![]() ![]() Since the series’ key characters were already well developed, the focus of INTO THE ASHES was its New Zealand setting, a mountainous, volcanic plateau which offers up its own challenges to NZDF Sergeant Taine McKenna and his team. Which took shape first: plot, character, or setting? ![]() The Big Thrill caught up with author Lee Murray to gain some insight into his latest thriller: And, deep beneath the earth’s crust, other forces are stirring.Ī stand-alone sequel to award-winning military thriller Into the Mist, INTO THE ASHES is the latest must-read title in Murray’s Taine McKenna adventure series. ![]() Their only hope of rescuing the stranded civilians is to find another route out, but a busload of prison evacuees has other ideas. With earthquakes coming thick and fast and the mountains spewing rock and ash, McKenna and his men are cut off. The armed forces are hastily deployed NZDF Sergeant Taine McKenna and his section are tasked with evacuating civilians and tourists from Tongariro National Park. That is, until the ground opens and all hell breaks loose. ![]() The nation’s leaders scoff at the danger. At least, that’s how the Māori elders tell it. No longer content to rumble in anger, the great mountain warriors of New Zealand’s central plateau, the Kāhui Tupua, are preparing again for battle. ![]()
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Winner of the 2002 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the 2002 Orange Prize for Fiction.Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. ![]() PerfectBound e-book exclusive: "Friendship and Love," an interview with Ann Patchett.A prolonged hostage crisis in the lavish home of a South American politician turns into something quite different as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and passionate, ill-fated love blooms. ![]() ![]() And this is before Chapter One starts! There is something not quite credible in presenting this book as being written by Consuelo Vanderbilt. This account is rather lightweight and obviously fluffed up. I should have heeded the other reviews but I was thinking "No one can mess up a story which is basically a true-life Cinderella story gone awry." WRONG!!!! Yeah, we can Google or Wikipedia all we need to know about one the more famous Vanderbilts but it's really better to get it from the actual "horse's mouth". This intimate, richly enjoyable memoir is a wonderfully revealing portrait of a golden age. Here are her encounters with every important figure of the day - from Queen Victoria, Edward VII, and Queen Alexandra to Tsar Nicholas, Prince Metternich, and the young Winston Churchill. An unsnobbish, but often amused observer of the intricate hierarchy both upstairs and downstairs at Blenheim Palace, she is also a revealing witness to the glittering balls, huge weekend parties, and major state occasions she attended or hosted. The ninth Duchess gives unique first-hand insight into life at the very pinnacle of English society in the Edwardian era. ![]() ![]() ![]() Leaving her life in America, she came to England as the Duchess of Marlborough in 1895 and took up residence in her new home: Blenheim Palace. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfill her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. And when the fur has finished flying and the cold blood has stopped flowing, Sookie's world will be forever altered. She's about to find herself facing danger and death and, not for the first time, betrayal by someone she loves. And Sookie, Friend to the Pack, blood-bonded to the leader of the local vampire community, is caught up in those changes. It's clear that things are changing, whether the weres and vamps like it or not. Too many vampires - some friends, some not - were killed or injured, and her were-tiger boyfriend Quinn is among the missing. Sookie Stackhouse is safe but dazed, and she's yearning for things to get back to normal. The supernatural community in Bon Temps, Louisiana is reeling from two hard blows: the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina, and the manmade horror of the explosion at the vampire summit in the up-north city of Rhodes. ![]() ![]() ![]() The professor and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author first gained widespread attention for his 1975 book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, in which he spelled out the evidence suggesting a link between human behaviour and genetics. "He articulated, perhaps better than anyone, what it means to be human." Won two Pulitzers Prend, chairman of the foundation's board, said in a statement. He was a true visionary with a unique ability to inspire and galvanize," David J. ![]() "It would be hard to understate Ed's scientific achievements, but his impact extends to every facet of society. The announcement said Wilson was "called `Darwin's natural heir,' and was known affectionately as `the ant man' for his pioneering work as an entomologist." Wilson Biodiversity Foundation's website. 26 in Burlington, Mass., according to an announcement posted Monday on the E.O. Wilson, the pioneering Harvard biologist who argued for a new vision of human nature in Sociobiology and warned against the decline of ecosystems, has died. ![]() ![]() ![]() Monseigneur (often a most worthy individual gentleman) was a national blessing, gave a chivalrous tone to things, was a polite example of luxurious and shining fife, and a great deal more to equal purpose nevertheless, Monseigneur as a class had, somehow or other, brought things to this. Habitations, fences, domesticated animals, men, women, children, and the soil that bore them-all worn out. ![]() Everything was bowed down, dejected, oppressed, and broken. Every green leaf, every blade of grass and blade of grain, was as shrivelled and poor as the miserable people. The prison on the crag was not so dominant as of yore there were soldiers to guard it, but not many there were officers to guard the soldiers, but not one of them knew what his men would do-beyond this: that it would probably not be what he was ordered.