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Victoria Thornton lives in Seattle in a cozy little house and is employed at the job of her dreams. As curator of an art museum, she has left the glamor and glitz of Los Angeles and her mother’s high society lifestyle far behind. Her nightly video chats with her beloved daddy are all that tie her to her childhood in a posh mansion in a high-class neighborhood. Then her carefree world is shattered when she gets a phone call from her mother telling her that her father has committed suicide. She rushes back to LA to attend the funeral and help her mother pick up the pieces. Then she learns that all her mother wants from her is to date the man who recently took over her father’s failing business—and to take the business back from him by any means possible. Trouble is, Rafael Rivera is an incredibly attractive man, who is as attracted to Victoria as she is to him. Gradually, she begins to find cracks in her mother’s story of her father’s failing business, who Rafael Rivera is, and even in the suicide itself. Lena, the household cook, is Victoria’s only ally whom she can trust and count on. And even Lena holds secrets that will rock Victoria’s world.
Nights have become women’s greatest fear in Spokane County, Washington and for good reason. There’s something lurking in the bushes and woods surrounding homes. An unsuspecting man that is thirsty for blood. The mystery behind the deaths and disappearances has put the special investigators team on edge. Who is this man? And where do the bodies go? Shocking secrets and discoveries in the case leave some wishing they were dead. The killer seems to be alluding the team at every turn. But his hands get closer to them than anyone would want. Discover what is happening in Spokane, Washington. Will it be in a neighborhood closer to you? Follow this story of a psychopath as he encounters a victim he can’t kill, the rollercoaster ride of will he be caught or get away.
“Chamuel, what have you done?” Those words echo through time and space as an exiled and favored Seraphim of Jehovah must earn his own redemption back home.
This book provides a fundamental working knowledge of the varied aspects of personal finance and money management skills and prepares individuals and families for becoming financially stable. Readers will increase their awareness of personal finance and how their financial stability will directly affect their role in the economy. This course also covers credit basics and will offer some information on debt management.
This timely volume responds to the epic impacts of cancer as a global phenomenon. Through the fine-grained lens of ethnography, the contributors present new thinking on how social, economic, race, gender and other structural inequalities intersect, compound and complicate health inequalities. Cancer experiences and impacts are explored across eleven countries: Argentina, Brazil, Denmark, France, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Senegal, the United Kingdom and the United States. The volume engages with specific cancers from the point of primary prevention, to screening, diagnosis, treatment (or its absence), and end-of-life care. Cancer and the Politics of Care traverses new theoretical terra...
Foreword / by Cynthia McKinney -- Introduction: Careening toward extinction -- We're all in this together -- Dismantling white supremacy -- Climate justice versus the anthropocene -- Humanity on the move : justice and migration -- Dismantling the ivory tower.
This book offers a critical reflection of the historical genesis, transformation, and problématique of “humanity” in the transatlantic world, with a particular eye on cultural representations. “Humanity,” the essays show, was consistently embedded in networks of actors and cultural practices, and its meanings have evolved in step with historical processes such as globalization, cultural imperialism, the transnationalization of activism, and the spread of racism and nationalism. Visions of Humanity applies a historical lens on objects, sounds, and actors to provide a more nuanced understanding of the historical tensions and struggles involved in constructing, invoking, and instrumentalizing the “we” of humanity.
For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all the characteristics that have correlated with civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war tearing their country apart. Yet the country has narrowly avoided civil conflict again and again. Mike McGovern asks how this was possible, how a nation could beat the odds and evade civil war. All six of Guinea's neighbors have experienced civil war or separatist insurgency in the past twenty years. Guinea itself has similar makings for it. It is rich in resources, yet its people are some of the poorest in the world. Its political situation is polarized by fiercely com...
From the creator of the popular blog Mommy Shorts comes a “hilarious and comforting” look at real-world motherhood (New York Times bestselling author, Jill Smokler). Ilana Wiles is not a particularly good mother. She’s not a particularly bad mother either. Like most of us, she’s somewhere in between. And she has some surprisingly good advice about navigating life as an imperfect parent. In this witty and loving homage to the every-parent, Wiles suggests that they having the best child-rearing experience of all. Using Wiles’s signature infographics and photographs to illustrate her personal and hilarious essays on motherhood, The Mommy Shorts Guide to Remarkably Average Parenting is an honest book that celebrates the fun of being a mom.