Blind Deception


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Austin Blackstone lives and breathes for his club-his family. At the age of seventeen, tragedy brought Austin and his sister to Polson, Montana, to live with a grandfather they never met before. His life-altering move eventually puts him on the path to finding the Kings of Retribution MC. The club represents a strong sense of family and brotherhood. It was an easy choice to make when offered the opportunity to prospect. Time and time again, he has proven his loyalty, and now, years later, Austin proudly wears the club's patch. New Orleans is where he first lay eyes on Lelani. She needs their help, and he wants nothing more than to protect her-to claim her as his own. The moment Austin allows himself to kiss her it become his undoing. At the age of thirteen, Lelani Mancini's world was shattered when she lost her parents, along with her eyesight, in a tragic accident. Lelani's brother blames her for everything. Her parents' deaths leave a gaping hole in the Mancini family. Feeling defeated and lost, Lelani struggles to adjust to a life of darkness. Though terrified of the unknown, she finds a strength within herself to move on. Years later, Lelani uncovers a secret, with her at the center of the deception. She puts her trust in the wrong hands, and it almost costs Lelani her life. Those who should protect her turn out to be the ones she fears the most. All that she has ever known is gone. The darkness Lelani lives in is suffocating. Until she finds light in an overprotective, tattooed Kings of Retribution MC member. Loving Austin is dangerous. Now, to protect her new life, Lelani is the one keeping a secret.




Leadership and Self-deception


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Explains why self-deception is at the heart of many leadership problems, identifying destructive patterns that undermine the successes of potentially excellent professionals while revealing how to improve teamwork, communication, and motivation. Reprint.




Blind Goddess


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The first book in Edgar-nominated Anne Holt’s international bestselling mystery series featuring detective Hanne Wilhelmsen, last seen in 1222. A small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of the Norwegian capital, Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in central Oslo covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk. When he is informed that the woman who discovered the body, Karen Borg, is a lawyer, he demands her as his defender, although her specialty is civil, not criminal, law. A couple of days later another lawyer is found shot to death. Soon police officers Håkon Sand and Hanne Wilhelmsen establish a link between the two killings. They also find a coded message hidden in the murdered lawyer’s apartment. Their maverick colleague in the drugs squad, Billy T., reports that a recent rumor in the drug underworld involves drug-dealing lawyers. Now the reason why the young Dutchman insisted on having Karen Borg as a defender slowly dawns on them: since she was the one to find and report the body, she is the only Oslo lawyer that cannot be implicated in the crime. As the officers investigate, they uncover a massive network of corruption leading to the highest levels of government. As their lives are threatened, Hanne and her colleagues must find the killer and, in the process, bring the lies and deception out into the open.




Dark Deception (Defenders of Justice Book #2)


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Kate O'Brien's quiet life in small-town Shelter Cove, Arkansas is shaken when her past suddenly comes roaring back to life. Four years ago, she and her twin sister were attacked by an elusive serial killer. Only Kate survived, and she's been in witness protection ever since. When new evidence arises to suggest the convicted man wasn't the murderer, she's subpoenaed to testify in the new trial. Afraid to go back into that world, Kate only agrees if Tony DeLuca, the deputy Marshal who protected her during the original trial, escorts her to St. Louis. Tony readily takes on the assignment; Kate's beauty and inner strength made more of an impression on him than he expected. But when Kate's safety is threatened, Tony must race against the clock to keep her alive and put this ugly case to rest before anyone else gets killed.




Faces of Deception


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Guided by the goddess of beauty, an ugly nobleman ventures to the Utter East in search of a cure for his facial deformities Atreus of Erlkazar has always been hidden from his powerful family's enemies, concealed behind the hideous mask of his own face. The result of a wayward spell that distorted his features, Atreus’ ugliness is a curse he has borne since he was just a child—and one he has spent his entire life trying to break. He is driven to find a way past his own flesh, into a soul torn between destiny and love. In an ironic twist of fate, he becomes an acolyte of Sune, the goddess of beauty. Under her command, he embarks on an impossible mission to the mysterious country of Langdarma, where the magical waters of the Fountain of Infinite Grace await him. Deep in these ancient valleys of the enigmatic Utter East, Atreus will finally look into . . . the faces of deception.




