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Magic is teenage sorceress Scandal Becker's world, and she even works with the police to help solve cases. When the federal government appoints their own teen sorcerer to bring in a magical arms dealer, Scandal must find some way to work with him. When threats are made against the city that Scandal loves, the identity of the villain is no longer clear and Scandal has a difficult decision to make, which side should she choose; bad or good. If she chooses good, can she do it without the aid of magic?Of Curses & Scandals is the new novel from author Julie Kramer - if you love young adult fiction and magic, this is the book for you!
IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF EIGHT MEN OUT . . . the untold story of baseball’s ORIGINAL SCANDAL Did the Chicago Cubs throw the World Series in 1918—and get away with it? Who were the players involved—and why did they do it? Were gambling and corruption more widespread across the leagues than previously believed? Were the players and teams “cursed” by their actions? Finally, is it time to rewrite baseball history? With exclusive access to surprising new evidence, Sporting News reporter Sean Deveney details a scandal at the core of baseball’s greatest folklore—in a golden era as exciting and controversial as our sports world today. This inside look at the pivotal year of 1918 proves that baseball has always been a game overrun with colorful characters, intense human drama, and explosive controversy. "The Original Curse is not just about baseball. It is a sweeping portrait of America at war in 1918. . . . In the end, the proper question is not, ‘How could a player from that era fix the World Series?’ It’s, ‘How could he not?’” —Ken Rosenthal, FOX Sports, from the Introduction "Sean Deveney plays connect-the-dots in this intriguing account of a possible conspiracy to throw the 1918 World Series. Thoroughly researched and well written, The Original Curse is a must-read for baseball fans and anyone who loves a good mystery. Is Max Flack the Shoeless Joe of the 1918 Cubs? Deveney lays out the case and let's readers decide if the fix was in." —Paul Sullivan, Cubs beat writer, Chicago Tribune "This book gives the reader a fun and honest look at baseball as it used to be-- the good guys, the gamblers, the cheaters, the drunks, the inept leaders. But, more than that, it puts those characters into the context of Chicago, Boston and America at the time of World War I, and you wind up with a unique way to explain the motivations of those characters." —David Kaplan, host, Chicago Tribune Live and WGN's Sports Central “Deveney’s painstaking study of the 1918 World Series between the Cubs and Red Sox argues that the Black Sox scandal was not an aberration and might have had an antecedent. Deveney’s scholarship does not detract from his ability to spin a good tale: his tendency to imagine players’ conversations will remind readers of Leigh Montville’s The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth.... A welcome companion to Susan Dellinger’s Red Legs and Black Sox: Edd Roush and the Untold Story of the 1919 World Series, Deveney’s book contributes greatly to our understanding of this decisive period in baseball and American morals." —Library Journal
No one is quite who they seem to be in the twisty, soapy, gasp-inducing world of the Debutantes by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #1 bestselling author of The Inheritance Games. Think of the White Gloves like the Junior League— by way of Skull and Bones. Reluctant debutante Sawyer Taft joined Southern high society for one reason and one reason alone: to identify and locate her biological father. But the answers Sawyer found during her debutante year only left her with more questions and one potentially life-ruining secret. When her cousin Lily ropes her into pledging a mysterious, elite, and all-female secret society called the White Gloves, Sawyer soon discovers that someone in the group's ranks may have the answers she's looking for. Things are looking up . . . until Sawyer and the White Gloves make a disturbing discovery near the family's summer home—and uncover a twisted secret, decades in the making. ** Check out Jennifer Lynn Barnes’s bestselling The Naturals and Inheritance Games series!!
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From a New York Times bestselling author, a Southern woman returns home to exact revenge on the wealthy family who tried to destroy her. Years ago, Jade Sperry endured a nightmare at the hands of three local hell-raisers. Confronted with scandal and tragedy, she ran as far and fast as she could. But Jade has never forgotten the sleepy "company town" where every man, woman, and child was dependent on one wealthy family–especially their spoiled son and his two friends, who changed her life forever. Now is her chance turn to free herself from fear and stand up against the family who tried to destroy her. Jade's day of reckoning is coming...
The author's aim is to help thinking lay persons and people preparing sermons to apply NT ethics within a modern culture, while still remaining faithful to the text - by taking into account the ancient culture. This is high quality scholarship at a very accessible level. Over the centuries Jesus's teaching on ethical matters has often become muted and distorted. This book sets the matter straight. Here are 30 areas of ethical debate: in each context Jesus offered insights which would have left his contemporaries agape. They range from singleness (rare: could Jesus be trusted?) to abortion (unwanted children were strangled, and the early church notably took a strong stance against this practice) to sexual immorality (the NT church had an unusually high number of people who had been sexually promiscuous) to boasting (Jesus taught his disciples to take lowly titles as he did for himself, but the church ignored him).
Parker Grey, gossip columnist and author of The Locker Room blog had an unwanted houseguest. Well, not unwanted, exactly. In fact, there were a lot of people who wanted her…Parker included, but she was off-limits. Talia Jane was definitely someone Parker should not get involved with, especially while she was hiding out in his apartment. Natalie Beckett, better known as Talia Jane, actress and Australia’s favourite girl-next-door, was on the run. Okay, not on-the-run in a criminal sense, but she is definitely staying on the down-low for the foreseeable future. In a desperate attempt to get out of a contract, she did something stupid and now she was paying the price of fame. Hiding out in a journalist’s apartment while hiding from the media? Not the best plan she’d ever had, but then again, it wasn’t her plan. Now that she was there, she didn’t have much choice but to stay put until the media storm died down. But that wasn’t as easy as it seemed because not only was Parker Grey a gossip-monger who could potentially blow up her career, she was also a teenie, tiny bit attracted to him…not exactly an ideal situation for her to find herself in, but what choice did she have?
A rogue meets his match in this delightful regency romance from the bestselling author of the Prelude to a Kiss series. With his good looks, abundance of charm, and the small matter of being heir to a marquisate, Richard Moore, Earl of Raleigh, is quite the catch. So when a delectable young woman wants nothing to do with him, he can’t help but seize the irresistible challenge. Jane Bunting knows all about responsibility—she has managed to support herself and her brother with their bakery—but she knows nothing of excitement or passion. When dashing Lord Raleigh crosses the threshold of her shop, she has no idea of the potential danger to her reputation...or to her heart. Neither imagined things would go so far—until the night their worlds collide, irrevocably changing both their lives. But when duty calls for Richard, and with everything Jane's worked for suddenly at stake, will their taste for scandal be their downfall?