![]() Or maybe the lies and betrayal will only push them-and their families-farther apart. Maybe the girls can put aside their differences and work through it together. ![]() Kayla struggles just to imagine leaving the confines of her small town.īut in Spain, the two uncover a secret their families had hidden from both of them their entire lives. Avery is horrified that her father thinks he can choose her friends-and make her miss soccer camp. So it’s a huge surprise when Avery’s father offers to bring Kayla along on a summer trip to Spain. The two girls were friends as little kids, but that’s ancient history now. Sixteen-year-old Kayla Butts is known as “butt-girl” at school. ![]() ![]() From New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix comes a novel about friendship and what it really means to be a family in the face of lies and betrayal.įourteen-year-old Avery Armisted is athletic, rich, and pretty. ![]()
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It’s almost as if there were two completely separate inquiries – one to prove the defendant guilty, and the other to prove him innocent. The Prosecution and the Defence are pitted against each other: this is supposed to ensure the fair functioning of the legal process. The English system is at its heart adversarial. ![]() But there is a great more to it than that. I always thought that the main difference between the UK and countries such as Poland France and Germany was that the UK follows the common law (case-led), and the other countries on the continent often follow constitutional law (statute-led). ![]() Instead, the book is a depiction of the functioning of the criminal justice system with a chapter each dedicated to the victim, the Prosecution (Crown Prosecution Service), the Defendant, the Magistrates Court, the Crown Court – you name it. When I picked up The Secret Barrister, I expected something similar to a diary – the anonymized trials and privations of a barrister working in court. ![]() ![]() Good King James III is on the throne and the country is ravaged by wolves which have migrated through the newly-opened Channel Tunnel. 9780099456636 The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase 25.5000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/childrens-books/fiction /shop/books/childrens-books/fiction/general /shop/books/childrens-books This story takes place in l832 - in a period of English History that never happened. 'A wild and evocative fantasy, stylishly told, with a tremendous romantic appeal. When Sylvia and Bonnie (both orphans) fall into the hands of evil Miss Slighcarp, they must use all their wits to escape unscathed - for the governess is more cruel and merciless than the wolves that surround the great house of Willoughby Chase. 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For the first time in its one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has authorized a new Sherlock Holmes novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Binewskis arex a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities (with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes). Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo A National Book Award Finalist: This 'wonderfully descriptive' novel from an author with a 'tremendous imagination' tells the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias have bred their own exhibit of human oddities. ![]() ![]() ![]() These remarkable pieces serve as a powerful and necessary reminder that we can, and should, stake out a space in our lives for delight. The New York Times bestselling book of essays celebrating ordinary delights in the world around us by one of Americas most original and observant writers. The Book of Delights is about our shared bonds, and the rewards that come from a life closely observed. ![]() More than anything else, though, Gay celebrates the beauty of the natural world-his garden, the flowers peeking out of the sidewalk, the hypnotic movements of a praying mantis. But Gay never dismisses the complexities, even the terrors, of living in America as a black man or the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture or the loss of those he loves. Among Gay's funny, poetic, philosophical delights: a friend's unabashed use of air quotes, cradling a tomato seedling aboard an airplane, the silent nod of acknowledgment between the only two black people in a room. The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives. ![]() Summary: "In The Book of Delights, one of today's most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By the mid-1960s, 78s were still a popular if not preferred medium in much of Africa, as a significant amount of the population still used wind-up gramophone players. But that doesn’t mean that 78s weren’t everywhere, even in remote parts of the continent. No doubt it was the same with many cultures. Complicating things further, entire countries seem to have been skipped over by both commercial 78 rpm record companies and ethnographers during the 78 rpm era. The boundaries of cultures and languages are often far more complex than political boundaries. Further, African geography itself resists boundaries. Popular songs, topical songs, work songs, comic songs, songs of worship, ritual, dance, and praise-the sheer range of musical styles resists any easy categorization. It is truly astonishing to consider the tremendous variety of music that was pressed to shellac discs on the continent of Africa. ![]() ![]() ![]() "No one is expecting total comprehensiveness. "The perception of what is comprehensive has changed significantly," he said. Youths today often look at the 32-volume set and think that it seems too small, Cauz said. Such considerations, however, are "a generational issue," Cauz said. As a student, "the encyclopedia for me was the shortest time between doing homework and starting to play," Cauz said. The volumes, lined up authoritatively across a bookshelf, imparted a sense of gravitas about the material they contained and the mission of the company that published them. ![]() ![]() Even pricing-wise, the online edition makes better sense - at least for consumers: The basic subscription to the online version runs US$17 a year, or $1.99 a month, while the print set costs $1,400.Įven though the print edition hasn't been a significant form of revenue for the company for some time, Cauz admitted that the volumes are iconic for the company. The effort it takes to pack the most relevant of that information into book form is considerable for the company. The amount of material the company has amassed online has dwarfed the print edition. Over the past few years, the print edition accounted for less than 1 percent of Britannica's revenue. Britannica's move to stop printing encyclopedias is a telling moment in this point in history, when print is being superseded by websites and network-connected applications. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sophie Betsuie: Head engineer for Navajo construction project.Frank Chischilly: Hataali, Navajo medicine man.Oberon: Irish Wolfhound he can communicate telepathically with Atticus.Atticus O'Sullivan: The last of the Druids.The novel blends elements of mythology and urban fantasy. Yet, deals with Coyote aren't always what they seem and if Atticus can survive faking his own death he'll have to contend with undead skinwalkers and a vampire blood feud that threatens to engulf all of Arizona. Now with a whole host of deities hunting him, Atticus O'Sullivan, along with his faithful dog Oberon, and initiate Granuaile, decide to leave his Third Eye Books and Herbs occult shop in Tempe and go into hiding, with the help of Coyote, the Navajo trickster god, who asks a favor in return. ![]() It was released on April 24, 2012.īeing the last Druid carries with it several complications, especially when you become infamous for helping to kill Thor and decimate the Norse pantheon. Tricked is the fourth novel in Kevin Hearne's urban fantasy series, The Iron Druid Chronicles and is the sequel to Hammered. ![]() |