![]() The beginning of this book is absolutely innocuous. If they have their way, Lisa’s death will be truly horrifying…but even more horrifying is what Lisa will do to survive.… They plan to torture and murder her as graphically and brutally as possible, and to capture it all on film. What they have in mind for Lisa is unspeakable. They’re going to make her a star-in a snuff film. But the kidnappers aren’t asking for ransom. ![]() ![]() Instead, it becomes a nightmare when her husband is arrested and Lisa is kidnapped. Lisa is looking forward to spending time alone with her husband-and telling him that they are going to have a baby. It is supposed to be a romantic weekend getaway. Between a plot set-up that is quite Laymon-esque (for it's grandiose themes and plots twists), and a writing style reminicent of Ketchum (for it's accessibility and simplicity), Gonzalez has not only crafted a very disturbing tale of rape, murder, and the underground snuff community but he's also proven that sometimes ' going the distance' can be done with style. ![]() Gonzalez's novel - Survivor - is quite possibly one of the most powerful books in the horror genre today. ![]()
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![]() Rich is the complete Richard Burton: a revelation. Melvyn Bragg, allowed free access to the never-before-revealed Burton private notebooks, and with the cooperation of friends who have never spoken about him before, has brought together the private and public. ![]() But there was another, quieter, off-stage Richard Burton, a face hidden from the multitude. But there was another, quieter, off-stage Richard Burton, a face hidden from the multitude. From the West End to Hollywood, from Camelot to Shakespeare, he drank, dazzled and despaired, playing out his life on the public stage. ![]() The roaring boy from the Welsh coal valleys who came to sport on the banks of the old Nile, playing great Antony to Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra. BIC Classification: 3JJG 3JJH 3JJP AN APF BGF. Retrouvez lebook Rich: The Life of Richard Burton de Melvyn Bragg - diteur Hodder & Stoughton - Format ePub - Librairie Decitre votre prochain livre est. A well-researched and thoughtfully written biography of Richard Burton. Description for Rich: The Life of Richard Burton Paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() The prose in “Decision Points” is utilitarian, the language staccato and blunt. ![]() Bush’s perfunctory 1999 campaign memoir, “A Charge to Keep.”Ĭertainly it’s the most casual of presidential memoirs: how many works in the genre start as a sort of evangelical, 12-step confession (“Could I continue to grow closer to the Almighty or was alcohol becoming my god?”), include some off-color jokes and conclude with an aside about dog poop? It is a book that is part spin, part mea culpa, part family scrapbook, part self-conscious effort to (re)shape his political legacy.Ī dogged work of reminiscence by an author not naturally given to introspection, “Decision Points” lacks the emotional precision and evocative power of his wife Laura’s book, “Spoken From the Heart,” published earlier this year, though it’s a considerably more substantial effort than Mr. ![]() Bush’s memoir “Decision Points” could well have been titled “The Decider Decides”: it’s an autobiography focused around “the most consequential decisions” of his presidency and his personal life from his decision to give up drinking in 1986 to his decision to invade Iraq in 2003 to his decisions regarding the financial crisis of 2008. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eva is a twenty-four years old woman who has survived a sexual abuse when she a child. ![]() Both Eva and Gideon have had an abusive past. The plot of the novel is depicted in an erotic way by the author. The first novel of the series titled ‘Bared to You’ is an adult romance novel featuring the protagonists Gideon Cross and Eva Tramell. The descriptions of the first two novels in the Crossfire series are as follows: ![]() The first couple of novels of the Crossfire series were released in the year 2012 and were titled ‘Bared to You’ and ‘Reflected in You’ respectively. A popular production house named ‘Lionsgate Television Group’ has acquired the rights of the series to make a television adaptation based on the plot of the series. It has also ranked 5 on iTunes and 7 on Bookscan in the top ten books list in the adult fiction category. The series has been so successful that the first novel of the series has been ranked 4 on the list of top ten best-selling books by in the year 2012. More than 13 million copies of the series have been sold in 40 different territories. The novels of the series are based on romance and fantasy genres and written by RITA Award nominated Japanese-American author Sylvia Day. ![]() A next couple of novels are about to be released very soon. The Crossfire series consists of three novels that were published in 20. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More Books by Cormac OBrien & Monika Suteski Secret Lives of the U.S. OL8953907W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 96.31 Pages 300 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1299655750 Secret Lives of the First Ladies What Your Teachers Never Told You About the Women of the White House. Secret Lives of the First Ladies: Strange Stories and Shocking Trivia From Inside the White House. ![]() Internetarchivebookdrive External-identifier Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:29:40.007358 Bookplateleaf 0009 Boxid IA1149920 City Philadelphia, PA Donor ![]() ![]() "This futuristic fable of love and free will asks: Can there be freedom without choice? The tale of Cassia’s journey from acceptance to rebellion will draw you in and leave you wanting more. Melissa Marr, New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Lovely series Disney optioned and began early production of the Matched trilogy films in 2010, but no further development has been reported. "Absolutely riveting! Matched is a must-read." The novel explores young adult themes such as control, courtship, rebellion, and agency, which are strengthened by her poetic writing style and frequent references to poems. Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, New York Times bestselling authors of Beautiful Creatures Finally, a brave new world that readers from Twilight to The Hunger Games will claim as their own." Matched is just another poorly thought-out dystopia Matched may be a fine dystopian novel for little kids, but I feel that this story uses too many of the same tropes we see in other stories like the Giver, Brave New World, and just about every other dystopian story. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Matched is a page-turning, dystopian love story, written with the soul of a poet. Carrie Ryan, New York Times bestselling author of The Forest of Hands and Teeth and The Dead-Tossed Waves It’s impossible to put down this enthralling romance, set in a chilling world where every choice is predicted and even love is controlled. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although the Puritans left England to avoid religious persecution, they based their newly established society upon religious intolerance. The inhabitants of Salem lived in a restrictive society. ![]() Miller creates an atmosphere and mood within the play reminiscent of the historical period and of Puritan culture. ![]() By the end of 1692, the Salem court had convicted and executed nineteen men and women. A self-perpetuating cycle of distrust, accusation, arrest, and conviction emerged. As the number of arrests increased, so did the distrust within the Salem community. This desperate and perhaps childish finger-pointing resulted in mass paranoia and an atmosphere of fear in which everyone was a potential witch. ![]() Ironically, the girls avoided punishment by accusing others of the very things of which they were guilty. Rather than suffer severe and inevitable punishment for their actions, the girls accused other inhabitants of Salem of practicing witchcraft. In particular he focuses on the discovery of several young girls and a slave playing in the woods, conjuring - or attempting to conjure - spirits from the dead. Miller bases the play on the historical account of the Salem witch trials. Inspired by the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s, Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, focuses on the inconsistencies of the Salem witch trials and the extreme behavior that can result from dark desires and hidden agendas. ![]() ![]() And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again takes its title from the last line of Dante's Inferno, when the poet and his guide emerge from hell to once again behold the beauty of the heavens. In Queens, after thirteen-hour shifts in the ER, a doctor dons running shoes and makes the long jog home. In Chile, protesters who prevailed against tear gas and rubber bullets are now halted by a virus. ![]() In Paris, a writer struggles to protect his young son from fear. In Mauritius, a journalist contends with denialism and mourns the last days of summer, lost to the lockdown. As our world is transformed by the coronavirus pandemic, writers offer a powerful antidote to the fearful confines of isolation: a window onto lives and corners of the world beyond our own. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jake may be confused about some things, but keeping his lover alive is not one of them–no matter what the cost. But when the game turns deadly, Adrien turns to Jake. By the time the sheriffs arrive, the body has disappeared, and Adrien once again finds himself playing amateur sleuth. Homicide Detective Jake Riordan, gay bookseller and mystery writer Adrien English travels to northern California where he finds a body in his front drive. By the time the sheriffs arrive, the body has disappeared, and Adrien once again finds himself playing amateur s Suffering from writer’s block and frustrated with his tentative relationship with hot but closeted L.A.P.D. Suffering from writer’s block and frustrated with his tentative relationship with hot but closeted L.A.P.D. You can read this before A Dangerous Thing (The Adrien English Mysteries, #2) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. ![]() ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book A Dangerous Thing (The Adrien English Mysteries, #2) written by Josh Lanyon which was published in 2002–. ![]() Brief Summary of Book: A Dangerous Thing (The Adrien English Mysteries, #2) by Josh Lanyon ![]() ![]() Ask “why” five times when something unexpected happens.Visionary complex: “but customers don’t know what they want!”.Avoid building products that nobody wants.Get as much feedback as possible, as soon as possible.Problem: no feedback until the end, might be too late to adjust.build a great product with enough features that increase the odds that customers will want it.Use historical trends to predict acceptable bounds.If any metric goes out-of-bounds, wake somebody up.Monitor all metrics that stakeholders care about.Alerting & Predictive monitoring (Nagios).Reject changes that move metrics out-of-bounds.Monitor cluster and business metrics in real-time.Automatic feedback if the team is going too fast.All tests must pass or “shut down the line”.Continuous Integration Server (BuildBot).At IMVU, a large batch = 3 days worth of work.Tell a good change from a bad change (quickly). ![]()
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