![]() Selfish, arrogant, prideful, hateful, he was the worst sort of man. Horrid does not even begin to describe the type of man the late prince was. He must have been a horrid man.”Ĭuppins snorted. “He keeps saying my name, then he begins speaking in Russian, and screams at his father. “He isn’t worse.” Isabelle reached for the cold compress and held it to Dominique’s head once more. His forehead perspiring from exertion up the stairs. “How is he this morning, my lady?” Cuppins walked unsteadily into the room. Her mind would not allow herself to linger on the simple fact that Hunter could have failed in his mission. Worse, Hunter had yet to send word, and the doctor hadn’t shown up, which could only mean that he had trouble making it to Wellington, or he was injured in the process. Mostly, he would revert back to the language of his childhood making it impossible for Isabelle to know what he was murmuring about. ![]() Every time his fever spiked, he would either scream out her name or scream out his father's. ![]() His body was blazing hot, despite the packed snow and water she brought to his bedside. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Theirs was a kind of love story, with an emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. In their own time both men were underestimated, dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics and haters in their own nations-yet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century. ![]() Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they savored power. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children.īorn in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one-a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. ![]() The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leadersįranklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of "the Greatest Generation." In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her confidence soars to inflated heights and then is brought crashingly low by an unkind word or unexpected turn of events before she learns to handle relationships gracefully (well, sort of gracefully, at least!) Those of us who have been painfully introverted and gradually come out of our shells a bit will be able to identify.The story of Miss Garnet and her friends is interspersed with, and runs rather parallel to, a narrative of the Biblical story of Tobit. The beauty of the city awakens long-dormant passions in Miss Garnet, both physical and spiritual: she falls in love, has her heart broken, forms friendships, and even has her vision opened to the presence of the angel Raphael. Purchased on a whim at Richard Booth's Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye, and very glad I did! After the death of her friend and flatmate Harriet, Julia Garnet, a middle-aged atheist Communist virgin, decides to take an extended trip to Venice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Midnight in Chernobyl was named a New York Times Best Book of the Year, a Time Best Book of the Year, a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, and was awarded the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-fiction. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, Higginbotham brings the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. ![]() His first book, Midnight In Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster is a powerful investigation into Chernobyl and how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of the worst nuclear catastrophe in history. Many of his stories have been optioned for development in film or television. He began his career in magazines and newspapers in London, where he was the editor-in-chief of The Face and a contributing editor at The Sunday Telegraph. Adam Higginbotham is a journalist and narrative non-fiction writer whose work has been featured in magazines including The New Yorker, Smithsonian, The New York Times Magazine, Wired and more. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Haven claire kent read online![]() ![]() † Please note all activities (including swimming sessions) must be pre-booked. Stay at Harts holiday park, and you can experience the recently refurbished clubhouse and new swimming pool - there's plenty to do on and off the park, and you'll want to return again and again. The surrounding Kent area offers a range of attractions for all the family Howletts Wild Animal Park, Leeds Castle, Adventure Island and historic Canterbury are under an hours drive. ![]() You may not know that Leysdown attracts over 100,000 visitors a year and has one of the lowest rainfalls in the UK? Just another great reason to visit this lovely area. Leysdown has all the amenities of a traditional seaside resort but combines this with a tranquil 'back to nature' feel generated from miles of unspoiled beaches and wide open green spaces. It's located in Leysdown, a famous seaside resort with a fine promenade, and an award winning beach. Harts is the perfect holiday park destination boasting a fantastic entertainment venue and great leisure facilities, including a modern indoor pool, family bar and restaurant, arcades and an adventure playground. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Don juan byron![]() So, companies like Google and Facebook have decided to “take without asking,” Zuboff said. There are just a couple problems: One, when customers are fully informed about how their data is being used, they don’t like it. “How do we win the most lucrative prediction products, so that not only are we predicting the future, but really increasingly, our prediction products are equal to observation.” “All of the economic imperatives now that define surveillance capitalism are aimed at, how do we get better and better prediction products?” Zuboff told Recode’s Kara Swisher. ![]() Beginning with Google’s development of targeted online ads, the most successful companies in the world have been powered by “surveillance capitalism” - a term popularized by the guest on the latest episode of Recode Decode, Shoshana Zuboff. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At two degrees the Arctic ice cap melts away, and coral reefs disappear from the tropics. ![]() At one degree - the world we are already living in - vast wildfires scorch California and Australia, while monster hurricanes devastate coastal cities. Degree by terrifying degree, he charts the likely consequences of global heating and the ensuing climate catastrophe. But how much worse could it get? Will civilisation collapse? Are we already past the point of no return? What kind of future can our children expect? Rigorously cataloguing the very latest climate science, Mark Lynas explores the course we have set for Earth over the next century and beyond. Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Stolen songbird book 2![]() ![]() First, I enjoyed the first book and was drawn in to buy the other two. I will say before I start this that I'm 28 yrs old and haven't been a fan of YA fiction in a long time. She becomes a princess, the hope of a people, and a witch with magic powerful enough to change Trollus forever. And her prince, Tristan, the future king, is its secret leader.Īs Ccile becomes involved in the intricate political games of Trollus, she becomes more than a farmer's daughter. And she begins to see that she may be the only hope for the half-bloods - part troll, part human creatures who are slaves to the full-blooded trolls. But something unexpected happens while she's waiting - she begins to fall for the enigmatic troll prince to whom she has been bonded and married. She will have to bide her time, wait for the perfect opportunity. Only the trolls are clever, fast, and inhumanly strong. ![]() ![]() But a prophesy has been spoken of a union with the power to set the trolls free, and when Ccile de Troyes is kidnapped and taken beneath the mountain, she learns there is far more to the myth of the trolls than she could have imagined.Ĭcile has only one thing on her mind after she is brought to Trollus: escape. Time enough for their dark and nefarious magic to fade from human memory and into myth. For five centuries, a witch's curse has bound the trolls to their city beneath the ruins of Forsaken Mountain. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Smashed junji ito collection![]() ![]() Out of stock products can become available again, especially for Good Smile Company releases, check their website for upcoming figures and rereleases.Pre-order prices do fluctuation and often go up rather than down.Please refer to the products listings date before contacting us. Pre-order dates can change, this is very common and often move 1-3 months. We send out emails on date changes, if for some reason our email doesn’t reach you the dates can then be checked on the website.Pre-orders come as a first come first serve basis, while it is uncommon, allocations can happen.Pre-orders can and often do sell out before its release date, especially with popular titles currently airing.This system is very common in the figure collection industry due to the limited number of units available. Pre-orders are products that are available to purchase before the release date. ![]() ![]() ![]() Theresa May has allowed her husband to shine. There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a women’s well-being.įeminism Lite uses the language of “allowing.” Theresa May is the British prime minister, and here is how a progressive British newspaper described her husband: “Phillip May is known in politics as a man who has taken a back seat and allowed his wife, Theresa, to shine.” You either believe in the full equality of men and women, or you do not.įeminism Lite uses analogies like “He is the head and you are the neck.” Or, “He is driving but you are in the front seat.” More troubling is the idea, in Feminism Lite, that men are naturally superior but should be expected to “treat women well.” No. It is a hollow, appeasing and bankrupt idea. It is the idea of conditional female equality. Here is one of her suggestions.īeware the danger of what I call Feminism Lite. Adichie’s new book, Dear Iljeawele, is her response, and it contains 15 suggestions for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sacha Vega/iStock Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls out Feminism Lite - “a hollow, appeasing and bankrupt idea.”Ī few years ago, Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend and new mother, asking her how she could raise her baby girl to be a feminist. ![]() |