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Where there had been a perfect silence a minute before there was now tremendous activity, the straining sounds of two men unexpectedly thrown into hard work. The technician and the nurse rushed in from their glass booth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We had practiced this move hundreds of times and I knew his hands would already be at her throat, but her braids tangled around them. We bounced, me on bottom, her knee landing against my spine just as Leo’s weight fell onto us. We hit and I could hear her heart pounding. I cursed under my breath as she landed on me, riding me down. Felt myself falling forward, prey to the oldest trick in the book. She sidestepped fast-faster than human-and stuck out a foot. Without thought, training and muscle memory pulling me forward into the moves, I drew a knife and attacked. I was inhaling when the door opened and I caught her scent. ![]() A woman-an Amazon-stood there, needle-thin, muscled, balanced, and ready, dressed in jeans and leather, black braids to her bum, a gun held low at her side, and a glowing cross in her other hand. I resisted the urge to look up and wink at the camera, as Katie herself was unlikely to be watching the security display screens and I had no desire to flirt with Tom, her muscle. I also found it difficult to remember security cameras were everywhere, even over the door to Katie’s Ladies. ![]() I wasn’t fond of doors without peepholes, which was surely quite telling about my age. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rich with suspense and thoughtful reflection, Phelps-Roper’s life story exposes the dangers of black-and-white thinking and the need for true humility in a time of angry polarization. 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Founded by her grandfather and consisting almost entirely of her extended family, the tiny group would gain worldwide notoriety for its pickets at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy. The activist and TED speaker Megan Phelps-Roper reveals her life growing up in the most hated family in AmericaĪt the age of five, Megan Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not like we read Gabriel García Márquez because we have something to do with South America. Amatmoekrim has difficulty understanding the mindset of the media: “I find it a little shortsighted. Because the novel was deemed “a Surinamese story,” the writer was automatically placed in the category of Surinamese ethnic writers who have little interest to other audiences. Not that Titus has the answers, but it helps to clarify many things and render them less threatening.”Īmatmoekrim has complained about being pigeon-holed in an ethnic corner, especially after the publication of her second novel, Wanneer wij samen zijn. ![]() Are we doomed to chaos or do we determine the unfolding of our lives? (Partly because of this questioning and partly due to the simplicityof her literary language, Amatmoekrim has been compared to French existentialist Albert Camus.) These life issues are also the author’s, who says that Titus’ quest is, in part, hers: “These are the questions I ask myself when I look at the world. The novel is about freedom and about what people do with the choices they have in their lives. ![]() Set in London, Copenhagen, Barcelona, and New York, Titus is about a man who loses his wife and embarks on a quest to find meaning in his existence. 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All used books sold by AwesomeBooks: Will be clean, not soiled or stained. Book Details Title: Avenging Angel (Point Crime) Item Condition: used item in a very good condition Author: David Belbin ISBN 10: 0590553100 Publisher: Scholastic ISBN 13: 9780590553100 Published On: SKU: 7719-9780590553100 Binding: Paperback Language: english Edition: First Edition List Price: - At AwesomeBooks we believe that good quality and speed of service is what pleases our customers and according to this we have a product guarantee on all our books. Item: 392262342598 Avenging Angel (Point Crime) di David Belbin. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By cleverly varying his perspectives, Teague adds dramatic punch to the pic- tures-readers watch from above as one behemoth baby whips its neck from side to side they watch from below when another stamps its huge feet and they're face to face with one snoozing T-rex hugging its teddy bear close. The whimsical expressions on the "children's" faces give solid clues to the joke. Prima donna dinos, they yawn and fuss and throw toys about, procrastinating Oust like real kids) any way they can as human Moms and Dads, ready to put "baby" to bed, look on in various stages of impatience, anger, and surprise. Endpapers introduce the critter cast in all their gorgeous glory: tyrannosaurus rex, dimetrodon, and more, in vivid, yet still earthbound colors. Teague's art takes dinosaurs out of their usual con- text and plops them into bed (a rather comical fit) for a sleepy-time tale with a difference. The text is sweet and simple-just right for the wonderful pictures that really make this picture book spe- cial. ![]() ![]() Millions have discovered it already – now it’s your turn. This is the kind of book you’ll want to tell everyone about. THE SHACK wrestles with the timeless question, ‘Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?’ Mack’s experiences when he faces up to his darkest nightmares will astound you, and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. What he finds there will change his life forever. Against his better judgement Mack arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon. Four years later, still trapped in his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack. ![]() Mack’s youngest daughter, Missy, was abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. With 20 million copies sold worldwide THE SHACK is an international bestseller that explores life’s toughest questions through the gripping story of one man’s struggle to find answers to his suffering. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, I can't help but feel that the mechanism Hobb uses to make it clear that Kennit is a villain and not a cool, amoral antihero - the rape of another character - is a little too obvious. After being fairly restrained in the previous novel, it's good to see Althea reassert herself as a major protagonist and after all of his self-delusions and justifications, it's good to see Kennit's flaws and plans blow up in his face. Still, Hobb's gifts of characterisation continue to shine with her treatment of her major cast. It does feel like events continue to unfold more slowly and laboriously than they really should, and the book has more endings than the film version of The Return of the King. Ship of Destiny is certainly a far superior ending, juggling a much larger number of stories and interesting characters far more effectively, although some similar issues remain. ![]() ![]() The conclusion to her first series in this world, The Farseer Trilogy, was sabotaged by the book being incredibly overlong, with poor pacing and structural issues that made ploughing through it a chore. ![]() Ship of Destiny concludes the Livship Traders trilogy, the second major movement (of five, so far) in Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings mega-series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her queenly head was poised haughtily upon her smooth red shoulders. "Ah, Thuvia of Ptarth," he cried, "you are cold even before the fiery blasts of my consuming love! No harder than your heart, nor colder is the hard, cold ersite of this thrice happy bench which supports your divine and fadeless form! Tell me, O Thuvia of Ptarth, that I may still hope-that though you do not love me now, yet some day, some day, my princess, I-" The girl sprang to her feet with an exclamation of surprise and displeasure. Her shapely, sandalled foot tapped impatiently upon the jewel-strewn walk that wound beneath the stately sorapus trees across the scarlet sward of the royal gardens of Thuvan Dihn, Jeddak of Ptarth, as a dark-haired, red-skinned warrior bent low toward her, whispering heated words close to her ear. Upon a massive bench of polished ersite beneath the gorgeous blooms of a giant pimalia a woman sat. Now Cathoris must follow in the footsteps of his father, John Carter, and overcome phantom armies, dangerous spies and savage beasts as he attempts to save his true love and reunite Mars. When she is mysteriously kidnapped, treachery threatens to throw Barsoom into bloody war. Not one, but two princes and a Jeddak are vying for the love of Thuvia of Ptarth. ![]() |