![]() ![]() ![]() Box is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 24 novels including the Joe Pickett series. Beset by threats both man-made and natural, the two men must go to great lengths to keep their loved ones safeĬ. It's a race against the clock as Joe tries to clear Nate's name and identify the real shooter, all while deciphering the grizzly encounter. The search for the would-be assassin becomes personal when Joe's best friend, Nate Romanowski -just as he's adjusting to the arrival of his first child-falls under suspicion for the crime. While the judge was not hit, his wife is severely wounded, and it is up to Joe to find answers-and the shooter. ![]() Someone has targeted a prominent local judge, shooting at him from a seemingly impossible distance. One survivor of the grizzly's rampage tells a bizarre story, but just as Joe begins to suspect the attack is not what it seems, he is brought home by an emergency on his own turf. When Joe Pickett is asked to join the rescue efforts for the victim of a startling grizzly attack, he reluctantly leaves his district behind. Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must investigate an attempted murder-a crime committed from a confoundingly long distance-in the riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. ![]()
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![]() It's not very wordy, but books like this primarily serve an aesthetic purpose as well as acting as a springboard for further research. ![]() ![]() This fine little book is an absolute treasure trove of esoteric imagery, complete with accompanying quotes and attributions. My review is of the Bibliotheca Universalis edition that has 500-and-something pages. Otherwise, I'd suggest some preliminary reading before approaching this. If you are well read in mysticism and the history of alchemy, this is the book for you. We chemical engineers share a common ancestor with phrenologists and palmists - not a very edifying thought! It is interesting to note that mystical ideas about the interconnectedness of mythology, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology and art gave birth to such an unimaginative science. They can only enjoy the beauty of the images, and get some sort of rudimentary understanding, which itself is rewarding enough.Īlchemy is the ancestor of my profession - Chemical Engineering. Those without knowledge of the development of mystical thought and alchemy would not be able to enjoy the wealth of information this book provides. ![]() Alexander Roob does not provide a sequential narrative. This is not a book for the beginner (which I am). This is a magnificent compendium of alchemical symbols and the mystic thought behind them. ![]() ![]() Like Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight, which generated such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, King’s Full Dark, No Stars is a “page-turner” ( The New York Times) “as gripping as his epic novels” ( St. ![]() ![]() In “A Good Marriage,” the trust forged by more than twenty years of matrimony is irrevocably shattered when a woman makes a chance discovery leading to the horrifying implications of just who her husband really is. In “Fair Extension,” making a deal with the devil not only saves a man from terminal illness but also provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. In “Big Driver”, a mystery writer is brutally assaulted by a stranger along a Massachusetts back road and plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself. In “1922,” a violence awakens inside a man when his wife proposes selling off the family homestead, setting in motion a grisly train of murder and madness. ![]() ![]() “The pages practically turn themselves” ( USA TODAY) in Full Dark, No Stars, an unforgettable collection centered around the theme of retribution. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, four “disturbing, fascinating” ( The Washington Post) novellas-including the story “1922,” a Netflix original film-that explore the dark side of human nature. ![]() ![]() They inspired her to become a writer herself. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes.Īnn has always enjoyed writing. But many of her characters are based on real people. All of Ann's characters, even the members of the Baby-sitters Club, are made up. Many are written about contemporary problems or events. ![]() Some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. She's now a full-time writer.Īnn gets the ideas for her books from many different places. After graduating from Smith College, Ann became a teacher and then an editor of children's books. ![]() She grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. Ann Matthews Martin was born on August 12, 1955. ![]() ![]() ![]() This was America during and after the Great War: a brief but appalling era blighted by lynchings, censorship, and the sadistic, sometimes fatal abuse of conscientious objectors in military prisons-a time whose toxic currents of racism, nativism, red-baiting, and contempt for the rule of law then flowed directly through the intervening decades to poison our own. When the government stepped in, it was often to fan the flames. Some seventy-five newspapers and magazines were banned from the mail and forced to close. Self-appointed vigilantes executed tens of thousands of citizens' arrests. Courts threw thousands of people into prison for opinions they voiced-in one notable case, only in private. ![]() Mobs burned Black churches to the ground. National Bestseller - One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfiction - A Best Book of 2022: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkusįrom legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "masterly" ( New York Times) reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threatened by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor ![]() ![]() ![]() “Racism’s a cancer that doesn’t get cured,” she tells Aisha. ![]() Aisha still dons a hijab, takes comfort in prayer, and makes excuses for the casually