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'A sincere, poignant and moving story of a group of teenage girls coming to terms with the world they've inherited' Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones and the Six An all-girls boarding school in a hilly corner of Connecticut, Atwater is a haven for progressive thinking and feminist intellectuals. The students are smart, driven and worldly; they are also teenagers, learning to find their way. But when they arrive on campus for the start of the fall term, they're confronted with startling news: an Atwater alumna has made a troubling allegation of sexual misconduct against an unidentified teacher. As the weeks wear on and the administration's efforts to manage...
It seems Reeces dead twin brother Hayden, tragically and horrifically killed when the twins were only seven years old has come back to stay. He protects and helps Reece throughout his life, but is he what he appears to be? Reece is kidnapped while on a business trip in Brazil and is missing for a while. But is it really Reece who comes back, or someone else?
"Tonight on stage, Ray Sandler was all those old fantasies come back to life. Emily Rivers soaked up his every move and she felt alive again for the first time in what felt like years. She never thought he would actually notice her, though." Emily is a successful woman in the tail end of a failing marriage. Ray is the reformed wild boy of rock, back on stage again for the first time in years. As a teenager Emily had Ray's posters all over her bedroom wall so when she gets backstage tickets it's as if her dreams have come true. Actually meeting him is an unexpected highlight of the evening, but that's as far as it could ever go. They come from such different worlds: what could an internationa...
This book examines key methodological and organizational questions with regard to assessing the quality of internal audits. By studying the status quo of these audits in the public sector, including municipalities, it identifies relevant weaknesses, loopholes and issues. In addition, the book assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the approved control system to explain the reasons why, and conditions under which, internal audits are ineffective, and proposes new metric and non-metric indicators to improve the quality of internal auditing. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable guide for anyone responsible for financial controls and internal audits, and will appeal to students and financial practitioners alike.
Hotel Magnifique is hiring. Pack a bag for Elsewhere & prepare to depart by midnight. A deliciously decadent, enchanting YA fantasy about the disturbing secrets lurking in the legendary Hotel Magnifique - perfect for fans of Caraval and The Night Circus The legendary Hotel Magnifique is like no other: a magical world of golden ceilings, enchanting soirées and fountains flowing with champagne. It changes location every night, stopping in each place only once a decade. When the Magnifique comes to her hometown, seventeen-year-old Jani hatches a plan to secure jobs there for herself and her younger sister, longing to escape their dreary life. Luck is on their side, and with a stroke of luminou...
Ray Shattles lived a blessed life, never experiencing the harsh realities of evil, until tragedy suddenly strikes. During a storm tossed night on a rural road, an unexpected accident leads to the inexplicable loss of his wife and unborn child. Ray seeks to uncover the mystery of their loss while struggling with a sinister spiritual darkness that threatens to compromise his very soul. At his lowest point, Ray encounters an enigmatic man who offers to reveal to him the true nature of evil, including that residing within him. Upon agreeing to accompany the stranger down a wooded trail, Ray finds himself on an epic journey in which he comes face-to-face with some of the most heart shuddering encounters of evil imaginable.Through this journey, Ray comes to recognize the insidious nature of evil in the world and its role in the loss of his beloved wife and unborn child. The more he learns about the true nature of evil, the closer he comes to understanding God's immense love and finally unraveling the mysterious loss of his loved ones.
Symphony and Song takes its title from Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan,” and explores the relation between words and music from a variety of critical and practical perspectives. The contributors to this volume apply recent theoretical approaches ranging from the “Mozart Effect” in cognitive psychology, through stylistics and conceptual metaphor, to transtextuality in the analysis of a range of songs, song lyrics, poetry, ekphrastic prose, and instrumental music. Topics explored here include opera and pop music from around the world, Australian Aboriginal oral poetry, political instrumentalization and censorship of song lyrics, and teaching foreign language using songs.
When is a love story not a romance? When it involves Emily Kincannon, the geekiest viola prodigy of all time, and Ray Altieri, her high school science lab partner, who spends most of his free time keeping her from getting beaten up by bullies. After graduation they go their separate ways, until Emily returns to her hometown to reconnect with Ray. Unfortunately, he's gotten married, so Emily devotes herself to music. Years later, again threatened, she once more turns to Ray. This could be the chance they've been waiting for, but with the addition of a police officer with movie-star good looks, an egotistical cellist, a reclusive old lady, and an unexpected inheritance, can the nerdy girl who plays an instrument everyone confuses with a violin and the cynical Chicago cop find true happiness?