5/11/2023 0 Comments The camel club series![]() ![]() ![]() In The Camel Club, best-selling author David Baldacci paints a frighteningly vivid portrait of a world that could be our own very soon, and the few people who have a chance to stop the chaos. It's an event that may well be the catalyst for the long-threatened Armageddon between two different worlds, and all that stands in the way of this apocalypse are five unexpected heroes. Soon the Club must join forces with veteran Secret Service agent Alex Ford, who becomes an unwilling participant in one of the most chilling spectacles to ever take place on American soil. Yet never in Stone's wildest nightmares could he imagine the conspiracy the Camel Club is about to uncover.Īfter witnessing a shocking murder, the Club is slammed headfirst into a plot that threatens the very security of the nation, full of stunning twists, high-stakes intrigue, and global gamesmanship rocketing to the Oval Office and beyond. Day and night, Stone and his friends study wild conspiracy theories, current events, and the machinations of government, hoping to discover some truth that will hold America's leaders accountable to its citizens. Annabelle is a beautiful stranger with a mysterious past. He has no known past and has taken the name "Oliver Stone". The mystery deepens in the gripping second novel in David Baldaccis Camel Club series, The Collectors. ![]() Their simple goal is to find the "truth" behind their country's actions. It exists at the fringes of Washington, D.C., has no power, and consists solely of four eccentric and downtrodden members whom society has forgotten. ![]()
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5/10/2023 0 Comments Meg mason sorrow and bliss![]() Now in her 40s her life has reached a crisis.ĭevoted husband Patrick, who has only ever wanted her to be happy, has just moved out. Since then, she’s consulted doctor after doctor, the diagnosis different each time but always with the same outcome: take these tablets and don’t get pregnant. I stayed there for days, coming down for food and the bathroom, and eventually just the bathroom. She’s been on antidepressants ever since, struggling through episodes which leave her seeking refuge in dark spaces for many weeks.Īs soon as I got home, I went upstairs and got into the space under my desk and sat still like a small animal that instinctively knows it’s dying. It began at the age of 17 when “ a little bomb went off in my brain”. ![]() ![]() Sorrow and Bliss is a tale of Martha Friel and the illness that defined her life. “An incredibly funny and devastating debut,” said The Guardian “… fantastically dark and almost unbearably funny,” said The Times reviewer while The Sunday Times described the book as a “heart-thuddingly moving portrait of family, marriage and chronic illness.”īut other readers found the humour irritating and were frustrated by the author’s radio silence on the precise nature of her narrator’s medical condition. Widely praised for its sensitive handling of a woman’s mental health issues, Sorrow and Bliss is also a novel that has sharply divided opinions among its readers.įans of Meg Mason’s novel thought it was funny, tender and original. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Nevala lee![]() ![]() Alec Nevala-Lee is the author of a new detailed and deeply honest biography of Fuller, "Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller."ĭave talks to Alec about Bucky's life, the unusual cast of characters he attracted, and starts to get into some questions that help inform why Bucky's outsized personality might have attracted people who later went on to become attracted to various kinds of disinformation campaigns - a topic we'll explore in some later episodes.įollow Alec on Twitter at - and buy the book wherever books are sold. Buckminster Fuller was a designer, inventor, thinker, and a true American original. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret: the cult’s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.īut when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him-the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann![]() ![]() Though the women start out wary of one another, judging each other’s s tories, gradually they begin to realize that they may have more in common than they supposed. And Raina’s love s tory will shock them all. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy. Ashlee, the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really got her promised fairy tale ending. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Shocking, surprisingly humorous, and heavily in tune with modern depictions of feminine trauma and the surprising bonds such experiences can create between. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue- bearded billionaire. ![]() In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. ![]() You may also like Her Majesty’s Royal Coven PDF Download Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. “How to Be Eaten” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. If you need this book in any specific format, you can request us. “How to Be Eaten” is an impressive book that is now available in various format including Kindle, ePub, and PDF. How to Be Eaten A Novel Author (s) Maria Adelmann Publisher Little, Brown and Company Format Reflowable Whats This Print ISBN 9780316450843, 0316450847 eText ISBN 9780316450829, 0316450820 Copyright 2022 13.316450829 Buy eTextbook Lifetime 13.99 13. ![]() How to Be Eaten PDF Book read online or download for free. