5/11/2023 0 Comments Red metal greaneyIn his research for the Gray Man novels, including Relentless, One Minute Out, Mission Critical, Agent in Place, Gunmetal Gray, Back Blast, Dead Eye, Ballistic, On Target, and The Gray Man, he traveled to more than fifteen countries and trained alongside military and law enforcement in the use of firearms, battlefield medicine, and close-range combative tactics. Mark Greaney (Author) Mark Greaney has a degree in international relations and political science. Through grand land, sea, and air battles to a small unit fighting hand-to-hand in the jungle, Russia and the US face off in a terrifying but thrilling battle for world dominance - with constant the threat of a Russian nuclear detonation ever present. Pitted against the Russians are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy Pentagon job, a French Special Forces captain and his intelligence operative father, a young Polish partisan fighter, an A-10 Warthog pilot, and the commander of an American tank platoon who, along with his German counterpart, fight from behind enemy lines. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo From the New York Times bestselling author of the Gray Man series comes a startlingly realistic novel of World War III.Ī desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three Rare Earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control over the world's hi-tech sector for generations to come.
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Sonnets from theThe sonnets chronicle the poet's emotional journey as she goes through a transformation from a middle-aged invalid resigned to her melancholy existence to a grateful and confident woman with a hopeful future. When she finally shared them with Robert three years after their marriage, he declared the sonnets the best since Shakespeare's and encouraged her to publish them. The couple exchanged nearly six hundred letters during the courtship, but the sonnets were a private record Elizabeth kept of her feelings and the progress of their relationship. They met in May 1845 and, following a passionate but (due to objections from her father) secret courtship, eloped to Italy in September 1846. Robert Browning, who was still a promising but struggling poet at the time, wrote to her expressing admiration for her work. Įlizabeth Barrett was already an established poet in 1844 when a volume of her work Poems was published. Considered to be the first true sonnet sequence in English since the Elizabethan period, Sonnets from the Portuguese is also notable for being written from the point of view of a woman. First published in 1850, the forty-four love sonnets in the sequence were written by Elizabeth Barrett between 18 during her courtship with the poet Robert Browning, her future husband. Sonnets from the Portuguese is a sonnet sequence by the Victorian English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 1916 Photographic Illustration for Sonnets from the Portuguese by Adelaide Hanscom Leeson. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Warriors into the wild catsVirtually blind and deaf.ĭappletail-once-pretty tortoiseshell she-cat with a lovely dappled coat. One-eye-pale gray she-cat, the oldest cat in ThunderClan. Halftail-big dark brown tabby tom with part of his tail missing. Speckletail-pale tabby, and the oldest nursery queen. Ravenpaw-small, skinny black tom with a tiny white dash on his chest, and white-tipped tailįrostfur-beautiful white coat and blue eyes. Willowpelt-very pale gray she-cat with unusual blue eyes. Longtail-pale tabby tom with dark black stripes. Tigerclaw-big dark brown tabby tom with unusually long front claws.ĭarkstripe-sleek black-and-gray tabby tom. Lionheart-magnificent golden tabby tom with thick fur like a lion's mane. Spottedleaf-beautiful dark tortoiseshell she-cat with a distinctive dappled coat. Redtail-small tortoiseshell tom with a distinctive ginger tail. Bluestar-blue-gray she-cat, tinged with silver around her muzzle. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Wild wild rake by janna macgregorDevan wishes he didn't have to meddle in her affairs he's not one to trod on a woman's independent nature and keen sense of convictions. Devan Farris comes to town.Ĭan he convince her to take another chance at happily ever after?ĭevan Farris-charming vicar, reputed rake, and the brother of Avalon's son's guardian-is reluctantly sent to town to keep tabs on Avalon and her son. She's lived these past ten years with no desire to remarry-that is, until Mr. Finally, Avalon can live freely and do the work she loves: helping fallen women become businesswomen. Arrogant, selfish, and cruel, it's a blessing when she's widowed and left to raise her son all by herself. Lady Avalon Warwyk never did love her husband. , the next sweeping, emotional, witty, and sharp romance in the Cavensham Heiresses series from beloved author Janna MacGregor. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Lore olympus book comDon't miss the previous title: Lore Olympus: vol. This book is based on the number 1 Webtoon, Lore Olympus. This volume collects episodes 26-49 of the #1 WEBTOON comic Lore Olympus. Lore Olympus (Volume 1) book review a graphic novel for anyone that loves art and a modern-retelling of Greek mythology, especially the retelling of Hades and Persephone. This edition of Smythe's original Eisner-winning webcomic Lore Olympus brings Greek mythology into the modern age in a sharply perceptive and romantic graphic novel. As the pair are drawn ever closer, they must untangle the twisted webs of their past and present to build toward a new future. Hades is also off-balance, fighting against his burgeoning feelings for the young goddess of spring while maintaining his lonely rule of the Underworld. However, she quickly discovered the dark side of her glamorous new home - from the relatively minor gossip threatening her reputation to a realm-shattering violation of her safety by the conceited Apollo - and she's struggling to find her footing in the fast-moving realm of the gods. Persephone was ready to start a new life when she left the mortal realm for Olympus. Witness what the gods do after dark in the second volume of a stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of the best-known stories in Greek mythology, featuring a brand-new, exclusive short story from creator Rachel Smythe. 