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![]() For like no other disciple of the dark side, Darth Plagueis learns to command the ultimate power. When the time is right, he destroys his Master-and vows never to suffer the same fate. As an apprentice, he embraces the ruthless ways of the Sith. Possessing power is all he desires losing it is the only thing he fears. Luceno takes Darth Plagueis down the dark path and never looks back."-NewsdayDarth Plagueis: one of the most brilliant Sith Lords who ever lived. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - This essential Star Wars Legends novel chronicles the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise, and the origins of the saga's most enduring evil-the malevolent Sith master Palpatine."The best Star Wars publication to date. Read Or Download Darth Plagueis: Star Wars Legends (Star Wars Legends) By James Luceno Full Pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() Knight teaches Anya that, just as with the bad, in life you should also expect the good. ![]() But when Anya comes to his nightclub and finds herself in a situation, he knows someone has to look after her, he can’t fight it anymore and he decides that man will be him. Knight tries to leave Anya to the life she deserves of white picket fences and a man who watches football on Sundays – good, normal and clean. But he never expected something as sweet as Anya Gage to wander into his bedroom during a party he did not expect to be having to borrow his phone. Knight Sebring knows who he is, what he wants and what he likes. Then she finds herself at a party where she doesn’t want to be and she meets Knight. Knight (Unfinished Hero #1) by Kristen AshleyĪnya Gage has learned that to get anything good in life, you have to work for it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most survival situations last only about 72 hours, Lundin points out, before rescuers find you either alive or dead. Most other survival texts stray into hunting, trapping, and foraging methods for long-term survival living, but 98.6 Degrees gets in your face with the essentials-you have to stay properly heated or cooled, clothed and hydrated, to maintain your body temperature at 98.6 Degrees until you are rescued. Written by Cody Lundin, a personal friend and co-host of Dual Survival on the Discovery Channel, 98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive focuses entirely on essential knowledge needed to prevent an emergency wilderness situation, or to get safely out of one if something goes wrong. There must be hundreds of wilderness survival books on the market, but if you only read one, then read this one. How to Survive Fear, Panic, and the Biggest Outdoor Killersīy Cody Lundin. ![]() Survival Books by Cody Lundin, Co-Host of Dual Survival Granny's Country Store > Wilderness Survival > Cody Lundin Survival Books | Search | View Cart ![]() ![]() ![]() Wright published numerous poems in Left Front, the Partisan Review, and New Masses. He moved to New York City in 1937 and became editor of the Daily Worker and coeditor of Left Front. In Chicago, Wright became involved with the Communist Party and worked for the Federal Writers’ Project. He dropped out of high school to work odd jobs before moving to Chicago in 1927. Books were not allowed in the house, and Wright nursed his dreams of becoming a writer in secret. ![]() His father left the family when Wright was five, and he spent time in an orphanage before moving with his mother to Jackson, where he was raised in part by his strict Seventh Day Adventist grandparents. Wright was born in Mississippi, the son of an illiterate sharecropper and a schoolteacher. He is most famous for writings depicting the harsh realities of life for Black Americans in the Jim Crow–era South: the short story collection Uncle Tom’s Children (1938) the novel Native Son (1940), which was a bestseller and a Book-of-the-Month club selection, the first by a Black writer to earn the distinction, and produced by John Houseman and Orson Welles on Broadway and his autobiography, Black Boy (1945). Richard Wright is recognized as one of the preeminent novelists and essayists of the 20th century. ![]() ![]() I discussed how we finally had the technology to align the forces of supply and demand. ZUBOFF: In my 2002 book, “The Support Economy,” I looked at the challenges to capitalism in shifting from a mass to an individual-oriented structure of consumption. When did you start worrying that the tech giants driving it were becoming more interested in exploiting us than serving us? GAZETTE: The digital revolution began with great promise. ![]() ![]() The Gazette recently interviewed Zuboff about her belief that surveillance capitalism, a term she coined in 2014, is undermining personal