![]() Therapist Olivia Dobbs is well known for her success in counseling military veterans with PTSD. But they aren't the only ones desperate to find the killer. When a homeless vet is killed with a smart bullet, it's clear that the ammunition has been stolen, and the Knights are called in to find the thief and stop the killings. But since the ammunition was still in the development stage, he figured they had plenty of time before that happened. Rick feared these smart bullets - which have one hundred percent accuracy that can turn even a novice into a lethal sniper - would eventually end up in the hands of the wrong people. ![]() ![]() Suspense and romance combine in Susan Sleeman's thrilling new novel about an FBI agent who must team up with a beautiful therapist to stop a killer with a deadly new weapon.Īs the ballistics and weapon's expert for the FBI's special task force nicknamed the White Knights, Rick Cannon has known the Department of Defense was developing self-steering bullets. ![]()
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![]() Sherryl Jordan has written an extraordinary and deeply moving tale of fate, hope, loyalty - and the ability of one man to change destiny. The fate of two nations hangs in the balance. Now, caught between loyalty to his Navoran roots and love for the Shinali people, Gabriel must make a single choice. So what could an ancient prophecy foretelling his powerful nation's downfall have to do with him? When a chance meeting on a lonely plain brings him into the land of the Shinali, Gabriel develops a deep respect for these people and grows more and more disenchanted with his place among the powerful rulers of the Navoran Empire. From that day forward, Gabriel withstood the demands of his father, his family, and even his Empress in order to pursue his dreams of healing the sick. ![]() But he never forgot the eyes of the dying Shinali woman who asked him for help. It has been this way since his seventh year, when he witnessed a brutal act he was helpless to stop. All Gabriel Eshban Vala has ever wanted is to be a healer. ![]() They cling to their traditional ways, awaiting a hero out of legend. The Shinali nation has been reduced to a single clan on a small strip of land. The Navoran Empire is wealthy, powerful -and slowly falling under the sway of the Empress's corrupt and sinister adviser. : Secret Sacrament (9780064472302) by Jordan, Sherryl and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If there's something that makes this even greater than the cast and the writing, it's the cinematography and the music. Everyone is so talented and so incredibly beautiful. He has this amazing voice, and his whole persona feels more Lemony Snicket than Jude Law in the movie. One of my favourite members of the cast is Patrick Warburton as Lemony Snicket. ![]() ![]() He can be that typical over the top, funny villain that's typical for children's books and shows, but he can also be weirdly scary. While Jim Carrey was amazing as Count Olaf, Neil Patrick Harris is the real deal. The cast of the movie was brilliant, but somehow this show managed to top that. Still great, still so very very unique, but something was definitely missing. The movie was like a weird shadow of that. Reading the books after seeing the movie was like sun shining through the clouds after a while, because the writing in the books is so charming and clever and while it's all "this is a tragic tale" it's also not at all serious. The original movie is not bad, but the thing is, it doesn't have exactly the charm the books had. This show is everything the original movie should've been. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hazards, betrayals, and quick-witted banter abound in this gripping series opener (“Dangers will not pause to respect your comic timing,” wisecracking Brock is scolded during training). The recruits’ initiation into the guild nearly kills them, and that’s just the beginning of their troubles: they soon learn that the magical wards that protect Freestone are failing and must be restored, leading to a perilous journey into monster-infested lands. ![]() When half-elven would-be wizard Zed is unexpectedly drafted into the Adventurers Guild, his brash friend Brock follows along to keep him safe, joined by noble-born Liza and Jett, a dwarf. Centuries after the rest of the world fell to monsters, Freestone is one of few cities left standing, “points of light in the darkness.” Its first line of defense is the Adventurers Guild, a group of volunteer soldiers and conscripts from the city’s other guilds. ![]() ![]() Combining elements of detective fiction, the historical novel, the philosophical quest and the father-son initiation tale, the novel has appeal for many different kinds of readers. Umberto Eco’s novel The Name of the Rose (1980) was an international bestseller that sold fifty million copies “which puts it in the league of Harry Potter, and ahead of Gone with the Wind, Roget’s Thesaurus, and To Kill a Mockingbird” (Ted Gioia, ). SUBSCRIBE NOW Arts & Letters Ockham’s Rose Carol Nicholson looks at philosophical themes in The Name Of The Rose. ![]() ![]() We had very few books even though we all loved to read, but my teachers gave me books. ![]() My birthday came around and my parents were very poor. Did a teacher inspire you to become a writer?Īlice Walker: In a way, yes because my teachers always gave me books. Josie Rangel Pacheco: As a retired school teacher, I am interested to hear about your early education. When Mister begins sitting with Celie he realizes that he can sit with women and not try to take over what they are doing. It was the only space where women could get together and exchange information. I realized this only later when I began to host women's circles in my house that quilting was in fact a women's circle. may have shared via handwork?