5/12/2023 0 Comments Blowback chalmers![]() “Historical data show a strong correlation between U.S. ![]() Time and again, the United States and its allies have intervened in a faraway conflict, typically in the Muslim-majority Middle East they’ve dropped some bombs, killed some “bad guys,” and then declared “mission accomplished.” Time and again, these interventions have ended up resulting in bloodshed and conflict later down the line - often on U.S. government’s international activities that have been kept secret from the American people.” Sir Isaac Newton called it his Third Law of Motion.Īs the late historian of empire and one-time consultant to the CIA, Chalmers Johnson, explained in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, blowback is “a metaphor for the unintended consequences of the U.S. ![]() ![]() For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Resonance by Nelou Keramati![]() ![]() And in search for salvation, they emerge at the brink of unveiling the best-kept secret in human history. Romance, rancor, and redemption plummet as priorities, as their lives become riddled with peculiar happenings lying just outside the realm of science. ![]() But her quest soon becomes deeply entangled with the last two people she could have ever imagined: the love of her life, Dylan, who mysteriously vanished three years ago, and his estranged best friend, Romer, who seems to be guarding a secret of his own. Neve Knightly lives in an ordinary world. Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. She now has the opportunity to decipher the enigma that's been haunting her since childhood. Read The Fray Theory - Resonance by Nelou Keramati with a free trial. The glossy enamel has been shattered, and she has caught a glimpse of what slithers just beneath the surface. Where no one thinks twice about the glitches in their reality.īut when her nightmare of a tragedy comes true the very next day, she can no longer seek solace in self-deception. Where premonitions are dismissed as mere coincidence. ![]() Where déjà vu is nothing more than a mind-trick. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Mister seahorse![]() ![]() ![]() The snout is used for eating and rooting around in sea plants for food. Hippo is Latin for "horse" and campus means "sea monster." It is named for the fact that its head, with its long snout, resembles a horse's head. The seahorse's Latin name is hippocampus. Though they have few natural predators other than crabs, seahorses are under constant threat by humans. Sometimes they move in pairs, holding tails. This fin moves 30-70 per second to propel a seahorse through the water! Its swim bladder moves the seahorse up or down. Its dorsal fin, located on its back, is used for propulsion, or moving through the water. ![]() They have fins and scales like other fish, too.Ī seahorse's pectoral fins, located just behind the head on both sides, and anal fin, located on its front just before the tail, are used for steering and keeping the seahorse upright in the water. They have a swim bladder and breathe through gills. Although their appearance would suggest otherwise, seahorses are members of the fish family. Seahorses may just be one of the ocean's most unique fish. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments On Whale Island by Daniel Hays![]() ![]() ![]() I certainly agree with checking out and doing what's good for you because the reality is "running around after little pieces of green paper" is a waste of time. Just for these new sounds in my life I want to stay here forever." I have stood in our harbor and heard water being dragged through seaweed, a jellyfish turned over, a ripple being reflected off a rock. I could never listen this completely before. The radio tells me there is a Canada - well, a Nova Scotia anyway - but overall, with the fog outside and inside our windows, the world is quite small and entertainment is scarce." It has been gray and stormy all week and it's only faith that lets me know there is a sun, a moon, and a mainland nearby. I know a lot about the minutia of their lives, rather like following someone you vaguely know in Facebook. Maybe if the author didn't seem to simply want to escape his life and had some other compelling motivation, this would have been more engaging. Halfway through I was already uninterested, but still finished in case something dramatic happened. ![]() ![]() And then there was the time this happened. I believe Daniel Hays believes himself to be a modern-day Thoreau, particularly since he quotes him at the beginning of almost every chapter, but while he includes supposed journal entries, they are more chronological than thoughtful. I'm discovering that people moving to an uninhabited island is not so interesting. I had high hopes for this, because of my cold weather island obsession. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Fangs by Sarah Andersen![]() Filled with Sarah Andersen’s beautiful gothic illustrations and relatable relationship humor, Fangs has all the makings of a cult classic. This deluxe hardcover edition of Fangs features an “engraved” red cloth cover, dyed black page trim, and 25 exclusive comics not previously seen online. ![]() Together they enjoy horror films and scary novels, shady strolls, fine dining (though never with garlic), and a genuine fondness for each other’s unusual habits, macabre lifestyles, and monstrous appetites.įirst featured as a webcomic series on Tapas, Fangs chronicles the humor, sweetness, and awkwardness of meeting someone perfectly suited to you but also vastly different. Will be buying as gifts for friends & family who appreciate slightly warped humor. This all changes one night in a bar when she meets Jimmy, a charming werewolf with a wry sense of humor and a fondness for running wild during the full moon. Fangs Hardcover Septemby Sarah Andersen (Author) 4,703 ratings Goodreads Choice Award nominee Hardcover 12.99 Other new and used from 8.69 A New York Times bestselling love story between a vampire and a werewolf by the creator of the enormously popular Sarahs Scribbles comics. A tongue-in-cheek illustrated love story between a werewolf and a vampire. ![]() ![]() A New York Times bestselling love story between a vampire and a werewolf by the creator of the enormously popular Sarah's Scribbles comics.Įlsie the vampire is three hundred years old, but in all that time, she has never met her match. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Eleanor y park rainbow rowell![]() ![]() (Some readers may initially find this unrealistic, but through the novel one comes to have a better understanding of how poverty interacts with abuse to marginalize and oppress.) ![]() She’s also poor - she cannot afford a toothbrush or batteries for her Walkman. Every moment Eleanor is home is terrifying and claustrophobic - she shares a room with a mess of siblings and lives in constant fear of offending her abusive alcoholic stepfather, Richie. But you’ve never seen “Eleanor & Park.” Its observational precision and richness make for very special reading.Įleanor is a “big girl” with bright red hair (kids on the bus call her Big Red, and she describes herself as resembling a barmaid) who has just returned to her home in Omaha, after being kicked out for a year and forced to stay with acquaintances. There’s bullying, sibling rivalry, salvation through music and comics, a monstrous stepparent - and I know, we’ve seen all this stuff. It’s set in 1986, and God knows I’ve seen that. I’ve seen the conventions, and I’ve seen them interrogated.īut I have never seen anything quite like “Eleanor & Park.” Rainbow Rowell’s first novel for young adults is a beautiful, haunting love story - but I have seen those. I’ve read a dozen “we brought back the dinosaurs and they are mad” books. Whether I was reading Michael Crichton or Amy Tan or Tom Robbins, there had never been anything like it before in my life. When I began reading contemporary fiction in high school, I remember feeling that each book was an absolute revelation. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The magnificent ambersons novel![]() ![]() The titular protagonist of Alice Adams, portrayed unforgettably by Katharine Hepburn in what many consider her finest performance, is one of the great heroines of American literature: like Henry James’s Isabel Archer and the young women of Edith Wharton’s novels, she is a spirited, complicated young woman confronting the limits of her time and place with her own headlong desires. The Magnificent Ambersons, inspiration for Orson Welles’s classic film, is a tour-de-force study in egoism, depicting the fall from grace of George Minafer, wayward scion of the once-unassailable Amberson family. ![]() ![]() Out of Tarkington’s prolific writings novelist and critic Thomas Mallon has selected three works that show Tarkington at his best. In such classic novels as The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, both winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Tarkington displayed a mastery of realism and an astute, strikingly modern feel for psychology, capturing crucial transformations in our national life as they were manifested in changing social customs and in the very landscape itself, altered irrevocably by industrialization and environmental degradation. Much in need of rediscovery today, Booth Tarkington was among the most beloved and widely read writers of his era. Thomas Mallon and Library of America invite readers to rediscover the Pulitzer Prize-winning novels of a classic American writer on the 150th anniversary of his birth ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Cursed by frank miller tom wheeler![]() ![]() Nimue teams up with a charming mercenary named Arthur and refugee Fey Folk from across England. Her mission leaves little room for revenge, but the growing power within her can think of little else. Charged by her dying mother to reunite an ancient sword with a legendary sorcerer, Nimue is now her people’s only hope. That is, until her entire village is slaughtered by Red Paladins, and Nimue’s fate is forever altered. Her connection to dark magic made her something to be feared in her Druid village, and that made her desperate to leave. ![]() But what if the Sword has chosen a Queen? Whosoever wields the Sword of Power shall be the one true King. ![]() Intrigued? Then check out the book description from the publisher: Miller and Wheeler are serving as co-creators and executive producers on the show. Netflix’s Cursed will debut in 2020 and stars Katherine Langford ( 13 Reasons Why) as Nimue. What if the Lady of the Lake wielded Excalibur instead of King Arthur?įrank Miller and Tom Wheeler answer this question in their upcoming Young Adult novel Cursed, which follows 16-year-old Nimue as she battles “armies of a corrupt king.” Illustrated by comic book writer/artist Miller ( The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City) and authored by writer/producer Wheeler ( Puss in Boots), the novel serves as a companion book to the pair’s Netflix series of the same name. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Rush too far series![]() ![]() ![]() These licenses are obtained in part by accruing a certain number of points based on championship standing in lower-level racing series. ![]() It is also required by the FIA, the global governing body of motorsport, for all F1 drivers to have a valid super license. RELATED: Logan Sargeant announced as next American F1 driver Could these drivers be next? team for nearly 30 years until Haas entered the fray in 2015. And it may come as a surprise to new fans of the sport, but there was a time not too long ago when there was virtually no sign of American influence in F1.Īnd although F1 will hold a record three races in the United States in 2023, it went four years without a U.S. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Hidden Pieces by Paula Stokes![]() ![]() But no one Embry knows would do such a thing. ![]() ![]() Someone has proof of her night at the inn, and the blackmailer clearly has a personal score to settle. A few days later, Embry receives a note demanding a full confession on Facebook, or else. She becomes a local hero after she rescues a man she spies through the window. The blonde high school senior calls 911 to report the fire she claims she noticed as she was walking by. Later, in the steamy throes of passion, Embry kicks over a candle and sets the inn on fire. Unable to tell him it’s over, she promises to think about it. On her way to the vacant Sea Cliff Inn for a late-night rendezvous with her best friend’s ex-boyfriend, Holden, her current-but-on-a-break soldier boyfriend, Luke, calls her from Afghanistan to propose. Embry Woods keeps things close to her chest. ![]() |