Craig's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 14 Jul 2025 07:54:17 -0700 60 Craig's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Micronauts: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus, Vol. 1]]> 190855098 744 Bill Mantlo 1302956760 Craig 0 currently-reading, comicbooks 4.19 2024 The Micronauts: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus, Vol. 1
author: Bill Mantlo
name: Craig
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[A Tan and Sandy Silence (Travis McGee #13)]]> 267763 308 John D. MacDonald 0449224767 Craig 0 currently-reading, mystery 4.01 1971 A Tan and Sandy Silence (Travis McGee #13)
author: John D. MacDonald
name: Craig
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1971
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Palm Springs Holiday: A Vintage Tour from Palm Springs to the Salton Sea]]> 7097264 176 Peter Moruzzi 1423604768 Craig 5 arch-history, architecture 4.32 2009 Palm Springs Holiday: A Vintage Tour from Palm Springs to the Salton Sea
author: Peter Moruzzi
name: Craig
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2009
rating: 5
read at: 2025/07/14
date added: 2025/07/14
shelves: arch-history, architecture
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]]> <![CDATA[How 카지노싸이트 Shapes 카지노싸이트 Fiction]]> 54963136 Charles L. Adler Craig 4 science-fiction 4.25 How 카지노싸이트 Shapes 카지노싸이트 Fiction
author: Charles L. Adler
name: Craig
average rating: 4.25
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rating: 4
read at: 2025/07/12
date added: 2025/07/12
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]]> <![CDATA[Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West]]> 198493711
For weeks before the invasion of Ukraine, U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan was warning that it would happen. When troops finally crossed the border, he was woken in the middle of the night by an employee at Embassy Moscow with a prearranged code. The signal was even more bracing than the cold of that February it meant that Sullivan needed to collect his bodyguards and get to the embassy as soon as possible. The war had begun, and U.S.-Russia relations would never be the same.

In Midnight in Moscow , Sullivan offers a memoir of his last post, as well as a broader argument about how our relationship with Russia has deteriorated over the past three years and where it’s going. His arrival in Moscow coincided almost exactly with a dramatic series of escalations by the Kremlin. He saw firsthand how the Russian leadership repeatedly lied about their intentions to invade Ukraine in the weeks leading up to the attack—while also devoting huge numbers of personnel and vast resources to undermining the U.S. diplomatic presence in Russia. But it was not until Vladimir Putin gave the order to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 25, 2022 that Sullivan had to admit that Russia was not just at war with its it was also at war, in a very real sense, with the United States, and with everything that it represents. Russian leaders’ treachery and naked hostility, he says, is definitive proof that there can be no negotiation with Putin’s regime or with the Russians at large until their government is thoroughly transformed. A unique perspective on a pivotal moment in world history, Midnight in Moscow also draws shocking historical parallels to explain why we need to stand up to Moscow—and how far we should be prepared to go in that confrontation.]]> 416 John Sullivan 0316571091 Craig 3 biography, political, history 4.00 Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West
author: John Sullivan
name: Craig
average rating: 4.00
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rating: 3
read at: 2025/07/10
date added: 2025/07/10
shelves: biography, political, history
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]]> The Coldest Case 59086164 Listening length: 4 hours

Please note: This audio drama is for mature audiences only. It contains strong language, violence, and sexual content. Discretion is advised. 

James Patterson's Detective Billy Harney is back, this time investigating murders in a notorious Chicago drug ring, which will lead him, his sister, and his new partner through a dangerous web of corrupt politicians, vengeful billionaires, and violent dark web conspiracies.

In The Coldest Case: A Black Book Audio Drama, homicide detective Billy Harney sends his new partner, Kate, deep undercover in a notorious Chicago drug ring. When several members of the ring soon turn up dead, Billy abruptly pulls Kate out, blowing her cover. Kate's informant inside the gang quickly disappears. As does the ring's black book.... 

When Billy can't find the informant, he wonders if Kate is secretly harboring her, since the two grew close during Kate's weeks undercover. As Billy and Kate investigate the ring's murders, they'll be pulled into a dangerous web of corrupt politicians, vengeful billionaires, drugged pro-athletes, and violent, dark web conspiracies, all in search of the missing black book. ]]> 4 James Patterson 1713656175 Craig 4 mystery 3.69 2021 The Coldest Case
author: James Patterson
name: Craig
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/22
date added: 2025/07/07
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]]> <![CDATA[The Coldest Case: The Past Has a Long Memory (Billy Harney #0.6)]]> 215142942
Someone is committing random murders across Chicago—and making sure detectives Billy Harney (Aaron Paul) and Patti Harney (Krysten Ritter) are first on the crime scene. What connects the victims, and why is the killer leaving clues behind with each body? Billy and Patti are scrambling to stop the next killing when their father, Chief of Detectives Dan Harney (Beau Bridges), is kidnapped. But in their race to track him down, they uncover pieces of his past that simply can’t be true. Could their own flesh and blood be covering up a dark secret?

James Patterson does it again with the latest entry in the Billy Harney Thriller series. Packed with twists, turns, and shocking revelations, The Coldest Case: The Past Has a Long Memory grabs you in minutes and doesn’t let go. Aaron Paul, Krysten Ritter, and Beau Bridges return to their roles, joined by an all-star cast including Greta Lee, Kevin Pollak, Jordan Bridges as young Dan Harney, and Patton Oswalt as himself. The crackling performances are paired with a jaw-dropping, immersive sound design that puts you in the heart of the action.

Please note: This audio drama is for mature audiences only. It contains strong language, violence, and sexual content. Discretion is advised.]]> 4 James Patterson Craig 4 mystery 3.64 2021 The Coldest Case: The Past Has a Long Memory (Billy Harney #0.6)
author: James Patterson
name: Craig
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/23
date added: 2025/07/07
shelves: mystery
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]]> <![CDATA[Constituent Service: A Third District Story]]> 219359162 The aliens are here . . . and they want municipal services!

Ashley Perrin is fresh out of college and starting a job as a community liaison for the Third District—the city’s only sector with more alien residents than humans. Ashley’s barely found where the paper clips are kept when she’s beset with constituent complaints–from too much noise at the Annual Lupidian Celebration Parade to a trip-and-fall chicken to a very particular type of alien hornet that threatens the very city itself.

And if that’s not terrifying enough, Ashley is next up at the office karaoke night.

It's Parks and Recreation meets the Federation of Planets in this fast and funny audio exclusive by Hugo Award winner and Audible best seller John Scalzi.]]> 3 John Scalzi Craig 0 science-fiction 3.85 2024 Constituent Service: A Third District Story
author: John Scalzi
name: Craig
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at: 2025/05/05
date added: 2025/05/05
shelves: science-fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[The Big Fix (A Jack Bergin Mystery)]]> 227134519 The Big A Jack Bergin Mystery is a gritty and winding tale that delivers both meaning and mayhem with a solid punch.

Available in Dolby Atmos on Audible.]]> 5 John Mankiewicz Craig 4 mystery 3.58 2025 The Big Fix (A Jack Bergin Mystery)
author: John Mankiewicz
name: Craig
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2025
rating: 4
read at: 2025/05/05
date added: 2025/05/05
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Write Best-Selling Fiction]]> 45485722
In the 24 lectures of How to Write Best-Selling Fiction, Mr. Bell provides a comprehensive, eye-opening, and illuminating survey of the entire writing process, as well as a full breakdown of how dozens of best-selling authors have implemented these best practices in their own writing. Any aspiring author will gain a wealth of tools that that will not only improve their ability to write, but will also increase their enjoyment of the craft.

Great Expectations

Do you have a best seller in you? Mr. Bell believes you do. But tapping into your creativity isn’t always easy. When best-selling authors such as Stephen King, Michael Crichton, or Janet Evanovich deliver success after success, it can appear as if creating worlds where ghost-infested hotels drive people mad is something that some writers can just … do. We all have creativity in us, but sometimes we need help getting in touch with it. Mr. Bell gets you started by offering several fun, challenging, and mind-expanding exercises that help you flex and develop your creative muscle. Grab a pen and give these a try:

What-If Moments: We all have crazy what-if thoughts that cross our minds from time to time. Likely, most of us simply just laugh them off. Try making the most of what-if moments. The next time you wonder, “What if this plant I’m looking at suddenly started talking to me?”—roll with it. What would it say? Would you talk back or run away? There is a story here.
Weird Job Situations: Giving people insight into the daily life that only a few select people could provide can be a fascinating read. And putting your characters in jobs with tremendous tension helps keep your reader on edge. What does a day in the life of a bomb disposal technician look like? How does this person deal with facing death on a regular basis? Would she try to find love and start a family? There is a story here.
Hear the Headlines: But don’t go much further than the headlines. Work with just a limited amount of information and use your imagination to fill in the details. “Scientists Discover New Fish That Walks on Land.” What would that look like? Do you go fishing or hunting? There is a story here.
The First-Line Game. As Mr. Bell points out throughout the course, the first sentence of a novel is one of the most important. One good line can not only hook your reader into buying the book, it can hook you into a story you never imagined. Experiment with fun, funny, weird, cool, intriguing first lines and see where they take you. “Today I learned you should never travel to Jupiter without an extra pair of underpants.” Who is going to Jupiter? Why underpants? Wait, WHAT? There is a story here.
Don’t get caught up in the realities of our world, the illogic of your ideas, or the fear that someone might laugh. Audiences are eager to suspend their disbelief for a world that captures their imagination. It’s just like Field of Dreams claimed: “If you build it, they will come.” Remember, at some point, Michael Crichton wondered, “What if a mosquito that was stuck in a rock resulted in an amusement park full of real-life dinosaurs? There is a story here…”
LOCK and Key

So, now you’ve got an idea—or a couple dozen. What next?

Mr. Bell demonstrates how famous writers such as Harper Lee, Michael Connelly, Jim Butcher, Margaret Mitchell, David Baldacci, John Grisham, Suzanne Collins, and dozens more apply time-tested best practices to their writing. But even more valuable, he reveals his own secrets and methods for developing page-turning books that readers can’t get enough of.

His helpful LOCK system provides the structure you need to create an engaging story:

L - Lead: Your protagonist can be:

positive—the hero, someone who embodies moral codes of a community, someone who readers root for;
negative—does not adhere to the moral code, we root for them to change or to get their just desserts; or an
anti-hero—has own morals, usually dragged into a community kicking and screaming. You want to bond your reader to your lead by putting them in a terrible situation, a hardship, or inner conflict to evoke sympathy or empathy.
O - Objective: Your lead has a mission: to get something or get away from something.

C - Confrontation: Ramp up engagement by pitting opposition and/or outside forces against the lead accomplishing his or her objective.

K - Knockout: Give your reader a satisfying conclusion that resonates. There are five fundamental endings to best sellers. You will probably recognize them from movies and television s...]]> 13 James Scott Bell Craig 0 currently-reading 4.40 How to Write Best-Selling Fiction
author: James Scott Bell
name: Craig
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]]> <![CDATA[The Broken Road (The Broken Road, #1)]]> 25813908 A broken man. A twist of fate. A second chance. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mistletoe Promise and The Walk begins a riveting new trilogy that explores the tantalizing question: What if you could start over?

Chicago celebrity Charles James can’t shake the nightmare that wakes him each night. He sees himself walking down a long, broken highway lined in flames. Where is he going? Why is he walking? What is the wailing he hears around him?

By day, he wonders why he’s so haunted and unhappy when he has all he ever wanted—fame, fans, and fortune and the lavish lifestyle it affords him. Coming from a childhood of poverty and pain, this is what he’s dreamed of. But now, at the pinnacle of his career, he’s started to wonder if he’s wanted the wrong things. His wealth has come legally, but questionably, from the power of his personality, seducing people out of their hard-earned money. When he learns that one of his customers has committed suicide because of financial ruin, Charles is shaken. The cracks in his façade start to break down, spurring him to question everything: his choices, his relationships, his future, and the type of man he’s become.

Then a twist of fate changes everything. Charles is granted something very remarkable: a second chance. The question is: what will he do with it?

The Broken Road is an engrossing, contemplative story of redemption and grace and the power of second chances. It is an epic journey you won’t soon forget.]]> 304 Richard Paul Evans 1442388390 Craig 4 fiction 3.98 2017 The Broken Road (The Broken Road, #1)
author: Richard Paul Evans
name: Craig
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/26
date added: 2025/04/26
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]]> <![CDATA[Two Years before the Mast: A Two-year Sea Voyage from Boston to California on a Merchant Ship]]> 28471093 338 Richard Henry Dana Jr. 1522982930 Craig 4 non-fiction 4.50 1840 Two Years before the Mast: A Two-year Sea Voyage from Boston to California on a Merchant Ship
author: Richard Henry Dana Jr.
name: Craig
average rating: 4.50
book published: 1840
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/23
date added: 2025/04/23
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]]> Introducing Quantum Theory 2968120 175 J.P. McEvoy 1874166374 Craig 5 science 3.91 Introducing Quantum Theory
author: J.P. McEvoy
name: Craig
average rating: 3.91
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rating: 5
read at: 1999/02/01
date added: 2025/03/31
shelves: science
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)]]> 239399
The universe is a dangerous place for humanity—and it's about to become far more dangerous. Three races that humans have clashed with before have allied to halt our expansion into space. Their linchpin: the turncoat military scientist Charles Boutin, who knows the CDF’s biggest military secrets. To prevail, the CDF must find out why Boutin did what he did.

Jared Dirac is the only human who can provide answers -- a superhuman hybrid, created from Boutin's DNA, Jared’s brain should be able to access Boutin's electronic memories. But when the memory transplant appears to fail, Jared is given to the Ghost Brigades.

At first, Jared is a perfect soldier, but as Boutin’s memories slowly surface, Jared begins to intuit the reason’s for Boutin’s betrayal. As Jared desperately hunts for his "father," he must also come to grips with his own choices. Time is running out: The alliance is preparing its offensive, and some of them plan worse things than humanity’s mere military defeat…]]> 343 John Scalzi 0765354063 Craig 3 science-fiction 4.10 2006 The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
author: John Scalzi
name: Craig
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/24
date added: 2025/03/24
shelves: science-fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[Scout, Volume I (Scout New Edition, #1)]]> 3484794 Scout, originally created by Timothy Truman and published in 1987, featured a Native American Apache named Emanuel Santanna in a post-apocalyptic United States. Now, this revered and powerful series is re-mastered and presented to a new generation! This volume features the first seven issues of the series, all featuring the writing and art of Truman, remastered and recolored for this volume!]]> 136 Timothy Truman 1933305959 Craig 4 comicbooks 3.87 2006 Scout, Volume I (Scout New Edition, #1)
author: Timothy Truman
name: Craig
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/23
date added: 2025/03/23
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]]> <![CDATA[The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life]]> 28257707 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062457738

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.

For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.

Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.

There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.]]> 212 Mark Manson Craig 5 non-fiction, philosophy 3.87 2016 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
author: Mark Manson
name: Craig
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/04
date added: 2025/03/04
shelves: non-fiction, philosophy
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]]> <![CDATA[Ms Tree Vol. 5: Heroine Withdrawal]]> 143240707
Fans of pulp noir and hard-boiled detective crime fiction will love this seminal collection of classic comics.

From the minds of award-winning author Max Allan Collins and artist Terry Beatty, comes the fifth collection of classic Ms Tree stories, collected together for the first time!

Join Michael Tree, the 6ft, 9mm carrying private detective on her thrilling adventures. No case is too small, no violence too extreme, just as long as it gets the job done.

Fans of hard-boiled detective and crime fiction will get a thrill from these tales!

Collects Ms. Tree #18-27, #29-31]]> 272 Max Allan Collins 1787730557 Craig 4 comicbooks 4.11 2023 Ms Tree Vol. 5: Heroine Withdrawal
author: Max Allan Collins
name: Craig
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/03
date added: 2025/03/03
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]]> <![CDATA[The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War]]> 195608683 The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a slow-burning crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.

On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston: Fort Sumter.
 
Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln’s election and the Confederacy’s shelling of Sumter—a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of these five months were “so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them.”
 
At the heart of this suspense-filled narrative are Major Robert Anderson, Sumter’s commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardor at every opportunity; and Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between both. In the middle of it all is the overwhelmed Lincoln, battling with his duplicitous Secretary of State, William Seward, as he tries desperately to avert a war that he fears is inevitable—one that will eventually kill 750,000 Americans.
 
Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brink—a dark reminder that we often don’t see a cataclysm coming until it’s too late.]]> 565 Erik Larson 0385348746 Craig 4 history, non-fiction 4.12 2024 The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
author: Erik Larson
name: Craig
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/26
date added: 2025/02/26
shelves: history, non-fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[The Beheading (The Beast Arises #12)]]> 29430423
Across the length and breadth of the galaxy, humankind celebrates its salvation, and relishes the prospect of a return to peace. But the war against the orks has riven the political bedrock of the Imperium, exposing its rotten core. One man, one powerful man, decides he has the solution, and launches a campaign of destruction so terrible that thousands of years later his actions will still be viewed with horror.

Throughout the series, the political machinations have been as fascinating and compelling as the all-out action – and now it's time for that to take centre stage as assassination and plotting takes over from brutal combat.]]> 256 Guy Haley Craig 0 currently-reading 3.88 The Beheading (The Beast Arises #12)
author: Guy Haley
name: Craig
average rating: 3.88
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]]> <![CDATA[The Romulan Way (Star Trek: Rihannsu, #2)]]> 602581
Here, in a startlingly different adventure, is the truth behind one of the most fascinating alien races ever created in "Star Trek" -- the Romulans.]]> 256 Diane Duane 0743403703 Craig 3 3.92 1987 The Romulan Way (Star Trek: Rihannsu, #2)
author: Diane Duane
name: Craig
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1987
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/16
date added: 2025/02/16
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]]> <![CDATA[Apocalypse Ready: The Manual of Manuals; a Century of Panic Prevention]]> 58470838 256 Taras Young 0500024316 Craig 4 3.49 Apocalypse Ready: The Manual of Manuals; a Century of Panic Prevention
author: Taras Young
name: Craig
average rating: 3.49
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rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/16
date added: 2025/02/16
shelves: dystopian-future, military-equipment, non-fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[Resident Alien Omnibus Volume 2]]> 62141978
A stranded alien explorer—hiding in plain sight—has been posing as a doctor and solving crimes in the small town of Patience, Washington. After Harry accidentally exposes himself to investigators who are on his trail, a mysterious arsonist and a stubborn federal agent arrive in town to heat things up!

The local sheriff must decide if he’ll remain loyal to his inquisitive friend Harry, and nurse Asta finally realizes the danger she and Harry are both in. Peter Hogan ( 2000 AD , Tom Strong ) and Steve Parkhouse ( War Birds , Milkman Murders ) continue their unique, acclaimed science-fiction/murder-mystery series!

This omnibus collects the Resident Alien graphic novels Volumes 4 to 6, The Man with No Name, An Alien in New York, and Your Ride’s Here , along with the Free Comic Book Day 2022 short story “The Ghost.”]]> 352 Peter Hogan 1506734502 Craig 4 comicbooks 4.28 Resident Alien Omnibus Volume 2
author: Peter Hogan
name: Craig
average rating: 4.28
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/16
date added: 2025/02/16
shelves: comicbooks
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]]> <![CDATA[Marvel Masterworks: Daredevil, Vol. 1]]> 1309625 248 Stan Lee 0785107142 Craig 3 comicbooks 3.73 1991 Marvel Masterworks: Daredevil, Vol. 1
author: Stan Lee
name: Craig
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1991
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/15
date added: 2025/02/15
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]]> Criss Cross (Alex Cross, #27) 45287924 A killer with all the skills of a master detective has made Alex Cross the subject of his deranged "investigation."
In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copycat crime. A note signed "M" rests on the corpse. "You messed up big time, Dr. Cross."

