5/23/2023 0 Comments Dresden files 3![]() ![]() You would think Chicago would have a little more action for the only professional wizard in the phone book. interesting.įOOL MOON: Business has been slow lately for Harry Dresden. But where there’s black magic, there’s a black mage behind it. So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry’s seeing dollar signs. has a case that transcends mortal capabilities, they look to him for answers. ![]() STORM FRONT: Harry is the best at what he does – and not just because he’s the only one who does it. ![]() Turns out the ‘everyday’ world is full of strange and magical things – and most of them don’t play well with humans. Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago’s first (and only) Wizard P.I. ISBN13: 9780451457813 The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher – Free eBooks Download ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Blowback thriller brad thor![]() ![]() In the war-ravaged borderlands of Ukraine, a Russian military unit has gone rogue. New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brad Thor’s new pulse-pounding thriller. ![]() While very little was previously known about the plot of Dead Fall, Book Spy readers are getting an exclusive sneak peek at the official synopsis. The question now is, how does Thor top himself next time around, and what new threats might be waiting for Scot Harvath? That book rocketed to the top of the Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers list, giving fans the kind of white-knuckle reading experience that only Brad Thor can provide. Dead Fall, the twenty-second thriller in Thor’s mega-popular series, will follow the events of Rising Tiger, which came out earlier this year and saw Harvath and company take on a dangerous new enemy on an unfamiliar battlefield. It never really feels like summer until Harvath is back in bookstores, and with winter settling in for most of the country, now’s a good time to start looking ahead to beach season by highlighting one of the most anticipated books of 2023. ![]() On July 11, 2023, Scot Harvath-one of the thriller genre’s most beloved heroes-returns to action in Dead Fall, the highly-anticipated new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Boccaccio tales![]() ![]() And just as the gavoccioli were originally, and still are, a very definite indication of impending death, in like manner these spots came to mean the same thing for whoever contracted them. ![]() And from the two parts of the body already mentioned, in very little time, the said deadly gavoccioli began to spread indiscriminately over every part of the body then, after this, the symptoms of the illness changed to black or livid spots appearing on the arms and thighs, and on every part of the body – sometimes there were large ones and other times a number of little ones scattered all around. ![]() Showed its first signs in men and women alike by means of swellings either in the groin or under the armpits, some of which grew to the size of an ordinary apple and others to the size of an egg (more or less), and the people called them gavoccioli (buboes). ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Arsene lupin book series![]() ![]() The intrigues of the stories of this popular character take place during the Belle Epoque and take him from Paris to Étretat, a place that became mythical thanks to him. But above all, he remained famous for his art of disguise, allowing him multiple packages. ![]() The immediate success and the plebiscite of the readers encouraged its creator to write many stories until his death in 1941.ĭetective, soldier, policeman or burglar, Arsène Lupin is a top sportsman and a great fighter. Born in July 1905 in the pages of the magazine Je sais tout under the pen of Maurice Leblanc, the gentleman burglar was featured in 18 novels, 39 short stories and five plays. If the credits of the television series interpreted by Jacques Dutronc has remained in all memories, Arsène Lupin is above all a novel character. Follow in the footsteps of this crime novel character through 10 emblematic places in the saga. Born under the pen of Maurice Leblanc, he lived many adventures leading him from Paris to Étretat. ![]() “He’s the greatest thief, yes, but he’s a gentleman.” Jacques DutroncĪrsène Lupin is the most famous burglar in French literature. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Emelin by Jackie Randall![]() How she fought back to regain control of her life and put the terror, heartbreak, and terrible pain behind her through her dogged determination, challenging work, and sheer guts. In this horrendous journey, follow Jackie's course of action to rise again and read how she overcame the physical and mental abuse and survived. Years later a second husband inflicted terror, manipulation, aggression, and violent threats where his abuse and controlling tactics placed Jackie and her two children in an inescapable and dangerous position. NOWHERE TO HIDE A TRUE STORY OF ABUSE THAT WILL SHOCK YOU TO THE CORE! Jackie suffered the ferocity of being shot in the chest and her mother mercilessly murdered before her husband shot and killed himself. In this horrendous journey, follow Jackie's course of action to rise again and read how she. ![]() All stories in this book are about considering our impact on our world. Look in this anthology for short story, The Aria of the Ocean by Jackie Randall. ![]() ![]() ![]() NOWHERE TO HIDE A TRUE STORY OF ABUSE THAT WILL SHOCK YOU TO THE CORE! Jackie suffered the ferocity of being shot in the chest and her mother mercilessly murdered before her husband shot and killed himself. Emelin is medieval historical fiction for middle-grade readers. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Letter to a christian nation![]() ![]() ![]() Addressing current topics ranging from intelligent design and stem-cell research to the connections between religion and violence, Letter to a Christian Nation boldly challenges the influence that faith has on public life in our nation. Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity. Lees Letter to a Christian Nation A Challenge to the Faith of America door Sam Harris verkrijgbaar bij Rakuten Kobo. ![]() Letter to A Christian Nation is his courageous and controversial reply. For example in, Letter to a Christian Nation the author is very anti Christian, and even brings up the fact that he has convinced many individuals to not. ISBN: 0307265773 Thousands of people have written to tell me that I am wrong. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this, purely on the basis of religious dogma, should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency." In response to his award-winning bestseller The End of Faith, Sam Harris received thousands of letters from Christians excoriating him for not believing in God. government actually believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. ![]() "Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. The Challenge to Religious Dogma that has Sparked a National Debate! "Forty-four percent of the American population is convinced that Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead sometime in the next fifty years," writes Sam Harris. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments A kitten tale by eric rohmann![]() ![]() This is a story about four kittens who have never seen snow. He taught printmaking, painting, and fine bookmaking at Belvoir Terrace in Massachusettes and introductory drawing, fine bookmaking, and printmaking at St. He also studied Anthropology and Biology. Rohmann has his BS in Art and an MS in Studio Art from Illinois State University, and an MFA in Printmaking/Fine Bookmaking from Arizona State University. As a boy, he played Little League baseball, read comic books, and collected rocks and minerals, insects, leaves, and animal skulls. He grew up in Downers Grove, a suburb of Chicago. Rohmann was born in Riverside, Illinois in 1957. He has illustrated many other books, including Last Song, based on a poem by James Guthrie, and has created book jackets for a number of novels, including His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman. He is also the author and illustrator of Bone Dog, Clara and Asha, A Kitten Tale, and The Cinder-Eyed Cats, among other books for children. Eric Rohmann won the Caldecott Medal for My Friend Rabbit, and a Caldecott Honor for Time Flies. ![]() ![]() The struggle for Indian Independence took a long time and was something that affected the whole country. Written with a very concise approach, it is a one of a kind book that details the intricacies of the Indian Independence struggle. ![]() The facts and details provided in this book have been gathered from oral and written sources, and various other primary sources have been used along with years of intense research. Written and edited by five expert authors, it presents a detailed outlook on one of the most important periods in Indian history. ![]() India's Struggle For Independence presents a detailed outlook on the struggle for Indian Independence in a new analytical framework.ĭesigned for ardent history enthusiasts, India's Struggle For Independence is one of the most exhaustive and precise account of the struggle of Indian Independence ever written in the literary world. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Born to run cover![]() ![]() But where he had been affectionate, even humorous before, he was becoming increasingly bitter. The overall theme of the album was similar to that of The E Street Shuffle Springsteen was describing, and saying farewell to, a romanticized teenage street life. ![]() Layers of guitar, layers of echo on the vocals, lots of keyboards, thunderous drums - Born to Run had a big sound, and Springsteen wrote big songs to match it. The result was a full, highly produced sound that contained elements of Phil Spector's melodramatic work of the 1960s. Springsteen's backup band had changed, with his two virtuoso players, keyboardist David Sancious and drummer Vini Lopez, replaced by the professional but less flashy Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg. Bruce Springsteen's make-or-break third album represented a sonic leap from his first two, which had been made for modest sums at a suburban studio Born to Run was cut on a superstar budget, mostly at the Record Plant in New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rawls is well aware that since the publication of A Theory of Justice in 1971, American society has moved farther away from the idea of justice as fairness. As Rawls writes in the preface, the restatement presents “in one place an account of justice as fairness as I now see it, drawing on all works.” He offers a broad overview of his main lines of thought and also explores specific issues never before addressed in any of his writings. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993). This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. John Rawls, edited by Erin Kelley, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001). ![]() |