Glint plated prisoner5/23/2023 Return to the seductive story of magic inspired by the myth of King Midas, and get caught up in the world of Orea. It’s an adult epic fantasy story blending romance, intrigue, and beautiful imagery. This is the captivating second book of The Plated Prisoner series. The question is, can I out maneuver them? In the game of kings and armies, I’m the gilded pawn. I may be out of my cage, but I’m not free, not even close. When he turns those black eyes on me, I feel captive for an entirely different reason. But his eyes-his eyes are the most compelling of all. Rip has power sizzling beneath this skin and glinting spikes down his spine. The ones who nearly destroyed Orea, wiping out Seventh Kingdom in the process. Known for his brutality on the battlefield, his viciousness is unsurpassed. They’re marching to battle, and I’m the bargaining chip that will either douse the fire or spark a war.Īt the heart of my fear, my worry, there’s him-Commander Rip. Now I’m here, a prisoner of Fourth Kingdom’s army, and I’m not sure if I’m going to make it out of this in one piece. For ten years, I’ve lived in a gilded cage inside King Midas’s golden castle.
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Otsuka when the emperor was divine5/22/2023 In 1980, Congress condemned internment as unjust and motivated by racism and xenophobic ideas rather than by actual military necessity. From spring 1942 to the end of the war in the summer of 1944, people were forced to live in these designated camps as if they were prisoners of war. Though the government never produced any evidence to suggest that this was an actual possibility, over 100,000 Japanese civilians and resident aliens were deported to internment camps. The government feared that Japanese-Americans might ally themselves with Japan and engage in sabotage and espionage against the United States. In the months after this attack, President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the forced evacuation and incarceration of all people of Japanese ancestry living in the United States. The bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Japanese Air Force on Decemmarked the beginning of America’s involvement in World War II. The novel details one family’s experience of Japanese-American internment. Zebra by clark howard5/22/2023 window._mirage2 = In the most serious incident, a black man walking down Haight Street was ordered to stop by a plainclothes officer. Green, who was driving a white van at the time, was also stopped by an officer on October 31, 1973, but was released. This was crucial because the police had enough corroborating evidence (from Richard Hague) to justify arresting only one new suspect: Larry Green. Immunity was his, and the reward would be as well, if his evidence led to a conviction. The story focuses on the two detectives who looked to solve the crimes. As she got out, she saw that the same man now approaching her, his hand in his pocket. Six minutes later and practically just around the block, 50-year-old Mildred Hosler had finished work and was heading for the bus. We had to do it fast, to make sure no one got wind of what was going down and took off on the run. As news of the killings spread, terror gripped the city. A black man approached from the other direction, fired four bullets into him and ran to a waiting getaway car. Hernan diaz in the distance5/22/2023 It begins with the lead-up to the Wall Street stock-market crash of 1929, following the sublime booms and busts of economic history from the vantage point of individual people. Hernan Diaz’s new novel, Trust, takes the challenge of narrating the entanglements of modern-day capitalism head-on. How does one even begin to capture its contortions? The challenge of writing about the shadowy system behind the “evil capitalist,” though, remains. The world of industry and finance-and its long reach into our lives-has only grown more complex since Marx’s day. Look around today and it’s not hard to see capital’s life-sucking forces still at play: We sense them in tech companies’ profit motive, in the exploitation of migrant labor, in Amazon’s economic and physical domination. But, as Karl Marx once put it, the evil capitalist “is only capital personified.” Far more chilling, he wrote, are the workings of capital itself, which, “vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.” Writing about that, as he knew firsthand, was much more difficult. Stories about American capitalism tend to have a recognizable villain: the robber baron, the business tycoon, the financial investor, your boss. The bachman books amazon5/22/2023 The first two of these superlatively shocking novels were completed before Carrie was even begun. The Running Man, where you bet your life-literally. Here is rage, a story of stunning psychological horror about an "extra" ordinary high school student.a chilling glimpse into a future America where a macabre marathon, The Long Walk, is a contest with death.Roadwork, an eerie variation on the theme of "Home Sweet Home".and a nightmare vision of a ghoulish game show. At last the secret is out-and so are these four spellbinding tales of future shock and suspense, now available in one volume. for years readers of these four novels wrote to "Bachman," asking if the author was really Stephen King writing under a pseudonym. The name on the cover was "Richard Bachman," but the imagination inside could only belong to one man-Stephen King. Max bey deckard5/22/2023 Substance abuse, pornography, violence, cheating, unprofessional behaviour, criminal intent, abuse… and good lord, the lies. First I’ll add some tags from the author’s personal Goodreads ‘review’ – Folks who dislike unhealthy relationships, are sensitive to consent ambiguity, or have eurotophobia should take a big step back from this story. I’ll start by saying I have a love-hate or push-pull relationship with this book. When the professional line between them thins, who gets to define where one man ends and the other begins? Charming, manipulative, and amoral, Max has exactly the sort of mind Crane finds himself drawn to with fictional characters.