Was an innocent man just put to death? Alex soon realizes he may have much to answer for, as "M" lures the detective out of the capital to the sites of multiple homicides, all marked with distressingly familiar details -- details that conjure up decades-old cases. Details that conjure up Cross family secrets. Details that make clear that M is after a prize so dear that -- were the killer to attain it -- Alex's heart would no longer have reason to beat.
]]> 401 James Patterson 0316457140 Craig 3 mystery 4.33 2019 Criss Cross (Alex Cross, #27)
author: James Patterson
name: Craig
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/12
date added: 2025/02/12
shelves: mystery
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]]> <![CDATA[The Long Lavender Look (Travis McGee #12)]]> 410725 318 John D. MacDonald 0449224740 Craig 4 mystery 4.15 1970 The Long Lavender Look (Travis McGee #12)
author: John D. MacDonald
name: Craig
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1970
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/10
date added: 2025/02/10
shelves: mystery
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]]> <![CDATA[Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1]]> 28593529 26 Mike Mignola Craig 3 comicbooks 4.10 2019 Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1
author: Mike Mignola
name: Craig
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2019/11/19
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves: comicbooks
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]]> The Walk (The Walk, #1) 7187395
What would you do if you lost everything—your job, your home, and the love of your life—all at the same time? When it happens to Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen, he’s tempted by his darkest thoughts. A bottle of pills in his hand and nothing left to live for, he plans to end his misery. Instead, he decides to take a walk. But not any ordinary walk. Taking with him only the barest of essentials, Al leaves behind all that he’s known and heads for the farthest point on his map: Key West, Florida. The people he encounters along the way, and the lessons they share with him, will save his life—and inspire yours.

Richard Paul Evans’s extraordinary New York Times bestsellers have made him one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. A life-changing journey, both physical and spiritual, The Walk is the first of an unforgettable series of books about one man’s search for hope.]]> 289 Richard Paul Evans 1439187312 Craig 3 non-fiction 4.16 2010 The Walk (The Walk, #1)
author: Richard Paul Evans
name: Craig
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/24
date added: 2025/01/24
shelves: non-fiction
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]]> Investing For Dummies 171067 Investing for Dummies, Fourth Edition! This updated bestseller provides fresh data and analysis on where to put your money and how to improve returns on IRAs and 401(k)s, as well as investing fundamentals like examining your investment options and considering risks and returns. You'll have all the tools you need to:


Investigate and purchase individual stocks Buy bonds and other lending investments Select the right mutual fund Invest in the best stock, bond, and money market funds Choose a worthy brokerage firm Know when to invest in real estate Start and run your own small business Gather a collection of reliable investment resources This handy reference is packed with tips and advice on how to conquer important investment obstacles and what to consider when selling an investment, as well as how to invest in a down market. With Investing for Dummies, Fourth Edition, you'll soon have the power to turbo-charge your investment and maximize your returns!]]> 430 Eric Tyson 0764599127 Craig 3 economics, non-fiction 3.72 Investing For Dummies
author: Eric Tyson
name: Craig
average rating: 3.72
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/22
date added: 2025/01/22
shelves: economics, non-fiction
review:

]]> Krieg (Warhammer 40,000) 60235307 A Death Korps Novel

The Death Korps of Krieg are deployed to a soul-crushing siege in the Octarius War Zone. They’re the right regiment for the job, though victory might come at a price that some might balk to pay.

READ IT BECAUSE
Steve Lyons lifts the mask on the enigmatic Death Korps of Krieg, to show us the true horror that lies at the heart of this storied regiment. If you’re looking for a meat-grinder war, you’ve found it.

THE STORY
Krieg is a dead world.

Fifteen hundred years ago, it declared its independence from the Imperium of Man, and paid the price. One loyal soul defied its treacherous rulers, and laid the world to waste. From these ashes emerged a unique fighting force, forged and tempered in nuclear fire…

Today, the Death Korps of Krieg lay siege to a captured hive ctiy on the outskirts of the system-spanning Octarius War, in a desperate attempt to secure the cordon that stops untold masses of Orks and Tyranids from spilling out into the Imperium at large. The Korpsmen are relentless, ruthless, implacable, and unstoppable, even in the face of a war that seems unwinnable. How far will they go to achieve victory, and is history doomed to repeat itself?]]> 287 Steve Lyons 1800266111 Craig 5 black-library 4.07 2022 Krieg (Warhammer 40,000)
author: Steve Lyons
name: Craig
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/21
date added: 2025/01/21
shelves: black-library
review:
Excellent entry into the lore of the Death Corps of Krieg
]]> Dust (Silo, #3) 18866705 The much-anticipated final instalment of the Wool trilogy.

In the aftermath of the uprising, the people of Silo 18 are coming to terms with a new order.

Some embrace the change, others fear the unknown; none have control of their fate.

The Silo is still in danger.

There are those set on its destruction.

Jules knows they must be stopped.

The battle has been won.

The war is just beginning.]]> 416 Hugh Howey Craig 4 science-fiction 4.18 2013 Dust (Silo, #3)
author: Hugh Howey
name: Craig
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/29
date added: 2024/12/29
shelves: science-fiction
review:
I wasn’t sure how the author was going to tie it all together but he did it
]]> Shake Hands with the Devil 215758
When Lt-Gen. Roméo Dallaire was called to serve as force commander of the UN intervention in Rwanda in '93, he thought he was heading off on a straightforward peacekeeping mission. Thirteen months later he flew home from Africa, broken, disillusioned & suicidal, having witnessed the slaughter of 800,000 Rwandans in 100 days.

In Shake Hands with the Devil, he takes readers with him on a return voyage into hell, vividly recreating the events the international community turned its back on. This book is an unsparing eyewitness account of the failure by humanity to stop the genocide, despite timely warnings. Woven thru the story of this disastrous mission is his own journey from confident Cold Warrior, to devastated UN commander, to retired general engaged in a painful struggle to find a measure of peace, hope & reconciliation.

This book is a personal account of his conversion from a man certain of his worth & secure in his assumptions to one conscious of his own weaknesses & failures & critical of the institutions he'd relied on. It might not sit easily with standard ideas of military leadership, but understanding what happened to him & his mission to Rwanda is crucial to understanding the moral minefields peacekeepers are forced to negotiate when we ask them to step into dirty wars.]]> 562 Roméo Dallaire 0786715103 Craig 4 biography, history 4.24 2003 Shake Hands with the Devil
author: Roméo Dallaire
name: Craig
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/27
date added: 2024/12/27
shelves: biography, history
review:
Well written, not as diary entry as some authors of their own experiences. Contains maps, glossary and further reading list.
]]> <![CDATA[New Teen Titans Omnibus Vol. 1 (2022 Edition) (The New Teen Titans Omnibus)]]> 62088622 The first 16 issues of the groundbreaking 1980s NEW TEEN TITANS is now collected in a handsome omnibus edition.

In 1980, writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Perez introduced a timeless team including Robin, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, Cyborg, Changeling, Raven and Starfire – young heroes with great powers and strong personalities who learned their way in the world through the strength of their friendship and the adventures they shared. Don’t miss the first appearances of some of the team’s biggest foes including Deathstroke and Trigon, as well as a confrontation with the Justice League of America and Doom Patrol foes The Brotherhood of Evil.

]]> 688 Marv Wolfman 177951672X Craig 5 comicbooks 4.67 1982 New Teen Titans Omnibus Vol. 1 (2022 Edition) (The New Teen Titans Omnibus)
author: Marv Wolfman
name: Craig
average rating: 4.67
book published: 1982
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/22
date added: 2024/12/22
shelves: comicbooks
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Dress Her in Indigo (Travis McGee #11)]]> 434228 301 John D. MacDonald 0449224627 Craig 4 mystery 4.04 1969 Dress Her in Indigo (Travis McGee #11)
author: John D. MacDonald
name: Craig
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1969
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/09
date added: 2024/12/09
shelves: mystery
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Phoenix Guards (Khaavren Romances, #1)]]> 133460
Khaavren of the House of Tiassa is a son of landless nobility, possessor of a good sword and "tolerably well acquainted with its use." Along with three loyal friends, he enthusiastically seeks out danger and excitement. But in a realm renowned for repartee and betrayals, where power is as mutable as magic, a young man like Khaavren, newly come from the countryside, had best be wary. His life depends on it. And so does the future of Dragaera.

When swordplay beckons, it's all for one--and one for... The Phoenix Guards.]]> 491 Steven Brust 0812506898 Craig 4 fantasy 4.08 1991 The Phoenix Guards (Khaavren Romances, #1)
author: Steven Brust
name: Craig
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1991
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/07
date added: 2024/12/07
shelves: fantasy
review:

]]> The Count of Monte Cristo 522110
Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic  era, Alexandre Dumas's thrilling adventure story  is one of the most widely read romantic novels of  all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond  Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown  into a secret dungeon in the Chateau d'If -- doomed  to spend his life in a dank prison cell. The story  of his long, intolerable years in captivity, his  miraculous escape, and his carefully wrought  revenge creates a dramatic tale of mystery and intrigue  and paints a vision of France -- a dazzling,  dueling, exuberant France -- that has become immortal.  ]]> 531 Alexandre Dumas 0553213504 Craig 5 literature 4.36 1846 The Count of Monte Cristo
author: Alexandre Dumas
name: Craig
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1846
rating: 5
read at: 1997/10/25
date added: 2024/11/14
shelves: literature
review:
An absolute classic. This has to be the best revenge novel ever written. I know it has been dumbed down for the juvenile market and has been re-published in various forms, so try to stick to an "unabridged" version. The shock and awe of the character's situation, his subsquent humanity and courage followed by his well founded revenge is a rousing good tale. Highly Recommended for the low and high brow alike.
]]> <![CDATA[The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and Ingenuity Won World War II]]> 198493799 368 Christian Wolmar 0306831988 Craig 4 history, military-strategy 4.04 The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and Ingenuity Won World War II
author: Christian Wolmar
name: Craig
average rating: 4.04
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/10
date added: 2024/11/10
shelves: history, military-strategy
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Heavy Justice: The Trial of Mike Tyson (SWEET SCIENCE: BOXING IN LITERATURE AND HISTORY)]]> 724358 336 J. Gregory Garrison 1557286000 Craig 3 biography 3.60 2000 Heavy Justice: The Trial of Mike Tyson (SWEET SCIENCE: BOXING IN LITERATURE AND HISTORY)
author: J. Gregory Garrison
name: Craig
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2000
rating: 3
read at: 2024/09/29
date added: 2024/09/29
shelves: biography
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis McGee #10)]]> 761798 Excellent Book 352 John D. MacDonald 0449224619 Craig 4 mystery 4.05 1968 The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis McGee #10)
author: John D. MacDonald
name: Craig
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1968
rating: 4
read at: 2024/09/29
date added: 2024/09/29
shelves: mystery
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Great Airport Mystery (Hardy Boys, #9)]]> 8234661 201 Franklin W. Dixon 1101076240 Craig 3 juvenile, mystery 4.53 1930 The Great Airport Mystery (Hardy Boys, #9)
author: Franklin W. Dixon
name: Craig
average rating: 4.53
book published: 1930
rating: 3
read at: 2023/08/09
date added: 2024/09/27
shelves: juvenile, mystery
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Flag in Exile (Honor Harrington, #5)]]> 18652433
But the People's Republic of Haven is rising from defeat to threaten Grayson anew, and the newborn Grayson Navy needs her experience desperately. It's a call Honor cannot refuse, yet even as she once more accepts the duty whose challenges she fears she can no longer meet, powerful men who hate and fear the changes she's brought to their world are determined to reverse them. They have a plan ... and for it to succeed Honor Harrington must die.

