![]() ![]() ![]() The government was sufficiently impressed that the prosecutor dropped the case against her, but her reputation was ruined, she was broke, and her health was uncertain. Finally, she persuaded a doctor to give her sodium pentothal, or “truth serum,” and question her under the anesthesia. At one point, she weighed just eighty-three pounds. After having been indicted for perjury and making bomb threats against Scientology, Cooper had gone into a deep depression. One of the files was titled “Operation Freakout.” It concerned the treatment of Paulette Cooper, the journalist who had published an exposé of Scientology, The Scandal of Scientology, six years earlier. “VERY EARLY ONE MORNING in July 1977, the FBI, having been tipped off about Operation Snow White, carried out raids on Scientology offices in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, carting off nearly fifty thousand documents. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She studied at the Moscow Art Institute of Applied Arts. You can find him online at . Olga Demidova has illustrated many books for children around the world. He lives with his family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Jonathan Auxier is the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes, The Night Gardener, Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard, and Sweep. Will they be able to work together to complete the mission before it’s too late? About the Author One fateful afternoon, he steals a box from a mysterious traveling haberdasher-a box that contains three pairs of magical eyes. It’s already gobbled up all of the Rooks, and Auggie and Fen are next unless they figure out the one way to calm the creature. Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes is the utterly beguiling tale of a ten-year-old blind orphan who has been schooled in a life of thievery. In the dark, damp dungeon, they meet one mysterious girl and one very hungry monster. ![]() This time, the stables set Auggie on a quest to rescue a beast called the Shibboleth-but the portal leads Auggie and Fen to the lair of the evil Rooks! Thankfully, there always seems to be a new stall to fill. Fen keeps dropping hints that caretakers don’t stay forever, and it’s giving Auggie the grumps. Book 3 in the one-of-a-kind adventure series from New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Auxier explores the real magic behind simple acts of kindness.Īuggie loves his job at the Fabled Stables, but he fears the day when it will come to an end. ![]() ![]() When angels capture her crippled younger sister, Penryn Young will do whatever it takes to get her back, and that includes teaming up with one of the enemy: the wounded angel Raffe. Now I have the chance to ramble and fangirl for a longer period of time! □ I was planning on doing a mini-reviews for this trilogy on one post, but in the end (with the help of Casey‘s opinion) I decided against it. This was used for the Popsugar challenge: A trilogy (book 1) ![]() Genre(s): Young-adult fiction, post-apocalyptic fantasy, paranormal When angels fly away with a helpless girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back… Savage street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. It’s been six weeks since the angels of the apocalypse destroyed the world as we know it. ![]() Published: May 23rd 2013 (originally January 1st 2011) ![]() ![]() ![]() Slavic speakers had largely superseded Germanic speakers in central and Eastern Europe, literacy was growing, Christianity had spread, and most fundamentally, Mediterranean supremacy was broken. ![]() And yet ten centuries later, from the Atlantic to the Urals, the European world had turned. The farther east one went, the simpler it became: fewer iron tools and ever less productive economies. Although having some iron tools and weapons, these mostly illiterate peoples worked mainly in wood and never built in stone. The rest of Europe, meanwhile, was home to subsistence farmers living in small groups, dominated largely by Germanic speakers. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds - the undeveloped barbarian world and the sophisticated Roman Empire - into remarkably similar societies and states." "The book's vivid narrative begins at the time of Christ, when the Mediterranean circle, newly united under the Romans, hosted a politically sophisticated, economically advanced, and culturally developed civilization - one with philosophy, banking, professional armies, literature, stunning architecture, even garbage collection. "Here is a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. ![]() The End of Migration and the Birth of Europe. Franks and Anglo-Saxons: Elite Transfer Or Volkerwanderung? - 7. Includes bibliographical references and index.ġ. ![]() ![]() ![]() But then Freya, who is about to get married to the wealthy and mysterious Bran Gardiner, finds that her increasingly complicated romantic life makes it more difficult than ever to hide her secret. And finally, there's Freya, the wild child, who has a charm or a potion that can cure most any heartache.