![]() ![]() Who was the real target in this vicious attack? What at first seems cut and dry is anything but: Not only did the judge have more enemies than Decker can count-from violent gang members, drug dealers, and smugglers to a resentful ex-husband-but the bodyguard presents additional conundrums that muddy the waters even further. ![]() When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears straightforward: A federal judge and her bodyguard have been found dead, the judge’s face sporting a blindfold with two eye holes crudely cut out, a clear sign that she’d made one too many enemies over her years on the bench. From the author of The 6:20 Man, “Memory Man” Amos Decker-an FBI consultant with perfect recall-delves into a bewildering double homicide in this new thriller in David Baldacci’s #1 New York Times bestselling series. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It seems that Prince Charles Edward Stuart and his followers will finally achieve their desire to regain the throne of Great Britain for King James. Desperately unhappy, the couple try to convince themselves that their role is crucial to the cause, but hope that Charles will relent and allow them to leave London and join him.Their wish is granted, but not in the way they expect, and soon they find themselves fleeing for their lives.In the meantime the Jacobites are gathering strength and heading south, winning decisive victories along the way. ![]() His clansmen meanwhile head north to join the rebels. At his prince’s command, Alex, trapped by his own success as a spy, reluctantly remains in London with Beth. Prince Charles is in Scotland gathering the clans and they are rising, ready to fight and if necessary, die for him. THE FOURTH BOOK IN THE ENTHRALLING SERIES FOLLOWING THE FASCINATING LIVES OF BETH AND ALEX MACGREGOR, THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDSIt is 1745 and the rebellion that the Jacobites have worked towards for so many years is finally under way. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A lifetime of rebellion against God had brought him to a moment where he was staring into the depths of eternity, teetering on the edge of belief.” “His tone was marked by a sincerity that wasn’t typical of the man,” Taunton writes. Once, he asked Taunton if his friend understood why he, Hitchens, did not believe in God. Those 2010 conversations, shortly after Hitchens was diagnosed with the esophageal cancer that would kill him 18 months later, took a serious turn. The author is Larry Alex Taunton, an evangelical Christian who knew Hitchens for three years and, he says, had private, unrecorded conversations with him about Christianity. That is the provocative claim of “The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World’s Most Notorious Atheist,” a controversial new book winning both applause and scorn while underscoring, again, the divide between believers and atheists that Hitchens’ own life and work often displayed. Before his death at 62, Christopher Hitchens, the uber-atheist and best-selling author of “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything,” considered becoming a Christian. ![]() ![]() ![]() The culture of Burning Man provides an opportunity to celebrate the world and humanity in an authentic expressed form.”Īs a cultural co-founder of Burning Man, an annual weeklong communal gathering in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert in late summer, Roger has been a part of the event for 25 years. “When at Burning Man, the ‘10 Principles,’- unconditional love and overpowering creativity-are some of the things that make Black Rock City different from the default culture and powerful as a life changer. ![]() “The key words are ‘Burning Man community,’ as compared to what we call the ‘default culture’-the culture we live in outside the event, where people often feel separated from each other,” says Will Roger. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She served briefly as a Red Guard and worked a variety of odd jobs in the countryside before turning to studying English. More recently, she's made waves with "Mao: The Unknown Story" - the scathing, 800-plus page biography of the Chinese leader that she wrote with her husband, historian Jon Halliday.īorn in 1952 in Sichuan, a province in China's southwest, Chang came of age during the height of the Cultural Revolution. The best-selling author of "Wild Swans," an account of three generations of women in her family, Chang gained a following for her frank portrait of life in China in the 20th century. ![]() London, England (CNN) - Whether in the form of personal history or political biography, Jung Chang has spent her writerly life telling the story of China's tumultuous recent past. We asked author Jung Chang to give us her view on China and how it's changing. She hopes the country will find a way to debate the past without inhibitionĬhina is one of the countries we're featuring on Global Connections, a segment on CNN's Connect the World that takes two very different countries and asks you to find the connections.She says she feels frustrated by China's repression of expression. