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The purpose driven book6/7/2023 ![]() Since its release, The Purpose Driven Life has been translated into 137 different languages and sold more than 50 million copies in all formats, all because of the Christ-centered approach the book takes to answering life's most fundamental question: What on earth am I here for?
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![]() ![]() Notes of an Exile to Van Diemen's Land Linus Wilson Miller,.Letters from Van Diemen's Land : written during four years imprisonment for political offences committed in Upper Canada / by Benjamin Wait embodying, also, letters descriptive of personal appeals in behalf of her husband and his fellow prisoners, to the Earl of Durham, Her Manjesty, and the United Legislature of the Canadas, by Mrs.Australien und Neuseeland : Historische, Geographische und Statistische Skizze Karl Emil Jung,. ![]() ![]() Hobarttown oder Sommerfrische in den Antipoden.Schilderung der Insel Van Diemensland einer höchst merkwürdigen Brittischen Colonie in der Südsee : ein Handbuch für die, welche dahin auszuwandern geneigt wären Franz Ludwig von Bibra,.Voyage en Australie et en Nouvelle-Zélande Anna Vickers,.Australie : voyage autour du monde Ludovic de Beauvoir,. ![]()
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Erebos 2 ursula poznanski6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Nick begins to lose friends as he gains power and advances further into the game. ![]() ![]() The secretiveness of the game means that Nick is forbidden from discussing it with anyone its highly addictiveness encourages players to carry out destructive actions in real life in order to advance their game allowing Erebos to become extremely dangerous as it increasingly takes control of their lives. As Nick becomes increasingly obsessed with Erebos his onscreen character Sarius is intent on moving up the levels of the game. Nick notices that his friends start behaving strangely, missing school, appearing exhausted and acting out of character, but before long he too is engrossed in the game unable to escape its manipulative power. These are the daunting words that confront Nick Dunmore as he loads a brilliant and absorbing computer game that he has been surreptitiously given at school. Country of Origin: Germany Erebos by Ursula Poznanski ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Fortunately, we are not reviewing that story here. The story in question is ‘The Horror at Red Hook’. Especially when his tale takes one of Lovecraft’s most notorious stories and completely flips it over and inside out, effectively setting things right while scaring the hell out of readers. Lovecraft, his contemporaries and present-day writers, it would be ludicrous not to mention him here where it concerns LaValle’s tale. While our focus here is exploring the writers before and beyond H.P. Perhaps directly referencing is saying it lightly. Author of The Ecstatic, Big Machine, Slapboxing with Jesus, The Devil in Silver, and the forthcoming The Changeling, LaValle’s novella, The Ballad of Black Tom securely placed him in the line of sight of those who love weird fiction while directly referencing his influences head-on. LaValle’s been in the scene for a while, primarily writing hard-to-classify novels that cross the bridge between weird and horror, while maintaining a strong literary aesthetic throughout. If there is one name that pops up lately on the radar when it comes to weird fiction, Victor LaValle’s name is one seen repeatedly. ![]()
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Dança Macabra by Stephen King6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() To avoid confusion, the actual "Danse Macabre" essay was given the title "Anatomie de l'Horreur" ("An Anatomy of Horror") when it was released in France 14 years later, in 1995. Similarly, his 1978 collection of short stories Night Shift was released in France as Danse Macabre in 1980. Stephen King's novel The Stand was translated into Spanish as La Danza de la Muerte (which means "Danse Macabre"), generating confusion between the two books. For fans of King's famous novel The Stand there are several pages detailing how King got his inspiration for the book ( Donald DeFreeze and a accidental chemical weapons spill in Utah) and his experience of writing it and getting it published. King peppers his book with informal academic insight, discussing archetypes, important authors, common narrative devices, "the psychology of terror", and his key theory of "Dionysan horror". ![]() Danse Macabre explores the history of the genre as far back as the Victorian era, but primarily focuses on the 1950s to the 1970s (roughly the era covering King's own life). The book was released by Everest House in April 20, 1981.ĭanse Macabre examines the various influences on King's own writing, and important genre texts of the 19th and 20th centuries. Danse Macabre is the eleventh book published by Stephen King, and his first nonfiction work. Danza macabra (1981) es un IUcido y divertido ensayo, lleno de referencias a multitud de obras y jugosas ancdotas biograficas, que pretende dar respuesta a la paradoja esencial del aficionado a la fic de terror: Por qu hay personas dispuestas a pagar a cambio de sentirse extremadamente incmodas. ![]()
