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He can't remember much about the night before having suffered from seizures for most of his life, Yu-jin often has trouble with his memory. ![]() Yu-jin soon discovers her murdered body, lying in a pool of blood at the bottom of the stairs of their stylish Seoul duplex. Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself?Įarly one morning, twenty-six-year-old Yu-jin wakes up to a strange metallic smell, and a phone call from his brother asking if everything's all right at home he missed a call from their mother in the middle of the night. Ripley meets The Bad Seed in this breathless, chilling psychological thriller by the #1 international bestselling novelist known as "Korea's Stephen King." ![]() Francine rivers novel5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The story reflects the redemptive power of unconditional and sacrificial love with characters and circumstances relevant to the contemporary world. Through his gentle acceptance, she discovers there is no brokenness that love can’t heal. 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His first discovery is the mummified bodies of two other people on beds in the same room. Now, with Project Hail Mary, he skips the rest of the solar system and heads straight out for interstellar space.Ī man awakens in a small room, with no memory of where he is, or even of his own name. ![]() He followed that novel with a very different and equally good novel about the Moon, Artemis. Retail Price: $28.99/$31.00/$14.99/$25.99įew science fiction authors have enjoyed as spectacular a debut as Andy Weir had with The Martian. ![]() Format: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle, Audiobook ![]() Dee brown wounded knee5/30/2023 ![]() 7th Cavalry, under orders to disarm a group of several hundred Miniconjou and Hunkpapa Sioux, stumbled into a chaotic fight on December 29, 1890, in which they killed probably more than 150 Indians, including dozens of women and children, and lost 25 men. 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On a BBC interview in July 2007 he said “War is a calculated out of control slaughter of humans.” The purpose of this paper is to suggest that the opposite of war may be the inextinguishable human need to make things rather than destroy them. For a definition of war, I differ to Harry Patch, at the time of writing the last known survivor of World War One trenches and 109 years of age. If we are to accept the universal principal of change as the integral component to all life, our concept of peace as stasis betrays our predilection to choose war as an acceptable means of human expression. It might be deduced from this that peace is popularly understood as inaction, whereas the opposite is true of its antonym, war. Furthermore, common synonyms of the word peace in thesauri include inactive, inanimate, mild and motionless. ![]() As it is experienced by most people, peace is both temporary and local, an unstable situation before the inevitable return of the cessation of truth and morality which always accompany war. ![]() ""Concepts of Peace: Peace as an Activity Against War Peace is not the opposite of war. ![]() Green lights book5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. ![]() ![]() So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. 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From the Academy Award ®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. ![]() When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon5/29/2023 ![]() Dimple is a quirky yet perky, goal-orientated girl who intends to progress her profession. I located it rejuvenating to check out a book that shows two sides of a coin. This charming comedy shares the sights of 2 kids of 2 sets of Indian moms and dads. Sandhya Menon’s launching novel is lovely with simply enough humor. Their budding relationship ends up turning into something much more. ![]() ![]() She knows it’s not his fault as well as even informs him to stay when he provided to go home early. ![]() The very first official meeting between Dimple and also Rishi is valuable! Dimple seems to dislike Rishi but overtime she heated up to him and also even they even end up being buddies. 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