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vile Bodies – 1930 – this is a novel that satirises the decadent young London society between the two World Wars.It’s a social satire that employs his famous black humour in lampooning various features of British society in the 1920s. Decline and Fall – 1928 – this was Waugh’s first published novel and is based in part on his schooldays at Lancing College, undergraduate years at Hertford College, Oxford and his experience as a teacher at Arnold House in north Wales.but burned the manuscript after his friend Harold Acton commented unfavourably. The Temple at Thatch – 1924-25 – an unpublished novel that was his first attempt at full-length fiction.Unacademic Exercise: A Nature Story – 1923.Antony, Who Sought Things That Were Lost – 1923.Portrait of Young Man with Career – 1923.The World to Come: A Poem in Three Cantos – 1916.The list starts with his writing when still a juvenile and then an undergraduate worker. We’ve gathered together a list of his fiction, travel and biographical works. ![]() A List of his Fiction, Travel and Biographical WorksĮvelyn Waugh, 1903-1966, was considered to be one of the leading English prose writers of the 20 th century. ![]() ![]() The fictional detective is popularly known as the American Whodunit celebrity, competing with Nero Wolfe.įrederic Dannay was born in 1905 and died in 1982, while Manfred was born in 1905 and died in 1971. “Ellery Queen” is a pseudonym that was created by two cousins, Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee. The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories The Locked Room Reader: Stories of Impossible Crimes and Escapesĭeath Locked In: An Anthology of Locked Room Stories Nero Wolfe Mystery Magazine Volume 1 Number 1, January 1954 ![]() Adams)Įllery Queen's Crime Cruise Round the WorldĮllery Queen's More Lost Ladies and Lost Men There Was an Old Woman / The Quick and the Deadĭouble, Double / The Case of the Seven MurdersĮllery Queen's Crime Cruise Round the World (By:T. ![]() The Dragon's Teeth / The Virgin Heiresses The American Gun Mystery / Death at the Rodeo ![]() ![]() “He has been concentrating on classical history, ‘entering the ancient courts of ancient men’ in order to ‘speak with them and ask them the reasons for their actions,’” Skinner writes. ![]() Skinner tells us that, to make his new and isolated life more bearable, Machiavelli would retire every evening to his study to read and think. ![]() ![]() In his book Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction, Quentin Skinner, perhaps the foremost contemporary scholar of modern republicanism, relates how the renowned republican thinker Niccolò Machiavelli, discouraged by his failed efforts to secure a position in the latest Medici government of Florence, decided to repair to his farm south of Florence-“a poor house on a tiny patrimony,” in Machiavelli’s words-to begin a new life of contemplation and writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading is an opportunity for escape from the everyday, but it’s also an opportunity for reflection and mindfulness-a way to run a flashlight around in our thoughts. We have been enduring a long, dark night of the soul, and we need the uplift of a good book now more than ever. Over 3,000 years ago, the library at Thebes was inscribed with the motto “A house of healing for the soul.” The notion that reading is a mental salve is an old one. In World War I, soldiers suffering “shell shock” (what we now call PTSD) were given books to help ease their psychic wounds. Sigmund Freud used bibliotherapy on his anxious patients no doubt he recommended books on cigars. ![]() The book can be anything-novels, poetry, the Cambridge World History of Food, 50 Shades of Grey, or philosophy. Bibliotherapy is the practice of reading to heal the mind and soul. ![]() ![]() Michael Ironside as Richter, Cohaagen’s chief lieutenant. ![]() ![]() Sharon Stone as Lori Quaid, Quaid’s seemingly loving wife who is later also revealed to be an agent sent by Cohaagen to monitor Quaid.Rachel Ticotin as Melina, a beautiful brunette seen as the partner in Quaid’s Rekall memory program who turns out to be a resistance fighter seeking to overthrow Cohaagen.Arnold Schwarzenegger as Douglas Quaid/Carl Hauser, a construction worker who discovers that he is actually a secret agent, and travels to Mars to uncover his true identity and why his memory was erased.Doug will also have to unlock the details of his former life with the help of a mutant rebel leader named Kuato to defeat Cohaagen and save the colonies on mars. Doug receives a message from a man named Huaser, telling him to go to Mars and find a woman named Melina. But when Doug wanted to go to a place called "Rekall" a place where doctors provide artificial memories on vacations, his life becomes another that he knows nothing about, before he knows it, his wife turns on him and agents from an Martian organization led by the colony leader, Vilos Cohaagen are bent on his death. ![]() Douglas Quaid, a mild-mannered construction worker with a gorgeous wife and a nice apartment is very happy. Technology has flourished, and humans have successfully colonized on the planet Mars. ![]() |