But things don't turn out the way he expects. Winning the cash prize could make everything okay again. As their circumstances go from bad to worse, Felix gets a chance to audition for a junior edition of Who What Where When, and he's determined to earn a spot on the show. If he does, she warns him, he'll be taken away from her and put in foster care. Astrid swears him to secrecy he can't tell anyone about their living arrangement, not even Dylan and Winnie, his best friends at his new school. So when they get evicted from their latest shabby apartment, they have to move into a van. Felix's mom, Astrid, is loving but can't seem to hold on to a job. His favorite game show is Who What Where When he even named his gerbil after the host. Twelve-and-three-quarter-year-old Felix Knutsson has a knack for trivia. For fans of Wendelin van Draanen and Cynthia Lord, a touching and funny middle-grade story about family, friendship, and growing up when you're one step away from homelessness.
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Fomalhaut’s outer belt alone is about twice the scale of the Kuiper Belt. The revelation of the Fomalhaut’s two inner rings has suggested that planets hidden deeper within the star system may be affecting the dust belt’s shape. More icy leftovers can be found in the Kuiper Belt on the edge of our solar system, a doughnut-shaped ring of small celestial bodies and dust beyond Neptune. The main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter, is where leftovers from the formation of our solar system orbit the sun. The detailed image of the dust belts, captured in infrared light that is invisible to the human eye, showed that the structures are more complex than the main asteroid belt and Kuiper Belt in our solar system. Webb’s new view revealed Fomalhaut’s two inner belts for the first time, which didn’t appear in previous images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope or other observatories. But the Webb researchers weren’t expecting to see three nested rings of dust extending out 14 billion miles (23 billion kilometers) from the star - or 150 times the distance of Earth from the sun. The dusty disk around Fomalhaut was initially discovered in 1983 using NASA’s Infrared Astronomical Satellite. The space observatory focused on the warm dust that encircles Fomalhaut, a young, bright star located 25 light-years from Earth in the Piscis Austrinus constellation. (CNN) - Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the first asteroid belt seen outside of our solar system and unveiled some cosmic surprises along the way. Given the many adverse impacts on physical and psychological health and well-being it has on its victim-survivors, exploring this form of online gender-sexual abuse and violation becomes an important endeavor. The vast majority of these are committed by men against women. These forms of abuse refer to the online, and also at times offline, non-consensual distribution or sharing of explicit images or videos of someone else by ex-partners, partners, others, or hackers seeking revenge, entertainment, or peer group status. New information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide many open-ended and undefined possibilities for image-based sexual abuse (IBSA), such as ‘revenge pornography’, ‘upskirting’, deepfake pornography, sexual spycamming, and cyberflashing, to name just a few. Image-based sexual abuse describes the offline or online non-consensual sharing of real or fake images or videos with (un)known others of a person that are either sexually explicit or sexually suggestive. In fact, aged just ten, she used to tell her friends and family that she wanted to grow up and become an author.īut just like many people, she would soon get distracted by adult responsibilities as writing and getting published took a backseat. Like many authors, Catharina Maura began writing when she was very little. She currently lives in Hong Kong but given her wanderlust, she has at some point made her home in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Singapore. She is now known for her penchant for penning some angsty stories that can be very intriguing. With her first novel becoming wildly popular, she kicked on from there to write more than half a dozen works of fiction across single-standing novels and several series. The author made her debut in fiction in 2020 when she published “Stolen Moments” the first of the “Stolen Moments” series of novels. Over the many years that she has been actively writing romance, she has made a reputation for writing bestselling billionaire romances that her readers love for the small hint of the forbidden. Catharina Maura who is otherwise known as CA Maura when writing paranormal romance is a fantasy and paranormal romance author. God has given us no other foundation of our salvation, our perfection and our glory: “ for other foundation no man can lay but that which is laid which is Christ Jesus” (1 Cor 3:11). Except the Name of Jesus, there is no other name given under Heaven, whereby we must be saved and apart from Jesus Christ, REFLECTION – “ is our only Master, who must teach us our only Lord, on Whom we must depend our only Head, to Whom alone we should belong our only Model, Whom we should imitate our only Physician, Who must heal us our only Shepherd, Who must feed us our only Way, Who must lead us our only Truth, Whom we must believe our only Life, Who must be our life and our sole sufficiency in all things that in Him, we may have all in All. One Minute Reflection – 29 April – “The Month of the Resurrection” – St Peter Martyr/ of Verona OP (1205–1252) Martyr, Priest – 2 Timothy 2:8-10 3:10-12, John 15:1-7 – Scripture search here: If she and her Norse god are ever going to get serious, something is definitely going to have to give. As bold and brash as she is beautiful, Brittany isn't going to be subservient to any