7/4/2023 0 Comments Butter erin jade![]() ![]() ![]() No longer ostracised, Butter soon becomes part of the popular crowd - and life takes an unexpected turn for the better. Yet Butter's online announcement proves to have unforseen consequences - far from pity, insults or indifference, he suddenly finds himself a celebrity amongst his classmates, who become fascinated by his horrifying plan. Butter makes up his mind life is no longer worth living but decides to go out with a bang, announcing that he plans to eat himself to death live on the internet on December 31st. His love for music has lost its shine, and even his online chats with Anna, the girl of his dreams, have to be carried out under a false persona. Isolated and bullied at school, with a dysfunctional family life and weighing over 400 lbs, 'Butter' as he is nicknamed by his high school classmates, feels he has little left to live for. ![]()
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![]() Faced with an imperative to involve an Agency for action, Jack deals with a dilemma. Their mission’s success will upset the global political balance and eliminate America’s influence in the Middle East with no support from her allies. Details emerge and elevate the plot to the highest level. Survival from assassins and the discovery of a secret Jihadist plot unknown to our intelligence services thrusts Jack into an unsanctioned mission, which ultimately takes him to our nation’s Capital. His Vienna meeting, scheduled with an unknown contact, pulls Jack back into the dark world of murder and terrorism. The new, routine-collection of intel for his handler allowed Jack and Mary Conlan to live the ‘good life’ in their Lake Como villa, but not for long. ![]() After twenty years of black-ops for the CIA, Jack McDuff settled into a simpler life as a contract agent known only to his Langley contact. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Book beegu![]() ![]() Maybe it’s us grown-ups who really need this book, not them. ![]() ![]() Children see a little creature who doesn’t look like them, but who needs friendship and whom they will love anyway. When her parents finally find her, Beegu has much to tell them about Earth creatures, and the small ones who accepted her.īeegu is adorable, and will be instantly loved by children, and maybe that’s the point. All they see is someone who does not look like them, and Beegu is cruelly rejected by them. The grown-ups don’t try to understand her. Today’s book (Beegu, by Alexis Deacon) isn’t really about bullying, but it’s a delightful book for tinies that emphasises the value of welcoming strangers and showing kindness.īeegu is an alien who, for reasons unknown, lands on Earth where she tries to make friends with everyone she meets, but the only people who stop and reach out to her are the puppies abandoned outside a dog’s home and the children in a playpark. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments The prodigal sandman![]() ![]() ![]() Destruction was unwilling to be responsible for the destruction this would cause and therefore left the family. Specifically, Newton's theory that light and matter are inter-convertible, which first appeared in Newton's Third Book of Opticks in 1718. The reason for this was the onset of the human Age of Reason, which would eventually culminate in the invention of the atomic bomb. Not wanting to be responsible for such massive devastation, even obliteration, Destruction abandoned his realm and his responsibilities sometime after 1718. When Destruction saw the mind of man turn toward science, he foresaw the inevitable use of science as a tool for destruction on a planetary scale. He often fulfilled the role of big brother, he stopped arguments, comforted those during their change, and showered Despair with his affection. He is Dream’s immediate younger sibling but is in many ways wiser and more aware of the Endless' place in the universe. He is the embodiment of destruction itself, the greatest instrument of change, fulfilling his purpose to destroy in order that new things may be created. ![]() Like his siblings, Destruction is neither a living being nor a god. ![]() Destruction of the Endless came into existence shortly after the creation of the universe, following his older siblings Destiny, Death, and Dream. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Hunter thompson the rum diary![]() This version is seeking employment at a newspaper, the San Juan Star, hoping to earn money for his words, which he writes anyway, because writing is his primary addiction, among a host of notorious addictions.īased on Thompson’s unfinished 1959 novel - which Depp discovered in the writer’s basement while he was researching his role in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - the movie is respectful and dopey at once, faithful to the source and so, episodic, and also fine with using characters as props for Paul’s mostly internal journey. ![]() ![]() He’s had a rough night, but you know that before you saw the socks on the floor or the disheveled bed, because every night is rough for Paul, yet another of Hunter S. ![]() It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.Īs Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) wakes in a wrecked hotel room in Puerto Rico, the camera in The Rum Diary pushes close to his bloodshot eye. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. ![]() ![]() Many felt she had given Brazillian literature a unique voice in the larger context of Portuguese literature. She published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart in 1943 when she was just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded the Graça Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and eventually sailed to Brazil. References to her literary work pervade the music and literature of Brazil and Latin America. