![]() ![]() It was an angry crowd, and police officers flanked the sides of the room, ready to push everyone out if things got out of hand." In his words, "Several hundred people packed the Oakland city council chamber. I started reading Yasha Levine's book, and right from the introduction, it's a punch in the gut: Levine takes us to a meeting, which he attended, in 2014, at Oakland City Hall. ![]() what if things were worse than we think? What if all the history we have, that we hear about, that we accept as the history of the World Wide Web was just a fairy tale? A "cute" facade for a much more terrifying truth? That is the premise of the book "Surveillance Valley", by author Yasha Levine. I have been writing for some time now about the shadowy relations of technology companies with the US government's espionage and military agencies. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It stuck with me for a long time after reading too. I really loved SADIE – it was the kind of addicting read I’m always looking for when it comes to mystery/thrillers. but now she doesn't know if she can afford not to. ![]() Lo never thought she could afford to believe in Lev Warren. When her investigation puts her in the direct path of its leader, Lev Warren and as Lo delves deeper into The Project, the lives of its members it upends everything she thought she knew about her sister, herself, cults, and the world around her-to the point she can no longer tell what's real or true. ![]() When a man shows up at the magazine Lo works for claiming The Unity Project killed his son, Lo sees the perfect opportunity to expose the group and reunite with Bea once and for all. She's spent the last six years of her life trying-and failing-to prove it. Thanks to its extensive charitable work and community outreach, The Unity Project has won the hearts and minds of most in the Upstate New York region, but Lo knows there's more to the group than meets the eye. After her parents died, Lo's sister, Bea, joined The Unity Project, leaving Lo in the care of their great aunt. Published by Macmillan on February 2, 2021 I promise that this does NOT affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. ![]() I received this book for free (hey, thanks!) in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() What I enjoyed most were the descriptions of life in places like the Culdee colony on the Merrimac River, originally settled by Irish and Scottish monks who refused to compromise with Rome, and now at the end of the tenth century being augmented by Norse settlers and of life in Iceland, and among the earliest settlers in Greenland. ![]() ![]() Two born outsiders, Merewyn, a Cornish girl who believes herself descended from King Arthur through her father Uther (in the 10th century, Cornwall was still not considered part of England), and Romieux of Provence, known outside Provence as Rumon, “an atheling of the right line of Cerdic and Alfred”, move in an unhappy dance through a wonderful cast of insiders ranging from Cornish peasants and Celtic monks through Viking warriors and Norse farmers to nuns and an archbishop (St Dunstan himself), princes and princesses, kings and queens. ![]() By contrast, this book – as we might expect from the title, Avalon – is full of the magic and the stuff of myth. Anya Seton’s wonderful novel Katherine contains virtually no medieval magic or mystery at all, apart perhaps from the passage where Katherine spends some healing time with the mystic Dame Julian of Norwich. ![]() ![]() ![]() Murakami’s latest offering in English translation is a collection of new short stories titled Men Without Women. A film where the so-called extras, those people who make up the living backdrop of our cinematic lives, are captured in their most intimate moments and become, to our surprise, reflections of ourselves. If Haruki Murakami made films instead of writing books, this is what such a film might look like. So imagine if you will a film with no leading man or woman, a film with no big names. For better or for worse we now see with the camera’s eye. ![]() Today, however, it has become a film set, both metaphorically and literally. ![]() In Shakespeare’s day all the world may indeed have been a stage. If Haruki Murakami made films instead of writing books, this is what they might look like. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is sure to become shortly engaged to very handsome Lt. Bestselling, award-winning author Marsha Canham sweeps us into the turbulence and romance of Scotland's quest for freedom in a saga of two born enemies whose lives and destinies are irrevocably bound to the fate of an empire.Ĭatherine Ashbrooke is beautiful, spoiled and angry when a half naked stranger bathing in the creek on her family's property shows no interest in her. He had no choice but to carry his reluctant bride off to the Highlands, to a world of ancient blood feuds and a brewing rebellion-a world where fiery passion and breathtaking courage would prove that even legendary warriors could lose their hearts. ![]() Alexander Cameron may have won the highborn English beauty in a duel, but not even the lure of long-forgotten desires could keep him from his meeting with destiny. ![]() How was the spoiled and pampered Catherine Augustine Ashbrooke to know the handsome stranger with the brooding midnight eyes would see through her plot and make her the pawn in a dangerous game of his own? United by a reckless game of chance. It was a boastful wager, a bold flirtation meant to win a proposal from the most eligible officer in His Majesty's Royal Dragoons. ![]() They were torn between pride and passion. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, STILL, this book leaves you with a heartwarming feel. That does NOT happen! I was pretty proud of the author for sticking with it. If you are good with the weird and twisted then OH MY GOD get this book! It’s honestly not a dark read like I thought it was going to be and it’s actually a heartwarming romantic love story….just about a brother and a sister… Near the end of the book, I was waiting for the author to back-pedal and to find out that they weren’t actually blood relatives…well SPOILER ALERT… ![]() Oh my…I don’t even know how to review this one, let alone have anything to say that hasn’t already been said!įirst off, if you are not into taboo reads, as far as incest goes, THIS IS NOT FOR YOU! This book is an epic, emotional, raw love story… Webster Release: June.20, 2018Ī secret that eats me alive, but one I’ll take to my grave. ![]() ![]() ![]() 25 Minutes to Go Poem by Shel Silverstein This poem is about a man who has 100.000 dollars worth of pennies but can’t use them because a man with this much pennies would draw attention. This poem shows us that children know what is wrong and what is right, they know how a room should be like but when it comes to their room, they don’t want to clean it up. His raincoat is there in the overstuffed chair,Īnd the chair is becoming quite mucky and damp. They don’t care about being sweaty, being tired or being dirty. This poem shows us how children would do anything to have fun. Dirty Face Poem by Shel SilversteinĪnd biting two buttons off Jeremy’s shirt. ![]() Children have big imaginations so they can think that non-living things are alive and Shel Silverstein says that beautifully. This poem is about how children can make friends from anything, whether it is a toy, a snow ball or nothing. And they can’t understand the face expressions people make, just like at the end when the kid’s father is angry at him because he traded 1 dollar for 4 pennies 9. ![]() Children don’t know the units they just know that 2 is bigger than 1 and 3 is bigger than 2. Shel Silverstein understands children and knows how they think. In this list, you will see the best of Shel Silverstien poems. He is also a very creative poet who uses different creatures, daydreams and some nonsense language. Shel Silverstein’s poems are some of the best poems for children because he uses young characters and shows us the world from a youthful view. ![]() ![]() Striving for historical accuracy, Scorsese presents Jerusalem as a flat, arid, harsh land suffering under the oppressive thumb of Roman rule. ![]() Retelling of the Gospel's familiar events-the assembly of the disciples, the miracles, and so forth. Between these powerful and affecting scenes is a fresh and vivid ![]() Making crosses upon which the Romans crucify rebellious Jews it closes with the controversial last-temptation sequence, depicting the human love and gratifications Jesus sacrificed to fulfill his destiny as the savior of humankind. ![]() The film opens with the carpenter Jesus of Nazareth (Willem Dafoe) Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's controversial novel The Last Temptation of Christ seeks to emphasize the human aspects of Jesus Christ, a figure described in the Bible as both fully God and fully man. ![]() ![]() Miss Kobayashi is your average office worker who lives alone in her small apartment-until a young and adorable dragon girl named Tooru appears before. ![]() Kobayashi's normal life just went off the deep end. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid is a delightful, ongoing comedy manga series about a young lady who, after saving a dragon's life, finds herself the object of its indebtedness and undying affection. But when you're a dragon, nothing is ever simple. Now Miss Kobayashi finds herself with a new, imposing roommate, who is doing her best to help out around the home. Upon saving Tooru's life, the fiesty dragon will do anything to pay off her debt of gratitude, including insisting that she move in with Miss Kobayashi and serve her in any way she does or doesn't desire. Miss Kobayashi is your average office worker who lives alone in her small apartment-until a young and adorable dragon girl named Tooru appears before her. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid will be released as single-volume books, each including a full-colour insert. ![]() Featuring a cast of colourful supernatural characters, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid is the perfect book for fans of Monster Musume and Merman in my Tub. ![]() Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid is a delightful, ongoing comedy manga series about a young lady who, after saving a dragon's life, finds herself the object of its indebtedness and undying affection. ![]() ![]() Suffice it to say, finding them made me quite excited, particularly because it was during a hiatus between seasons. I have been a Doctor Who fan for a long time now, but I have only discovered this series of novels that connect to the show within the last year or two. Something that’s been there for thousands of years. In 1917 the Doctor and Amy are desperate to find out what’s happened to Rory, who’s vanished too.īut something is waiting for them in the woods. The modern motorway bends to avoid it, as did the old Roman road. Two teenage girls disappear into an ancient wood, a foreboding and malevolent presence both now and in the past. Synopsis: ‘As long as people have lived here, they’ve gone out of their way to avoid the woods…’ Links: Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository Series: Doctor Who: New Series Adventures #45 ![]() Doctor Who: The Way Through the Woods by Una McCormack ![]() |