![]() ![]() Resolving to meet the threat head-on, she prepares for the toughest fight of her life but finds herself falling for a man who can only complicate her likelihood of survival. ![]() To her horror, the information she acquires only makes her situation more dangerous. But it means taking one last job for her ex-employers. When her former handler offers her a way out, she realizes it's her only chance to erase the giant target on her back. They've killed the only other person she trusted, but something she knows still poses a threat. Now she rarely stays in the same place or uses the same name for long. And when they decided she was a liability, they came for her without warning. An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't even have a name. She used to work for the US government, but very few people ever knew that. In this gripping thriller, an ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Lucy Foley lived in the country estate for two summers. The novel setting is closely based on Fort William, a real country estate in the Western Scottish Islands that the author knows well. Published by HarperCollins, The Hunting Party follows a group of old friends on a get-together party to celebrate the New Year in a remote cottage in Scotland. Part psychological suspense part classic crime written in Agatha Christie style, The Hunting Party, is a great read appealing on many levels. This stylish and yet suspenseful novel assumes the notion of the “locked room mystery,” and detailed applies it to an opulent hunting cottage in the Scottish highlands where a small group of friends find themselves caught up in a blizzard. One of Lucy Foley popular books is The Hunting Party, a suspense novel that will surely appease the fans of Ruth Ware and Agatha Christie. Lucy is a graduate of UCL and Durham universities where she majored in English Literature. Her experience as an editor, seeing drafts day in and day out motivated her to become a writer. Prior to switching to full-time writing, Foley worked as an editor at Headline and later at Hodder where she was involved with young adult writers including Lauren Oliver and Laini Taylor. Lucy Foley is an English author of contemporary, historical fiction, mystery and fiction books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is named after the Polish-American book-dealer Wilfrid M. This string of failures has turned the Voynich manuscript into a famous subject of historical cryptology, but it has also given weight to the theory that the book is simply an elaborate hoax - a meaningless sequence of arbitrary symbols" (Wikipedia article on the Voynich Manuscript). "Over its recorded existence, the Voynich manuscript has been the object of intense study by many professional and amateur cryptographers, including some top American and British codebreakers of World War II fame (all of whom failed to decrypt a single word). However, its author, script and language remain unknown, and for centuries it was believed that the manuscript might have been intentionally meaningless. The Voynich manuscript, a mysterious illustrated manuscript book written in what long appeared to be an indecipherable text, has been the subject of much research and speculation for centuries. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first-person confession of a murderer, The White Tiger is as compelling for its subject matter as for the voice of its narrator – amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet deeply endearing. The White Tiger presents a raw and unromanticised India, both thrilling and shocking – from the desperate, almost lawless villages along the Ganges, to the booming Wild South of Bangalore and its technology and outsourcing centres. As he drives his master to shopping malls and call centres, Balram becomes increasingly aware of immense wealth and opportunity all around him, while knowing that he will never be able to gain access to that world.Īs Balram broods over his situation, he realizes that there is only one way he can become part of this glamorous new India – by murdering his master. ![]() ![]() He was the servent of BP Sinha, the then powerful Mafia cum Politician. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables.īut Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. The White Tiger - 9781838953904 - Fiction & Literature - Heres a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. The Novel is based on the life story of Surya Dev Singh, the great Coal Mafia of Dhanbad. WINNER OF THE GALAXY BRITISH BOOK AWARDS ’AUTHOR OF THE YEAR Buy this book from .uk to support The Reading Agency and local bookshops at no additional cost to you. ![]() ![]() This offers an important assurance to children who are not in a position to repay love shown to them, even while it does show that love should lead us to want to help others. However, the book also ends with the important message that love does not necessarily require need: love can be freely given without the expectation of reward. This book introduces the reality that love is often illogical and causes us to not always keep our own interests balanced with the interests of those we love. It stands in sharp contrast to "The Giving Tree" which has received criticism for its apparent endorsement of toxic, self-destructive, self-sacrifice for others. ![]() Words: I was impressed with the thematic complexity this book achieved given, as I've said, its narration is sparse and makes use of very basic vocabulary. I lack the vocabulary to describe the intricate pen and ink swirls that make up the night skies in which are often hidden shapes and images. ![]() The limited color palette worked well with the sparse narration, but could never leave the illustration described as simplistic. I was reminded of comics/graphic novels in the panel approach to showing the growth and diminishment of the moon. ![]() Illustrations: I found this book visually striking. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sent to a prestigious boarding school and later to university, Cecelia believed high society was at her fingertips…Then, from out of nowhere, she became the inheritor of a gambling establishment. IN THIS GAME OF LOVE, THE RULES DO NOT APPLYĬecelia Teague was an orphan facing a rather dire future-until a secret benefactor from her mother’s scandalous past swept into her life. His mission: To investigate the goings-on at London’s most notorious gaming hell, owned and operated by one of the most intriguing and desirable women he’s ever met. ![]() His title: Lord Chief Justice of the High Court. A strong and imposing Scot who can turn on the charm but does not suffer fools. ![]() A man who’s made his own way through ruthless cunning and sheer force of will. And there is only one woman who can bring them to their knees… They are a dangerous duke, a fierce lord, and an infamous earl-dark, bold, brave men who know exactly what they want. ![]() ![]() ![]() As much as I wanted to keep some of my reservations, it didn’t take very long for me to become so totally absorbed in the story and its characters, so much that it was impossible not to become invested in them. And let me be honest with you, the story I read was so very different to what I had expected to find. But, like in most things in life, when enough trusted people tell you that you HAVE to do something, you start questioning your resolve and eventually take the plunge into something that equally terrifies and intrigues you. I was late to that ‘party’, aware only of all the hype surrounding the book, its resident bad boy, and some of the themes that left me certain I would find them questionable as well, so I put it aside, pretended it didn’t exist, never really planning on jumping on the ‘Travis Maddox train’. Those who know me well might know how afraid and fairly unwilling I have been to read Beautiful Disaster. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was released in the United States in August 2008. Jimmy the Hand was first released by HarperCollins on Jin the United Kingdom. Assuming the villagers have never encountered someone with his talents he becomes optimistic about broadening his horizons, but is unprepared for what greets him. To lay low Jimmy flees south to the town of Land's End. Due to aiding Prince Arutha and Princess Anita escape Krondor, in the events of Silverthorn, he runs afoul of Guy Du Bas-Tyra's secret police. Jimmy is a 13- to 16-year-old thief in the city of Krondor. The book explores part of the early life of one of the main characters of The Riftwar Saga, Jimmy the Hand, and sits chronologically between Silverthorn and A Darkness at Sethanon. The third and final book in Legends of the Riftwar it forms part of Feist's Riftwar Cycle set in the fictional world of Midkemia. But new challenges awaited Arutha, the Prince of Krondor, when Jimmy the. For nearly a year peace reigned in the enchanted kingdom of Rillanon. Raymond E Feist a veritablement bâti un univers unique. This ebook contains Silverthorn and A Darkness at Sethanon, books two and three of the Rift War Saga by Raymond E. Accompagné de Jimmy les mains vives et de Laurie le ménestrel, le prince va reprendre la route pour contrer ce péril. Jimmy the Hand is a fantasy novel by American writers Raymond E. Celle-ci, blessée, ne peut être sauvée que par une mystérieuse plante, le silverthorn. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a philosophy echoing the real-world politics of the power of religion and is most detailed in the novel Small Gods. Gods on the Discworld exist as long as people believe in them and their power grows as their followers increase. Most gods remain small and unknown, but a very few come to the notice of humanity, whose belief then shapes and strengthens them until they gather enough power to join the Disc's vast, unwieldy pantheon. ![]() Gods exist in potentia in numbers uncountable, but the moment an event of any note occurs - say, two snails happening to cross at a single point - a god becomes tied to it and begins to manifest in the physical world. ![]() Gods are everywhere on the Discworld, a crucial element of the world's peculiar ecology that gives power to belief and demands resolution to any and all narratives. Because reality on the Disc is so fragile and malleable, belief has a tendency to take on a life of its own, and Gods are far more obvious to the people of the Disc than they appear to us. The Discworld, being a flat disc supported on the backs of four elephants on top of a giant flying turtle, exists in a region of the universe where reality is somewhat less consistent than it appears in our own, more mundane corner of existence. ![]() ![]() Several school districts in Middle Tennessee told WSMV4 Investigates that they operate similarly to the Wilson County Book Review Committee, saying parents and the public are not given prior notice of when their relevant committees meet to review challenged materials. ![]() “I think it is important that parents like me and parents on the other side of this argument are able to see what is discussed at the book review committee,” Patrick-Wright said. Patrick-Wright said one of her biggest concerns is the school board already having its mind made up over whether to remove challenged books, saying if the committee’s work and discussions are not made public, the school board may be more likely to follow the recommendations of the teachers, parents and media specialists reading the books, and not bow to the political pressure of people making passionate speeches before the board. ![]() “I think here in Tennessee, we’re seeing what happened when government is conducted behind closed doors,” Patrick-Wright said. ![]() |