![]() ![]() ![]() While compelling in the way an auto accident might be, the book is simply nonsense. Quotations in the margins amplify the lesson being taught. Each chapter is conveniently broken down into sections on what happened to those who transgressed or observed the particular law, the key elements in this law, and ways to defensively reverse this law when it’s used against you. Each law, however, gets its own chapter: “Conceal Your Intentions,” “Always Say Less Than Necessary,” “Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy,” and so on. These laws boil down to being as ruthless, selfish, manipulative, and deceitful as possible. This power game can be played well or poorly, and in these 48 laws culled from the history and wisdom of the world’s greatest power players are the rules that must be followed to win. We live today as courtiers once did in royal courts: we must appear civil while attempting to crush all those around us. ![]() The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power.Įveryone wants power and everyone is in a constant duplicitous game to gain more power at the expense of others, according to Greene, a screenwriter and former editor at Esquire (Elffers, a book packager, designed the volume, with its attractive marginalia). ![]()
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After 20 years of uneasy peace, the south's armies mass to invade the north, whose militantly nonviolent denizens must decide how to defend themselves without compromising their pacifism. Drought-plagued southern California suffers under an oppressive, militaristic, technocratic regime that spouts a perverted Christian ideology. In ecologically devastated mid-21st-century California, San Francisco is a precariously maintained oasis, its society based on egalitarianism and environmentalism, its deeply spiritual populace possessed of psychic and mystical powers. In her sometimes clumsy but compelling first novel, the author of The Spiral Dance (a central work in the women's spirituality movement) considers two possible futures for America. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have never been so captivated by a book like I am by What The Wind Knows. I don’t wanna reveal further, but yes I am delighted. To satisfy his last wish, Anne moves to Ireland and that’s when the story takes a charming turn. Before dying her grandfather demanded a promise from Anne, she has to spread his ashes in his homeland, where he want to rest in peace. ![]() She grew up listening to the fascinating tales of Ireland and its history from her grandfather. ![]() I am not going to spill the spoilers over here, but let me give you an outline of this outstandingly beautiful book:Īnne Gallagher, at the age of six started living with her grandfather Eoin, after the sudden demise of her parents. It’s a story about Anne Gallagher and Thomas Smith. What the Wind Knows Amy Harmon 4.35 80,838 ratings8,786 reviews Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Historical Fiction (2019) In an unforgettable love story, a woman’s impossible journey through the ages could change everything Anne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather’s stories of Ireland. What The Wind Knows is a story about love, loss and hope. 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After twenty-five years as sheriff of Absaroka County, Walt Longmire's hopes of finishing out his tenure in peace are dashed when Cody Pritchard is found dead near the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. ![]() Johnson draws on his deep attachment to the American West to produce a literary mystery of stunning authenticity, and full of memorable characters. Parker will love this outstanding first novel, in which New York Times bestselling author Craig Johnson introduces Sheriff Walt Longmire of Wyoming's Absaroka County. ![]() ![]() Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting first Longmire novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Land of Wolves Fans of Ace Atkins, Nevada Barr and Robert B. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival. Langdon's worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican's holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against and age-old enemy. When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol - seared into the chest of a murdered physicist - he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati.the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. 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And he’s not too polite to make the first move. Whoever’s destroying these people’s lives, Reacher wants to meet them. Even the local doctor would rather take another slug of whisky at the lonely motel bar than treat a woman who’s obviously a victim of violence. The Duncan clan have a hold over the terrified county families that he sees at every turn. ![]() He wants answers to the incidents that crop up the moment he hits town. When he hitchhiked by, he should have just kept on going, but that’s not his style. WORTH DYING FOR by Lee Child There is deadly trouble in the bleak farmlands of Nebraska – and Jack Reacher walks right into it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() England's YA contemporary novel, The One True Me and You, a joyful, geeky romance where a beloved fanfic author and beauty pageant contestant find love, and learn what it means to be, and stand up for, yourself. 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