![]() He finds an ally in David, but neither of them truly knows if they can trust the other. ![]() Unwillingly, he’s brought into a world of blackmail and scandal with a corrupt judge as the leader. The past has found him and the stakes are high. He’s not proud of some of the things he’s had to do and, while he’s finally secured a job, there is a dark shadow still lurking. He has had a rough life, has been on his own since he was 15, and it was a struggle to finish nursing school. Ian has a past and is trying to keep all of his secrets from spilling out. Ian doesn’t have the same problem as David and while he does his job well, he’s doesn’t do small talk and is fairly hostile to his co-workers. Every look has David thinking filthy thoughts and he really needs to focus on his new job. He’s settling into his position well after a scandal rocked his predecessor, but he can’t stop looking at Ian, the new nurse. ![]() ![]() Buy Link: Amazon | All Romance | Amazon UKĪt 40 years old, David is the youngest Chief of Medicine the hospital has ever had. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Of course Tuppence is not to be involved and Tommy is to give her a cover story. This is less farfetched than it sounds, as Tommy is working on leads another operative has been investigating, before their untimely and very deliberate death. ![]() Two key operatives named N and M are Tommy’s targets. Yet things soon change for Tommy when a man from British Intelligence asks him to go down to Leahampton, a seaside resort in particular to go and stay at a guest house called San Souci, in order to identify German and British 5 th Columnists. Tuppence too has been refused nursing work and both are feeling fairly cheesed off that they are considered unfit for work, purely on the grounds of them being in their late 40s. N or M? (1941), the third Tommy and Tuppence Beresford novel, is not Christie’s best book by any means but one I have always been fond of, which made it all the more galling when this title was unfortunately massacred in its 2015 TV adaptation.īut on with the book itself, which begins with Tommy having been turned down for more war work. Sayers in The Wimsey Papers, Christie does not have Poirot or Miss Marple involved in war work or expressing their views on current events. During WW2 Christie’s work mostly does not directly refer to the conflict that was going on, except today’s read which is the exception. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Party is an ominously vague entity with an ominously vague mascot: Big Brother. The ruling party in Oceania is English Socialism, sometimes known as Ingsoc, more commonly known as The Party. 1984 takes place on those Isles, now referred to as “Airstrip One.” ![]() Actually, “Oceania” is a little too broad, seeing as the superstate encompasses the continents formerly known as the Americas, Australia, parts of Africa, and the British Isles. Our story unfolds on a cold April day in 1984 (what a surprise) in Oceania, the totalitarian superpower in post World War II Europe. Where in the world does 1984 begin? We’re glad you asked because the world in 1984 looks pretty different from ours. Need a synopsis of George Orwell's 1984? Don't worry, our 1984 summary explains the plot of this literary classic along with important themes and characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() Read more he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. ![]() ![]() 'Startling in scope and bravado.' The New York Times A radical and optimistic view of the future course of human development from the bestselling author of How to Create a Mind and who Bill Gates calls 'the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence.' For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. Num Pages: 683 pages, 67 tables and graphs. This title offers a view of the coming age that is both a dramatic culmination of centuries of technological ingenuity and a genuinely inspiring vision of our ultimate destiny. ![]() Examines the next step in the evolutionary process of the union of human and machine. Description for Singularity Is Near Paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. 2012 by Ellie Dean (Author) 911 ratings Book 1 of 18: The Cliffehaven Series See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 1.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 5.30 5 Used from 2.79 Paperback 7.64 22 Used from 1.48 15 New from 7. THE FIRST CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEAN When sixteen-year-old Sally is evacuated to the English south coast, she is terrified by what lies ahead of her. There'll Be Blue Skies Hardcover Large Print, 1 Oct. And Sally is forced to work out where her true loyalties lie. ![]() Sally gets a job in a uniforms factory to help pay her way - and to pay for Ernie's expensive medicines - but then Florrie arrives in Cliffehaven, bringing disaster with her. Playing mother is nothing new for Sally - their real mother Florrie, a good-time girl, hasn't even come to the station to wave them off and Ernie, crippled at an early age by polio, is used to depending on his older sister.When they arrive in Cliffehaven, they're taken to live at the Beach View Boarding House where they're welcomed by the open-hearted O'Reilly family headed up by warm, loving Grace, and life begins to improve. All she knows is the sights and sounds of London's East End - but Sally swallows her tears as they leave the familiar landmarks behind, knowing that she has to be a Grown-Up Girl and play mother to her six-year-old brother Ernie. When sixteen-year-old Sally is evacuated to the English south coast, she is terrified by what lies ahead of her. ![]() ![]() Or was it cloudy?" And yet the apprehended city floats before the reader with a limpid and oneiric grace: a self-portrait in a constantly distorting mirror. Adam drifts, benumbed and stoned, through a Madrid that sometimes fails to match the depths of his self-absorption: "I left the hotel and walked into the sun. Meursault is trapped in the sun-dazzle of the moment. Adam Gordon suffers frequently from linguistic dislocation and – permanently – from bipolarity which he self-medicates with a cocktail of prescription drugs, coffee, nicotine, booze and marijuana. The narrator, Meursault, is a French Algerian whose mother is reported dead in the famous opening sentence later, on a beach, he will murder someone – an Arab, as the song by the Cure reminded us in 1979 – for almost no reason.