Two irresistible forces are rushing together to crush Grayson between them, and only one woman - uncertain of her capabilities, weary unto death, and marked for murder - stands between her adopted planet and its devastation.

This edition is the ebook published on the CD included in the hardcover copy of Mission of Honor (Honor Harrington #12) and can be found at ]]> 373 David Weber 1618242768 Craig 4 science-fiction 4.38 2002 Flag in Exile (Honor Harrington, #5)
author: David Weber
name: Craig
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2002
rating: 4
read at: 2012/07/12
date added: 2024/09/27
shelves: science-fiction
review:
While at first I thought we would immediately begin the novel with a naval battle, we did not. But the ensuing political intrigue and development of the main portion of the novel had me turning page after page to find out what was happening. Weber's pacing, whether we are following a ship of the line battle blasting away at each other or the human politics of stabbing people in the back, is superb. Bravo...I am staring the next book immediately...
]]> <![CDATA[Pale Gray for Guilt (Travis McGee #9)]]> 761787 304 John D. MacDonald 0449224600 Craig 4 mystery 4.12 1968 Pale Gray for Guilt (Travis McGee #9)
author: John D. MacDonald
name: Craig
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1968
rating: 4
read at: 2024/09/24
date added: 2024/09/24
shelves: mystery
review:

]]> <![CDATA[One Fearful Yellow Eye (Travis McGee #8)]]> 761789 0 John D. MacDonald 0394559797 Craig 5 mystery 4.08 1966 One Fearful Yellow Eye (Travis McGee #8)
author: John D. MacDonald
name: Craig
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1966
rating: 5
read at: 2024/09/20
date added: 2024/09/20
shelves: mystery
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Missing Chums (Hardy Boys, #4)]]> 8263113 The Hardy Boys series, first published in 1927, has sold more than 70 million copies!Now with a brand-new look, this is an edition that collectors won't want to miss! In The Missing Chums, the fourth book in the incredibly popular, long-running series, Frank and Joe Hardy must save their friends from a rogue group of kidnappers. A special treat for Hardy Boys fans and any reader who's new to the series.]]> 204 Franklin W. Dixon 1440673187 Craig 3 juvenile, mystery 4.40 1928 The Missing Chums (Hardy Boys, #4)
author: Franklin W. Dixon
name: Craig
average rating: 4.40
book published: 1928
rating: 3
read at: 2012/05/25
date added: 2024/09/17
shelves: juvenile, mystery
review:

]]> Rip-Off! 17156415
In Rip-Off!, 13 of today’s best and most honored writers of speculative fiction face a challenge even they would be hard-pressed to Pick your favorite opening line from a classic piece of fiction (or even non-fiction) - then use it as the first sentence of an entirely original short story.

In the world of Rip-Off!, "Call me Ishmael" introduces a tough-as-nails private eye - who carries a harpoon; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz inspires the tale of an aging female astronaut who’s being treated by a doctor named Dorothy Gale; and Huckleberry Finn leads to a wild ride with a foul-mouthed riverboat captain who plies the waters of Hell.

Once you listen to Rip-Off! you’ll If Shakespeare or Dickens were alive today, they’d be ripping off the authors in this great collection.

The stories included in Rip-Off!

"Fireborn" by Robert Charles Wilson
"The Evening Line" by Mike Resnick
"No Decent Patrimony" by Elizabeth Bear
"The Big Whale" by Allen M. Steele
"Begone" by Daryl Gregory
"The Red Menace" by Lavie Tidhar
"Muse of Fire" by John Scalzi
"Writer’s Block" by Nancy Kress
"Highland Reel" by Jack Campbell
"Karin Coxswain or Death as She Is Truly Lived" by Paul Di Filippo
"The Lady Astronaut of Mars" by Mary Robinette Kowal
"Every Fuzzy Beast of the Earth, Every Pink Fowl of the Air" by Tad Williams
"Declaration" by James Patrick Kelly

As a bonus, the authors introduce their stories, explaining what they ripped-off - and why.

Rip-Off! was produced in partnership with SFWA - 카지노싸이트 Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. Gardner Dozois served as project editor.

The full list of narrators Wil Wheaton, Scott Brick, Christian Rummel, Jonathan Davis, Khristine Hvam, L.J. Ganser, Stefan Rudnicki, David Marantz, Nicola Barber, Dina Pearlman, Allyson Johnson, Marc Vietor, and Ilyana Kadushin.

For more books from the authors of Rip-Off! click here.

©2012 카지노싸이트 Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (P)2012 Audible, Inc.]]> 12 Gardner Dozois Craig 3 science-fiction 3.37 2012 Rip-Off!
author: Gardner Dozois
name: Craig
average rating: 3.37
book published: 2012
rating: 3
read at: 2024/09/11
date added: 2024/09/11
shelves: science-fiction
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]]> The Thin Man 80616 The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners.]]> 201 Dashiell Hammett 0679722637 Craig 4 mystery 3.92 1934 The Thin Man
author: Dashiell Hammett
name: Craig
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1934
rating: 4
read at: 2024/08/21
date added: 2024/08/21
shelves: mystery
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations]]> 41429806 From the comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show comes an irreverent, lyrical memoir in essays featuring his signature wit.

Craig Ferguson has defied the odds his entire life. He has failed when he should have succeeded and succeeded when he should have failed. The fact that he is neither dead nor in a locked facility (at the time of printing) is something of a miracle in itself. In Craig's candid and revealing memoir, readers will get a look into the mind and recollections of the unique and twisted Scottish American who became a national hero for pioneering the world's first TV robot skeleton sidekick and reviving two dudes in a horse suit dancing as a form of entertainment.

In Riding the Elephant, there are some stories that are too graphic for television, too politically incorrect for social media, or too meditative for a stand-up comedy performance. Craig discusses his deep love for his native Scotland, examines his profound psychic change brought on by fatherhood, and looks at aging and mortality with a perspective that he was incapable of as a younger man. Each story is strung together in a colorful tapestry that ultimately reveals a complicated man who has learned to process--and even enjoy--the unusual trajectory of his life.]]> 267 Craig Ferguson 0525533915 Craig 5 biography 4.00 2019 Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations
author: Craig Ferguson
name: Craig
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2024/08/16
date added: 2024/08/16
shelves: biography
review:

]]> Glory Main (The Sim War, #1) 23109764
For decades, mankind has been locked in a war with an alien enemy that resembles the human race so closely they are known as the Sims. Both sides battle for control of habitable planets across the galaxy—often at any cost.

Lieutenant Jander Mortas is fresh out of officer training and new to the war zone, but eager to prove himself. There's just one problem: disaster strikes while he's traveling to his first assignment. He wakes to find himself marooned on what appears to be a deserted planet, with only three other survivors: a psychoanalyst, a conscientious objector, and a bitter veteran of a brutal slave-scout detachment. As the group struggles to reach safety on a nearby base, Glory Main, they discover a Sim colony—which could mean their salvation, or their demise.

Thrown together, they must fight the harsh elements, an ever-present enemy, and possibly each other.]]> 320 Henry V. O'Neil 0062359193 Craig 3 science-fiction 3.51 2012 Glory Main (The Sim War, #1)
author: Henry V. O'Neil
name: Craig
average rating: 3.51
book published: 2012
rating: 3
read at: 2024/08/15
date added: 2024/08/15
shelves: science-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away]]> 25
Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Bryson hallmark, I'm a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcerting reunion with the land of his birth. The result is a book filled with hysterical scenes of one man's attempt to reacquaint himself with his own country, but it is also an extended if at times bemused love letter to the homeland he has returned to after twenty years away.]]> 304 Bill Bryson 076790382X Craig 3 travel 3.90 1998 I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
author: Bill Bryson
name: Craig
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1998
rating: 3
read at: 2024/08/05
date added: 2024/08/05
shelves: travel
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe]]> 27 The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in, oh, at least one language, he retraces his travels as a student twenty years before.

Whether braving the homicidal motorist of Paris, being robbed by gypsies in Florence, attempting not to order tripe and eyeballs in a German restaurant, window-shopping in the sex shops of the Reeperbahn or disputing his hotel bill in Copenhagen, Bryson takes in the sights, dissects the culture and illuminates each place and person with his hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to Liechtenstein.]]> 254 Bill Bryson 0380713802 Craig 3 travel 3.87 1991 Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
author: Bill Bryson
name: Craig
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1991
rating: 3
read at: 2024/07/30
date added: 2024/07/30
shelves: travel
review:

]]> Gambit (Nero Wolfe, #37) 148937 0 Rex Stout 1572704411 Craig 3 mystery 4.13 1962 Gambit (Nero Wolfe, #37)
author: Rex Stout
name: Craig
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1962
rating: 3
read at: 2024/07/27
date added: 2024/07/27
shelves: mystery
review:

]]> Notes from a Small Island 28 "Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."

After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson - bestselling author of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to return to the United States. ("I had recently read," Bryson writes, "that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, so it was clear that my people needed me.") But before departing, he set out on a grand farewell tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home.

