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Step into the world of Adrian, Erica, Scott, and Phoebe. A world filled with "Misadventure and Mystery" where deception and crime seems to lurk at every corner. Join the four of them as they work together to take down hackers, car thieves, and stalkers. Erica, always the hotheaded one, is determined to bring these people to justice. Scott, creative and chaotic as he is, often holds the group together when things get rough. Phoebe might be a nerd, and a dedicated one at that, but don't underestimate her ability to solve a problem once she gets going! And Adrian, with his keen wit and sensible ideas might just be the person they need to solve the case. As you read this book, prepare to be asking yourself burning questions, such as, "Are all the crimes connected?" or, "Are our heroes in over their heads?" Have no fear, these questions will be answered when you dive into the first book of the "Misadventure and Mystery" series, "Cars, Computers, and Chaos!"
A story of love and loyalty, betrothal and betrayal, triumph and tragedy; charting one gay man's attempts to rise above the legacy of a traumatic childhood. Based on the author's own life, it will strike a chord with many who have been through similar things. It's a varied, exciting, demanding, sometimes terrifying life story. It contains some explicit sexual narrative, including sexual violence. http://www.thecloudsstillhang.com
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In this in-depth look at the heated debates over paying college athletes, Ronald A. Smith starts at the beginning: the first intercollegiate athletics competition—a crew regatta between Harvard and Yale—in 1852, when both teams received an all-expenses-paid vacation from a railroad magnate. This striking opening sets Smith on the path of a story filled with paradoxes and hypocrisies that plays out on the field, in meeting rooms, and in courtrooms—and that ultimately reveals that any insistence on amateurism is invalid, because these athletes have always been paid, one way or another. From that first contest to athletes’ attempts to unionize and California’s 2019 Fair Pay to Play Ac...
In the autumn of 1972, Lucy Ferriss, then a college student in California, was preparing for the Veiled Prophet Ball at which she was to be presented to St. Louis society. Once the largest cotillion in the country, the invitation-only ball was unique among society events not only for the legend and mystery surrounding its namesake but also for its setting in a public, taxpayer-funded arena and for its accompanying parade. In the late sixties and early seventies, with racial tensions at a boiling point and urban renewal failing, the exclusively white male Christian membership of the Veiled Prophet Society and the Veiled Prophet's costume--eerily reminiscent of a Klansman's--attracted the ire ...
* AWARDED BEST ANTHOLOGY BY THE ART ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND *How has Asia been imagined, represented and transferred both literally and visually across linguistic, geopolitical and cultural boundaries? This book explores the shifting roles of those who produce, critique and translate creative forms and practices, for which distinctions of geography, ethnicity, tradition and modernity have become fluid. Drawing on accounts of modern and contemporary art, film, literature, fashion and performance, it challenges established assumptions of the cultural products of Asia.Special attention is given to the role of cultural translators or 'long-distance cultural specialists' whose wo...
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