įar and wide lay a ruined country, yielding nothing but desolation. ![]() There was a change on the village where the fountain fell, and where the mender of roads went forth daily to hammer out of the stones on the highway such morsels of bread as might serve for patches to hold his poor ignorant soul and his poor reduced body together. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “No warthog restricts calories to look good in a bathing suit next summer.”) He likes to call certain facts “boggling” when he is personally amazed by them it’s charmingly infectious. (Humans, he notes, can “delay gratification for insanely long times” compared with other animals. He makes the book consistently entertaining, with an infectious excitement at the puzzles he explains, and wry dude-ish asides. Sapolsky goes back through adolescence, childhood and gestation (including genetics), and, beyond the birth of the individual, to more distant causes still – those found in culture, evolutionary psychology, game theory and comparative zoology. Days to months before, we focus on the brain’s ability to learn and rewire itself. Seconds before our action, it is neuroscience that investigates what is going on in the brain minutes to days before is the domain of endocrinology (hormonal fluctuations). The backwards time-travel is an excellent organising principle. His governing question is: what explains the fact that humans can massacre one another but also perform spectacular acts of altruistic kindness? Is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other? What made that happen? In this extraordinary survey of the science of human behaviour, the biologist Robert Sapolsky takes the reader on an epic journey backwards through time, and through different scientific disciplines. ![]() ![]() Y ou reach out to touch someone’s arm, or perhaps you pull a trigger. ![]() ![]() ![]() She sometimes wears leather jeans "the color of dried blood." In 'Neuromancer" she wears tight black glove leather jeans, a bulky black jacket of a light-absorbing matte fabric beneath it, a bulletproof sleeveless gray pullover with plain steel zips across each shoulder. Her clothing tends to consist of some combination of leather, jeans, jackets, and boots. The fingernails that house her retractable blades are implied to be fake, and are usually burgundy in color on one occasion they were "mother of pearl" (in "Mona Lisa Overdrive"). Her hair is dark, cut in a "rough shag" in "Mona Lisa Overdrive," her hair is short enough for her to be mistaken for a man. ![]() Her body is spare, neat, and muscular like a dancer's. Molly is described as a lean, athletic, attractive, tall woman with pale skin. Occasionally she wore a huge pair of black plastic sunglasses that completely covered her insets. She wore black leather, open over a T-shirt slashed diagonally with stripes of red and black leather jeans the colour of dried blood. Polished burgundy nails against white, slender, tapered fingers. A thin girl, dark hair cut in a rough shag. ![]() ![]() ![]() “No warthog restricts calories to look good in a bathing suit next summer.”) He likes to call certain facts “boggling” when he is personally amazed by them it’s charmingly infectious. ![]() (Humans, he notes, can “delay gratification for insanely long times” compared with other animals. He makes the book consistently entertaining, with an infectious excitement at the puzzles he explains, and wry dude-ish asides. Sapolsky goes back through adolescence, childhood and gestation (including genetics), and, beyond the birth of the individual, to more distant causes still – those found in culture, evolutionary psychology, game theory and comparative zoology. Days to months before, we focus on the brain’s ability to learn and rewire itself. Seconds before our action, it is neuroscience that investigates what is going on in the brain minutes to days before is the domain of endocrinology (hormonal fluctuations). The backwards time-travel is an excellent organising principle. His governing question is: what explains the fact that humans can massacre one another but also perform spectacular acts of altruistic kindness? Is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other? ![]() What made that happen? In this extraordinary survey of the science of human behaviour, the biologist Robert Sapolsky takes the reader on an epic journey backwards through time, and through different scientific disciplines. ![]() Y ou reach out to touch someone’s arm, or perhaps you pull a trigger. ![]() ![]() Older female warriors with various skin tones can have kinky & exciting diverse SEX & love interest just like the majority of the readers & audible listeners (want to have). ![]() Can't older females have Adventures & lovers also? Erotica stories don't ALWAYS be for females that can have or want children. ![]() I wish more paranormal female writers wrote characters similar to THEIR own age & surround their story characters with diverse LOOKING individuals. Shelly Laurenston stories are Always a great choice for the money/credit. Her stories ALWAYS have characters (main & supporting) with different skin colors, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations & various age ranges ( females not all under 30 or for breeding) I give loud applause to the snarky comments, witty one liners & great drama with wonderful fight scenes. Shelly Laurenston does another excellent job with writing diverse, inclusive paranormal stories. Another great INCLUSIVE bwwm paranormal love story ![]() |