![]() ![]() In essence it is also the story of the founding of a people, in this case the “People of the World” in their initial struggle for unity, reflected in the Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations: “We the Peoples….” This reflects the movement of the action of this Epic Novel of Modernity, centered around the quest to raise global consciousness and will for the establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, an undertaking in modern dimensions equivalent to the siege of Troy in the Iliad or the quest to found the eternal city of Rome in the Aeneid. ![]() Significantly, the setting of Spiritus Mundi as a “Global Novel” or “Global Epic” takes in the virtually the entire globalized modern world, as is reflected in the Table of Contents as the chapter headings move from Beijing to New York to Geneva, Berlin, London, Washington, D.C., Tokyo, the Maldives of the Indian Ocean, Southern Africa, Mexico City, Jerusalem, Iran and Tibet. Setting-Locations of Novel’s Principal Action. ![]()
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![]() ![]() With her siblings and friends, Virginia formed the Bloomsbury Group, dedicated to art, literature, politics and discussion. ![]() In her youth, she was restricted from the level of education her brothers received but she learned as best she could and was soon surrounded by a group of intellectuals from the Cambridge colleges her brothers attended. These events had a huge impact on Virginia's mental health and she was thereafter often treated for nervous breakdowns. Her mother died when Virginia was young, her brother also died tragically and her father died when she was 22. Her father was Sir Leslie Stephen, a renowned critic and her mother was Julia Stephen, a beautiful woman who often modeled for portraits. Virginia Stephen was born into a wealthy and well-connected London family. ![]() ![]() Fans of Ira Levin’s A Kiss Before Dying will be pleased. Sager excels at playing with reader expectations and in concocting plausible, gut-wrenching twists. Her tendency to create movies in her mind makes her perceptions unreliable, even to herself. Charlie soon suspects Josh has been lying to her about who he is. Wracked with guilt and self-loathing, Charlie resolves to leave in the middle of the semester, and finds a ride home to Ohio with Josh Baxter, a janitor employed by Olyphant driving to the state to tend to his ill father. She was stabbed multiple times and one of her teeth was removed, the hallmark of a two-time murderer dubbed the Campus Killer. ![]() ![]() A day after Charlie let Maddy walk back from a bar to their dorm on her own after an argument, Maddy’s corpse was found. ![]() Charlie Jordan blames herself for the death of Maddy, her best friend and roommate at New Jersey’s Olyphant University. Thriller Award finalist Sager ( Home Before Dark) elevates a standard suspense trope-a young woman trapped in a car with a stranger she fears is a serial killer-in this stellar nail-biter set in 1991. ![]() ![]() ![]() She just didn't feel like teaching was her calling. It wasn't that she didn't like children, because she did. There had to be something she could do that didn't involve teaching. She had enough money saved up that she could continue to pay her room and board to the family she'd lived with for a few more months until she found another job. She loved children, but she hated teaching, and she just couldn't keep doing it indefinitely. There had to be another job she could take. ![]() ![]() She'd been teaching in the little schoolroom outside of Beckham, Massachusetts for two years, and she wasn't going to go back. ANNA SIMMONS LEANED back in her chair in the schoolroom and let out a sigh of relief. ![]() ![]() ![]() But what Dyna doesn’t know is that it comes with a price, and it may cost more than she bargained for. The journey to get the answers they each need will test them all. ![]() ![]() It’s growing stronger, determined to take over-and he may just let it. Zev straddles the line between human and wolf, unsure if his dark thoughts truly belong to the Madness. But then the bond develops a startling change, and it puts into question everything he thought he knew. When reuniting with a familiar sorceress, she realizes the only way to defeat Tarn is to find her Guardians-all of them.Ĭassiel never meant to tie himself to a human, especially one that inexplicably draws him. Reeling from Cassiel’s confession, Dyna struggles to understand what the Blood Bond means for them both, all the while trying to stay one step ahead of a newfound enemy. Summary: **Spoilers for book 1** Purchase Bonded Fate on Amazon: ![]() ![]() ![]() She can bend others to her will, a psychic talent she’s kept hidden since the brutal murder of her parents. The lines between charade and reality blur as a dark romance brews between two unlikely soulmates… ![]() Welcome to a world of cursed immortals, broken rules, and eternal love… I’m eagerly awaiting the next book in this fantastic new series.