![]() ![]() PULL ME CLOSE | MAKE ME STAY | KISS ME BACK | WHAT ABOUT USĪlex is in Duality, trying to close on a business deal. And no dress code.ĭon’t miss Sidney Halston’s Panic series: I’ll be his personal assistant, even if it means working with the man I hate. After twelve years, we aren’t exactly friends, but money is something we both understand. So here I am, practically naked, serving drinks at a Miami nightclub. Helen: Growing up, life prepared me for society galas and powerful men, not minimum-wage jobs or drunk exes with anger issues. or my urge to protect her when I see the bruise on her face. And yet I can’t deny my electric response to her touch. Her father’s lies destroyed my family, leaving me with nothing to lose. The girl who once filled my youthful fantasies, whose name is now synonymous with pain. Until, through all the skin and sex on display, I see her. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m here to seal a deal, not indulge in whatever hedonistic illusion they’re selling. Irresistible beats and tantalizing bodies heat up the night at South Beach’s most scandalous new club.Īlex: I hate doing business in clubs. Where you can find What About Us: Amazon | Barnes and Noble Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, Loveswept ![]()
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![]() ![]() And although Paige is ready for her, she’s not quite so prepared for the team of supernaturals that Leah brings with her, including a powerful sorcerer who claims to be Savannah’s father. But then a telekinetic half-demon, Leah O’Donnell, shows up to fight for custody of Savannah. Okay, so she’s leader of the American Coven and guardian of Savannah, the teenage daughter of a black witch. Just an ordinary twenty-something who runs her own website design company, worries about her weight and wonders if she’ll ever find a boyfriend. Take Paige, for instance, whom we first met in Kelley Armstrong’s novel Stolen. They have integrated so well into the community, you could have a witch living right next door and never know about it. For years real witches have hidden their powers, afraid of being persecuted. Real witches are nothing, NOTHING like this. ![]() įorget the cackling green hag in The Wizard of Oz, forget Samantha from Bewitched. From Canada’s new queen of suspense, another hugely entertaining supernatural thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The criminals who hired Billy find this cover story to be ironic due to Billy’s “dumb self” mask, but Billy, who secretly reveres Émile Zola and Tim O’Brien, is attracted to the idea of putting his own story on paper. The payday for this final assignment is astronomical, and the target undeniably deserves his fate, but what really convinces Billy to take on the job is the cover: He’ll have to pose as a writer who’s renting space in an office building to complete his first novel. Though he only kills bad people (he considers himself “a garbageman with a gun”), Billy is tired of the isolation and violence his chosen career entails, as well as of the dull, incurious persona he puts on to deflect the attention of the dangerous people who hire him. Though this novel includes many classic King touchstones-revenge, a writer hero, unlikely friendships, trauma, justice-its dedication to realism and intense, almost meditative focus on the titular main character make it a standout among his works.Īs the novel opens, 44-year-old military sniper-turned-assassin Billy Summers is reluctantly agreeing to take on one last job. Five decades into an almost singularly successful career, Stephen King goes in an intriguing new direction with Billy Summers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His father, Tim Lockwood, is skeptical about Flint's latest endeavor, imploring hi son to work at the family tackle shop Tim's Bait and Tackle. ![]() However, the machine needs a large amount of power, which Flint quickly discovers when he blows all the fuses in his house. However, this doesn't deter Flint, for his next goal is to complete the Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator (FLDSMDFR), a machine that can turn water into food, in an effort to expand the town's diet. Therefore, he grew up isolated from his peers, his monkey lab assistant Steve being his only friend in the town. ![]() However, in the coming years, every invention, from Spray-on Shoes to solve the "untied shoes epidemic" to the Flying Car that doesn't fly and the, causes chaos and catastrophe, causing Flint to be viewed as an outcast in society. Flint's goal is to use his passion for invention to create something that would improve the lives of its citizens. His hometown of Swallow Falls, a tiny island in the Atlantic Ocean whose economy was built on sardines, has fallen on hard times after "everyone in the world realized that sardines are super gross." Forced to eat the sardines they could no longer export, Swallow Falls fell into an uninspired, depressive slump. From a young age, aspiring scientist Flint Lockwood dreams of making the world a better place. ![]() ![]() As a couple, they would be less likely to be conscripted to fight for the rebels, and less likely to be abused in the case of an army victory. Marriage, in this world, is an attempt at safety, like the beached fishing boat under which Dinesh huddles during the bombings. Alienated from family, home, language, and body, he exists in a state of mute acceptance, numb to the violence around him, till he is approached one morning by an old man who makes an unexpected proposal: that Dinesh marry his daughter, Ganga. ![]() ![]() Amongst the evacuees is Dinesh, whose world has contracted to a makeshift camp where time is measured by