![]() ![]() Stansfield directs his protégée, Irene Kennedy, and his old Cold War colleague, Stan Hurley, to form a new group of clandestine operatives who will work outside the normal chain of command-men who do not exist. America must confront Islamic terrorism with full force. Cold War veteran CIA Operations Director Thomas Stansfield knows he must prepare his people for the next war. ![]() ![]() Two decades of cutthroat partisan politics have left the CIA and the country in an increasingly vulnerable position. Mitch Rapp was one of them, but he was not interested in comfort. Two hundred and seventy souls perished on that cold December night, and thousands of family and friends were left searching for comfort. Terrorists attacked innocent American citizens, and Rapp’s girlfriend was among the murdered. Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world…and then tragedy struck. In #1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn’s explosive and “captivating” (Glenn Beck) thriller, witness the young Mitch Rapp as he takes on his first assignment. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Serving as the main antagonist of the novels The Stand, The Eyes of the Dragon, the unseen overarching antagonist of The Mist, one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Ralph White) of Carrie, the final antagonist of The Long Walk, a supporting antagonist of From a Buick 8 and the secondary antagonist of The Dark Tower series. Randall Flagg (real name Walter Padick) is the main antagonist of the Stephen King multiverse. Randall Flagg in the 2017 film The Dark Tower played by Matthew McConaughey. ![]() ![]() ![]() If Lizzie is enmeshed with her brother, a former addict who will struggle with a new marriage and baby, there’s also a host of other characters caught in the mesh of her life. With its paradoxical meaning of both containing spaces and joining things together, ‘mesh’ could be used to describe the unusual form of this novel, which is written in short paragraphs, separated widely on the page, yielding a patchwork of Lizzie’s fragmentary thoughts and observations about life in contemporary New York, and the people caught up in it. ![]() The word ‘mesh’ returns a few pages later, in a podcast, referring to the interconnectedness of different species: ‘a better term than “web”, they think’. ![]() Lizzie, the narrator of Jenny Offill’s impressive third novel Weather, is ‘enmeshed’ with her brother, according to her psychologist-cum-meditation teacher. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the third and final blow, the crown of his head was separated from the head, and the blood dyes the floor of the cathedral. A lawyer by training, she became a full-time novelist by her mid-thirties. ![]() At this, they retrieve their weapons and rush inside the cathedral for the killing. Sharon Kay Penman is the author of ten previous historical novels and four mysteries. The novel ends with a detailed description of Becket's death: the knights who pursued him inform Becket he was to go to Winchester to give an account of his actions, but Becket refuses. Moreover, Becket must reconcile duty to his sovereign and duty to his God which ultimately leads to his death and martyrdom and stains King Henry II's reign. King Henry II's decision to elevate Becket to Archbishop of Canterbury is a fulcrum for discord between Henry and Eleanor. Penman brings alive for the reader the period as King Henry II becomes increasingly estranged from his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine (although Eleanor and Henry have eight children during the eight years), and from his close friend and adviser Thomas Becket. Time and Chance is the sequel to Penman's When Christ and His Saints Slept and spans a 15-year period from 1156 to 1171. Time and Chance is about King Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and the rift between Henry II and Thomas Becket. ![]() ![]() ![]() He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death’s prodigy. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn. But Hannibal’s demons visit him and torment him. Harris depicts with tenderness the friendship between 12-year-old Cari and an elderly professor kidnapped by the revolutionaries, and when he describes her shock at first seeing a summary. With her help, he flourishes, becoming the youngest person ever admitted to medical school in France. His uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle’s beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki. His family is killed, and Hannibal emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy alone in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. Hannibal is eight years old at the beginning of the novel (1941), living in Lecter Castle in Lithuania, when Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, turns the Baltic region into a part of the bloodiest front line of World War II. It was adapted (by Harris himself) into a film in 2007. ![]() ![]() It is a prequel to his three previous books that finally delivers the origin story of his legendary character, the cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Rising is a novel written by Thomas Harris, published in 2006. Hannibal This article is about the novel. You may be looking for the film adaptation. ![]() ![]() His primary focus is on the individual’s struggle to growth and fulfilment within marriage and changing social circumstances, a process shown to grow more difficult through the generations. Within this framework Lawrence’s essential concern is with the passional lives of his characters as he explores the pressures that determine their lives, using a religious symbolism in which the ‘rainbow’ of the title is his unifying motif. The Rainbow is about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the twentieth century. Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of the twentieth century. ![]() In 1915, Lawrence’s frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. ![]() With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And then fate (the heartless bitch) intervenes. But now her entire crew has found "the one " and she’s beginning to feel like a fifth wheel. She tried and it blew up in her face, so she’ll stick with casual hookups, thank you very much. Bellefleur writes as if she's captured fairy lights in a mason jar, twinkly and lovely within something solid yet fragile." – Entertainment Weeklyįollowing Written in the Stars and Hang the Moon, Lambda Literary Award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur pens another steamy queer rom-com about former best friends who might be each other's second chance at love… ![]() "Bellefleur has a droll, distinct voice, and her one-liners zing off the page, striking both the heart and funny bone. There's a sparkling quality here, one that mirrors the starry title. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More than Blood is the first book in the Blood book series by Brea Alepoú. Brea believes everyone deserves love, even when not all her characters get it immediately. Her wild imagination fills her stories with vampires, fairies, sweet loving between men, and the passion between women or people with multiple partners. At first, Brea only ventured into writing contemporary, but she would later discover her passion for writing other genres. Since then, she’s dedicated most of her time to writing and letting her imagination run wild. She discovered her dream was writing novels and telling stories during her five years in college studying for a degree. Brea Alepoú is an American author of fantasy, gay and lesbian books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Before long, he's tackling her fears into the dirt. The trouble is, grumpy Zaf is secretly a hopeless romantic - and he's determined to corrupt Dani's stone-cold realism. Lying to help children? Who on earth would refuse? Dani's plan is simple: fake a relationship in public, seduce Zaf behind the scenes. Turns out, his sports charity for kids could really use the publicity. Suddenly, half the internet is shipping #DrRugbae - and Zaf is begging Dani to play along. ![]() ![]() But before she can explain that fact to him, a video of the heroic rescue goes viral. When big, brooding security guard Zafir Ansari rescues Dani from a workplace fire drill gone wrong, it's an obvious sign: PhD student Dani and former rugby player Zaf are destined to sleep together. So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits - someone who knows the score and knows their way around the bedroom. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. USA Today best-selling author Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date her friend after a video of him "rescuing" her from their office building goes viral.ĭanika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. One of Oprah Magazine 's 21 Romance Novels That Are Set to Be the Best of 2020 ![]() ![]() Writer and astronomer Carolyn Kennett about these ice giants, from their discovery, surfaces and orbits to their multiple moons and future exploration." "Uranus and Neptune are the most distant and mysterious planets in our solar system. Neptune is the only planet whose discovery was predicted-a result of perturbations in Uranus's orbit-and the book carefully unpicks the complex tale of this discovery, showing who should be credited with which aspect." in Reaktion Books's Kosmos series is a concise summary of our knowledge of both planets, as well as their numerous moons. A useful addition to this attractive series." "Kennett manages to make the subject approachable, in large part due to that historical context. Planetary scientists and laypersons alike will find this an appealing and informative book.” This volume belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in the outer solar system. ![]() ![]() "Kennett offers a succinct, engaging, and liberally illustrated compendium. ![]() |