![]() ![]() Her adventure begins when she must escape a cruel suitor in Montreal, where most of her upbringing has been at the hands of an ailing aunt and the nuns from the Congregation of Notre-Dame. So Brigitte was born of an Ojibwe mother and French Canadian fur-trader father. I originally imagined Brigitte to come to the continent as one of the "King's Girls" sent from France to build a home in New France, but I soon realized that for authenticity and historical accuracy of the story setting (which is very important to me) my heroine would more likely be Metis, meaning Brigitte is of both French and Native American heritage. I first dreamed up Brigitte's story of finding love in the North American wilderness while sitting in a northern Wisconsin deer stand on a frigid November day long ago. ![]()
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Professor Smith is Pro Vice-Chancellor Maori with responsibilities for Maori development at the University of Waikato as well as Dean of the School of Maori and Pacific Development and a professor of Education and Maori Development. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Dark Artifices is a trilogy about their struggle against their enemies and how the two protagonists deal with their forbidden love and the resulting consequences. It so happens that Emma and Julian, two parabatai, have fallen in love. This bond makes the two more powerful and strong, but there is only one drawback - it is forbidden to fall in love with your parabatai. The series is about a sacred bond of "parabatai", two bonded Shadowhunters, and it is more valuable than any bond in this world. Centered around the protagonist, Emma Carstairs, the series follows her journey as a Shadowhunter at the Los Angeles Institute, and her life with her best-friend and parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, and his family. 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Computer scientist Rolf Drechsler is deeply involved in AI, machine learning, and data science – and is a passionate science fiction fan in his private life as well. In the form of chatbots, digital assistants, and navigation systems, they manage our everyday lives. Self-learning software programs already play a major role. Artificial intelligence will soon play a decisive role in many areas of life. ![]() ![]() ![]() But even focusing on staying alive is difficult when you're falling for someone you can't have. Chris Cannon is a speech therapist by day and the award-winning author of the Mysteries of Mystic Hills series, the Going Down In Flames series, the Boyfriend. 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Shannon’s home-renovation and repair business is booming, but her love life needs work. But while Shannon can do wonders with a power drill and a little elbow grease, she’s about to discover that some problems aren’t so easily fixed…. In the seaside town of Lighthouse Cove in northern California, everyone knows the best man for the job is actually a woman-contractor Shannon Hammer. A High-End Finish 1st Fixer-Upper Mystery ![]() ![]() ![]() The book travels across geography and time, and offers lessons that activists have learned from Ferguson to South Africa, from Reconstruction to contemporary protests against police shootings. Purnell details how multi-racial social movements rooted in rebellion, risk-taking, and revolutionary love pushed her and a generation of activists toward abolition. Calling them felt like something, and something feels like everything when the other option seems like nothing. ![]() ![]() Louis, let alone the nation. But the police were a placebo. She saw too much sexual violence and buried too many friends to consider getting rid of police in her hometown of St. In Becoming Abolitionists, Purnell draws from her experiences as a lawyer, writer, and organizer initially skeptical about police abolition. ![]() Millions of people continue to protest police violence because these “solutions” do not match the problem: the police cannot be reformed. From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day. For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. ![]() ![]() ![]() He also works as an analyst for CBS/ Turner during the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. After retiring from playing, Smith became a basketball commentator for the Emmy Award-winning Inside the NBA on TNT. He was selected by Sacramento in the first round of the 1987 NBA draft with the sixth overall pick, and was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team with the Kings. Smith played college basketball with the North Carolina Tar Heels, earning consensus first-team All-American honors as a senior in 1987. ![]() He won back-to-back NBA championships with Houston. He played in the NBA from 1987 to 1997 as a member of the Sacramento Kings, Atlanta Hawks, Houston Rockets, Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic, and Denver Nuggets. Kenneth Smith (born March 8, 1965), nicknamed " the Jet", is an American sports commentator and former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Consensus first-team All-American ( 1987). ![]() ![]() Melina Marchetta in 1994, two years after Looking for Alibrandi was published. So, I wrote about my Nonna instead, and that’s why Looking for Alibrandi is about three women. Volumes of stories about arriving in this country as a young man in the 1920s, buying a horse, getting a tattoo, and being interned, even though he was a British subject. My greatest regret is ignoring my maternal grandfather’s stories because by the time I wanted to write about a girl discovering what life was like for her grandfather in an Australian internment camp during World War Two, my Nonno had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and it seemed as if we had lost a library. In my family, stories about the past were a given: at Sunday lunch with the extended family whilst travelling to the Burdekin where my mum grew up or with my sisters on our parents’ bed every night, talking over each other’s voices. I come from a family of storytellers and that’s how Looking for Alibrandi came to be. It’s never lost on me that both my maternal and paternal grandparents chose to begin a new life in a place with a 40,000-year history of oral storytelling. I’m defined by many identities, and one is that I’m the granddaughter of migrants who settled on stolen land. I’m writing this on Wangal land and I’d like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land and pay my respect to their elders, past and present. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size ![]() ![]() ![]() It took the following fourteen months for core samples to be collected from the statue, ownership records to be verified, and the monument itself to be transported to Athens for examination by Greek sculpting specialists. But it decided to buy the old thing after doing a lot of research to make sure it was real. It was a kouros, which is a sculpture of a naked young man standing alone.Īt first, the people in charge of the museum thought the statue was a fake. The dealer said that the ancient Greek artifact was from the sixth century B.C. Paul Getty Museum an offer to buy an old piece of art. 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