Six people who turned me into the monster I am now. Six people who wronged me, who hurt me, who took everything from me. Some people wear their heart on their sleeve. I was a good girl once, but now I dance with devils. I’m a loose thread to them-but somehow, I’m becoming more than that too.Īnd no matter how much I try to deny the terrifying attraction that pulses between us, I know if I don’t find a way out of this tangled web soon… These three dangerous brothers will do anything to make sure I keep my mouth shut about what I saw, even if it means stalking my every movement. They don’t… but they don’t forget about me, either. When they drag me from the blood-soaked bed, I’m certain they’re going to kill me too. On the night I’m meant to give my body to a brutal Russian mobster, three men storm into the room like dark shadows and kill him before he can claim me. So when I end up desperate for money and out of options, I agree to sell the one thing I have left: my innocence. My parents are dead, my adoptive mother is a drug addict, and the mean girls on campus mock me for my scars.
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5/21/2023 0 Comments Amatka bookBut when she stumbles on evidence of a growing threat to the colony, and a cover-up by its administration, she embarks on an investigation that puts her at tremendous risk. Intending to stay just a short while, Vanja falls in love with her housemate, Nina, and prolongs her visit. Immediately she feels that something strange is going on: people act oddly in Amatka, and citizens are monitored for signs of subversion. Vanja, an information assistant, is sent from her home city of Essre to the austere, wintry colony of Amatka with an assignment to collect intelligence for the government. A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY BOOKS OF 2017 A surreal debut novel set in a world shaped by language in the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Next time your doctor prescribes three tablets for your headache, be sure that he is right on your money and has good intentions of treating you of your ailment and make your head and your pocket lighter. So one can conveniently throw the anxiety of being conscientious and relax under the warm shade of being loosely professional. When the mood is thus and life is upswing, do we need the chains of ethics, the prison of values and the dungeon of morality? Life in such a world is a shiny little pearl with little need for stony Spartan musing. Hey loosen up yourself, the amoralists blow hot air over make merry, forget sartorial sensitivity, gormandize freely, guzzle with pride and loosen up your morals. The axiologist and the casuist are back in business! And we may question their resurgence and inquisitorial ranting. In a nation which is increasingly becoming disillusioned with the notions of honesty and professionalism, where do we turn to for ethics and morality? Author Aporva Kala of Life… Love… Kumbh…writes on this subject. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Flowers from the stormBut sometimes the most womanizing rake can be irresistible, and even his most casual attentions fascinated the sheltered Maddy Timms, quiet daughter of a simple mathematician. Considered dissolute, reckless, and extravagant, he was transparently referred to as the ′D of J′ in scandal sheets, where he and his various exploits featured with frequency. |a The Duke of Jervaulx was brilliant and dangerous. But the Earl of Westholme is promised to another woman. |a : |b Harper Collins Publishers, |c 2009. It tells the story of Countess Anna Grazinsky, a young refugee from the Russian Revolution, who finds work as a maid at a stately home in the English countryside, where she falls in love with the gallant war hero who owns the house. |a Flowers from the Storm |h / |c Kinsale, Laura. A detective tale set in Providence, Poe tries to help a boy find his lost sister even as he plots a new story of his own. Writing about Poe intrigued me so much that I set out to write a book about him: The Man Who Was Poe. Poe not only had a connection with Providence he was the man who invented mystery stories. But during one of the time trips he made in that first version, there was a visit with Edgar Allan Poe. When I rewrote the book, Kenny went back to only one point in time. When I first wrote the book, Kenny, the main character in the story, time traveled to different moments in Providence history in order to solve a crime. It’s a story about history, with much to do about a ghost and time travel. Out of those speculations came the book Something Upstairs. I also wondered if there might be a surviving ghost or two. The house I came to live in was quite old enough to make me wonder about the many people who had lived there. It was like going back in time: from a sprawling, modern, west-coast city to the compact, antique, east-coast town. I had been living in Los Angeles, California, when life took me across the country to Providence, Rhode Island. With The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, I can trace its genealogy very clearly. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Giovanni boccaccio decameronThe strength and far-reaching influence of Italian commerce can be measured by the success of the Bardi banking house, which employed Boccaccio’s father. He cultivated a court culture that perhaps served as a practical model for Boccaccio’s literary valuing of courtliness in the Decameron. Robert d’Anjou, the king of Naples during Boccaccio’s day, was a powerful figure in Italian politics and an important patron of the arts. Naples was, furthermore, a highly important center for trade and a cultural crossroads that undoubtedly served as an important resource for Boccaccio’s wide-ranging tales in the Decameron. The intellectual currents were running high, with a vibrant university culture in Naples and Bologna and a new enthusiasm for Ancient Greek and Roman culture that was aided by the rediscovery of many lost texts of the ancient world. In the Decameron, Boccaccio’s young story tellers escape death literally and literarily by fleeing to the countryside.īoccaccio lived in a period of transition, when a new and powerful mercantile class had emerged as economic prosperity took cities like Florence by storm. (Wikimedia Commons) Such works portraying the inexorable universality of death were a common motif in urban centers throughout medieval Europe. The Dance of Death, or Danse Macabre, by Michael Wolgemut, 1493. Maxine spends a few uncomfortable weeks in a Turkish prison while the American Embassy and her CIA friend Riley Perkins– called in to help by Jack - try to clear her name. The police find the diamonds and assume she is guilty of theft. Clueless to the event, CCTV cameras catch the action on tape and the next day Maxine is arrested, and her hotel room and purse searched. While shopping at the Grand Bazaar tourist attraction in Istanbul, a Mafia thug slips a black pouch of diamonds into her purse in an effort to avoid being caught by the Turkish police who arrived just as the Mafia was about to trade the diamonds for drugs from a notorious Iranian Drug Lord. Between ISIL, the PKK (Kurdish terrorist group for northern Iraq), the Turkish Mafia, and FETO (Fetullah Terrorist Organization) there is little chance that Maxine won’t somehow get targeted. This time, her travels take her to Istanbul, Turkey - bringing along her Chicago Homicide Detective friend, Jack Turner.īut unfortunately – despite being noted as a very popular tourist location – when Maxine gets there, she finds the country is at war with ISIL in Syria which just so happens to border turkey. She often travels to various countries to verify background location information for her various books. Maxine Hart is a fiction novelist based in Chicago. 5/21/2023 0 Comments The hail mary project bookHis crew mates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, he realises that an impossible task now confronts him. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.Īll he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.Įxcept that right now, he doesn't know that. PROJECT HAIL MARY by Andy Weir - SIGNED UK FIRST EDITION BOOKĪ lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this incredible new science-based thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Martian. 5/20/2023 0 Comments Ending Aging by Aubrey de GreyHow to fight against aging then? The answer is to repair the damage that has been done until you first start treating aging.įor example, if a 40-year-old is expected to live to be 80, and you cut his aging speed in half with preemptive measures, his remaining life span doubles from 40 to 80, and he can live up to 120. With aging however, that’s impossible, because there is a plethora of contributing factors, so it becomes hard to pinpoint which ones you personally should address. But you can only do that if you know what causes the disease. You’re just treating symptoms.Īnother, slightly better idea is to prevent getting sick in the first place. The problem with medication is obvious: You never get to know what caused the problem in the first place, and can therefore never really fix it. The most common way to deal with a disease is to prescribe medication for it. If you want to save this summary for later, download the free PDF and read it whenever you want.ĭownload PDF Lesson 1: The cure for aging is neither prevention, nor medication – it’s repair. Plenty of other writing guides exist that describe the use of punctuation symbols, but the Truss book livens the discussion by throwing in history, examples of offensive punctuation, and the cheeky attitude that any English speaker smart enough to achieve an elementary school education ought to be smart enough to use apostrophes correctly. I can’t guess how many copies are out there by now.Īt a bit more than 200 pages including the bibliography, this little book describes the rules that govern the use of: Who could have guessed that a book about punctuation would hit the top of the charts?įirst published in April of 2004, Eats, Shoots and Leaves spent 25 weeks on the NY Times bestseller list and by October of that year had gone back to press 22 times to bring the total of copies in print to a million. Write what you’re enthusiastic about and kindred spirits will find your book. Don’t try to produce another DaVinci Code or Harry Potter. Here’s a book that is not only useful and fun to read, its phenomenal popularity carries a moral for every writer:ĭon’t worry about following the market. I’ve finally got round to reading Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss. |