The story moves very fast and is full of twists and turns and has a very clever plot in which you are never completely sure who is ‘the good guy.’ I loved that I was never completely sure what was going to happen or what I really wanted to happen, and I thought the author tied the story lines all together very well in the end. Deception Point is a fun, thrilling book. This was Dan Brown’s third book, after Digital Fortress and Angels and Demons, but before The Da Vinci Code. Review #3 Audiobook Deception Point: A Novel by Cris Dukehart This shop sent me my book with so much TLC it was packed perfectly, I received a beautiful copy of the book that was just as described, and the shop enclosed a hand-made painted book marker as a free gift. Review #2 Deception Point: A Novel audiobook Series Shifters Unbound
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Detective Sergeant Peter Sebeck of the Ventura County sheriff’s department quickly learns (without exactly understanding how) that newspaper headlines can activate the Daemon, which throws switches that electrocute and decapitate. The first are a couple of high-level employees at CyberStorm, the Southern California corporation that controls and distributes Sobol’s hugely popular games. Before he died of brain cancer, Sobol perfected a brilliant string of programming instructions that soon begin to claim victims. That’s precisely what mastermind Matthew Sobol did. The modern way to carry out your wishes is to use a daemon, a computer program that lies dormant until other factors set it in motion. How do you really mess things up after you’re dead: tricky wills? entailments? trusts? Posthumous legal meddling is so last millennium. Computer programs left behind by a dying inventor of video games spread dark mischief around the world, pitting gamers and enabled losers against the most powerful government agencies and businesses, with the geeks holding the best hands. Wokulski's story is intertwined with those of the incorrigibly romantic old clerk Rzecki, nostalgic for the revolutions of 1848, and of the bright young scientist Ochocki, who dreams of a future full of flying machines and other marvels, making for a book of great scope and richness that is, as Stanislaw Baranczak writes in his introduction, at once "an old-fashioned yet still fascinating love story. Prus's fatally flawed hero is Wokulski, a successful businessman who yearns for recognition from Poland's decadent aristocracy and falls desperately in love with the highborn, glacially beautiful Izabela. At the center of the book are three men from three different generations. But The Doll is above all a brilliant novel of character, dramatizing conflicting ideas through the various convictions, ambitions, confusions, and frustrations of an extensive and varied cast. Boleslaw Prus is often compared to Chekhov, and Prus's masterpiece might be described as an intimate epic, a beautifully detailed, utterly absorbing exploration of life in late-nineteenth-century Warsaw, which is also a prophetic reckoning with some of the social forces-imperialism, nationalism, anti-Semitism among them-that would soon convulse Europe as never before. "Roy's second novel proves as remarkable as her first. "A lustrously braided and populated tale." - Vanity Fair luminous passages span eras and regions of the Indian subcontinent and artfully weave the stories of several characters into a triumphant symphony." - Minneapolis Star Tribune A love story with characters so heartbreaking and compelling they sear themselves into the reader's brain." - USA Today "A fiercely unforgettable novel about gender, terrorism, Indian's caste system, corruption and politics. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness works its empathetic magic upon a breathtakingly broad slate." - O, The Oprah Magazine "Roy writes with astonishing vividness." - The New York Times Book Review It may leave you shaking, too." - San Francisco Chronicle Infused with so much passion-political, social, emotional-that it vibrates. Roy's novel is this decade's ecstatic and necessary answer." - The Boston Globe Once a decade, if we are lucky, a novel emerges from the cinder pit of living that asks the urgent question of our global era. 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At the premiere of the original Stepford Wives in, the film's director Bryan Forbes was assaulted with an umbrella by a woman he described as a "militant libber".Author: Jeanette Winterson. "The struggle over the direction of our country," he wrote, "is also a fight over whose words will win and whose images will ignite the collective imagination." Immigrants needed to tell their story - and tell it better. Soon after the 2016 election, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen published a piece in the New York Times arguing that the outcome was partly the failure of writers. The failure to cultivate and nurture the voices of American writers of minority and immigrant backgrounds was the failure to tell a full national story, writer Junot Diaz explained in a New Yorker essay. A viral social media movement led by writers of color called #WeNeedDiverseBooks began pushing the industry to acknowledge and address its resounding whiteness. Two years before the election of President Trump and the bitter politics of border walls, Muslim bans and s-hole countries, the American publishing industry was facing an identity crisis. Like his predecessor though, Vek still believed that society was more important than individuals, and had no hesitation in committing murder for the greater good. Learning of Zyn's fate, Vek nonetheless came to the conclusion that humanity had potential, and was able to get the Dread Council to grant him a year in which to manipulate mankind's development for the better. Servitor Vek was a novice servitor dispatched to Earth months later to find out what had happened to Zyn. Harvey stabbed Doomlord while the alien was in human form, who promptly passed his life force into Harvey's body however, before the alien could establish control, Harvey deliberately exposed himself to the deadly germ agent and died, taking Zyn with him. The first Doomlord, Servitor Zyn, infiltrated human society and judged it wanting, pronouncing a death sentence on mankind and attempting to unleash a bacteriological agent which would destroy all human life, but was ultimately destroyed himself by the self sacrifice of reporter Howard Harvey, who had been tracking him for months but had not been able to convince anyone else of the alien's existence. Both the identical individuals known on Earth as Doomlord were servants of the mysterious Dread Council of Nox, sent to Earth to judge humanity's fitness to survive and establish whether or not mankind posed a threat to the rest of the Galaxy. 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At the age of seven, Mary Higgins Clark shockingly composed her first poem and frequently crafted some short plays that her friends enacted. At her childhood age, Mary had an interest in writing. Mary Higgins Clark’s father Luke Higgins and mother Nora are of Irish descent though Nora was born in the United States of America. Mary Higgins Clark is one and half years younger than her elder brother Joseph and three years older than her younger brother John. She is the only daughter in a family of three children. Mary Higgins Clark was born on 24th December 1927 and passed away on January 31st, 2020. 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