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![]() ![]() The writer is able to promote his work, meet with publishers, literary agents and other authors all from the comfort of an armchair. We have found this type of virtual environment ideal for busy writers as it enables them to attend live events – such as author meet & greets, poetry open mics and book readings – without the need for travel. Our main online writers’ space is in the form of a digital community where users move, communicate and socialise using mouse, mic and keyboard controls. We provide a wealth of opportunities for readers and writers to interact, share resources, attend virtual book tours, online reading and writing events and get the low-down on featured authors. Virtual Writers is a popular online writers’ community committed to showcasing established and emerging writers in a range of interactive and immersive environments. Virtual Writers is a popular online writers’ community committed to showcasing established and emerging writers Helping readers and writers connect. ![]()
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Portrait of the thief7/5/2023 ![]() Each member of his crew has their own complicated relationship with China and the identity they’ve cultivated as Chinese Americans, but when Will asks, none of them can turn him down.īecause if they succeed? They earn fifty million dollars-and a chance to make history. ![]() A hacker: Alex Huang, an MIT dropout turned Silicon Valley software engineer. ![]() A getaway driver: Lily Wu, an engineering major who races cars in her free time. ![]() A thief: Daniel Liang, a premed student with steady hands just as capable of lockpicking as suturing. A con artist: Irene Chen, a public policy major at Duke who can talk her way out of anything. His crew is every heist archetype one can imagine-or at least, the closest he can get. But when a mysterious Chinese benefactor reaches out with an impossible-and illegal-job offer, Will finds himself something else as well: the leader of a heist to steal back five priceless Chinese sculptures, looted from Beijing centuries ago. ![]() Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now.Ī senior at Harvard, Will fits comfortably in his carefully curated roles: a perfect student, an art history major and sometimes artist, the eldest son who has always been his parents’ American Dream. Ocean’s Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity. ![]()
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Adam warlock jim starlin7/5/2023 ![]() The books weren’t all that popular though, and the series only lasted from 1975 to 1977. The story’s themes concern philosophical questions about life and death, chaos and order, gods and madmen. Adam has the soul gem imbedded in his forehead, an vampiric emerald that steals mortal souls. Starlin’s cosmic opus starred Adam Warlock, a Christlike space hero, pitted against Thanos of Titan and his quest to posses the Infinity Gems. ![]() While browsing through the local Barnes & Noble recently, my gaze came upon one that screamed “Buy me now”! That book was WARLOCK BY JIM STARLIN: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION. Now that I’m slightly older (well, okay maybe more than just slightly), I’ll occasionally pick up a trade paperback that grabs my nostalgic interest. Even the oversized Warrens and of course, Mad. I had stacks and stacks of them: Marvel, DC, Charlton, Atlas, undergrounds. ![]() I usually write about old movies here, but they’re not my only interest. When I was younger, back in the 70s, I collected comic books. ![]()
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The unwanteds quests book 17/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Seeking a chance to right their wrong and escape their brother’s wrath, Thisbe, Fifer, and their friend Seth sneak away to rescue the dragons from grave peril. The threat is soon forgotten, though, when Hux, the ice blue dragon, comes to Artimé bearing the horrible news that his siblings have been enslaved by the notoriously evil Revinir, ruler of the dragon land. The Unwanteds Quests Collection Books 1-3 (Boxed Set) by Lisa McMann - The first three books of the sequel series to the bestselling and award-winning. ![]() But when they accidentally use their magic in the jungle of Artimé to strike down a beloved creature, Alex is furious, and threatens to lock them away until they can learn to control their power. They’re naturally more gifted than even their brother, Alex, the head mage of Artimé, could hope to be. York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship. ![]() Identical twins Fifer and Thisbe Stowe have amazing yet uncontrollable magical abilities. Ten years after Alex and Aaron Stowe brought peace to Quill and Artimé, their younger twin sisters journey beyond the islands in this New York Times bestselling first novel of a new sequel series to The Unwanteds, which Kirkus Reviews called “ The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter.” Dragon Captives : The Unwanteds Quests Book 1 ![]()
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Bleeding Kansas by Sara Paretsky7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Paretsky taps a different vein and strikes gold in this timely tale of fear and conflict in heartland America. Sara Paretsky, (born June 8, 1947, Ames, Iowa, U.S.), American mystery writer known for her popular series of novels featuring V.I. Meanwhile, Gina stirs prejudices and passions to a fever pitch. The Schapens’ fundamentalist doctrines come to the fore when they discover “a perfect red heifer” in their dairy herd that may be a path to riches as well as to the second coming. ![]() Chip Grellier, after being expelled from high school, enlists in the army and is killed in Iraq with devastating effects on his family. ![]() ), weaves a gripping contemporary novel around three farm families-the Grelliers, Fremantles and Schapens-that can trace their Kaw Valley, Kans., roots back to the 1850s, a time of violent clashes between antislavery and proslavery forces in “Bleeding Kansas.” Their shared history is no buffer against the storm of changes that begin with the arrival of Gina Haring, a lesbian Wiccan. Paretsky weaves a gripping contemporary novel around three farm families - the Grelliers, Fremantles and Schapens - that can trace their Kaw Valley, Kansas, roots back to the 1850s, a time of violent clashes between antislavery and proslavery forces in Bleeding Kansas. Warshawski detective series (e.g., the Holocaust in Total Recall The New York Times bestseller from the author of Fire Sale In Kansas, three families have coexisted not-so-peacefully for more than one hundred and fifty. Bestseller Paretsky, who has tackled weighty issues in her V.I. ![]()
