6/12/2023 0 Comments Rachel sexton deception point![]() ![]() The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all. This paper aims at examining the translation of politeness strategies of directive acts used by four characters in Dan Browns novel entitled Deception Point and its two Indonesian translation versions. ![]() Fleeing for their lives in an environment as desolate as it is lethal, they possess only one hope for survival: to find out who is behind the masterful ploy. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic academic Michael Tolland, Rachel uncovers the unthinkable - evidence of scientific trickery - a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy.īut before Rachel can make her findings known, she realises, perhaps too late, that such knowledge puts her and Tolland in deadly jeopardy. ![]() The discovery comes at a time close to the United States presidential election in which her father is running. With the Oval Office in the balance, the President dispatches White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton to the Artic to verify the authenticity of the find. The novel follows White House intelligence analyst Rachel Sextons involvement in corroborating NASAs discovery of a meteorite that supposedly contains proof of extraterrestrial life, resembling the ALH84001 case. She is also the daughter of a Senator currently running for President. space policy and the impending presidential election. Rachel Sexton works for the National Reconnaissance Office as an intelligence officer. ![]() a victory that has profound implications for the U.S. When a new NASA satellite detects evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Artic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much needed victory. ![]()
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![]() We’ve had great fun and have many more books planned. I still write sweet westerns and contemporaries, and have most recently focused on the multi-author series Aspen Gold with my critique group. I promised myself from then on out I would only write stories I loved to write without the stress of contractual deadlines. After 25 years under contract, I gave myself a year-and-a-half hiatus. I wrote Americana and westerns for Harlequin Historical for years, branching out into contemporaries for diversity and fun. ![]() It was an immense joy to find the courage to join a group of writers and discover they were all people just like me, from all walks of life, and with a dream we shared. ![]() I had never taken a writing class, but I had read every out-of-date writing book in the public library. ![]() Who was I? I had a husband and four kids and wrote when they all went to bed at night. When I really dug in and got serious about writing, I think my biggest hang-up was not thinking anyone would take me seriously. The first two romances I read were by Lisa Gregory and LaVyrle Spencer-westerns with true romance! I was hooked. I read extensively as a young adult, devouring Louis L’Amour and many other genres. I grew up watching the old television westerns, so those good-vs-evil and the-good-guy-wins stories appealed to me early on. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Rosie doesn’t know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking-for lack of a better word-on Instagram for the last few months. Luckily she has her best friend Lina’s spare key while she’s out of town. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. ![]() She hasn’t told her family and now has terrible writer’s block. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. 'Elena Armas is the undisputed queen of slow burn, steam, deliciously swoony rom-coms.' Ali Hazelwood, bestselling author of The Love Hypothesisįrom the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Eugene b sledge with the old breed![]() ![]() ![]() In the book, Sledge gets his nickname way back to at least when he was in New Caledonia, some time before his initial arrival in Pavuvu. In the series, Sledge gets his nickname from " Snafu" just after the Marines capture the airfield.It was released under it's final title in 1981 by the Presidio Press. ![]() Working titles included A Marine Mortarman in World War II and Into the Abyss. After the war, he would compile the notes, and write his memoirs with the support of his wife and editors. The book started as various notes that Sledge had written throughout his time in combat, starting from Pavuvu. Decades later, the memoir would become one of the main sources of the HBO series, The Pacific. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa is a famous first-person account written by Eugene Sledge during and after the war. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Darkly dexter![]() ![]() This puts him in conflict with a dumb but ambitious female homicide detective as well as, soon enough, the killer himself, whose approach to serial killing mirrors Dexter's own, uncomfortably so. ![]() Dexter's foster sister is a Miami Vice Squad cop working on the killings, so Dexter decides to help her solve the case. The story opens with Dexter at play, kidnapping and killing a priest who has murdered a number of children, then moves on to the main plot, a series of gruesome killings of prostitutes by an unknown madman. I took pride in being the best-dressed monster in Dade County"). What makes this novel zing, though, is the narration-humorous, self-deprecating, smart and sometimes lyrical, it's a macabre fun ride ("I thought about the nice clothes that I always wore. ![]() But all his life, Dexter has followed the rules set down by his cop foster father (who knew of Dexter's proclivities), to indulge his passion only by slaying other serial killers. Lindsay's premise alone is worthy: narrator Dexter Morgan, a blood-spatter specialist for the Miami cops, is also a serial killer. It's been years since there's been a thriller debut as original as this one by Lindsay, who takes a tired subgenre-the serial-killer novel-and makes it as fresh as dawn. A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of unusual commercial interest that hasn't received a starred or boxed review. A starred or boxed review indicates a book of outstanding quality. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Cryptonomicon pages![]() ![]() In the next section, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, a mathematical genius attending Princeton, meets mathematicians Alan Turing and Rudolf von Hacklheber. The men working in another section of the installation are code-breakers who have been deciphering messages sent by the Nazis using their Enigma Machine, which they do not realize the Allies have cracked. The novel begins in 1945 Shanghai, where Corporal Bobby Shaftoe is part of a detail that fetches stacks of paper out of a military building and then burns the paper. Stephenson uses many elements of magical realism as well science fiction to craft a dense narrative centered on the themes of codes and code-breaking. Describing events in two different time periods-World War II and what was then the modern era-the novel tells the connected stories of a large cast of characters (many of the characters in the modern-day sections are descended from characters in the earlier time period). Cryptonomicon is a 1999 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Snail on the tail of the whale![]() ![]() The Snail and the Whale Book and CD Pack features the classic story with a stunning redesigned cover and finish, and a story CD read aloud by actress Imelda Staunton, making it a must-have addition to the bookshelves of all Donaldson and Scheffler fans – big and small!Īlso available with redesigned covers are: The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, Room on the Broom, The Smartest Giant in Town, Monkey Puzzle, Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book, and A Squash and a Squeeze. ![]() But when disaster strikes and the whale is beached in a bay, it’s the tiny snail’s big plan that saves the day! ![]() Together they go on an amazing journey, past icebergs and volcanoes, sharks and penguins, and the little snail feels so small in the vastness of the world. One little snail longs to see the world and hitches a lift on the tail of an enormous whale. The Snail and the Whale follows the amazing journey of a tiny snail who longs to see the world and manages to hitch a ride on the tail of a huge humpback wha. “How I long to sail!” said the tiny snail.Ī special book and CD edition of the bestselling The Snail and the Whale, a delightful tale of adventure and friendship by the unparalleled picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Tartine Bread by Eric Wolfinger![]() ![]() Fifteen years ago I told a friend that my dream was to “travel the world, learn to cook, and somehow make a living doing that.” He laughed at me, and then we both wondered aloud about the ‘make a living’ part. I’ve known for a long time that my favorite things in life are food, people and travel. What does that diversity mean for you as an artist? Your work spans all kinds of forms, people, and locations. While cooking a feast together for the book, Vol 01 Early Hues, we got to hear a bit of his. He’s a master at finding the story in everything from a loaf of bread to regional cuisine with centuries of history. He walks the line between passion and profession with rare deftness and prescience, preserving the sanctity of the things that give him life while turning his favorite pursuits into his life’s work. There is a healthy separation and cooperation among everything that he does. ![]() His interests overlap most when he’s behind the lens shooting something he enjoys. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The Book of Delights by Ross Gay![]() ![]() A life lived to acknowledge delight, Gay tells us, is “not without sorrow or fear or pain or loss,” but simply pulls up a chair for delight to sit in, day after day: “a cup of coffee from a well-shaped cup,” “the topknot of the barista,” “the sweet glance of the man in his stylish short pants (well-lotioned ankles gleaming beneath).”Īs Gay describes, his book is a promise he made himself: that he would write one “delight” essay (or “essayette,” as he calls them) every day for a year. And as a book about, among other things, moving through the world as a black man, it is a different kind of “antiracist” book, one that resists dehumanization by insisting on delight. When I picked up Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights sometime in 2019, I didn’t expect that I would want to teach it, but these days, his idea of developing a “delight radar” feels more important than ever. ![]() ![]() I keep saying I’m not going to review books I teach, but I’ve found a loophole - I will review books that I haven’t taught yet. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Books by john carreyrou![]() ![]() ![]() In 2003, 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford University to start the company, which promised something revolutionary: accurate diagnoses of health conditions using a single drop of blood. ![]() The Theranos story was supposed to have a very different ending. He spoke before an audience in conversation with Michael Callahan, executive director of the Rock Center for Corporate Governance, which cosponsored the event. Carreyrou, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal reporter, chronicled the downfall of Theranos in his book Bad Blood.Ĭarreyrou recently visited Stanford Graduate School of Business as part of a program organized by the school’s Corporations and Society Initiative. That’s how John Carreyrou described the high-profile plummet of health technology business Theranos from heralded Silicon Valley unicorn to disgraced cautionary tale, with founder Elizabeth Holmes and President and COO Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani facing multiple current fraud charges. One of the most epic failures in corporate governance in the annals of American capitalism. Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes epitomized Steve Jobs, which attracted Silicon Valley investors who didn’t look too closely at the health company’s claims, says John Carreyrou, the Wall Street Journal reporter who investigated Theranos. ![]() |