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The night before Noah Hill left his hometown of Mountain View, he had a drunken sexual tryst with his best friend, Lucas Wesson. Deeply in the closet, Noah is horrified at his behavior, and terrified of what Lucas would think of him. He left the next morning without saying goodbye, and effectively cut off all ties. He returns five years later to help his father, and runs into his old best friend almost as soon as he reaches town. And nothing has changed. He still loves Lucas, and he still can't stand to meet the other man's eyes. Lucas has been through a lot in the past five years without his best friend's support. A marriage. A divorce. A child. Running his own business. He also remembers his one night with Noah with perfect clarity. For five years, he only wanted Noah to come home. But now that Noah is back, things have changed too much to ever be the same between them ...
Two years have passed since Claudia said goodbye to her wayward student Sewell. Now ten years old, she brings Noah with her to enroll in Raushneur Academy of Magic: an institution she—as the great witch Adelheid—had built on the bottom of the sea five hundred years ago! She and Noah travel there to investigate a mysterious song that lures ships to their doom. They meet Fiolina, an eighth-year student with a beautiful voice and a royal secret, as well as Fiolina’s younger sister Lauretta, who has trouble controlling her tremendous magical power. Claudia believes that the key to solving the curse’s mystery lies with these two sisters. To further complicate matters, Noah’s cousin Sieghart, the Crown Prince of Lemilsia, is also a student at the academy! Join Claudia and Noah as they journey to the bottom of the sea to continue their quest to eliminate curses the world over!
The book “The Untold Twins’ Secret” captured the life of a set of twins, Alexander and Genevieve. At the age of three, Alexander was kidnapped by his father. The secret of the twins’ identities and awareness of each other’s existence was hidden from them. However, the unforeseen circumstances that happened to one of the twins resulted in the two families reuniting again after 21 years, and the secret came out. When the twins finally met each other, the bond between them was very tight even though they grew up apart in different worlds and went through different life experiences.
Territorial borders, identity borders, and many other kinds of social and cultural borders are constantly questioned in Israel-Palestine. Reapproaching Borders: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine explores the concept of borders, how they are imagined and actualized in this deeply contested land. The book focuses on the 'implicate relations' between Palestinian Arabs and Jews, providing new insights into the origins and dynamics of the conflicts between them. Emphasizing the history of the non-elite members of both communities, the book sees the relations between Jews and Palestinian Arabs as embedded and reflected in areas of daily living, such as in the spheres of architecture, commerce, health sexuality, and the courts. Using the voices of the new generation of scholars, Reapproaching Borders demonstrates the continued saliency of older themes such as ownership and rights to the land, but as they intersect with the newer areas of inquiry, such as sexual identity politics and spatial relations.
With a light touch and many wonderful illustrations, historian Anat Helman investigates "life on the ground" in Israel during the first years of statehood. She looks at how citizens--natives of the land, longtime immigrants, and newcomers--coped with the state's efforts to turn an incredibly diverse group of people into a homogenous whole. She investigates the efforts to make Hebrew the lingua franca of Israel, the uses of humor, and the effects of a constant military presence, along with such familiar aspects of daily life as communal dining on the kibbutz, the nightmare of trying to board a bus, and moviegoing as a form of escapism.Ê In the process Helman shows how ordinary people adapted to the standards and rules of the political and cultural elites and negotiated the chaos of early statehood.
It is a story about a 22 year old girl, Anna, whose world turns upside down when she moves to a new city with the hope of bringing joy and fun. It turns out to be a complete mystery when she loses her parents and later, her brother goes missing. This story takes you through the journey of solving the mystery of her brother's disappearance and how Anna and her supernatural dreams lead to new unexpected chapters in her life.
The invasion has changed everything for Haven Fleet and the citizens they protect. More than ever the Order of Eden seems to be everywhere, hanging over our heroes like a menacing cloud as they face new challenges and try to keep the fleet from falling apart. Alice approaches a resistance group with the best intentions and is confronted by complications. Haven Fleet is faced with the unknown while Ayan and her allies try to keep the fleet together. Meanwhile the Haven Solar System is under Order of Eden occupation and the rule of Lucius Wheeler, their oldest surviving enemy. Every surviving character faces their own challenges as the survival of the entire fleet is threatened.
The year is 1989. Lamar "L.A." Davis the 3rd has a vision that can impact a generation. His religious father Bishop L.A. Davis, Jr., considers the vision a threat to his church so he does whatever it takes to destroy it. And Eugene, a young millionaire and proud supporter of Bishop, is on a mission to damage L.A's image. Despite the plans of Bishop and Eugene, L.A. goes forth with the vision, assisted by his best friends V and Chazz, and supported by his love interest Deanna and his aunt Lucy. Success and favor come quickly, but then hell breaks loose. L.A's past comes back to haunt him, family secrets are revealed, and the integrity of L.A.'s crew is questioned. Will he allow his goals to abort, or will his faith remain unshaken?
The Trellis family's plunge into the world of psychic energy and love ever after continues in volume 2 of the Building the Circle series. This box set includes the final three books in the series: The Corners, The Pillars, and The Close. Get ready to race to the finish in a story arc that comes full circle before it's done.