Kade and Hunter Caruthers. Brothers. Twins. My cousins. In a way, they’re my family. Protective. Indulgent. My best friends. But there was something else there, too. That ever-present whisper that reminded me more as I got older that we didn’t actually share any blood. They used to be inseparable. We all were, but not anymore. I don’t know why Hunter left or why he joined a rival team in Weston—that Rebel town across the river—to stand on the opposite side of the field from his brother, but Kade is out for blood now and Hunter has finally decided to engage. Rivalry Week. Parades. Parties. Pranks. And the Prisoner Exchange. Weston will send a hostage to our school, and they’re taking me. I’m Hunter’s for two weeks. In a dilapidated brownstone on a nearly abandoned street with almost no supervision. Ten days in an enemy school. Fourteen nights in a town full of bullies with no curfews and no rules. And Hunter has no intention of protecting his little cousin anymore. The Pirates will come for me. How can they not? A Pirate never sits out on the fun. But I never needed protection or rescue, because a Pirate never runs, either. *Pirate Girls is a new adult romance suitable for ages 18+.
'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The TimesMost of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship of a much-loved novel. But books are things as well as words, objects in our lives as well as worlds in our heads. And just as we crack their spines, loosen their leaves and write in their margins, so they disrupt and disorder us in turn. All books are, as Stephen King put it, 'a uniquely portable magic'. Here, Emma Smith shows us why.Portable Magic unfurls an exciting and iconoclastic new story of the book in human hands, exploring when, why and how it acquired its particular hold over us. Gathering together a millennium's worth of pivotal encounters with volumes big and small, Smith reveals that, as much as their contents, it is books' physical form - their 'bookhood' - that lends them their distinctive and sometimes dangerous magic. From the Diamond Sutra to Jilly Cooper's Riders, to a book made of wrapped slices of cheese, this composite artisanal object has, for centuries, embodied and extended relationships between readers, nations, ideologies and cultures, in significant and unpredictable ways. Exploring the unexpected and unseen consequences of our love affair with books, Portable Magic hails the rise of the mass-market paperback, and dismantles the myth that print began with Gutenberg; it reveals how our reading habits have been shaped by American soldiers, and proposes new definitions of a 'classic'-and even of the book itself. Ultimately, it illuminates the ways in which our relationship with the written word is more reciprocal - and more turbulent - than we tend to imagine.
Aktiivsetel pehmendavatel ainetel põhinev kehapesugeel puhastab nahka õrnalt, jättes selle tugevalt niisutatuks, siledaks ja pehmeks. Dušigeeli koostis on erakordselt õrn, ühildub naha füsioloogilise pH-ga ega riku kaitsvat hüdrolipiidide kihti. Ennetab marrasknaha liigset kuivamist ja koorumist. Rapsiõli aitab tänu ainulaadsetele rahustavatele ja toitvatele omadustele taastada naha loomuliku füsioloogilise tasakaalu. Tänu lipiide taastavale kanepiõlile, mis sisaldab rikkalikult asendamatuid polüküllastumata rasvhappeid – linoolhapet ja α-linoleenhapet –, hooldab toode väga tõhusalt kuiva ning atoopiale kalduvat nahka. Toode sisaldab nahka uuendavat E-vitamiini, mis aitab taastada naha loomuliku hüdrolipiidide kihi, tagades marrasknahale vajaliku lipiididesisalduse, ning toidab ja kaitseb nahka kahjuliku keskkonnamõju eest.
