5/13/2023 0 Comments Review the searcher tana frenchDivorced, and missing his now grown-up daughter, Cal finds himself drawn to Trey and gets involved even though, without the necessary authority and tools of the trade, he is out on a limb. His days are largely taken up with renovations, trying to understand the local customs and responding cautiously to inquiries about his marital status, when a scruffy local kid who has taken to hanging around his property asks for help in finding a vanished older sibling. American Cal Hooper, formerly of the Chicago PD, has bought himself a fixer-upper in a remote village in the west of Ireland with the intention of settling down to a quiet life. Author of the Dublin Murder Squad series Tana French has described her second standalone, The Searcher(Viking, £14.99), as her take on a western, and the lone stranger who rides into town to right wrongs and generally disrupt the place is a classic Frontier-era theme.
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Immanuel kant philosophyAccordingly, the will is a good will provided it acts from duty. This leads Kant to claim that the good will is the only thing good without qualification–or the only thing that is intrinsically good. We value courage, but a suicide bomber also exhibits courage. For example, we value knowledge, but such can be used to commit atrocities in the world, so knowledge is good sometimes. If we think about the other goods and things that we value, such are not good without qualification. To clarify, Kant thinks the good will is the only thing that is intrinsically valuable. Morality is defined by duties and one’s action is moral if it is an act motivated by duty.Īccording to Kant the only thing that is good in itself is the “good will.” The will is what drives our actions and grounds the intention of our act. For Kant, morality is not defined by the consequences of our actions, our emotions, or an external factor. Morally speaking, Kant is a deontologist from the Greek, this is the science of duties. 5/13/2023 0 Comments We own this city justin fentonWith other members of the empowered Gun Trace Task Force, Jenkins stole from Baltimore's citizens-skimming from drug busts, pocketing thousands in cash found in private homes, and planting fake evidence to throw Internal Affairs off their scent. Entrusted with fixing the city's drug and gun crisis, Jenkins chose to exploit it instead. Facing pressure from the mayor's office-as well as a federal investigation of the department over Gray's death-Baltimore police commanders turn to a rank-and-file hero, Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, and his elite plainclothes unit, the Gun Trace Task Force, to help get guns and drugs off the street.īut behind these new efforts, a criminal conspiracy of unprecedented scale was unfolding within the police department. Drug and violent crime are surging, and Baltimore will reach its highest murder count in more than two decades: 342 homicides in a single year, in a city of just 600,000 people. Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year-old Black man who has died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody. The astonishing true story of "one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation" (the New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter who exposed a gang of criminal cops and their yearslong plunder of an American city.īaltimore, 2015. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Books written by simon sinekThe Blinkist team gathers the most powerful ideas from nonfiction books and shares them in 15-minute reads and listens. Want to learn the ideas from Simon Sinek’s book recommendations fast? They’re all available on the Blinkist app. He says these reads have inspired his own career in leadership and completely changed his mindset towards life’s challenges. He’s written bestselling books himself-including Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last- but he’s also recommended plenty of books over the years. He’s helped everyone from Fortune 100 companies to the US military empower their teams, and his TED talk on how great leaders inspire action is one of the most popular talks of all time, with 59 million views-and counting! Simon Sinek is a leadership expert, motivational speaker, and self-proclaimed optimist. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Clockwork princess bookThere was a glorious ending battle where the protagonists defeated the bad guy in a seemingly hopeless situation. The characters were done well and were consistent with their characterizations in the previous books. I didn’t really have any qualms with the plot. Chapter 30: Chapter 24: The Measure of Love.Chapter 28: Chapter 22: Thunder in the Trumpet.Chapter 26: Chapter 20: The Infernal Devices.
