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On warne gideon haigh6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Along the way were unforgettable rivalries with the greatest of his time, from Viv Richards and Ian Botham to Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne. Sultan tells the story of cricket's greatest left-arm bowler, and one of its greatest survivors, who was chosen from the streets of Lahore and groomed by Imran Khan to become champion of the world - man of the match in the final of the 1992 World Cup. ![]() For another twenty years he kept his own counsel about those days, full of drama, controversy and even mystery, in a country, Pakistan, that to outsiders is a constant enigma. ![]() For twenty years, Wasim Akram let his cricket do the talking - his electrifying left-arm pace, his explosive left-handed striking, his leadership an. Sultan is the official biography of Wasim Akram, the "sultan of swing", one of the greatest fast bowlers in the history of cricket. ![]()
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New power by jeremy heimans6/7/2023 ![]() It is open, participatory and peer-driven. It is closed, inaccessible and leader-driven. Once gained, it is jealously guarded, and the powerful have a substantial store of it to spend. Our world is defined by the battle and balancing of two big forces. Courtesy of Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms. A comparison between old power and new power. The everyday people, businesses and organizations who are leaping ahead in a hyperconnected world - while others fall back. The rank political outsiders who have raised passionate crowds and swept into office. Think of the hoodie-clad barons who sit atop online networks a billion users strong. But the deep truth is that our behaviors and expectations are changing too. ![]() Yes, this is because technology has changed. Today, we have the capacity to make movies, friends or money to spread hope or spread our ideas to build community or build up movements and to spread misinformation or propagate violence on a vastly greater scale and with greater potential impact than we did even a few years ago. Here’s what it takes to win power in today’s hyperconnected age, according to activists Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms. ![]() ![]() There’s a kind of Hunger Games occurring among organizations and brands to seize people’s attention and loyalty. ![]()
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The heroes of olympus book set6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Does this have anything to do with Jason's amnesia, or the fact that Leo keeps seeing ghosts? Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist that each of them-including Leo-is related to a god. But there’s weird stuff, too-like the curse everyone keeps talking about, and some camper who's gone missing. When he sees his cabin at Camp Half-Blood, filled with power tools and machine parts, he feels right at home. When a freak storm hits during the school trip, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood, she has a feeling she’s going to find out, whether she wants to or not. Piper doesn’t understand her dream, or why her boyfriend suddenly doesn’t recognize her. Her father has been missing for three days, ever since she had that terrifying nightmare about his being in trouble. What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly? Jason doesn't know anything-except that everything seems very wrong. ![]() They’re all students at the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids," as Leo puts it. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper, and his best friend is a guy named Leo. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. ![]()
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![]() This is the 2nd book in the Rutherford Park series. The sinking of the Lusitania plays a big part in this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() 10/13 (1) 2013 (2) 1012943 (1) 1013420 (1) 6 (1) 6 (1) a-z-challenge-2018 (1) Adult Age Level (3) adult fiction (2) ala 2013 (1) aristocracy (2) AUTHOR - Elizabeth Cooke (3) Britain (4) Buffalo Hill Book Group (1) challenge-books-2018 (1) Downton Abbey (1) elizabeth cooke (1) England (3) England pre WW I (1) fiction (18) first-reads (2) have-ecopy (1) historical (3) historical fiction (18) historical romance (2) home-books (1) I read this in April of 2015 (1) in-audible (1) large estate (1) own-in-book-format (1) owned-but-not-yet-read (1) pitfm (1) read in 2016 (1) review-books (1) royal air corps (1) Rutherford Park series (1) secrets (2) series (4) Set in England just before and during WW!. ![]()
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After the fall ben rhodes amazon6/6/2023 ![]() With that diminution, other nations rose: Putin’s Russia, but especially Xi Jinping’s China. “To be an American in 2020 was to live in a country diminished in the world,” he writes. “In the span of just thirty years, this assumption would come crashing down,” he adds, undermined by the very thing that had heralded greatness: a robust capitalism that produced global inequality, undermined the working class, and encouraged official corruption. ![]() ![]() The assumption that America was somehow different from the rest of the world was an article of faith in his childhood, writes Rhodes. A former Obama administration adviser examines the slow fall from grace that led to Trump. ![]()
