In HIGH FIVE, out of bail skippers and rent money, Stephanie Plum throws caution to the wind and follows in the entrepreneurial bootsteps of Super Bounty Hunter, Ranger, engaging in morally correct and marginally legal enterprises. Rated PG-35 for licentious wit and libidinous cohabitation. All of this pales in comparison, though, with an even greater danger Stephanie faces, when, homeless and broke, she and her hamster Rex move in with a vice cop Joe Morelli. Stephanie's attitude never wavers - even when aided by crazy Grandma Mazur, ex-hooker and wannabe bounty hunter Lula, and transvestite rock musician Sally Sweet - and even when Stephanie makes an enemy whose deadly tactics escalate from threatening messages to firebombs. Also on the hunt for Maxine is Joyce Barnhardt, Stephanie's archenemy and rival bounty hunter. Someone is terrifying Maxine's friends, and those who have seen her are turning up dead. Working for her bail bondsman cousin Vinnie, Stephanie is hot on the trail of revenge-seeking waitress Maxine Nowicki, whose crimes include bail jumping, theft, and extortion. Two delicious Stephanie Plum novels, now together for the first time! In FOUR TO SCORE, Janet Evanovich, bestselling author of One for the Money, Two for the Dough, and Three to Get Deadly, scores big with her most thrilling Stephanie Plum adventures yet.
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Veovis is comfortable among politicians, believes in sacrificing everything to keep D’Ni ways and D’Ni blood pure. He and Veovis are such opposites that it’s a wonder they ever became friends. And now that I have talked about the villains (because the villains are always the backbone of a Myst story), I will talk about the “heroes.” Aitrus is a quiet, curious, very honorable, and intelligent protagonist – so much so that it is, naturally, difficult to dislike him in any way. He can turn best friends against each other, while pretending to be their ally. A’Gaeris, the real villain of the story, is the sort of conniving, twisted, and slimy little creep that I love to hate. But he also wouldn’t be Veovis without it. I would feel a whole sorrier for him if it weren’t for his arrogance. But also more than a little eaten up with D’Ni arrogance, which eventually leads to an overwhelming hatred for his best friend (who has, in Veovis’s eyes, betrayed and polluted the D’Ni people and D’Ni ways) and turns him into something of an anti-hero. A lord’s son who commands the respect of the elder councilors, who always gets what he wants, and who is a good friend when he has an invested interest in being your friend. Characters: I’m saying this right off: If The Book of Ti’ana ever gets turned into a movie, Tom Hiddleston has to play Veovis. Otherwise Steiner will remain a voice crying unheard in the wasteland we seem so determined to create as our monument to the future. One hopes (faintly) that the formulators of American political and economic policy might be more responsive to the signals of coming self-destruction than are cancer cells in a dying patient. So once again we turn to the American natives for a disinterested, non western perspective upon what really lies in the pot at the end of the rainbow of the American philosophy of unlimited material growth. Only those, like the Hopi and others who are willing to work with nature by scrupulously replenishing whatever is taken, will be capable of sur viving the coming ecological Armageddon. a cancer.” He predicts that the white man will soon render the earth unfit for habitation in the manner to which Western people aspire. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Ĩ4 Western American Literature One interviewee, Gerald Wilkinson, Director of the National Indian Youth Council, sets forth Steiner’s thesis aptly when he observes that, from the Indian perspective, the dominant thrust of American culture appears as “a perversion of life. According to Milton, nearly 1 million Europeans passed through the markets of coastal towns like Sale, on the north coast of Morocco, where they were auctioned off to the highest bidder. In the early 1700s, the trade in European slaves was a booming business throughout North Africa, even though, in size and scope, it did not compare to Europe's own immensely profitable African slave trade. But the merchandise was a mere pittance compared to the real prize of the ship: its crew. Upon setting sail for home, the Francis was overtaken by a band of "fanatical corsairs of Barbary" who, in a "deranged fury," boarded the ship, overpowered its unarmed crew and seized its precious cargo of Italian wares meant for sale in England. Pellow's ship left Cornwall in 1715, carrying a cargo of salted pilchards to trade in Genoa. Based primarily on narratives published by freed or escaped slaves, White Gold recounts the story of Thomas Pellow, who at age 11 joined the crew of an English trading vessel, the Francis, as a cabin boy and merchant's apprentice. And you can only truly fail, if you quit. Until a fateful visit from her great-great-aunt Rose (AKA Rosie the Riveter!), who shows her that the first flop isn’t something to fear-it’s something to celebrate. Hot dog dispensers, helium pants, python-repelling cheese hats: Rosie’s gizmos would astound-if she ever let anyone see them.Īfraid of failure, she hides them away under her bed. Alone in her room at night, shy Rosie constructs great inventions from odds and ends. Rosie Revere, Engineer (Kindle Book, OverDrive Read) Average Rating 5 star (20) 4 star (4) 3 star (0) 2 star (0) 1 star (1) Author: Beaty, Andrea Illustrator: Roberts, David Series: Questioneers volume 2. Where some people see rubbish, Rosie sees inspiration. Shop all Marketplace items here Meet the Maker. Rosie Revere dreamed of becoming a great engineer. Riveter Marketplace is a curated collection of American Made and Mission-Driven makers. The beloved New York Times bestselling picture book about pursuing one’s passion with persistence and learning to celebrate each failure on the road to achieving one’s dreams.