![]() ![]() The list of countries that make it all work is smaller than you think. In The End of the World is Just the Beginning, author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging. Billions of people have been fed and educated as the American-led trade system spread across the globe.Īll of this was artificial. American security policy forced warring nations to lay down their arms. Complex, innovative industries were created to satisfy American consumers. Globe-spanning supply chains are only possible with the protection of the U.S. Navy. The American dollar underpins internationalized energy and financial markets. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it.Īmerica made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going. 2019 was the last great year for the world economy.įor generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. ![]()
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7/6/2023 0 Comments Scruples book![]() It’s best to read them in the chronological order listed here. This eventually became a three-book series. Scruples was Judith Krantz’s first novel published in 1978. The “Scruples” of the novel is a swanky store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, CA, and the book follows the glamorous and affluent lives of the rich and famous who live and shop there. That first book was so popular it became an international bestseller and was translated into over 50 languages. Her first novel, Scruples, was published in 1978 and was an instant smash success, quickly became a New York Times bestseller and literally made publishing history as a widely popular trashy smut novel. These earlier careers paved the way for writing the romance books that she later wrote because fashion features heavily in all of her novels. The name Judith Krantz is actually a pseudonym for Judith Tarcher who was born in New York in 1928.īefore turning to fiction writing, Judith was a magazine writer and fashion editor. ![]() Judith Krantz was an American author who wrote mostly epic, long romance books. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments The Lead Cloak by Erik Hanberg![]() ![]() It goes in fits and spurts, and often has to be fit into the nooks and crannies of life. The truth is: writing a four hundred page novel is hard, and it takes a long time. So when I get asked, “How did you write The Lead Cloak?,” instead of talking about research, or thinking about the future, or character planning, or all the other things authors usually talk about, I can just hold up this chart. (You can click the picture above to zoom in on the chart) (My wife is shaking her head at that sentence). It’s probably the single nerdiest thing I’ve ever done. ![]() That was until April 24, 2011, the date I decided to sit down and start writing, just to see if there was something there. The Lead Cloak is now available! Click through for links to find links to your favorite online bookstore.įor years I’d been tossing around an idea for a science fiction novel, but I never did anything with it. ![]() ![]() But his long-avoided destiny has caught up to him - and now Hulkling must take the throne! Elsewhere, the young Cotati called Quoi faces his hour of ascension! Will he become the Celestial Messiah, the role he was prophesized to play - or will his mother, Mantis, stand in his way? Plus: The Avenger called Swordsman may be long dead, but his shadow looms large across the galaxy! And when the Kree/Skrull armies target Earth, they'll encounter resistance - in the form of the Squadron Supreme! Collecting: Lords of Empyre: Emperor Hulkling (2020) 1, Lords of Empyre: Celestial Messiah (2020) 1, Lords of Empyre: Swordsman (2020) 1, Empyre: Squadron Supreme (2020) 1-2 Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Empyre: Lords Of Empyre by Chip Zdarsky, Anthony Oliveira (Paperback, 2020) at the best online. ![]() ![]() ![]() For years, he lived on Earth as the heroic Young Avenger called Hulkling, evading the clutches of both bloodthirsty empires. Star writers Chip Zdarsky and Anthony Oliveira team up with artist Manual Garcia for a cant-miss one-shot. Emperor Dorrek VIII is the son of Kree hero Mar-Vell and the Skrull princess Anelle. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments My bondage and my freedom![]() ![]() Douglass was a writer of uncommon talent and eloquence, and his works stand among the best in 19th-century literature. Nixon is equally adept at voicing the series of articulate and persuasive antislavery speeches that follow Douglass’s autobiography. Narrating with contemporary ease and naturalism, Leon Nixon accentuates the intelligence, dignity and courage that it took for Douglass to describe the physical beatings, mental abuse and starvation that he endured as a slave on the Eastern Shore of Maryland from his birth in 1817 to his faithful race to Philadelphia and freedom in 1838. The classic autobiographical narrative of Frederick Douglass, his second work of. Published in 1855, this book cemented Frederick Douglass’s reputation as a leader in the national abolitionist movement and a worldwide voice for the freedom of all people. Buy a cheap copy of My Bondage and My Freedom book by Frederick Douglass. Titles by Frederick Douglass Titles by Frederick Douglass My Bondage and My Freedom (unabridged) Reviews ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Keep the aspidistra![]() ![]() But he despises capitalism and doesn’t want anything to do with money making. Gordon used to have a ‘good job’ in an ad agency where he showed some talent as a copywriter. It’s not easy to be in a relationship when you can’t invite your partner to your home or go anywhere. So, Gordon is sexually frustrated and Orwell has a go at the Nancy Mitfords of the world. The ‘never the time and the place’ motif is not made enough of in novels. It is not easy to make love in a cold climate when you have no money. They are condemned to meet outside and stay outside since Gordon doesn’t have any money to invite Rosemary even to a tea-shop and of course, he won’t let her pay for them. Neither of them can invite someone of the other sex in their room. Gordon has a girlfriend, Rosemary, who also lives in a boarding house. ![]() For example, his good friend Ravelston is rich and he’d rather not go to the pub than let Ravelston pay for a pint. He’s very proud and doesn’t accept any help from his friends. He earns enough to support himself but has no money left after he pays for his essentials. He’s almost thirty, works at a bookshop for two pounds a week and has declared war to the money-god. Gordon Comstock lives in a boarding house in London. ![]() ![]() Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell is my second read for the #1936Club co-hosted by Karen at Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings and Simon at Stuck in a Book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like all of the other members of the Losers’ Club, Mike is childless. ![]() Mike refers to himself as the “watchman”-that is, he keeps a lookout for It and, after the murder of Adrian Mellon in 1985, calls his six old friends to notify them that they must return to Derry and destroy the evil force that they sent away twenty-seven years earlier. ![]() He is the only character who narrates in first-person during the novel’s interludes. Mike plays football at Derry High School and remains in town, where he becomes the head librarian of the Derry Public Library and the town’s recordkeeper and unofficial historian. Both of Mike’s parents moved to Derry from the South. The Hanlons are Derry’s only black family, and they own one of two farms in town the other belongs to Butch Bowers. The seventh member of the Losers’ Club and the son of Will Hanlon and Jessica Hanlon. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Still Inside by Tim Stafford![]() ![]() Most of the Indian wrestlers come from the northern agricultural states of Haryana and Punjab. The protests have grown with many members of opposition parties and farmer unions taking up the wrestlers’ cause. Two Olympics medalists, Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik, are part of the protests and have threatened to hand back their medals if no action is taken against Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. The protesters have been staging a protest in the center of New Delhi for nearly a month, amid a brutal heat wave, while foregoing their training schedules. A strong presence of police accompanied them on the marching route. ![]() NEW DELHI: India’s top female wrestlers led a candlelight march of nearly 1,000 protesters in the capital on Tuesday demanding the resignation and arrest of the president of the wrestling federation for allegedly sexually harassing young athletes, one of whom was a minor.Ĭarrying India’s national flag, they marched to India Gate, a monument close to the country’s parliament building. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As those who love Tessa rally to rescue her from Mortmain’s clutches, Tessa realizes that the only person who can save her is herself. For though Tessa and Jem are now engaged, Will is as much in love with her as ever. But when Mortmain abducts Tessa, the boys who lay equal claim to her heart, Jem and Will, will do anything to save her. Charlotte Branwell, head of the London Institute, is desperate to find Mortmain before he strikes. He needs only one last item to complete his plan: he needs Tessa Gray. Mortmain plans to use his Infernal Devices, an army of pitiless automatons, to destroy the Shadowhunters. Goodreads says, " A net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments The crown of gilded bones![]() ![]() ![]() Though I like Dual narration, she does a great job and is extremely pleasant to listen to. The narration is single POV and done by Stina Nielsen like the first two books. She was bad when she was just a lowly mortal but now she knows she has the blood of the Gods running in her veins, her power only grows stronger. Hawke continues to love and support Poppy and as always she continues to be a badass female heroine. The Story: Poppy quickly learns more of her history and the history of Atlantia after being betrayed in the temple. Though he still wants nothing more than to find and save his brother, he is devoted to Poppy. ![]() The Dark One) - He brought Poppy to Atlantia to meet his parents and they have been betrayed. The queen kneeled to her and said she was the last descendant of the Gods and the rightful heir to the Atlantian throne. Poppy) - she was called ”The Maiden”, now she is married to Casteel Da’Neer the prince of the Atlantians. ![]() |