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Brad thor the last patriot7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as "quite possibly the next coming of Robert Ludlum", Brad Thor takes listeners across the globe on a heart-pounding chase in which the stakes are higher than ever before. But there are powerful men who are determined that Mohammed's mysterious final revelation continue to remain hidden forever. Saving the intended victim of the attack, Harvath becomes party to an amazing and perilous race to uncover a secret so powerful that militant Islam could be defeated once and for all without firing another shot, dropping another bomb, or launching another covert action. The Last Patriot: A Thriller (7) (The Scot Harvath Series) is a Used Trade Paperback available to purchase and shipped from Firefly. Present day: When a car bomb explodes outside a Parisian café, Navy Seal turned covert Homeland Security Operative Scot Harvath is thrust back into the life he has tried so desperately to leave behind. ![]() ![]() minister to France Thomas Jefferson, charged with forging a truce with the violent Muslim pirates of the Barbary Coast, makes a shocking discovery - one that could forever impact the world's relationship with Islam. 632: Deep within the Uranah Valley of Mount Arafat in Mecca, the Prophet Mohammed shares with his closest companions a final and startling revelation. In Brad Thor's highest-voltage thriller to date, Scot Harvath must race to locate an ancient secret that has the power to stop militant Islam dead in its tracks. ![]()
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Lu by jason reynolds7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() One time he told me about this guy-name start with a R-who holds the world record for getting struck by lightning, not once, not twice, not three times, not FOUR times, not FIVE TIMES, NOT SIX TIMES, but… SEVEN TIMES! If I was Ray or Ron or whatever his name is (or was, because he gotta be dead), I would’ve stayed in the house after the second one. You know who really made me know my mother was wrong? Ghost. And I’m supposed to just believe lightning don’t never strike the same place twice? Ever? Right. Talking about it’s a 50 percent chance it might rain. Plus, how would she even know that? I mean, she know a lot of stuff about stuff because she’s a mother and mothers gotta know stuff, but the people who went to school for that kind of thing, like weather people and meteorologists (who should be studying meteors and not weather), they don’t even be knowing (because they should be studying meteors and not weather). I swear, sometimes she just be talking to be talking. ![]() Don’t believe lightning won’t hit the same tree, or the same house, or the same person more than once. ![]() And I like the nickname, but I don’t believe that. Or as my mom calls me, Lu the Lightning Bolt, because lightning so special it don’t never happen the same way or at the same place twice. ![]()
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Walls david frye7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() As we journey across time and place, we discover a hidden, thousand-mile-long wall in Asia's steppes learn of bizarre Spartan rituals watch Mongol chieftains lead their miles-long hordes witness the epic siege of Constantinople chill at the fate of French explorers marvel at the folly of the Maginot Line tense at the gathering crisis in Cold War Berlin gape at Hollywood’s gated royalty and contemplate the wall mania of our own era. The stars of this narrative are the walls themselves-rising up in places as ancient and exotic as Mesopotamia, Babylon, Greece, China, Rome, Mongolia, Afghanistan, the lower Mississippi, and even Central America. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, those same men would create edifices of mud, brick, and stone, and with them effectively divide humanity: on one side were those the walls protected on the other, those the walls kept out. With esteemed historian David Frye as our raconteur-guide in Walls, which Publishers Weekly praises as “informative, relevant, and thought-provoking,” we journey back to a time before barriers of brick and stone even existed-to an era in which nomadic tribes vied for scarce resources, and each man was bred to a life of struggle. “A lively popular history of an oft-overlooked element in the development of human society” ( Library Journal)-walls- and a haunting and eye-opening saga that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The survival of Hurley's remarkable images is scarcely less miraculous: The original glass plate negatives, from which most of the book's illustrations are superbly reproduced, were stored in hermetically sealed canisters that survived months on the ice floes, a week in an open boat on the polar seas, and several more months buried in the snows of a rocky outcrop called Elephant Island. ![]() Together, text and image re-create the terrible beauty of Antarctica, the awful destruction of the ship, and the crew's heroic daily struggle to stay alive, a miracle achieved largely through Shackleton's inspiring leadership. And she presents the astonishing work of Frank Hurley, the Australian photographer whose visual record of the adventure was never before published comprehensively. Drawing upon previously unavailable sources, Caroline Alexander gives us a riveting account of Shackleton's expedition one of history's greatest epics of survival. ![]()
