Resultado narrado por "Mary Beth Garber" em Todas as categorias

The African meaning of slavery was different in its nature and purpose from that which emerged with the Slave Trades. The native institution is at the heart of a cluster of institutions, which marked the end of the last recorded “Reorganization” process. Those among the Africans, who opted for the preservation of their environment, won the debate. Thus, they labeled the losers “insurgents”, ordered many of these ancient master smiths, masons, and scientists to be put to death.

A cookbook that focuses in season and simplicity in the kitchen to eat food that is good for your body and soul, with a seasonal pose, which will help you throughout the difference of climate and earth cycle....

Don’t Go Crazy Without Me tells the tragicomic coming-of-age story of a girl who grew up under the seductive sway of her outrageously eccentric father. He taught her how to have fun; he also taught her to fear food poisoning, other children’s infectious diseases, and the contaminating propensities of the world at large. Alienated from her emotionally distant mother, the girl bonded closely with her father and his worldview. When he plunged from neurotic to full-blown psychotic, she nearly followed him.

Rosa and Esther march through downtown Detroit in August 1968 to protest the war in Vietnam. When a bloodied teenager reports that mounted police are beating protesters a few blocks away, the young women hurry to offer assistance. They try to stop the violence, but an officer is injured and the sisters are arrested. Rosa sees an opportunity to protest the war in court. Esther has an infant daughter and wants to avoid prison, which means accepting a plea bargain and testifying against her sister.

On their honeymoon trip to Maui, Lindsey and Frank witness a tragic death while biking down Haleakala volcano. Both are immediately suspicious of the circumstances, and their questions and nosiness lead to much more than solving the mystery of a young man's death.

Revenge is a destructive fire. Revenge among the gods and goddesses can engulf the world. Such is the threat that Dara and her friends confront. Sparked first by Dara's father's theft of the cauldron of Ceridwen, unleashed by that cup's return, storms of anger collided in Scotland, unwittingly destroying the ancient home of the goddess of winter, Cailleach. Only an elven queen saw this destruction. Only she imagined a way to placate that goddess' anger. Cailleach had given the Grail, a seeing-stone, to a trusted druid leader before the days of King Arthur.

Wildlife photographer Lindsey Grayson and best friend Emma Jacobs embark on a trip to enjoy photographing nature and participating in a seminar. Never did they imagine they would also encounter murder and events placing them both in danger. Deception, gun fire, and murder will engrave this trip in their memories.

A Broadway dancer wrecks her knee and decides to head home for a little R&R, but the roadtrip home takes an unusual turn when she finds herself in Grand Prairie, Texas, short on funds and in the middle of a murder investigation.

This is the story of a female detective who works for a small agency outside Virginia Beach. Charlotte Cavanaugh survived a difficult upbringing and endured a very unconventional introduction to sex, which taints all of her personal relationships with men. She has a specific need that no man has been able to deliver, and she has all but given up hope of ever having this need met until now. Charlotte, Charlie, is promoted to Sergeant and assigned to Major Crimes when a string of homicides begins to rock the sleepy suburb of Landon.

Losing Beck is the story of Jennie Silver, who is trying to get over a man who was greatly influenced by the renowned Hungarian emigré novelist Avigdor Element...Spanning 100 years of history...Jennie keeps a diary, writes a play and a novella in her attempt to control her desperate, high-pitched emotions focused on a man she is uncontrollably drawn to and at the same time finds repugnant.

When Rain Hurts is the story of one mother’s quest to find a magical path of healing and forgiveness for her son, a boy so damaged by the double whammy of prenatal alcohol abuse and the stark rigors of Russian orphanage life that he was feral by the time of his adoption at age three. Bizarre behaviors, irrational thoughts, and dangerous preoccupations were the norm - no amount of love, it turns out, can untangle the effects of fetal alcohol syndrome.

When Anne Edelstein was 42, her mother, an experienced swimmer in good health, drowned while snorkeling in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Caring for two small children of her own, Anne suddenly found herself grieving not only for her emotionally distant mother but also for her beloved younger brother Danny, who had violently killed himself more than a decade before. To find peace in the future, she must wrestle not only with the past and her family's long history of mental illness, but also with the present and the growing emotional needs of her children.

House Arrest is a novel that explores the fraught relationship between home care nurse Emily Klein and her pregnant ward, Pippa Glenning, a young Isis cult member under house arrest for the death of her daughter during a Solstice ceremony. Despite their difference, Emily and Pippa's friendship grows. Emily's friends - her cousin Anna with whom she lives, Anna's ex-husband Sam, and her best friend Gina - all warn Emily that Pippa is trouble.

As a major hurricane threatens the northeast, math professor Gandalf Cohen is abducted by federal agents and flown to a secret interrogation center off the coast of Maine. Austin Coombs, a young local resident, is a newly hired civilian guard assigned to the detention center. Henry Ames, a man of personal secrets, is the FBI special agent in charge of Gandalf's case and doubts the professor's terrorist involvement; Tobias, his second-in-command, disagrees, preferring violent interrogation. As the hurricane slams the shore, conflict detonates and each character must choose a side.

He was nine when the vines first wrapped themselves around him and burrowed into his skin. Now a college botany major, Jeremy is desperately looking for a way to listen to the plants and stave off their extinction. But when the grip of the vines becomes too intense and Health Services starts asking questions, he flees to Brooklyn, where fate puts him face to face with a group of climate-justice activists who assure him they have a plan to save the planet, and his plants....

When a tentacle emerges from the mist covering the lake and chokes the last dying breath from the Johnson's beagle Petey, things start to go strangely wrong in the quaint little town of Haven. At first, no one notices when Jonathan Robinson disappears. However, when Anne Smith's mother, Laura, realizes that something is horribly wrong with her, she begins to raise questions that need answering.

On a chilly November morning, 88-year-old Iris Blum goes missing from Azalea Court, a six-bungalow development on the grounds of a long-closed state mental hospital. Her husband, Asher Blum, was the last head psychiatrist at the hospital and is writing a book about the treatment of mental illness. Their daughter Lexi, the neighbors, and police detective McPhee suspect Dr. Blum of being involved in Iris’ disappearance.