![]() ![]() Clark insinuates herself into the investigation and charms the woman in charge. Determined to keep her enemies close, Dr. Thanks to her meticulous planning, she’s avoided drawing attention to herself…but as she’s preparing for her biggest kill yet, the school starts probing into the growing body count on campus. Clark searches for the worst man at Gorman University-professor, student, or otherwise-and plots his well-deserved demise. ![]() But she’s even better at getting away with murder.Įvery year, Dr. ![]() Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. From the author of the “raw, ingenious, and utterly fearless” (Wendy Walker, USA TODAY bestselling author) Temper comes a dynamic psychological thriller about two women who give bad men exactly what they deserve-perfect for fans of Killing Eve and Chelsea Cain. ![]()
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![]() ![]() īefore the murders, Manson had spent more than half of his life in correctional institutions. ![]() The prosecution contended that, while Manson never directly ordered the murders, his ideology constituted an overt act of conspiracy. In 1971, Manson was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of seven people, including the film actress Sharon Tate. Some of the members committed a series of nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969. Members of the Manson Family, including Susan Atkins, Mary Brunner and Tex WatsonĢ murdered, 7 murdered by proxy, 4 arsonsĬharles Milles Manson ( né Maddox November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California, in the late 1960s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jenny has missed two decades of pop culture, and her high school is practically unrecognizable. Everyone in Jennys life has spent the last twenty-five years mourning her death. and then reappeared twenty-five years later. Louis, Jenny and the other passengers are told their plane vanished into thin air. Shes going to hang out with her best friend Angie, finally kiss her new boyfriend Steve, and convince her parents to let her apply to Columbia so she can be an award-winning journalist. After visiting her grandparents in New York City, Jenny Waters is ready for the perfect senior year. ![]() ![]() Mason tells the story of a girl who takes off on a flight and lands.twenty-five years later. Book Synopsis How do you move forward when your entire life is stuck in the past? In this captivating YA debut, Michelle I. About the Book Past and present collide in a captivating YA debut about a girl who takes off on a flight and lands. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reprinted in e-book and print-on-demand paperback in recent years. Turned to writing mysteries, publishing eight of them in all, which have been ![]() Girl in the American Revolution (1930), and The Piper's Lad (1931), as well as 1934's A Royal Cinderella, a retelling for children of Margaret Irwin's She published several children's titles, including The Little Great Lady (1925), Patsy'sīrother (1926), included in Sims & Clare's list of school stories, The Mystery of Saint's Island (1927), The New Curiosity Shop (1929), Red Coats and Blue: A Story of a British Harriet, but she must have liked the flair of the extra "te").Ĭampbell's first published work was a novel, Is It Enough?: A Romance of Musical Life (1913). (1968), The Birthday Gift (1975, aka Dig a Little Deeper), and Death of a Crow (1983). (1948), The Noonday Devil (1951, aka Catch a Killer), The Iron Cobweb (1954), The Of even relatively minor characters … are sharply and memorably drawn." Her She was a master atĬreating intriguing chapter endings and swiftly paced plots, and the portraits The detective genres into popular suspense stories. James Guide to CrimeĪnd Mystery Writers, "successfully blended elements of the gothic and Sister of Mary McMullen, and she published nearly two dozen novels which,Īccording to the St. Curtiss is the daughter of Helen Reilly and the Which will appear further down my list, but as it happens all three were With some sort of relationship with one another, and URSULA CURTISS is not only closely related to two other authors ![]() ![]() But when the cookies are finally finished, they are hard as rocks! Can Arthur think of a way to turn this disaster into the best Christmas present ever?Īrthur's Funny Money:Here's a hilarious account of Arthur's attempts to earn enough money to buy a T-shirt and cap, assisted by his sister, Violet. Little sisters don't do things like karate and wrestling: or do they? It takes a surprise letter to show Arthur that sometimes there's more to sisters, and pen pals, than meets the eye!Īrthur's Christmas Cookies:Arthur decides to make Mother and Father special Christmas cookies as a present. ![]() Even Arthur's Honey Bear! But Arthur finds there's more than one way to say good-bye to an old friend.Īrthur's Pen Pal:Arthur thinks his pen pal is more fun than his little sister. ![]() Lillian Hoban's classic Arthur tales are now available in one audio collection!Īrthur's Honey Bear:Arthur and his sister, Violet, are selling all their old toys in a tag sale. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is particularly important when holding the line and enforcing standards.The most important explanation a leader can give to the team is “why?". ![]() Leaders must set high standards and drive the team to achieve those standards, but they cannot be domineering or inflexible on matters of little strategic importance.Continue to monitor progress, but try and refrain from giving specific guidance on execution unless necessary.Ĭhapter 3 - Resolute, but Not Overbearing.Make sure to communicate what other teams are doing.Give clear guidance on the mission, the goal, and the end state, as well as the boundaries in place.You must avoid both micromanagement and being too hands-off.You should get close to your employees, your team, but never forget there is a job to be done, and that the good of the company/mission needs to come first.Ĭhapter 2 - Own It All, but Empower Others.Part I: Balancing People Chapter 1 - The Ultimate Dichotomy Decentralized Command: empower team leaders by clearly communicating what to do and why.Prioritize & Execute: accomplish highest priorities in series.Simple: Complexity breeds chaos and disaster - keep things simple and communicate overall intent.Cover and Move: Teamwork is critical among departments and groups.The best leaders and teams acknowledge mistakes, take ownership, and make corrections to improve. ![]() ![]() Eventually she wins the Quran competition. To challenge this hegemony, Nidali registers for the competition and prepare herself by repeating and memorizing the Quran. In this sense, this novel critiques the way patriarchal Muslims like Baba who tends to underestimate women including his own daughter by adding just one more letter for Nidali’s, instead of creating a new female name for his daughter.Īnother example of how this novel questions patriarchal Muslim men is through the way the narrator describes Nidali’s teacher at her madrasah that only involves male students with the Quran competition. After realizing that his baby is a girl he just adds the letter “I” at the end of the baby’s name: Nidali. When she was born, her father, Baba, has prepared a boy name, Nidal, meaning jihad as Baba want to have a son instead of a daughter. Indeed, this novel explores personal development of Nidali starting when she was born at Elizabeth hospital Boston Massachusetts in the early 1980s. ![]() Since conducting the several journeys is the characteristics of the bildungsroman form, Jarrar’s novel can be categorized as a buildung novel. Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home tells a story of Nidali who move from Kuwait to Egypt, and then to the US. ![]() ![]() Themes include: college hunks, daddies, bears, jocks, older + younger men, M/M/M, best friends to lovers, dom/sub, and so much more! ![]() Leave your hang-ups and inhibitions at the door because this is a place where anything goes. Description Welcome to the bathhouse, a place where your wildest fantasies can come true. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pausing to stretch her back, she stared up at the stars glittering in the night sky. The water was only for cleaning but they still didn’t want it freezing. Micayta dumped the last barrel of dishwater into the well and sealed it shut making sure the cap on the top of the well was snug. Micayta will have to open her heart and find a way to let someone else in, or the flames that destroyed her home will consume the world. But the question of who to trust is one not easily answered. But the real danger lies within the city walls, where Micayta becomes a player in a deadly game with a dark-eyed mage.Nothing is what it seems.As the truth unravels, Micayta finds herself drawn into a struggle much bigger than she ever dreamed. ![]() ![]() Through bandits, wolves, and snowstorms, the three struggle their way to the city of Phadra. Tech has an amazing story to tell, but is any of it true? Old wounds and betrayals make Micayta slow to trust, but without Tech she and her brother will never make it across the countryside alive. To keep herself and her brother alive will take all the strength that she has.Then a mysterious stranger appears to complicate matters. Then catastrophe strikes the small town in which she lives, thrusting Micayta and her brother Pytaki alone into the snow laden countryside. Micayta’s world has long been gripped in the thrall of an endless winter that grows worse with the passing of time. ![]() ![]() The underlying critique - that sex equality issues come down to women's sameness or difference from men, rather than to men's dominance over women - still holds true today. MacKinnon's opening essay on "Unthinking ERA Thinking" was first published nearly twenty years ago. It provides a retrospective of book reviews, law review articles and speeches from 1981 through 2004 they show the evolution of MacKinnon's groundbreaking thinking on legal sex equality theory. ![]() Her book is divided into two parts, the first of which discusses "equality re-envisioned," focusing on women's lives under men's laws and sexual abuse as sex inequality. She has paved the way for many other thinkers with her innovative work regarding sexual harassment law - a field she is credited with inventing. MacKinnon, of course, is the matriarch of feminist legal theory. ![]() ![]() MacKinnon 's Book: Her Evolving Thought on Sex Harassment and Sex Equality ![]() |