![]() I marveled that Cameron and Ethan had gone to all that trouble for me. Spending twenty-four hours with each other would send me over the edge. I was already infatuated with him as it was. He was probably right about keeping our distance at night. ![]() ![]() I’d awoken this morning to find him gone. He glided with ease, showing remarkable breath control during what looked like a grueling breaststroke. That was Cameron down there, wearing goggles while swimming laps in the enormous pool, his strong shoulders and arms pulling him through the water like an Olympian. WIPING THE SLEEPINESS from my eyes, I stared out of the bedroom window and looked down into the sweeping, well-tended garden of Chrysalis. ![]() He gave a nod of approval and pulled me into a hug, wrapping his strong arms around me, and I collapsed against him, spent. “You, Sir.” My head crashed back onto the pillow. ![]()
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![]() Peter worked at the Australian War Memorial from 1980 to 2007, where he was its senior historian from 1987, and there curated or contributed to many exhibitions, such as Gallipoli, Soldiers of the Queen, Echoes of the Guns and the Second World War galleries. ![]() He wrote the first book on battlefield research and Australia, A Stout Pair of Boots, the novel for children, Simpson's Donkey and the adult novel The Cunning Man. He has published 28 books, mainly in the field of Australian military history (such as Tarakan: an Australian Tragedy or Quinn's Post, Anzac, Gallipoli or Invading Australia), but also in medical history (For Fear of Pain: British Surgery 1790-1850), British India (White Mutiny: British Military Culture in India 1825-75), British military history (Commando to Colditz) and bushfires (Black Saturday at Steels Creek). Peter Stanley is one of Australia's most active military-social historians. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile Richard watches Igbo civilians being murdered at the airport. She escapes on a train to Nsukka and sees a woman carrying her daughter’s severed head in a basket. The violence against the Igbo becomes a pogrom, and Olanna’s relatives are brutally murdered. Olanna now has a child she calls “ Baby,” and she takes her to Kano to visit her relatives. There is then another coup, and this time many Igbo soldiers are killed. The Northern Hausa blame the Igbo for the coup. The narrative jumps a few years ahead, when the Nigerian government is overthrown. Olanna and Odenigbo start trying to have a child. Odenigbo’s mother “ Mama” visits and calls Olanna a witch, which upsets her greatly. 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Items including but not limited to Hardcovers (HC), Trade Paperbacks (TPB/TP), Softcover (SC), Manga, Graphic Novels (GN), box sets are ordered at the time when a customer places an order. We do not guarantee release dates set by publishers. Release dates subject to change without notice. Revisit the adventure of Avatar: The Last Airbender-Smoke and Shadow with this all-new omnibus edition- collecting all three original parts for the first time in paperback! AVATAR ![]() Unrest is brewing as the New Ozai Society prepares to make its move against the crown- and children begin to go missing from their homes under mysterious circumstances. The Fire Nation is threatened by a prophecy told by the Kemurikage- mysterious figures thought only to exist in legend: remove Zuko from the throne- or the country will perish! 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![]() ![]() |a Takei, George, |d 1937- |0 |x Childhood and youth |0 |v Comic books, strips, etc. |a Takei's firsthand account of years spent in a Japanese concentration camp, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future. |a "Published by Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Publishing"-Title page verso. ![]() |a 204 pages : |b chiefly illustrations |c 23 cm |a San Diego : |b Top Shelf Productions, |c |a They called us enemy / |c written by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steve Scott art by Harmony Becker. |a UKMGB |b eng |e rda |c UKMGB |d OCLCO |d JO8 |d IH9 |d OCLCF |d JQW |d CLE |d GK8 |d HEV RLD Woodland Park Teen/Young Adult Graphic Novel DC Paonia Young Adult Fiction Graphic Novel ![]() |