And every desire-including her hunger for Richard-is loaded with uncertainty as Sweeney races to unmask a killer. With every stroke of her brush, she risks incriminating herself with her inexplicable knowledge of a deadly crime. But when a shattering, real-life murder mirrors her creation, Sweeney falls under suspicion. Against her better instincts, she returns to the canvas time and again, filling out each chilling detail piece by piece. Now, the true dangers of her all-consuming urges are about to be revealed where Sweeney least expects it: in her paintings.Īfter a creative frenzy she can barely recall, Sweeney discovers she has rendered a disturbing image-a graphic murder scene. Suddenly, impulsively, Sweeney falls into a night of intense passion with millionaire Richard Worth. Life is good, and Sweeney, as she prefers to be called, is content.īut lately, Sweeney’s dreams seem to echo a growing restlessness that has taken hold of her. New York Times bestseller Linda Howard brings scintillating sensuality and high-voltage thrills to this novel following a painter as she embarks on a sizzling romance while also coming under suspicion for a shocking murder.Ī talented painter in her early thirties, Paris Sweeney has achieved enviable success: her work sells at an exclusive New York City gallery, and her popularity is at an all-time high.
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I think what this paper adds is a more systematic way to think about these risks, a categorization of the different approaches to managing these risks and their pros and cons, and the metaphor itself makes it easier to call attention to possibilities that are hard to see. "It looks like we will one day democratize the ability to create weapons of mass destruction using synthetic biology." But philosopher Nick Bostrom worries we might not always be so lucky. Thus far civilization has stayed one step ahead of its problems. Humanity solves one problem, but the unintended side effects of the solution create new ones. This situation illustrates the push and pull effect of new technologies. Feeding the world without deepening the climate crisis will require new technological breakthroughs. It turns out some of the same farming techniques that staved off a Malthusian catastrophe also led to soil erosion and contributed to climate change, which in turn contributes to drought and other challenges for farmers. But a report from the World Resources Institute last year predicts that food producers will need to supply 56 percent more calories by 2050 to meet the demands of a growing population. In his 1798 An Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Malthus predicted that the world's population growth would outpace food production, leading to global famine and mass starvation. He originally trained as an engineer, but in 1936 he went to Malaysia and worked as a rubber planter. suspenseful."Ībout the Author Pierre Boulle was born in Avignon, France, in 1912. New York Post "A memorable novel brilliantly conceived and brilliantly written." The Atlantic Monthly "Intelligent and thrilling." Chicago Tribune "An exciting story of action." The New Yorker "A fine story of adventure in which a highly original conception makes a psychologically rich situation out of what could have easily been a simple tale of daring." San Francisco Chronicle "An amazing story. " lightning-fast adventure and suspense story." While on the outside, as the Allies race to destroy the bridge, Nicholson must decide which will be the first casualty: his patriotism or his pride. Pitted against the warden, Colonel Saito, Nicholson will nevertheless, out of a distorted sense of duty, aid his enemy. The bridge they build will become a symbol of service and survival to one prisoner, Colonel Nicholson, a proud perfectionist. In a prison camp, British POWs are forced into labor. Book Synopsis 1942: Boldly advancing through Asia, the Japanese need a train route from Burma going north. Although not as wealthy as Tiger Lily's father, Anna's family offers the company and fun that the other little girl has been lacking. In Snow White, Anna hatches a chick, and gains a new pet - a very devoted but troublesome pet! Tiger Lily sees Anna's friend from Canada, in Africa to visit her father, come to call at the family compound. Anna Hibiscus is back in this delightful fifth chapter-book devoted to her adventures! Newly returned to her home in Africa, after her time spent with her maternal grandmother in Canada - an experience chronicled in the fourth installment of the series, Have Fun, Anna Hibiscus! - Anna is happy at the reunion with her family, but dismayed to discover, in the first story, Welcome Home, that both she and they have changed a bit. Of course later editions would come out and supplant her initial edition. She’s a woman about town, a kind of grand dame of the town in New England, and what we come to find out is that she’s one of the first publishing editors of Emily Dickinson’s poetry. We find our protagonist addressing a local crowd in the early 1900s. This play is written by a professional playwright, which helps of course, and is more of a one-woman show than a full play, which also lends itself better to solid listening. This is one of those plays written for Audible, but I think it’s better than many of the previous ones I’ve come across. This mostly hits that, but I can’t