Veering from the ludicrous to the endearing and back again, Notes from a Small Island is a delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation that has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie's Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey. The result is an uproarious social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain, from the satiric pen of an unapologetic Anglophile.]]> 324 Bill Bryson Craig 3 non-fiction, travel 3.93 1995 Notes from a Small Island
author: Bill Bryson
name: Craig
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1995
rating: 3
read at: 2024/07/24
date added: 2024/07/24
shelves: non-fiction, travel
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]> 2831038
Kesey's theatrical metamorphosis from the distinguished author of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest to the abominable shaman of the "Acid Test" soirees that launched The Grateful Dead required Wolfe's Day-Glo prose account to endure (though Kesey's own musings in Demon Box are no slouch either). Even now, Wolfe's book gives what Wolfe clearly got from Kesey: a contact high.]]> 434 Tom Wolfe 031242759X Craig 4 non-fiction 3.78 1968 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
author: Tom Wolfe
name: Craig
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1968
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/21
date added: 2024/07/21
shelves: non-fiction
review:

]]> Valiant (The Lost Fleet, #4) 2341319
"Black Jack" Geary has made many risky decisions as commander, but ordering the Alliance fleet back to the Lakota Star System where it had nearly been destroyed by the Syndics has his officers questioning his sanity. It's a desperate gamble that may buy Geary just enough time to prepare for the Syndics' inevitable return--and give the fleet a fighting chance of survival.

But even as he struggles to stay one step ahead of the enemy, Geary must face conspirators within his own fleet--an unknown number of officers who want a change of command. And Geary knows that his fleet must stand together or the Syndic forces will tear them apart ...]]> 284 Jack Campbell 0441016197 Craig 3 4.01 2008 Valiant (The Lost Fleet, #4)
author: Jack Campbell
name: Craig
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 2024/07/14
date added: 2024/07/14
shelves: science-fiction, military-fiction
review:

]]> Deadly Beloved 1916469 203 Max Allan Collins 0843957786 Craig 4 hard-case-crime, mystery 3.53 2007 Deadly Beloved
author: Max Allan Collins
name: Craig
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/22
date added: 2024/06/28
shelves: hard-case-crime, mystery
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Darker Than Amber (Travis McGee #7)]]> 43935
Helping damsels in distress is nothing new for Travis McGee--it's basically how he spends his life. But this one was different right from the start. Tossed off a bridge with cement wired to her feet, dragged to safety by Travis and Meyer, she was a hot Eurasian beauty with a cold heart...ready to snare them in a murder racket to end all murders....]]> 283 John D. MacDonald 0449224465 Craig 4 mystery 4.02 1966 Darker Than Amber (Travis McGee #7)
author: John D. MacDonald
name: Craig
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1966
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/27
date added: 2024/06/27
shelves: mystery
review:

]]> Bright Orange for the Shroud 317783 321 John D. MacDonald 0449224449 Craig 4 mystery 4.05 1965 Bright Orange for the Shroud
author: John D. MacDonald
name: Craig
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1965
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/20
date added: 2024/06/20
shelves: mystery
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Avenger (Star Trek: Odyssey, #3)]]> 217732
Elsewhere in the galaxy, Ambassador Spock, his diplomatic efforts stalled by the spread of famine and chaos, returns to his native world of Vulcan to confront a mystery of a deeply personal nature. Did Sarek, his legendary father, really die of natural causes—or was he murdered? Determined to learn the truth, Spock begins a highly logical investigation that soon leads him to a reunion with a long-lost friend he never expected to see again.

Kirk and Spock, together again, must join forces to save a new generation from an awesome menace unleashed by ruthless interplanetary conspiracy.]]> 370 William Shatner 0671551310 Craig 4 star-trek, science-fiction 3.76 1997 Avenger (Star Trek: Odyssey, #3)
author: William Shatner
name: Craig
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1997
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/14
date added: 2024/06/14
shelves: star-trek, science-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Faith and Fire (Sisters of Battle #1)]]> 1138069
When dangerous psychic heretic Torris Vaun escapes from her custody, Seraphim Miriya is disgraced in the eyes of her fellow sisters and superiors. Following Vaun’s trail to the planet Neva, Miriya takes her sisters in pursuit and, along with Hospitalier Sister Verity, starts her investigations. When they uncover a terrifying plot that could threaten the future of the Imperium, is Miriya’s and Verity’s faith strong enough for them to triumph?]]> 416 James Swallow 1844162893 Craig 4 black-library 3.63 2006 Faith and Fire (Sisters of Battle #1)
author: James Swallow
name: Craig
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/13
date added: 2024/06/13
shelves: black-library
review:

]]> A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs 51212034 Listening Length: 2 hours and 42 minutes

Most children go through a dinosaur phase. Learning all the tongue twisting names, picking favorites based on ferocity, armor, or sheer size. For many kids this love of ‘terrible lizards’ fizzles out at some point between starting and leaving primary school. All those fancy names slowly forgotten, no longer any need for a favorite.

For all those child dino fanatics who didn’t grow up to become paleontologists, dinosaurs seem like something out of mythology. They are dragons, pictures in books, abstract, other, extinct.

They are at the same time familiar and mysterious. And yet we’re in an age of rapid discovery—new dinosaur species and genera are being discovered at an accelerating rate, we’re learning more about what they looked like, how they lived, how they evolved and where they all went.

This series isn’t just a top trumps list of dino facts—we’re interested in the why and the how and like all areas of science there is plenty of controversy and debate.]]> 3 Ben Garrod Craig 3 non-fiction, science 3.92 2019 A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs
author: Ben Garrod
name: Craig
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2020/09/04
date added: 2024/06/11
shelves: non-fiction, science
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)]]> 34507 228 Terry Pratchett 0060855908 Craig 3 fantasy 4.06 1987 Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Craig
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1987
rating: 3
read at: 2024/05/25
date added: 2024/05/25
shelves: fantasy
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games]]> 50489373 Civilization.

Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world’s most popular video games, including Sid Meier’s Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulated more than one billion hours of play. Sid Meier’s Memoir! is the story of an obsessive young computer enthusiast who helped launch a multibilliondollar industry. Writing with warmth and ironic humor, Meier describes the genesis of his influential studio, MicroProse, founded in 1982 after a trip to a Las Vegas arcade, and recounts the development of landmark games, from vintage classics like Pirates! and Railroad Tycoon, to Civilization and beyond.

Articulating his philosophy that a videogame should be “a series of interesting decisions,” Meier also shares his perspective on the history of the industry, the psychology of gamers, and fascinating insights into the creative process, including his ten rules of good game design.]]> 286 Sid Meier 1324005874 Craig 5 biography 4.16 2020 Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
author: Sid Meier
name: Craig
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2024/05/24
date added: 2024/05/24
shelves: biography
review:

]]> Shift (Silo, #2) 17306293 579 Hugh Howey Craig 3 4.12 2013 Shift (Silo, #2)
author: Hugh Howey
name: Craig
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2013
rating: 3
read at: 2024/05/21
date added: 2024/05/21
shelves: dystopian-future, science-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty]]> 56382342
When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires—one in shipping and another in railroads—that would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after his death in 1877, sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. Though his son Billy doubled the money left by “the Commodore,” subsequent generations competed to find new and ever more extraordinary ways of spending it. By 2018, when the last Vanderbilt was forced out of The Breakers—the seventy-room summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, that Cornelius’s grandson and namesake had built—the family would have been unrecognizable to the tycoon who started it all.

Now, the Commodore’s great-great-great-grandson Anderson Cooper, joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his legendary family and their outsized influence. Cooper and Howe breathe life into the ancestors who built the family’s empire, basked in the Commodore’s wealth, hosted lavish galas, and became synonymous with unfettered American capitalism and high society. Moving from the hardscrabble wharves of old Manhattan to the lavish drawing rooms of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue, from the ornate summer palaces of Newport to the courts of Europe, and all the way to modern-day New York, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and tragedies of an American dynasty unlike any other.

Written with a unique insider’s viewpoint, this is a rollicking, quintessentially American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly captures.]]> 317 Anderson Cooper 0062964615 Craig 5 biography 3.74 2021 Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
author: Anderson Cooper
name: Craig
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2024/05/21
date added: 2024/05/21
shelves: biography
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Travel by Bullet (The Dispatcher, #3)]]> 62214893
The world has changed. Now, when someone is murdered, they almost always come back to life—and there are professionals, called "dispatchers," who kill in order to save lives, to give those near the end a second chance. Tony Valdez is a dispatcher, and he has never been busier.

But for as much as the world has changed, some things have stayed the same. Greed, corruption and avarice are still in full swing. When Tony is called to a Chicago emergency room by an old friend and fellow dispatcher, he is suddenly and unwillingly thrown into a whirlpool of schemes and plots involving billions of dollars, with vast caches of wealth ranging from real estate to cryptocurrency up for grabs.

All Tony wants to do is keep his friend safe. But it’s hard to do when friends keep secrets, enemies offer seductive deals, and nothing is ever what it seems. The world has changed... but the stakes are still life and death.

©2022 John Scalzi (P)2022 Audible Originals, LLC.]]> 3 John Scalzi Craig 4 science-fiction 3.97 2022 Travel by Bullet (The Dispatcher, #3)
author: John Scalzi
name: Craig
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2024/05/11
date added: 2024/05/11
shelves: science-fiction
review:

]]> Keep Moving, Keep Shooting 63131655 Dusting off his years of training and experience-and his guns-to protect himself, his loved ones, and his nation, the aging warrior winds up in Tampa, making friends and meeting enemies along the way. As the threat slowly takes shape and reveals itself, Terry relies on the smarts and skills that kept him alive through years of combat.
Yet the threat is much bigger than he realized, and he's not sure who he can trust. The one thing he knows for sure is that if he wants to stay alive, he needs to  Keep Moving, Keep Shooting. ]]> 292 E. Novak, Clay 164663845X Craig 4 military-fiction 4.44 Keep Moving, Keep Shooting
author: E. Novak, Clay
name: Craig
average rating: 4.44
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2024/05/11
date added: 2024/05/11
shelves: military-fiction
review:
The pace of this book was non-stop. The twists and turns were very well done. If you like action thrill rides like Bourne Identity, without the memory loss, then try this book.
]]> <![CDATA[Murder by Other Means (The Dispatcher, #2)]]> 55291869 4 John Scalzi Craig 4 mystery, science-fiction 4.01 2020 Murder by Other Means (The Dispatcher, #2)
author: John Scalzi
name: Craig
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2024/05/10
date added: 2024/05/10
shelves: mystery, science-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board]]> 41544719
In 1958, the U.S. Air Force nuked the moon as a show of military force. In 1967, the CIA sent live cats to spy on the Soviet government. In 1942, the British built a torpedo-proof aircraft carrier out of an iceberg. Of course, none of these things ever actually happened.

