In Steel's latest, 42-year-old Tanya Harris loves her life as a mother of three, wife of a dashing San Francisco lawyer and moderately successful writer of short stories and soap opera scripts. She has long given up on her dream of writing a screenplay, but then her agent calls with a dream offer: a major director wants her and her alone to write the script for a new high-profile film.
The dreams of an idle life in the paradise of the Bahamas are shattered when the discovery of a derelict, bullet-ridden yacht brings in the local police and the drug-runners. Nick Breakspear, desperate to escape his famous parentage, invalided out of the Marines, was heading only for peace, but the quixotic impulse makes him take up a challenge - and a lucrative offer - and he allows himself to be hired, for a private war, by a smooth-talking US presidential candidate. And it is the skills drawn from his depised father's world that will enable him to survive.
Bringers of the Dawn: Teachings from the Pleiadians (Audiobook, MP3)
Compiled from more than four hundred hours of channeling by Barbara Marciniak, Bringers of the Dawn imparts to us the wisdom of the Pleiadians, a group of enlightened beings who have come to Earth to help us discover how to reach a new stage of evolution. Startling, intense, intelligent, and controversial, these teachings offer essential reading for anyone questioning his or her existence on this planet and the direction of our collective conscious--and consciousness.
The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to ’gender’ and its implications.
Added by: eliker bahij | Karma: 250.44 | Other | 22 January 2011
7
New Arabian Cuisine
The book New Arabian Cuisine was sure to be a ground-breaking project: launched at the end of 2006, the book represents an attempt to offer a completely new 'bridge' across cultures - a culinary one. The book hopes to inspire a whole generation of chefs to come up with innovative new ways of preparing and presenting traditional Arabian dishes, and of combining local flavors and textures in new ways, using a subtle European touch. It aims at linking "two worlds of enjoyment that have, as yet, remained almost entirely untouched by each other," ...