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Cheer up love and pom poms6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Being wildly overprepared answered the question that people had but didn't ask when they first met me. Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir (Amistad, $27.99) is an incisive and inspiring book by former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns, who writes: "I worked extremely hard, and that was a big positive in my career. I must have been a Spartan in my previous life, because nothing pleases me more than work." Never mind, I tell myself, I'm having fun too. In Tahmima Anam's novel The Startup Wife (Scribner, $26), Asha, the designer of an algorithm to unlock the empathetic brain for AI, gets enmeshed in a tech startup with her husband, eventually "wondering how I've managed to set up a situation where I'm doing all the work and he's having all the fun. Each does its job well, in very different ways. I read for a living, more or less, so Labor Day's approach seems like a good excuse to share some recent titles I loved that are, in addition to many other things, about work. ![]()
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The bourne identity books in order6/5/2023 ![]() He is the author of The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Chancellor Manuscript, and the Jason Bourne series - The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum - among others. There are more than 225 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into thirty-two languages. Robert Ludlum was the author of twenty-seven novels, each one a New York Times bestseller. ![]() After several bungled bombings, Ramrez Snchez achieved notoriety for a 1975 raid on the OPEC headquarters in Vienna, resulting in the deaths of three people. His novels have been translated into over twenty languages. 1 Real Life 2 Bourne's Wofilm 4 Appearances Real Life Ilich Ramrez Snchez (born Octo() (age 58)) is a Venezuelan-born leftist revolutionary. His bullet-ridden body was fished from the Mediterranean Sea. 1985 The Holcroft Covenant film Michael Caine as Noel Holcroft 1988 The Bourne Identity miniseries Richard Chamberlain as Jason Bourne, Jaclyn Smith as Marie St. He is also the author of two successful and highly regarded series of fantasy novels, The Sunset Warrior Cycle and The Pearl Saga. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER His memory is a blank. ![]() Eric Van Lustbader is most widely known as the New York Times bestselling author of twenty international bestselling thrillers including Ninja and Black Heart. ![]()
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Beneath this man jodi ellen malpas6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() But the drunken, hollow man I found at the penthouse was not the Jesse I had fallen in love with. How can a man who I’ve known a few short weeks make me feel like this? But in those short few weeks I have known him, I’ve learned that he is intense, hot blooded, and controlling, but he is also gentle, affectionate, and protective. I must be painful to be around at the moment. ![]() Sam is still a regular, seminaked presence at Kate’s, but he knows better than to talk to me about Jesse. There have been no phone calls, no messages, no flowers… nothing. I’ve not heard from him since that day I walked out, leaving him yelling and stumbling around. I left Jesse drunk and raging at his penthouse last Sunday. I’m unaware of the activity around me, every noise a distant hum, every image a slow blur. In the darkness I see his face and in the silence I hear his voice. Five days of agony, emptiness, and sobbing.Įvery time my eyes close he’s there, the images flickering from the sure, confident, beautiful man who totally took me, to the hollow, hurtful, drunken creature who destroyed me. It’s been five days since I’ve seen Jesse Ward. I’ve barely mustered up the strength to make it into work today. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() She takes a long look at her overstuffed closet, resoles her cheap imported boots, travels to the world's only living-wage garment factory, and seeks out cutting-edge local and sustainable fashion, all on her journey to find antidotes to out-of-control shopping. Cline documents her own transformation from fast-fashion addict to conscientious shopper. ![]() Elizabeth Cline argues that this rapid cycle of consumption isn't just erasing our sense of style and causing massive harm to the environment and human rights - it's also bad for our souls. We buy ten-dollar shoes from Target that disintegrate within a month and make weekly pilgrimages to Forever 21 and H&M. Print Overdressed Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashionįast fashion and disposable clothing have become our new norms. ![]()
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Phoenix extravagant6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Non traditional nuclear/ heteronormative families, relationships and people populate this story with disarming naturalness. This was less confusing than the anti-woke mob might presume when reading. Lee himself identifies an a trans man/ queer (choosing “him/ he”) and his protagonist here is a gender neutral “them/they”. Is it Steampunk, SciFi- Fantasy, Alternative History, Parody…? Or none/ all?Īmerican-Korean author Lee is not just transgressive in genre blending, but in the themes and characters of his story here. Lots of norm transgressions, in the best possible way. The genre is new to me, a giant leap really. So I was already well sold on Phoenix Extravagant (2021) by American writer Yoon Ha Lee ( Wikipedia interview) for this month’s book choice, only then to be even further persuaded by the following excellent, quick review by a fellow club member (posted with permission): But, expanding my literary horizons was of the main reasons I started this book club, as was supporting more LGBTQ representation in Korean and Korean-American fiction. A medley of steampunk, fantasy, and magic realism? And featuring multiple animal characters? Frankly, none of those I like at all, let alone when all put together. ![]() |