The Forlorned by Angela J. Townsend6/25/2023 Even her own personal pubic biography is a complete fabrication. Yet she presents herself to the public as a pillar of integrity while trying to destroy the reputation of others. I note that this article is being written now in defense of ongoing personal attacks Townsend has had leveled against me for some time, as this places all attributable information about her in one place.Ībsolutely nothing about the woman is honest. But her duplicity and deception go far and beyond this, and I feel – in light of ongoing attacks made by her against me in retaliation for my filing suit against her for my creation – that it is time for me to speak in full disclosure as a cautionary tale against anyone else doing business with this woman in any capacity. As readers of my blog are aware, her and I are in court over a trademark – the title “The Forlorned” – which she contracted from me and then stole for herself. It hurts our profession and it reflects poorly upon each and every one of us.įirst, a disclaimer: I have a personal conflict with Angela Townsend. It is unfortunate and hurtful for the entire industry I represent though when one of our own chooses to lie, cheat and steal – not only from her fellows, but from the public at large. As an Indie Author myself, I have taken the True Review Pledge and committed myself to integrity above everything else – as every author of integrity should. In the business of self-publication, reputation is everything.
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Faithful place review6/24/2023 Now everything he thought he knew is turned upside down: did Rosie really leave that night, or did someone stop her before she could? French, who briefly introduced Mackey in The Likeness, is adept at seamlessly blending suspenseful whodunit elements with Frank's familial demons. When his younger sister, Jackie, calls to tell him that someone found Rosie's suitcase hidden in an abandoned house, Frank reluctantly returns. 114,746 ratings9,032 reviews Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was nineteen, growing up poor in Dublin's inner city and living crammed into a small flat with his family on Faithful Place. For 22 years, Frank, who becomes an undercover cop, stays away from Faithful Place, his childhood Dublin neighborhood. By F18News By Felix Corley On 16 November 2022, troops of Russia’s National Guard seized two Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests, Fr Ivan Levytsky and Fr Bohdan Heleta, in Berdyansk. But when Rosie doesn't meet Frank the night they're meant to leave and he finds a note, Frank assumes she's left him behind. In 1985, 19-yearold Frank Mackey and his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, made secret plans to elope to England and start a new life together far away from their families, particularly the hard-drinking Mackeys. French's emotionally searing third novel of the Dublin murder squad (after The Likeness) shows the Irish author getting better with each book. From Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher, the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years. Inside The Gender Jihad by Amina Wadud6/24/2023 Urn:lcp:insidegenderjiha0000wadu:epub:6da64fa7-0b18-489d-b30b-be4eed098efc Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier insidegenderjiha0000wadu Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4jn2mj94 Invoice 2089 Isbn 1851684638ĩ781851684632 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9720 Ocr_module_version 0.0.12 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA18637 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:01:56 Boxid IA40077122 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Col_number COL-658 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier I Dream of Popo by Livia Blackburne6/24/2023 The book reflects the beauty of intergenerational relationships and the honor of caring for elders: “The luckiest of the grandchildren got to help take care of Grandma.” Note: A mention of jungle spirits. The ensuing lean years as refugees meant Yang’s family had no money for new clothes and they savored ice cubes instead of ice cream, but their home overflowed with stories and love. Yang pens a tender tribute to her Hmong grandmother who lived a hard life in the jungles of Laos before settling in the United States. The book depicts how time and distance can cause us to change our language and environment, but the love between a grandma and granddaughter never changes. Julia Kuo’s lovely illustrations evoke the feel, smells, and sights of Taiwan, from a decadent home-cooked Chinese New Year dinner to the cluttered Taipei alleyways. Conversations once held over the kitchen table are now over FaceTime. The book follows the relationship between a young girl and her popo or grandmother as she grows up in Taiwan and then moves to the United States. Hillary clinton book hard choice6/24/2023 Along the way, they grappled with tough dilemmas, especially the decision to send Americans into harm’s way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Secretary Clinton and President Obama had to decide how to repair fractured alliances, wind down two wars, and address a global financial crisis. “ Hard Choices is a richly detailed and compelling chronicle of Clinton’s role in the foreign initiatives and crises that defined the first term of the Obama administration…it teems with small, entertaining details about her interactions with foreign leaders ( Los Angeles Times). To her surprise, newly elected President Barack Obama asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of State. In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, Hillary Rodham Clinton expected to return to the United States Senate. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inside look at the choices and challenges she has faced is “a subtle, finely calibrated work…with succinct and often shrewd appraisals of the complex web of political, economic, and historical forces in play around the world” ( The New York Times). 