man, even one who is everything she ever wanted in a lover, and whose very touch set her senses afire. Where he comes from, brute strength is the law, men are all-powerful, and their women always obey. For Dalden is exactly where he claims to be. Besides, he's had Brittany's blood running red-hot since the first time she saw him, and warrior or no, she'd like to get to know this gorgeous giant a lot better! But the truth is a very rude awakening for the curvaceous West Coast lady. But Dalden is a long way from home and needs her help-and is willing to pay for it-so if he fancies himself a savage, that's fine with her. So, she is somewhat taken aback when her visitor-whose name is Dalden-informs her that he is, in fact, a barbarian warrior. Though a stunning, statuesque beauty herself, intelligent and independent Brittany has struggled hard to earn respect in a man's world. But when the spectacular-looking Viking turns up on her doorstep, Brittany knows her dream man is very real. After all, she's not used to seeing blond, nearly seven-feet-tall Nordic gods in her tiny California town. At first, Brittany Callaghan thinks she's dreaming. These storylines unspool with lyrical grace, gentle humor, and a touch of spooky suspense. And a jealous housemaid is hatching an evil plot against Mma Ramotswe. Her secretary, newly promoted to assistant private detective, has solved her first case, but in so doing, she has found herself in an ethical dilemma. Her family is about to grow in an unexpected way, thanks to her fiance’s soft heart toward orphans. While Mma Ramotswe sniffs the cold trail of the no doubt long-dead youth, there are plenty of other things to occupy her mind. Only now does the boy’s mother learn what a native Botswana woman can do with a high school education, a woman’s intuition, and a few months’ experience as a self-taught investigator. Neither the police, nor an expert tracker, nor the American embassy could help. Then, suddenly, he vanished, and for ten years, not a trace of him could be found. This time it’s a 20-year-old American boy whose parents left him behind when they returned home from diplomatic duty in Botswana because he had such a “heart for Africa” that he didn’t want to leave.įor a couple years, the parents heard regularly from their son as he worked on an experimental farm. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Mma Ramotswe again wrestles with the case of a missing son whose trail has gone cold. Miska wonders if the God Dillan talks about would bother with a woman like her - a woman who's gone too far and done too much. Caught in a scandal about to break across the nation, When her blog receives unexpected national press, Miska realizes her anonymity was an illusion. Too late she finds herself longing for a man who is determined to never look her way again. But Dillan discovers exactly who she is and what His religious views are so foreign, yet the way he treats her is something she's longed for. This helps immensely when there are 20 - 30 other subcontractors. Her relationship with Mark deteriorates,Īnd Miska can't help comparing him to Dillan. She worked well with the design drawings and kept us informed of any changes and or deliveries. Between his unexpected friendship and her father's sudden reappearance, Miska loses control of her orderly life. She runs her editing business from her luxury condo, stays fit with daily jogs along Chicago's lakefront, and in her free time blogs anonymously about life as a kept woman.Įnter new neighbor Dillan Foster. Sally Bradley Kept Kindle Edition by Sally Bradley (Author) Format: Kindle Edition Book 1 of 1: Kept See all formats and editions Kindle 0.00 This title and over 1 million more available with Kindle Unlimited 5.99 to buy Audiobook 0. The married baseball player who claims to love her - all have proven undependable. Her womanizing brothers, her absentee father, and Mark, Life has taught Miska Tomlinson that there are no honorable men. A little note: this is the Iliad's Patroclus, the fierce and loyal warrior, not the the cute cinnamon roll from Madeline's novel. The text below is edited just slightly to avoid some spoilers from the book, as this is quite a late chapter in the story. I haven't posted it anywhere else, the fact that Patroclus and Achilles are in the novel at all is a bit of a spoiler, but I know it will make you happy to know there is another story with Patrochilles in it, so I couldn't help myself. Well, my book is now out and you can get the link to read the prologue and first four chapters for free in my website, as well as buying it through Amazon.īut as a 'thank you' to you all, for your encouragement and love, I wanted to share an exclusive segment of the novel here. I wrote it to get a little inside Achilles' mind, as he was a very important character in the book I was working on, Found in Erebus. Hello, everyone! Last year I wrote a scene form The Song of Achilles from Achilles' perspective (you can read it here if you haven't already). Becoming a storyteller, a writer, is what I've always wanted.”īesides writing and researching in dusty old archives, on the lookout for a mystery to put into his next story, Robert enjoys classical music and long walks in the country. And I've always loved the one as much as the other. “In Germany,” he says, “we use the same word for story and history. For the way he manages to make the past come alive, as if he himself lived as a medieval knight, his inventive fans have given him the nickname “Sir Rob.” All of his stories are characterized by his very own brand of humor that has gained him a diverse readership ranging from teenagers to retired grandmothers.įor Robert, becoming a writer followed naturally from his interest in history. Robert Thier is a German historian, lover of old books and award-winning writer, whose novels and stories encompass the historical, satirical, and fantastical. |