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Cussler night probe6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To an energy-starved, economically devastated America, possession of this document is worth billions. Shaw’s mission: Stop Pitt.ĭirk Pitt proved invincible in Raise the Titanic! Now, with the future of virtually every person in the world at stake, he is enlisted to spearhead his most daring mission yet-the rescue of a vital document for the United States. Pitt’s mission: Raise the North American Treaty. Brian Shaw, a master spy who has often worked hand in hand with American agents, now confronts his most challenging command. The original document must be found-and the one American who can do the job is Dirk Pitt.īut in London, a daring counterplot is being orchestrated to see that the treaty is never implemented. ![]() The President believes that the treaty offers the single shot at salvation for an energy-starved, economically devastated nation, but the only two copies plummeted into the watery depths of the Atlantic in twin disasters long ago. In the midst of an international crisis, Heidi Milligan, a beautiful, brilliant American naval commander, accidentally discovers an obscure reference to the long-buried North American Treaty, a precedent-shattering secret pact between the United States and Great Britain. ![]()
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Canada by J.A. Kraulis6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() rich color pictures.Ĭanada's landscape is like on other. They tell the tale not only of a country, but also of the photographer's inspiring relationship with it. These 200 handsome color photographs record the vast and beautiful Canadian landscape. Kraulis: a flash of lightning exploding across a summer sky a sudden winter storm descending on an otherwise tranquil coastal bay the surface of a lake, caught in a moment of stillness, mirroring the world around it. ![]() This magnificent collection spans 20 years of the work of Canada's renowned landscape photographer, J.A. Each season adds its own dimension of beauty.Īs much as it reveals the geography of a country, landscape photography also documents the random events, whether fleeting or grand, that capture the essence of a country. Its sheer diversity is staggering: vast prairies and forests, impressive coastlines, majestic inland lakes and rivers, and urban parklands. ![]() A superb portfolio of pictures by one of Canada's greatest photographers.Ĭanada's landscape is like no other. ![]()
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The best we could do book6/7/2023 ![]() I see the Liberty Bell, walk past Independence Hall, feel creeped out by unreadable old tombstones, smell horse shit from carriage rides, traverse cobblestone streets only Philly locals know how to walk through on heels. The black-and-white footage falls away as past and present blur into one. I walk through the streets of Philadelphia, my city, and I can almost imagine the pages of my AP US prep book flipping back and back further still to the beginning. Some of the trees I see in my town’s arboretum of a college campus might be those that earlier Americans saw, too. And they walked on the some of the same ground I walk on, here in Pennsylvania. They exposed themselves to the elements, to disease, with no guarantee but the land they walked on when they dropped anchor. They tossed their dead children who didn’t survive the journey overboard in makeshift coffins. Hundreds of years ago, people sailed across the ocean and risked their lives to come here. However hokey, however contrived this little tradition might seem, I appreciate that it helps us remember the root of this most American holiday: gratitude for sanctuary. There is a moment during my family’s Thanksgiving dinner where we go around the table and identify something we are grateful for in our lives. ![]()
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The city of saints and thieves6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a job for the Goondas that finally brings Tina back to the Greyhill estate, giving her the chance for vengeance she’s been waiting for. With revenge always on her mind, Tina spends the next four years surviving on the streets alone, working as a master thief for the Goondas, Sangui City’s local gang. Greyhill's personal study, she knows exactly who’s behind it. So when her mother is found shot to death in Mr. But Tina soon learns that the Greyhill fortune was made from a life of corruption and crime. Her mother quickly found work as a maid for a prominent family, headed by Roland Greyhill, one of the city’s most respected business leaders. After fleeing the Congo as refugees, Tina and her mother arrived in Kenya looking for the chance to build a new life and home. In the shadows of Sangui City, there lives a girl who doesn't exist. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets Gone Girl in this enthralling murder mystery set in Kenya. ![]()
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The weight of our sky review6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() And, that makes it all the more terrifying because even though the current state of Malaysia is unlike those that are at war, the peace isn’t settled. The thing about this story being set in a timeline where a significant historical event happens, is that even though it’s the past, a Malaysian can easily imagine it happening today. It happened more than 20 years before I was born, but the brutality of it, the violence, the pain and the horrors-I can picture it vividly through Alkaf’s The Weight of Our Sky. The incident is an incident Malaysians still speak of today, particularly when topics regarding race come up. ![]() Thank you so much Pansing for sending me the a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review! Hanna Alkaf’s The Weight of Our Sky is available at all good bookstores. Genre(s): Young Adult, Historical Fiction Published: 2019 by Simon Schuster Children’s Publishing ![]()