Blind Passion


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The Beauty She was a gorgeous swimsuit model. He was a charming Greek sailor. They met on a cruise in November of 1997 and soon thereafter began a clandestine love affair. Little more than a year later, thirty-one-year-old Julie Scully left her millionaire ex-husband and three-year-old daughter behind, and moved to Greece to be with twenty-four-year-old George Skiadopoulos. The Beast But there was trouble in paradise. Julie, tired of Skiadopoulos' jealous and controlling nature, and badly missing her young daughter, decided to return to the States. Skiadopoulos wouldn't have it. When she told him of her plans to leave-and take her $600,000 divorce settlement back with her- Skiadopoulos took Julie to a remote area and strangled her to death. Then, to cover up his deed, her burned her lifeless body and tried to stuff the charred corpse into a suitcase. When it wouldn't fit, Skiadopoulos delivered the final blow-he chopped off her head and tossed it into the Aegean Sea. The Brutal Murder ow, find out the stunning inside story on a murder case that made national headlines, as acclaimed true crime writer John Glatt lays bare a shocking story of greed, betrayal, and...




Waking Up Blind


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Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-230).




The Mystical City of God: Popular Abridgement


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THE MYSTICAL CITY OF GOD: POPULAR ABRIDGEMENT: THE DIVINE HISTORY AND LIFE OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER OF GOD VENERABLE MARY OF AGREDA — A Catholic Classic! — Includes Illustrations of the life of Jesus — Includes an Introduction — Includes an Index and Active Table of Contents with NCX Quick Navigation Publisher: Available in Paperback: ISBN-13: 978-1-78379-063-0 Venerable Mary of Agreda reported that she received a lengthy revelation, about the terrestrial and heavenly life of Blessed Mary. That revelation was received directly from the Blessed Virgin Mary. The revelation also included information about the Blessed Virgin's relationship with the Triune God as well as the doings and Mysteries performed by Jesus as God-Man in flesh and in Spirit. The information was revealed with extensive detail in a narrative that covers the New Testament time line. The narrative was also accompanied by doctrines given by the Holy Mother on how to acquire true sanctity. It is that narrative that comprises The Mystical City of God. The work consists of 8 books in 6 volumes, this being a Popular Abridgement. She attributed her writings to visions and dictations (word by word) from the Virgin Mary. Written in elegant language, they contain both terrestrial and spiritual detail. Those details were either not known or not totally accepted at the time. These included the Immaculate Conception of Virgin Mary, the Assumption of Mary, the duties of Michael the Archangel and Gabriel the Archangel, and meticulous detail on the childhood of Jesus. Other detail that Mary of Agreda provided included the Christ's Passion, Resurrection and Ascension. Volumes: The Mystical City of God by Venerable Mary of Agreda in 4 Volumes and a Popular Abridgement: The Conception (Volume I, Part I, Books I & II in 1 book) Paperback: ISBN-13: 978-1-78379-280-1 The Incarnation (Volume II, Part II, Books III & IV in 1 book) Paperback: ISBN-13: 978-1-78379-283-2 The Transfixion (Volume III, Part II, Books V & VI in 1 book) Paperback: ISBN-13: 978-1-78379-286-3 The Coronation (Volume IV, Part III, Books VII & VIII in 1 book) Paperback: ISBN-13: 978-1-78379-289-4 The Mystical City of God: Popular Abridgement Paperback: ISBN-13: 978-1-78379-063-0 PUBLISHER: CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING




Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock


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The contributors bring to bear an unrivaled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, analyzing movies such as Rear Window and Psycho. Starting from the premise that ‘everything has meaning,’ the authors examine the films’ ostensible narrative content and formal procedures to discover a rich proliferation of hidden ideological and psychic mechanisms. But Hitchcock is also a bait to lure the reader into a serious Marxist and Lacanian exploration of the construction of meaning. An extraordinary landmark in Hitchcock studies, this new edition features a brand-new essay by philosopher Slavoj Žižek, presenter of Sophie Fiennes’s three-part documentary The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema.