![]() ![]() Abducted, drugged and left for dead on a sinking boat, she's barely rescued in time by Coast Guard Investigative Services special agent Gage Sessions, an old friend. Marine biologist Sadie Strand is back in her coastal hometown to prove her best friend was murdered - but searching for evidence almost costs Sadie her life. He's done everything to keep her from getting under his skin - now he must stop those who want to put her six feet under. Linc Colson trusts two things: his instincts and his Rottweiler K-9 partner, Star - and certainly not the pretty face he's assigned to monitor. Her serial killer brother's escaped - and it's single mum Zoe Sullivan who's under suspicion! Sgt. But while the handsome, guarded agent vows to protect her, someone will keep killing to ensure the truth never rises to the surface. Assigned to protect Sadie and connect three complicated cases, Gage risks his life time and again to make sure the woman he once loved survives. ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() With the air quality being what it had been lately I knew I was lucky to be out here in this breathable pocket. I shook my head, knowing I shouldn’t complain, and headed back down the hill. Almost.Īre you sure? I said, questioning both his math skills and my ability to keep my lungs from exploding. ![]() Finding a quiet side of Pilot Butte during the middle of summer was almost as hard as the running. ![]() Jesse was providing moral support while I ran my four-hundred-meter hill repeats on the quiet side of Pilot Butte. CHAPTER 1Īll right, Craigers, just three more to go. He was beyond words, the blood from his chest now ebbing, having already spread and pooled on the floor underneath him, his eyes frozen in shock and staring out into nothingness.įear and betrayal forever etched on his dead face. I wiped the tears from my eyes and took his limp hand.īut my words didn’t matter. Tears sizzled down my hot face like bacon grease on fire and I dropped to my knees, the sounds of shouting in the distance. She ran out into the hall before I could say anything. The woman’s eyes found the body and the knife, still in my hand. Suddenly a door opened, harsh light flooding the room. I sucked in air, forcing it into my lungs, and I stumbled back, the soles of my shoes wet with something thick and dark. But when I opened them again, I was still in the dark room and he was still dead at my feet. I closed my eyes, desperately trying to wake out of the nightmare. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Join him on his journey to become a Shadowhunter, and learn about the Academy's illustrious history along the way, through guest lecturers such as Jace Herondale, Tessa Gray, and Magnus Bane. When the Shadowhunter Academy reopens, Simon throws himself into this new world of demon-hunting, determined to find himself again. Simon has been a human and a vampire, but after the events of City of Heavenly Fire left him stripped of his memories, he isn't sure who he is any more. Ten illustrated stories following the adventures of Simon Lewis, star of the #1 New York Times bestselling series The Mortal Instruments, as he trains to become a Shadowhunter. ![]() An illustrated hardback of ten stories about Simon Lewis, star of Cassandra Clare's internationally bestselling series The Mortal Instruments, with a bonus pull-out poster. ![]() ![]() ![]() The essays cover the following topics: Kant's reasons for writing a second Critique, how best to understand the notion of a 'formal principle,' the significance of the fact of reason, the development of Kant's deductions of morality and freedom from the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals to the second Critique, the doctrine of the Triebfeder or 'spring' of pure practical reason, Kant's discussion of freedom and how to reconcile it with causal determinism, the Antinomy of Pure Practical Reason and Kant's notion of the highest good, the primacy of practical reason and the notion of a postulate in general, and, finally, the importance and meaning of the Doctrine of Method. ![]() One might expect that a critical guide to the second Critique would make it a point to treat all major aspects of the work, and this collection nearly does so. ![]() Such a label brings with it a variety of possible expectations, and I will consider which of these the collection seems best able to meet. As the subtitle indicates, these essays are intended to provide a 'critical guide' to Kant's second Critique. Overall, the essays provide careful readings of Kant's text, draw on his other writings for context where appropriate, and analyze his claims and arguments with clarity and philosophical acumen. This new collection of essays in Cambridge's Critical Guides series consists of first-rate commentaries by an international group of scholars on various aspects of Kant's Critique of Practical Reason. ![]() ![]() He calls for the paramedics, and when they arrive decides to accompany her to the hospital. Everything about her fascinates him, her gorgeous eyes, and the pièce de résistance, her beautiful head of hair-flaming red, his weakness. He turns her over to check for a pulse and is not prepared for the unusual beauty of the woman. “Look at you,” he whispered, his accent thick and gravelly, the thickest she’d ever heard it.