![]() ![]() Richard drank and partied his sorrows away. He has lived in a winter world ever since the loss of his baby to SIDS left his wife severely depressed. Richard is Lucia's boss at New York University and had invited her to be a visiting professor. Both women understand what it is like for a loved one to simply disappear. Evelyn is an illegal alien from Guatemala who also took the dangerous journey to America to save her life. ![]() Lucia is an immigrant, a professor, who escaped Chile when her brother's involvement with a gang led to his death and made her life unsafe. The character's back stories take up the most space, told piecemeal in long chapters between the action. Isabel Allende's In the Midst of Winter is a story of rebirth, forgiveness, and love. The trio resolve to undertake a dangerous mission to protect Evelyn, a journey into a silent landscape of deep snow and journeys to their pasts. What brings them together is Evelyn, an undocumented alien, the loving caretaker of a boy with Cerebral Palsy whose parents' toxic relationship and troubled lives has left her knowing more than is safe for her to know. In the middle of a blizzard, Richard is moved to shed his twenty-five year long isolation and dares to love again, guided by Lucia, who has lost everything several times but still takes a chance on love. In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. ![]()
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![]() It's a religious experience beyond anything possible in the conventional world, and together the two lay down the plan for humanity's ultimate quest - to become like God. It's a religious experience beyond anything pos While experimenting with human consciousness Adam Samuels discovers a being which transforms his life. ![]() While experimenting with human consciousness Adam Samuels discovers a being which transforms his life. The Church of Virtual Saints follows on from Faust 2.0.more It’s a religious experience beyond anything possible in the conventional world, and together the two lay down the plan for humanity's ultimate quest - to become like God.īut some consider the development a threat to mankind itself, and will stop at nothing to put an end to it.ĭespite the destruction of the artificial intelligence known as Misty Felice, GCHQ investigator Sarah Mitchell and hacker Dan Emmet each continue to suffer from its twisted legacy. While experimenting with human consciousness Ad Enter now for your chance to win one of three signed paperback copies of The Church of Virtual Saints. ![]() ![]() ![]() Enter now for your chance to win one of three signed paperback copies of The Church of Virtual Saints. ![]() ![]() ![]() But if Towles’s story is an escape we crave, it is also, ironically, a story of imprisonment…” – Washington Post. A Gentleman in Moscow offers a chance to sink back into a lost attitude of aristocracy - equal parts urbane and humane - just what we might expect from the author of that 2011 bestseller Rules of Civility. ![]() “How delightful that in an era as crude as ours this finely composed new novel by Amor Towles stretches out with old-World elegance. Even if Russia isn’t on your must-visit list, I think everyone can enjoy Towles’s trip to Moscow this summer.” You can read his full review here. The book is technically historical fiction, but you’d be just as accurate calling it a thriller or a love story. There’s fantastical romance, politics, espionage, parenthood, and poetry. “ A Gentleman in Moscow is an amazing story because it manages to be a little bit of everything. In May, 2019, Microsoft founder Bill Gates recommended A Gentleman in Moscow as one of five books worth reading over the coming summer. In addition to the sources listed below, A Gentleman in Moscow was reviewed, by NPR, the Seattle Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune. ![]() ![]() ![]() The United States is using a dusty 1950 era playbook on dealing with the rest of the world.People are starting to panic regarding world war III and China.Things are lining up properly and a bit disorderly.Africa is replacing the United States and Europe as a major middle class of value.The USA is grasping at straws and trying to hold everything together.By the time the American public discovers what actually has happened, it will be far too late, and rage will ensue.Great big changes in the world, and the West is unaware of them.When will the United States issue everyone with 8-track players to listen to when Tiktok is completely banned?.Boy oh boy is the Geopolitical situation changing (with a good look at Vietnam).The USA is starting to wake up to the nightmare that it created.Some art, thoughts, funk, maybe cute cats, and food while the world is about to go to shit. ![]() Now with the United States crazy mad-dog chained in a corner, the rest of the world are mending fences, and building bridges.The big war happened in 2019, China won.Choppy changes and incredible surprises coming up ahead.What a day! The anti-China trolls are out in rare form.The battle still rages, but the major threat is now neutralized. ![]() ![]() I thought I’ d get used to it, but I didn’t, and it nagged at me all the way through. ![]() Mona is a baker, an ordinary girl, and no one else from her family, or the others we meet that she knows, speak that way. ![]() I didn’t get why Mona, raised from a young age by her aunt and uncle, spoke so differently to them, and far more like the ruling classes. Others characters came from all over, a bit of Irish, a bit of Australian, a bit of generic-rustic-yokel (think Sam Gamgee in the LotR films), and sometimes it was all a bit of a blend. The narration, and Mona, are