![]() ![]() ![]() John gave Steve a safe harbor after Steve escaped an abusive foster home and together they navigated a new path that led to personal and professional success. Steve Pemberton found a lighthouse in an ordinary man named John Sykes, his former high school counselor. We are adrift in a dark sea of disillusionment and distrust and we need "human lighthouses" to give us hope and direct us back to the goodness in each other and in our own hearts. Our polarized, divisive culture seems to be without heroes and role models. ![]() In this stirring follow-up to his memoir, Steve Pemberton gives practical encouragement for how you can be a "human lighthouse" for others and through these inspiring stories will renew your hope for humanity. ![]()
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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "A meticulous study of the dark intricacies of the human mind" * The Bookbag * "Probably the best thing of its kind since In Cold Blood.a classic study in criminal mentality" - Colin Wilson * Yorkshire Post * "'A truly awesome tale, brilliantly told'." * Literary Review * Though dealing with sensational and horrific matters he has managed, God knows how, to treat his material with such objectivity and restraint that what we have is not a penny dreadful from the Hammer House of Horror, but a bloody masterpiece'." * Beryl Bainbridge * Brian Masters, in the writing, has achieved the impossible. "'Killing For Company must stand as one of the most remarkable and accurate accounts ever written of the singular relationship between a mass murderer and a society. ![]() ![]() I had really enjoyed Torin in all the previous books but I could't get myself to like him in this one. But sadly, The Darkest Touch did not meet my expectations. I had high hopes for The Darkest Touch as Torin was one of my favorite Lords since the beginning of the series and I was waiting for his book since a long time. I was a huge fan of the Lords of the Underworld series but things seem to be deteriorating for me since the past few books. His touch could mean the end for her, but resisting her is the hardest battle he’s ever fought-and the only battle he fears he can’t win. When the powerful beauty with shocking vulnerabilities escapes from a centuries-long imprisonment, the desire that simmers between her and Torin is scorching. ![]() Carnal pleasure is utterly forbidden, and though he has always overcome temptation with an iron will, his control is about to shatter. ![]() Torin’s every touch causes sickness and death-and a worldwide plague. From New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter comes the long-awaited story of Torin, the most dangerous Lord of the Underworld yet…įierce immortal warrior. ![]() ![]() ![]() One group hopes to see America become great again the other claims that such golden age thinking is a fantasy of the privileged. ![]() ![]() No, insist most conservatives, it’s a narrative of individuals striving for liberty, who got stymied, at times, by meddlesome progressives and riotous radicals. It’s the story of a white man’s empire, many scholars on the left contend, against which dissenters of all races and genders have struggled to create a truly democratic society. And the argument a historian makes about America’s long, turbulent, and demographically complex past-from the arrival of the first European settlers in the sixteenth century to the triumph of Donald Trump-depends upon the story she chooses to tell. “To write history is to make an argument by telling a story,” Jill Lepore once explained. ![]() ![]() ![]() Had Buffy told her mother about Oz? “That he’s a really good guitarist.” Any more than I can tell them that Oz is. “Well, it’s not something I’m really doing,” she said. They came to a red light and she automatically looked out the window, looking for more men in long coats. “Your parents won’t really be surprised.” “It’s the thoughtful kind of thing you’d really do,” Buffy’s mom said, smiling gently at her. In the car, Joyce suggested a wonderful, terrible lie to cover up for Willow’s frequent absences: a friend of hers had run away from home, was living on the streets, and Willow was trying to urge her to go to the runaway shelter run by Connie DeMarco. ![]() Willow couldn’t help it, she burst into tears and let Joyce Summers rock her for a few comforting minutes. Summers murmured, “Oh, Willow,” and pulled her into her arms. ” And then the reality of what was happening hit her: she’d been out all night, she hadn’t recast her binding spells, and her parents had probably already called the police, despite Buffy’s mom covering for her. Oz wanted to leave his van at Angel’s, in case Angel needed it.” “I can’t believe it took that long to find a space.” She smiled faintly. After the plane took off, Willow sat and waited several minutes until Buffy’s mom hurried up. Then somehow he was gone, hurrying down toward a gate to catch the last plane to Boston. “You don’t ever have to apologize for who you are.” She touched his hair. ![]() ![]() ![]() As an astronomer, Sagan is especially plagued by reports of UFO visitations and abductions, so that is what he focuses on, analyzing these reports in detail, starting with the origins of the ``flying saucer'' craze in the pulp science fiction of the '30s and '40s. Despite the proven power of science to change the world, pseudoscience thrives-claiming as its adherents bright, inquisitive people who, according to Sagan, have not learned the basic techniques of careful inquiry. ![]() ![]() He starts with an anecdote of a cab driver who, upon learning that his passenger was ``that scientist guy,'' insisted on quizzing him on UFOs, Atlantis, the shroud of Turin, and similar topics from the fringes of rational discourse. Sagan (Pale Blue Dot, 1994, etc.) takes it as his mission to defend the worth and importance of science against the irrational crossfire of New Age philosophies and religious fundamentalism. Alarmed by the rise of superstition and pseudoscience, a leading science writer rallies the forces of reason and scientific literacy. ![]() ![]() Seeing my enthusiasm for the book and this film, which we watched as a class after reading, he also recommended to me the medial science-based thrillers of Robin Cook, which I eagerly devoured.Īside from films like Side Effects, Flatliners, and Coma (directed by Crichton as an adaptation of a Cook novel!), medical thrillers at the movies often mean outbreak movies. ![]() Donahue had assigned us a novel outside of our textbook, which was odd, but it was also a Crichton I hadn’t read before, The Andromeda Strain. When I got to my freshman year biology class, Mr. ![]() By Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, The Red HerringĪfter I first became aware of Michael Critchon via Jurassic Park and my love for dinosaurs, I devoured many of his novels in my middle school years: Congo, Sphere, Eaters of the Dead, Airframe, and I remember waiting for my mom to finish Timeline so I could read the hardcover after her. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My individual works have mostly appeared in ‘Reaktor’ and in various anthology books. I have also made many collaborations with Maniakkide Tänav and Veiko Belials and I have received 6 Stalkers (an Estonia sci-fi award) for co-authorship. I started reading sci-fi in early childhood and this hobby has slowly become a Important part of my life ? As an author, I debuted in the fanzine Reaktor, witch I co-founded with the famous Estonian sci-fi and horror writer Maniakkide Tänav in 2011. (Jans Joel) I’m a fandom activist and writer of horror and SF stories. ![]() (Darius Hupov) Joel, please present yourself to our readers I had the pleasure to have an interview with Joel Jans, who is „a fandom activist and writer of horror and SF stories”. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These illnesses spread more during cold months, but there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that temperature impacts the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The early symptoms are similar to other common viruses such as the common cold and flu. The most commonly reported symptoms are a fever and a dry cough, leading to shortness of breath. ![]() It can take up to 14 days for symptoms of the illness to start being noticed. However, by spring 2022, rates of new infections had decreased in many countries and restrictions were once again lifted. As rates of new infections increased, some countries in Europe, like Germany and Austria, tightened restrictions once again, specifically targeting those who were not yet vaccinated. ![]() At the end of 2021 the virus was once again circulating at very high rates, even in countries with relatively high vaccination rates such as the United States and Germany. Over 1.16 million of these deaths occurred in the United States.Īlmost every country and territory worldwide have been affected by the COVID-19 disease. As of May 2, 2023, the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) had spread to almost every country in the world, and more than 6.86 million people had died after contracting the respiratory virus. ![]() |