![]() ![]() ![]() The earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed of every kind, and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. Then God said, "Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it." And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day. So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And God said, "Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And God saw that the light was good and God separated the light from the darkness. Then God said, "Let there be light" and there was light. the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, ![]()
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![]() ![]() Then the focus trains itself on Vietnam vet Llewellyn Moss, a hunter who stumbles upon several dead bodies, a stash of Mexican heroin and more than $2 million in cash that he absconds with. ![]() Here, the story’s set in 1980 in southern Texas near the Mexican border, where aging Sheriff Bell, a decorated WWII veteran, broods heroically over the territory he’s sworn to protect, while-in a superb, sorrowful monologue-acknowledging the omnipresence of ineradicable evil all around him. ![]() It’s a bleak chronicle of murder, revenge and implacable fate pocked with numerous echoes of McCarthy’s great Blood Meridian (1985). Almost as frustrating as it is commanding, McCarthy’s ninth (and first since the completion of his Border Trilogy: Cities of the Plain, 1998, etc.) is a formidable display of stunningly written scenes that don’t quite cohere into a fully satisfying narrative. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Whites won the war, in which about 37,000 people died out of a population of 3 million. The Reds were based in the towns and industrial centres of southern Finland, while the Whites controlled more rural central and northern Finland. ![]() The Whites-dominated by peasants and middle- and upper-class factions-received marked military assistance from the German Empire. ![]() The Reds-dominated by industrial and agrarian workers-were supported by the Russian Soviet Republic. ), and the forces of the non-socialist, conservative-led Senate, commonly called the " Whites" (Finnish language: valkoiset ![]() The Civil War was fought from 27 January to between the forces of the Social Democrats led by the People's Deputation of Finland, commonly called the "Reds" (Finnish language: punaiset The conflict formed a part of the national, political and social turmoil caused by World War I (1914–1918) in Europe. ) concerned control and leadership of Finland, during its transition phase from a Russian Grand Duchy to an independent state. The Finnish Civil War (Finnish language: Suomen sisällissota, kansalaissota Swedish language Finska inbördeskriget ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What went on in a person's brain a second before the behavior happened? Then Sapolsky pulls out to a slightly larger field of vision, a little earlier in time: What sight, sound, or smell caused the nervous system to produce that behavior? And then, what hormones acted hours to days earlier to change how responsive that individual is to the stimuli that triggered the nervous system? By now he has increased our field of vision so that we are thinking about neurobiology and the sensory world of our environment and endocrinology in trying to explain what happened. A behavior occurs-whether an example of humans at our best, worst, or somewhere in between. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy.Īnd so the first category of explanation is the neurobiological one. More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. ![]() ![]() ![]() an appealingly comic cousin of Carolyn Mackler's The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things.” -Kirkus Reviews Many teens will connect with the vague anxiety that lands Anna in treatment as well as her subtle, realistic sense that her life is her own to value and shape.” -Booklist “Debut author Halpern drew from her own teen experiences with depression, and Anne's voice, filled with spot-on musings, sarcasm, slang, and swearing, is uproariously funny and authentic. a never-didactic message about emotional growth and psychic healing.” -Kirkus Reviews Best Young-Adult Books 2007 That's the welcome, endearing product Julie Halpern offers readers. ![]() With Anna down the hall, landing in the ‘loony bin' just might be a whole lot of fun.” -Chicago Tribune “ is endearing as a caustic damsel in distress. As the novel progresses, readers will get a kick out of Anna's snarky sense of humor and her capacity for self-renewal.” -Publishers Weekly “An upbeat story that offers a hype-free, realistic look inside a teen ward. “I completely fell in love with Anna Bloom's voice-it's wry, romantic, and so, so true.” -Gabrielle Zevin, author of Elsewhere ![]() ![]() ![]() The perfect vacation has become a nightmare! Somehow Kyle and BeeBee have to outwit nature’s fury and save themselves from tsunami terror. The giant wave charges straight up the hillside and through the woods where the children are running for their lives. Kyle and BeeBee flee uphill as a tsunami crashes over the beach, the hotel, and the town. Giant tsunami waves-three or four stories high-can ride in from the sea and engulf anyone who doesn’t escape fast enough. ![]() ![]() Then the earthquake comes-starting a fire in their hotel! As Kyle and BeeBee fight their way out through smoke and flame, Kyle remembers the sign at the beach that said after an earthquake everyone should go uphill and inland, as far from the ocean as possible. ![]() One evening Kyle is left in charge of his younger sister, BeeBee, while his parents attend an adults-only Salesman of the Year dinner on an elegant yacht. He’d never flown before, and he’s never seen the Pacific Ocean. Giant tsunami wavesthree or four stories highcan ride in from the sea and engulf anyone who doesn’t escape fast enough. Thirteen-year-old Kyle thought spending a vacation on the Oregon coast with his family would be great. When an earthquake hits on their family vacation, can Kyle and his sister survive the following tsunami? Escaping the Giant Wave By Peg Kehret LIST PRICE £4.99 PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER Get a FREE ebook by joining our mailing list today Get our latest book recommendations, author news, competitions, offers, and other information right to your inbox. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And then Carl finds that Jesse, whom he hasn’t seen since high school, is mentally locked into those early years. It’s his old high-school sweetheart Jesse and, as they did 17 years ago before breaking up, they make love out back in the greenhouse. Carl Rooney, whose parents have died and who still lives in the family home in Glendale, works late with co-writer Kit, then drives home in the wee hours, only to find someone throwing gravel at his bedroom window. Thus, with a hero who writes a comedy series and is abetted by a tartly gay co-scripter in resolving his fantastic problem, one foresees a comedy melodrama with a second lead who does all the wisecracks. Sutton spent nine years writing TV’s Cheers scripts. Debut suspense novel offering a sexually frank variation on Robert Nathan’s novel Portrait of Jennie, with pleasing results. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Westerners will do anything to keep the Echelon program out of the hands of Valentin Lebed-the Chechnyan Mafioso who makes Nick an offer he can't refuse-and the Maliskia, a gang of rival Russian criminals who want to derail Lebed's plans and take over Echelon themselves. When Nick realizes it's not industrial espionage that he's involved with but military secrets, he's caught between warring factions of the Russian Mafia and the Anglo-American alliance of intelligence agencies. ![]() Little Kelly needs expensive treatment for the post-traumatic stress that's turned her nearly catatonic, so Nick takes on a freelance assignment that gets him mixed up with Russian organized crime-in particular, with an enigmatic mob boss who has designs on some Finnish cybertechnology. In his third outing (following Remote Control and Crisis Four), Nick Stone, Andy McNab's series SAS agent, is off the Firm's regular payroll owing to a major screwup in his last assignment that left his best friend's family slaughtered-except for the one child who survived. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lovers of historical fiction will be transported by this beautifully written novel of the early 18th century frontier. Bethany House, 14. ![]() Julianne Chevalier, the heroine, is a French midwife. The unjustly exiled Julianne is a woman to admire and cheer, the soldier Marc-Paul a man of strength and devotion. The Mark of the King by Jocelyn Green is an historical saga set primarily in French Colonial Louisiana. Date Jan 2017 SRP 14.99 Buy About 'Lovers of historical fiction will be transported by this beautifully written novel of the early 18th-century frontier. Date Jan 2017 SRP 17.00 Carton Quantity 16 Number of pages 408 Buy E-Book ISBN 9781441231079 Pub. "A page-turner of a tale set against France’s early struggles to colonize Louisiana, The Mark of the King bears all the marks of the best historical fiction-rich attention to detail, settings historically accurate and lushly depicted, a complex and layered plot, diverse cultures vividly portrayed, and the ever-present sense of the larger forces of time and place shaping the lives and destinies of characters I came to care about. Paperback ISBN 9780764219061 Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5 Pub. ~Jody Hedlund, Christy Award-winning author With arranged marriages, forced immigration, and struggles against starvation, the elements, and warring natives, the story is riveting. ![]() " The Mark of the King grabbed me from the first scene and wouldn't let me go! The setting is vibrant, unique, and full of fascinating true details about the early French settlement in New Orleans. Jocelyn Green (inspires faith and courage as the bestselling author of numerous fiction and nonfiction books, including the Christy Award-winning The Mark of the King and Drawn by the Current and her On Central Park. ![]() ![]() When we came back together at the foot of the bed, her hands were all over me, moving across every inch of my exposed skin as her mouth played torturous games with my breasts. I discarded my clothes as quickly as possible and Adrienne did the same. Undressing each other was a luxury we didn’t have time for. We bumped into walls, furniture, and the doorway until finally the backs of my knees slammed against the side of the bed, stopping our progress. We were a force of nature as our kissing continued. ![]() We weren’t gentle and we weren’t graceful. Somebody moaned, maybe both of us.Īdrienne steered us into the bedroom, neither of us ready to stop what we’d started long enough to travel there like civilized people. We moved to each other at the same time, our mouths meeting in a clash of warm lips and tongues. I was arrested by how beautiful she looked and a hot jolt shuddered through my body. It fell around her face in luxurious, loose waves. I stared into her eyes and softly stroked her hair, slowly releasing it from the ponytail. My body answered her question before my mouth could, turning in her arms. ![]() Do you think we can scream tomorrow?” She moved my hair aside and placed a solitary kiss on the back of my neck. ![]() |