![]() ![]() 'Cornwell's narration is quite masterly and supremely well-researched.' Observer Year after year, hail, rain, snow, war and political upheavals fail to prevent him from producing the most entertaining and readable historical novels of his generation.' Daily Mail A thorn in the side of the priests and nobles who shape his fate, this Saxon raised by Vikings is torn between the life he loves and those he has sworn to serve. ![]() Uhtred of Bebbanburg’s mind is as sharp as his sword. ![]() Now Uhtred must fight a battle which will shape history – and confront the Viking with the banner of the white horse … Still, when pious King Alfred flees to a watery refuge, it is the pagan warrior he relies on. But when he is accused of massacring Christians, he finds lies can be as deadly as steel. ![]() Skeptical of a treaty between the Vikings and Wessex, Uhtred takes his talent for mayhem to Cornwall, gaining treasure and a mysterious woman on the way. When peace is torn apart by bloody Danish steel, Uhtred must fight to save a king who distrusts him. The second book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions.Ī hero will be forged from this broken land.Īs seen on Netflix and BBC around the world. *A brand new companion to the Last Kingdom series, Uhtred’s Feast, is available to pre-order now* ![]()
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![]() ![]() In Habash’s world, to man up is to break down. Stephen Florida’s grim portrait of ambition led astray captures how competitiveness and masculinity can unravel those who blindly follow its codes. The novel is both funny and authentically creepy, and even as his mental health and relationships deteriorate, Stephen remains consistently surprising, accessible, and engaging. Impressively, Habash traces Stephen’s increasing derangement without resorting to clichés. But unlike Bolaño’s novel, Stephen Florida refuses to romanticize its male characters and their exploits, instead exposing the emptiness of their hunger for recognition. It reads a bit like Chad Harbach’s coming-of-age story The Art of Fielding invaded by the characters from Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives, a novel obsessed with the absurd nature of manhood. ![]() Habash questions not only the true cost of achieving athletic greatness, but also how masculinity-defined in part by vengefulness, violence, and stoicism-can drive men to behave in self-glorifying and self-defeating ways. ![]() ![]() “Robert Mueller’s closing in on Trump! The American people are starting to wise up! A midterm election Blue Wave(TM) will #Resist the #NotMyPresident into #DrumpfDefeat!” Well what if we told you none of that will happen without a herculean effort on the part of America’s decent people? What if we told you none of this will get fixed soon? And what if we reminded you those same pundits who think everything’s about to be fine LITERALLY LAUGHED at the prospect of a Trump presidency not that long ago? ![]() when our disastrous political situation will turn itself around. ![]() ![]() If your politics lean left, your trusted pundits are telling you THIS. ![]() ![]() ![]() The tube length of the shotgun mic does affect its frequency response and pickup pattern. However, it’s more suitable for an on-camera dialogue where the human speaking voice in front of the camera is the only sound source that needs to be captured. If you are using it for capturing dynamic sounds such as singing and musical instruments, shotgun mics are not made for this kind of application. ![]() Its pickup pattern is very narrow to the point that the audio quality of the targeted sound source will deteriorate significantly if the targeted sound source is slightly off-axis occasionally. 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However, shotgun mics can also be used in some common recording events such as presentations, speeches, conferences, lectures, and other speaking events where the human voice in a single direction is the only sound source to be picked up by the mic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Just why the oversight failed remained a hot question among banking experts, with some focusing on the weakness of US rules. ![]() With hindsight, there were warning signs ahead of last week's spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, missed not only by investors, but by bank regulators. Late last week, the Fed released its postmortem on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, which criticized mismanagement by bank executives as well as short-sightedness by regulators.Ī Silicon Valley Bank office is seen in Tempe, Arizona, on March 14, 2023. We’re committed to learning the right lessons from this episode.” “We will continue to monitor conditions in the sector. “Conditions in the sector have broadly improved since early March, and the US banking system is sound and resilient,” he said. Powell led off his comments by addressing the state of the US banking industry. This time around, the central bank’s meeting occurred two days after First Republic Bank failed. When the Fed’s policymaking committee last came together in March, that meeting landed two weeks after the biggest bank failures seen since 2008. Here are five takeaways from the central bank’s latest action and Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s news conference:īanking conditions have improved, but there could be