seem to stay away from some of the plays written for Audible, which generally aren’t great. I tend to make my selections based on length (preferring shorter to longer) and go for things that are more memoirs, mystery, or podcasty. These two months’ worth of Audible Originals. He volunteers to help with the manhunt for his mystery man, a wealthy restaurateur named Harrison Knowles. Noah's vacation is thrown into upheaval because he can't just let it go when he learns that the mysterious man who turned his life upside down went missing. On his first night in sunny Florida, a chance encounter with a handsome man in a bar bathroom jumpstarts something in Noah that's been dormant for all those months. But it's been a tough eighteen months since the death of his lover, so he's determined to make the most of it. "A steamy chance encounter with a handsome man in a bar bathroom turns Noah's whole life upside down when the stranger goes missing." Hard-working NYPD cop Noah Tobin didn't even want to go on vacation. 'Laced with intrigue.Readers will be enthralled by Lee's depiction of Will's relationships with his two lovers.and the unsparing way Lee unravels them’ New York Times 'This cinematic tale of two love affairs in mid-century Hong Kong shows colonial pretensions tainted by wartime truths.Lee unfolds each story, and flits between them, with the brisk grace and discretion of the society she describes’ New Yorker 'This season's “Atonement”.a first-class steamer ticket to a disappearing Hong Kong’ Elle Magazine It does exactly what a great novel should do – transports you out of time, out of place, into a world you can feel on your very skin' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of 'Eat, Pray, Love' ' lovely novel – it has an old-fashioned solidity and craftsmanship and effortlessly recreates the atmosphere of post-war Hong Kong' Kate Saunders, The Times Intriguing, sad, rivetingly detailed' Elizabeth Buchan, Daily Mail 'Two love stories lie at the centre of this impressive debut, which explores the moral ambiguities of war, culture, race and romantic love. a riveting tale where, for once, the word "epic" is not hyperbole' 'Hampton Sides' outstanding narrative history has all the virtues: stirring set pieces, deft character studies, colourful descriptions of battles and of nature. BLOOD AND THUNDER is a chronicle of one of a pivotal era in American history: grand in scope, immediate in detail, impeccably researched and historically revelatory. Carson was an illiterate mountain man who twice married Indian women and understood the tribes better than any other American alive yet he was also a cold-blooded killer and an unquestioning patriot who willingly followed orders tantamount to massacre. It is a tale with many heroes and villains, but at the centre of it all stands the remarkable figure of Kit Carson - the legendary trapper, scout and soldier. Hampton Sides's extraordinary book brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life. “I believe that what the source told me is true, to him. Jacobsen later refused to name her sole source for this cockamamie story and not-so-cleverly insisted, From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold story of the CIAs secret. This is a book in which she claims that an unidentified flying object cited in 1948 was actually a flying saucer sent by Joseph Stalin and flown by mutant, bug-eyed teenagers created by the notorious Nazi death camp doctor Josef Mengele. Dick Teresi critically reviewed Jacobsen’s “Phenomena,” a silly book about the paranormal, and archly observed that “Jacobsen’s sources should have used mind control to get her a more receptive Times reviewer.” Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Rhodes called one of her books (“Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base”) an “error-ridden job of reporting” and accused her of being “at a minimum extraordinarily gullible or journalistically incompetent.” Rhodes was being gentle. Her topics - Nazi scientists, UFOs, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the history of government-financed investigations of the paranormal - must appeal to some readers’ desire for astounding revelations. Annie Jacobsen has a history of publishing sensational, conspiracy-driven books that sell well. That the woman sleeping in their house will stop at nothing to get what she wants. And she trusts him - doesn't she? But Marisa knows something is wrong. Is it the way she looks at Marisa's boyfriend? Sits too close on the sofa? Constantly asks about the baby they are trying for? Or is it all just in Marisa's head? After all, that's what her Jake keeps telling her. In Jake, Marisa has found everything she's ever wanted. She puts her toothbrush right there in the master bathroom, on the shelf next to theirs. Her acclaimed debut Scissors, Paper, Stone won a Betty Trask Award and Home Fires was an Observer. She makes herself at home without any self-consciousness. Elizabeth Day is the author of four novels and Sunday Times bestselling memoir, How to Fail. It is the book that was missing' LISA TADDEO, AUTHOR OF THREE WOMEN AND ANIMAL 'Magnificent: I read it one sitting' KATE MOSSE, AUTHOR OF THE CITY OF TEARS Sometimes Marisa gets the fanciful notion that Kate has visited the house before. 'Terrifyingly BRILLIANT' MARIAN KEYES, AUTHOR OF GROWN UPS 'A book that needed to exist in the world. |