![]() ![]() His search for answers sets him on a collision course with the Angels-with thousands of innocent lives hanging in the balance. Meanwhile, Darik Mason, an ambitious junior executive at JenKore, begins to uncover a dark secret within his company. Now interstellar fugitives, Dex and the Angels fight to survive against a force more terrifying than any of them could have ever imagined. ![]() But when he learns that a colony of religious refugees is under attack, Dex makes a split-second decision that costs him his once-promising career. He was a rising star in the United Coalition Navy, an ace pilot in command of the "Angels"-the UCN's most prestigious fighter squadron. ![]() Dex D'Felco never planned on getting involved. On Earth and on colonies across the stars, those who cling to their faith are labeled "religious extremists" and forced into re-education camps. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Coincidentally, Neil’s brother, Paul Johns, spends a lot of time in the Amazon Rainforest. On one of his first days on the job, he breaks an unbreakable code that seems to be coming from the middle of the Amazon Rainforest. His father, currently suffering from Alzheimer's, was a codebreaker and Neil wants to follow in his footsteps. Neil Johns has always wanted to work for the NSA. Knowing this, (a massive fungus over a gazillion-square-miles in size) sets to work defeating us. The stage is set on the very first page: an ominous passage that explains how a single, vast, ancient organism within the Amazon Rainforest has realized that humans exist. There is code-breaking, betrayal, intrigue, a nasty fungus-in short everything you need for a tip-top end-of-the-world contagion catastrophe. The Genius Plague, by David Walton, is a very well-written thriller which delves into the question of what does it mean to be human, and is there a better way? Universal truths are put to the test as the action whips back and forth from the offices of the NSA to South America and back. ![]() ![]() ![]() A bully and a savior, a monster and a lover. The man who comes to me in my dreams also haunts me in my nightmares. This was an extra point for the book because it continued to engage the reader throughout the story.ĮmiliaThey say love and hate are the same feelings experienced under different circumstances, and it’s true. I have to say that in this book this did not happen indeed, after that scene the story started to create new expectations for the reader, I was not able to understand how the story would end up to the last chapter. Usually, in the books that I have read, the story remains constant until the hot scene arrives that we say should be the “achievement of a goal” – pass me the term – by the characters and after the rhythm of the story starts to go down becoming boring. The story is full and complete, there are no empty spots as I have read other times in romance books, indeed, in this book I found something different. Vicious is a romance that closely follows the lines of the genre. (This review is not sponsored by publisher Always Publishing.) ![]() Shen’s Vicious, first to the All Saints Series. ![]() Today after so much genre change in the reviews I bring you the review of another romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Ku Klux Klan was controversial in the 1920s not only because of its intolerance and promotion of vigilante violence, but also because of its entry into American politics. (Click on image to view articles from the Seattle KKK paper, Watcher on the Tower) Source: the national Klan newspaper, The Imperial Night-Hawk, July 2, 1924, p4.ĭavid Leppert: Mayor of Kent and Seattle-area Ku Klux Klan Leader Silent on KKK Terrorism: Pacific Northwest Democrats, 1924ĭelegates to the Democratic Party's 1924 Convention from Washington State, Oregon, and Idaho unanimously opposed adding a plank to the Party Platform that would condemn Ku Klux Klan violence. ![]() ![]() He has thought of nothing else but the lady since the time she tended his injury and now, his infatuation with her takes flight. One look at the Lady Jordan after all of these months and he is stricken with appreciation and adoration. William has never forgotten about his Scots angel. Sir William de Wolfe, the scourge of the Scots, makes his presence known. When the man finally reveals himself, she sees that it is none other than the man whose life she saved. When Jordan looks upon the fearsome English knight, she realizes there is something oddly familiar about his voice. When Lord de Longley sends his mighty and hated army to collect his new bride, the captain of the army personally retrieves Lady Jordan. ![]() The Lady Jordan Scott is that bride and her groom is the aged and powerful Earl of Teviot, John de Longley. ![]() An English groom is offered to a Scots bride. Several months later, peace is proposed along the border. ![]() Little does the Lady Jordan Scott know that she has just saved the life of the dreaded English knight known to her people as The Wolf…. The young woman is frightened at first but her natural instinct to lend aid takes over. In her hiding place, however, lingers the badly wounded knight. ![]() She is sickened by the tradition of stealing valuables off the dead and runs off to hide. As women from the Clan Scott fan out across the battlefield to collect the spoils of war, one woman breaks