ripple effects from the turmoil The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced its 10th-straight interest rate hike, raising its benchmark rate by another quarter of a point and hinting at a pause as soon as next month. ![]() ![]() Writing it wouldn’t be easy because of his fragile and worsening health. The bad news is that I haven’t written anything.” Writing a friend about his diagnosis he said, “The good news is that I’ve already outlived two Brontës, Keats and Stephen Crane. When neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi got the news that he was going to die of cancer in his mid-thirties, he wanted to make sure he left his piece of wisdom in writing. Maybe we would leave some sort of wisdom for those who come after us. Maybe we would spend less time working and more time with family or helping others. ![]() It might not be a pleasant thing to dwell on, but maybe if we did we would try to live more meaningful lives. But we go about most days not thinking about our inevitable death. Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*: ![]() ![]() ![]() This was my grandmother’s gift to me - from her large collection of 1920’s children’s books - that long lost summer so long ago. ![]() So there I was, in her room, as the late afternoon summer sun filtered through the Navajo hemp curtains, deeply and fatally immersed in the far-flung exploits of this young heroic man, Michel Strogoff, Courier to the Czar! This same room had always traditionally doubled as a nursery, so my kid sister was relocated to my parents’ room for the duration. She could sense that deeply and profoundly. ![]() My grandmother always took the spare room when she came - not actually much of a big deal for the First Lady of Tooele, Utah - the mayor’s wife!īut our enormous love for her made up for it. My dear grandmother had come all the way from Utah, by train, to see us all - and especially her baby granddaughter, my sister, who’d been born in the previous October. well, this less of a review than a series of rambling reminiscences -Ī wonderful illustrated version of a fantastic odd-book-out odyssey by that idol of our long-forgotten childhoods, Jules Verne. I’ll have to beg my readers’ forgiveness once again, for this. ![]() ![]() Matt just got James back to Oregon where he wanted him, and extraneous brain hardware or not, he has no intention of letting him go. ![]() ![]() Life, however, has other plans: the bad guy dies without giving them any answers, they left their horse in Idaho, and Gramma Anais finds a parasite on James’s implant-one that forces James into isolation. He was supposed to get answers about the biocybernetic chip that made him empathic, face the man who implanted it, and then ride off into the sunset with his new boyfriend, Matt Tennimore. Task Force Iota, Book Two Sequel to 18% Gray James Ayala thought life would be smooth sailing once he escaped from a Red Idaho reeducation camp and returned to Blue Oregon. You can read this before Turning Tricks (Task Force Iota, #2) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book Turning Tricks (Task Force Iota, #2) written by Anne Tenino which was published in June 1, 2012. Brief Summary of Book: Turning Tricks (Task Force Iota, #2) by Anne Tenino ![]() ![]() ![]() The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World is a unique organization that promotes the cross-cultural study of antiquity across the whole of the Old World. The book under review here is the published catalogue for this exhibit, and it features stimulating thematic essays by leading experts in the field as well as abundant (and striking) color photographs of the exhibit's objects. ![]() It is a collaborative project between the Institute and over 20 museums in Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova, the heartland of Old Europe during the Copper Age. ![]() Cover of The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC by David W. The exhibit ran through April 25, 2010, and the objects on display are appearing in the United States for the first time. The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500BC is the second international loan exhibit organized by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Like INCARNATE and THE NAMELESS before it, this book sees Campbell writing at the peak of his abilities both as a sensitive chronicler of ordinary lives threatened by unpredictable forces, and as a literary conjuror of spine-chilling spectral terrors. if the child who takes her place in the family isn’t Rowan, Rowan may be somewhere else not quite like our world…įLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. THE INFLUENCE is perhaps the best demonstration yet of Campbell's skills as a novelist. Only her aunt Hermione suspects how sinister this is, but will retrieving the locket save her niece? By the time anyone sees what effect the ghostly influence on Rowan is having, it may be too late for her. ![]() She’s buried with a locket that contains a lock of Rowan’s hair, and soon afterwards Rowan is befriended by a mysterious uncannily intelligent girl of her own age. Queenie is the ageing matriarch of the Faraday family, and even death can’t break her hold over her eleven-year-old granddaughter Rowan. "This is a chilling work and the fullest treatment of one of Campbell's recurring themes - the psychic violence family members wreak upon one another." Publishers Weekly ![]() |