![]() “Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke combine visionary intellect with muckraking research and a concrete plan for action.” -Naomi Klein, author of The Battle for Paradise The major bottled-water producers-Perrier, Evian, Naya, and now Coca-Cola and PepsiCo-are part of one of the fastest-growing and least-regulated industries, buying up freshwater rights and drying up crucial supplies.Ī truly shocking exposé, Blue Gold shows in frightening detail why, as the vice president of the World Bank has pronounced, “The wars of the next century will be about water.” In England and France, where water has already been privatized, rates have soared, and water shortages have been severe. At the same time, increasingly transnational corporations are plotting to control the world’s dwindling water supply. ![]() ![]() Our most basic resource may one day be limited: Our consumption doubles every twenty years-twice the rate of population increase. In this “chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis,” Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy ( In These Times). ![]() “Probably the most eloquent call to arms we’re likely to hear about the politics of water” ( The Globe and Mail, Toronto). ![]()
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![]() Their efforts would end the fighting for good, but they’re not without sacrifice. ![]() ![]() Noemi and Abel are enemies in an interstellar war, forced by chance to work together as they embark on a daring journey through the stars. To the people of Genesis, he’s an abomination. He wants only to protect his creator, and to be free. He’s a machine–Abandoned in space for years, utterly alone, Abel’s advanced programming has begun to evolve. To their enemies on Earth, she’s a rebel. She’s a soldier–Noemi Vidal is willing to risk anything to protect her planet, Genesis, including her own life. From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Lost Stars and Bloodline comes a thrilling sci-fi adventure that Kass Morgan, bestselling author of The 100 series, calls “startlingly original and achingly romantic…nothing short of masterful.” ![]() ![]() He is credited as an engineer on Kate Bush's Hounds of Love, The Sensual World, The Red Shoes and Aerial. He also appeared on stage during the Tour of Life in 1979. Beginning with her second album, Lionheart, Palmer became Bush's main studio bassist. Their live set included material that would later appear on Bush's first album. In 1977, the KT Bush Band began with Bush, Palmer, Bath and Vic King, playing the pub circuit. Charlie Morgan joined on drums in 1974 and the band changed its name to Conkers. ![]() They signed to Cube Records in 1973, but Azulay was injured in a road accident. From 1972, Palmer and Bath were in Company with Barry Sherlock (guitar) and Lionel Azulay (drums). ![]() In 1969, Palmer and Bath formed Tame with Victor King on drums. He began playing bass in 1967, joining friend Brian Bath's band Cobwebs and Strange. Born on 3 November 1952 in Greenwich, southeast London, Del Palmer is an English singer, songwriter, bass guitarist and sound engineer, best known for his work with Kate Bush, with whom he also had a long-term relationship between the late 1970s and early 1990s. ![]() ![]() She has written many New York Times bestsellers, including Up Close and Dangerous, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Cover of Night, Killing Time, To Die For, Kiss Me While I Sleep, Cry No More, and Dying to Please. And every desire-including her hunger for Richard-is loaded with uncertainty as Sweeney races to unmask a killer. Howington is a bestselling romance author writing under the pseudonym Linda Howard. With every stroke of her brush, she risks incriminating herself with her inexplicable knowledge of a deadly crime. But when a shattering, real-life murder mirrors her creation, Sweeney falls under suspicion. ![]() Against her better instincts, she returns to the canvas time and again, filling out each chilling detail piece by piece. Now, the true dangers of her all-consuming urges are about to be revealed where Sweeney least expects it: in her paintings.Īfter a creative frenzy she can barely recall, Sweeney discovers she has rendered a disturbing image-a graphic murder scene. ![]() Suddenly, impulsively, Sweeney falls into a night of intense passion with millionaire Richard Worth. ![]() Life is good, and Sweeney, as she prefers to be called, is content.īut lately, Sweeney's dreams-lush, vivid, and drenched in vibrant hues-seem to echo a growing restlessness that has taken hold of her. A talented painter in her early thirties, Paris Sweeney has achieved enviable success: her work sells at an exclusive New York City gallery, and her popularity is at an all-time high. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the other hand, the goal of the Creator is to woo us unto himself or to transform us through his love from "tools into servants and servants into sons." It is the dichotomy between being consumed and subsumed completely into another's identity or being liberated to be utterly ourselves that Lewis explores with his razor-sharp insight and wit. Tempters, according to Lewis, have two motives: the first is fear of punishment, the second a hunger to consume or dominate other beings. ![]() As mentor, Screwtape coaches Wormwood in the finer points, tempting his "patient" away from God.