off from the pack. After a nasty skirmish along the England/Scotland border at Bog Wood, a badly wounded knight has crawled off to die. ![]() ![]() Living in this remote spot left me without access to reasonable employment. My street was unnamed, so I didn’t have an address. Two miles up a gravel road in an isolated mountain valley and sixty miles from the nearest city, the cottage was not an appropriate arrangement for a girl on her own. I was waiting for the fox and hoping he wouldn’t show. Pressing my hands together as if praying, I pushed them between my knees while I sat with my feet tapping the ground. ![]() On the thirteenth day, at around three thirty and no later than four o’clock, I bundled up in more clothing than necessary to stay comfortably warm and went outside. Someone may have been watching us-a dusky shrew, a field mouse, a rubber boa-but it felt like we were alone with the world to ourselves. Nothing but two meters and one spindly forget-me-not lay between us. I sat on a camp chair with stiff spikes of bunchgrass poking into the canvas. ![]() Tucking the tip of his tail under his chin and squinting his eyes, he pretended to sleep. At no more than one minute after the sun capped the western hill, he lay down in a spot of dirt among the powdery blue bunchgrasses. For twelve consecutive days, the fox had appeared at my cottage. ![]() ![]() ![]() We all know Jo March is a version of Louisa May Alcott, Anne Shirley is a variation of Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Scout Finch is a rendering of the child Harper Lee yet Jo, Anne, and Scout are all wonderful, rewarding heroines. (I actually think this is a load of bunk, since "authorial insertion" has been responsible for some great characters in literary history. "Authorial insertion" is supposedly a central trait of a "Mary Sue," and female authors don't want to be accused of living out their daydreams through their characters. The desire to avoid "Mary Sue" accusations may make some (though by no means all) female authors hyper-conscious when they try to create female characters, especially possible protagonists. ![]() This can leave the reader who would like to read about women - but who would rather read about them in a fantasy/adventure context than always in a romantic one - in a bit of a bind. ![]() This is inspired by the discussion over on "Where Are You in Fantasyland?" concerning the "Mary Sue" label and questioning why some female authors (Carol Berg being the clearest example) actually feel more comfortable writing about male characters than about characters of their own gender. ![]() ![]() ![]() Air Force, to get enough money and used the real military astronauts to be the crew of Apollo 18. So the plot is he went to the Air Force, the U.S. And there were supposed to be Apollo 18 and Apollo 19, but Nixon canceled them for financial reasons. But the Apollo missions, of course, went to the Moon. HADFIELD: Oh, yeah, there are a lot of things going on. So talk me through the plot a little bit - about what the ostensible mission of the space flight is but what the secret mission is because there's two things going on here. His new novel is called "The Apollo Murders." It follows a fictional Apollo Mission 18 during the space race and the Cold War in the early 1970s. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Unlike Major Tom, he made it back to Earth and began writing bestselling books about the final frontier. HADFIELD: (Singing) This is ground control to Major Tom. ![]() ISS Commander Chris Hadfield was orbiting the Earth at thousands of miles an hour as he sang David Bowie's "Space Oddity" in 2015. CHRIS HADFIELD: (Singing) Ground control to Major Tom. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. ![]() Set in the world of nineteenth-century Russia's fading aristocracy, Turgenev's story depicts a boy's growth of knowledge and mastery over his own heart as he awakens to the complex nature of adult love.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. But the capricious young woman already has many admirers and as she plays her suitors against each other, Vladimir's unrequited youthful passion soon turns to torment and despair - although he remains unaware of his true rival for Zinaida's affections. When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly and overwhelmingly falls in love with his new neighbour's daughter, Zinaida. Isaiah Berlin's translation of the legendary Russian novella of growing up and heartbreak ![]() ![]() Orlean’s investigation into the fire-Was it arson? Why would Peak, a struggling actor and frequent patron of the library, want to burn it down?-leads her down the library’s aisles of history, as she seeks out books on the flawed science of arson forensics along with titles from California serial killer Richard Ramirez’s reading list to better understand the minds of psychopaths. Harry Peak, the man police believed started the fire, was arrested but never charged. ![]() ![]() On April 29, 1986, just before 11 a.m., a fire broke out in the stacks of the main branch and burned for seven hours, destroying 400,000 books and damaging hundreds of thousands more. New Yorker staff writer Orlean ( Rin Tin Tin) doubles as an investigative reporter and an institutional historian in this sprawling account of the 1986 fire at the Los Angeles Central Public Library. ![]() |