![]() In a fascinating blend of popular science, medical history, and narrative crime nonfiction, Dr Neil Bradbury explores this most morbidly captivating method of murder from a cellular level. But how exactly do these poisons work to break our bodies down, and what can we learn from the damage they inflict? It can be slipped into a drink, smeared onto the tip of an arrow or the handle of a door, even filtered through the air we breathe. 'A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains.' - Kathy ReichsĪs any reader of murder mysteries can tell you, poison is one of the most enduring - and popular - weapons of choice for a scheming murderer. ![]() ![]() 'Indecently entertaining.' A Daily Mail Book of the Week ![]()
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![]() ![]() Q – The men in the Texas Soul series, what are they like?Ī – Crazy Hill's Ranch is the setting for the Texas Soul Series, dead in the center of Texas. Their love is complicated and twisting, taking them from a simple love affair to a complex relationship that cements their love and ultimately makes them stronger. Q - What makes the Texas Soul series different?Ī – The story line for Lane and Gresh stretched the full six books. Will Lane and Gresh be able to survive the intrusion, or will Riley be the one walking away with Lane's heart? Riley chases hard after him, insinuating himself in Lane's life, highlighting Gresh's faults. ![]() Just when it feels like there could be something more between Lane and Gresh, the new doctor in town, Riley, sets his sights on Lane. Alone together, Lane and Gresh ignite in a flash of passion. Lane won't give him the time of day so he forces the issue, setting up a date that Lane believes to be a business meeting. Gresh wants more from Lane than his ability to handle livestock, he wants it all. ![]() But doing the boss is out of the question. Lane Daniels loves his job, working as a foreman on the south Texas ranch gives him the type of satisfaction he's always craved, but the owner of Crazy Hills ranch, Gresh Hamilton Miller the third, has woven his way under Lane's skin, leaving Lane crazy for the man's touch. ![]() ![]() ![]() I could deal with their story fading to the background as the generations proceed, but once the spotlight is on Auberon and Sylvie, I just couldn't stomach another paragraph about her panties or magical brown Puerto Rican skin. ![]() ![]() I found the relationship that the novel opened with charming and maturely written. But then I gave up and just felt annoyed I'd even gone that far. The style alone propelled me about 75% of the way through the whole book. ![]() However, I'm unable to comment on whether the zigzagging plot coalesces into anything coherent by the end. Crowley approaches this in the best parts of Little, Big-here's someone who can write about a child yawning for the first time in a way that leaves me wide-eyed until it dawns on me what it is that's being described. "Style over substance" is widely understood to be a criticism, yet some artists can chisel out a style so precisely that it becomes substance itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wagner, Classics For Christmastime - Five Novels About the Spirit of the HolidayLinda Hayward. Jonel Boyko It's a fun, light and engaging read which was helped along by a good set of characters and a love story which was just a little out of the normal. Be Ambitious: Business RelationshipsLeKeisha Nicole. I definitely wanted to keep reading after the last page. ![]() It was such a warm, fuzzy, fun type of story and I was thoroughly immersed in it by the ending. Margaret (Literary Chanteuse) This novel is so different from anything that I've ever read and I thoroughly appreciate that fact. Light, amusing, and thoroughly entertaining. ![]() Think of it as a hallmark-style romance with a paranormal twist. If you enjoy clean light paranormal romances, the HAUNTED LOVE series is for you. Posted on Augby Nickie A few months have passed since I finished my first draft of The Heidelberg Ghost. Soon she realizes, if she goes through with this setting-him-free-business, she could lose him forever. Attached to this antique ring is a mischievous ghost who claims that only "his true love" can break the spell and set him free. Life is good for Andrea, until that fateful night of the annual Halloween Ball at the ruins of the Heidelberg Castle, when out of nowhere a muck-covered ring lands next to her foot in the courtyard. ![]() ![]() ![]() The collection is “by turns wry and revelatory,” wrote Discover. His latest book, Utopia Is Creepy, published in 2016, collects his best essays, blog posts, and other writings from the past dozen years. Carr’s 2014 book The Glass Cage: Automation and Us, which the New York Review of Books called a “chastening meditation on the human future,” examines the personal and social consequences of our ever growing dependency on computers, robots, and apps. A second edition of The Shallows, with a new chapter, was published in 2020. ![]() He is currently writing a book on communication.Ī New York Times bestseller when it was first published in 2010 and now hailed as “a modern classic,” Carr’s The Shallows remains a touchstone for debates on technology’s effects on our thoughts and perceptions. In 2015, he received the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity from the Media Ecology Association. ![]() He’s recently been a visiting professor of sociology at Williams College, and he was formerly the executive editor of the Harvard Business Review. His books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Nicholas Carr is an acclaimed writer whose work focuses on the intersection of technology, culture, and commerce. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes we embrace the chance to embark on our passage, welcoming it as a chance to finally shed the adolescent skin and prove our worth against the incessant vagaries of fate. Other times, our passage is obscured by the minutiae of an overcrowded life until we catch it in a glimpse of forbidden desire in an inexplicable sense of melancholic emptiness or a craving for more, always more, than what we already possess. ![]() Sometimes, the passage is evident - a sudden catastrophe that tests our mettle, a tragic loss that opens our eyes to the bane of our mortality, or a personal triumph that instills in us the confidence we need to cast aside our fears. “There comes an inevitable time in every life when we must cross a threshold and encounter that invisible divider between who we are and who we must become. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ĭhris had been looking to step into the producer role along with acting and wanted to make this his first project. ![]() I love the great conspiracy thrillers of the 70s, like The Parallax View, Marathon Man, Three Days of the Condor, and my first TV show ever was in the conspiracy thriller genre. I also absolutely love the conspiracy thriller genre. I've been looking for a military thriller, or an espionage thriller, for a while. I grew up in Washington, DC and have a lot of connections to the CIA, and military veterans in my family. Game Rant: Given that The Terminal List is based on a novel by Jack Carr, what first drew you to the story?ĭavid DiGilio: The novel by Jack Carr and the fact that Antoine Fuqua was directing, and Chris Pratt was starring and executive producing. ![]() Throughout our conversation, we spoke about his pitch for the television series, working with Chris Pratt as both an actor and an executive producer, building a writers room filled with people who have military connections, the most challenging scenes to shoot, and the likelihood of a second season. Game Rant had the opportunity to chat with David DiGilio about his adaptation of The Terminal List. ![]() ![]() ![]() Initially meant to consist of seven books, the ongoing series-now expanded to 12 novels-has sold well over 10 million copies, setting a string of publishing and sales records. In 1995, Tyndale House published Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth’s Last Days, co-authored by Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. ![]() Lindsey continues writing “end-times” prophecy books (close to 20 at last count) and also peddles his teachings through a regular television program, speaking engagements, and Holy Land tours.īut Lindsey’s long and lucrative reign as king of the Bible prophecy ended a few years ago. It would become the best-selling nonfiction book of the decade, going through more than 100 printings totaling 35 million copies and making Hal Lindsey a household name. ![]() In June 1970, a youth pastor from Southern California published a book titled The Late Great Planet Earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to writing and editing, Sara enjoys being involved in the women’s ministry at her church, weekend getaways, cottage retreats, reading, studying the Bible, book clubs, long walks by the water, chocolate, classic black and white movies, and meeting friends for coffee. It is her firmly-held belief that Christian writers are not in competition, but should support, encourage, and spur one another on to excellence as they work together toward a common goal, glorifying God. Her specialty is working with and mentoring new writers. Sara runs her own business, Cutting Edge Editing, through which she has edited numerous award-winning books. She has been a finalist for eight national writing awards, including Best New Canadian Christian author, a Carol Award, and two Daphne du Maurier Awards for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sara Davison is the author of the romantic suspense novel, The Watcher, the romantic suspense series, The Seven Trilogy, and the suspense novel, Vigilant, Book One of The Night Guardians Series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An ordinary teenager by all appearances who is living in Paradise, Ohio with his guardian Henri. The main series begins with the story of John Smith. There are seven books in the main series, a spin-off series, and a sequel series. The author of the Lorien Legacies series is Pittacus Lore, which is a pseudonym for James Frey and Jobie Hughes. The Last Days of Lorien – Secret Histories.Here they are in the order you should read them. The novellas are found in The Lost Files series paperbacks and The Legacies Chronicles series paperbacks. #2 I Am Number Four Series Order with Novellas This will allow you to experience the world as the authors intended, and also avoid any potential spoilers. If this is your first time reading the I Am Number Four series, you should begin by reading the original main series in full before moving onto the sequel series or the spin-off novellas. The Lorien Legacies series contains seven main novels and three sequels that you can read in the following order. I Am Number Four Series Order #1 I Am Number Four Series Order – Novels Only ![]() |