![]() ![]() She’s further stunned to be immediately promoted to fill Michael’s role before she has a chance to decide whether she wants the position. Freaked out, Ellice doesn’t report her grim discovery and acts surprised when the news reaches her. But that all changes when she arrives for an early morning meeting with her white boss, Houghton’s general counsel and her lover, Michael Sayles, and finds him dead from a gunshot to the head, apparently self-inflicted. Ellice Littlejohn, a 40-something Black woman, is relatively content as a senior member of the legal department at Atlanta’s Houghton Transportation Company. Attorney Morris puts her experiences as a Black woman navigating the corridors of corporate power to good use in her strong debut, a legal thriller. ![]()
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![]() The elevator circles the planet until Wonka sees the chance to link it with the newly-launched Space hotel, a creation of the United States government. At a critical moment during the return trip to the factory, a panicking Josephine grabs Wonka away from the controls, which results in the elevator, along with its occupants, being sent into an Earth orbit. The bed is thus pushed into the elevator, which then takes off. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book begins where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ends: Willy Wonka has just given Charlie the ownership of his factory, and they crash through the roof of Charlie's house with a flying elevator to inform his family of the good news.Ĭharlie's grandparents (except Grandpa Joe who had already gotten out of the bed) are nervous about going inside the travelling elevator, and after twenty years in bed, they refuse to get up. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() *** Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente. Una historia épica de poder y venganza en la que la verdad se escribirá con sangre. Para sus enemigos, en una amenaza consagrada a la destrucción de los tiranos que abusan del pueblo italiano. Para sus aliados, Ezio se convertirá en la fuerza que les guiará en la búsqueda de la libertad y la justicia. En su camino de venganza y lucha se encontrará con las grandiosas mentes de Leonardo da Vinci y Maquiavelo deberá decidir entre el amor y su destino, y descubrirá que este último es mucho más complejo y elevado de lo que nunca imaginó. Para ello deberá aprender el arte de la muerte. ![]() Soy un Asesino?» Tras sufrir la traición de las familias que gobiernan Florencia, Venecia y Roma en la Italia del Renacimiento, el joven Ezio Auditore se embarca en una épica lucha para poner fin a la corrupción y restaurar el honor de su familia. «Buscaré la venganza contra aquellos que traicionaron a mi familia. ![]() ![]() I thought this book was very good and I would like to read the next one now! I can recommend this book to you if you like magic and myths. ![]() If you buy the book, in the back you can find details of a website for the society members and you can join them. But Connie is not ready for this, as she has not had any training of being a universal companion and does not know how to resist Kullervo’s evil temptation. ![]() But her job is to keep herself safe from Kullervo, because if he has a universal companion on his side, he will be unstoppable and the human race will be destroyed. Connie has to leave dealing with the Sirens to Signor Antonelli, one of the society members. He has already lured in the Sirens, mythical creatures from the Greek Myths, a bird with a woman’s head, and they sing magical songs that lure sailors to their deaths. ![]() Everybody knows about the society but they are trying to keep it a secret from Connie, especially her aunt.Ĭonnie is allowed to take a test to see if she can join the society, and she turns out to be a universal companion for all mythical creatures, so she is able to join the society.īut Kullervo, an evil force, is luring mythical creatures into wanting to destroy the human race. Its the heart of the secret Society for the Protection of Mythical Creatures, a group. The seaside town is full of adults and children who have strange links to creatures. There is a girl called Connie and her friend Col is in the society. When Connie is sent to live with her aunt, she knows its going to be one more place where she doesnt fit in. The book is about a society for the Protection of Mythical Creatures. Also by Julia Golding The Companions Quartet : Secret of the Sirens The Gorgon's Gaze Mines of the Minotaur The Chimera's Curse dragonfly JULIA GOLDING This. ![]() |