![]() ![]() A little more sympathetic – he is in trouble because he refuses to join the Nazi Party – but still … ![]() I do like – I do need – to have a major character I can identify with. On the contrary, it proceeds to tear their throats out one by one. ![]() The “thing” in the Keep (a small castle uninhabited for centuries yet mysteriously maintained in perfect condition) has been murdering German soldiers at the rate of one per night. He and his squad of black-uniformed SS thugs would stop over at the Keep in the Dinu Pass and sort things out.īut “things” are not that simple. Kaempffer had been at Auschwitz for the past year, “resettling” Polish Jews, and was currently on his way to set up a similar “resettlement centre” at Ploiesti in Romania. ![]() So High Command send a message back: SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Kaempffer arriving today with detachment einsatzkommandos. And “murdering” – in wartime? What is more, Woermann is a decorated war hero from WWI, not a man one would ever expect to request relocation simply because he and his men were under attack. High Coomand in Germany receive a cryptic message from Captain Klaus Woermann: Request immediate relocation. Just my cup of – whatever – I thought when I picked it up from a box outside a small bookshop and skimmed the blurb.Īnd it is exactly that. World War II plus vampires in Transylvania. ![]()
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![]() On one side of the battle is Satan, who tries to corrupt our minds and lives with his negativity. In her bestselling book of 130 publications, author, Bible teacher, and speaker Joyce Meyer explains that whether we know it or not, we are engaged in a constant and literal battle for the well-being of our minds. ![]() ![]() The Books Synopsis & Main Pointsīattlefield of the mind is not a metaphor. Heres the books background and a quick overview. Thats the position taken in the book Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer. ![]() Joyce Meyer Battlefield Of The Mind Think About What You Are Thinking Aboutīy aligning our minds with the Holy Spirit and using Jesus as our role model, we can learn to focus on and cultivate the positive thoughts that will lead to a happy, fulfilling, and faithful life. ![]() ![]() ![]() (I’m not counting fantasy-world cultures or religions as “diverse” unless heavily based on specific real-world versions.) people of (real-world or analog) ethnicities, cultures, and/or religions other than white, European/Western, and Christian.people of color (abbreviated POC or BIPOC, meaning “black, indigenous, and people of color”).By “diverse,” I mean characters who are one or more of the following: Double asterisks indicate books with diverse main or significant secondary characters.Series are generally listed under the first book, with an additional link to the series page on Goodreads. Each book or series is in alphabetical order by author.I’ve broken the list down by age group (and a few other classes.). ![]() As should be obvious from my blog name and logo, I love dragons! That said, I haven’t read all the books on this list (not even close), so I can’t vouch for the quality of all of them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Travels that start with making her way in New York expand into an exploration of America and eventually lead to trips across Europe to retrace her grandmother’s life during the Holocaust, before she finds a landing place in the unlikeliest of cities. Originally published in 2014, Deborah has now revisited and significantly expanded her story, and the result is greater insight into her quest to discover herself and the true meaning of home. ![]() ![]() And in Exodus, Revisited she delves into what happened next-taking the reader on a journey that starts with her beginning life anew as a single mother, a religious refugee, and an independent woman in search of a place and a community where she can belong. ![]() She was determined to find a better life for herself, away from the oppression and isolation of her Satmar upbringing in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In 2009, at the age of twenty-three, Deborah Feldman packed up her young son and their few possessions and walked away from her insular Hasidic roots. The definitive follow-up to Unorthodox (the basis for the award-winning Netflix series)-now updated with more than 50 percent new material-the unforgettable story of what happened in the years after Deborah Feldman left a religious sect in Williamsburg in order to forge her own path in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have been looking forward to reading Harrow Lake ever since I received an incredibly cool proof copy of the book which is made to look like a 90’s video tape! Fortunately, the book proved to be every bit as wonderfully creepy and fun as the cover. ![]() And if she can’t find a way out of Harrow Lake, they might just be the death of her… The more she discovers about the town, the more terrifying it becomes. The locals are weirdly obsessed with the film that put their town on the map – and there are strange disappearances, which the police seem determined to explain away.