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Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() However, it may be difficult to find a more compelling, tension-filled yet clearly applicable business text than Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s book, Extreme Ownership.įormer Navy SEAL officers Willink and Babin, who now run a leadership consultancy called Echelon Front, built on the lessons of their battlefield experiences, base Extreme Ownership on the battle of Ramadi, a major 2006 offensive by allied forces to purge the Al-Qaeda presence in this large Iraqi city. Transporting military leadership lessons to the business world is not new, as demonstrated by the continuing popularity with managers of The Art of War, a 2000-year-old Chinese treatise on warfare. ![]()
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The museum of innocence author7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Once the long-lost cousins violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeosie-a world, as he lovingly describes it, with opulent parties and clubs, society gossip, restaurant rituals, picnics, and mansions on the Bosphorus, infused with the melancholy of decay-until finally he breaks off his engagement to Sibel. Kemal, scion of one of the city’s wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. ![]() It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. “It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn’t know it.” So begins the new novel, his first since winning the Nobel Prize, from the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name Is Red. ![]()
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Abortion by Mary E. Williams7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s palpably obvious that the same spirit that animated Pharaoh and King Herod to have no regard for the lives of children has continued unabated ( Exodus 1:15-18 Matthew 2:16). Numerous people now vocalize even less regard for the lives of pre-born children than before. It’s been both troubling and revealing to witness the response of many who detest the Dobbs decision. ![]() And specifically because humans bear God’s image, they’re not to be murdered, abused, misused, or even cursed ( Genesis 9:6 James 3:8-11). Unlike animals, humans can “know” and “understand” their Creator ( Jeremiah 9:24). “So God created man in His own image in the image of God He created him male and female He created them” ( Genesis 1:27). Why are so many Christians strongly pro-life? The Bible teaches that in the original creation, God bestowed something only on humans-His image. With the answer to these prayers in the recent Dobbs decision, more children may now continue life-and a shameful blight on our nation has been diminished. Countless Christians have prayerfully labored for decades to protect pre-born children. Millions of Christians are rejoicing over the United States Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the 1973 Roe v. ![]()
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Gaddis the landscape of history7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Written in the tradition of Marc Bloch and E.H. So who's really being scientific and who isn't? This question too is one Gaddis explores, in ways that are certain to spark interdisciplinary controversy. They don't much resemble what happens in the social sciences, where the pursuit of independent variables functioning with static systems seems increasingly divorced from the world as we know it. Their approaches parallel, in intriguing ways, the new sciences of chaos, complexity, and criticality. In doing so, they combine the techniques of artists, geologists, paleontologists, and evolutionary biologists. Like cartographers mapping landscapes, historians represent what they can never replicate. Gaddis points out that while the historical method is more sophisticated than most historians realize, it doesn't require unintelligible prose to explain. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today. What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and almost every other character from DC Comics must choose sides in what could be the final battle of them all. Writer Mark Waid, coming from his popular work on Flash and Impulse, and artist Alex Ross, who broke new ground with the beautifully painted Marvels, join together for this explosive book that takes place in a dark alternate future of the DC Superhero Universe. KINGDOM COME is a riveting story pitting the old guard-Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and their peers-against a new uncompromising generation and ultimately in the final war against each other to determine nothing less than the future of the planet. The unforgettable, best-selling miniseries by acclaimed writer Mark Waid and superstar painter Alex Ross returns, with a sketchbook section, annotations on the series, rare art and more! Set just after the dawn of the 21st Century in a world spinning inexorably out of control comes this grim tale of youth versus experience, tradition versus change and what defines a hero. ![]() |