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Movie stars establish themselves as brands - and Taylor's brand, in its most memorable outings, repeatedly introduced a broad audience to feminist ideas. Drawing on unpublished letters and scripts as well as interviews with Kate Burton, Gore Vidal, Austin Pendleton, Kevin McCarthy, Liz Smith, and others, The Accidental Feminist will surprise Taylor and film fans with its originality and will add a startling dimension to the star's enduring mystique.

For years Leo Waterman eked out a meager living as a PI in Seattle. He survived run-ins with murderers, drug dealers, and jealous wives, but when Rebecca, the love of his life, dumped him to marry someone else…that was a different story. After Leo’s trust fund finally kicks in, he takes his broken heart and slips gratefully into retirement — until the day he learns that Rebecca has vanished and no one, not even her overbearing mother, can locate her. Together with his motley crew of homeless drunks and reprobates, Leo sets out to find Rebecca, following her twisted trail from the rain-swept streets of Seattle to the murky depths of the great North Woods. The stink of it all emanates from none other than Rebecca’s new husband, whose lies cast Leo into the path of a ruthless gang that will stop at nothing — not even murder — to protect what’s theirs.

We live in a world where we are often judged by how much we do or how much we accomplish. In 15 compelling portraits of celebrities like Ted Turner, Wally "Famous" Amos, and Lech Walesa as well as ordinary people, Dr. Jampolsky recounts remarkable stories of love, courage, perseverance, and achievement and teaches listeners that true "success" comes from thoughts and actions of the heart.

Introducing Goodnight Zoo, the perfect bedtime audiobook for babies and toddlers. Your child will embark on a journey through a bustling zoo where the animals are getting ready to go to sleep.

The Kryl invaded in the dead of night. The Nevers family had to flee. Yuzosix, once their home, must be left behind. Along the way, young Elya Nevers develops a strange habit...he begins to collect bot parts. Something about it soothes him. But this strange obsession soon catapults Elya into an inescapable conflict, one that will shape the man he becomes. And plant the seed of his destiny.

Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, is one of today's most popular artists. He made his start posting his music on Soundcloud, and in 2016, his song "Diles" got him signed to a major record label. Since then, Bad Bunny has performed at Coachella and collaborated with superstars like Cardi B, J Balvin, and Drake. Breaking language barriers, Bad Bunny is now one of the top streamed artists internationally on Spotify. Bad Bunny is just getting started with his music takeover, having won 3 Grammys and 10 Billboard Music Awards.

In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a nineteenth-century Christian abolitionist and missionary, David Ingraham. As Momany and a fellow historian Doug Strong pored over the diary, they realized that studying this document could open new conversations for twenty-first-century Christians to address the reality of racism today. They invited a multiracial team of fourteen scholars to join in, thus launching the Dialogue on Race and Faith Project.

Historical Crime Collection - Two Novels by M. G. Scarsbrook POISON IN THE BLOOD: THE MEMOIRS OF LUCREZIA BORGIA 1497, Renaissance Rome: As the teenage daughter of Pope Alexander VI, and sister to the fearsome Cesare Borgia, Lucrezia is a young noblewoman immersed in all the glamor of the Vatican Palace. Yet after a brutal killing shocks the city, Lucrezia learns that a dangerous truth lies beneath the surface of the Papal Court: in their ruthless quest for power, her family will stop at nothing to eliminate their rivals. Her father and brother are poisoners. After discovering that her new ...

Imagine Holmes trying to solve the case of an invisible man attacking London - matching wits with a traveler from out of time - tracking down a human/feline hybrid - using his deductive skills to help fight Martian and lunar invaders! These are just some of the stories included in Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of H.G. Wells.

An alien war looms over Earth.... And Anderson Gunn is helpless to stop it. Messages from intergalactic allies paint a stark view of the future: War is inevitable. A knock on the door brings a much-needed distraction - a bounty hunting job. There’s only one problem. This client is of the offworlder variety. Gunn’s an expert at tracking down missing humans. But missing aliens? That's a whole different ball game. The case hurls Gunn and his friends to the brink of the impending conflict, where they stumble on an alien technology that will alter the course of human history.

Ripped from Earth and transported to a strange new world, archaeologist Eliana Fisk is taken captive by the leaders of a native tribe. What do they want with her? She’s not sure, but they don’t seem friendly. When she discovers evidence of an ancient sacrificial ritual, Eliana fears she’ll be next. Can she avoid becoming an offering to their bloodthirsty god? And how in the worlds will she ever get back home?

