I had every reason to hate her my forbidden sister. She was like someone who had died but wouldn't stay buried.. . Emmie Wilcox was only six when her older sister Roxy was thrown out of their New York City apartment. Their stern father's military-style rules left no room for rebellion & Roxy was as defiant as Emmie-now an outstanding student at a private school-is compliant: a perfect daughter une fille parfaite as her Parisian-born mother lovingly calls her. Two sisters total opposites-yet Emmie is secretly obsessed with the mystery surrounding Roxy: What had she done? Where is she now? & is there a hidden side to Emmie that resembles Roxy's spiteful nature? Knowing only that Roxy is a highly paid escort to the city's wealthiest men Emmie goes behind her father's back to track down the sister she fears despises & inexplicably clings to.. .and whose influence might run deeper than Emmie ever imagined. ...

Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators Capture the force in your life drawing subjects with this practical guide to dynamic drawing techniques
- packed with superb powerfully drawn examples that show you how to: * Bring your work to life with rhythmic drawing techniques * Create appealing & dynamic poses in your drawings * Experience the figures energy in three dimensional space * Use the asymmetry of straight & curved lines to clarify the direction of force in the body * Build on your foundational anatomy & figure drawing skills to animate your drawings * Apply the theory of force to your on-location & animal drawing observations Whether you are an animator comic book artist illustrator or fine arts student youll learn to use rhythm shape & line to bring out the life in any subject while Mike Mattesis infectious enthusiasm will have you reaching for your pencils! Mike Mattesi is the owner & founder of Entertainment Art Academy (www.enterartacad.com) based in Southern California. He has been a professional production artist & instructor for the last fifteen years with clients including Disney Marvel Comics Hasbro Toys ABC Microsoft Electronic Arts Dream Works & Nickelodeon. Audience level: Intermediate to advanced
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Joe Pickett's outlaw companion Nate Romanowski faces the battle of his life: one he may very likely lose. Nate knows too much about Special Forces Black Ops in Afghanistan
- & he must be silenced. Nate's former comrades know the time has come to end the threat once & for all. & they do it by incorporating many of the same tactics that served their unique & secret unit well in the Middle East: recruiting locals. Nate can trust no one except Joe Pickett who is constrained by his oath & duty to the law & the state. But Nate must involve Joe because he knows his enemy will strike at his friends in order to draw him out. The entire Pickett family will be a target. Nate can only fight back outside the law & Joe must make a choice: help his friend or keep the peace?
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Force on Force" brings the drama & action of modern warfare to the tabletop using miniature soldiers. The rules cover all aspects of modern warfare from the confidence & supply level of troops to air-strikes & off-board artillery & accommodates scenarios set anywhere from the end of World War II to the conflicts on today's news without sacrificing either character or playability. From infantry & armour to artillery & air support " Force on Force" presents everything that players need to recreate post-World War II warfare between conventional combined-arms forces. The book also contains the Ambush Alley rules that allow players to recreate intense counterinsurgency actions in an urban environment." ...

Everyone knows three things about the Women's Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; & more recently that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair. But there's so much more to this remarkable Movement. Over 200 000 women in the UK belong to the WI & their membership is growing. They cross class & religion include all ages -from students & metropolitan young professionals such as the Shoreditch Sisters to rural centenarians -with passions that range from supporting the 1920s Bastardy Bill (in response to a wartime legacy of illegitimate babies) to the current SOS for Honey Bees campaign. It was founded in 1915 not by worthy ladies in tweeds but by the feistiest women in the country including suffragettes academics & social crusaders who discovered the heady power of sisterhood changing women's lives & their world in the process. Certainly its members boiled jam & sang ' Jerusalem ' but they also made history. This fascinating book reveals for the first time how they are
- & always were
- a force to be reckoned with.

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The tragedy of the loss in 1941 of two Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse the core of Churchills deterrent Force Z stunned the world. Churchill had hoped that sending a small powerful squadron of ships to Singapore would deter a threatened Japanese invasion of Malaya & Thail&. He was to be proved tragically wrong. Denuded of aircraft cover Force Z was left disastrously exposed to air attack. Within eight days of their arrival at Singapore both ships were sunk with huge loss of life in a mass attack by 85 Japanese bombers. It was the Royal Navys greatest loss in a single engagement & the first time a modern battleship had been sunk by air power. With the naval force at the bottom of the sea & the RAF almost wiped out in Malaya on day one Singapore was left with no air or sea protection & fell two months later. This is the first book to explore in detail the wrecks of these two vessels & grippingly narrates a summary of the Japanese threat Fortress Singapore & the subsequent Japanese invasion. Today the wrecks of these two famous British warships lie on the bottom of the South China Sea 200 miles north of Singapore & 50 miles offshore. The author was invited as a civilian expert on a military expedition to dive & survey these wrecks & now for the first time the wrecks are revealed as they are today. Beautifully illustrated with specially commissioned artists illustrations of the wrecks each one is looked at in detail. The story of the loss of these two ships & of the sacrifice of the men who served in them is remembered. This has been a personal quest for the author whose grandfather was serving in Singapore when Force Z arrived. His wife & the authors father & two brothers were among the last civilians evacuated from Singapore before the final siege. His grandfather was taken into internment at Changi Gaol by the Japanese & suffered there for three years until Singapore was reoccupied by the British in 1945. Had the Fall of Singapore not happened the way it did the author would not be here to write this truly remarkable book. ...

When the Capri was launched in 1969 its no-nonsense handling & roadholding & in 3-litre form its impressive performance singled it out from the bland & anonymous saloons of the late 1960s. Capris were straightforward easy to drive & simple to maintain & their popularity has been sustained largely because of this. Their simplicity of design & inherent ruggedness makes them ideal candidates for DIY restoration. The booming owners club movement & the continuing avilability of spare parts ensures that these cars will have a strong following for many years to come. ...

Before the Ford Capri arrived in 1969 GT cars had tended to be expensive temperamental impractical & rarefied. Ford decided there was no reason why a four-seater coupe couldnt look stunning & go like a rocket (with the right engine) yet be as easy & cheap to run as a Ford Escort. Little wonder that the slogan they used in 1969 to launch it The car you always promised yourself made an immediate impact. The Capri was a hit from day one & continued to be a British favourite until 1986 at which time it had been somewhat overshadowed by the emergence of the Hot Hatchback. Over its lifetime the Capri was available in a vast array of guises over three distinct Marks but all of them had at their heart affordable fun & a surprising degree of everyday practicality. Nothing has ever quite replaced it but it lives on in the fond imagination of everyone who loved it. ...

Once there was a Cortina on every British street corner but now only a handful of the four million made survive & the rest are fond memories. For 1962 the Cortina was rushed to sale as an economy car but it rocketed to the top of the sales charts & stayed there for 20 years. To mark 50 years since the introduction of Fords best-seller this exhaustively researched history tells how it grew to be a worldwide success. With first-hand accounts from key people & evocative period photography the design & development of all five generations of Cortina is explored in detail. ...

Worldwide No.1 bestseller John Grisham takes you into the heart of Americas Deep South with a collection of stories connected by the life & crimes of Ford County: a place of harsh beauty where broken dreams & final wishes converge. From a hard-drinking downtrodden divorce lawyer looking for pay-dirt to a manipulative death row inmate with one last plea Ford County" features a vivid cast of attorneys crooks hustlers & convicts. Through their stories he paints a unique picture of lives lived & lost in Mississippi. Completely gripping frequently moving & always entertaining " Ford County" brims with the same page-turning quality & heart-stopping drama of his previous bestsellers & is proof once more why John Grisham is our most popular storyteller." ...