Įach letter is a masterpiece of reverse theology, giving the reader an inside look at the thinking and means of temptation. In The Screwtape Letters, one of his bestselling works, we are made privy to the instructional correspondence between a senior demon, Screwtape, and his wannabe diabolical nephew Wormwood. ![]() Who among us has never wondered if there might not really be a tempter sitting on our shoulders or dogging our steps? C.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a plant with the shape of a human body, the mandrake was believed to exercise control over the body: it could induce love or conception, or bring good fortune, wealth and power. Over the centuries, legends surrounding the mandrake’s different sexes and human shape grew stronger, reinforced by the medieval doctrine of signatures, which claimed that plants that resembled certain body parts could be used to treat ailments of those body parts. He describes a “male” and “female” mandrake, though we know today that he was describing two different species, Mandragora officinalis and Mandragora autumnalis.įrom a seventh-century manuscript of Dioscurides’ De Materia Medica. (Photo: Public Domain/WikiCommons) Dioscurides is one of the first and most important references on the mandrake plant, documenting its appearance along with its medicinal uses. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mitty does feel a little pressure to hand something in–if he doesn’t, he’ll be switched out of Advanced Bio, which would be unfortunate since Olivia’s in Advanced Bio. Mitty was a carefree guy–he didn’t worry about terrorists or blackouts or grades or anything, which is why he was late getting started on his Advanced Bio report. He loved the city, and even after 9/11, he always felt safe. Walking around New York City was what Mitty Blake did best. Cooney has crafted a bioterrorism thriller that is hard to put down.-from the publisher His own.įrom the author of The Face on the Milk Carton, Caroline B. ![]() But when he discovers an envelope containing two scabs in one of the books, the report is no longer about the grade-it's about life and death. So he considers it good luck when he finds some old medical books in his family's weekend house that focus on something he could write about. He'd much rather watch the game or hang out than do research on infectious diseases just to get a good grade. He's a carefree guy, which is why he's late getting started on his advanced bio report. Mitty Blake loves New York City, and even after 9/11 he's always felt safe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And no matter what anyone did, he never, ever woke up. It rested right on the ground, and in it slept a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives.Īs far as Hazel Evans knew, from what her parents said to her and from what their parents said to them, he'd always been there. Read Excerptĭown a path worn into the woods, past a stream and a hollowed-out log full of pill bugs and termites, was a glass coffin. The Darkest Part of the Forest is bestselling author Holly Black's triumphant return to the opulent, enchanting faerie tales that launched her YA career. Hazel knows the horned boy will never wake.Īs the world turns upside down, Hazel has to become the knight she once pretended to be. But as Hazel grows up, she puts aside those stories. ![]() Since they were children, Hazel and Ben have been telling each other stories about the boy in the glass coffin, that he is a prince and they are valiant knights, pretending their prince would be different from the other faeries, the ones who made cruel bargains, lurked in the shadows of trees, and doomed tourists. Hazel and her brother, Ben, live in Fairfold, where humans and the Folk exist side by side. It rests on the ground, and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives…. Set in the same world as The Cruel Prince! A girl makes a secret sacrifice to the faerie king in this lush New York Times bestselling fantasy by author Holly Black. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chesterton-for its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. Dickens's creative genius has been praised by fellow writers-from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. ![]() His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.ĭickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.ĭickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has a lovely speaking voice, but voice acting, sorry ms collingwood. I loathe present tense and would not have bought the book if Id known it was written this way, but to muddle it with various types of past tense was just beyond irritating. The best character, Madeline, was dumped in a lifeboat then promptly forgotten so Why was she even in the book ? I also hated the change of tense. he had no personality at all, was a gambler, unreliable and cowardly, yet all the women characters cant contain their passion for him. The character of Mark Fletcher was just unbelievable. The very small genuine supernatural part in a bathroom was silly and didnt match the rest of the book, neither did the scene in the swimming pool. There are some well written passages, sub stories, but the two central timelines and character of annie / lilian mystified me and I still have no idea how they ended up blended together or why. ![]() This book left me confused and frustrated. ![]() |