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In this riveting sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller, Maestra, femme fatale Judith Rashleigh once again leads readers into the mesmerizing and dangerous underworld of Europe’s glamorous elite. Since opening her own art gallery in Venice, Judith Rashleigh—now Elisabeth...

As Gavin's junior year comes to a close, he faces an inner conflict with his status as the most popular kid in high school. It's not lost on his father, who sensed for some time that his overly indulged son needs redirection. Making matters worse for Gavin, his dad sends him away for the summer to assist at a camp for children with special needs.

Aliquippa, Pennsylvania is famous for two things: the Jones and Laughlin Steel mill, an industrial behemoth that helped win World War II; and football, with a high school team that has produced numerous NFL stars, including Mike Ditka and Darrelle Revis. But the mill, once the fourth largest producer in America, closed for good in 2000. What happens to a town when a dream dies? Does it just disappear?

This volume features 20 self-identified female authors writing about intersectionality, including women of color, disabled, transgender, and GLB/GSD (Gender and Sexual Diversities). We have curated amazing short fiction, flash fiction, poetry, essays, and art. It's personal, political, and a great listen.

Premier volet d'un thriller événement, "Maestra" campe le portrait d'une femme fatale ancrée dans son époque, perspicace et dangereuse. Un roman sombre, jouissif, cruel, qui se dévore avec un plaisir... coupable ? Le jour, Judith Rashleigh est assistante dans un hôtel de ventes aux enchères londonien qui l'exploite malgré ses diplômes et son talent. La nuit, elle officie dans un bar à hôtesses où elle séduit sans effort. Judith sait qu'elle doit jouer le jeu.

Buffalo Bill Cody, Bat Masterson, and other legendary heroic figures of America's Old West get the royal treatment in White Hats, a collection of stories by esteemed Western authors. This anthology is expertly compiled by Robert J. Randisi, who has gathered extraordinary stories of those who wear the white hat from well-known authors like John Jakes, Richard S. Wheeler, James Reasoner, and others.

Bob Drifter is a substitute teacher with a secret. He seems like no more than a polite young man who loves to read and mentor students in his free time. Yet on the side, Bob takes part in some rather strange extracurricular activities that soon attract the attention of local police. For some reason, people have a way of dying around him. It's not his fault. Maybe he just hangs around people who are already dying. Maybe he has bad timing. But Bob knows better.

This program explains Paul’s success in a corrupt urban society and how certain passages that have been used to vilify Paul as anti-woman were interpolations into the text. Hedonist Corinthians transformed into the Body of Christ.

Fr. Doyle answers challenges that Paul was anti-woman, anti-Semitic and anti-marriage. Rather he shows Paul to be a genius, a pastor and a tender spiritual guide who reveals to us what it means to be followers of the Lord. He explains the relationship between proclaiming the Kingdom and the Church.

Paul’s great letter is presented as an extension of the Sermon on the Mount. Under the power of the Spirit, he cast a light on a darkened and depraved world so that his readers could be transformed into instruments of light and become powerful manifestations of God’s love and forgiveness in the midst of the world.

Prior to his death Paul confronted the question of Jesus’ place in the cosmos. He experienced Jesus as his source of grace and was challenged to reflect on his role in creation. Paul proclaimed that Jesus does not fit into the worldview of the Ephesians and Colossians: rather Jesus is the worldview. Program covers the Biblical theology of creation, from Genesis to St. Paul’s mature theology as found in Ephesians and Colossians.

Jesus was a Jew. His mother, Mary was a Jew. - Finally, contemporary scholarship brings into focus Jesus’ Jewish roots/heritage. For centuries, the Jewishness of Jesus was ignored and this had enormous consequences, the attempts over the centuries to suppress this truth have led to heresies. The 1st Century Jewish conception of the role of the priest, prophet, and messiah are all explained. Fr. Doyle shows how the Jewish prayer life and feasts affected Jesus.

For years, Trent Turner has worked in the shadows using his vigilance and determination to covertly defend his country. His anonymous days dispatching of the world's dark realities are interrupted when the unthinkable happens and sends him on a path that could destroy him. He finds himself embroiled in a conspiracy where political and financial powers collide when members of a hacktivist group are strong-armed into helping a sworn enemy of the United States rise to power once again.

Inside sales is the fastest growing sales channel due to its cost effective nature. An inside sales rep can handle far more contacts on a daily basis than their field sales counterpart. If you are a "C" level executive with responsibility for delivering revenue, you cannot afford to overlook the rules contained in this fast-paced, powerful, book.

The Collaborator, a historical novel by S.L. Stebel, takes place in the aftermath of World War II. A high ranking Israeli official, Ernst Gottliebsohn, is accused of having conspired with the Nazis on the eve of his nation's first trade mission to Germany. Charged with defending himself, Gottliebsohn finds that he has no memory of anything that happened in his past; his life before emigrating to Israel is as much a mystery to him as it would be to a stranger.

Wisenberg may have lost a breast, but she retained her humor, outrage, and skepticism toward common wisdom and most institutions. While following the prescribed protocols at the place she called Fancy Hospital, Wisenberg is unsparing in her descriptions of the fumblings of new doctors, her own awkward announcement to her students, and the mounds of unrecyclable plastic left at a survivors' walk.

Don't mess with the creepy new girl. Ryan Devlin, a predator with a past, has been forced to take a job as a handyman at an exclusive private school, Crossley College. He's losing his battle to suppress his growing fascination with a new girl who seems to have a strange effect on the children around her. Tara Marais fills her empty days by volunteering at Crossley's library. Tara is desperate, but unable, to have a baby of her own, so she makes Reborns - eerily lifelike newborn dolls. She's delighted when she receives a commission from the mysterious 'Vader Batiss', but horrified when she sees the photograph of the baby she's been asked to create....

La glamourosa e internacionalmente conocida marchante de arte Elisabeth Teerlinc sabe bastante sobre el mundo de las falsificaciones. Después de todo, ella misma no deja de ser una falsificación o una especie de fraude. Su verdadera identidad, Judith Rashleigh, se encuentra enterrada bajo una fina capa de mentiras. Por no mencionar la cantidad de cadáveres que se ha llevado por delante, de todos aquellos que querían entorpecer su camino.

Judith Rashleigh nos ha demostrado cómo, gracias a su trayectoria sangrienta, ha podido pasar de ser una becaria explotada en una casa de subastas a convertirse en una marchante de arte internacional. Sí, Judith ha dejado una estela de sangre en su camino, pero su nueva vida como galerista en Venecia, rodeada de elegancia y codicia, representa todo lo que siempre ha querido ser. Y, además, a puerta cerrada, la alta sociedad ofrece un montón de lujuriosas actividades de las que Judith continúa disfrutando.

De día, Judith Rashleigh es una joven ayudante en una prestigiosa casa de subastas de Londres. De noche, se convierte en una acompañante seductora y segura de sí misma en un sórdido club de alterne del centro de la ciudad. Pero cuando Judith descubre un fraude millonario en el mundo del arte y es despedida antes de poder denunciarlo, su doble vida se ve radicalmente trastornada. En su desesperación, huye a la Riviera francesa con un rico cliente del club y accede a un mundo tan glamouroso como corrupto.