Winter book by marissa meyer7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() There's a near-drowning and a wolf killed. Heartless onlookers watch executions in the throne room. A disease kills a handful quickly after it's unleashed as bio warfare. Main characters are taken prisoner and tortured one loses a finger and is kept in a cage for Lunars to look at. ![]() People are shot in a town square at random, and a woman close to the main characters is made to break her own fingers before being shot. Wounds are serious and almost kill main characters. Numerous times friends turn on friends and stab or shoot them because their minds are being controlled. It's a nastier business with scary, genetically enhanced soldiers that partially eat their enemies and enemies that can control minds and make whole waves of oncoming opposition turn on each other with guns and knives. A whole moon must go to war before book's end. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Recently widowed, she was hoping to have a quiet Christmas with only one other guest – her cousin Paul. The Mistletoe Murder has a best selling crime novelist recount her tryst with murder at her grandmother ‘ s house some fifty years earlier. While this might not sound like an exactly great read ” to get into the Christmas mood ”, if suspense is your primary genre and you are game for something bolder than a ” Christmassy cozy mystery ”, I would urge you to give this one a shot this holiday season. The Christmas themed stories do not elaborate on the ” good old fashioned English Christmas ” traditions – rather these traditions seem to happen in the background while at the heart of each of these three Christmas themed stories is something sinister and mildly unnerving. ![]() This anthology of four short stories by P. We are halfway through December and I have still not got into the spirit of Christmas which is why I decided to pick up some Xmas themed books ( any genre but primarily suspense ). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Look, it’s not my thing to mince my words, so I’ll give you my opinion and ultimately, you’ll decide what to make of it anyway : as far as I’m concerned, The Shadow of the Wind is overrated and, to say the truth, a bit of a smokescreen. ![]() Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets-an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.Ģ/2.5 stars. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. The Shadow of the Wind ( The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1)īarcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of her insight into wishing is interesting in that you must do something or wish for something for someone else before you can start towards material wishing for yourself. She does research about wishing and decides to document her process of wishing over the course of a year. ![]() ![]() The author, Noelle Oxenhandler is a divorced mother of one who has a Buddhist spiritual background and lives a simple live where she believes that wishing for material things isn’t done. Kind of how to prioritize what’s important in life and that’s it’s ok to want ‘things’. "Eat' was a retelling of a spiritual/religious journey, where this book retold a woman's journey in discovering how to want material things and how to wish for them and strive for them. Well I really loved "Eat" but in an entirely different way. The book says that If you loved Eat, Pray, Love then you'll love this. I read this book after receiving it as an early reviewer. ![]() Dwayne alexander smith7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() But what he discovers, far from home, is a disturbing alternative reality which challenges his deepest convictions.Ī novel of rage and compassion, trust and betrayal, Forty Acres is the story of one man's desperate attempt to escape the clutches of a terrifying new moral order. Buy a used copy of Forty Acres book by Dwayne Alexander Smith. He's dazzled by what they have accomplished, and they seem to think he has the potential to be one of them They invite him for a weekend away from it all - no wives, no cell phones, no talk of business. young lawyer working out of a storefront in Queens, is taken under the wing of a secretive group made up of America's most powerful, wealthy, and esteemed black men. 'Like Grisham's The Firm (1991), Forty Acres pits a sharp legal mind against a deadly conspiracy of elites. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This seems like an odd detail to mention if Le Guin intended the story to be read as an ‘allegory for capitalism’. Although it’s tempting to see the story as a straight allegory, it is worth bearing in mind that Le Guin’s narrator makes a point of telling us that consumerist culture is unknown to the people of Omelas: they have no stock exchange and no advertisements around the city. Is Le Guin’s story an allegory for this kind of society, the one which Americans, and other Westerners, live in today? To some extent, then, America’s prosperity depends on the poverty and misery of millions of other people, including many people (immigrants and low-paid workers on the breadline) living in the US itself. What of the people who endure slave labour (many of them, lest we forget, children the same age as the child in Le Guin’s story) so that smartphones and other products can be sold so cheaply? ![]() If everyone was rich and successful, the whole economic model would fail.įor example, cheap labour (especially overseas) enables large global companies to sell their products to millions of Westerners at affordable prices. Le Guin’s story is sometimes interpreted as an allegory for modern capitalism, which relies upon an ‘underclass’ remaining in poverty so that the affluent members of society can be rich and prosperous. ![]() Travels with my donkey stevenson7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. 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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() Defy the worlds claudia gray7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. There is ample ethnic diversity throughout the book, mostly incidental to the plot, although having one of the two named leaders of the extremist terrorist wing coded as Arab may raise eyebrows. The action raises the stakes, for individuals and entire worlds, and the romance satisfies without overwhelming, right up to a huge cliffhanger ending. Their objectives-saving themselves and Genesis-lead the duo to form strange alliances and discover new revelations, including devious schemes, predictable-yet-heartbreaking technological applications, and the full truth behind the Cobweb virus. Before she can get there, she’s grabbed by enemy forces and used as leverage to get Abel to surrender himself. ![]() Genesis is struck by a pandemic so bad that Noemi’s sent to Earth to surrender. ![]() By the time the order comes, it’s impossible to stop all of them. She gets into additional trouble for wanting to use common sense and her initiative instead of waiting for the order to destroy mysterious projectiles from Earth. Noemi (described as Latin American and Polynesian in the previous book) struggles with being back home on Genesis, facing ostracism-especially for not letting Abel sacrifice himself to destroy the gate that protects the planet. After Defy the Stars (2017), new threats reunite Noemi, a human, and Abel, a mech or anthropoid robot. ![]() Ghosts by henrik ibsen7/3/2023 ![]() She doesn’t want to leave and she doesn’t think it is appropriate to keep house for him. He suggests his daughter should come with him and work there, assuring her that she will be well off she’s gotten too hoity-toity here at the Alvings’. Now that this project is done, he tells Regina his plans to open a home for seamen, insinuating that it would be a brothel but a very good one. She is not at all happy to see her father, whom she regards as dissolute and a drunk.Įngstrand has been working on the “Captain Alving Memorial,” an orphanage/asylum that is opening the next day. Jakob Engstrand, a ne'er-do-well carpenter, arrives at the garden room wanting to speak with Regina, his daughter, who works as a maid for the Alvings. ![]() The play is set in late-19th-century Norway in the wealthy household of the Alvings. ![]() |