autonomy and eroding democracy - and the ways she says society can fight back. In her new book, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” Zuboff offers a disturbing picture of how Silicon Valley and other corporations are mining users’ information to predict and shape their behavior. ![]() But Shoshana Zuboff, professor emerita at Harvard Business School, warns that their lights, bells, and whistles have made us blind and deaf to the ways high-tech giants exploit our personal data for their own ends. The continuing advances of the digital revolution can be dazzling. ![]() ![]() World-over, the employment landscape is changing, and its not any more a world where life time employment or even employment for say 5 to 10 years is an established norm. In her funny, familiar, heartbreaking new novel, the award-winning author of Blue Italian weaves a tale of family, work, sex, and love-and of all the things we try to leave behind but never really can.ĭownload Beat the Pinkslip Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle And before they know it, two very different people from two very different worlds are doing the one thing you should never do at the office: falling in love. A man of manners and caution, Strauss manages to bring out the best bad girl in Lisa. Enter Lisa's main character: her new boss, Eben Strauss. Ditching her life as an underpaid, oversexed publishing drone in Manhattan, Lisa takes a lucrative spot at a more conservative company, and begins writing-on company time-a novel that pokes fun at corporate life. At her sister's wedding she ducks when the bridal bouquet comes floating her way, and the only "eligible bachelor" in Lisa's life is her beloved gay cousin, Dodie. Lisa Diodetto's mother may be ready for her to get married but Lisa isn't. ![]() Download Pink Slip Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle ![]() ![]() ![]() Rose wakes up the next morning to find that Rain has disappeared and wasn’t wearing a collar. On the night of the storm, Wesley lets Rain outside, and the dog doesn’t return. Hatford is in the path of an oncoming hurricane expected to turn inland, and Rose and Wesley hurriedly prepare for storm damage. Rose enjoys taking care of her pet and feeling an emotional connection with Rain. Rose and Rain are inseparable, with Rain providing a calming, stabilizing presence in Rose’s life. Wesley found the dog behind the bar without a collar and assumes that she’s a stray. Rose owns a dog, Rain, that Wesley brought home with him one day. ![]() Rose’s uncle Weldon lives in Hatford and is a kind, caring, involved part of Rose’s life. ![]() He is impatient and dismissive of Rose’s needs. Wesley works intermittently at a local garage and spends much of his free time in a neighborhood bar. Rose sometimes feels isolated from her peers because of her disability. Rose has been diagnosed with high-functioning autism, which makes learning in a conventional classroom environment difficult. Wesley has always told her that her mother left the two of them when Rose was young, and she doesn’t remember her mother at all. Eleven-year-old Rose Howard lives with her father, Wesley, in the small town of Hatford in upstate New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They were survivors of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as “the prize of all the oceans,” it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. "A tour de force of narrative nonfiction.” - The Wall Street Journal “Riveting.Reads like a thriller, tackling a multilayered history-and imperialism-with gusto.” - Time The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire. From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That piece inspired her fictionalized portrait of a celebrated neighborhood fixture who “was charismatic and generous, and led a very big life for someone who barely left a twenty-block radius.” Manning her ticket booth, walking the streets, Mazie helped many people who were homeless, especially during the Great Depression. ![]() It makes sense then that after 2012’s bestselling Midwest family saga “The Middlesteins” she should return to New York with her new book, “Saint Mazie,” an engaging work of historical fiction based on the life of Mazie Phillips-Gordon, a woman once known as “Queen of the Bowery.”Īttenberg first discovered Mazie - who was the ticket taker and proprietress of the Venice, a movie theater in the heart of the Lower East Side - when a friend suggested she read a 1940 profile by the New Yorker’s Joseph Mitchell. In addition to having published four novels and a short-story collection since 2006, Jami Attenberg once went viral for busting a bike thief in Brooklyn, which makes her one of the most New York authors of the 21st century, as far as I’m concerned. ![]() |