Īnd there’s someone – or something – stalking Lola’s every move. ![]() But when her father is brutally attacked in their New York apartment, she’s swiftly packed off to live with a grandmother she’s never met in Harrow Lake, the eerie town where her father’s most iconic horror movie was shot. Lola Nox is the daughter of a celebrated horror filmmaker – she thinks nothing can scare her. ![]() ![]() I also marvelled at mentions of a bioweapon Wuhan-400 and looked it up, here's what Wiki says: "The novel mentions a bioweapon that in earlier editions is named Gorki-400 after the Soviet city of Gorki in which it was created. After over 105 novels and a number of novellas and collections of short stories, and over 450 million sales of his work, one can overlook a book not reaching one's expectations. ![]() Dwyer", "Leigh Nichols" and "Brian Coffey". Koontz has used a number of pseudonyms eg "David Axton", "Deanna Dwyer", "K.R. ![]() These could have given a very strong book. a medley of things, viz a "showgirl" turning into a successful director/ producer of a musical, the setting of Las Vegas/ casino, strong emotions like mother's love that transcends death, deep government conspiracy, high octane (not really) chase, intelligence agents, telekinesis and telepathy, snow clad mountains and hidden labs, etc. ![]() Hence, the filmy nature of the book, i.e. The book was conceived as a tele series, which never saw the light of day. ![]() It's an Okayish book, that seemed like the script of a movie! I wasn't too far away from facts. The book was published in 1981 by #Koontz, under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many young entrepreneurs, confusing ownership with control, can’t bring themselves to do this. Some notion of how shrewd they could be is perhaps revealed in the fact that they never tried to hoard a majority of the stock, but used it instead as a tool for growth. That may seem an elementary rule for making money in a business, but it is one that is easier to state than to obey. Herb Richman, who had helped to found Data General, said, “We did everything well.” Obviously, they did not manage every side of their business better than everyone else, but these young men (all equipped with large egos, as one who was around them at this time remarked) somehow managed to realize that they had to attend with equal care to all sides of their operation-to the selling of their machine as well as to its design, for instance.IBM set up two main divisions, each one representing the other’s main competition. ![]() ![]() The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret: the cult’s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.īut when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him-the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Annihilation. ![]() A furious debut novel from Andrew Joseph White about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Significantly, the friend added, “ Se jodió este país”-this country is fucked. ![]() 1 Though the question referred to the years of the Manuel Odría dictatorship in Peru (1950–1956), it was to resonate across Latin America for writers and readers anxious to pinpoint the moment when everything had gone wrong in their own frustrated nations.įor Gabriel García Márquez, according to his memoir Living to Tell the Tale (2002), there was no doubt about when Colombia had descended into hell, on which particular day “the history of the country split in half.” On April 9, 1948, the future Nobel laureate was placidly eating lunch at his boardinghouse in Bogotá when, a bit past noon, he was interrupted by a breathless friend with the news that Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, the charismatic liberal politician and likely winner in the upcoming presidential elections, had just been killed. By using the verb joderse, Vargas Llosa is implying that something has been aborted or ruined in his country, with the passive voice se underscoring that the fuckup cannot be attributed to one person or incident but that everyone, including Zavalita-who has made a mess of his life-is responsible. “At what precise moment had Perú fucked itself up?” (“ En qué momento se había jodido el Perú?”) That is the question that Zavalita, the protagonist of Mario Vargas Llosa’s Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), asks himself at the beginning of the novel. Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Bogotá, Colombia, 2009 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With the help of a sympathetic nurse and a fellow patient, Ricky needs to escape now. But when Ricky is selected by the sinister Warden Crawford for a very special program-a program that the warden claims will not cure him but perfect him-Ricky realizes that he may not be able to wait for his mom a second longer. From the man who thinks he can fly to the woman who killed her husband, the other patients are nothing like him all he did was lose his temper just a little bit, just the once. If he could just get through to his mother, he could convince her that he doesn’t belong at Brookline. Ricky Desmond has been through this all before. With the page-turning suspense and unsettling found photographs from real asylums that led Publishers Weekly to call Asylum “a strong YA debut,” Escape from Asylum is perfect for fans of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. “In this terrifying prequel novel to the New York Times bestselling Asylum series, a teen is wrongfully committed to the Brookline psychiatric hospital and must find a way out-before he becomes the next victim of the evil warden’s experiments. ![]() |