![]() ![]() ‘There he is again.’ The mission commander next to her stabbed his finger at the FLIR screen. Trying to ignore the smell, Kaitlyn clutched her paper bag in one hand and leant over the Forward Looking Infrared screen.įor a disconnected moment she felt as though she was a child again, watching her parents’ black and white television and feeling ill after too many of her mother’s homemade sweets. On the other side of the aisle the Australian Federal Police senior constable had just filled another sick bag. This was just another day at the office for the surveillance crew. The two Border Watch crewmen, who sat at consoles that wouldn’t have looked out of place on a NASA space shuttle, appeared unconcerned. The smoke had seeped through the air conditioning, biting at their throats and stinging their eyes. After a week in the air she still found the unpredictable movement of the Dash 8 alarming. ![]() Kaitlyn’s five-point harness pressed into her, jabbing the sharp plastic edge of the Border Watch visitors pass into her chest. ![]() Flames shot up through the plumes of dense smoke, flaring and leaping as though trying to scorch the paint from the fuselage. The aircraft bucked in the swirling heat. ![]()
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![]() A murder has happened on the Isle of Lewis in The Outer Hebrides of Scotland in the very town Fin was from, Crobost. ![]() ![]() Easy to forget that as a teenager nothing had seemed more important to him than leaving.”ĭetective Fin Macleod is sent back to the place where he was bred, born, burnished, and raised as an orphan. ![]() How easy it was now to ignore the fact that he had spent most of his adult life avoiding just that. Back to a place where life had once seemed simple. “Knew, too, that it wasn’t just Mona he wanted to run away from. Peter May has crafted a page-turning murder mystery that explores the darkness in our souls, and just how difficult it is to escape the past. The Blackhouse is a crime novel of rare power and vision. For Fin the hunt recalls a horrific tragedy, which after all this time may have begun to demand another sacrifice. But since he himself was raised on Lewis, the investigation also represents a journey home and into his past.Įach year the island's men perform the hunting of the gugas, a savage custom no longer necessary for survival, but which they cling to even more fiercely in the face of the demands of modern morality. When a brutal murder on the island bears the hallmarks of a similar slaying in Edinburgh, police detective Fin Macleod is dispatched north to investigate. But older, pagan values lurk beneath the veneer of faith, the primal yearning for blood and revenge. The Isle of Lewis is the most remote, harshly beautiful place in Scotland, where the difficulty of existence seems outweighed only by people's fear of God. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If we want to understand the political systems that dominate and order our lives, we must first address their origins - in our own recent past as well as in the earliest systems of human government. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankind's emergence as a political animal.This is the story of how state, law and democracy developed after these cataclysmic events, how the modern landscape - with its uneasy tension between dictatorships and liberal democracies - evolved and how in the United States and in other developed democracies, unmistakable signs of decay have emerged. In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1829 he went to London, but became ill and was sent to Teignmouth to recuperate. He was spared from going into military service because of his poor health. He continued to study the Bible and began to preach. He had an opportunity to teach German to some Americans at the University. Müller's heart was touched and it was the start of a new life for him. They talked of a loving God and knelt when they prayed. He attended the University of Halle and had a friend named Beta who invited him to a Bible study. ![]() In these dire * circumstances he began to take stock of his life, but it was still not enough to make him change his ways. He finally was arrested and locked up with other thieves such as he, and even with murderers. As time passed he also stole from his friends. From the time he was ten years old he was stealing money from his father. In his early life he was not an honest person. George Müller was born in Germany on September 27, 1805. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her characters, including Beezus and Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ralph, the motorcycle-riding mouse, have delighted children for generations. Henshaw won the Newbery Medal, and Ramona Quimby, Age 8 and Ramona and Her Father have been named Newbery Honor Books. Cleary's books have earned her many prestigious awards, including the American Library Association's Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, presented to her in recognition of her lasting contribution to children's literature. ![]() And so, the Klickitat Street gang was born! ![]() She based her funny stories on her own neighborhood experiences and the sort of children she knew. When a young boy asked her, "Where are the books about kids like us?" she remembered her teacher's encouragement and was inspired to write the books she'd longed to read but couldn't find when she was younger. Before long, her school librarian was saying that she should write children's books when she grew up. But by third grade, after spending much time in her public library in Portland, Oregon, she found her skills had greatly improved. As a child, she struggled with reading and writing. Beverly Cleary is one of America's most beloved authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are specific channels for the monthly selections as well. Feel free to discuss anything in that server. We have started a Discord server for additional discussion. If you believe your post was removed in error, please contact the mods! Each book is read over the course of a month, typically with one or two check-ins each week posted by a mod.