![]() ![]() And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no. Irresistible.' People 'Jack Reacher has long since earned his prominent place in the pantheon of cool, smart-talking American heroes.' New York Times _ Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Sentinel is the 25th in the series. Reacher is a mythic figure.' Literary Review 'Jack Reacher is a wonderfully epic hero tough, taciturn, yet vulnerable. a hitchhiker without a phone, a one-man force for good.' - The Times 'A contemporary version of the knight in shining armour. *** 'Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of.' Ken Follett 'If you haven't read any Jack Reacher, you have a treat in store. He plans to grab a cup of coffee and move right along. Reacher might just have to stick around and find out what the hell's gone wrong. Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. And now Rusty knows he's protected, he's never going to leave the big man's side. As the bad guys move in on Rusty, Reacher moves in on them. He's an average IT guy, but he knows more than he thinks. At the centre of it all, whether he likes it or not, is Rusty Rutherford. ![]() The town has been shut down by a cyber attack. Jack Reacher hitches a ride to a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. The edge-of-your-seat, heart-in-mouth new Jack Reacher thriller for 2021 - his 25th adventure. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In giving us bread, alcohol and life-saving medicines, fungi have shaped human history, and their psychedelic properties, which have influenced societies since antiquity, have recently been shown to alleviate a number of mental illnesses. They can solve problems without a brain, stretching traditional definitions of ‘intelligence’, and can manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision. In this captivating adventure, Merlin Sheldrake explores the spectacular and neglected world of fungi: endlessly surprising organisms that sustain nearly all living systems. Its ability to digest rock enabled the first life on land, it can survive unprotected in space, and thrives amidst nuclear radiation. It can be microscopic, yet also accounts for the largest organisms ever recorded, living for millennia and weighing tens of thousands of tonnes. ![]() ![]() Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works… ![]() ![]() Clocking in at 963 pages long for the ebook and 26.75 hours for the audiobook, it's a hefty tome of fantasy goodness. It's an action adventure litrpg story with elements of cultivation and general progression fantasy flair to it. Death is the start of a terrible fate, but if he lives…no one knows what he will become.Ībout the series: With about 8 million pageviews on RoyalRoad, the first book of the Unbound series released today! My first book ever, in fact, and I'm just thrilled. ![]() To survive he'll have to push himself beyond his limits, or else fall to the monsters all around him. Dissonance A LitRPG Adventure (Unbound Book 1) By: Nicoli Gonnella Narrated by: Travis Baldree Length: 26 hrs and 44 mins Unabridged Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,942 Performance. ![]() Empowered by the ‘System’, he learns that he can strengthen himself through combat and dedication. ![]() Moments before his untimely demise, Felix was snatched from earth and thrust into a magical world known only as ‘The Continent’. Yet when given the chance to choose between risking his life or walking away from a deadly encounter, he didn't hesitate. Too afraid to move forward, to take risks. ![]() By all accounts, even his own, he was a coward. Welcome to The Continent.įelix's life on Earth had become a series of dead-end jobs, ruined relationships, and rotating apartments smaller than most postage stamps. ![]() ![]() What followed one month later was the most violent demonstration in nation’s history. However, there was a discontentment and anger as most citizen felt the result was doctored. In 1969, he won again for the second time. He claims that he had garnered every medal and decorations that U.S and Filipino government can give to a soldier. Prior to the presidential election in 1965, there was a populist campaign where Ferdinand Marcos was projected as a decorated war hero emerging from World War-II. This book is about few men, whose avarice had completely pauperized and paralyzed nation’s economy. This book is about Ferdinand Marcos, ex-President and dictator of Philippines. They have plundered their nation’s economy, indulged in human right abuses and at times made a mockery of democracy. The history is repleted with countless example of men, who had misutilized their power for their own selfish need. A person’s sense of morality lessens as his power increases. The statement was made by Lord Acton, a British historian of the nineteenth century. Power corrupts but absolute power corrupts absolutely. ![]() ![]() ![]() They reach out to Celeste when she is hurting, when other ladies in the town have focused on her for the sake of “family esteems.” I love Nora, and June, and Estella, and Hester. She works really hard to portray characters that you like to become acquainted with. Celeste has some secrets of Her own and Bren’s? Did those secrets lead to Bren’s demise? Would they be able to unravel the truth before more damage is done?