![]() All he wants is to be the father his daughter needs, to make up for not being there for her and her mother. ![]() Wealthy nightclub owner Dillon James has been used for his name and money one too many times, so when he comes face-to-face with Emma Stanton and her gorgeous lips, he's determined to keep things light. Now, not only must she break the news of her sister's tragic death to Dillon, but she must risk the only family she has left and tell him he's the baby's father. But that hadn't stopped him from sharing a kiss with Emma that had followed her through the years. ![]() She and Dillon had grown up together-he was her sister's best friend. "They can't forget the past, but is it enough to create a future?" When an accident leaves her guardian to her six-month-old niece, Emma Stanton must return to her small hometown of Hastings, Montana to find the one man she's spent the last eight years trying to forget. Now, not only must she break the news of her sister's tragic death to Dillon, but she. ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() One Piece Odyssey is a a love letter to fans - and to the show itself - during the 25th anniversary of One Piece. Why it doesn’t matter when Odyssey takes place So, no, One Piece Odyssey probably isn’t canon, but it does revisit canonical events… in a non-canonical way. In One Piece Odyssey, you will play through canonical events via flashback, but they’ll diverge somewhat from the established story due to the fuzzy nature of memory. They’re based on the events and use the same characters, but they don’t contribute to the overarching story. In fact, no One Piece game is considered canon. One Piece Odyssey was developed “with a direct involvement from Eiichiro Oda,” the creator of One Piece, as the official site says, but that’s doesn’t make it canon. More importantly, though, we can also figure out why it doesn't really matter.Ī quick note: We’ll be referring to the anime when talking about the timeline, since that’s more generally available and accessible. ![]() ![]() With 25 years of history, more than 1,000 episodes of the anime series, 100 volumes of the manga, 15 standalone movies, and dozens of video games (to say nothing of the upcoming live-action Netflix adaptation), the One Piece timeline is… extensive.īut we can figure out where it falls with a little effort (and a few assumptions). One Piece Odyssey is a JRPG celebration of all things One Piece and its 25th anniversary. ![]() ![]() ![]() Altogether 13 essays from leading and emerging scholars in the fields of film and media studies, literary studies, cultural history, ethnography and American studies address questions relating to the production and reception of serial narratives in the past and present. It explores narrative, cultural, and historical dimensions of serial narratives in an effort to come to terms with their changing forms and functions within the field of popular culture. This special issue seeks to make an original contribution to seriality studies. ![]() ![]() ![]() "He couldn't get out, he was so betrayed and so hurt by Bernie," she said. ![]() Mark had first attempted suicide in 2009, Stephanie reveals for the first time. Mack says the ordeal led Mark Madoff to commit suicide last December, on the two-year anniversary of his father's arrest. In a searing and emotional interview to be broadcast Friday on "20/20," Mack details how a privileged life in one of the richest families in America turned into a living nightmare after Madoff's Ponzi scheme was uncovered. Now, the widow of Mark Madoff, Bernie Madoff's oldest son, is the first inside member of the Madoff family to speak out, divulging the story of the death that she says can be traced directly to Bernie Madoff's unbelievable deception. history – Stephanie Madoff Mack lost her husband. 19, 2011 — - While many lost their fortunes thanks to Bernie Madoff - the man who orchestrated the largest financial fraud scam in U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am now an official presenter of Late Junction in its new Friday night slot, and I am deep into the ebb and flow of the Rum Music column. I ask myself yes or no, before I ask why. It’s how I’ve been inhaling music of late. In a month where dance music Twitter has been frothing about a freshly minted genre they don’t want, in an article that is a classic example of a man who should have passed the mic, Carson speaks of gut feelings, of tingly reactions, of trusting our ears before our brains do the analysing. “My first impressions of the sea were sensory and emotional,” she writes, “and the intellectual response came later”. In a recent collection of her writing there is a quote that sings. Before Rachel Carson wrote the world-changing Silent Spring, she also produced three luminous books on the sea. ![]() ![]() ![]() For either parties, entering into a private insurance contract may help to shift these risks to a risk-neutral risk bearer. For the defendant, similar risks apply and the award of the claim itself is an additional risk. For the claimant, such cost may include attorney fees, court fees, possibly a counterclaim for adverse costs in case the claim is dismissed, Footnote 1 and other costs. So, risk averse claimants and defendants may have reasons to look elsewhere – either in advance or as the case arises – for someone willing to bear the financial risks involved. A decision to lodge a claim in court or to defend against a claim, is a decision made under uncertainty: the costs are uncertain, and the outcome