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Rebecca hall graphic novel6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() We also follow Rebecca’s own story of resistance as living in the wake of slavery continues to shape her own life - both as a successful attorney and later as a historian seeking the past that haunts her. Hall brings to life the women who fought for freedom during the Middle Passage and the women who led slave revolts in Colonial New York. Using in-depth archival research and the measured use of historical imagination, Dr. Her journey takes her through old court records, slave ship captain’s logs, crumbling correspondence, and even the forensic evidence from the bones of enslaved women from the “negro burying ground” uncovered in Manhattan. The accepted history of slave revolts tells her that enslaved women took a back seat. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. ![]() Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts (written by Rebecca Hall, illustrated by Hugo Martinez) tells the story of Dr. She writes and publishes on the history of race, gender, law, and resistance as well as articles on climate justice and intersectional feminist theory. Her paternal grandparents were born enslaved. Rebecca Hall, JD PhD is an independent scholar, activist, and educator. ![]()
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![]() The backmatter includes information on the Mississippi Delta and the sites that Bo Willie visits. ![]() Duncan playfully weaves in references to the blues her text exudes the tone of a blues song yet remains cheerfully child-friendly (“Then we drove toward Merigold / to shimmy, shake, and boogie”). The book is genius in its simplicity instead of offering a factual account of the blues, it invites readers to feel the music-and readers absolutely will. ![]() Raschka’s illustrations, created with fabric paint and embroidery on canvas, provide layers of texture and energy that give this book a soulful, country feel. After asking around and consulting a map, he realizes that Yellow Dog, bit by the blues bug, is heading for Beale Street in Memphis, where “he sings all day and night.” Along the way, Bo Willie stops by several sites that figure prominently in blues history, among them the Merigold Blues Club, Hicks’ Tamales, and the intersection of Highway 8 and Highway 1, one of several locations mentioned in the many legends about Robert Johnson, who is said to have sold his soul to the devil in exchange for the gift of blues music. ![]() A Black child takes readers on a Mississippi blues tour in search of a four-legged friend.īo Willie can’t find his dog anywhere. ![]()
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God of wrath rina kent amazon6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Her books are sprinkled with a touch of mystery, a healthy dose of angst, a pinch of violence, and lots of intense passion. Her heroes are anti-heroes and villains because she was always the weirdo who fell in love with the guys no one roots for. However, she likes to think she’s a romantic at heart in some way, so don’t kill her hopes just yet. Rina Kent is an international bestselling author of everything enemies to lovers romance.ĭarkness is her playground, suspense is her best friend, and twists are her brain’s food. Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton, Zara Hampton-Brown, Jason Clarke, & Shane East Jeremy Volkov might appear charming, but a true predator lurks inside.īut I have no plans to stick around in his blood-soaked world.ĭownload today or read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited He stalked me from the shadows and stole me from the life I know. ![]() In my defense, I didn’t mean to get involved with a mafia prince.īut he barged through my defenses anyway. What started as an innocent mistake turned into actual hell. ![]()
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The great dune trilogy book6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() * * * * * * * * * * * * * 'This is - quite simply - the most magnificent Sci-Fi epic ever written. Read the series which inspired the 2021 Denis Villeneuve epic Oscar nominated film, Dune, starring Oscar Isaac, Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya and Josh Brolin. But learning to survive is not enough - Paul's destiny was mapped out long ago and his mother is committed to seeing it fulfilled. Paul and his mother join the Fremen, the Arrakis natives, who have learnt to live in this harsh and complex ecosystem. The Duke is poisoned, but his wife and her son Paul escape to the vast and arid deserts of Arrakis, which have given the planet its nickname of Dune. When Duke Atreides and his family take up court there, they fall into a trap set by the Duke's bitter rival, Baron Harkonnen. Arrakis is the source of spice, a mind-enhancing drug which makes interstellar travel possible it is the most valuable substance in the galaxy. Three of the greatest SF novels in the world in one bumper omnibus 'An astonishing science fiction phenomenon' WASHINGTON POST 'I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings' Arthur C Clarke Herbert's evocative, epic tales are set on the desert planet Arrakis, the focus for a complex political and military struggle with galaxy-wide repercussions. ![]()
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Sarah suk made in korea6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() What he doesn’t realize, though, is that he is now V&C K-BEAUTY’s biggest competitor. When his classmates clamor to buy the K-pop branded beauty products his mom gave him to “make new friends,” he sees an opportunity-one that may be the key to help him pay for the music school tuition he knows his parents won’t cover… With each sale, Valerie gets closer to taking her beloved and adventurous halmeoni to her dream city, Paris.Įnter the new kid in class, Wes Jung, who is determined to pursue music after graduation despite his parents’ major disapproval. ![]() Together with her cousin Charlie, they run V&C K-BEAUTY, their school’s most successful student-run enterprise. There’s nothing Valerie Kwon loves more than making a good sale. A romantic comedy about two entrepreneurial Korean American teens who butt heads-and maybe fall in love-while running competing Korean beauty businesses at their high school. ![]() |