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Shakespeare william hamlet7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() A group of actors have come to perform at the castle, and Hamlet instructs them to perform a scene resembling his father’s death. Claudius and Gertrude had asked two of Hamlet’s good friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to spy on him, but even they are unable to discover the cause of Hamlet’s strange behavior.īefore long, Hamlet devises a plan to test his uncle. Hamlet has been moody and depressed since his father’s death, and now becomes manic. Prince Hamlet, a devoted son, agrees to avenge his father’s death but is overwhelmed by the weight of the task. Before disappearing, the ghost orders his son to seek revenge. The King tells his son that he was murdered by Claudius, the King’s brother, who inherited the throne and married the queen, Gertrude. Prince Hamlet, the late King’s son, comes to speak to the ghost. A ghost resembling the recently dead King Hamlet, has been spotted walking throughout the Castle. The Tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare takes place in Elsinore Castle, the home of Denmark’s royal family. Start Mijn Gratis Proefperiode* Brief Hamlet Summary ![]()
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Flowers for the sea by zin e rocklyn7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Rocklyn's extraordinary debut is a lush, gothic fantasy about the prices we pay and the vengeance we seek. ![]() Cassandra Khaw Rocklyn manages to write a darkly spectacular, yet strangulating world in the middle of the sea, with well-developed characters, vivid imagery, and dense lyrical prose.This claustrophobic story had me reeling as the tension rose until I reached the impressive ending.-Cemetery Dance Zin E. In this novella, the survivors of a sunken kingdom inhabit a large boat. Its not the kind of book one wants to put down once theyve started reading it. Its short enough to be read in one sitting, which is exactly what I did. Paul Tremblay A gorgeous, powerful debut. Rocklyns novella Flowers for the Sea is a great debut. An auspicious debut baring beauty and razorfangs. Booklist A lush, mesmerizing novella about survival and the hope of righteous anger. James' The Children of Men, and Octavia Butler's Bloodchild. Publishers Weekly This novella will whet the appetite of fans of classics like Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, P. ![]() conjure Iraxi's precarious position in fluid, lovely prose. In Flowers for the Sea, we follow a fiercely strong female character who is up against nature’s most brutal forces. Valente, New York Times bestselling author A name to watch.-The Washington Post Rocklyn's lyrical gothic fantasy debut considers how life can persist in a world of rot, death, and destruction. A Library Journal Editor's Pick! A Den of Geeks Best Books of 2021! Winner of the Pulver Award An Ignyte Award Finalist Rocklyn is angry, lyrical, honest, and heartbreaking, riding the line between fantasy and true horror. ![]()
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The mistress of spices book7/2/2023 ![]() The place where Nayan Tara (now renamed Tilottama, or Tilo) eventually lands happens to be the Spice Bazaar in a rough section of Oakland, California-a tiny, rundown shop from which the now- aged Tilo is forbidden to venture. There, she is initiated into a priestly sisterhood of Spice Mistresses sent out into the world to help others, offering magic potions of fennel, peppercorn, lotus root, etc. Resentful at being treated so shabbily, young Nayan Tara throws herself on the mercy of the mythical serpents of the oceans, who deliver her to the mystical Island of Spices. Born ugly and unwanted in a tiny village in India, Nayan Tara (``Flower That Grows by the Dust Road'') is virtually discarded by her family for the sin of being a girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author of the promising story collection Arranged Marriage (1995) employs magical realism to delve back into the lives of Indian immigrants-all of whom, in this case, consult an ancient shamanic spice-vendor in their efforts to improve their lives. ![]()
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The guns of navarone book7/2/2023 ![]() The RAF can't get at the thing to destroy from air, so a commando team is put together under the charge of Anthony Quayle. But specifically this film deals with a pair of menacing looking naval guns embedded in a cliff with a big rock overhang. ![]() At least this was one of Winston Churchill's stated aims and The Guns of Navarone makes the case for it. The reason that the British Army and forces from their Commonwealth countries was to keep Turkey in the position of benevolent neutrality. A great deal of debate about the feasibility of the whole operation has raged with military historians. ![]() ![]() They fought a pitched seesaw battle with the Germans until almost the end of the war. The Greek part of the Mediterranean Theater of World War II was strictly a British show. ![]()
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Spanking Dee-Dee by Fabian Black7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() I thought I saw a flicker of it in the sky when I was paying the pizza guy. “I bet the local transmitter has been hit by lightening again. ![]() The television saved Adam from making a pithy reply. “Drink it cold, eat it hot, and do it fast is my motto in life.” You’re two slices of pizza ahead of me as it is.” ![]() Why do you have to do everything at top speed? “My favourite combination.” He drained the bottle he was drinking from and stood up. “Cold beer, hot pizza and Saturday night.” Phin gave a happy sigh. Adam has to decide whether the circumstances warrant the use of discipline. ![]() In ‘Riding With The Wind’ Phin makes an error of judgement that has serious repercussions. As a consequence his partner and domestic Dom Adam imposes a punishment that Phin finds difficult to deal with. In ‘Burdens’ a television reality show spells trouble for Phin. Phin and Adam are always there for each other in tough times, but harmony isn't always an aspect of their relationship. Previously published separately and also as part of the anthology -‘The Corridor and Other Stories’ Revised in this edition. A pair of short stories featuring couple Phin and Adam ~ ![]() |