![]() ![]() ![]() All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. This classic novel of a teenager's descent into madness, in the tradition of "Go Ask Alice" and "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, " has remained a bestseller for close to 30 years.Ĭhoose your shipping method in Checkout. Sixteen-year-old Lisa, smart, attractive, and outwardly successful, suffers from a nervous breakdown that only her closest friends seem to notice and care enough about to try to find a way to help her. Lisa's friends are the only ones who are listening-and they walk with her where adults fear to tread. Some days are "light, " and everything is normal during her "dark" days, she hides deep within herself, and nothing can reach her. ![]() Lisa Shilling is 16, smart, attractive-and she is losing her mind. This classic novel of a teenager's descent into madness, in the tradition of "Go Ask Alice" and "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, " has remained a bestseller for. ![]() ![]()
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![]() It is a story about the meaning of courage. SAS Rogue Heroes boss reveals dramatic real-life story behind grenade scene. ![]() The result is an exhilarating tale of fearlessness and heroism, recklessness and tragedy of extraordinary men who were willing to take monumental risks. CD Projekt apologises for not showing Cyberpunk 2077 on PS4 and Xbox One. It granted bestselling historian Ben Macintyre unprecedented access to a treasure trove of SAS secret files, unseen reports and footage, memos, diaries, letters, maps and photographs, and exclusive interviews with its founder members. Opening its secret archives for the first time, the SAS finally decided to tell its astonishing story. So began the most celebrated and mysterious military organisation in the world- the SAS. radical and entirely against the rules- a small undercover unit that would inflict mayhem behind enemy lines. The first ever authorised history of the SAS, now a major BBC series starring Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell and Dominic West In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, came up with a plan that was. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Accompanying the proclamation that ""My dad isn't afraid of ANYTHING, even the Big Bad Wolf,"" is a picture of the fellow showing an overall-clad wolf the door, as Red Riding Hood and three pigs peer out from behind a tree in the background in another, the boy thinks his dad ranks as one of the three tenors (""a brilliant singer,"" Dad is flanked by Pavarotti and Domingo). Each page celebrates a specific quality or accomplishment of Dad, illustrated with characteristically witty panache. ""He's all right, my dad,"" begins the young narrator, pictured only in the final painting, receiving a giant hug from the object of his affection. With well-measured doses of hyperbole, sentiment and humor, Browne (Voices in the Park) delivers an endearing paean to patriarchs. ![]() ![]() Mohdis tale of an otherworldly realm in the jungle and its strange, danger 5(11). Read 11 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. ![]() Afghanistan, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Guadeloupe, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ireland, Jamaica, Jersey, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Republic of Cuba, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, San Marino, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Syria, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U.S. Writing fiction for me, but you can enjoy it too. Marisa Mohdi loves storytelling and writes fiction for readers who like losing themselves in magical worlds, exciting adventures and spooky situations. ![]() ![]() I’ve always love Greek mythology and Hercules is my favorite Disney hero. ![]() However, if he chose to walk that path, he had to deal with Hades, the untouchable lord of the Underworld whose magnetism was as deadly as his reputation.īefore I start, I have to say this. That didn’t stop him from being drawn to the dangerously alluring but in distress Megaera. With his life turnaround, Hercules couldn’t afford to crave for things he couldn’t have. I want to break him into a thousand sharp pieces, to drag him down into the dark with the rest of us, but I can’t help appreciating the very thing I want to ruin. By the time I realize just how deep a game he’s playing, it may be too late… I can’t resist Meg’s touch-or stop from being drawn to Hades’s dark desires. The same fool who desires them both as much as I hate them. ![]() ![]() ![]() A single night with Meg and I’m willing to do anything to save her from Hades, the man holding her captive, victim to his every whim.Ī bargain with the devil himself seems a small price to pay in order for Meg to go free… Until I learn that she’s exactly where she wants to be.Īnd I’m the fool that walked right into their trap. ![]() ![]() ![]() The devil is in the details, and Stephen King is a master of detail. Overall the book highly captivates the readers till the end. The book at times can be chilling the nerves with the sheer power of engaging writing. This little fact, while ultimately irrelevant in the grand scheme of the book, lends an air of realness and relatability to the character making him very likable and engaging. The most endearing quality that William Hodges possesses is his embarrassment regarding his first name, which happens to be Kermit. Mercedes’ and what’s the motives behind his actions are? Hodges is intrigued and starts to investigate the case instead of turning the letter over to his former police colleague, Pete Huntley. Olivia had killed herself soon after the massacre out of guilt. Mercedes knows the details of the murder and also mentions Olivia Trelawney, from whom he had stolen the Mercedes. ![]() The incident had taken place at the end of Hodges’ career and was still unresolved when he retired. Hodges is divorced, lonely, and fed up with his life, occasionally considering suicide. Bill Hodges, a recently retired detective from the local police department living the life of a retiree, receives a letter from an individual claiming to be the person responsible for the job fair incident, referring to himself as “Mr. Many jobless people are standing in line for a job fair, but then a Mercedes ploughs into the crowd, killing sixteen and severely injuring many. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The moment I entered the room, the noise subsided and it was replaced by theunpleasant silence. Realizing there was nothing else I could do about it I gave up and headed downstairs tomeet Helen.The anguish of seeing Sebastian increased as I got closer to the dining room. When I finally accepted that makeup could only do somuch, I tried to pull my hair over the blemish as much as possible, but I still couldn’t camouflage itcompletely. I took a quick shower, put on my clothes and spent minutestrying to mask the throbbing bruise on my face. The reflection of the girl with a bruised face startled me, and Idoubted that makeup could cover it up. Resigned, I chose something towear and hurried to the bathroom. After everything that had happened the day before, I felt anxious about being in thesame house with him, let alone letting him see me in my rags again. ![]() I still needed to choose something from that pile and wear it in front of Sebastianfor the last time. But don’tmake it too long.”After I thanked her and assured her I didn’t need any help, she left me alone with a pile ofclothes on the floor. She’s downstairs having breakfast with Sebastian. “Oh my God, I forgot about that.” I started panicking at the thought of Sebastian scowling atme again.“Don’t worry. ![]() ![]() ![]() And she don’t know nothing ’bout picking up her own mess, or telling her no-good friends to stop waking up the whole neighborhood at three and four in the morning with loud music, crap games, and fights. She’s seventeen, but she looks twenty-five. It was Shiketa Nixon, the girl who lives two buildings up from us. Wasn’t no stranger who whacked her over the head, neither. The newscaster on the TV in the hospital waiting room said Momma was jumped in broad daylight right out front of our place. ![]() Cry some more when I see how really bad off Momma is. I cry all the while I’m in the waiting room. ![]() ’Cause if you let ’em loose, somebody gonna say you a punk, and you won’t never live that down. If you accidentally cut your hand off in wood shop, you better hold back them tears. In school, there ain’t never a good reason to cry. Mad at God and everyone else who shoulda looked out for her, but didn’t. No way would that girl wanna be me right now, sitting in the hospital hoping my mother don’t die. You probably get to go home for doing something stupid. On my way outta English class, one girl looks at me and says, “You lucky. “Raspberry Hill,” she says real slow, with a crack in her voice. T HEY NEVER CALL ME OVER the intercom at school.īut I can tell by the way the secretary is saying my name over that thing-I’m in trouble. With love, laughter, and a well-lived life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Happiness was when there was a balance between what you gave and what you took. Happiness was to be with loved ones, and yet still feel that you existed as a separate being, that ou were not just there to make them happy. Or sit by yourself doing nothing for a whole day, and not give excuses or feel guilty about it either. He has the ability to modify any item he owns. Happiness was also about the right to privacy, the right to retreat from the company of others and plunge into contemplative solitude. Arand 4.23 7,052 ratings486 reviews In a world full of super powers, Felix has a pretty crappy one. ![]() Part of happiness was to be loved by a man who enjoyed your strength and was proud of your talents. A happy woman was one who could exercise all kinds of rights, from the right to move to the right to create, compete, and challenge, and at the same time could be loved for doing so. An unhappy person felt as if there were barriers crushing her desires and the talents she had inside. “Happiness, she would explain, was when a person felt good, light, creative, content, loving and loved, and free. ![]() ![]() Sent to Port Moresby in October 1942, Barnes served with the 105th Casualty Clearing Station. She returned to Australia in March and initially worked at the 109th AGH, Adelaide. ![]() From October 1941 to January 1942 she was attached to the 2/4th Field Ambulance at Tripoli, Syria. Later rejoining the 2/2nd at Kantara, Egypt, she nursed casualties from the fighting in Greece, Crete and North Africa. She served at Gaza Ridge and Nazareth, Palestine, where she was seconded to a British hospital. ![]() Posted to the 2/2nd Australian General Hospital as a staff nurse, she embarked for the Middle East in April 1940. ![]() The army recorded that she had blue eyes, brown hair and a fair complexion. On 20 December 1939 Barnes joined the Australian Army Nursing Service, Australian Imperial Force. ![]() She commenced her nursing training at the Children’s Hospital in July 1928 and graduated as a general nurse in February 1932. Educated at Methodist Ladies’ College, Kathleen was head prefect in 1925. Kathleen Hope Barnes (1909-1981), nurse, was born on at Cottesloe, Perth, fifth daughter of James Barnes, an Irish-born storekeeper, and his wife Agnes Kirkwood Burns, née Patrick, who came from Scotland. ![]() |