Īs Max weaves himself into Crane’s life, Crane realizes that while fiction might be safe, Max certainly is not. Crane takes on a new patient who both intrigues and unnerves him. Tags: Psychological – Mindfuck, Twisted Storyline, Doctor-Patient Boundaries Ripped Down, Cheating, Twisted Relationship(s)/Kind of Romance, Contemporary Setting,įresh out of school, Dr. Birdcage walk book review5/22/2023 Lizzy and her mother are very close when tragedy visits Julia’s household, Lizzy is left with an enormous responsibility. He also resents Lizzy’s susceptibility to the influence of her mother and Julia’s entourage of English radicals. The willful Lizzy has married John Diner Tredevant, an ambitious builder with a dark past, who is hostile to the new political ideas making their way to England from Paris, ideas he believes may destroy his business prospects. Dunmore then leads the reader back 200 years to the cover-up of a murder, and then to Lizzy Fawkes Tredevant-daughter of the aforementioned Julia, raised among radicals in the English city of Bristol during the tumultuous period of the French Revolution. This brilliant novel from the late Dunmore addresses the very issues with which all authors must grapple: What does one leave behind as a writer? What is the mark writers leave upon time? The layered story begins with a man coming across the 18th-century headstone of Julia Elizabeth Fawkes, inscribed, “Her Words Remain Our Inheritance.” But no record of her writing survives. The fire next time online5/22/2023 The second essay-“Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in my Mind”-is addressed to a broader audience, and its tone is reminiscent of a preacher’s sermon. In this letter, Baldwin urges his nephew not to allow himself to become enraged over the systemic, legal, and socioeconomic discrimination meted out by the White elite power structure, but instead to adopt a more universal, even compassionate, view of racial tensions. The reader immediately becomes a stand-in for the addressee-James, a proud, intelligent, and angry young man, beloved by his uncle. This strategy is particularly effective in the first essay-“My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation”-addressed to Baldwin’s nephew, James, named after the author by the author’s brother. These epistolary essays co-opt the letter format to create a sense of immediacy and connection between the writer and the audience. Malm fossil capital5/22/2023 Malm examines the history of resistance to fossil fuels and surveys the obstacles to the transition to renewable energy so urgently needed today. Two centuries later, the inheritors of that power continue to profit from "business as usual," as the world heads toward irreversible catastrophe. 1825-1848, and the Roots of Global Warming Andreas Malm. 2 FOSSIL CAPITAL to forgo his old waterwheel and invest in a steam engine, erect a chimney and order coal from a nearby pit did not, in all likelihood. Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming by Andreas Malm Paperback 29.95 Hardcover 95.00 Paperback 29.95 NOOK Book 9.99 Audiobook 0. So why did manufacturers turn from traditional fuels, notably water, to steam? Overturning established theories of the transition and offering a radically new view of our warming world, this study shows how steam was adopted as a superior source of power. Fossil Capital : The Rise of Steam-Power in the British Cotton Industry, c. How did we get caught up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Malm claims that it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power. He the author of The Progress of this Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World and Fossil Capital: The Rise of. "How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power The more we debate about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we continue to burn. Andreas Malm is a scholar of human ecology, teaching at Lund University. Joyful by ingrid fetell lee5/22/2023 In Joyful, designer Ingrid Fetell Lee explores how the seemingly mundane spaces and objects we interact with every day have surprising and powerful effects on our mood. But what if the natural vibrancy of our surroundings is actually our most renewable and easily accessible source of joy? Increasingly, experts urge us to find balance and calm by looking inward-through mindfulness or meditation-and muting the outside world. We are often made to feel that the physical world has little or no impact on our inner joy. Have you ever wondered why we stop to watch the orange glow that arrives before sunset, or why we flock to see cherry blossoms bloom in spring? Is there a reason that people-regardless of gender, age, culture, or ethnicity-are mesmerized by baby animals, and can't help but smile when they see a burst of confetti or a cluster of colorful balloons? "This book has the power to change everything! Writing with depth, wit, and insight, Ingrid Fetell Lee shares all you need to know in order to create external environments that give rise to inner joy." -Susan Cain, author of Quiet and founder of Quiet Revolution Next Big Idea Club selection-chosen by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, and Adam Grant as one of the "two most groundbreaking new nonfiction reads of the season!" Make small changes to your surroundings and create extraordinary happiness in your life with groundbreaking research from designer and TED star Ingrid Fetell Lee. |