5/13/2023 0 Comments PTL by John H. WiggerWhen it all fell apart, after revelations of a sex scandal and massive financial mismanagement, all of America watched more than two years of federal investigation and trial as Jim was eventually convicted on 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy. They bought vacation homes, traveled first-class with an entourage and proclaimed that God wanted everyone to be healthy and wealthy. The Bakkers led a life of conspicuous consumption perfectly aligned with the prosperity gospel they preached. By 1987 they stood at the center of a ministry empire that included their own satellite network, a 2300-acre theme park visited by six million people a year, and millions of adoring fans. In 1974 Jim and Tammy Bakker launched their television show, the PTL Club, from a former furniture store in Charlotte, N.C. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series. Oxford Commentaries on International Law. 5/13/2023 0 Comments The Ring Bearer by Floyd CooperI appreciate how straightforward the text is, and her collage images support the messy, chaotic feelings that divorce brings up. Part of the Higginbotham’s Ordinary Terrible Things Series, which portrays kids dealing with issues like divorce and death. Divorce Is the Worst by Anastasia Higginbotham Another book for older picture book readers, this is an important and poignant read.Ī Tale of Two Seders by Mindy Avra Portnoy and Valeria CisĪ very specific experience for divorced children – what happens for holidays? How will the family be able to celebrate? Set over the course of three years, readers see how a family develops and creates new traditions. And now I am in my blue period.” Emily’s dad has moved out and she is struggling to deal with all the changes in her life. “When Picasso was sad for a while,” says Emily, “he only painted in blue. Emily’s Blue Period by Cathleen Daly and Lisa Brown This one is for slightly older children, as the story is a bit more detailed. Lou measures time as it passes so that he can keep track of when he will see each parent again. The art is fun and bright, and the story is one that many children from divorced families will find relatable. Lou Caribou: Weekdays with Mom, Weekends with Dad by Marie-Sabine Roger and Nathalie Choux A masterful work of historical fiction about hope, exile and belonging, and one that sheds light on the way we live now’. There, they find themselves enmeshed in a rich web of characters who come together in love and tragedy over the course of four generations, destined to witness the battle between freedom and repression as it plays out across the world.Ī masterful work of historical fiction that soars from the Spanish Civil War to the rise and fall of Pinochet, A Long Petal of the Sea is Isabel Allende at the height of her powers.’An epic that starts in 1939 and spans decades and continents. When opportunity to seek refuge arises, they board a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda to Chile, the promised ‘long petal of sea and wine and snow’. Together with his sister-in-law, the pianist Roser, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile. It’s also the story of their country, both their homeland and adopted nation, and their culture. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER’One of the strongest and most affecting works in Allende’s long career’ New York Times Book Review’A defiantly warm and funny novel, by somebody who has earned the right to argue that love and optimism can survive whatever history might throw at us’ Daily TelegraphSeptember 3, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles’ splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe.Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life – and the fate of his country – forever changed. The story of Victor and Roser is very much the beating heart of ‘A long petal of the sea’ by Isabel Allende, as we follow them from Barcelona to Chile and later Venezuela, watching their relationship develop and change over the years. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Sing me forgotten jessica olsonThe general plot is similar to the original story, but the details have changed to create a new world. She pays homage to the old story with some of the more negative personality traits of our Phantom. Olson does a fantastic job of retelling Phantom of the Opera in a new world. Slowly, she falls in love, and the world she thought she knew falls apart. She risks everything to become Emmeric’s vocal tutor and get him on the stage. That is until she meets Emmeric, the first person whose memories are in color. She lived under the opera and operated in the shadows. Isda’s job is to adjust the audience’s memories of the opera. “When do I get to step out of the shadows and live?” “Is that my fate? To always watch and envy and imagine?” “When is it my turn?” I ask. All gravoirs are to be killed upon birth, but Isda was saved by opera owner Cyril. You can tell who gravoirs are because they have a terrible marking on their face. The elixir is a powerful substance that is a large part of this world’s trade system. She is not to be mistaken for a Fendoirs, who can only pull memories from consenting people to make elixir out of them. Gravoirs are people who can experience other memories by hearing them sing and, in some cases, manipulate those memories. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Sugar creek by toni blakeSo when he pulls over the sporty little car that just blew past his cruiser and encounters a smart-mouthed woman with tons of attitude, he is not a happy camper. Officer Mike Romo takes law enforcement very seriously. So, as Rachel headed back to her hometown, she was not in the best mood and seeing blue lights in her rear-view mirror did not improve that in the slightest. No big deal, right? Until her company decided it needed to downsize…right after Rachel’s team lost a major account. Then when she found out it was her turn to help her grandmother with the harvest at the family apple orchard, Rachel dutifully requested a leave of absence. She had left her small town upbringing far behind and had no desire to revisit it. Rachel Farris had the life she always dreamed of – she was an account director at a Chicago advertising company with an awesome apartment and was living the big city life. C2’s review of Sugar Creek (Destiny Series, Book 2) by Toni Blake.Ĭontemporary romance published by Avon 25 May 10 |