read in a rather cut-glass RP (received pronunciation) that, to be fair, the narrator holds well, but to my UK-English ears it sounded a bit carefully over-annunciated. However, I was surprised to hear it read in UK English, by an American narrator. It takes a while to get going and some of the events that transpire are a tad obvious, and some I thought obvious didn’t happen, so what do I know?! The latter part did pick up pace and it then rattled along to a rather good conclusion. ![]() This isn’t a deep book - it’s heroine is 14, and it’s told entirely from her perspective, but she’s an engaging young thing who ends up having to deal with far, far more than you should at that, or any, age. Engaging characters, bit slow to get going ![]() ![]() ![]() Their lives will all intertwine and come crashing together in a shocking way, one that could only happen in this enchanting, dangerous city. And there's Blake, a drifter hiding in the desert, doing his best to fight off his most violent instincts. There's Tony, a bored and unhappy lawyer who is inspired by the runner. There's Britt, who shows up at the commune harboring a dark secret. There's Owen and James, teenage twins who live in a desert commune, where their father, a self-proclaimed healer, holds a powerful sway over his disciples. There's Ren, just out of juvie, who travels to LA in search of his mother. ![]() The strange sight makes the local news and captures the imaginations of a stunning cast of misfits and lost souls. When a teen runs away from his father’s mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that will connect six characters desperate for hope and love, set across the sun-bleached canvas of Los Angeles.įrom the acclaimed author of Visitation Street, a visionary portrait of contemporary Los Angeles in all its facets, from the Mojave Desert to the Pacific, from the 110 to Skid Row.ĭuring a typically crowded morning commute, a naked runner is dodging between the stalled cars. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Separated by light years, bound by an unlikely love, Zai and pacifist Senator Nara Oxham must both face the challenge of the Rix, and both will hold the fate of the empire in their hands. Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate Lynx is tasked with her rescue. They begin by taking the Child Empress hostage. They seek to end the Emperor's prolonged rule, and supplant it with an eternal cybernetic dynasty. Cool, relentless fanatics, their only goal is to propagate such AIs. The Rix are machine-augmented humans who worship very different gods: AI compound minds of planetary size. He and his sister, the Child Empress, who is eternally a little girl, are worshipped as living gods. Because he can grant a form of eternal life-after-death, creating an elite known as the Risen, his power is absolute. The undead Emperor has ruled his mighty interstellar empire of eighty human worlds for sixteen hundred years. The Risen Empire is the first great space opera of the twenty-first century. ![]() Dick Award special citation and a New York Times notable book) and Uglies, Pretties, and Specials, comes a sweeping epic. From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author of Evolution's Darling (Philip K. ![]() ![]() ![]() Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble Giveaway: What happened to his brother? Who betrayed him? And what does the DOD want from them-from me? And I have to tell Daemon, even though I know he’s never going to stop searching until he gets the truth. I’ve seen someone who shouldn’t be alive. So I’ve sworn him off, even though he’s running more hot than cold these days. Onyxĭaemon’s determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarro alien connection. Turns out he has a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal his abilities and the only way I’m getting out of this alive is by sticking close to him until my alien mojo fades. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes time with a wave of his hand, he lights me up with a big fat bulls-eye. And with his looming height and eerie green eyes, he’s hot…until he opens his mouth. ![]() I just love this cover so much, it makes me want to read the series all over again □ Blurb: Obsidian ![]() ![]() ![]() The four masters of Persian miniature were instructed to illustrate the secret book for the Sultan, so that his name and deeds would gain immortality and glory over the centuries. My Name is Red tells of the events which took place in the late decades of the 16th century in Ottoman Empire. Thus, the author became one of the most influential writers in the world. All these events largely contributed to Orhan Pamuk being awarded with the Nobel Prize in 2006, which is the most prestigious award in Literature. ![]() Orhan Pamuk started being talked all over the world, and in 2003 the writer was awarded the largest literary prize – International Dublin Literary Award (IMPAC), which brought the author 100 000 euros. My Name is Red was published 1998 and strengthened the author’s success outside his country. In the same year, one of the writer’s most famous novels, The Black Book, was published in Turkey, instantly became a bestseller and was translated into 10 languages within a year. In 1990 Pamuk received the prize of the British newspaper The Independent for this novel. His first novel, which brought the author success outside of Turkey was the novel The White Castle. ![]() My Name is Red is a novel by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, one of the most popular writers in the homeland, who has received many national awards. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() |