![]() Each new turn on the characters’ path is unexpected and engaging, making this a page-turner. ![]() ![]() Plot wise, I could not predict anything that happened. I loved the main and secondary characters alike, all with just enough backstory to create a diverse mix of interwoven perspectives. Once at the city, she’ll be given a fair trial…if she can make it there before the blood avenger, the man she was to marry, catches her.Ĭossette has an uncanny ability to deep-dive into her characters. But when a dinner that Moriyah hopes will impress her future husband accidentally results in the death of two children, she must flee to a City of Refuge before her life is taken in vengeance by a blood avenger, the deceased’s next of kin. Wanting to ensure Moriyah is cared for, her loving father secures a betrothal by offering a handsome dowry, his successful vineyard, to a friend’s son. She hides herself beneath a veil and believes her prospects of marriage gone. But before the fall, however, Moriyah, a woman who was abducted, was branded on the face with the symbol of the Canaanites’ gods. ![]() The Hebrews have been settling into the Promised Land ever since the walls of Jericho fell seven years ago. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Today, door-knocking is viewed with suspicion, and tragically, occasionally met with violence. Now, I treasure the openness, curiosity, and sincerity of both those visitors and my dad. The visit lasted close to an hour, and soon became a regular occurrence anytime Jehovah’s Witnesses knocked. As a child, I would roll my eyes at the intrusions. They shared their faith then my dad shared his, Islam. My dad opened the door wide, smiled, and welcomed them into the living room, offering them cups of tea. I peeked out the window to find a pair of suit-clad Jehovah’s Witnesses, and promptly retreated – from what I’d heard, most people avoided them. Ding-dong! It was the mid-’90s, in my childhood home in rural central New York, where we didn’t frequently get visitors. ![]() ![]() The first one is simply a continuation of what was done in the first book – namely a Seldon Crisis which is resolved by one dude being slightly cleverer than another dude, and also “fate”. In possession of a power which reduces fearsome opposition to devoted slaves, the Mule poses a terrible threat to Seldon’s Foundation. But he couldn’t foresee the birth of the mutant Mule. ![]() Hari Seldon predicted this war he even prepared his Foundation for it. Now it mist prepare for war against the remnants of the Empire as the Imperial fleet advances on their planet, Terminus. The First Foundation survived two centuries of barbarism as the once-mighty Galactic Empire descended into chaos. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon’s two Foundations is a lasting testament to an extraordinary imagination, one whose unprecedented scale shaped science fiction as we know it today. ![]() The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov’s iconic masterpiece. ![]() WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES ![]() Opening line: The Galactic Empire Was Falling. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is the co-author of several books on evidence, trial technique and legal ethics, and he has published numerous articles on the law, legal history, perjury, famous trials and true crime. He has taught a variety of courses, including Evidence, Scientific and Forensic Evidence, Litigation Skills (Trial Advocacy), Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, Insurance Law, Remedies, Law and Medicine, Bioethics, and Professional Responsibility (Legal Ethics). Professor Underwood began teaching at the University of Kentucky in 1980. It is about murder ballads, but from a lawyer’s perspective!” ![]() It’s not a law book, strictly speaking, but there is a lot of evidence and trial law in it. “I am excited about the book,” Professor Underwood said. Professor Underwood presents his case studies, documented through contemporary news accounts and court records, which show universal themes of love, betrayal, jealousy and madness through true-life tales that are both terrifying and familiar. "CrimeSong" brings to life a series of stories filled with jump-off-the-page real and memorable characters, shadowy history, courtroom dramas, murders, mayhem and music. Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law, has published a new book, "CrimeSong: True Crime Stories From Southern Murder Ballads." The 328-page book plunges readers into the riveting true crimes behind 24 southern murder ballads. ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() Read the international bestselling RED QUEEN series in full:īook 5: BROKEN THRONE (AN EXCLUSIVE RED QUEEN COLLECTION) Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever? Pursued by the vengeful Silver king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join the rebellion.