![]() ![]() ![]() My biggest hang-up was that I felt like there was very little plot. I was told how much I’d love DAUGHTER OF THE PIRATE KING since it’s full of banter (which it was – woo!) and I definitely did enjoy that aspect of the book, but I just didn’t seem to connect with it like I had hoped. ![]() But not to worry, for Alosa has a few tricks up her sleeve, and no lone pirate can stop the Daughter of the Pirate King. More than a match for the ruthless pirate crew, Alosa has only one thing standing between her and the map: her captor, the unexpectedly clever and unfairly attractive first mate, Riden. Title: Daughter of the Pirate King (Daughter of the Pirate King #1)įind it on the web: Buy from Amazon // Goodreads Date Completed: Sent on a mission to retrieve an ancient hidden map-the key to a legendary treasure trove-seventeen-year-old pirate captain Alosa deliberately allows herself to be captured by her enemies, giving her the perfect opportunity to search their ship. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() finds herself penned in to a smaller and smaller space by an array of people trying to silence her, and before she can untangled the sordid truth, two more people will die-and V.I.'s own life will hang in the balance. ![]() to investigate, she is sucked into a Gothic tale of sex, money, and power, leading her back to McCarthy-era blacklists and forward to some of the darker aspects of the Patriot Act. But instead of a mysterious intruder she discovers a dead man in the ornamental pond-a reporter for an African-American publication whom the suburban cops are quick to dismiss as a suicide. "A genuinely exciting and disturbing thriller."- Chicago TribuneĪs a favor to her most important client, V. "A thoughtful, high-tension mystery."- The Washington Post Book World Warshawski explores secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations in this New York Times bestselling novel from one of the most compelling writers in American crime fiction. 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More importantly, it will help you create a powerful life experience that helps you find fulfillment. Written by renowned consultant, teacher, and author Althea S.T., this unique guide provides those who want to know more about their own lives, luck, happenings, and long-term perspectives in a very candid and open format. When you’re tired of waiting for destiny to show you the way and you’re ready to take hold of your personal success in love, health, wealth, and life, reveal your true self and better understand others with this in-depth look at Chinese Astrology!Ī Course in Chinese Astrology is a rare look into Ba Zi, the Four Pillars that make up the Chinese divination system based on date and time of birth. Award-Winner Finalist in the Eastern Philosophy category of the 2017 Soul-Bridge Body-Mind-Spirit Book Awards of Europe! ![]() ![]() ![]() The seasoned 58-year-old Englishman William Thomas Turner faces off with Walther Schwieger, the 32-year-old commander of the German "iron coffin," Unterseeboot-20. In Dead Wake, the liner's final voyage becomes a tale of two captains. And in a larger sense, the disaster could be said to have cost thousands of additional casualties in collateral damage: Anguish over the sinking, and anger at German perfidy, eventually helped prod the determinedly neutral President Woodrow Wilson to bring the United States into World War I. A total of 1,198 people, including 123 Americans, were lost when a German U-Boat sank the Lusitania off Ireland's west coast. In his gripping new examination of the last days of what was then the fastest cruise ship in the world, Larson ( Devil in the White City, In the Garden of Beasts) brings the past stingingly alive. Few of the present-day joggers and cyclists who pass by might recall that a century ago, on May 1, 1915, the Lusitania set sail from this berth on her last doomed voyage.Įrik Larson is here to remind us. Like whispers of the past, the engraved names of the shipping companies Cunard and White Star remain barely legible atop its rusted iron gate. ![]() Pier 54 on the Hudson River in Manhattan is padlocked and forgotten now. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Dead Wake Subtitle The Last Crossing of the Lusitania Author Erik Larson ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The poem’s narration begins on the eve of Good Friday 1300, when the pilgrim Dante awakens in a dark wood, with no memory of how he came to be lost. Or as James Wood pointedly observed: it is less that Dante’s Hell is life-like, than that our life can be Hell-like. The Inferno may not outline our circumstances, but it does outline our condition. Yet we cannot but be impressed by him, by Ulysses, by all the towering personalities of Hell-even when their way was wrong. Farinata persists in his arrogance the scorn he entertains is eternal. Some here are anonymous, bent under the weight of their sin, but the splendor of others is found in their very damnation. “What I was living, that I am dead,” one soul tells the pilgrim. Change is no longer possible here, and damnation is the irrevocable, total removal from God-a separation that is more terrible for being freely willed by Hell’s inhabitants. Dante’s Hell is a diorama of sin, enacted as both moral exhortation and poetic prophecy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Think a newspaper can’t be responsible for mass murder? Think again.