![]() ![]() With rumors of widespread assaults on Serenity raging, communications down, and the rest of her family trapped off-planet, Catarina must persuade Alex to return to Earth to expose the truth and finish this deadly battle once and for all.īut Cat can’t explain why she’s the perfect person to infiltrate hostile territory without revealing secrets she’d rather keep buried. When she’s attacked and nearly killed, she and Alex are forced to work together to figure out how deep the treason goes. After all, she’s never found a person she can’t manipulate.īut Alex proves more difficult - and more desirable - than Cat anticipated. After Cat tries, and fails, to ditch Alex, she grudgingly agrees, confident in her ability to manage him. ![]() Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Chaos Reigning: A Novel (The Consortium Rebellion Book 3). Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Alexander Sterling, a quiet, gorgeous bodyguard, will accompany her, posing as her lover. Chaos Reigning: A Novel (The Consortium Rebellion Book 3) - Kindle edition by Mihalik, Jessie. ![]() Her enemies, blind to her true strength, do not suspect that Cat is a spy - which makes her the perfect candidate to go undercover at a rival House’s summer retreat to gather intelligence on their recent treachery.Ĭat’s overprotective older sister reluctantly agrees, but on one condition: Cat cannot go alone. Interplanetary intrigue and romance combine in this electrifying finale to the Consortium Rebellion series.Īs the youngest member of her High House, Catarina von Hasenberg is used to being underestimated, but her youth and flighty, bubbly personality mask a clever mind and stubborn determination. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This publication is part of the series Te Takarangi: Celebrating Māori publications - a sample list of 150 non-fiction books produced by a partnership between Royal Society Te Apārangi and Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga. Early historical records and manuscript materials were used to review the history and technology of moko, and present day moko wearers and artists were interviewed, and invited to relate dozens of powerful and heart-warming stories. ![]() Mau Moko examines both the traditional and present day use of moko, and explores the cultural and spiritual issues surrounding this body art. Mau Moko: The World of Maori Tattoo (Paperback) Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ) ISBN: 9780143566854 Number of pages: 264 Weight: 995 g Dimensions: 260 x 213. The book’s scholarship is enhanced by historical images, traditional Māori representations, and the superb portrait photography of Becky Nunes. Mau Moko: the world of Māori tattoo (2007) is the result of many years of research by a team at the University of Waikato, including Professor Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Dr Linda Waimarie Nikora, Mohi Rua and Rolinda Karapu. After almost disappearing in the 20th century, Māori skin art is now experiencing a powerful revival, with many young urban Māori displaying the moko as a gesture of ethnic pride and identity. Men wore elaborate designs on their entire faces women were usually less complex but elegant, and both sexes had extensive body work. Mau moko : the world of Mori tattoo / Ngahuia Te Awekotuku with Linda Waimarie Nikora, Mohi Rua and Rolinda Karapu new photography by Becky Nunes. Everyone had some patterning on their skin. In the traditional Māori world, the moko, or facial and body tattoo, was part of everyday life. ![]() ![]() ![]() The form of the novel is fragmented and recursive, with chapters ranging from one sentence to several pages. In contrast, Evelyn was hypersensitive and always a tad strange. The central relationships of his life, however, remained those with his mother and, to a lesser extent, with his father, Westy, a gruff atheist with little emotional subtlety. Thorn, whose philosophical mind appealed to the many questions Christopher was raising at the time. At a young age, he’d gotten sexually involved with a Stanford graduate student, and later in his adolescence, he became intrigued with Dr. ![]() We find a number of complexities in his character-for example, although he was a fairly mediocre student, he was a prodigy at bridge. ![]() Although a few weeks after his mother’s death Christopher goes to Bhutan, most of the book is taken up by Christopher’s life before his mother’s suicide. ![]() Christopher was 22 when this happened, and the novel moves chronologically both backward and forward from this one event. The central event of the narrative is Christopher Westall’s discovery of the body of his mother, Evelyn, who died by suicide. A remarkable and multifaceted novel-philosophical, poignant and puzzling. ![]() |