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments My bondage and freedom![]() ![]() ![]() In his foreword to the 2003 Modern Library paperback edition, John Stauffer writes: "My Bondage and My Freedom," a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait of an individual and a nation a few years before the Civil War. A very nice example, uncommon in this condition. Octavo, original publisher's brown cloth, with three engraved plates, including the engravedÂfrontispiece from the classic daguerreotype of Douglass. Rare first edition of Douglass' second autobiography. Douglass referred to him as the "foremost black influence" in his life. The introduction was authored by James McCune Smith, an abolitionist, author, and the first African American to receive a medical degree. ![]() In it he expands on his transition from bondage to liberty. ![]() The second of Douglass' three autobiographies, preceded by the 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Marsh on front pastedown, obscuring two other bookplates. Three engraved plates, including the engraved frontispiece. Webbing visible at both gutters, some interior worming, most pronounced along front gutter, one small instance of worming from frontispiece through vii, and p. Head and tail of spine chipped, upper third of spine partially loose, minor exterior worming, one stripe to front board, two to rear board. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with blind stamping to boards and gilt titling to spine. ![]() ![]() ![]() During his reign, Constantine established Christianity and created a capital for the Roman Empire in the East, at Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey. ![]() Later Constantine defeated the Eastern ruler and became the sole ruler for the entire Roman Empire. 306–312) at the Milvian Bridge and became sole ruler in the West. 280–337) defeated his co-emperor Maxentius (r. When Diocletian and Maximian abdicated their co-rules, civil war broke out.Īcceptance of Christianity (Milvian Bridge) That was followed by nearly fifty years of chaos when military leaders wrestled one another for power, rulers died of unnatural causes, and there were revolts, plagues, fires, and Christian persecutions.ĭiocletian and the Tetrarchy: Between 285 and 293, Diocletian split the Roman Empire into two pieces and added junior emperors to help run them, making a total of four Caesars, called a tetrarchy. Crisis of the Third Century (Age of Chaos)Īlso known as the period of Military Anarchy or the Imperial Crisis, this period began with the assassination of Severus Alexander (ruled 222–235) by his own troops. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid![]() ![]() ![]() A passerby hits Record on his cell phone. But then a security guard accuses Emira of kidnapping the girl. When she’s called in for an emergency babysitting session, Emira finds herself strolling the aisles of a high-end grocery store after 11 p.m. Such a Fun Age follows Emira, an underemployed black 25-year-old who splits her time between babysitting for a wealthy white family and working at Philadelphia’s Green Party office. ![]() By Monday morning, the company’s publicity director was in Kim’s office, equally sleepless, eager to discuss. “I don’t expect you’ll get this note before Monday, but I wanted to send you this manuscript because I’ve just finished it, and my mind is racing.” Attached was the novel Such a Fun Age, from debut author Kiley Reid, who’d just finished her first year at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Putnam’s Sons, an imprint of the Penguin Publishing Group. At 1:11 a.m., she sent an email to her colleagues at G.P. On a Friday evening in June of 2018, book editor Sally Kim’s only plans were to go to bed around 10 p.m. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Kira willey books![]() Although there is no additional information for adults about mindful-listening practice, the text itself is simple enough for even the mindfulness novice to understand and model while reading. This restrained approach sets this book apart in the growing realm of mindfulness books for children. There is no judgment about the sounds one may encounter the objective is simply to observe what is. The illustrated jungle animals seem to shimmer as they serenely breathe and observe what they hear. The instructions are straightforward, asking readers, “what do you hear?” The lack of superfluous text creates an introductory mindfulness practice perfectly suited to its audience and to the adults who share it with them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers are invited to take a deep breath, still their bodies, and open up to all of the sounds around them, in all directions, up close and far away. ![]() In place of a story, the vibrantly illustrated board book offers a simple and age-appropriate mindful-listening practice for children. This offering is one in a series of mindfulness practice books for children written by well-known children’s yoga-and-mindfulness musician Willey. Elephant loves using her big ears to notice all of the sounds around her, and readers can too! ![]() ![]() ![]() These aren't even complete sentences, just noun phrases. The second page is: "Big dog." The third page is "Little dog." Thankfully, it builds a little bit from there, and the next page is, "Big dogs and little dogs." More than twice the word count of the previous ones! It's like teaching children how to use plurals. Half of it is opposites and descriptions. This is a very basic book, like "baby's first book of words" basic. ![]() But if I did have this book, it apparently didn't stick in my mind as much as lots of other books I had, like "Fox in Socks" or "The Maggie B." ![]() There are just parts of it that seem really familiar, like the part with the different-colored dogs on different-colored trees, and the picture of the dog sitting on top of a house and another dog sitting underneath the house. I think maybe I had this book as a child. ![]() |