Īlice Walker: The quilting that she does with Sophia actually is reminiscent of the quilting that happened when I was growing up, it was very popular. ![]() Can you speak a bit to Celie's communication through quilts as well as the bond she and Mr. This is happening all over the world: just tell them something that makes them afraid, that they will lose their mother, their sibling, and you have them. We need to understand how a man can make a child that he has abused remain silent about an atrocity. When did that killer first line come to you?Īlice Walker: Every story has to start somewhere! We need to understand her silence. ![]() ![]() The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California - fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong. With intimate access and breathtaking range, Markham offers an unforgettable testament to the migrant experience. ![]() Soon these unaccompanied minors are navigating school in a new language, working to pay down their mounting coyote debt, and facing their day in immigration court, while also encountering the triumphs and pitfalls of teenage life with only each other for support. Lauren Markham applies the eye of an artist to the dogged reporting of an investigative journalist. In this urgent chronicle of contemporary immigration, journalist Lauren Markham follows the Flores twins as they make their way across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, into the hands of immigration authorities, and from there to their estranged older brother in Oakland, CA. Beautifully written, The Far Away Brothers examines the claustrophobic space between grinding poverty and brutal gang violence that drives so many children from El Salvador to make the dangerous journey North. ![]() Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, the United States was a distant fantasy to identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores - until, at age seventeen, a deadly threat from the region's brutal gangs forces them to flee the only home they've ever known. Summary The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California - fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong. ![]() ![]() ![]() After brief employment with the Broadcasting Service, Vassiltchikov transferred to the Auswärtiges Amt (AA), the German Foreign Ministry's Information Office, where she worked as the assistant to Dr. In 1940, Vassiltchikov and her sister, Princess Tatiana Vassiltchikova (Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg) (1915–2006), traveled to Berlin where, as stateless persons, they were able to obtain work permits. ![]() Marie Vassiltchikov lived as a refugee, initially in the French Third Republic, then Weimar Republic Germany, and then Lithuania until just before the start of World War II. Her family fled Russia in 1919, following the Bolshevik October Revolution by joining members of the Romanov family evacuated by the British fleet. ![]() She was the fourth child of a member of the Fourth Duma, Prince Hilarion Vassiltchikov (1881–1969) and his wife, the former Princess Lidiya Vyazemskaya (1886–1946). Princess Marie ("Missie") Vassiltchikov was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire on 11 January 1917. ![]() Princess Marie Illarionovna Vassiltchikov ( Russian: Мария Илларионовна Васильчикова 11 January 1917 – 12 August 1978) was a Russian princess who wrote Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945, which described the effects of the bombing of Berlin and events leading to the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler in the 20 July Plot. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. When their journey is intercepted by a military group, Val and Pippa are kidnapped and must try to escape before Val's identity is discovered.Ĭhoose your shipping method in Checkout. The experience is shocking for Valentina as she witnesses the lives of the refugees and their families. Desperate to see her older brother, a soldier with the pro-refugee group Solidarity, Valentina plans an undercover trip to the Amber Zone with her friends Pippa and Damien and government official Joshua. Refugees from all over the world have fled fire and floods to escape to Ireland, but the original Tribe despise their presence, and violence rages throughout the country. At the age of 14, she has never been outside of the green zone and knows little of the Badlands or the world beyond. Valentina, the President's daughter, leads a privileged life in the Citadel. Desperate to see her older brother, a soldier with the pro-refugee group Solidarity, Valentina plans an undercover trip to the Amber Zone with her friends Pippa. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hogg’s novel filters this commentary on taste through a pattern of sensuous overdescription, a fractured narrative structure, the conflation of bodies and texts, and a necrophilic Editor with a case of textual indigestion, elements that reviewers fail to read within the discursive context of Hogg’s ongoing engagement with the Blackwood’s circle on questions of taste and class identity. ![]() ![]() Hogg interrogates the linking of good taste to authenticity, cerebral apprehension, and delicacy, whereas bad taste is linked to inauthenticity, bodily sensations, and excessive affect. The reviewers, however, fail to recognize how the novel issues a challenge to culturally dominant notions of taste, policed in literary periodicals as a symptom of class anxiety. Contemporary reviews of Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner attack the author’s taste and decorum, filtering their language through culinary metaphors that conflate aesthetic discrimination with the embodied act of consumption. ![]() |