But in Nuking the Moon, intelligence historian Vince Houghton proves that abandoned plans can be just as illuminating--and every bit as entertaining--as the ones that made it. Vividly capturing the fascinating stories of how twenty-one plans from WWII and the Cold War went from conception, planning, and testing to cancellation, Houghton explores what happens when innovation meets desperation: For every plan as good as D-Day, there's a scheme to strap bombs to bats or dig a spy tunnel underneath the Soviet embassy. Along the way, he reveals what each one tells us about twentieth-century history, the art of spycraft, military strategy, and famous figures like JFK, Castro, and Churchill. By turns terrifying and hilarious--but always riveting--this is the unique story of history left on the drawing board.]]> 302 Vince Houghton 0525505172 Craig 5 history, military-equipment 3.67 2019 Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board
author: Vince Houghton
name: Craig
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2024/05/01
date added: 2024/05/01
shelves: history, military-equipment
review:

]]> Starter Villain 61885029
Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan.

Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie.

But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits. Jake had enemies, and now they're coming after Charlie. His uncle might have been a stand-up, old-fashioned kind of villain, but these are the real thing: rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital.

It's up to Charlie to win the war his uncle started against a league of supervillains. But with unionized dolphins, hyperintelligent talking spy cats, and a terrifying henchperson at his side, going bad is starting to look pretty good.

In a dog-eat-dog world...be a cat.]]> 264 John Scalzi 0765389223 Craig 5 science-fiction 4.08 2023 Starter Villain
author: John Scalzi
name: Craig
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2024/04/22
date added: 2024/04/22
shelves: science-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[You're on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir]]> 34002007 Dazed and Confused, Party Girl, and You've Got Mail, and her recurring roles in Christopher Guest's mockumentaries, including his most recent, Mascots, on Netflix.

With remarkable candor and a refreshing perspective on life in the spotlight, Posey opens up about the art of acting, life on the set, and the realities of its accompanying fame. She explores her relationships with brilliant directors like Christopher Guest and Woody Allen, as well as the nerves and expectations that come with the territory. A funny and authentic childhood prepared Posey for a life of creating and entertaining, which not only extends to acting but to the craft of pottery, sewing, collage, yoga and cooking, all of which readers will find in this highly entertaining book. In You're On an Airplane, Posey delves into her personal style--unique, famously inspiring, and never indebted to trends--as well as her approach to everyday life on and off set. Laugh-out-loud advice from her legendary Greenwich Village therapist Mildred Newman appears alongside poignant portrayals of painful relationships and the love she has for her dog, Gracie. For fans of Nora Ephron's spot-on commentary, Jenny Lawson's absurdly comical foibles, Amy Sedaris's unexpectedly hilarious quips, and Carrie Brownstein's cool-girl appeal, You're On an Airplane proves Posey has a voice that will enchant fans and old and new alike.]]> 320 Parker Posey 0735218196 Craig 4 biography 3.15 2018 You're on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir
author: Parker Posey
name: Craig
average rating: 3.15
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2024/04/17
date added: 2024/04/17
shelves: biography
review:

]]> <![CDATA[American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal]]> 60012523 A stunning, revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C. to New York City—an unforgettable pilgrimage to the heart of America across some of its oldest common ground

Neil King Jr.’s desire to walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City began on a whim and became an obsession. By the spring of 2021, events had intervened that gave his desire greater urgency. His neighborhood still reeled from the January 6 insurrection. COVID-19 lock-downs and a rancorous election had deepened America’s divides. King himself bore the imprints of a long battle with cancer.

Determined to rediscover what matters in life and to see America's national story with new eyes, King turned north with a small satchel on his back and one mission in mind: to pay close attention to the land he crossed and the people he met. What followed is an extraordinary 26-day journey through historic battlefields and cemeteries; over the Mason-Dixon line; past Quaker and Amish farms; along Valley Forge stream beds; atop a New Jersey trash mound; across New York Harbor; and finally, to his ultimate destination: the Ramble, where a tangle of pathways converges in Central Park. The journey travels deep into America’s past and present, uncovering forgotten pockets and overlooked people. At a time of mounting disunity, the trip reveals the profound power of the country's shared ground.]]> 368 Neil King Jr. 035870149X Craig 3 non-fiction 4.09 American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal
author: Neil King Jr.
name: Craig
average rating: 4.09
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2024/04/12
date added: 2024/04/12
shelves: non-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Hard Magic (Grimnoir Chronicles, #1)]]> 8643407 423 Larry Correia 1439134340 Craig 3 fantasy 4.13 2012 Hard Magic (Grimnoir Chronicles, #1)
author: Larry Correia
name: Craig
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2012
rating: 3
read at: 2024/04/02
date added: 2024/04/02
shelves: fantasy
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century]]> 38813233 A New York Times Notable Book

From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change.

By the end of nineteenth century, food was dangerous. Lethal, even. "Milk" might contain formaldehyde, most often used to embalm corpses. Decaying meat was preserved with both salicylic acid, a pharmaceutical chemical, and borax, a compound first identified as a cleaning product. This was not by accident; food manufacturers had rushed to embrace the rise of industrial chemistry, and were knowingly selling harmful products. Unchecked by government regulation, basic safety, or even labelling requirements, they put profit before the health of their customers. By some estimates, in New York City alone, thousands of children were killed by "embalmed milk" every year. Citizens--activists, journalists, scientists, and women's groups--began agitating for change. But even as protective measures were enacted in Europe, American corporations blocked even modest regulations. Then, in 1883, Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, a chemistry professor from Purdue University, was named chief chemist of the agriculture department, and the agency began methodically investigating food and drink fraud, even conducting shocking human tests on groups of young men who came to be known as, "The Poison Squad."

Over the next thirty years, a titanic struggle took place, with the courageous and fascinating Dr. Wiley campaigning indefatigably for food safety and consumer protection. Together with a gallant cast, including the muckraking reporter Upton Sinclair, whose fiction revealed the horrific truth about the Chicago stockyards; Fannie Farmer, then the most famous cookbook author in the country; and Henry J. Heinz, one of the few food producers who actively advocated for pure food, Dr. Wiley changed history. When the landmark 1906 Food and Drug Act was finally passed, it was known across the land, as "Dr. Wiley's Law."

Blum brings to life this timeless and hugely satisfying "David and Goliath" tale with righteous verve and style, driving home the moral imperative of confronting corporate greed and government corruption with a bracing clarity, which speaks resoundingly to the enormous social and political challenges we face today.]]> 330 Deborah Blum 1594205140 Craig 4 history, non-fiction 3.91 2018 The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
author: Deborah Blum
name: Craig
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2024/03/29
date added: 2024/03/29
shelves: history, non-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Essential Captain America, Vol. 2]]> 596010


Captain America #103-126]]> 512 Stan Lee 0785108270 Craig 4 comicbooks 4.04 1970 Essential Captain America, Vol. 2
author: Stan Lee
name: Craig
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1970
rating: 4
read at: 2024/03/29
date added: 2024/03/29
shelves: comicbooks
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Return (Star Trek: Odyssey, #2)]]> 217718 Veridian III: A world has been saved, the U.S.S. Enterprise 1701-D lies in ruins, and one of the galaxy's greatest heroes rests beneath a simple cairn of rocks on a lonely hillside. But as a legendary Vulcan ambassador comes to the last grave of his best and dearest friend, the adventure is only beginning.

The Borg and the Romulan Empire have joined forces against the Federation, and their ultimate weapon is none other than James T. Kirk, resurrected by alien science to destroy the Borg's most formidable enemy: Jean-Luc Picard.

The astounding return of Kirk - as only William Shatner can tell it! ]]> 371 William Shatner 067152609X Craig 4 star-trek 3.88 1996 The Return (Star Trek: Odyssey, #2)
author: William Shatner
name: Craig
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1996
rating: 4
read at: 2024/03/14
date added: 2024/03/14
shelves: star-trek
review:

]]> Legion versus Phalanx 36612245
Covering the period in which the legion and phalanx clashed (280-168 BC), this book looks at each formation in detail - delving into their tactics, arms and equipment, organization and deployment. It then examines six documented battles in which the legion fought the phalanx: Heraclea (280 BC), Asculum (279 BC), Beneventum (275 BC), Cynoscephalae (197 BC), Magnesia (190 BC), and Pydna (168 BC).]]> 288 Myke Cole 1472828429 Craig 5 history, military-strategy 3.96 2018 Legion versus Phalanx
author: Myke Cole
name: Craig
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2024/03/13
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: history, military-strategy
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Shadow of Ullanor (The Beast Arises #11)]]> 29430428
The Imperium’s attempts to defeat the ork menace seem doomed to failure; it is only a matter of time before the greenskins triumph, and mankind is wiped from the face of the galaxy. Yet there is some cause for hope – the psychic weakness of the orks has been discovered, and a few Sisters of Silence yet survive. Supported by the full military might and technology of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the Space Marines head to the orks’ home world one final time. This time there will be no retreat, no surrender. They must succeed… or die in the attempt.

It's the penultimate instalment in The Beast Arises series and the stakes couldn't be higher… We'd love to say more, but it might spoil the massive events that have happened so far, and those still to come! Just read it and see for yourself.]]> Rob Sanders Craig 5 black-library 3.50 2016 Shadow of Ullanor (The Beast Arises #11)
author: Rob Sanders
name: Craig
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2024/03/06
date added: 2024/03/06
shelves: black-library
review:

]]> The Martian Chronicles 76778
The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. They felt they had never been born. Those few that survived found no welcome on Mars. The shape-changing Martians thought they were native lunatics and duly locked them up.