5/10/2023 0 Comments The radetzky march by joseph rothAnd everything that had once existed left its traces so that in those days people lived on memories, just as now they live by the capacity to forget quickly and completely.” Everything that grew took its time in growing and everything that was destroyed took a long time to be forgotten. Close neighbors and casual passers-by alike, when they saw the empty space, remembered the aspect and walls of the vanished house. When fire had eaten away a house from the row of others in a street, the burnt-out space remained long empty. When one of the living had been extinguished another did not at once take his place in order to obliterate him: there was a gap where he had been, and both close and distant witnesses of his demise fell silent whenever they became aware of his gap. “In those days before the Great War when the events narrated in this book took place, it had not yet become a matter of indifference whether a man lived or died. If he can find it in time, he might stand a chance.įour past Midnight: "The Sun Dog, " a menacing black dog, appears in every Polaroid picture that fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan takes with his new birthday gift-with each following photograph beckoning him to the supernatural. But for small businessman Sam Peebles, who thinks he may be losing his mind, another enemy is hiding there as well-the truth. Three past Midnight: “The Library Policeman” is set in Junction City, Iowa, an unlikely place for evil to be hiding. Alone, that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger. Two past Midnight: “Secret Window, Secret Garden” enters the suddenly strange life of writer Mort Rainey, recently divorced, depressed, and alone on the shore of Tashmore Lake. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn’t. One past Midnight: “The Langoliers” takes a red-eye flight from LA to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Four chiller novellas set to keep readers awake long after bedtime, with an introduction and prefatory notes to each from King. 5/10/2023 0 Comments A Lady Dares by Bronwyn Scottbut his sensual kisses could be worth the risk …A Lady DaresAccording to society, I, Elise Sutton, haven’t been a lady for quite some time – a lady couldn’t possibly run the family company and spend her days on London’s crowded, tar-stained docks. О книге "Regency Gamble: A Lady Risks All / A Lady Dares"Ī Lady Risks AllIt would be unwise to mistake me for an innocent debutante – for years I have graced the smoky gloom of many a billiards club and honed my skills at my father’s side.But now he has a new protégé – a Captain Greer Barrington – and while my father would see me attract the attentions of an eligible lord, I, Mercedes Lockhart, have other ambitions… Even if that means seducing the Captain to earn back my father’s favour! I know I must avoid falling for Greer’s charming smile. 5/10/2023 0 Comments The bloody chamber bluebeardIn 1969 Angela Carter used the proceeds of her Somerset Maugham Award to leave her husband and relocate for two years to Tokyo, Japan, where she claims in Nothing Sacred (1982) that she "learnt what it is to be a woman and became radicalised." She wrote about her experiences there in articles for New Society and a collection of short stories, Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (1974), and evidence of her experiences in Japan can also be seen in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972). She married twice, first in 1960 to Paul Carter. Carter attended the University of Bristol where she studied English literature. She began work as a journalist on the Croydon Advertiser, following in the footsteps of her father. Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne, in 1940, Carter was evacuated as a child to live in Yorkshire with her maternal grandmother. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Brown natasha assembly 2019Cookies help us improve the Herschel Sites and optimize your experience. This information does not identify you personally. It can only be read by the server that sent it to you. A cookie is a small text file that is transferred by a web server and stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device. Like many websites, the Herschel Sites use “cookies” to maintain a record of your visit. If you aren’t able to make it in-person, this event is also available online on a pay as you can basis, find all the necessary info via the book ticket link. In 2019, she received a London Writers Award in the literary fiction category. Natasha Brown is a writer who lives in London. She was one of The Observer’s 10 best debut novelists of 2021 and works part-time as Assistant Arts Editor at the Financial Times. Rebecca Watson is the author of little scratch, which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize. Natasha Brown’s Assembly and Rebecca Watson’s little scratch may be slight in page count, yet contain multitudes to unpack about the contemporary lives of women. These two brilliant experimental debuts break apart the form of the novel itself to invite fresh perspectives on tough themes of sexual violence, systemic racial abuse and class oppression. How do we exist in a world with many deep-rooted social issues? How do we remain civil in this hostile environment? How do we keep going? |