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Why Me!! Doc!! By: George Pocho Marecheau Dr. Laura Reuben arrives home from night duty to find her 22 year old daughter dead. Overcome by the shock, trauma, and grief, she is hospitalized for a week. When the police struggle to find a person of interest, Dr. Reuben embarks on a comprehensive upgrade to her home, including the addition of clinical equipment to her basement. Two years later when Dr. Reuben is awakened by a man in her bedroom seeking to impose upon her the same fate that befell her daughter she subdues the man drags him to her basement. What follows is a tale of revenge and justice that challenges the often overlooked subject of sexual violence.
Richard Rat, a young orphan rat, is sentenced to Prudence Prison for the crimes of breaking and entering, and drinking stolen goods. But Richards stay in prison proves short-lived. He escapes for the simple reason that he is a ratoholic and desperately needs a drink! Drifting aimlessly, Richard ends up squatting in the ceiling of a building, which, as fate would have it, turns out to be a private rats school. From his hole in the ceiling, Richard begins to take notes and soon becomes the schoolmaster Mr Potts most diligent student. When Potts English School closes down, Richard moves into City Library and continues to educate himself. Yet out in the big, wide world, the philosophical Mr Rat is repeatedly put on the back foot in the school of hard knocks. Determined not to be defeated by his circumstances, a stronger and wiser rat emerges. Richard Rat accidentally grew out of another book I was writing says the author. I was writing this book about a boy who received a series of rather wacky comics for his birthday, called, The Adventures of Richard Rat. When I began to describe the comics, Richard quickly stood up and insisted he become a character in his own right!
International Commercial and Marine Arbitration analyses and compares commercial-martime arbitration, and the role of the courts in arbitration in several different legal systems including the US, the UK, Greece and Belgium, and also sets out how the process of arbitration should be developed in order to make it more effective.
Brenna MacKenzie came South to help her aunts, Dot and Lillian, make Langtree Lake bed and breakfast profitable again. From the beginning, however, her thoughts are captured by handsome Quinn Monroe, a workman helping to restore the plantation to its former glory. Strange forces are at work at Langtree Lake. Brenna is haunted by a compelling dream from her ancestor. Armand LeClaire, their neighbor, has taken a keen interest in Brenna's Aunt Lillian, but is thwarted when her fiancé Edmund suddenly returns. His anger is palpable. Someone keeps breaking into the property, and there seems to be a thief in their midst, as well. Brenna can't help but wonder if the story of the treasure of Langtree Lake might be true and to what lengths a desperate man might go to possess the fortune. The robber closes in, putting all of their lives in jeopardy. In the surprise twist ending, all is at last revealed, a legacy of wealth and passion, honor and love, for those with the strength to reach for it.
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" Belonging to the Army reveals the identity and importance of the civilians now referred to as camp followers, whom Holly A. Mayer calls the forgotten revolutionaries of the War for American Independence. These merchants, contractors, family members, servants, government officers, and military employees provided necessary supplies, services, and emotional support to the troops of the Continental Army. Mayer describes their activities and demonstrates how they made encampments livable communities and played a fundamental role in the survival and ultimate success of the Continental Army. She also considers how the army wanted to be rid of the followers but were unsuccessful because of the civilians' essential support functions and determination to make camps into communities. Instead the civilians' assimilation gave an expansive meaning to the term "belonging to the army
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