Confessions of an Egyptologist

Confessions of an Egyptologist

Erich von Daniken

Erich von Daniken

Bestselling author Erich von Däniken shares the story of a 16-year-old grave-diver who discovered a mysterious labyrinth of the old kings under one of the pyramids of Saqqara. In this book, Erich von Däniken shares the story of his friend Adel H., an Egyptologist, who, as a 16-year-old boy, was trapped for days under the Step Pyramid of Saqqara. Based on his conversations with Adel H., he retells the boy's search for a way out of the underground world, how the boy roamed passageways and chambers and saw what he calls "impossible" things of which the professional world is completely unaware. Adel experienced uncanny events, a mixture of spirit realm and reality, which is described here for the first time. "The story of Egypt," Adel says, "has two sides—the official one and the unknown one." It is secrets like the sights and events Adel experiences underground that von Däniken refers to throughout this book. Von Däniken shows that the Great Pyramid of Giza...
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The Trouble with White Women

The Trouble with White Women

Kyla Schuller

Kyla Schuller

An incisive, cutting history of how white feminists from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Sheryl Sandberg upheld white supremacy, and a reckoning with the marginalized women who've continually defied them From suffragettes to sexuality, feminist history is often told as a narrative of women united in the fight against patriarchy. But there have always been limits and fault lines in the feminist movements that centered white women's rights at the expense of all others. As scholar Kyla Schuller argues in The Trouble with White Women, white women, across political classes, have used racism and other hierarchies of power to win their own rights and expand their personal opportunities. Their white feminist politics have come at a great cost, resulting in the sustained exploitation, oppression, and silencing of women of color.The Trouble with White Women details the history of white feminist icons and their counterparts from the 1840s to the present. From...
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Hashtag Love

Hashtag Love

RL Burgess

RL Burgess

Ginerva Blake has her life all figured out. She works hard in her role as the managing editor of nonfiction at Red Stone Publishing. At night she comes home to relax with her cat and occasional catch ups with her best friend. She prides herself on delivering high quality nonfiction to the Australian public. But nothing has prepared her for working with social media influencer and exercise entrepreneur Hally Arlow, who is looking to release her autobiography. When her boss insists that she take on the book, Gin finds herself navigating a world of hashtags, selfies and Snapchats, not to mention the alluringly beautiful Hally Arlow. Gin simply doesn’t think very much of the other woman’s world. But can she come down to earth long enough to appreciate that the world is full of surprises? And that some of them just might be pretty darn great.
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Her Hometown Hero

Her Hometown Hero

Jacquelin Thomas

Jacquelin Thomas

Can a wounded heroLet go of the past?Wounded marine Trey Rothchild has returned to Polk Island. People call him a hero, but will he ever feel that way after losing his team? Reuniting with high school crush Gia Harris buoys his spirits. Though she's focused on making her physical therapy clinic a success—and avoiding romance with patients—Gia can't bear watching the former athlete sit on the sidelines of life. Could helping Trey recover include loving him fearlessly?Polk IslandBook 1: A Family for the FirefighterBook 2: Her Hometown Hero
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I'll Be Home for Christmas

I'll Be Home for Christmas

M. W. Arnold

M. W. Arnold

A mysterious key left by her murdered sister takes Air Transport Auxiliary pilot Betty Palmer on a journey of discovery and danger. Her estranged parents force themselves back into her life, motivated purely by greed and self-preservation. Penny's life is unexpectedly turned upside down by a potentially life-changing situation that causes her wounded husband to question their marriage. No one seems safe in the turmoil of the middle years of the war, and some relationships face a breaking point whilst others become stronger. Kidnap, crashes, and dogfights—the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary Mystery Club have never faced such dangers before. To survive may not be enough. They must find the strength to rise above their most trying times yet.
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A Guardian Angel Recalls

A Guardian Angel Recalls

Willem Frederik Hermans

Literature & Fiction

Willem Frederik Hermans's lucid and exhilarating WWII masterpiece in a razor-sharp translation by David ColmerA Guardian Angel Recalls is a gripping and diabolical wartime novel by one of the most provocative Dutch writers of the twentieth-century. Alberegt, a frenzied and lovelorn public prosecutor, speeds through Hook of Holland in his black Renault on May 9, 1940 – the eve of the German invasion of the Netherlands. Guiding his every move is a guardian angel. With unflappable patience, the angel flits from the hood of the Renault to the rim of his windswept hat, determined to quell his every anxiety and doubt. The angel's momentary distraction, however, sets off a chain of events that spins a nightmarish web. Alberegt's elusive companion serves both as narrator and meddlesome driver of the plot, though not without the interventions of a rotating cast of devils.
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