Īnd now you can follow Rosie’s further adventures-with her friends Iggy Peck and Ada Twist-in the instant New York Times bestseller Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters, the first in a BRAND-NEW chapter book series, The Questioneers! Power plays, intrigue, and plots seethe in the corridors of power. Gary of a Hundred Days - The Kingdom of Estla is in turmoil. Because Ray and Adam have a complicated history, and starting something would be a terrible idea. He is too young for Ray, too cool for him, too beautiful for him…and for some bewildering reason, Adam is always there for him when Ray needs him the most.īut Ray’s not falling for it. Luckily for Ray, the last man in the world he should be interested in has distraction on his mind, and it seems like all Ray can think about is Adam Blake. (Also, the police were kinda mean, and now everyone thinks he’s a serial killer.) Ray’s just a thirtysomething graphic designer with a broken heart who doesn’t much like his life right now.Īnd he’s already having nightmares about the whole thing, come on. Not That Complicated - If this was your classic Cotswolds murder mystery (it’s not) and Ray was an amateur detective (he isn’t) then when he stumbles across something unexpected under his bedroom floor, he’d investigate the hell out of it. She lives in the UK, reads way too much, and cannot be trusted anywhere near chocolate. She couldn't stick to a subgenre if her life depended on it, but MM romance is her jam. Overview: Isabel is a writer, a reader, and a lover of love. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is a book bound to appear on a large number of coffee tables and favorite lists, and be picked up even by those who normally would not find the time for reading. Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behaviour from the heritage of our ancestors? And what, if anything, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come?īold, wide-ranging and provocative, Sapiens challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our power. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, paleontology and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities. In Sapiens, Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical – and sometimes devastating – breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural and Scientific Revolutions. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights to trust money, books and laws and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come? 100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. So when I saw a post on Brain Pickings for Gill’s collection of nine lesser-known black history biographies presented in comic-style, I had to check it out. I’ve just recently gotten over the major stick-up-my-butt about graphic novels thanks to Matt Madden’s One Story #182 selection, “Drawn Onward”, a wonderful piece that introduced me to the heretofore unknown (to me) grammar of comix. I wanted to tell stories that people had not heard. I looked for stories of people who were not in mainstream history books. What does this have to do with black history, you might ask?… I wanted to tell stories – sometimes great and sometimes tragic – of other people who were also able to “cut the rope.” So, I began to research and draw comics about obscure black history. However, I also wanted to convey that because the rope was still there, we still had a ways to go. I was trying to say that I was in some ways freed from the fear that had plagued my father and grandfather. I listened to the song “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday, based on the poem by Abel Meeropol, and I decided to call my paintings “Strange Fruit Harvested: He Cut the Rope,” showing me with a noose around my neck, holding the frayed end. Now, I felt was the time to follow through. As an undergrad, I had researched some ideas for paintings based on lynching photographs. cinating, lively and thoroughly researched portrait of a modest, resolute family man with a steady hand during turbulence, a man who guided Australia's national airline from its humble beginnings through the dark days of the Great Depression, the perilous years of World War II, when the airline flew dangerous missions for the Allies, and into the great boom in international tourism that followed with the jet age.Hudson Fysh was a decorated World War I hero who not only founded Australia's national airline, Qantas, but steered it for almost half a century from its humble beginnings with two rickety biplanes to the age of the jumbo jets. The extraordinary life of the Gallipoli veteran and WWI Flying Corp gunner who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wings By the critically acclaimed author of bestselling biographies of John Monash, Banjo Paterson, Joseph Banks, Lachlan Macquarie and Henry Lawson, this is a fas. Hudson Fysh: The extraordinary life of the WWI hero who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wings from the popular award-winning journalist and author of BANJO, BANKS and MRS KELLY (Hardback) Kiss Me First is an adaptation of Lottie Moggach’s best-selling young adult novel of the same name. The new six-part drama will be produced by Balloon and Kindle Entertainment, and will premiere on E4 in the UK with Netflix streaming the series globally outside the UK. Kiss Me First, an innovative and emotional thriller series written by Bryan Elsley (Skins, Dates) is coming to E4 and Netflix. Kiss Me First, from creator of Skins, to premiere on E4 & Netflix Here is the UK Channel 4 press release with more information: Bryan Elsley and Melanie Stokes are executive producing, with Bradley Adams producing. Kiss Me First is an adaptation of the Lottie Moggach’s YA novel, of the same name. A US version of Skins was cancelled by MTV, after the first season, but the UK version ran for seven series, before being cancelled. This new teen thiller-drama is written by Skins creator, Bryan Elsley. Netflix has picked up the Kiss Me First TV series. |