Using a comparative and broad perspective, Religion, Politics and Society in Britain 800-1066 draws on archaeology, art history, material culture, texts from charms to chronicles, from royal law-codes to sermons to poems, and other evidence to demonstrate the centrality of Christianity and the Church in Britain 800-1066. It delineates their contributions to the changes in politics, economy, society and culture that occurred between 800 and 1066, from nation-building to practicalit...

A good man like Perley Gates knows that when you race with the devil, you'd better cross the finish line first—or you won't finish at all . . .They rode into town like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Four armed outlaws bringing their own brand of hell to Paris, Texas. First they rob the First National Bank. Then they take a woman hostage as insurance. When Perley Gates learns that local waitress Becky Morris is in the hands of these tough customers, he joins a...

"A good man like Perley Gates knows that when you race with the devil, you’d better cross the finish line first—or you won’t finish at all.They rode into town like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Four armed outlaws bringing their own brand of hell to Paris, Texas. First they rob the First National Bank. Then they take a woman hostage as insurance. When Perley Gates learns that local waitress Becky Morris is in the hands of these tough customers, with only his friend Possum he ...

A Riveting Memoir of Cross-Cultural Romance at a Pivotal Moment in HistoryWhen China opened its doors in the 1980s, it shocked the world by allowing private enterprise and free markets. As a foreign correspondent for BusinessWeek, Dori Jones Yang was among the first American journalists to cover China under Deng Xiaoping, who dared to defy Maoist doctrine as he rushed to catch up with richer nations. Fluent in Mandarin, she got to know ordinary Chinese people―who were embr...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "Red Nails" is an epic tale by Robert E. Howard about the adventures of the fearless Valeria of the Red Brotherhood and the legendary Conan the Barbarian. Pursued by persecutors, Valeria flees deep into the wild jungle, where she is joined by Conan, who wishes to form an alliance with her - both as a warrior and a lover. Together they face a prehistoric dragon and discover the mysterious, enclosed city of Xuchotl, where the remnants of an ancient ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.You've heard the success stories, but not the 2 a.m. panic pings, the customer pile-ons, or the staff threats of "See you at Fair Work." Bullied in Business rips the cover off the quiet crisis playing out behind every independent counter and offers a way forward—one filled with empathy, practical tactics, and cultural change.Drawing on new research from Australia, the UK, and the United States, author Stuart Redgate rev...

This story is about Red Clasen's family and what happened in the state of Iowa. They are a normal family and live a normal life. They have our own traditions in life that tend to be mundane but have substance in their heritage.Things in small town America have their own pace. They pass from generation to generation. This could be a story from any one of several states or towns. In a lot of ways, it could have occurred in any of several decades on a family farm in America's Bible be...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A gritty, fast-paced coming-of-age tale set in the slums of 19th-century Pittsburgh, Getting the Point follows Kile, a ten-year-old orphan with street smarts and grit beyond his years. After his father's execution and abandonment by his mother, Kile survives using his wits, forming a gang of fellow orphans and working under the protection of powerful underground figures. As Kile rises through the ranks of the city's underbelly, ...

Recruited by higher powers, an angel seeks out the only man who could prevent an apocalypse from happening—but how can someone born of Hell be a vital part of Heaven's mission?Jagger is a warrior who has dedicated his existence to fighting the demons who enter the world through hell gates. A man of conflicting ideals—a demon who fights evil, a loner who offers shelter to a strange woman—he's too rough, too dangerous, too cocky for Sonya's delicate nature.

A year ago Marin asked to be a pony girl. Now she wants the whole grandstand to watch.She is the Redgate pony now, with her halter on a hook in the tack room and last year's blue ribbon hanging off the trailer mirror. The night before Dry Fork she stops Boone at the gate and says it plain: tomorrow, in the late ring, in front of the stands, she wants to be tacked up, bent over the rail and fucked where everyone can see. And she wants him to come in her where they c...

She booked one week at Redgate. At the gate she said it out loud: treat me like a pony girl. All of it. From now on.Marin drove up from Fresno in new boots with a week paid for and one sentence she had practiced the whole way. Boone, the foreman, made her say it twice, slower, and gave her a word that would stop everything. Gate. Then he unhooked the chain.The first morning she is stripped bare on the grooming mat. A steel tail plug worked into her ass, the...

"A pony doesn't talk," Grady said. Wren has never shut up in her life.She shoes the Redgate horses every other Tuesday and has an opinion about every foot on the place, every cinch, every slab of concrete. Her mouth just cost her the Harlan Farms account. So when the man who owns Redgate tells her a pony doesn't talk, it lands low, under her belt buckle, and she hears herself answer.Make me quiet. Make me your pony girl. Whip me till I get it, and then take...