5/20/2023 0 Comments Red Hot Santa by Cherry Adair![]() ![]() Low on her stock of insulin injections, Hannah's inability to. Now she's in his deadly world.On the horns of a life and death dilemmaWhen his brother and the diamonds disappear, Hannah suddenly becomes Gray's only hope of locating his quarry and retrieving the stolen money. The right person, in the wrong place, at the worst possible time.When T-FLAC operative Grayson Burke and his team storm the yacht, the last person he expects to find is the woman he stood up at the altar three years ago. The Mission of the Adair Chamber of Commerce is to promote business. Unwillingly drawn into meeting his new associates, she overhears a nefarious plot and instantly goes from irritated to terrified. THREE CLASSIC CHERRY ADAIR SHORT STORIES OF DANGER, SUSPENSE, AND UNCONTAINED DESIRE.RICOCHETOriginal Copyright © 2014 by Cherry AdairNumber One Best Selling Short StoryT-FLACHannah Endicott's only purpose for traveling half a world away to Ecuador is to retrieve what her feckless best friend appropriated to invest in yet another bad business venture. ![]()
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5/20/2023 0 Comments The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce![]() (Also NB that in this case we’re necessarily talking about the American cultural consciousness, weird and wiggly as it is.) When something is iconic, it is a highly recognizable cultural artifact that can be used as a shorthand-which often means it has been referenced in other forms of media. Well, who knows, but for our purposes, “iconic” means that the story has somehow wormed its way into the general cultural consciousness-a list of the best short stories in the English language would look quite different than the one below. ![]() But before we go any further, you may be asking: What does “iconic” mean in this context? Can a short story really be iconic in the way of a poem, or a painting, or Elvis? ![]() ![]() Last year, I put together this list of the most iconic poems in the English language it’s high time to do the same for short stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Will they escape their pursuers? And above all, will they manage to master their powers without losing their souls? Ruby and a few others refuse this fate and flee. The survivors, endowed with uncontrollable psychic powers, are classified by color according to the danger they represent and parked in camps. Teenagers have been decimated by an unknown virus. The Darkest Minds is a dystopian, young adult novel series that was written by American author Alexandra Bracken, and was primarily published between 20 – and is comprised of multiple novels and a collection of novellas and short stories. The Darkest Minds books are behind the 2018 movie starring Amandla Stenberg and Mandy Moore. Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Dead wake by erik larson![]() As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small - hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more-all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger's U-boat, but told no one. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. He knew, moreover, that his ship - the fastest then in service - could outrun any threat. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. ![]() ![]() On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. ![]() ![]() From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Suki kim books![]() ![]() It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields - except for the 270 students at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a walled compound where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room, and where Suki has accepted a job teaching English. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it. ![]() A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reignĮvery day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Gathering darkness morgan rhodes![]() I absolutely loved it." -Julie Kagawa, New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Queen "In this Game of Thrones-esque high fantasy, Rhodes has created a world that's raging with war, deceit, spoiled royals, and a populous needing little to spark a revolution." -NPR/WAMC's The Roundtable "From an opening dripping with blood, magic, and betrayal through complex interweaving plots detailing treachery, deceit, and forbidden love, this novel is the first in a projected series that will immediately engage readers and keep them intrigued. It will make you ache, cry, and beg for the sequel as you turn the last page. I can't wait to see what happens next!" -Richelle Mead, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Vampire Academy and The Glittering Court "An otherworldly epic.evocative and intricate."