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![]() Movie fans will find descriptions of great musicals like "Singing in the Rain", westerns like "High Noon", science-fiction classics like "Star Wars", dramas like "Chinatown" and "Schindler's List", and international classics from master directors who include Fellini, Antonioni, Resnais, Truffaut, Eisenstein, Kurosawa, and many others.Įach entry includes a full list of cast and credits, awards won by the film, an essay summarizing the story line and screen-history, and still shots of the film's memorable scenes. ![]() But in fact, this volume's team of critics goes back to 1902, describing such films as "The Great Train Robbery", and progressing chronologically across the decades to cover the best cinematic dramas, comedies, westerns, musicals, suspense and horror films, gangster classics, "films noirs", sci-fi epics, documentaries, and adaptations of novels and stage plays made by filmmakers around the world. ![]() ![]() New in this edition are entries to describe such film hits as "Lord of the Rings", "Mystic River", "Fahrenheit 9/11", and "Million Dollar Baby". Updated with brand-new entries to describe the most recent major motion pictures, this critically-acclaimed volume spans more than a century of moviemaking, concisely describing 1001 of the best films from around the world. ![]()
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Books similar to garden spells6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Booklist called Allen's accomplished debut "spellbindingly charming," and the novel became a BookSense pick and a Barnes & Noble Recommends selection. She sold a few stories and penned romances for Harlequin under the pen name Katie Gallagher but her big break occurred in 2007 with the publication of her first mainstream novel, Garden Spells, a modern-day fairy tale about an enchanted apple tree and the family of North Carolina women who tend it. It was like being able to major in eating chocolate."Īfter graduation in 1994, Allen began writing seriously. In college, she majored in literature-because, as she puts it, "I thought it was amazing that I could get a diploma just for reading fiction. North Carolina novelist Sarah Addison Allen brings the full flavor of her southern upbringing to bear on her fiction-a captivating blend of fairy tale magic, heartwarming romance, and small-town sensibility.īorn and raised in Asheville, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Allen grew up with a love of books and an appreciation of good food (she credits her journalist father for the former and her mother, a fabulous cook, for the latter). But then the apple tree started throwing apples and the story took on a life of its own. "It was supposed to be a simple story about two sisters reconnecting after many years. Garden Spells didn't start out as a magical novel," writes Sarah Addison Allen. ![]() Currently-lives in Asheville, North Carolina.Education-B.A., University of North Carolina, Asheville. ![]()
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A memory called empire mahit6/5/2023 ![]() We see it all through the eyes of Mahit and there’s so much affection and respect there.Īt the same time, Mahit is a diplomat from another country. ![]() Mahit greatly admires the erudition of the Empire, and has studied their literature, poetry and art forms for years. There’s a complicated nomenclature system and elaborate cultural norms of the ruling kingdom. Martine has created a unique world here, with undertones of Central Asian, Byzantium and Aztec influences. Mahit finds that Yskandr’s imago in her brain has been sabotaged! Also, it seems imago technology isn’t so hush-hush after all - and several people are fighting over it… And the city where Mahit has been posted is an AI hive-mind which is malfunctioning… Oh, and there are new monstrous aliens at the gate… What I liked about the book ![]() The trouble just keeps on piling up from there. (Phew, hope I got the description right!) Imago is essentially a bio-chip that carries the endocrine memory of a person, and can be embedded and integrated into the brain of another person. More curious still is the fact that Lsel Station possesses a secret and unique technology: the imago machine. ![]() ![]() Mahit is deputed as ambassador from the tiny Lsel Station to the mighty Teixcalaanli Empire when her predecessor, Yskandr, dies in mysterious circumstances. ![]()
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The host stephanie meyers6/5/2023 ![]() The sequel to Twilight, New Moon, had an unintentional staggered release all over North America, beginning in early August 2006. After writing the novel, she signed a three-book deal with Little, Brown and Company. Meyer says that the idea for Twilight came to her in a dream. They have three sons, Gabe, Seth, and Eli. She met her husband Christian, nicknamed "Pancho", while growing up in Arizona, and married him in 1994. ![]() Meyer attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where she majored in English. Meyer was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, with five siblings: Emily, Heidi, Paul, Seth and Jacob, all of whom are mentioned in the Twilight saga. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her family. ![]() ' Stephenie Meyer (née Morgan, born December 24, 1973) is the American author of the Twilight Saga and The Host. ![]()
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The long game jennifer lynn barnes6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Tess knows better than most that power is currency in Washington, but she’s about to discover firsthand that power always comes with a price.ĭon't miss any of these other books by Jennifer Lynn Barnes: Meanwhile, Tess’s guardian has also taken on an impossible case, as a terrorist attack calls into doubt who can-and cannot-be trusted on Capitol Hill. But when the candidates are the children of politicians, even a high school election can uncover life-shattering secrets. When Tess is asked to run a classmate’s campaign for student council, she agrees. But Tess has another legacy, too, one that involves power and the making of political dynasties. ![]() but some secrets won't stay buried.įor Tess Kendrick, a junior at the elite Hardwicke School in Washington D.C., fixing runs in the family. The Kendricks help make the problems of the Washington elite disappear. ![]() This high-adrenaline thriller by the bestselling author of The Inheritance Games will leave readers breathless, perfect for fans of Elite, Riverdale, and One of Us is Lying. ![]() |