![]() ![]() But the three of them have very different goals, even as Calla and Anton’s partnership spirals into something all-consuming. ![]() His last chance at saving her is entering the games and winning.Ĭalla finds both an unexpected alliance with Anton and help from King Kasa’s adopted son, August, who wants to mend Talin’s ills. ![]() Thankfully, he’s one of the best jumpers in the kingdom, flitting from body to body at will. His childhood love has lain in a coma since they were both ousted from the palace, and he’s deep in debt trying to keep her alive. Her reclusive uncle always greets the victor of the games, so if she wins, she gets her opportunity at last to kill him.Įnter Anton Makusa, an exiled aristocrat. ![]() Before King Kasa’s forces in San can catch her, she plans to finish the job and bring down the monarchy. Five years ago, a massacre killed her parents and left the palace of Er empty…and she was the one who did it. For those confident enough in their ability to jump between bodies, competitors across San-Er fight to the death to win unimaginable riches. Synopsis: Every year, thousands in the kingdom of Talin will flock to its capital twin cities, San-Er, where the palace hosts a set of games. ![]()
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![]() ![]() On page 93 of his book, Bauckham states his thesis as follows: The written Gospels, so Bauckham, contain oral history related to the personal transmission of eyewitness testimony, not merely oral tradition which is the result of the collective and anonymous transmission of material. ![]() According to Bauckham, the ideal source in ancient Greco-Roman literature was not the dispassionate observer, but the eyewitness. In this magnum opus Bauckham argues persuasively that the Gospels reflect (named) eyewitness testimony. ![]() Very likely the best book written in New Testament studies in 2006 is Jesus and the Eyewitnesses by Richard Bauckham (now in its second edition). ![]() ![]() ![]() Baldacci is a master craftsman."- Associated Press In a terrifying confrontation that will push Sean and Michelle to their limits, the duo may be permanently parted. Their persistence puts them on a collision course with the highest levels of the government and the darkest corners of power. ![]() It is now up to them to ask the questions no one seems to want answered: Is Roy a killer? Who murdered Bergin? The more they dig into Roy's past, the more they encounter obstacles, half-truths, dead-ends, false friends, and escalating threats from every direction. ![]() But their investigation is derailed when Sean and Michelle find Bergin murdered. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's attorney, Sean's old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. Edgar Roy-an alleged serial killer-is awaiting trial. About the Book Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in their most shocking case: a high stakes struggle where the relentless needs of national security run up against the absolute limits of the human mind.īook Synopsis In the #1 New York Times bestselling thriller that inspired the TV series King & Maxwell, two private investigators dig into a killer's past-but when their search threatens powerful enemies, it could cost them their lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Afterward, he would walk the city streets, asking God to help him in his struggle. ![]() Soon, he began sneaking into the tower at night to watch the woman. Only now he was longing to spy the woman’s bare neck and shoulders, as he tried desperately to repress his lustful thoughts and the growing resentment he felt toward his conservative wife. It was the 1890s after all, a time when women customarily wore long, high-necked dresses with bustles, and in Hartman’s eyes, the schoolteacher was a woman “far gone in secret sin.” Still, that didn’t stop him from his ritual of climbing to the top of the church tower. But one morning, as he gazed through the tower window into a neighboring home, he witnessed a shocking scene: a town schoolteacher sitting on her bed smoking a cigarette - her shoulders and throat bare. Curtis Hartman was a quiet, resolute man who went to a small room in the church tower each Sunday to pray and prepare his weekly sermon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Newly arrived from San Francisco, Hu Chen is shy, thoughtful and a perfect gentleman, so different from Stephen’s usual type that the attraction between them catches both of them by surprise.Īs their flirtation blooms into a hot summer fling, Stephen is forced to confront his painful past, and face the frightening possibility that it has left him too broken to learn how to love a good man. Then one day he walks into the local magic store and meets the owner’s nephew. Violent drunks, thieves, liars, cheats – he’s had them all and had his heart broken so many times that he’s decided it’s easier to remain single, even if some days the loneliness is unbearable. ![]() Sweet, helpful, sympathetic – both in and out of drag Stephen Walsh (aka Helena Montana) plays Disney princess to his best friend Bunny’s snarling Ursula, the Blanche to his Baby Jane.īut like so many Disney princesses, Stephen has dark origins. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mem has written thirty picture books for children and five non-fiction books for adults, including the best-selling Reading Magic, aimed at parents of very young children. Time for Bed is on Oprah’s list of the twenty best children’s books of all time. ![]() And in the USA Time for Bed and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge have each sold over a million copies. Her first book, Possum Magic, is the best selling children’s book ever in Australia, with sales of over three million. Mem Fox is Australia’s most highly regarded picture-book author. ![]() Mem Fox was born in Australia, grew up in Africa, studied drama in England, and returned to Adelaide, Australia in 1970, where she has lived with her husband, Malcolm, and daughter Chloë, happily ever after. ![]() ![]() (It was the basis for a less successful 1988 movie.) It could be argued that without Mr. Fierstein - hitherto best known for his cross-dressing turns on the margins of Off Broadway - for best play and best actor, and established him as the rare openly gay performer and writer whom even Mom and Dad from the suburbs might enjoy without tsoris. “Torch Song,” which opened at the Tony Kiser Theater on Thursday night in a Second Stage Theater production, is a two-act, trimmed-down version of “Torch Song Trilogy.” That’s the original four-hour portrait of the tribulations of a flamboyantly emotional gay man that captivated mainstream theatergoers when it opened on Broadway in 1982. ![]() Not bad for a three-decades-old comedy that would seemed to have passed its sell-by date years ago. Ruehl make a strong case for a fiercely tugged umbilical cord as the ultimate weapon of destruction. ![]() Portraying a New York drag queen and his mother visiting from Miami, Mr. Because what they’re doing feels too painful, too private and quite possibly too close to your own home for public consumption.īut another part of you is flushed with the thrill that comes from watching two ideally matched performers, at the top of their games, demonstrating the unholy power of flesh and blood to wound its own. ![]() When Michael Urie and Mercedes Ruehl start to cut each other’s hearts out in the second act of Harvey Fierstein’s “Torch Song,” your responses are likely to be deeply divided. ![]() ![]() ![]() She spends her days in Hoodspace, helping customers order all of their goods online for drone delivery-no physical contact with humans needed. Rosemary Laws barely remembers the Before times. She does what she has to do: she performs in illegal concerts to a small but passionate community, always evading the law. Now, in the After, terror attacks and deadly viruses have led the government to ban concerts, and Luce's connection to the world-her music, her purpose-is closed off forever. One of her songs had just taken off and she was on her way to becoming a star. In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large public gatherings, Luce Cannon was on top of the world. In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illegal making concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for the love of music, and for one chance at human connection. ![]() ![]() ![]() In what can be considered an IPCC report for non-scientists, Six Degrees was a highly functional tool for the general public to understand why global temperature rise is such a terrifying thing. A decade and a half on, it continues to be relevant and cited around the world. Six Degrees expertly escalated the dread, despair and nightmarish conditions of an increasingly warm world. ![]() Each chapter in the book addressed another degree of warming, and included detailed descriptions of how that much atmospheric carbon would impact climate, oceans, temperatures, glaciers and all life on Earth. Six Degrees was innovative in how it framed the crisis. ![]() In 2007, Mark Lynas published the original Six Degrees, a breakdown of what changes to the Earth’s climate and geophysical characteristics we can expect for each degree of warming, from 1 to 6 degrees. The science is in, and if this truly is our final warning, it is well past time to take notice. What will the future hold for us if atmospheric carbon levels continue to rise, industries continue to pollute and governments fail to enact firm changes? From the 1 degree world we currently live in up to the hellish land the Earth would be under 6 degrees of warming, journalist Mark Lynas shows in his latest book Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency exactly what this future would look like. Collapsing ice sheets, torrential dust clouds and deadly heat waves. ![]() ![]() ![]() These were the kinds of far-reaching questions that a 19th century club of gentlemen scientists set themselves the task of answering – and their ground-breaking discoveries shaped the way we understand the world today. Why are kangaroos found only in Australia? What created the Niagara Falls? Why did horses have to be introduced to the Americas? How were volcanoes created? Why are the rock formations of the Alps so twisted? Did the Biblical Flood really happen? Her latest book READING THE ROCKS, was published by Bloomsbury in 2017 and became a Sunday Times Book of the Year.īrenda was married to Sir John Maddox, Editor Emeritus of Nature, who died in 2010, and has two children and two step-children. Her biography of Ernest Jones, the biographer of Freud, was published in 2007 by John Murray. GEORGE'S GHOSTS: A NEW LIFE OF W B YEATS was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and ROSALIND FRANKLIN: THE DARK LADY OF DNA won the English-Speaking Union’s Marsh Biography Prize for 2002–3. NORA: THE LIFE OF MRS JAMES JOYCE was translated into eight languages, was awarded the Los Angeles Times Prize for Biography, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award. She was also a biographer of international repute. ![]() For many years she was Home Affairs Editor of The Economist. ![]() Born and brought up in Massachusetts and with a degree in English literature from Harvard, Brenda Maddox was a long-time resident of the UK. ![]() |