But more rockets arrived from Earth, and more, piercing the hallucinations projected by the Martians. People brought their old prejudices with them – and their desires and fantasies, tainted dreams. These were soon inhabited by the strange native beings, with their caged flowers and birds of flame.

Contents:
Rocket Summer
Ylla
The Summer Night
The Earth Men
The Taxpayer
The Third Expedition
-And the Moon Be Still As Bright
The Settlers
The Green Morning
The Locusts
Night Meeting
The Shore
Interim
The Musicians
Way in the Middle of the Air
The Naming of Names
Usher II
The Old Ones
The Martian
The Luggage Store
The Off Season
The Watchers
The Silent Towns
The Long Years
There Will Come Soft Rains
The Million Year Picnic]]> 182 Ray Bradbury 0553278223 Craig 5 science-fiction 4.16 1950 The Martian Chronicles
author: Ray Bradbury
name: Craig
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1950
rating: 5
read at: 2024/03/06
date added: 2024/03/06
shelves: science-fiction
review:
At first I thought this was a continuous story, as I had not read the synopsis before starting. I was pleasantly surprised to read many short stories tied together. I think it was inventive bridging between stories, and the subjects diverse and interesting.
]]> <![CDATA[The Ashes of Eden (Star Trek: Odyssey, #1)]]> 217714 Following Jim Kirk's death in Star Trek: Generations, Pocket Books continued the captain's story in the first of several novels by William Shatner and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, known colloquially as the "Shatnerverse".
The Ashes Of Eden resonated with fans, and DC Comics adapted the book in comic form. Collected in this volume, along with The Ashes Of Eden, are DC's Star Trek Specials #2-3, featuring tales by Kevin Ryan, Steven Wilson, Michael Jan Friedman, and Mark Altman.]]> 309 William Shatner 0671520369 Craig 3 science-fiction, star-trek 3.77 1995 The Ashes of Eden (Star Trek: Odyssey, #1)
author: William Shatner
name: Craig
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1995
rating: 3
read at: 2024/03/02
date added: 2024/03/02
shelves: science-fiction, star-trek
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Amazing Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt]]> 672235 160 J.M. DeMatteis 078512330X Craig 2 comicbooks, fiction 4.33 1987 The Amazing Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt
author: J.M. DeMatteis
name: Craig
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1987
rating: 2
read at: 2024/03/01
date added: 2024/03/01
shelves: comicbooks, fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Died in the Wool (Whisky Business Mystery #4)]]> 52373829
Photojournalist Abi Logan is finally ready to put her hectic career on hold and set down roots in the heart of the Scottish countryside. Studying the business and art of distilling whisky at Abbey Glen and volunteering at the Shepherd’s Rest women’s shelter in her spare time seem a surefire way to find the peace and stability she craves. It’s also the logical way to take her mind off her personal life. Abi’s business partner, Grant MacEwan, is facing a career-threatening disability, and as much as Abi longs to be there for him, he seems to prefer the company of a rival.

But as Abi becomes more involved with Shepherd’s Rest, she discovers that their refuge is elusive. When the shelter is rocked by a murder/suicide, Abi is outraged by the police’s lack of attention to these already marginalized women. Increasingly confident in her own skills as an investigator, Abi steps in to find out what the police will not: who left one young woman dead and another missing. But when more deadly deeds come to light, Abi must race to unravel the connections between the shelter’s benefactors and the women they have pledged to protect—and expose the killer before he strikes again.

Melinda Mullet’s delightful Whisky Business mysteries can be read together or separately. Enjoy responsibly.]]> Melinda Mullet Craig 4 mystery 3.88 2019 Died in the Wool (Whisky Business Mystery #4)
author: Melinda Mullet
name: Craig
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2024/02/25
date added: 2024/02/25
shelves: mystery
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Kaiju Preservation Society]]> 57693406
What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at least. In an alternate dimension, massive dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world. They're the universe's largest and most dangerous panda and they're in trouble.

It's not just the Kaiju Preservation Society that's found its way to the alternate world. Others have, too--and their carelessness could cause millions back on our Earth to die.]]> 264 John Scalzi 0765389126 Craig 4 science-fiction 3.92 2022 The Kaiju Preservation Society
author: John Scalzi
name: Craig
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2024/02/24
date added: 2024/02/24
shelves: science-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Death Without Company (Walt Longmire, #2)]]> 59125236 Walt investigates a death by poison in this gripping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Depth of Winter--Death Without Company is the second in the Longmire series.

Fans of Ace Atkins, Nevada Barr and Robert B. Parker will love Craig Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Is Empty and As the Crow Flies, who garnered both praise and an enthusiastic readership with his acclaimed debut novel featuring Sheriff Walt Longmire, The Cold Dish, the first in the Longmire Mystery Series, the basis for LONGMIRE, the hit drama series. Now Johnson takes us back to the rugged landscape of Absaroka County, Wyoming, for Death Without Company. When Mari Baroja is found poisoned at the Durant Home for Assisted Living, Sheriff Longmire is drawn into an investigation that reaches fifty years into the mysterious woman’s dramatic Basque past. Aided by his friend Henry Standing Bear, Deputy Victoria Moretti, and newcomer Santiago Saizarbitoria, Sheriff Longmire must connect the specter of the past to the present to find the killer among them.]]> 271 Craig Johnson Craig 4 mystery 4.39 2006 Death Without Company (Walt Longmire, #2)
author: Craig Johnson
name: Craig
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 2024/02/18
date added: 2024/02/18
shelves: mystery
review:

]]> <![CDATA[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]> 117942 The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy"--Harrison Salisbury

This unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available, and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian.]]> 160 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 0451523105 Craig 5 literature 3.92 1962 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
name: Craig
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1962
rating: 5
read at: 1990/10/01
date added: 2024/02/11
shelves: literature
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance]]> 44069940 The full story of the first and only time American and Soviets fought side-by-side in World War II

At the conference held in Tehran in November 1943, American officials proposed to their Soviet allies a new operation in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany. The Normandy Invasion was already in the works; what American officials were suggesting until then was a second air front: the US Air Force would establish bases in Soviet-controlled territory, in order to "shuttle-bomb" the Germans from the Eastern front. For all that he had been pushing for the United States and Great Britain to do more to help the war effort--the Soviets were bearing by far the heaviest burden in terms of casualties--Stalin, recalling the presence of foreign troops during the Russian Revolution, balked at the suggestion of foreign soldiers on Soviet soil. His concern was that they would inflame regional and ideological differences. Eventually in early 1944, Stalin was persuaded to give in, and Operation Baseball and then Frantic were initiated. B-17 Superfortresses were flown from bases in Italy to the Poltova region (in what is today Ukraine).

As Plokhy's book shows, what happened on these airbases mirrors the nature of the Grand Alliance itself. While both sides were fighting for the same goal, Germany's unconditional surrender, differences arose that no common purpose could overcome. Soviet secret policeman watched over the operations, shadowing every move, and eventually trying to prevent fraternization between American servicemen and local women. A catastrophic air raid by the Germans revealed the limitations of Soviet air defenses. Relations soured and the operations went south. Indeed, the story of the American bases foreshadowed the eventual collapse of the Grand Alliance and the start of the Cold War. Using previously inaccessible archives, Allies and Adversaries offers a bottom-up history of the Grand Alliance, showing how it first began to fray on the airfields of World War II.
]]> 362 Serhii Plokhy 0190061014 Craig 3 history, non-fiction 3.83 2019 Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance
author: Serhii Plokhy
name: Craig
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2024/02/09
date added: 2024/02/09
shelves: history, non-fiction
review:

]]> Hannibal 2101715 246 Ross Leckie 1847670997 Craig 3 history, military-strategy 3.66 1995 Hannibal
author: Ross Leckie
name: Craig
average rating: 3.66
book published: 1995
rating: 3
read at: 2021/02/22
date added: 2024/02/03
shelves: history, military-strategy
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Trouble in Triplicate (Nero Wolfe, #14)]]> 77632
In the first, they all thought they were about to die . . . and they were right. Dazy Perrit was an underworld kingpin until a hail of bullets sent him into early retirement.

In the second, Ben Jensen was a well-connected publisher until a determined gunman severed all his connections.

And in the third, Eugene R. Poor's company made novelties like exploding cigars until one of them blew him to kingdom come.

Conclusion? Only our gourmet sleuth, Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, can solve the deadly equations of murder times three.

Librarian's note: each of the individual titles are also listed separately elsewhere on 카지노싸이트.]]> 240 Rex Stout 0553242474 Craig 5 4.07 1949 Trouble in Triplicate (Nero Wolfe, #14)
author: Rex Stout
name: Craig
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1949
rating: 5
read at: 2024/01/30
date added: 2024/01/30
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran]]> 13403082 The dramatic secret history of our undeclared thirty-year conflict with Iran, revealing newsbreaking episodes of covert and deadly operations that brought the two nations to the brink of open war

For three decades, the United States and Iran have engaged in a secret war. It is a conflict that has never been acknowledged and a story that has never been told.

This surreptitious war began with the Iranian revolution and simmers today inside Iraq and in the Persian Gulf. Fights rage in the shadows, between the CIA and its network of spies and Iran's intelligence agency. Battles are fought at sea with Iranians in small speedboats attacking Western oil tankers. This conflict has frustrated five American presidents, divided administrations, and repeatedly threatened to bring the two nations into open warfare. It is a story of shocking miscalculations, bitter debates, hidden casualties, boldness, and betrayal.

A senior historian for the federal government with unparalleled access to senior officials and key documents of several U.S. administrations, Crist has spent more than ten years researching and writing The Twilight War, and he breaks new ground on virtually every page. Crist describes the series of secret negotiations between Iran and the United States after 9/11, culminating in Iran's proposal for a grand bargain for peace-which the Bush administration turned down. He documents the clandestine counterattack Iran launched after America's 2003 invasion of Iraq, in which thousands of soldiers disguised as reporters, tourists, pilgrims, and aid workers toiled to change the government in Baghdad and undercut American attempts to pacify the Iraqi insurgency. And he reveals in vivid detail for the first time a number of important stories of military and intelligence operations by both sides, both successes and failures, and their typically unexpected consequences.

