![]() The Triple Agent provides a riveting look at the disastrous attempt by the CIA and their partners in the Jordanian General Intelligence Department (GID) to maneuver the Jordanian doctor-cum-cyber-jihadist, Humam al-Balawi, into penetrating the leadership of al-Qaeda. Yet as those who have operated in the world of human intelligence will viscerally feel, this is not cathartic fiction, but a factual account of a modern day human intelligence operation gone terribly wrong, involving real men and women, with all the failings thereof. All the ingredients are there, including betrayal, shame, heroism, and more than one person with a recklessly determined hubris worthy of King Lear himself. ![]() Were Shakespeare alive, he would find ample material for a high tragedy among the players in veteran intelligence correspondent Joby Warrick’s new book, The Triple Agent. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Which inevitably get shoved to the back of the line, even though it's kind of crucial to know where the ship is ultimately headed. But I need a chunk of time to focus on some translation stuff, some audio projects, some other things I'm toying with, as well as long term strategizing. THEN I'll start work on the final Holmes & Moriarity.Īnd THEN I'm taking a break from writing. I love, love, love country house murder mysteries and that's kind of what we have going on with that one: snow, secret passages, sinister strangers. The usual stuff that happens while staying with friends. It's coming.Īs soon as Lament at Loon Landing is safely launched, I'll fully dive into Corpse at Captain's Seat, which I anticipate going as quickly as Death at the Deep Dive did. I'm not going to guestimate the actual release because the book is clearly cursed and if I dare to name the release date, doom and disaster will follow. Coz that's how that works.īut we're closing in on finishing up. I guess part of the problem is with all the delays (and all the bitching about the delays) it has turned the book into A Thing in my mind, which inevitably slows everything down even further. I'm not exactly sure what the hold-up has been, because as I'm working on it, it's pretty much like every other book in the series: cute, charming, fun. I'm currently back to working on Lament at Loon Landing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I wouldn’t be allowed in Heaven, but I swear on all that’s holy-I’d rattle the gates until they let me have you.” This time, it will find what was once a caterpillar is now a butterfly-and hell hath no fury like the White Monarch. and selfless enough to make the ultimate sacrifice.īut I was warned, and so were you. Resilient enough to bring down those who would try to destroy it. This is still a story about a love strong enough to topple households, unite enemies, and divide brothers. But nothing could’ve prepared me for Cristiano de la Rosa, his brother’s poison, or the Calavera cartel. ![]() Like the caterpillar that feeds on poison during metamorphosis, I was raised in the dangerous world of cartel crime. Now, I can’t fathom life without my king. I’ve become a queen to the forsaken, a leader to thieves, and the wife of a man who instills fear in all who cross his path. The highly anticipated conclusion to the “emotional, steamy, and dangerous” USA Today bestselling White Monarch series. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from Jessica Hawkins in exchange for an honest review. Reviews Review: Violent Triumphs (White Monarch #3) by Jessica Hawkins ![]() ![]() ![]() Her attraction to Big Swiss overrides her guilt, and she’ll do anything to sustain the relationship…īold, outlandish, and filled with irresistible characters, Big Swiss is both a love story and also a deft examination of infidelity, mental health, sexual stereotypes, and more-from an amazingly talented, one-of-a-kind voice in contemporary fiction. Although Big Swiss is unaware of Greta’s true identity, Greta has never been more herself with anyone. In a panic, she introduces herself with a fake name and they quickly become enmeshed. One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss’s voice at the dog park. They both have dark histories, but Big Swiss chooses to remain unattached to her suffering while Greta continues to be tortured by her past. ![]() Greta is fascinated by Big Swiss’s refreshing attitude toward trauma. ![]() She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she affectionately refers to as Big Swiss, since she’s tall, stoic, and originally from Switzerland. Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. ![]() The house, built in 1737, is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. When they accidentally meet in real life, an explosive affair ensues. New York, NY: Scribner (February 7, 2023)Ī brilliantly original and funny novel about a sex therapist’s transcriptionist who falls in love with a client while listening to her sessions. ![]() ![]() Written in Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s singular voice, the wildly entertaining and complex lives of the Lopez family fill the pages of this multigenerational western saga. ![]() ![]() In the end, it is up to Luz to save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion. She bears witness to the sinister forces that have devastated her people and their homelands for generations. Luz recollects her ancestors’ origins, how her family flourished, and how they were threatened. As Luz navigates 1930s Denver, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory. ![]() Luz “Little Light” Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Book Riot.“Sometimes you just step into a book and let it wash over you, like you’re swimming under a big, sparkling night sky.”-Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told YouĪ PHENOMENAL BOOK CLUB PICK AND AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK A “dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical” (Roxane Gay) epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina. ![]() ![]() ![]() One that I’ve puzzled over a lot, truth be told, perhaps even too much. ![]() Wroten - who illustrates the proceedings in an agreeably modern updating of “classic cartooning” style and employs a very pleasing dulled-pastels color scheme throughout - more than likely places a lot of herself in protagonist Caroline Bertram, but just how much is a very open question indeed. ![]() But is this really another memoir about an aimless young adult? And the publishers’ promo blurb describing it “ Art School Confidential for the Tumblr generation” makes me feel even older than that. So, sure, Kelsey Wroten‘s new hardcover graphic novel from Uncivilized Books, Cannonball, makes me feel ancient. Yup, we’ve seen it before: the college/art school, or the post-college/post-art school, memoir has been a ubiquitous fixture of the “alternative” comics scene for three decades or so - more than enough time, in fact, for people who grew up reading these sorts of things to have kids of their own who now in turn, have their own “twenty-something” stories to tell. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marvel/Squirrel Girl And Marvel Rising: Omega. TolkienĬollects Marvel Rising #0, Marvel Rising: Alpha, Marvel Rising: Squirrel Girl/Ms. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C.Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games ![]() By POPULAR SERIES Chronicles of Narnia Curious Geoge Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fancy Nancy Harry Potter I Survived If You Give. ![]() By TOPIC Award Winning Books African American Children's Books Biography & Autobiography Books for Boys Books for Girls Diversity & Inclusion Foreign Language & Bilingual Books Hispanic & Latino Children's Books Holidays & Celebrations Holocaust Books Juvenile Nonfiction Native American Books New York Times Bestsellers Professional Development Reference Books Test Prep.By GRADE Elementary School Middle School High Schoolīy AGE Board Books (newborn to age 3) Early Childhood Readers (ages 4-8) Children's Picture Books (ages 3-8) Juvenile Fiction (ages 8-12) Young Adult Fiction (ages 12+). ![]() ![]() ![]() Is this book going to go against the stereotypical texts of studying or not?Īn upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work.Īmongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by on apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. I thoroughly enjoyed reading Great Expectations, I didn’t really enjoy To The Lighthouse and now Affinity by Sarah Waters. ![]() I was proved wrong when I studied The Time Machine in college (even though I was proved right when we were also given Hard Times by Charles Dickens!) and now I’m at university. ![]() ![]() I was proved wrong when I studied To Kill a Mockingbird at Secondary School, I was wrong when I also studied An Inspector Calls and The Woman in Black there. Whenever I think of study texts for anything, whether it was at school, college or university, I always think that they’re going to be boring. When I was given the list of books that I had to read for my English and Media course at university, I let out a groan. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is full of fascinating microhistories. So yeah, Lewis had a lot of ground to cover, plenty of change “to live over.”ĭu Bois requires two +500 page volumes (this is the first) in which Lewis synchronizes his subject’s restless ninety-five years with an account of the turbulent modernity he inhabited and strove so variously to interpret. ![]() ![]() To live other people’s lives is nothing unless we live over their perceptions, live over the growth, the change, the varying intensity of the same-since it was by these things they themselves lived.ĭu Bois began his intellectual life in the 1870s, a prodigious New England preteen saving odd job money to buy Macaulay’s History of England on an installment plan-and died in 1963, a Pan-Africanist Marxist with a villa in Accra, capital of newly-independent Ghana, and a chauffeured limousine provided by the Soviet embassy. As epigraph to the first of the five volumes he would devote to the life of Henry James, Leon Edel quoted a line from his subject’s rare foray into biography ( William Wetmore Story and His Friends, 1903): This is a biography that actually merits the “magisterial” among its blurbs, the kind of book that shows biography second only to the novel for difficulty of organization and effect. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wife’s request for appellate attorney’s fees is denied. For the reasons discussed below, we vacate in part, reverse in part, and affirm in part. Wife also asks this Court to award her attorney’s fees incurred in this appeal. W2020-00220-COA-R3-CV _ In this divorce case, Wife/Appellant appeals the trial court’s: (1) pre-trial rulings concerning certain entities (2) denial of her motions for leave to amend the complaint for divorce (3) pre-trial procedural rulings (4) evidentiary rulings (5) designation of Husband/Appellee as the primary residential parent and parent with sole decision-making authority over the parties’ child (6) child support award (7) alimony award (8) denial of retroactive temporary support and (9) denial of her request for attorney’s fees. CT-003296-17 Felicia Corbin Johnson, Judge _ No. DAVID SEWALL WADDELL Appeal from the Circuit Court for Shelby County No. IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT JACKSON OctoSession STACIE NICOLE MARTIN WADDELL v. ![]() |