īen Lerner's remarkable first novel is narrated by a different kind of outsider: a young American living in Madrid on a poetry scholarship in 2004. ![]() ![]() S eventy years ago Albert Camus published the novel known in English as The Outsider: a short and vivid monologue that – I remember this from school – doubles as some kind of philosophical manifesto. ![]() ![]() ![]() are fascinating in their own right, and the plotting is riveting. And I will., The descriptions of Reykjavík and the surrounding area. The plot is a twister, the setting unique, and Erlendur's personal life is even bleaker than the Icelandic fall. The emotionally wrought ending caught me off guard and touched me in a way that few mystery novels do., An absorbing police procedural dense with psychological pressure. ![]() This is a dark, haunting novel, with a protagonist who searches for a murderer and finds his own humanity. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Achilles wept in remembrance of his friend, and sleep that conquers all refused to come. Bk XXIV:677-717 Priam returns to Troy with the bodyīk XXIV:1-76 The gods argue over the treatment of Hector’s bodyĪfter the funeral games, the men left the assembly and scattered each to their own ship, ready for supper and then their fill of sweet sleep.Bk XXIV:621-676 Achilles agrees a truce for Hector’s funeral.Bk XXIV:552-620 Achilles releases Hector’s corpse to Priam.Bk XXIV:468-551 Priam moves Achilles’ heart.Bk XXIV:349-467 Hermes guides Priam to Achilles hut.Bk XXIV:200-280 Priam prepares to visit the Greek camp.Bk XXIV:141-199 Iris carries the message to Priam.Bk XXIV:77-140 Thetis persuades Achilles to ransom the corpse. ![]() Bk XXIV:1-76 The gods argue over the treatment of Hector’s body.This work may be freely reproduced, stored and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose. Kline © Copyright 2009 All Rights Reserved ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sykes and Lodis wonder what their seats in the seventh row might cost, and Dime discusses the movie deal with Billy and Albert. When the Bravos arrive at the stadium two hours before kickoff, none of the staff seem to know what to do with them. He's trying to secure a movie deal to make a film about the firefight, and he announces that the actress Hilary Swank is interested in playing both Billy and his sergeant, Sergeant Dime. A movie producer, Albert, rides with Bravo. When the soldiers do so, the girls' faces fall-they're uninterested in soldiers. A group of college girls drives up alongside the limo and yells for the Bravos to put their windows down. On Thanksgiving Day, Billy arrives in a limo to the Texas Stadium and thinks that it looks very different from the stadium he's seen on television. Because the firefight was filmed by an embedded news team, Billy's platoon was renamed Bravo squad, heralded as heroes, and President Bush asked them to return home for a two-week Victory Tour, culminating at the Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day game. During the fight, Billy attempted to save his mentor, Shroom, but Shroom died at the hands of Iraqi insurgents anyway. Prior to the start of the novel, nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn, a soldier in the United States Army, was involved in a firefight on the banks of the Al-Ansakar Canal in Iraq. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Consequently, the documents have become very valuable, offered for sale in whispers at hidden bookstores, and coveted by rich collectors. He is the best-selling poet in America, “displacing … the Dalai Lama as the reigning king of greeting cards”. Now Rumi has become a mass media phenomenon, made trendy by pop culture icons like Madonna and Deepak Chopra. ![]() The Iranian diaspora of 1979, after the “second revolution,” resulted in manuscripts being spirited away from their home country to places as varied as Westwood and Jaipur. All the while, mysterious hints about newly unearthed poems bubble up in conversations, in phone calls and in books left as gifts. His hunt for the Shiraz manuscript, a famous lost work, sends him from Damascus to Seville and from Paris to Isfahan. Macmillan’s thesis centers on Persian poetry, specifically on the work of the Sufi poet Rumi. Here, the story centers on John Macmillan, an English graduate student at a university in Santa Barbara. ![]() His latest work, Abandon, returns to familiar terrain, exploring the interstices between cultures. His next piece of fiction, Cuba and the Night, echoed the joyous music of that country in vibrantly narrating the course of a love affair between the English protagonist and his island girlfriend. In Pico Iyer’s first novel, The Lady and the Monk, he dealt with a delicate love affair between a Zen initiate and a Japanese housewife, in prose as delicately shaded as a haiku. |