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Casey's Haven

Author : Autumn McCullah

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 186 pages

File Size : 12,45 MB

Release : 2001-11-29

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0595207472

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With no family of her own, Casey had worked hard to save for this dream vacation, but now Erik's presence threatened to destroy her stay in Greece. Her former fiance believes he still has some claim to her and her time. Wrong! Casey might be small, but she can be a spitfire and she will do whatever it takes to get rid of this bothersome man.Wealthy Nick Santos rushes to Casey's rescue at the airport in Athens. Not only that, but he rushes her into a fake engagement and carries her off to his home to meet his family. It seems that everyone but the bride believes the engagement and wedding, set for next Friday, are for real.Casey is outraged by Nick's proprietary manner but cannot deny her growing attraction or love for this huge bear of a man. But she could never consider marriage to someone like him, could she? What would his reaction be if he found out about her background? And the secret she'd never divulged to anyone else?



American Kleptocracy

Author : Casey Michel

Publisher : St. Martin's Press

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 21,55 MB

Release : 2021-11-23

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1250274532

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A remarkable debut by one of America's premier young reporters on financial corruption, Casey Michel's American Kleptocracy offers an explosive investigation into how the United States of America built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known. "An indefatigable young American journalist who has virtually cornered the international kleptocracy beat on the US end of the black aquifer." —The Los Angeles Review of Books For years, one country has acted as the greatest offshore haven in the world, attracting hundreds of billions of dollars in illicit finance tied directly to corrupt regimes, extremist networks, and the worst the world has to offer. But it hasn’t been the sand-splattered Caribbean islands, or even traditional financial secrecy havens like Switzerland or Panama, that have come to dominate the offshoring world. Instead, the country profiting the most also happens to be the one that still claims to be the moral leader of the free world, and the one that claims to be leading the fight against the crooked and the corrupt: the USA. American Kleptocracy examines just how the United States’ implosion into a center of global offshoring took place: how states like Delaware and Nevada perfected the art of the anonymous shell company, and how post-9/11 reformers watched their success usher in a new flood of illicit finance directly into the U.S.; how African despots and post-Soviet oligarchs came to dominate American coastlines, American industries, and entire cities and small towns across the American Midwest; how Nazi-era lobbyists birthed an entire industry of spin-men whitewashing trans-national crooks and despots, and how dirty money has now begun infiltrating America's universities and think tanks and cultural centers; and how those on the front-line are trying to restore America's legacy of anti-corruption leadership—and finally end this reign of American kleptocracy.



The Devil's Teeth

Author : Susan Casey

Publisher : Henry Holt and Company

Page : 326 pages

File Size : 29,15 MB

Release : 2006-05-30

Category : Nature

ISBN : 1466800518

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A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators--and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, their dark fins swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary. These sharks were the alphas among alphas, some longer than twenty feet, and there were too many to count; even more incredible, this congregation was taking place just twenty-seven miles off the coast of San Francisco. In a matter of months, Casey was being hoisted out of the early-winter swells on a crane, up a cliff face to the barren surface of Southeast Farallon Island-dubbed by sailors in the 1850s the "devil's teeth." There she joined Scot Anderson and Peter Pyle, the two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the island's one habitable building, a haunted, 135-year-old house spackled with lichen and gull guano. Two days later, she got her first glimpse of the famous, terrifying jaws up close and she was instantly hooked; her fascination soon yielded to obsession-and an invitation to return for a full season. But as Casey readied herself for the eight-week stint, she had no way of preparing for what she would find among the dangerous, forgotten islands that have banished every campaign for civilization in the past two hundred years. The Devil's Teeth is a vivid dispatch from an otherworldly outpost, a story of crossing the boundary between society and an untamed place where humans are neither wanted nor needed.



After Lives

Author : John Casey

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 481 pages

File Size : 17,33 MB

Release : 2013-03-07

Category : Body, Mind & Spirit

ISBN : 0199975035

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A fascinating exploration of ideas of life after death ranging from ancient times to the present and from religion and philosophy to literature and science.



Attention: A Personal History of Finding Focus (or Trying To)

Author : Casey Schwartz

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 27,40 MB

Release : 2020-04-07

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1524747114

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"A rich inquiry into what it means to pay (and maintain) attention in a world increasingly permeated with distraction and interference.” —Publisher’s Weekly Combining expert storytelling with genuine self-scrutiny, Casey Schwartz details the decade she spend taking Adderall to help her pay attention (or so she thought) and then considers the role of attention in defining our lives as it has been understood by thinkers such as William James, David Foster Wallace, and Simone Weil. From our craving for distraction to our craving for a cure, from Silicon Valley consultants and psychedelic researchers to the findings of trauma expert Dr. Gabor Maté, Schwartz takes us on an eye-opening tour of the modern landscape of attention. Blending memoir, biography, and original reporting, Schwarz examines her attempts to preserve her authentic life and decide what is most important in it. Attention: A Love Story will resonate with readers who want to determine their own minds, away from the siren call of their screens.



Dolphins

Author : Susan Casey

Publisher : Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Page : 218 pages

File Size : 10,1 MB

Release : 2018

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1524700851

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A thrilling journey into the spiritual, scientific and sometimes threatened world of dolphins. Includes an 8-page photo insert, explores the extraordinary world of dolphins in an interesting and accessible format that engages as well as entertains.



