Swept Aside

Swept Aside
Author: Sharon Sala
Publisher: MIRA
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2018-07-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488037108

From a New York Times–bestselling author, a hostage situation leads to love for an undercover cop in book three of this romantic suspense series. Shell-shocked after a nightmarish school shooting, Amalie Pope retreats to an aging plantation house near Bordelaise, Louisiana, to heal, physically and emotionally. She’s there barely an hour when a tornado rips through bayou country, mercifully leaving the house intact. She’s stranded, but unafraid—until a knock on the door. Four escaped prisoners barge inside, and in an instant Amalie is a hostage again. These men are wounded, desperate and dangerous—with one exception. Undercover DEA operative Nick Aroyo is on the run with the gang he’s infiltrated. The only thing he wants more than this collar is to protect fragile, frightened Amalie, who has surrendered herself to his care, body, soul . . . and heart. But he’ll have to play the thug in order to keep her—and his secret—safe, because even though the storm has passed, the danger remains. . . .

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Total Pages: 445
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Blue Shoes and Happiness

Blue Shoes and Happiness
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2006-04-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0375424261

Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe—with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi—navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea. Life is good for Mma Ramotswe as she sets out with her usual resolve to solve people’s problems, heal their misfortunes, and untangle the mysteries that make life interesting. And life is never dull on Tlokweng Road. A new and rather too brusque advice columnist is appearing in the local paper. Then, a cobra is found in the offices of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. Recently, the Mokolodi Game Preserve manager feels an infectious fear spreading among his workers, and a local doctor may be falsifying blood pressure readings. To further complicate matters, Grace Makutsi may have scared off her own fiancé. Mma Ramotswe, however, is always up to the challenge. And Blue Shoes and Happiness will not fail to entertain Alexander McCall Smith’s oldest fans and newest converts with its great wit, charm, and great good will.

Chaim Potok

Chaim Potok
Author: Daniel Walden
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2015-09-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0271062681

Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and the conflicts between observance and acculturation. With a plain, straightforward style, his novels were set against the moral, spiritual, and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. This collection aims to widen the lens through which we read Chaim Potok and to establish him as an authentic American writer who created unforgettable characters forging American identities for themselves while retaining their Jewish nature. The essays illuminate the central struggle in Potok’s novels, which results from a profound desire to reconcile the appeal of modernity with the pull of traditional Judaism. The volume includes a memoir by Adena Potok and ends with Chaim Potok’s “My Life as a Writer,” a speech he gave at Penn State in 1982. Aside from the editor, the contributors are Victoria Aarons, Nathan P. Devir, Jane Eisner, Susanne Klingenstein, S. Lillian Kremer, Jessica Lang, Sanford E. Marovitz, Kathryn McClymond, Hugh Nissenson, Adena Potok, and Jonathan Rosen.

The Mycenaean Cemetery at Achaia Clauss near Patras

The Mycenaean Cemetery at Achaia Clauss near Patras
Author: Constantinos Paschalidis
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2018-11-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1784919209

Presents the study of the finds from the Mycenaean cemetery of Clauss near Patras, carried out between 1988-1992 under the direction of Prof. Thanassis Papadopoulos. During the excavation project, fifteen chamber tombs were located and researched in detail, to be added to those already known from the pre-war excavations by Nikolaos Kyparissis.

The Liberal Tradition in American Politics

The Liberal Tradition in American Politics
Author: David F. Ericson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2013-12-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135270880

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Search for a Nonviolent Future

The Search for a Nonviolent Future
Author: Michael N. Nagler
Publisher: New World Library
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 157731803X

Beginning with the achievements of Mahatma Gandhi, and following the legacy of nonviolence through the struggles against Nazism in Europe, racism in America, oppression in China and Latin America, and ethnic conflicts in Africa and Bosnia, Michael Nagler unveils a hidden history. Nonviolence, he proposes, has proven its power against arms and social injustice wherever it has been correctly understood and applied. Nagler's approach is not only historical but also spiritual, drawing on the experience of Gandhi and other activists and teachers. Individual chapters include A Way Out of Hell, The Sweet Sound of Order, and A Clear Picture of Peace. The last chapter includes a five-point blueprint for change and "study circle" guide. The foreword by Arun Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, is new to this edition.

Days of Awe

Days of Awe
Author: Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Publisher: Schocken
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1995-08-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0805210482

Compiled by S.Y. Agnon, one of the greatest Hebrew writers of the twentieth century and winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature, Days of Awe is the long-acknowledged classic companion to the High Holy Days prayerbook. Here in one volume are readings from the meditations from the Bible, the Talmud, the Midrash, and the Zohar, to deepen the spiritual experience of the holiest days of the Jewish year. More than three hundred texts. selected from the vast storehouse of Jewish literature from ancient to modern times, are arranged to follow the order of the synagogue service for the High Holy Days. "From the moment of its appearance," writes Judah Goldin in the Introduction, "[this] volume seemed as though it had always been here, as though it had always been the companion of the holiday prayerbook."

Routledge Library Editions: Artificial Intelligence

Routledge Library Editions: Artificial Intelligence
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 2732
Release: 2021-06-23
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0429960689

"Artificial Intelligence" (AI) a term coined in the 1950s actually dates back as far as 1943. Now very much in the public consciousness, AI research has fallen in and out of favour over the years. Routledge Library Editions: Artificial Intelligence (10 Volumes) brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a small interdisciplinary series of previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1970 and 1994. Covering ground in computer science, literature, philosophy, psychology, psychotherapy and sociology, this set is a fascinating insight into the development of ideas surrounding AI.