įor centuries, all three women have been forced to suppress their abilities. Ingrid, her bookish daughter, has the ability to predict the future and weave knots that can solve anything from infertility to infidelity. ![]() Joanna can resurrect people from the dead and heal the most serious of injuries. But they are harboring a mighty secret-they are powerful witches banned from using their magic. Their beautiful, mist-shrouded town seems almost stuck in time, and all three women lead seemingly quiet, uneventful existences. The three Beauchamp women-Joanna and her daughters Freya and Ingrid-live in North Hampton, out on the tip of Long Island. From the author of the highly addictive and bestselling Blue Bloods series, with almost 3 million copies sold, comes a new novel, Melissa de la Cruz's first for adults, featuring a family of formidable and beguiling witches. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Publisher's Note: The fourth book in Addison Cain's exciting, raw, and suspense-filled Omegaverse series is a Dark Romance featuring complete power exchange. Bernard Dome has what he wants, and they will all be dammed if they deny him. Her safety is his priority, and something he’s willing to risk war to assure. His machinations are subtle, his hands full tending to his recovering mate. Peace has a price, a price the Commodore of Bernard Dome is willing to pay… so long as the rare Omega remains his. ![]() There is no freedom.Īnd there is no interference from foreign Domes… until a new threat arrives from a distant continent. There is no subversion, no question of who rules. But life in the city depends on the occupation chosen for you at birth. He broke her, swearing he’d put her back together.īernard Dome is the jewel of Europe, a bastion of art and culture, pleasure and decadence. He took her with violence while none intervened. The Commodore stole her off the streets in broad daylight-the first Omega female discovered in Bernard Dome in generations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Nakano Thrift Shop is Hitomi’s rough interpretation of the things that were happening around her. Narrated through the perspective of the naïve but transcendental narrator, Hitomi, the novel chronicles these day-to-day travails in the suburban shop. Even though everything that is happening around them seem mundane, the characters formed a unique and special bond. In this shop, an unusual set of characters has converged. When one looks beyond the ordinary, one can see the undertones of many secrets embedded on every item. However, there is more than meets the eye. To the naked eye, the thrift shop and its offerings look ordinary. In a commercial street of suburban Tokyo lies the quaint thrift shop, not an antique shop, owned by the idiosyncratic Mr. Renowned Japanese novelist Hiromi Kawakami tries to simulate this intimate knowledge through her work, The Nakano Thrift Shop. This intimacy gives a different sense of knowledge, a subtle form of ecstasy. We are secure in this knowledge, so loose yet so intimate, because it bears no consequence on both parties we are strangers after all. As we carefully observe them, there are nuances that we notice which they might have missed. Some leave an imprint, some stir a memory, while some create quite an impression. In our quotidian existence, we encounter a lot of people. The Different Levels (and Anxieties) of Intimacy ![]() ![]() ![]() Two of my favorite genres combined, I had no doubts that she would be able to do it well since she seems to be able to cross over the different genres pretty easily. ![]() And then she had to go and announce that she was writing in a whole new genre – paranormal *and* m/m. Megan Erickson writes a little bit of everything – her New Adult Bowler University series is great, her m/m Trust the Focus series is one of the most recommended ones I hear about, and her co-authored Strong Signal is among my favorites of the last year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() First staged on 1st November, 1604 at Whitehall Palace, it was regularly performed at the playwright's own Globe Theater and the Blackfriars Theater in London besides touring the country as part of the repertoire of the King's Men which was the theatrical company that Shakespeare belonged to for most of his career. ![]() It is also one of his plays that has the best documented performance history. This timeless tale, Othello The Moor of Venice was one of the ten famous tragedies that William Shakespeare wrote. The villainous ensign now plots to destroy the noble general in a diabolical scheme of jealousy, paranoia and murder, set against the backdrop of the bloody Turkish-Venetian wars. He shares his grief and rage with a lowly ensign in the army who also has reason to hate the general for promoting a younger man above him. In seventeenth century Venice, a wealthy and debauched man discovers that the woman he is infatuated with is secretly married to a Moorish general in the Venetian army. ![]() ![]() In this provocative book, Williamson unfolds the grim history of socialism, showing how the ideology has spawned crushing poverty, devastating famines, and horrific wars. But even in America, that hasn't stopped politicians and bureaucrats from planning, to various extents, the most vital sectors of our economy: public education, energy, and the most arrogant central-planning effort of them all, Obama's healthcare plan. t Guide(TM) to Socialism, Kevin Williamson reveals the fatal flaw of socialism-that efficient, complex economies simply can't be centrally planned. And yet leaders around the world continue to subject millions of people to this dysfunctional, violence-prone ideology. Stalin's gulag, impoverished North Korea, collapsing 's hard to name a dogma that has failed as spectacularly as socialism. ![]() The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism (Trade Paperback / Paperback) ![]() |