![]() Semyon was a friend to nearly all the old guys in the Yaroshenko Organizatsiya… as much as anyone in the Russian Mafiya could be counted as a friend. There was none of the usual shit-talk and banter that usually went on before a job. He was Old Crew, one of the first muzhiki to come from Ukraine via Afghanistan and make a name for himself in New York, just like Semyon. Our driver, Nicolai, was as grim as a pallbearer at the wheel. It was a solemn affair: he was one of us. The target was my boss’s oldest friend, Semyon Vochin, currently hiding out at his safe house on East 49th Street. Tonight, the sensation of surrounding pressure was intense. I was just one of many sharks swimming beneath the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan, a single quiet voice drowned by the incessant, pounding roar of the city. ![]() One of the first things every new mage learns about magic is that-despite your newly discovered powers over the universe-you are forever a struggling speck of krill in a very large, very cold, very dangerous ocean. Foreign words without a link have the translation in the same sentence.*** Chapter 1 Click any word with a link to see the meaning. Stained Glass | Book 2 *** Please note this book has a hyperlinked translation guide. Thank you for picking up Blood Hound! Join my mailing list and get your free copy of Burn Artist, the Hound of Eden Prequel: Books in the Alexi Sokolsky series Available now from Amazon and Kindle Unlimited ![]()
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![]() If convicted, Pamuk faces three years in prison. Last August, an Istanbul public prosecutor charged him with the 'public denigration of Turkish identity'. He returned to Turkey late last spring, hoping it had all blown over. Following several death threats, he went into hiding abroad. So the day after his interview appeared, the Turkish press launched a fierce attack on Pamuk, branding him a traitor, accusing him of having used the virtually illegal word genocide (although he had not) and inviting 'civil society' to 'silence' him. ![]() To suggest otherwise - or even to use the word genocide - is to insult the nation's founding myth and therefore Turkey's honour. Although most of the world acknowledges the genocide as historical fact, the official Turkish line has been that 'only' a few hundred thousand died during the internecine conflicts of the First World War. ![]() ![]() ![]() They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. ![]() In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders - Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" ( Kirkus Reviews) ![]() ![]() Georgia Sitara, for BC Studies What Was Said to Me is a beautiful and generous gift our Aunty, Stitumatulwut, has shared with us. Its lessons are Cowichan and invaluable to all who want to live an honorable, and ethical life. Without her passion, commitment and expertise, this rich legacy of material would not exist for future generations Review Quotes The stories contained in this book are wonderful reminders about the centrality of care, and of listening, for a life well-lived. She contributed to dictionaries and grammars, and helped assemble a valuable corpus of stories, sound and video files-with more than 10,000 pages of texts from Hulquminum speakers-that has been described as a treasure of linguistic and cultural knowledge. Over seven decades, Stitumatulwut mentored hundreds of students and teachers and helped thousands of people to develop a basic knowledge of the Hulquminum language. Ruby Peter-a Cowichan elder who made it her lifes work to share and safeguard the ancient language of her people: Hulquminum. This first-person oral history-the first of its kind ever published by the Royal BC Museum-documents a period of profound social change through the lens of Stitumatulwut-also known as Mrs. ![]() Life histories are a form of contemporary social history and convey important messages about identity, cosmology, social behaviour and ones place in the world. ![]() ![]() Book Synopsis A narrative of resistance and resilience spanning seven decades in the life of a tireless advocate for Indigenous language preservation. ![]() ![]() ![]() And this is one of those instances where the prose and illustrations are both equally important to the story. The prose is surprisingly thoughtful and complex and is perfectly matched by the wonderfully detailed illustrations. Locke & Key is insanely creative and wildly unique, the perfect pairing of medium and story. I’ve died a thousand times and I’ve always come back. For the first time in my life, I think that a series of graphic novels might be contenders for my favorite reading experience of the year. They’ve also been on my TBR list for literally years, so what better time to take the plunge? I’m so glad I did. ![]() Since I have this thing about reading this book before seeing the show or movie, I knew I needed to read these immediately. That craving hit early this year when I saw that Netflix was developing the Locke & Key series of graphic novels into their own original series. This is not generally my genre of choice, but it makes for a fun departure from my usual reading. Two or three times a year, I get a random and powerful craving for graphic novels. ![]() ![]() It will delight admirers of comic masterpieces like Slaughterhouse-Five, The Crying of Lot 49, and Catch-22. The Four Fingers of Death is a stunningly inventive, sometimes hilarious, monumental novel. ![]() In the ensuing days, it crawls through the heartbroken wasteland of a civilization at its breaking point, economically and culturally-a dystopia of lowlife, emigration from America, and laughable lifestyle alternatives. The arm may hold the secret to reanimation or it may simply be an infectious killing machine. Only a lonely human arm (missing its middle finger) returns to earth, crash-landing in the vast Sonoran Desert of Arizona. ![]() When a secret mission to retrieve a flesh-eating bacterium for use in bio-warfare is uncovered, mayhem ensues. Three space pods with nine Americans on board travel three months, expecting to spend three years as the planet's first colonists. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror classic, "The Crawling Hand." Crandall tells therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching at last its doomed manned mission to the desolation of Mars. ![]() Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness of his wife. ![]() ![]() ![]() I never thought I’d write a whole book about Du Bois. He really encapsulated the struggle for Black freedom and equality throughout the 20th century in the United States and throughout the broader African diaspora. ![]() ![]() To Williams, Du Bois was “singular” because of the sheer span of his life: “Ninety-five years born in 1868 during the presidency of Johnson, during Reconstruction, he dies the day before the March on Washington, in Ghana in 1963. “I started reading his other books like Black Reconstruction in America and really came to appreciate him as the most significant Black intellectual and scholar activist in American history.” It is truly one of those timeless, classic books. It had history, sociology, philosophy, music. It was really undefinable as far as discipline. I remember not knowing what to make of this very strange book that had all of these powerful metaphors in it. “My first encounter with Du Bois was during my freshman year at UCLA, in a course on African American nationalism when I read The Souls of Black Folks. “I thought I was going to go to law school but then I realized I didn’t want to be like my parents,” Williams said. Williams lives in Needham, Massachusetts, with his wife, Madeleine Lopez, who directs the Center for Inclusive Excellence at Regis College, and their three children. The Guardian caught up with him just after he arrived in his hometown, San Francisco, where he was combining promotion for The Wounded World with a reunion with his sister and his parents, both retired attorneys. ![]() ![]() ![]() When a mysterious death rocks their fragile peace, the four are brought into each other's orbits as they uncover a deeper magical conspiracy.ĭevastating, gorgeous, and utterly unique, We All Fall Down examines the complex network of pain created by power differentials, even between people who love each other-and how it is possible to be queer and turn out just fine. Moving between the decaying Old City and the ruthless New, four young queer people struggle with the daily hazards of life-work, school, dodging ruthless cops and unscrupulous scientists-not realizing that they have been selected to play in an age-old drama that revives the flow of magic through their world. Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo 5,471 ratings, 3.40 average rating, 1,465 reviews What Big Teeth Quotes Showing 1-20 of 20 My love is a haunted house, a ghost possessing his own body, a fire that burns itself alive. The city's crumbling government is now controlled primarily by the new university and teaching hospital, which has grown to take over half of the city. In River City, where magic used to thrive and is now fading, the witches who once ruled the city along with their powerful King have become all but obsolete. ![]() The first book in a dark fantasy YA duology by Rose Szabo, the author of What Big Teeth, about the power and danger of stories and the untold costs of keeping magic alive, perfect for fans of Rory Power and Marie Rutkoski. ![]() ![]() Search for technology? - special war tech. ![]() spying/sabotage Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book Spying/Terrorism Thriller - Yes Cloak & Dagger Plotlets: - main char. The Cardinal of the Kremlin is the third Jack Ryan novel to be written by Tom Clancy, and the fifth to occur chronologically. ![]() (people, objects, places) 10% Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear) The Cardinal of the Kremlin (A Jack Ryan Novel Book 3) Kindle Edition. of violence and chases 20% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 58.3% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 11.7% How society works & physical descript. ![]() Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Composition of Book descript. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mouth to Mouth is available to purchase here. Readers will love the intensity between these two love-resistant characters and the chemistry that draws them together. Despite their instant infatuation with one another, Rory keeps his distance, convinced he needs to stay far away from Olivia for her own good. Rory Prince has a prison record and a penchant for saving naive college freshman Olive Cunningham’s life. Mouth to Mouth by Tessa BaileyĪnother unlikely match awaits you in this whirlwind romance book from New York Times Best-Seller Tessa Bailey. Will these unlikely lovers turn out to be a match made in heaven, or will their differences and Abby’s past keep them apart?įind out by picking up your copy today. Fans of Heart Bones will treasure the sweet romance and get caught up in the palpable angst between good girl Abby Abernathy (who’s trying to escape her troubling past) and bad boy Travis Maddox (who wonders how Abby can resist his charm). New York Times Bestselling author Jamie McGuire brings you this intense, sexy story of opposites attract. Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful #1) by Jamie McGuire ![]() |