racist opinions espoused by Leslie, her boyfriend Tom’s mother. Both grew up in the Muslim faith, but have taken different paths in adult life. Infidel’s plot revolves around two lifelong friends and women of color, Aisha and Medina, who both live in an apartment building where a mysterious bomb blast recently killed several people. Infidel’s content is often shocking, but Pichetshote writes an intensely humanist horror story with a light at the end of its tunnel. While a literal specter of bigotry hangs over much of the book, claiming the lives of many members of Infidel’s multicultural cast, Pichetshote writes with a deep empathy that’s likely to cause readers to repeatedly reassess their basic assumptions about his characters. But to paraphrase one of Infidel’s characters, in a room full of shadows, writer Pichetshote is obsessed with the light. The death toll is high and the racial slurs fly in Infidel, Pornsak Pichetshote and Aaron Campbell’s horror series about a murderous presence that seems to feed on hatred. ![]() ![]() ![]() After that, they stayed away from it,†Yvonne Verkaik, the executive director Rhino Fund Uganda, says. ![]() When they were released, they were deliberately left to wander into an electric fence so that they may “learn to respect the fence.†For the first two weeks of their quarantine, the rhinos were kept in wooden cages. The four white southern rhinos, brought from Solio Ranch in Kenya on July 20, 2005, have quickly settled in and are roaming the green plains of Nakasongola. ![]() But the intriguing attractions are the four-year-old paired rhinos, Bella and Taleo, and Moja and Kori. Pack your bags for Ziwa Ranches in Nakasongola District.Īfter 170 kilometres (about 2 hours drive) from Kampala to the ranch, you will not only have arrived at the biggest ranch in the country but you will wallow in the wild with duikers, bush bucks, crocodiles, hippos and a variety of birds including the shoebill stock. THE holiday season may be more than a month away, but here is an excuse to get away at an excursion in a relaxing countryside setting. It is open to the public from 7:00am to 7:00pm. Ziwa Ranch is about 170 kms north west of Kampala on the road to Gulu and Masindi. They start reproducing at between five and seven years. Factfile - Rhinos live for between 30 to 40 years (a bit longer in captivity than in the wild). ![]() ![]() House of Day, House of Night is like if all those thoughts about your neighbors, or the history of your house or town were put down in writing and told by a much better story teller than you or I, someone with an imagination and writing style that perfectly balances the absurd with the believable. Or maybe you grew up in a neighborhood with eccentric neighbors, whom you assigned nicknames, and created personas and backstories for in my neighborhood, we had The Witch, Spandex Man, and Ponce, and how could I almost forget Mailbox Lady. Who were the people that first lived there? How did they arrange the furniture? What did they hide in the trap door? If you’ve ever moved into a house or an apartment, you might have wondered about the history of that place. It tells the story of a Polish town and how it came to be inhabited after World War II, when parts of Germany became parts of Poland, and Germans either abandoned their homes or were forcibly moved west to other parts of Germany. This translation first published in Great Britain by Granta Books 2002. Dom dzienny, dom nocny first published in Poland by Wydawnictwo Ruta 1998. Translation copyright © 2002 by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. ![]() ![]() Copyright © 1988, 2002 by Olga Tokarczuk. Northwestern University Press edition published 2003. ![]() ![]() ![]() I didn't have any trouble following the various storylines and time frames. Threadgoode and listening to her reminisce/tell stories about her past, helps present day Evelyn, as she struggles with her self worth. The story set in the past is slowly revealed and developed throughout the whole book, and partly through Mrs. The earlier story begins in the 1920's while the present day story starts in 1985. ![]() In a heartwarming, endearing style, Flagg not only captures a feeling of warm, Southern hospitality through her characters, she also manages to touch on some hot issues, but does this with such grace and charm that few could take offense. The book, naturally, is better than the movie. I have read all of her other books, and Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is also certainly worth reading. I have seen the movie, Fried Green Tomatoes, but couldn't remember if I had ever read the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is no sugarcoating of the fact that he is a perpetually grumpy bastard. Mike Bouwer is not the archetypal hard on the surface, soft to the core character familiar to romance readers. I would argue that word is Mike’s to own more so that Liam’s. Though, the interpretation of the word mistake is up for debate. When she wrote “for the rest of his life” in the blurb, she meant it in the literal, quantifiable sense, but it wasn’t until I’d reached the final chapter of the book that I realized I wasn’t being served up a tragic romance as much as I was reading a story about sports related traumatic brain injuries and the influence that those injuries would eventually have on Mike and his relationship with his ‘mistake’, Liam Fitzgerald. ![]() ![]() Review: Author Taylor Fitzpatrick makes no secret of how the long-term effects of the repetitive concussions Mike Bouwer has suffered as an enforcer in the NHL will influence the ending of her novel Thrown Off the Ice. He just didn’t know it’d be a mistake that would follow him for the rest of his life. This novel is a punch to the gut, a bona fide tearjerker, and earned every bit of my love.īlurb: Mike knew he was making a mistake when he let the rookie climb into bed with him. At a Glance: There are no miracles conjured in Thrown Off the Ice, nor does the author end the story before the inescapable outcome of Mike’s decline. ![]() |