Twilight Sparkle er i tvil om hvordan hun skal lede kongeriket på best mulig måte. Og hvordan blir man egentlig en ekte prinsesse? Hun søker hjelp hos Prinsesse Cadance i Krystallimperiet, og blir sendt ut på oppdrag. Det fins nemlig en trylleformel som hjelper prinsesser med å følge hjertet, slik at de blir gode regenter. Den vil Twilight finne, men det går ikke helt som planlagt... G.M. Berrow er en amerikansk forfatter som har skrevet flere av bøkene i den populære serien om "My Little Pony". Hun har også skrevet flere episoder av TV-serien "My Little Pony".

UNE VICTIME. LE MAUVAIS CORPS. Le dernier enquête de DCI David Garrick commence avec un cadavre qui ne devrait pas exister — et un détail si étrange qu'il déclenche une tempête médiatique nationale. Au cœur du chaos se trouve un mystérieux nouvel artiste de rue, une figure proche de « Banksy » dont les œuvres valent soudain une fortune — et que l’on murmure être porteuse d’une malédiction mortelle. Quand des collectionneurs commencent à mourir et qu’un marchand d’art ambitieux comprend qu’il pourrait être la prochaine cible, Garrick et son équipe se retrouvent ...

Darkus and his friends continue their unforgettable adventure in this final instalment of the Beetle trilogy. Arch-villainess Lucretia Cutter has a secret Biome hidden in the Amazon rainforest: can Darkus and his friends, human and beetle alike, find it before it's too late? If they can't stop Lucretia, she will release her hoard of giant Frankenstein beetles, and the planet will never be the same again....

UN TUEUR QUE L’ON CROYAIT MORT… EST BIEN VIVANT. Les pires craintes de l'inspecteur David Garrick se réalisent lorsqu’une découverte macabre chez lui annonce le retour d’un tueur en série dérangé, qu’il pensait disparu à jamais. Mais ce n’est pas la fin — c’est le début d’un nouveau chapitre terrifiant qui menace tout ce qui lui est cher : sa carrière, son amour, et sa santé mentale. Alors que les sombres secrets entourant le meurtre de sa sœur refont surface, Garrick se retrouve contraint de prendre en charge une affaire qu’il n’a jamais souhaitée — ...

El inspector jefe David Garrick está atormentado por el pasado… y pronto esto costará más vidas. Marcado por el brutal asesinato de su hermana y acosado por visiones que no puede explicar, Garrick apenas logra mantener unido a su equipo cuando empiezan a aparecer cadáveres mutilados en los idílicos pueblos de Kent. Cada cuerpo lleva la misma firma grotesca: un trofeo esculpido en la propia carne de la víctima. A medida que Garrick se adentra en la investigación, descubre un submundo de trata de personas y crimen organizado oculto bajo la apacible superficie de la campiña inglesa. ...

Il sovrintendente capo David Garrick è perseguitato dal passato—e presto questo costerà altre vite. Ancora segnato dall’omicidio brutale della sorella e tormentato da visioni che non riesce a spiegare, Garrick a malapena riesce a tenere unita la sua squadra quando corpi mutilati cominciano a comparire nei villaggi da cartolina del Kent. Ogni cadavere porta la stessa firma grottesca: un trofeo ricavato dalla carne della vittima. Man mano che Garrick scava più a fondo, scopre un mondo nascosto di traffico di esseri umani e criminalità organizzata che ribolle sotto la superficie ...

Los nigromantes de la Torre de Idyll no son como dicen los cuentos. Allí nadie sacrifica doncellas ni juega con la muerte, sólo se estudia entre libros y hechizos. Clarence, que siempre ha vivido ahí, adora esa calma. Hazan, que conoce el mundo exterior, comienza a cansarse de ella. Sin embargo, cuando unos venenos letales empiezan a comercializarse por toda Marabilia, ambos deben abandonar esa paz.

The first short story - "The Tomb of Sara" - was written by English navy officer, and writer, Frederick George Loring. It was one of the very first stories from the last century featuring a lady vampire. The feminine element represents the connection with "Luella Miller" by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman. The inhabitant of a haunted house sucks life out of everyone who gets interested in her - and the atmosphere gets denser throughout the story.

Most people labor under the assumption that diabetes is caused solely by poor eating and exercise habits, but in many cases, this is not true. This book explores many facets about diabetes so that you don't have to try to sort through what to believe on your own. Safe and Proven Cure for Diabetes begins by debunking common myths surrounding diabetes in an effort to demystify the disease and give listeners a good starting point of knowledge to learn more about the condition.