2016 Democratic Nominee for President of the United States We tell ourselves stories6/23/2023 The Chicago Tribune review stated "even the slightest tends to have at least a moment when her prose somehow modulates. We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction is a 2006 collection of nonfiction by Joan Didion. The contents range in style, including journalism, memoir, and cultural and political commentary.Ĭritics noted that Didion's distinct literary voice, highlighted by John Leonard's introduction, is apparent throughout the collection. We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live includes the full content of her first seven volumes of nonfiction. Decades of research in cognitive behavioral therapy and narrative psychology has shown that people can indeed change their stories to tell ones that move them. The title is taken from the opening line of Didion's essay "The White Album" in the book of the same name. For many of us, I suspect, our first sense of the past begins with the simple childhood request for a story. It was released in the Everyman's Library, a series of reprinted classic literature, as one of the titles chosen to mark the series' 100th anniversary. We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction is a 2006 collection of nonfiction by Joan Didion. : We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (Everymans Library) (9780307264879) by Joan Didion and a great selection of. The immortality thief taran hunt6/23/2023 In fact, they remain extremely dangerous throughout, which provides some interesting plot twists along the way. I also got thoroughly caught up in learning more about the two other characters Sean finds himself sharing his terrifying adventures with – initially, they both seem utterly horrible and extremely dangerous. Hunt does a really good job in conveying this belief without portraying Sean as some futuristic Pollyanna. And a strong sense that the dumb stroke of luck that allowed him to survive the massacre of his family, friends and neighbours has left him with a need to pass it on whenever he finds someone wanting help. But as the book wore on, I began to appreciate that Sean’s wisecracking, irreverent attitude hides a deep belief in the sanctity of life. His ‘cheeky chappie’ façade started to wear thin very quickly – and by their reactions, I realised the other crew of Viper felt much the same way. In the early stages of the book, I found him hard work. The main protagonist is masterfully handled by Hunt. The reason why I found myself so wrapped up in this adventure is that I became thoroughly invested in Sean. So it’s a testament to the author’s skill that by the time I was a quarter of the way into this one, I was thoroughly hooked. REVIEW: I’ll be honest – when I finally got around to reading this one, I wasn’t really in the mood for a creepy deserted space ship, which I’ll own is my problem rather than anything wrong with the writing. Gone for good harlan coben book6/23/2023 And there’s even worse news: Joseph Pistillo, the FBI’s top man in New York, is not only still looking for Ken, whom he turns out to have a damningly personal reason for wanting to find he suspects Sheila, who never told Will anything about her turbulent past except that she’d run away from home, was up to no good as well. Then, several hours after her funeral, Will suffers an even more devastating loss when his lover Sheila Rogers, a volunteer at Covenant House, the New York shelter for street kids Will runs, disappears as well. A betwixt-and-between thriller from the talented chronicler of sports agent Myron Bolitar ( Darkest Fear, 2000, etc.).Įleven years after his brother Ken vanished after being accused of raping and strangling neighborhood girl Julie Miller, Will Klein’s dying mother tells him that Ken’s still alive. Welcome to lagos by chibundu onuzo6/23/2023 Quintessential African politics,” thinks one BBC correspondent covering the minister’s story. What to do with the minister, and more important, with his money? Onuzo’s representation of Lagos as “a carnivore of a city that swallowed even bones” is often unromantic, but she also criticizes how the city is represented, or misrepresented, by Westerners: “Scandal, murder, intrigue. There they encounter someone desperately trying to leave Lagos: an education minister who has gone into hiding with $10 million meant for Nigeria’s schools. These characters form a family of sorts as they are welcomed to Lagos coolly, obliged to live in a homeless encampment before settling in an unoccupied house. Seeking refuge in the metropolis for various reasons, several Nigerian travelers group up en route to Lagos, including morally upright army deserter Chike swaggering teenage militant Fineboy well-to-do Oma, who is fleeing her abusive husband and a precocious but traumatized girl, Isoken. debut, Onuzo anatomizes a tumultuous city and its inhabitants, from street hustlers to well-connected government ministers. Hunger of the gods book6/23/2023 The well-realised characters move against a backdrop of a world stunning in its immensity. 'Visceral, heart-breaking and unputdownable' Jay Kristoff 'A masterfully crafted, brutally compelling Norse-inspired epic' Anthony Ryan and bring about a battle that will shake the foundations of the earth. It is inspired by Norse mythology, Beowulf and Ragnarök. My latest book, The Shadow of the Gods, book 1 of the Bloodsworn Saga, will be published in May 2021. A Time of Courage, book 3 Of Blood and Bone, made the Spiegel Bestseller’s List in Germany. A book of forbidden magic with the power to raise the wolf god Ulfrir from the dead. Book 1, A Time of Dread, begins 130 years after the events of the first series. Their hope lies within the mad writings of a chained god. Yet even the might of the Bloodsworn and Battle-Grim cannot stand alone against a dragon god. Now she plots a new age of blood and conquest.Īs Orka continues the hunt for her missing son, the Bloodsworn sweep south in a desperate race to save one of their own - and Varg takes the first steps on the path of vengeance.Įlvar has sworn to fulfil her blood oath and rescue a prisoner from the clutches of Lik-Rifa and her dragonborn followers, but first she must persuade the Battle-Grim to follow her. Lik-Rifa, the dragon god of legend, has been freed from her eternal prison. The Hunger of the Gods continues John Gwynne's acclaimed Norse-inspired epic fantasy series, packed with myth, magic and bloody vengeance |