if overcoming the legacy of American slavery meant bringing back that very institution? A young black attorney is thrown headlong into controversial issues of race and power in this pause-resisting and provocative new audiobook. ![]()
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The gilda stories by jewelle gomez5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() The field of vampire fiction is pretty well stocked, when it comes to scary vamps, sexy vamps, cishet vamps, and others of their ilk. Hallowe’en Par… on Frig Off, Frig It, and Frig Yo… Haunting Fears: Dark… on In the Presence of Some Unnatu… Haunting Fears: Dark… on Whosoever Meets Her Gaze Shall… The World Is Much La… on Haunting Fears: Darker Than Ni… To Become The Wicked… on Haunting Fears: Darker Than Ni… Follow Me Into the Night: Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Silver Nitrate. ![]() Haunting Fears: Darker Than Night (1975).The World Is Much Larger Than One Small Village: Rapiña.To Become The Wickedest Witch of All: Poison for the Fairies (1986).Infected With Where I Live/Let Me Live Without This Empty Bliss: Cyn Balog’s You Won’t Believe Me. ![]() |