![]() ![]() ![]() officials had a hand in Nixon-era foreign policy, Kissinger was the common denominator, the de facto commander-in-chief of Washington’s most sordid foreign ventures during the 1970s. Kissinger is better suited for a prison uniform, Christopher Hitchens argues in The Trial of Henry Kissinger, a compact but hard-hitting indictment of the man who simultaneously served as Secretary of State and White House national security adviser under presidents Nixon and Ford. It did so under the auspices of Henry Kissinger, that cynical and duplicitous power-player who, even today, somehow manages to don the cloak of respectability from time to time. President Richard Nixon may have resigned in shame, but the Nixonian approach to foreign policy–marked by deceit, influence peddling, bullying and outright brutality–lived on. ![]()
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![]() But for Krakauer himself, further interviews and investigations only lead him to the conclusion that his perceived failures were directly responsible for a fellow climber's death. ![]() Krakauer's highly personal inquiry into the catastrophe provides a great deal of insight into what went wrong. He also avoids blasting easy targets such as Sandy Pittman, the wealthy socialite who brought an espresso maker along on the expedition. He takes great pains to provide a balanced picture of the people and events he witnessed and gives due credit to the tireless and dedicated Sherpas. By writing Into Thin Air, Krakauer may have hoped to exorcise some of his own demons and lay to rest some of the painful questions that still surround the event. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. "A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story of bad luck and worse judgment and of heartbreaking heroism." - PEOPLE A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. ![]() Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more-including Krakauer's-in guilt-ridden disarray. #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Binding: Trade Paperback ISBN: 0385494785 Everest Disasterīook Condition: New Publisher: Anchor, October 1999. ![]() ![]() Krakauer, Jon Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. ![]() ![]() Kevin reached up and put his hand on John's.pulling it tighter against his belly, pushing against the softness.he felt the younger man's hand tracing his roll of fat and noticed that his eyes were wide and a really goofy smile was on his face."Maybe you'd, you know.like to come over for dinner tonight.?" John asked Kevin's fat. ![]() "I'm, ummm, sorry, Kevin.I think I'm making it worse.when I wanted to make you.I.ummm, I mean I wanted to make it better." John was breathing deeply and had stopped wiping with the cloth, although he hadn't taken his hand off Kevin's stomach. Happy was definitely back on-line and was starting to push out his pants to line up with his growing gut. Happy in a sort of quick sexual take on Dr. ![]() ![]() John came out from behind the stand with a damp cloth and stared wiping at the stain."I think it will be fine." John whispered.and Kevin noticed that his rescuer seemed to be spending more attention to the softness of his belly than to the stain.in fact, his hand was circling around a much larger area than where the cinnamon was.a dark marking from the damp cloth was spreading out above his belt several times the size of the original brown spot.Kevin laughed and wondered if another stain was starting to spread across John's underwear.while at the same time he wondered if John was wearing underwear. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a duty and a destiny that requires Rand to uncover and master magical capabilities he never imagined he possessed. But he has also learned that he is The Dragon Reborn-the Champion of Light destined to stand against the Shadow time and again. ![]() In pursuit of the thieves, Rand al’Thor is determined to keep the Horn out of the grasp of The Dark One. ![]() Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. So many tales about each of the Hunters, and so many Hunters to tell of. For centuries, gleemen have told the tales of The Great Hunt of the Horn. In The Great Hunt, the second novel in Robert Jordan’s #1 New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time®, Rand al’Thor and his companions set out to retrieve a powerful magical artifact from The Dark One’s Shadowspawn. Rosamund Pike returns with an outstanding narration of The Great Hunt, Book Two of the Wheel of Time, now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund as Moiraine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dallas is her neighbor and the coach of her older nephew’s baseball team. Diana Casillas, cousin to Kulti’s Salome Casillas, is a hair colorist and single parent to her two nephews. Wait For It is as lovely a story of two normal people falling in love as Mrs. However, if books had anthems, this one’s would be “Wait For It” from Hamilton. Warning, this book has nothing to do with Aaron Burr. I have since discovered that if you are signed up for Kindle Unlimited, you can read it for free. Julien, being the lovely human being and inveterate book pusher that she is, loaned the book to me. ![]() Julien’s review of Wait For It, and now here I am, 24 hours later, writing my own review of Wait For It. With 96 words still eluding me, I took a break to read Mrs. I didn’t hate it, so I don’t have hate fueling my words. ![]() I am in the middle of struggling through a review of a graphic novel that I didn’t like. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why, then, do these works deviate so radically from the depictions of nude women by other artists? To answer this question the author examines Rembrandt’s paintings and etchings against the foil of established pictorial traditions in the Netherlands as well as Italy. However, Rembrandt chose conventional subjects, keeping close to time-honored pictorial schemes, and was well aware of the high prestige accorded to the depiction of the naked female body. ![]() They were considered against-the-grain, anti-classical, even ugly and unpleasant. ![]() Rembrandt’s extraordinary paintings of female nudes – Andromeda, Susanna, Diana and Her Nymphs, Danaë, Bathsheba – as well as his etchings of nude women, have fascinated many generations of art lovers and art historians, but they have also elicited vehement criticism. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A fun fantasy with well-drawn characters and engaging suspense. Emily knows that if she fails, not only will the passengers never see their loved ones again, but Emily won’t be able to return either. Welcome back to the world of Emily Windsnap A school trip to a beautiful island plunges Emily and her friends into a new adventure. About Emily Windsnap and the Ship of Lost Souls Whats next for our favorite mergirl. ![]() Only Emily, with her ability to transform from mermaid to human, can enter Atlantis to try to bring the ship’s passengers back before the portal is closed forever. Searching for answers only leads to more questions until Emily and her friends confront the island’s keeper, uncovering the incredible story of a ship caught between land and sea, day and night. ![]() The ship appears and disappears only at certain times of day-growing fainter each time. Emily Windsnap finds herself caught between worlds in a dramatic new episode of the New York Times best-selling series.Ī field trip to a mysterious island quickly turns into an adventure when Emily Windsnap and Aaron discover a secret lookout point from which they spot a ghostly ship that no one else seems to be able to see. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 1980s (3) 2017 (3) 20th century (3) a-read-count-01x (2) books-from-the-80s (2) cannibalism (20) cannibals (11) collectible (3) disturbing (3) ebook (6) fiction (75) g-h-horror (2) goodreads import (3) gore (4) horror (209) horror series (4) Jack Ketchum (7) Ketchum (3) Kindle (5) limited (5) Maine (10) Measured (3) mystery (4) novel (19) off season (3) own (5) paperback (10) pb (3) porch-book (3) print (3) r-sad-scenes (2) rated-adult-nc-17 (2) rated-for-violence (2) read (8) read in 2008 (4) rural (4) series (8) signed (14) softcover (3) splatterpunk (8) survival (3) suspense (3) terror (4) the clan (4) theme-dark-psychological (2) thriller (22) to-read (113) unread (3) wishlist (3) Your library (3) Top Members ![]() ![]() ![]() In Allington, Lily Dale, still in her early twenties, is settling down to a life of pleasant spinsterhood while in London Johnny Eames is progressing steadily at work and, when he’s not too busy, still pining after Lily. ![]() The Grantlys are rejoicing in the worldly success of their children, though youngest son Henry, now a widower, is less certain of his path than his siblings. Mr Harding, surely the sweetest and most beloved of all Trollope’s creations, is slowly begininning to drift out of this life. ![]() Children have grown to adulthood (or been wordlessly killed off, in the case of two of the Grantly offspring), ecumenical battles have been waged, marriages both good and bad have been made, and, as is only natural with the passing of time, our beloved central characters have aged. Much has changed since we were first introduced to the cathedral town of Barchester in The Warden. ![]() But the beautiful thing about books is that I can always revisit these friends, as long as they remain on my shelves (which they will do – forever). When I finished The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope (four years after picking up The Warden, the first in Trollope’s delightful series), it was with tears streaming down my face and the sense that I was parting from dear old friends. ![]() ![]() Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe.
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