Īs flagship of the American news media, the New York Times is the world’s most powerful news outlet. The Times‘ importance means the family’s issues have done much damage.” -Daniel Pipes, Historian & President of Middle East Forum For 99 years- since a 1922 description of Hitler as someone ‘actuated by lofty, unselfish patriotism’-it has labored under the shadow of its dynastic owners’ triad of problems: capitalist guilt, Jewish self-hatred, and an ambition for power, wealth, and status. “In an account brimming with fascinating, if morbid, detail, Ashley Rindsberg rigorously exposes the dark side of the New York Times. Any book that casts a critical eye on the Paper of Record’s history, as this book does, is performing a valuable service.” -Glenn Greenwald, Journalist & New York Times Bestselling Author “The New York Times is by far the most influential newspaper in the world and thus receives far too little journalistic scrutiny due to its power to affect careers. ![]() ![]() This revolutionary scholar’s name was Dr. But a courageous Black Egyptologist scholar led a movement in the twentieth century to seize Kemet from the hands of white supremacy and Arab hegemony in the world. Not only have racist white intellectuals argued that Kemet was a non-Black civilization, they took Kemet geographically out of the continent of Afrika. Unfortunately, over the centuries, white supremacist “scholars” have distorted the history of Kemet. ![]() I understand that I will now become a part of an exclusive list of activist intellectuals fighting to rescue, reclaim, and restore Kemet to Afrikan people. (I will use the words Afrikan and Black interchangeably for people of Afrikan descent.)Īs I embark on my very first educational tour of Kemet (Egypt), I am overwhelmed with emotions. Leonard Jeffries (legendary Africana Studies Professor) ![]() ![]() Ben gave Kemet and Nile Valley Civilizations back to us” ![]() ![]() A child asleep ( How he sleepeth! having drunken) (from Finden's Tableaux) - E. ![]() Accuse me not, beseech thee ( Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear) (from Poems - Sonnets from the Portuguese) - E.Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear (from Poems - Sonnets from the Portuguese) GER - E.A grey rectangle like FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but isn't yet available. A language code in a blue rectangle like ENG indicates that a translation to that language is available. Titles used by the text author appear in boldface. Special notes: All titles and first lines are included in this index, including those used by composers. Legend: The symbol indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database.Ī * indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status. ![]() Texts set in art song or choral works (not necessarily comprehensive): ![]() If they fail, they’ll be trapped in Maqbara for good-and the secret Sajda’s been hiding will bury them both. Together, Javan and Sajda have to outwit the vicious warden, outfight the deadly creatures, and outlast the murderous prisoners intent on killing Javan. Working with Sajda might be the only way Javan can escape alive - but she has dangerous secrets. The only person who can help him is Sajda, who has been enslaved by Maqbara’s warden since she was a child, and whose guarded demeanor and powerful right hook keep the prisoners in check. But winning is much harder than acing competitions at school, and soon Javan finds himself beset not just by the terrifying creatures in the arena, but also a band of prisoners allied against him, and even the warden herself. The only way to gain an audience with the king - and reveal Javan’s identity - is to fight in Maqbara’s yearly tournament. But his eagerly awaited return home is cut short when a mysterious imposter takes his place-and no one believes Javan is the true prince.Īfter barely escaping the imposter’s assassins, Javan is thrown into Maqbara, the kingdom’s most dangerous prison. Javan Najafai, crown prince of Akram, has spent the last ten years at an elite boarding school, far away from his kingdom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Talk about an absolutely spectacular sequel to Echo North. This has been my most-anticipated release of 2022 – and it did not disappoint! In fact, while I may be writing this review in February, I can guarantee that it will make on my list of favorites for the entire year. Satu has the chance to be the heroine of her own fairy tale, only this one has an ending she never could have imagined. In the snow-laden mountains, she finds herself in a deadly race with the Winter Lord who wants the North Wind’s destructive powers for himself. To save the North, Satu embarks on a perilous journey to reclaim her father’s magic, but she isn’t the only one searching for it. ![]() The loss of his magic impacted more than just their family, however, and now the world is unraveling in the wake of this imbalance. This storyteller was once the formidable North Wind, but he lost his power by trading it away in exchange for mortality-he loved her mother too much to live without her. ![]() ![]() He told his daughter, Satu, many stories-romances like the girl who loved a star and changed herself into a nightingale so she could always see him shining-but the most important story he told her was his own. In the dark, cold reaches of the north lives a storyteller and his daughter. A hauntingly beautiful fairy tale about love and loss, this Echo North companion novel is perfect for fans of the Winternight Trilogy. ![]() |