![]() ![]() This spy thriller spans the globe in true James Bondian style, but Norm improves on Fleming's books by a million miles. As the pieces of the puzzle fit together, so the body count goes up and the true horror of the Jihad plot is revealed. Even when the reader scans computer messages with hidden codes, the author manages to pile on the tension and interest to know more. Something is brewing - something big! Norm does a fantastic job of infusing every page with tension and action. Jack is living in Italy, when he is pulled into the murky world of terrorism by an intercepted message from the Middle East. So be prepared to make time, forget dinner, supper or sleep, even a bath or two and read this brilliant cloak-and-dagger spy novel. I had a hard time putting this book down as it took over my life for the two days it took to read it. The Saladin Strategy (Book #2 of the Jack McDuff Series) by Norm Clark is one hell of a ride. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Even watching them sleep seemed like a privilege there are so few left on this planet. They were white tigers too, so the rarest of the rare. ![]() ![]() Several years ago, when visiting the Singapore Zoo, my family ended up ditching me because I was lingering too long at the tigers. If you call it too often it will also gobble up your hopes and ambitions.’ If you have nightmares, you can call it three times to eat the bad dreams. In their journey to keep a promise and discover the truth, Ren and Ji Lin’s paths will cross in ways they will never forget. One night, Ji Lin’s dance partner leaves her with a gruesome souvenir that leads her on a crooked, dark trail.Īs time runs out for Ren’s mission, a series of unexplained deaths occur amid rumours of tigers who turn into men. Ji Lin, an apprentice dressmaker, moonlights as a dancehall girl to pay her mother’s debts. Ren has forty-nine days, or else his master’s soul will roam the earth forever. Sent as a bequest from an old friend, young Ren has a mission: to find his dead master’s severed finger and reunite it with his body. In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an eleven-year-old Chinese houseboy. They say a tiger that devours too many humans can take the form of a man and walk amongst us… ![]() A captivating and magical story set in 1930s Malaysia about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy who are brought together by a series of unexplained deaths and an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Many Americans resented the Proclamation Act, however, because they thought the point of the war against the French and Indians was to make this land safe for British settlers. The British were tired of sending more troops over to the colonies for defense and did not want the colonies to be any farther from the British empire across the sea than they already were. The Proclamation Act of 1763 was created by the British after the French and Indian War ended and did not allow the colonies to expand westward. ![]() The British parliament passed the Proclamation Act of 1763 that opened Quebec and Florida up for settlement, but set aside French lands between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River for Indians (“1763-65: The War Ends in Europe”). However, there was tension between the American colonists and the British due to the enforcement of the Proclamation Act of 1763. After the French and Indian War, or the Seven Years’ War, the British turned their attention back to the colonists and tried to take control again. ![]() ![]() Then a fearsome criminal known only as "Loman" seizes control of the headlines. And the news cycle is so slow that journalist Cindy Thomas is on assignment to tell a story about the true meaning of the season for San Francisco. Even the courts are showing some Christmas spirit. Summary: "As the holidays approach, Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends in the Women's Murder Club have much to celebrate. He is planning a deadly surprise for Christmas. ![]() Summary: As the holidays approach, Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends in the Women's Murder Club have much to celebrate. Having trouble viewing this message? Click here Johnston Public Library - New Fiction Books Newsletter - November 4th, 2019 ![]() ![]() In “Cuoca,” acclaimed chef Jody Williams (Via Carota, Buvette) relates her experience of learning the basics of Italian cooking at a renowned restaurant in Reggio Emilia. ![]() In “Haunted,” choreographer Christopher Wheeldon details the challenges of crafting a series of ballets to the work of composer Györgi Ligeti. ![]() The Esopus Reader’s contents include all 11 installments of Esopus’s “ New Voices” series, which featured fiction written by never-before-published authors, many of whom have since gone on to publish novels and short-story collections with major imprints, including Stuart Nadler ( The Inseparables, Little, Brown), Vivien Shotwell ( Vienna Nocturne, Random House), and Lev AC Rosen ( Camp, Little, Brown-soon to be an HBO Max movie directed by and starring Billy Porter).Īlso included are essays by creators from a wide range of disciplines who explore particular aspects of their creative process. ![]() ![]() ![]() S eptimus Heap tipped six spiders into a jar, screwed the lid down tight and put them outside the door. Why is the Darke Magyk still lingering?