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the World tree rises up out of the seething clouds like a green mountain. All creation nestles in its green branches. there is no world besides this one ... or so the people believe. tymon grows up at Argos seminary in the lush heart of the Central Canopy, where science is a heretical pursuit and travel beyond the tree is banned. But he yearns to break free of these rules and discover new horizons. When he meets a despised Nurian slave in the city baths, his dreams of freedom take on a completely different meaning. Banished to a drought-ridden colony, tymon falls in with a group of Nurian rebels and finds himself facing difficult choices. Fighting for freedom and power is not so enticing when it may mean betraying his own people and severing all ties to the world he knows ...
Is it braver to trust your enemy, or to stand alone? She didn't mean to escape from Boundary. Yet, somehow, she did. Now, thrust into an unfamiliar and dangerous world, the young woman written off as a weak link must untangle the mystery of her past and find a way to rescue those still trapped within Boundary, while battling her own doubts and troubled past. But time is quickly running out and she has two choices: put her trust in an old enemy, or find herself completely alone...both are equally terrifying. Barrier is the second book in The Other Horizons Trilogy by teenage author Mary Victoria Johnson. The first, Boundary, is also available from Lodestone Books.
Victoria is set to embark on a journey that will change her life forever...Victory, an eighteen-year-old from the southern United States, has held onto a secret that has burdened her for ages. After graduating from high school, moving across the country for college seems like the perfect escape, yet the guilt of holding onto the secret follows her as she starts her freshman year. Dealing with this, along with the troubling family history she has left behind, Victory finds herself struggling to adjust and find her identity in Christ. With college parties, a potential boyfriend, and newfound friends, Victory embarks on a journey of self-discovery that will change her life forever.
Funny, honest, brilliant and opinionated, A Drink with Shane MacGowan is the highly-acclaimed memoir of a true music icon.'One of the freshest, most original biographies I've ever read' - Lynne Barber, Observer'His candour, coupled with an acerbic wit, makes him an ideal guide through an unmistakably colourful life' - Time OutShane MacGowan was an intensely talented songwriter whose band, The Pogues, merged punk with Irish folk music to create a sound uniquely their own. An anarchic hellraiser with the soul of a poet, he is forever associated with Christmas after the chart-topping success of 'Fairytale of New York', his duet with Kirsty McColl.He grew up on a small farm in Tipperary, won a scholarship to Westminster, was rapidly expelled, became a rent boy, then a central figure of punk and the hugely influential star of The Pogues - until his bandmates got so fed up of his behaviour they kicked him out for a time. MacGowan's music, innovative and powerful, is as distinctive as his chaotic, breakdown-scarred, drug and alcohol-fuelled lifestyle.Written with his girlfriend (and later wife) Victoria Mary Clarke, A Drink With Shane MacGowan is a joyful celebration of a charming musician with a remarkable perspective on the world.'An enormously vivid and descriptive picture of his life and dramatic times' - Irish Times'This endearing memoir . . . is Irish rock distilled' - Sunday Times
reveals the ingredients of a passionate lifelong marriage discovered by the author and her husband. The book reveals the necessary steps that will take a couple from dating to wedding to an amazing marriage. The tools offered in this book give couples a framework to use throughout their lives to strengthen their marriage, improve their communication and increase their intimacy and passion. The author encourages and challenges the reader to think carefully before making a lifetime commitment to marriage, and gives the married reader insights into how to work at constantly enriching their marital relationship. The book opens the door to proven resources that enable a couple to grow closer as they reach a depth of mutual understanding never experienced before and strengthen the bonds of marriage while growing in love each day. Spectacular Marriage takes couples from a dream of "happily ever after" to the reality of a marriage founded on love.
reveals the ingredients of a passionate lifelong marriage discovered by the author and her husband. The book reveals the necessary steps that will take a couple from dating to wedding to an amazing marriage. The tools offered in this book give couples a framework to use throughout their lives to strengthen their marriage, improve their communication and increase their intimacy and passion. The author encourages and challenges the reader to think carefully before making a lifetime commitment to marriage, and gives the married reader insights into how to work at constantly enriching their marital relationship. The book opens the door to proven resources that enable a couple to grow closer as they reach a depth of mutual understanding never experienced before and strengthen the bonds of marriage while growing in love each day. Spectacular Marriage takes couples from a dream of "happily ever after" to the reality of a marriage founded on love.
The co-founder of the Irish band The Pogues presents his autobiography as a series of interviews between him and his wife, Clarke, where he recounts growing up on an Irish farm, living in London in the mid 1970s, and reflects on the success of The Pogues and why he left the band. Photos.
“A remarkable biography . . . Well written and researched, this book warrants a spot on every serious American history student’s bookshelf.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review She was the first woman to run for president. She was the first woman to address the U.S. Congress and to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street. She’s the woman Gloria Steinem called “the most controversial suffragist of them all.” So why have most people never heard of Victoria Woodhull? In this extensively researched biography, journalist Mary Gabriel offers readers a balanced portrait of a unique and complicated woman who was years ahead of her time—and perhaps ahead of our own. “One of the most controversial American women of the late nineteenth century springs to life in this study that leaves no stone unturned.” —Publishers Weekly “[A] deftly written biography . . . of a hell-raising visionary.” —Mirabella “A meaty slice of feminist history peppered with Victorian drama.” —Civilization
Without the beauty and wit of the older Bennet sisters or the liveliness of the younger, Mary is the Bennet sister most often overlooked. She has resigned herself to a life of loneliness, alleviated only by music and the occasional book of military history. Colonel Fitzwilliam finds himself envying his friends who are marrying wonderful women while he only attracts empty-headed flirts. He longs for a caring, well-informed woman who will see the man beneath the uniform. A chance meeting in Longbourn's garden during Darcy and Elizabeth's wedding breakfast kindles an attraction between Mary and the Colonel. However, the Colonel cannot act on these feelings since he must wed an heiress. He returns to war, although Mary finds she cannot easily forget him. Is happily ever after possible after Mary meets the Colonel?
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