the shells that fall around him like clockwork. Two and a half decades into a devastating civil war, Sri Lanka's Tamil minority is pushed inexorably towards the coast by the advancing army. ![]() ![]() ![]() 6 seditious conspiracy cases.The question is whether special counsel Jack Smith will indict former President Donald Trump and other political organizers of the Jan. It is possible the Justice Department is becoming increasingly confident in its ability to win complex Jan. Followers of two extremist groups have now been convicted of seditious conspiracy: Oath Keepers in March, and yesterday, Proud Boys. But more than 400 have faced prosecution for higher-level crimes, and at least 237 have been sentenced to prison.Second, Thursday’s conviction hints at prosecutions that may come. ![]() As of April, law enforcement had arrested 1,020 people for participating in the Capitol assault. Most of those brought to trial have faced only minor charges. ![]() First, it’s a symbol of the grinding Justice Department effort to hold accountable those responsible for Jan. ![]() government.The verdict is important for two reasons. The juror told Vice News that it was the Proud Boys’ own texts and messages that convinced the jury the men had engaged in seditious conspiracy – an effort to “overthrow, put down, or destroy by force” the U.S. and the fact they wanted to do so much in secret.”That’s what a juror said following Thursday’s conviction of four members of the Proud Boys far-right extremist group for plotting to attack the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() If I order a steak dinner, with ministrone soup and a baked potato, and you bring out the ministrone and baked potato in 15 minutes, then tell me after an hour, it'll be another hour for the steak, then after that hour, tell me 2 more hours, then after those 2 hours, tell me you don't know when the steak will be ready, I have a right to be annoyed by that, and most people would walk out of the restaurant and possibly never return if that happened. I am entitled to be a little annoyed by that, or to question when the book might come out. You sold it as a trilogy and let me purchase 2/3rds of the product, and are now delaying the final 1/3rd of the product for a significant period of time. As a customer, we're also entitled to say "this is taking too long and it's making me an unsatisfied customer." If you put a book series out, and advertise and release it as a trilogy, you have some obligation to release things in a reasonably timely manner, keep people updated on your status, and not miss too many deadlines. To everyone saying that Pat Rothfuss is not your bitch that's fine, you're entitled to that opinion. ![]() ![]() Still, she lives by her mother's words- Simply to endure is to triumph-and gradually, she forms friendships with the other girls that enable her to survive in this terrifying new world. ![]() Lakshmi's life becomes a nightmare from which she cannot escape. She tells Lakshmi that she is trapped there until she can pay off her family's debt-then cheats Lakshmi of her meager earnings so that she can never leave. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution.Īn old woman named Mumtaz rules the brothel with cruelty and cunning. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi journeys to India and arrives at "Happiness House" full of hope. He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid in the city. ![]() But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The question, why can’t they just get over it? The answer isn’t in the horror of the abuse,” says Good, 64, from Savona, west of Kamloops, B.C. ![]() Good, a member of Red Pheasant Cree Nation west of Saskatoon, says she drew from these experiences in crafting her acclaimed debut novel, “Five Little Indians,” with a braided narrative that shifts focus from the historic infliction of harm to how Indigenous people carry that trauma with them into the present day. Michelle Good says her book “Five Little Indians” is her response to a frustrating question that often comes up in discussions about Indigenous people and Canada’s residential schools: “Why can’t they just get over it?”Īs an advocate, lawyer and daughter of a residential school survivor, Good says the devastating long-term impacts of the government-run system are woven into the fabric of her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Humanism suggests that we are members of an intelligent and sociable species who can act according to our will while connecting the well-being of other members with our own. Discussing humanism in dialogue with other systems, Todorov finds a response to the predicament of modernity that is far more instructive than any offered by conservatism, scientific determinism, existential individualism, or humanism's other contemporary competitors. Each chapter considers humanism's approach to one major theme of human existence: liberty, social life, love, self, morality, and expression. Todorov reads afresh the works of major humanists-primarily Montaigne, Rousseau, and Constant, but also Descartes, Montesquieu, and Toqueville. Through his critical but sympathetic excavation of humanism, Tzvetan Todorov seeks an answer to modernity's fundamental challenge: how to maintain our hard-won liberty without paying too dearly in social ties, common values, and a coherent and responsible sense of self. In it, one of France's most prominent intellectuals explores the foundations, limits, and possibilities of humanist thinking. ![]() Available in English for the first time, Imperfect Garden is both an approachable intellectual history and a bracing treatise on how we should understand and experience our lives. ![]() |