Īward Winning & Bestselling Series – Read the first three books NOW! ![]() Foss has crafted a world so rich and nuanced that the potential for new stories is almost limitless. Her journey from pet to powerful was breathtaking and I’m looking forward to seeing her appearances throughout the rest of this series. I adore Darius and Jace but its Juliet who captured my heart. This is the supernatural world I’ve been waiting for.Ī world where vampires, and lycans, rule and humans are the bottom of the food chain. Welcome to the future where the superior bloodlines make the rules. I’ll break her, train her, and use her to take down everyone who stands in my way. Twenty-two years of conditioning has crafted the perfect poison–a weapon my enemies won’t see coming. It is my duty to obey, to give my body and blood to a vampire master until he no longer has use for me. ![]() Once upon a time, humankind ruled the world while lycans and vampires lived in secret. ![]() ![]() ![]() Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.īut in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern. ![]() In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. ![]() “As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure.” The series starts with All Systems Red and is followed by five more glorious books. Some of you might still be reading Midnight Sun (we know, it’s long), but if you are on the hunt for something to fill the void, you should check out some of the amazing suggestions Stephenie mentioned during the book tour. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of them, yes, are more demanding than others. Why? Well, it is tempting to say that it’s because philosophy is a hard subject. From the pre-Socratics to the Vienna School and everyone in-between, Leibniz to Plato to Kant, philosophy is a foreign country to all but a hardy few who still visit the shelves in the 100s of the Dewey Decimal System. Philosophy majors at most universities are as rare as a hen’s teeth, and students overall-like the adult population as a whole-remain almost perfectly ignorant of even the rudiments of intellectual history or any branch of philosophical inquiry. Philosophy departments are struggling in the West these days. Insights into the nature of Aristotle’s philosophy confirm Edward Feser’s detailed argument that Aristotle, under the gentle care of later scholastically-minded thinkers, turns out to be right about more things than most of us dare hope.Īristotle’s Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science, by Edward Feser (Editiones Scholasticae, 515 pages, 2019) ![]() ![]() ![]() The original series of three films are Left Behind: The Movie (2000), Left Behind II: Tribulation Force (2002), and Left Behind: World at War (2005). The series has been adapted into five films to date. The primary element is a Christian dispensationalist view of the End Times the pretribulation, premillennial, Christian eschatological interpretation of the Biblical apocalypse. It focuses on a seven-year conflict between the Tribulation Force, an underground network of converts, and the New World Order-esque Global Community and its leader, Nicolae Carpathia, who is also the Antichrist. Left Behind is a multimedia franchise that started with a series of 16 bestselling religious novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. ![]() Left Behind The Rising, The Regime, The Rapture, Left Behind, Tribulation Force, Nicolae, Soul Harvest, Apollyon, Assassins, The Indwelling, The Mark, Desecration, The Remnant, Armageddon, Glorious Appearing, Kingdom Come For other uses, see Left Behind (disambiguation). ![]() ![]() Gaia has always believed in the values and rules promulgated by the Enclave, even though the emphasis on perfect offspring means that she is an outcast because of a disfiguring burn scar on her face. ![]() That baby is then brought up by an Enclave family, and never seen again outside the walls. ![]() She suspects it might have something to do with the practice of “advancing” babies, which means that a quota of babies delivered by each midwife must be taken from the mother by the midwife (but only if the babies are “perfect”) and “advanced” to the Enclave within ninety minutes of birth. Gaia doesn’t understand why, and the mysterious Enclave soldier she finds at her house afterward – Sergeant Grey – won’t explain. Gaia, age 16, intends to be a midwife “some day” like her mother whom she now assists, but she is pushed into the role suddenly when her parents are arrested. The post-climate-change society posited near Unlake Superior has been divided between those inside an “Enclave” and the poor and powerless outside of it, like Gaia Stone and her family. But in this case, the world after the disaster has some unique features. Precipitating factors never vary much: they tend to involve a nuclear and/or (increasingly) an environmental disaster. ![]() ![]() With so many YA dystopias coming out, it is always a treat to find one that offers something different from the rest. ![]() |