īringing fantasy to new heights, Angie Sage continues the journey of Septimus Heap with her trademark humor and all of the clever details readers have come to love. Marcia is constantly trailed by a menacing Darke Shadow, and Septimus's brother Simon seems bent on a revenge no one understands. ![]() As Apprentice to ExtraOrdinary Wizard Marcia Overstrand, he is learning the fine arts of Conjurations, Charms, and other Magyk, while Jenna is adapting to life as the Princess and enjoying the freedom of the Castle.īut there is something sinister at work. It's been a year since Septimus Heap discovered his real family and true calling to be a wizard. “Readers will find themselves quickly immersed in this imaginative world, moving from one well-crafted adventure to another at a suspenseful pace.” - School Library Journal ![]() Fans of the first book will be delighted with this sequel to Septimus’s story.” - VOYA (starred review) The second book in the internationally bestselling Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, featuring the funny and fantastic adventures of a wizard apprentice and his quest to become an ExtraOrdinary Wizard. ![]() ![]() ![]() This review is posting a little late but I dove into Sweet Ache the second I saw it was delivered onto my kindle and there was no disappointment in my fictional affair.īromberg does two things like no other in the romance community and for me it’s two of the most important things in the genre. Sweet Ache has driven me wild with rock star fantasies and misunderstood bad boy dreams!! I can’t believe that it was only a short time ago that I was introduced to Bromberg and Colton, Beck, and now Hawkin who is a delicious addition to the Driven series. When Hunter realizes his twin finally has a weakness, he’ll stop at nothing to take advantage…. Just as Hawke might finally be winning over the girl, his brother has other plans. ![]() She knows his type and is determined to avoid the rocker at all costs-even if their attraction runs deeper than simple lust. Quinlan Westin is harder to bed than Hawke imagined. ![]() Hawke agrees to guest lecture at a local college to stay in the judge’s good graces-and a bet with his bandmate to seduce his sexy teaching assistant is icing on the cake. Hunter’s most recent screwup could land Hawke in jail and risk the band’s future. ![]() Hawkin Play, the bad boy rock star with a good guy heart, has lived a lifetime of cleaning up after his twin brother’s mistakes. Bromberg Genres: Romance – Contemporary / Rockers Teasers **** **** Synopsis Sweet Ache The Driven Series Book 6 By K. ![]() ![]() ![]() She also studied at the University of California, San Diego, before moving to East Germany, where she completed a doctorate at the University of Berlin. She was active in movements such as the Occupy movement and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.ĭavis was born in Birmingham, Alabama she studied at Brandeis University and the University of Frankfurt, where she became increasingly engaged in far-left politics. Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author she is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is most prominent in those set in Yoknapatawpha County, an imaginary Mississippi landscape filled with battlefields and graveyards, veterans and widows, slaves and former slaves, draft dodgers and ghosts. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Civil War features in some dozen of Faulkner’s novels. In contrast with those delusions, Faulkner’s fiction revealed the truth: the Confederacy was both a military and a moral failure. This Lost Cause revisionism appeared everywhere, from the textbooks that Faulkner was assigned growing up to editorials in local newspapers, praising the paternalism and the prosperity of the slavery economy, jury-rigging an alternative justification for secession, canonizing as saints and martyrs those who fought for the C.S.A., and proclaiming the virtues of antebellum society. The Mississippi novelist was born thirty-two years after Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, but he came of age believing in the superiority of the Confederacy: the South might have lost, but the North did not deserve to win. What if the North had won the Civil War? That technically factual counterfactual animated almost all of William Faulkner’s writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() The capitalist machine wants Melville to continue producing more formulaic works which would sell copies and make his publishers lots of money: the system wants to turn him into nothing more than a ‘scrivener’, of sorts. ![]() Herman Melville ‘preferred not to’ continue writing the sea stories which had proved hugely popular early in his career, preferring to branch out into more experimental and challenging fiction (including, most famously, Moby-Dick, published a couple of years before Melville wrote ‘Bartleby’ and greeted by a number of hostile and bewildered reviews). Bartleby stands out to the narrator because he pushes back against this urge to conform and comply.īecause a scrivener is a kind of writer, numerous critics have viewed Bartleby as an autobiographical portrait. The story’s setting on Wall Street, the financial centre of the United States, is no accident: the world of finance, law, and business, Melville appears to be suggesting, stifles and restricts the individual, turning everyone into mindless cogs in the machine of industry.Įven the job which appears in the story’s title, ‘scrivener’, involves not writing original content but merely copying existing documents. ![]() Alongside such passivity, we find, in ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’, the theme of conformity. ![]() |