ĭamon Dumont comes to an abrupt stop to avoid running over the woman lying in his path on the track he can’t just walk away. With each touch of his hand, he draws her like a moth to flame. A fall on the track where she runs every day, a chance meeting with the most handsome stranger she’s ever seen, and Franchesca LaCasse, an accomplished biochemist, usually able to handle any situation, finds herself hungering for the stranger’s touch, as he gently caresses her face to determine the extent of her injury. ![]() ![]() ![]() I know there's a Korean and Taiwanese version as well, but I haven't seen them (yet). I first watched the J-Drama of Hana-Kimi years ago, and was pretty much hooked. The premise is a bit eh, to be honest, but this manga is much better than the synopsis makes it sound. Why? To help inspire her idol, Sano, to high jump again. Mizuki disguises herself as a boy in order to enrol in an all-boys boarding school. I look forward to seeing how the relationship between Sano and Mizuki will continue as well as how Nakatsu will continue to evolve in this series. ![]() 3Ĭhapters 11 -16: This volume was another great addition to the series and had a new problem causing character whose role was both introduced and ended during this volume. The second character is Mizuki's older half-brother who turns up and after discovering she is at an all boys school he tries to stir up trouble and take her home but thanks to Sano and Doctor Umeda's help she manages to stay. The first is a former rival of Sano's who turns up trying to provoke Sano by pointing out how he is surpassing him and in his own way he may be trying to push Sano back into competition. 2Ĭhapters 05 - 10: In this volume 2 new characters are introduced to us. ![]() This volume also contains a Bonus Story called "The Cage of Summer". So far I really like Mizuki Ashiya and am enjoying her one on one interactions with Sano, Nakatsu, and the school doctor Umeda. 1Ĭhapters 01 - 04: This volume provides a good introduction for several of the characters in this series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Writing in an entertaining narrative style, the author tackles major intellectual issues related to the underestimation of the influence of happenstance on our lives. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill–the world of trading– Fooled by Randomness provides captivating insight into one of the least understood factors in all our lives. This book is about luck–or more precisely, about how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. ![]() ![]() Nassim Nicholas Taleb–veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, and New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan–has written a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.įooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And her only confidants, a war-gifted girl named Emilia and her oracle friend Mathilde, are urging her to take on a role she can’t imagine filling: a legion-cursed queen who will lead a rebel army to Katharine’s doorstep. Jules, too, is in a strange place-in disguise. Though she says nothing, her rotting, bony finger pointing out to sea is clear enough: return to Fennbirn. Mirabella and Arsinoe are alive, but in hiding on the mainland and dealing with a nightmare of their own: being visited repeatedly by a specter they think might be the fabled Blue Queen. There’s also the alarming issue of whether her sisters are actually dead-or if they’re waiting in the wings to usurp the throne. But now that she finally has it, the murmurs of dissent grow louder by the day. Queen Katharine has waited her entire life to wear the crown. #1 New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake returns with the highly anticipated third book in the Three Dark Crowns series! And while Arsinoe, Mirabella, and Katharine all have their own scores to settle, there is another queen stirring things up on Fennbirn Island. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout his book, Gladwell repeatedly refers to the “10 000-hour rule,” asserting that the key to achieving true expertise in any skill is simply a matter of practicing, albeit in the correct way, for at least 10 000 hours.Īs surgical residents, we spend roughly 70+ hours a week working, learning and breathing Urology. Although they initially started at strip clubs, they accumulated more than 10 000 hours by playing nonstop. In the second chapter, Gladwell introduces the concept of the “10 000-Hour Rule” and how it helped the Beatles become world famous musicians by having the opportunity to perform live as a group in Hamburg, Germany over 1200 times between 19. ![]() It dissects the steps of how Bill Gates created the world’s largest PC software company, Microsoft, as well as how Joseph Flom transformed Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates into one of the most powerful law firms in the world. The book explores factors that contributed to the high levels of success of some individuals. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.” The book “ Outliers: The Story of Success” by Malcolm Gladwell 1 was recommended to me by one of my Urology mentors, Dr. “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. ![]() |