-Publishers Weekly ".You must have this book on your shelves." -Bustle "Falling Kingdoms is a superbly written and character-driven narrative." -Bookpage " YA Game of Thrones full of intrigue, betrayal, lies and love." -The Guardian "Falling Kingdoms will gut you emotionally. This is one of those series you can't help but be obsessed with. 12.99 Gathering Darkness Falling Kingdoms By: Morgan Rhodes Be the First to Write a Review About this Book Hardcover 448 Pages Age 12+ Grade 7+ Dimensions (cm) 20.9x13.9x3.1 Edition Number: 1 Published: 24th November 2015 ISBN: 9781595147066 Share This Book: Hardcover 29. ![]() ![]() ![]() PRAISE for the FALLING KINGDOMS series: "Morgan Rhodes has created a rich, living fantasy world and characters that immediately draw the reader in. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Brown natasha assembly 2019![]() ![]() This, unnamed, heroine takes a different and, yes, I suppose shocking, strategy to give in to the exhaustion. ![]() There are great moments in it, the reader has to work for information a lot of the time and that got me confused, but it does have important things to say about micro- and macroaggressions and how exhausted Black women are by their code-switching, “Work twice as hard” lives (this was a theme in “ The Other Black Girl,” of course, too). There were flashes of “ Queenie” in her workplace life and the micro-aggressions and work best friends but that was way more straightforward to read (and sorry to compare this only to books by other Black authors – looks like those are the group of modern novels I seem to be reading at the moment!). I could compare it to “ Open Water” in the sort of floaty and slightly confusing narrative (although it had a more standard first-person narrator). ![]() It was episodic and full of flashbacks and bits of thoughts. I think I’m not adept enough with literary criticism or getting to grips with the modern novel. ![]() I just struggled to get to grips with this. It’s had a lot of buzz about it, and the description of a young Black woman attending a big posh White garden party and deciding she had had Enough appealed to me – in fact it was touted as shocking, which worried me a bit. It’s quite a quick review for Assembly here, which I downloaded on 01 April this year. ![]() ![]() ![]() The books were read with great interest by Prince Henry, the navigator of Portugal, who searched for a route to Asia around Africa and Columbus. Some of the information in his books were incorporated in some important maps of the later Middle Ages and the 14th and 15th centuries. Born in Venice, Italy, Marco Pol received little recognition from the geographers of his time. The Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina and along a book called “The Travels of Marco Polo,” that Columbus had read with excitement that drew his interest to attempt to reach the far east.Much credit should go to Marco Polo who had received little recognition as a world explorer. Subsidized by Spain’s Queen Isabella with 88 ment and three sailing ships. ![]() 3, 1492 with his expedition from Palos, Spain. Italian navigator Christopher Columbus believe that the world was round, set sail on Aug. ![]() The month of October is known as Italian month as the historic date of Oct. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But, most importantly, I am the man she loves. I am the man who held her in a dark room for weeks. I was a whore in my youth, a killer since my adolescence, and a monster as a man. Who am I? Well, that’s what I’m trying to figure out. In fact, you probably know too many things and know them far too well. WARNING: This book contains very disturbing situations, dubious consent, strong language, and graphic violence. Although she is frightened by the strong, sadistic, and arrogant man who holds her prisoner, what keeps Olivia awake in the dark is her unwelcome attraction to him. She has a dark sensuality that cannot be hidden or denied, though she tries to accomplish both. Olivia is young, beautiful, naïve and willful to a fault. His name is Caleb, though he demands to be called Master. Blindfolded and bound, there is only a calm male voice to welcome her. If Caleb is to get close enough to strike, he must become the very thing he abhors and kidnap a beautiful girl to train her to be all that he once was.Įighteen-year-old Olivia Ruiz has just woken up in a strange place. Finally, the architect of his suffering has emerged with a new identity, but not a new nature. ![]() For twelve years he has immersed himself in the world of pleasure slaves searching for the one man he holds ultimately responsible. Kidnapped as a young boy and sold into slavery by a power-hungry mobster, he has thought of nothing but vengeance. Caleb is a man with a singular interest in revenge. ![]() ![]() ![]() With wit, candor, and heart, Anna deftly charts the tech industry's shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration, ambivalence, and disillusionment. ![]() Part coming-age-story, part portrait of an already-bygone era, Anna Wiener's memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition, unregulated surveillance, wild fortune, and accelerating political power. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. ![]() She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory, and, of course, progress.Īnna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener―stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial-left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age. ![]() |