City of Incurable Women

Author : Maud Casey

Publisher : Bellevue Literary Press

Page : 100 pages

File Size : 32,55 MB

Release : 2022-02-22

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1942658907

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In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored “City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria—and the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men. It is a novel of powerful originality, riveting historical interest, and haunting lyrical beauty.” —Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through “Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?” wrote Jacques Lacan. Long history’s ghosts, marginalized and dispossessed due to their gender and class, they are reimagined by Maud Casey as complex, flesh-and-blood people with stories to tell. These linked, evocative prose portraits, accompanied by period photographs and medical documents both authentic and invented, poignantly restore the humanity to the nineteenth-century female psychiatric patients confined in Paris’s Salpêtrière hospital and reduced to specimens for study by the celebrated neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and his male colleagues.



There Will Be No Miracles Here

Author : Casey Gerald

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 384 pages

File Size : 19,35 MB

Release : 2018-10-02

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0735214212

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR AND THE NEW YORK TIMES A PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK "Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time by just looking outside his window and inside himself. Extraordinary." —Marlon James "Staccato prose and peripatetic storytelling combine the cadences of the Bible with an urgency reminiscent of James Baldwin in this powerfully emotional memoir." —BookPage The testament of a boy and a generation who came of age as the world came apart—a generation searching for a new way to live. Casey Gerald comes to our fractured times as a uniquely visionary witness whose life has spanned seemingly unbridgeable divides. His story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to see which of them will be carried off. His beautiful, fragile mother disappears frequently and mysteriously; for a brief idyll, he and his sister live like Boxcar Children on her disability checks. When Casey--following in the footsteps of his father, a gridiron legend who literally broke his back for the team--is recruited to play football at Yale, he enters a world he's never dreamed of, the anteroom to secret societies and success on Wall Street, in Washington, and beyond. But even as he attains the inner sanctums of power, Casey sees how the world crushes those who live at its margins. He sees how the elite perpetuate the salvation stories that keep others from rising. And he sees, most painfully, how his own ascension is part of the scheme. There Will Be No Miracles Here has the arc of a classic rags-to-riches tale, but it stands the American Dream narrative on its head. If to live as we are is destroying us, it asks, what would it mean to truly live? Intense, incantatory, shot through with sly humor and quiet fury, There Will Be No Miracles Hereinspires us to question--even shatter--and reimagine our most cherished myths.



Casey’S Island

Author : Patrick Ford

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 33,76 MB

Release : 2013-09-25

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 149310375X

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Eamon Casey is a young man from a cattle station in Northern Australia. He is conscripted and sent to Vietnam. Wounded and mentally scarred, he returns home to find that his mother has been murdered and his inheritance, the property Conemarra has been expropriated by a shady character who had married his mother in order to gain it for himself. Disillusioned, he seeks refuge on a small island in the Torres Strait. Here, he hopes to recover and begin his life anew, but there is something going on just above the horizon that will once more plunge him into conflict. The freedom fighters in West Papua accept Chinese arms to help them rid themselves of their Indonesian masters, but they dont know that China has an ulterior motive. They want to place nuclear armed rockets on the island in order to subjugate Australia and her neighbours in order to expropriate rich mineral and agricultural resources and cheap labour. Jessica Bradley is a photo-journalist who had gone to Papua to do a story on the rebellion. She, along with others, has to flee in a small boat and is rescued by Eamon. In the boat with her is Barry McLeod, the man who killed his mother and robbed him of his inheritance. Eamon falls back on his military training to thwart the Chinese and force them to abandon the island. But the story doesnt end there. McCloud escapes from the police and flees to Europe where he has secreted most of the money. Eamon and Jessica come upon him by accident, follow him to Switzerland, and extract both the money and a confession from him before handing him over to the police. Back in Australia, they pursue the people who had conspired with McLeod in his evil deeds, securing a substantial settlement and the return of the family property. Meanwhile, both work with Jessicas family in England to expand farming operations there, leading to a happy and successful family partnership.



The Flatmate

Author : Lexy Timms

Publisher :

Page : 214 pages

File Size : 48,56 MB

Release :

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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What I love best about my home is who I share it with… Casey I can't remember a time when I wasn't popular. Girls have always wanted me. Guys have always wanted to be me. I have a rep for being with a new girl every night and never settling down. But moving in with Abigail Hopkins has made me rethink everything. While sweet, virginal Abby isn't my usual type, she's the one girl I can't stop thinking about. It's enough to make me wonder if I should change my ways. Too bad my past is coming back to bite me. One of my former flings is pregnant. With my baby. I'm ready to man up and be a father. But doing the right thing means that I risk losing everything—my football scholarship, my place on campus, and the only woman I've ever truly cared about. Abigail My life hasn't been the same since Casey Turner moved in. I've gone from being invisible to overnight popularity. Even though the sorority girls at Gulf State University have it out for me, I'm learning that I can take care of myself. And best of all, instead of a non-existent love life I live with a guy who desperately wants me. Casey might not be the kind of guy to get tied down, but we can't seem to resist each other. Things have never been better. Except there's one thing I never saw coming—Casey is expecting a baby with one of the most popular girls at school. Which means there's a very real chance that my roommate is going to move out. For good. Roommate Wanted Series The Roommate The Bunkmate The Flatmate Search Terms: roommate romance, new adult romance, contemporary romance and sex, billionaire obsession, romance love triangle, romance love, sweet love story, melody anne billionaire bachelors series, billionaire romance, billionaire romanc, true love, happily ever after, famos actor, hot and steamy, hot romance, hot doctores, bad boy, Alpha Bad Boy, Alpha male romance, billionaire, romance, new adult, contemporary romance, love and life, cancer, fake girlfriend, fake, sexy, sexy hero, sweet romance, hot steamy, love