Much has changed in the world since 1979, but Iran and America remain each other's biggest national security nightmares. "The Iran problem" is a razor-sharp briar patch that has claimed its sixth presidential victim in Barack Obama and his administration. The Twilight War adds vital new depth to our understanding of this acute dilemma it is also a thrillingly engrossing read, animated by a healthy irony about human failings in the fog of not-quite war.]]> 656 David Crist 1594203415 Craig 3 history, military-strategy 4.16 2012 The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
author: David Crist
name: Craig
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2012
rating: 3
read at: 2024/01/30
date added: 2024/01/30
shelves: history, military-strategy
review:

]]> <![CDATA[One Hell of a Ride: Inside an Armored Cavalry Task Force in Vietnam]]> 35554824 542 William C. Haponski Craig 4 biography, history 4.57 One Hell of a Ride: Inside an Armored Cavalry Task Force in Vietnam
author: William C. Haponski
name: Craig
average rating: 4.57
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2023/12/31
date added: 2023/12/31
shelves: biography, history
review:

]]> <![CDATA[And Be a Villain (Nero Wolfe, #13)]]> 77592
It's live radio - how do you handle that one with millions listening?

You consult Nero Wolfe. Fast.

Librarian's note: the British title for this novel is, 'More Deaths tan One.']]> 242 Rex Stout 0553239317 Craig 4 mystery 4.13 1948 And Be a Villain (Nero Wolfe, #13)
author: Rex Stout
name: Craig
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1948
rating: 4
read at: 2023/12/31
date added: 2023/12/31
shelves: mystery
review:

]]> <![CDATA[At All Costs (Honor Harrington, #11)]]> 77732 What Price Victory?

The War with the Republic of Haven has resumed...disastrously for the Star Kingdom of Manticore.

Admiral Lady Dame Honor Harrington has been recalled from the Sidemore System to command Eighth Fleet. Everyone knows Eight Fleet is the Alliance's primary offensive command, but what most of the public doesn't know is that not only are the Star Kingdom and its Allies badly outnumbered by the Republic's new fleet, but that the odds are going to get steadily worse.

Eighth Fleet's job is to somehow prevent those odds from crushing the Alliance before the Star Kingdom can regain its strategic balance. It's a job which won't be done chaply. Honor Harrington must meet her formidable responsibilities with inferior forces even as she copes with tumultous changes in her personal and public life.

The alternative to victory is total defeat, yet this time the cost of victory will be agonizingly high.]]> 855 David Weber 1416509119 Craig 4 4.18 2005 At All Costs (Honor Harrington, #11)
author: David Weber
name: Craig
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 2023/12/23
date added: 2023/12/23
shelves: military-fiction, science-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Killing Dance (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter, #6)]]> 7797384 9780515134513

Anita Blake, vampire hunter extraordinaire, was first introduced to readers in Guilty Pleasure, the first book of this series. In the Killing Dance, she finds that a price has been put on her head.]]> 400 Laurell K. Hamilton Craig 3 urban-fantasy 4.15 1997 The Killing Dance (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter, #6)
author: Laurell K. Hamilton
name: Craig
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1997
rating: 3
read at: 2016/08/09
date added: 2023/12/01
shelves: urban-fantasy
review:
Being the sixth book in the series, it had all the aspects I enjoyed from the first five. However, this book starts to lean less toward detective and more toward the relationships. I hope Anita doesn't lose her grittiness in the next installment.
]]> <![CDATA[The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder]]> 61714633 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on the Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.

On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.

But then . . . six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes - they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death--for whomever the court found guilty could hang.

The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann's recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O'Brian, his portrayal of the castaways' desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann's work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.]]> 331 David Grann 0385534264 Craig 4 history, non-fiction 4.14 2023 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
author: David Grann
name: Craig
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2023/11/09
date added: 2023/11/09
shelves: history, non-fiction
review:

]]> Battlegrounds 51816163 559 H.R. McMaster 0062899481 Craig 4 4.10 2020 Battlegrounds
author: H.R. McMaster
name: Craig
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2023/10/26
date added: 2023/10/26
shelves: biography, history, military-strategy
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Red Prophet (Tales of Alvin Maker, #2)]]> 7968 Come here to the magical America that might have been
In this sequel to Seventh Son, Alvin Maker is awakening to many mysteries: his own strange powers, the magic of the land, and the special virtues of its chosen people, the Native Americans.

Alvin has discovered his own unique talent for making things whole again. Now he summons all his powers to prevent a tragic war between Native Americans and the white settlers of North America.]]> 311 Orson Scott Card 0812524268 Craig 3 fantasy 3.80 1988 Red Prophet (Tales of Alvin Maker, #2)
author: Orson Scott Card
name: Craig
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1988
rating: 3
read at: 2023/10/12
date added: 2023/10/12
shelves: fantasy
review:

]]> Head On (Lock In, #2) 35018901 Head On, the standalone follow-up to the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Lock In. Chilling near-future SF with the thrills of a gritty cop procedural, Head On brings Scalzi's trademark snappy dialogue and technological speculation to the future world of sports.

Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent’s head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are “threeps,” robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden’s Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real and the crowds love it.

Until a star athlete drops dead on the playing field.

Is it an accident or murder? FBI Agents and Haden-related crime investigators, Chris Shane and Leslie Vann, are called in to uncover the truth―and in doing so travel to the darker side of the fast-growing sport of Hilketa, where fortunes are made or lost, and where players and owners do whatever it takes to win, on and off the field.]]> 335 John Scalzi 076538891X Craig 4 science-fiction 3.97 2018 Head On (Lock In, #2)
author: John Scalzi
name: Craig
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2023/09/15
date added: 2023/09/15
shelves: science-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Showcase Presents: Jonah Hex, Vol. 2]]> 1186809
The surly gunslinger's adventures continue in this second volume, featuring the work of comics legends Michael Fleisher, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, Vicente Alcazar, Ernie Chan and more! Collects Weird Western Tales #34-38 and Jonah Hex #1-22.]]> 528 Michael Fleisher 1401215610 Craig 4 comicbooks 4.11 2014 Showcase Presents: Jonah Hex, Vol. 2
author: Michael Fleisher
name: Craig
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2023/09/10
date added: 2023/09/10
shelves: comicbooks
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Guenhwyvar (A Tale from The Legend of Drizzt, #4)]]> 22915866 24 R.A. Salvatore Craig 3 fantasy 4.33 2014 Guenhwyvar (A Tale from The Legend of Drizzt, #4)
author: R.A. Salvatore
name: Craig
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2023/09/01
date added: 2023/09/01
shelves: fantasy
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Deadly Dram (Whisky Business Mystery, #3)]]> 37861675
It’s been a year since globe-trotting photojournalist Abi Logan inherited Abbey Glen, a whisky distillery in the heart of the Scottish countryside. To her surprise, the village of Balfour already feels like home, and her new business partner, Grant MacEwan, continues to be too charming to resist. But Abi has a history of relationship disasters, so she struggles to avoid an ill-fated romance with Grant. Steering clear is hard enough on a day-to-day basis, but when the two head off to a whisky industry competition together, Abi panics. Five-star resort, four glorious days of nonstop whisky tasting, and a fatally attractive Scotsman—what could possibly go wrong?

The night before the award presentations, with foreign and domestic whisky makers at one anothers’ throats, two judges are found dead under mysterious circumstances. What started with three dream-come-true nominations for Abby Glen’s whisky soon turns into a nightmare for Abi. With a killer on the loose, she must call on her investigative skills to stop another murder—before she gets taken out of the running herself.]]> 272 Melinda Mullet Craig 4 mystery 4.09 2018 Deadly Dram (Whisky Business Mystery, #3)
author: Melinda Mullet
name: Craig
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2023/09/01
date added: 2023/09/01
shelves: mystery
review:

]]> <![CDATA[All Things Aside: Absolutely Correct Opinions]]> 60310740 All Things Aside is a punchy, honest, incisive book that shares a view of the world through the eyes of the inimitable Iliza Shlesinger. From the macro to micro, Shlesinger tackles it all with her no-bullshit comedic style.

Throughout the book, Shlesinger dives from one subject into the next, making her hilarious asides the meat of her stories, much like she does in her stand-up comedy. Topics range from dissecting social expectations to the notion that products marketed specifically to women are scams, and all manner of things in between. She even dares to ask herself the all-important question that every woman is forced to consider at some point—Am I actually an annoying person? Shlesinger also shares intimate moments, including a devastating miscarriage, which she manages to navigate not only with grace but somehow with side-splitting humor.

As Margaret Cho explains in the book’s foreword, “Every woman has something to gain from the Everywoman Iliza presents in her hilarious and astute worldview. . . . I’ve learned [from Iliza] that you don’t have to quit when you are in pain, that you can write your way out of the suffering. That there is beautiful truth to be unearthed from the depths of despair. That the stupid can be smart and that we put ourselves through hell for nothing.” All Things Aside offers unexpected insights, much-needed truths, and tons and tons of laughs.        ]]> 256 Iliza Shlesinger 141975940X Craig 4 biography, humor 3.91 2022 All Things Aside: Absolutely Correct Opinions
author: Iliza Shlesinger
name: Craig
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2023/08/28
date added: 2023/08/28
shelves: biography, humor
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Last Son of Dorn (The Beast Arises, #10)]]> 29430536
With their new Deathwatch kill-teams a resounding success, the forces of the Imperium return to the heart of the ork empire to finish what they started…

As the ork menace ravages the galaxy, the Imperium faces its darkest hour. Its fleets are in ruins, its armies devastated – amongst them the noble Imperial Fists – and even a primarch of myth has fallen against the Beast. As brute force fails, Koorland resorts to increasingly desperate tactics against the greenskins. A final hope lies in deploying the controversial Deathwatch and the Sisters of Silence in a deft strike at the heart of the ork empire. As the situation grows more dire, Koorland must live up to the symbol he has become as the last son of Dorn or all of humanity will be doomed.

It's the true turning point of The Beast Arises series, when everything changes. We won't say any more: just read it and see.]]> 256 David Guymer Craig 3 3.71 The Last Son of Dorn (The Beast Arises, #10)
author: David Guymer
name: Craig
average rating: 3.71
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2023/08/26
date added: 2023/08/26
shelves: black-library, science-fiction
review:

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