Ĭan I post about other books? Most activity is for books selected (by vote) for the current month, but you can post about any previous selection anytime.ĭon't post about other topics until you read the FAQ if you post about a random book we delete your post. Discussion schedules are posted shortly thereafter. Winners are posted a week or so before the end of the month. The book with the most upvotes is selected for the next month's read. Anyone can suggest a book to read (you DON'T have to lead the discussions if you suggest a book - the mods will do that!). ![]() How do we pick books? About halfway through each month, we create a thread for suggestions for the next month's read. ![]() ![]() This bundle collects the first three novels of The Accursed Kings: THE IRON KING, THE STRANGLED QUEEN and THE POISONED CROWN. Bent on the persecution of the rich and powerful Knights Templar, Philip sentences Grand Master Jacques Molay to be burned at the stake, thus drawing down upon himself a curse that will destroy his entire dynasty. A web of scandal, murder and intrigue is weaving itself around the Iron King but his downfall will come from an unexpected quarter. He governs his realm with an iron hand, but he cannot rule his own family: his sons are weak and their wives adulterous while his red-blooded daughter Isabella is unhappily married to an English king who prefers the company of men. "Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!" The Iron King – Philip the Fair – is as cold and silent, as handsome and unblinking as a statue. ![]() A collection of the first three books in Maurice Druon's epic historical fiction series, The Accursed Kings. "This is the original Game of Thrones." George R.R. The Accursed Kings Series Books 1-3 The Iron King, The Strangled Queen, The Poisoned Crown Publisher Description More Books by Maurice Druon Customers Also. Cosmia Festival 2020: It's the end of the world as we know it.Listen Together - Ideal for Reading Groups. ![]() International Women's Day 2023 - Collectively we can all #EmbraceEquity.Read Together - Ideal for Reading Groups.Business and Intellectual Property collection. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are novels that anchor themselves in specific moments in time, like Tim Lane’s 1980s bildungsroman Your Silent Face, the historical children’s novels of Christopher Paul Curtis, and Detroit fiction from Joyce Carol Oates and Elmore Leonard to Desiree Cooper and Michael Zadoorian. ![]() There are memoirs of renovating those abandoned houses and delivering water through the crisis. There are many books that speak to particular facets of Flint and Detroit’s histories: the rise and fall of the automotive industry, the musical legacies of Motown, garage rock, and techno. That’s the kind of story I hoped to tell in Chevy in the Hole, a novel that follows two families in Flint from the 1937 Sit-Down Strike at General Motors to the ongoing water crisis. As someone who’s spent her life in these cities, and as an avid reader, I’m always craving this: a story that both affirms the community around me and teaches me things that makes me sit with uncomfortable questions and question my positionality. Their rich histories, their contradictions, how privilege and inequity, pride and grief, hope and rage, can all live next door to each other. Seldom are these cities treated to full and nuanced portraits. ![]() ![]() Professor Duzberg shows step by step how the legend was created that a small retrovirus is the source of great misfortune, for which quite certain people are in fact responsible. It's a thick book, but so interesting that it reads like a detective story in one gulp. Professor Duzberg is one of the very few people in the world who, in line with his duty, has studied retroviruses all his life - that is, the family of viruses to which the "AIDS virus" belongs. Peter Duzberg, professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley, published it with his own money because the PRI refused to do so. ![]() How so? And so: in 1996, there was a fundamental study by Professor Peter Duesberg entitled "Inventing the AIDS virus" with a foreword by Nobel Prize winner Kari Mullins (Peter H. ![]() The story of the AIDS virus, which doesn't actually cause AIDS. ![]() ![]() ![]() ➲ xss/wp-content/uploads/wpdm-cache/pl1gn.php ➲ At Midnight: 15 Beloved Fairy Tales Reimagined ➲ That Way Madness Lies: 15 of Shakespeare's Most Notable Works ReimaginedThat Way Madness Lies As secrets unfold,Identities are revealed, Danger closes in,And they both discover what it really means to fear. But after Keiran had conquered her body and tasted her submission, he found a new addiction instead-one he has no intention of giving up. ![]() Once enslaved, he now has demons he can’t escape-demons that have followed him for ten years, demons he blames his beautiful obsession for. What happens when he wants more? Keiran Masters has a past that is both shocking and dark. Now she’ll experience what it’s like to fight him. But Lake experienced what it was like to submit to the dark and demanding boy who invaded her dreams. To survive him, she knew she had to give in to fear once more or suffer the deadly consequences. ![]() When he returned after being found guilty of a crime he didn't commit-a crime he thought she set him up for, he returned darker than ever, demanding her body and her submission. ![]() She knows it, he knows it, and even their enemies know it. What happens when she’s had enough? Lake Monroe has given in to her childhood tormentor too many times. ![]() |