is uncertain. ![]() ![]() While drugs alone cannot explain the Nazis’ toxic racial theories or the events of World War II, Ohler’s investigation makes an overwhelming case that, if drugs are not taken into account, our understanding of the Third Reich is fundamentally incomplete. Carefully researched and rivetingly readable, Blitzed throws surprising light on a history that, until now, has remained in the shadows. Over the course of the war, Hitler became increasingly dependent on injections of a cocktail of drugs-including a form of heroin-administered by his personal doctor. In fact, troops regularly took rations of a form of crystal meth-the elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high even may help to explain certain German military victories. Drugs seeped all the way up to the Nazi high command and, especially, to Hitler himself. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. ![]() A fast-paced narrative that discovers a surprising perspective on World War II: Nazi Germany’s all-consuming reliance on drugs ![]() ![]() ![]() In his third book, The Lost Empire of Atlantis, Menzies claims that Atlantis did exist, in the form of the Minoan civilization, and that it maintained a global seaborne empire extending to the shores of America and India, millennia before actual contact in the Age of Discovery. Menzies' second book, 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance, extended his discovery hypothesis to the European continent. He was best known for his controversial book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, in which he asserts that the fleets of Chinese Admiral Zheng He visited the Americas prior to European explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492, and that the same fleet circumnavigated the globe a century before the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan. Historians have rejected Menzies' theories and assertions and have categorised his work as pseudohistory. Rowan Gavin Paton Menzies (14 August 1937 – 12 April 2020) was a British submarine lieutenant-commander who authored books claiming that the Chinese sailed to America before Columbus. Who Discovered America?: The Untold Story of the Peopling of the Americas (2013).The Lost Empire of Atlantis: History's Greatest Mystery Revealed (2011).1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance (2008). ![]() 1421: The Year China Discovered the World (2002). ![]() ![]() ![]() My skin gets tight suddenly, like I'm trapped inside of it with nowhere to go. I'd recognize that car anywhere: it belongs to the Thing. “What do you care?” I ask, and then the hair on the back of my neck stands on end at the sound of a car pulling into the driveway. It's definitely not my usual daywear, that's for sure. “Where the hell have you been?” she asks me, standing up and giving my frock a confused look. I prefer the months of severe neglect, hands down. It's always bad when she's paying attention to me. Staring up at the dilapidated duplex in front of me, I sigh and head for the front door.īut then I walk in and find her sitting on the couch, waiting for me. Hael climbs back in the car and he and Oscar take off, leaving me alone in my own personal hell. “I'm not used to it, and it doesn't suit you.” ![]() “Well, don't,” I snap, scooting around him, and giving the big, tattooed car freak a wide berth. “What?” he asks, holding up his hands in a placating gesture. I have no idea what's going through Hael's mind. What the fuck? I give him a skeptical sort of look as I climb out, like one might eye a used car salesman.īut, you know, in a way, he's much worse than a used car salesman because I know what a salesman wants. “I'm not.” I grab my backpack and sleeping bag as Hael gets out of the car and comes around to … open my door. ![]() ![]() ![]() This series has definitely become one of my all-time favorites I love the humor, wit. "In this original, hysterical homage to fantasy literature, Sanderson's first novel for youth recalls the best in Artemis Fowl and A Series of Unfortunate Events." VOYA. (Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians: Book 4). ![]() Can Alcatraz and his friends rescue Grandpa Smedry and make it out of there alive? For it is the home of the scariest Librarians of them all: a secret sect of soul-stealing Scriveners. Free Kingdomers know the truth: the Library of Alexandria is still around, and it’s one of the most dangerous places on the planet. ![]() Hushlanders people who live in the Librarian-controlled lands of Canada, Europe, and the Americas believe the Library was destroyed long ago. In his second skirmish against the Evil Librarians who rule the world, Alcatraz and his ragtag crew of freedom fighters track Grandpa Smedry to the ancient and mysterious Library of Alexandria. These fast-paced and funny novels are now available in deluxe hardcover editions illustrated by Hayley Lazo. the Evil Librarians series for young readers by the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson. Item #60916 ISBN: 9780765378965 The Scrivener’s Bones is the second action-packed fantasy adventure in the Alcatraz vs. ![]() The Dark Talent is the fifth action-packed fantasy adventure in the Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians: Book Two: The Scrivener's Bones Alcatraz Smedry is on a mission to save the day In his final adventure in the series by bestselling adult fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz has a lot to prove and, as always, little time in which to do it. ![]() |