Įllery Adams writing style is so captivating! She grabs your full attention and makes you feel like you are there. Bren’s demise is announced an accident, however Nora knows there must be more to it than that. ![]() However, before she died, she left an old paper loaded up with esoteric drawings and images under Nora’s doormat. ![]() More problem continues when Celeste’s daughter, Bren, ends up dead behind Nora’s home. The group targets shops they find unsavoury, including Miracle Books and Celeste’s shop, Soothe. Problem starts when Nora’s Halloween window show highlighting solid female characters gets under the skin of a neighbourhood conservative values group. Celeste with her daughter, Bren, open a brand new store selling Cannabidiol products and Bren’s handmade jewellery. ![]() In Ink and Shadows we find Nora and her friends welcoming a newcomer to Miracle Springs. ![]() ![]() To Be Taught, if Fortunate follows four astronauts as they travel beyond the Solar System on a research mission to document extraterrestrial life on four planets. ![]() We know full well that our planet and all its inhabitants are but a small part of the immense universe that surrounds us and it is with humility and hope that we take this step. We step out of our solar system into the universe seeking only peace and friendship, to teach if we are called upon, to be taught if we are fortunate. I send greetings on behalf of the people of our planet. The title phrase comes from the opening audio recording on the Voyager Golden Record, spoken by Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations, and launched into space in 1977: ![]() ![]() To Be Taught, if Fortunate is a 2019 science fiction novella by Becky Chambers.Ĭhambers wrote the novel out of a desire to see "real people" centered in a narrative that takes place in space, as science fiction generally focuses on what she refers to as "the elite". ![]() ![]() Rockefeller once controlled 80% of the world’s supply of oil: today Google has 90% of the search market in Europe and 67% in the United States. ![]() More pointedly, they stand accused of being greedy businessfolk who suborn politicians, employ sweatshop labour, stiff other shareholders and, especially, monopolise markets. ![]() They have been diversifying into businesses that have little to do with computers, while egotistically proclaiming that they alone can solve mankind’s problems, from ageing to space travel. But just like Rockefeller and the other “malefactors of great wealth”, these new capitalists are losing their sheen. Like their predecessors, they were once revered as inventive mould-breakers, delivering gadgets to the masses. The second lot-call them the silicon sultans-could face a similar fate. The first group is now known as the robber barons. ![]() ![]() ![]() New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones is the author of the highly acclaimed INSIDE OUT series. But what if she is too devastated by tragedy to know when he wants more than she should give? And what if there is more to Liam than meets the eyes? ![]() Liam demands everything from her, accepting nothing less. ![]() Refusing to take “no” as an answer, he sweeps her into a passionate affair, pushing her to her erotic limits. A man who knows what he wants and goes after it. On a plane, struggling to face the devastation of losing everything again and starting over, Amy meets Liam Stone, a darkly entrancing recluse billionaire, who is also a brilliant, and famous, prodigy architect. But just when she lets down her guard, the ghosts of her past are quick to punish her, forcing her back on the run. Now years later, with a new identity as Amy, she’s finally dared to believe she is forgotten–even if she cannot forget. But how do I not when he is the reason I breathe? He is what I need.Īt the young age of eighteen, tragedy and a dark secret force Lara to flee all she has known and loves to start a new life. ![]() His touch spirals through me, warm and sweet, wicked and hot. ![]() ![]() Seuss ignites a child’s imagination with his mischievous characters and zany verses” The Express “ has…instilled a lifelong love of books, learning and reading ” The Telegraph ‘I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!’ belongs to the Green Back Book range. ![]() In response to consumer demand, the paperbacks and ebooks incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels, with the titles divided into three reading strands – Blue Back Books for parents to share with young children, Green Back Books for budding readers to tackle on their own, and Yellow Back Books for older, more fluent readers to enjoy. Seuss’s bestselling books in ebook, including such perennial favourites as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and Fox in Socks. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranking among the UK’s top ten favourite children’s authors, Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller, with over 600 million books sold worldwide. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. This celebration of the joys of reading reminds us to keep our eyes open and be proud of our reading – so we’ll learn lots of stuff and end up succeeding! ![]() ![]() Seuss celebrates the joys of reading, encouraging young children to take pride in their budding reading abilities. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go” “The more that you read, the more things you will know. ![]() ![]() (Marx and Freud turn out to be all right, just mired in the prevailing scientific paradigms.) What is left out are the subtleties-the pluralisms and countervailing forces, past and present, that have turned the course of scientific thought and led to new models that try to approximate the complexities of nature and life. In truth, Fritjof is not all preachment, and major chapters are devoted to longish surveys of Western ideas in economics, medicine, and psychology which read smoothly and recognize gaps and biases. ![]() Salration will come through the eclectic lights of the new feminism (embodying the good Yin versus the macho Yang), the rediscovery of herbal Medicine, bodywork (from Reich to Rolf), solar power, the Jungian collective unconscious, et al. therefore no harm results."" For the reader, the results are fulsome declarations of the poverty of Western thinking, the failings of the ""biomedical"" model of disease, the insanity of nuclear power, the greed of multinational corporations, the anti-cosmic forces of agribusiness and the Green Revolution. ![]() ![]() But Capra, with a nod to the I Ching, sees a turning point: ""The powerful light that has been banished returns. ![]() With depressing predictability, physicist-cum-holistic transcendentalist Fritjof Capra trots out the now-canonical indictment of Western society: Cartesian-Newtonian reductionism is the root of all evil, be it political, medical, social, or economic. ![]() |