īut Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat. Mare's blood is red - the colour of common folk - but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court wants to control. If there's one thing Mare Barrow knows, it's that she's different. I WAS BORN TO KILL A KING, TO END A REIGN OF TERROR BEFORE IT CAN TRULY BEGIN. The second novel in the #1 bestselling RED QUEEN series by Victoria Aveyard. ![]() ![]() The theory that I aim to defend here consists of two propositions: (i) that "humanity" in the label "crimes against humanity" refers to our nature as political animals, and (ii) that these crimes pose a universal threat that all humankind shares an interest in repressing. That is why all humankind shares an interest in repressing these crimes. Precisely because we cannot live without politics, we exist under the permanent threat that politics will turn cancerous and the indispensable institutions of organized political life will destroy us. ![]() Crimes against humanity represent the worst of those threats they are the limiting case of politics gone cancerous. We are creatures whose nature compels us to live socially, but who cannot do so without artificial political organization that inevitably poses threats to our well-being, and, at the limit, to our very survival. The answer I offer in this Article is that crimes against humanity assault one particular aspect of human being, namely our character as political animals. ![]() ![]() ![]() Īyesha At Last , was a book that I could relate to, I could see myself in it’s world, so It will always take a HUGE place in my heart. I have been reading Romance for a long time and, as I always say ,I LOVE reading Romance novels, but NEVER, not once I’ve been able to relate to any of those novels or characters, not because there is something wrong with them, but, as a Muslim girl and Hijabi, Love and Romance, although they have the same meaning for me as all people, they take different shapes. There are Two kinds of books : the books that you can relate to, and others you read, you imagine but you can’t relate to them in any way. You have to be ready for that love, and ready to make changes to welcome it into your life.” “It’s not enough to find someone you love. Genre : Fiction, Romance, Contemporary. ![]() ![]() Thanks a lot for giving me the opportunity to read this novel. Before I start with my New book Review, I would like to thank for Providing me with a free E-galley copy of this book for my Honest Review. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still Life with Murder is a #1 national bestseller originally published by Berkley Prime Crime. Nell finds that she must delve into the kind of dark and treacherous underworld she thought she'd left far behind if she is to unearth the truth before the hangman's noose tightens around William Hewitt's throat. ![]() Infuriated by his son's deception and convinced of his guilt, August Hewitt forbids his wife from coming to Will's aid, so she begs Nell to help exonerate him. ![]() But one snowy February afternoon, his parents learn that he is, in fact, still alive-and in jail for having murdered a man while on opium. The Hewitts' eldest son, William, a former Union Army battle surgeon and the black sheep of the family, was reported to have died years before in a notorious Confederate prison. But she soon learns that ugly secrets lurk beneath the surface of their gold-plated world. Born into poverty, young Nell Sweeney scratches by on her wits and little else until fortune blesses her with a position as nursery governess to the fabulously wealthy Hewitts. "What a thoroughly charming book! A beautiful combination of entertaining characters, minute historical research, and a powerful evocation of time and place." -NYT bestselling author Barbara Hambly Boston, 1868: The dawn of the Gilded Age, an era of burgeoning commerce and invention, of unimaginable new fortunes and lavish excess-for some. ![]() ![]() In Democracy in America he vividly describes the unprecedented “equality of conditions” found in the United States and explores its implications for European society in the emerging modern era. ![]() After returning to France, Tocqueville read hundreds of books and documents while reflecting on what his trip had revealed about the “great democratic revolution” that was transforming the Western world. During their nine-month visit they conducted interviews with more than 200 people on American politics, law, and social practices. This Library of America volume presents Alexis de Tocqueville’s masterpiece in an entirely new translation, the first to capture fully the precision and grace of his style while providing a rigorous and faithful rendering of his profound ideas and observations.Ī young aristocratic lawyer, Tocqueville came to the United States in 1831 with his friend and fellow magistrate Gustave de Beaumont to study American penitentiary systems. Democracy in America (1835–1840) is arguably the most perceptive and influential book ever written about American politics and society. ![]() ![]() Please visit the operator’s website for further information. Rates are indicative based on the minimum and maximum available prices of products and services. 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