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. ![]() ![]() Clarice Lispector's spare, deeply disturbing yet luminous novel transforms language into something otherworldly, and is one of her most unsettling and compelling works.Ĭlarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her irresistible fascination with the dying insect provokes a spiritual crisis, in which she questions her place in the universe and her very identity, propelling her towards an act of shocking transgression. There she sees a cockroach - black, dusty, prehistoric - crawling out of the wardrobe and, panicking, slams the door on it. G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Books by Women ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Massey has skillfully woven together historical facts with fiction to create a vivid picture of a city on the cusp of change. The novel is expertly crafted, with intricate details of life in Bombay during the 1920s. However, what seems like a routine legal matter soon turns into a deadly mystery, and Perveen finds herself in the middle of a web of lies, secrets, and murders. When three widows of a wealthy and influential Muslim family are left vulnerable after their husband’s sudden death, Perveen is called to their home to ensure that their financial affairs are in order. The novel revolves around Perveen Mistry, a young, independent, and intelligent Parsi woman who works as a lawyer in her father’s firm. The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey is a thrilling Golden Age style mystery novel set in 1920s Bombay. ![]() ![]() I've always distrusted collaborations and posthumous continuations, and I could never tell from the Lancer/Ace presentations which was which. Howard-who I knew created Conan-was of course always there, but inevitably his name was accompanied by L. One of the reasons I never explored Conan's world is that every Lancer/Ace volume I examined in the bookstore sported the name of at least two authors, sometimes three. Unlike the numerous Lancer/Ace paperbacks available to me in the '60's and '70's-the ones with the really cool Frank Frazetta illustrations-this edition does things right. ![]() ![]() Howard's Conan stories, I am glad I had the good fortune to purchase the three volume, fully illustrated, Del Rey collection. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Jo walton's tooth and claw![]() ![]() ![]() Jo Walton is a science fiction and fantasy writer. You have never read a novel like Tooth and Claw. Tooth and Claw is available to download for free until midnight (Eastern Time) on May 23rd, 2020. ![]() 1, 2003 It would be wonderful to report that Walton offers a bold new step in the world of fantasy, takes the standard knights/swords/dragons huggermugger and turns the whole thing upside-down. ![]() In which society's high-and-mighty members avail themselves of the privilege of killing and eating the weaker children, which they do with ceremony and relish, growing stronger thereby. TOOTH AND CLAW by Jo Walton RELEASE DATE: Nov. Here is a world of politics and train stations, of churchmen and family retainers, of courtship and country houses.in which, on the death of an elder, family members gather to eat the body of the deceased. Now Walton returns with Tooth and Claw, a very different kind of fantasy story: the tale of a family dealing with the death of their father, of a son who goes to law for his inheritance, a son who agonizes over his father's deathbed confession, a daughter who falls in love, a daughter who becomes involved in the abolition movement, and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband.Įxcept that everyone in the story is a dragon, red in tooth and claw. Jo Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with The King's Peace, acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson, Robin Hobb, and Ken MacLeod. How OEA Can Help You Modernize Your Own Data Estate Tooth And Claw Jo Walton Try the virtual Library Explorer Digital shelves organized like a physical library Agnes E. A tale of contention over love and money-among dragons Tooth And Claw Jo Walton Alexander Philip. ![]() ![]() Follow the Rules and Innovate It’s a double bind. Their ability to make a business run will drive their revenue and their professional survival as a doctor. In 1963, only one case of polio occurred in Cuba. The reality is that the skill of a surgeon in the operating suite has almost nothing to do with how much money they’ll make. ![]() In 1962, Castro’s Committee for the Defense of the Revolution organized 82,366 local committees to carry out a succession of weeklong house-to-house national immunization campaigns using the Sabin vaccine. The only leader in the West who took him up on the idea was Fidel Castro. This approach, Sabin argued, could be used to eliminate polio from entire countries, even the world. Better: A Surgeons Notes on Performance Gawande, Atul Published by Henry Holt & Company (2007) ISBN 10: 0805082115 ISBN 13: 9780805082111 New Hardcover Quantity: 2 Seller: BookOutlet (Thorold, ON, Canada) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Hardcover. Within weeks, polio had disappeared from the city. ![]() In just four days, Sabin’s team managed to vaccinate more than 80 percent of the children under the age of eleven-26,000 children in all. It was also a live vaccine, containing weakened but intact poliovirus, and so it could produce not only immunity but also a mild contagious infection that would spread the immunity to others. His was an oral vaccine, easier to administer than Salk’s injected one. “Five years later, Albert Sabin published the results of an alternative polio vaccine he had used in an immunization campaign in Toluca, Mexico, a city of a hundred thousand people, where a polio outbreak was in progress. ![]() |