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![]() ![]() For some people, you might find Inherit Midnight similar to 39 Clues and decide to ignore it because of many reasons. If you love books about finding clues, or crazy, long history family that fight each other through weird challenges in order to inherit some awesome family’s company or fortune, Inherit Midnight is for you. Is Avery willing to risk both her heart and her life to claim the grand prize? Treacherous turns in the competition serve as brutal reminders that only one person can win it all. As the game progresses, Avery finds herself drawn to him–even though she isn’t quite sure she can trust him. Riley is the charming son of Grandmother VanDemere’s lawyer. He’ll do anything to win, even if it means turning on his own children. Marshall might be Avery’s uncle by blood, but there’s no love lost between them. and discover the truth about her long-lost mother. ![]() As the black sheep of the VanDemere clan–the illegitimate daughter, sent away to boarding school–she’d love to use that prize money to run away from the family who ostracized her. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Avery VanDemere’s ridiculously wealthy grandmother has decided to leave the family fortune to the relative who proves him or herself worthiest–by solving puzzles and riddles on a whirlwind race around the globe.įor Avery, the contest offers a chance to escape. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, this is the story of how an empire without a serious rival rotted from within, its rulers and institutions putting short-term ambition and personal survival over the wider good of the state. Goldsworthy pays particular attention to the willingness of Roman soldiers to fight and kill each other. It was a time of revolutionary ideas, especially in religion, as Christianity went from persecuted sect to the religion of state and emperors. This was a period of remarkable personalities, from the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius to emperors like Diocletian, who portrayed themselves as tough, even brutal, soldiers. Bringing history to life through the stories of the men, women, heroes, and villains involved, the author uncovers surprising lessons about the rise and fall of great nations. In his account of the fall of the Roman Empire, prizewinning author Adrian Goldsworthy examines the painful centuries of the superpower’s decline. ![]() By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa, and only a shrunken Eastern Empire remained. In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. ![]() A major new history of the fall of the Roman Empire, by the prizewinning author of Caesar ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps never before have so many topics about this Great War been covered with such economy and to such effect. What the book lacks in fresh insights or perspective it makes up for in compactness, comprehensiveness, balance, and style. It’s hard to imagine a better, and better-written, tale of the US’s first military venture on European soil. Farwell, a vivid chronicler of military forces, generals, and wars (Armies of the Raj: From Mutiny to Independence, 1989, etc.), here describes that extraordinary build-up of American armed might and what it wrought. Nineteen months later, the nation’s armed and naval forces had grown to 4 million people, and their deployment had tipped the balance of war in Europe against the Central Powers. In 1917, on the eve of its entry into WWI, the US was without a single army division. ![]() A well-told narrative of US participation in the most godawful and useless of modern wars. ![]() ![]() A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources. This set of instructional resources is for use with the book Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner.Snowmen at Night was written by Caralyn Buehner and illustrated by her husband, Mark Buehner. ![]() We begin the week’s lesson by reading it over and over.
![]() ![]() Here is faith in the face of unremitting tragedy, imagination soaring out of pitiful sadness and doubt vying with hope for dominance. In this book Derick Bingham seeks to trace the influence of Patrick Bronte's unfaltering evangelical faith on the lives and work of all his children. All had the fire of deep emotions running in their veins. Branwell, the most promising of Patrick's children is mourned for the wreck of his talent. Patrick's daughters Emily, Charlotte and Anne came onto the pages of literary history with, amongst other work, their novels Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall which now grip the imagination of millions of people in the 21st century. ![]() From humble beginnings in Ireland the Rev Patrick Bronte rose to the very heart of the reforming evangelical movement of the 19th century he was sponsored at Cambridge University in England by its great leader William Wilberforce. The story of the Bronte family is one of incredible romance, immense genius and haunting sadness. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hobbes’s claim to found the first true political science should be understood against the background of the political thinkers he seeks to supplant, chiefly Aristotle. These ideas are most comprehensively set forth in the Leviathan (1651), which text serves as the basis for this introduction to Hobbes’s thought. He argues that human beings are not naturally social or political, that the state of nature is a state of war, and that we must self-consciously create a government that is based on mutual consent and that presupposes a fundamental equality among its members. Hobbes emphasizes several ideas that have become central to modern politics and modern political science. By focusing political energies on the preservation of life and its comforts, Hobbes helps to institute the proposal made earlier by Machiavelli: that politics should satisfy certain basic, morally neutral needs rather than aim to organize us around contentious principles. In order to achieve these results, though, Hobbes must promote a view of the proper scope of politics that is narrower than that of the ancients. ![]() ![]() Hobbes claims, moreover, that his systematic political science will revolutionize political practice, enabling us to build more stable, peaceful, and productive societies. Thomas Hobbes presents himself as the first true political philosopher, the first to offer exact knowledge of justice, sovereignty, and citizenship. ![]() ![]() ![]() Desperate to get out of the manor as quickly as possible, Myra turns to the governor's older son for help completing the painting before the secret she spent her life concealing makes her the killer's next victim. A killer stalks these halls – one disturbingly obsessed with portrait magic. Kirkus Reviews, STARRED review 'Marvelously magical and steeping with mystery.' Adalyn Grace, author of All the Stars and Teeth Also by Jessica S. Once she arrives at the legendary stone mansion, however, it becomes clear the boy's death was no accident. Guarding that secret is the only way to keep her younger sister safe now that their parents are gone. But one frigid night, the governor's wife discovers the truth and threatens to expose Myra if she does not complete a special portrait that would resurrect the governor's dead son. She’s an artist whose portraits alter people’s real-life bodies, a talent she must hide from those who would kidnap, blackmail, and worse in order to control it. ![]() Myra has a gift many would kidnap, blackmail, and worse to control: she's a portrait artist whose paintings alter people's bodies. A deliciously twisted gothic fantasy you'll want to read again and again, with characters you'll adore, prose that'll spellbind you, romance you'll swoon over, and a mystery that'll keep you guessing until the last stunning twist'ĭiana Urban, author of These Deadly Games ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm someone who loves trying to figure out a plot before it’s revealed, and Then She Was Gone was a guessing game right down to its final chilling page. If you think you’ve surmised the twist here, I promise that you haven’t. Things move quickly, and soon she’s meeting his family, including his unusual, brilliant nine-year old … who happens to look exactly like Ellie. Ten years later, her marriage long over and her other children grown, Laurel falls into a sudden romance with a man she meets over coffee. The story begins with Laurel Mack, a mother irrevocably shaken by the disappearance of Ellie, her favorite daughter. This spine-tingling thriller with a plot reminiscent of The Lovely Bones had me torn on whether to sympathize with its multiple narrators or completely distrust their every word. Once I opened it, I found myself trapped in Lisa Jewell’s addictive plot and unable to move from my seat, much to my cuddly calico’s delight. Attention, readers with pets: I hereby confirm that Then She Was Gone is lap-cat approved. ![]() ![]() ![]() Washington Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere. Toad.įrom the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by name of Sleepy Hollow . ![]() In 1949, the second film adaptation was produced by Walt Disney as one of two segments in the package film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. ![]() Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1820.Īlong with Irving's companion piece " Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the Headless Horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in battle. " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Problems playing this file? See media help. ![]() |