![]() ![]() Over a decade, Low, with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, siphoned billions of dollars from an investment fund–right under the nose of global financial industry watchdogs. In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude–one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Now a #1 international bestseller, Billion Dollar Whale is “an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale” ( Publishers Weekly), revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history. ![]() ![]() Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this “thrilling” (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a “modern Gatsby” swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in “the heist of the century” (Axios). ![]()
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![]() ![]() When 'kittypet' Rusty strays into the forest beyond his owner's garden and is ambushed by a wild cat, life as he knows it is over. A thrilling new feline fantasy series that draws you into a vivid animal world. Take your first steps into the wilderness with Rusty the house cat as he leaves his home to go and live in the wild. You can also pick up the next set along, Warrior Cats: The New Prophecy, to make sure you don't run out of books too quickly! Set a year later, it follows Firestar's children after the tribes are displaced by human activity. It's the perfect starting place if you want to read the Warrior Cats series in order. Get in on the ground floor of the warriors' book series with Warrior Cats: The Prophecies Begin, a six-book set of the very first adventures. This world of warring cat tribes has gripped fans of Redwall and other animal stories like nothing else. Thrust into conflict with the other tribes, Rusty must prove himself as a warrior and loyal tribescat in order to claim his name. ![]() When house cat Rusty leaves the human world behind and joins the Thunderclan tribe, everything he knows changes. The Warrior Cats books are an international phenomenon. ![]() ![]() ![]() With this new Disney PhotoPass Lens, you can opt for a bright and bold color palette like Sabine Wren’s armor, or keep your design more discreet – the choice is yours. This is the Way to design your Mandalorian beskar armor. Given the whispers about sightings of individuals associated with the Resistance around Black Spire Outpost, it’s no surprise that you can spot this loveable and loyal astromech in your image. If you’ve come to track down your next bounty, select Image Scanners (known on our planet as Disney PhotoPass photographers) can offer you a holopuck that will reveal the details of your next target. Located deep in the Outer Rim near Wild Space, the remote planet of Batuu has become a thriving destination for scoundrels and smugglers, luring bounty hunters from across the galaxy. Saber the moment: It’s almost May the 4 th!Īnd just in time, Disney PhotoPass Service is launching numerous photo opportunities tomorrow in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disney’s Hollywood Studios! We know some of you are off world and can’t travel at lightspeed to Batuu by tomorrow, so these experiences will continue to be available after the celebration ends. Check them out below. ![]() ![]() A Third Class family who died when the Titanic sankĮach viewpoint was compelling in its own way.John Steadman-a journalist trying to discover the truth of the Californian’s inaction, and what members of its crew knew about it.Certain members of the Californian’s crew.The story is told from three perspectives: These are the questions The Midnight Watch contemplates so beautifully, offering up a scenario of what might have happened that fateful night on the Californian. Why did the Captain not issue the order to go, despite the darkness of the night sky, despite the ice field his own ship was surrounded by, and at least attempt to offer help? What really happened that night, and why? ![]() Near enough to see the Titanic’s eight distress rockets was the Californian, commanded by Captain Stanley Lord, who could have come to their aid-but did not. 76% of the crew-including the Captain, Chief Officer, and First Officer-were lost, as well. ![]() Of the passengers, the greatest loss of life was among the Third Class-76% of whom perished. Over 1500 men, women, and children were lost the night the ship hailed as being”unsinkable” struck an iceberg and sank. ![]() History is full of tragic stories, but the sinking of the Titanic is a particularly poignant one. I’ve been interested in the Titanic for longer than I can remember. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Wayfarer sends Christian to investigate strange hints about a secret Gaia may be hiding, Christian and Laurinda, ghostly memories of the man who went to the stars and the woman who remained on Earth, take virtual human shape, and the tender love that they find together as they probe Gaia's various alternative realities of human civilization reenacts the union of sky and earth that anchors all human mythologies. As Earth's sun begins to fail, the node Wayfarer, in which Brannock's consciousness resides, must determine if humanity's mother world should be saved, though Gaia seems strangely determined to let it perish. Two centuries later, on the brink of Earth's next Ice Age, Laurinda Ashcroft, a human interface to Terra Central, similarly chooses to merge with the supercomputer that millions of years later becomes an element of Gaia, the Earth's artificial intelligence, itself a rebellious node of the galactic brain. After a long career of solar-system exploration, astronaut Christian Brannock achieves man-machine immortality by allowing his personality to be uploaded into an artificial intelligence that can probe the galaxy. ![]() With this brilliantly conceived novel, Grand Master Anderson flings his long-time audience beyond his Starfarers and Boat of a Million Years, into a far-future extrapolation of human destiny that sings praises to the power of human love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s to be expected with a young girl though. Lauren is such a great character and yet kind of stupid. Characters:Īs I started The Ghost Tree mostly follows Lauren. I think there are a few more points of view but I forgot to write them down and we honestly didn’t get their point of view very much. ![]() Schneider, Karen, Sofia Lopez, Richard Touhy III, and Alejandrom (Alex) Lopez. But we also get the point of view of Miranda, Mrs. ![]() The Ghost Tree is a horror novel that mostly follows Lauren. She can’t just let something else bad happen again like the rest of her town is doing. When Lauren has a vision of a monster dragging those girls through the woods she has to do something. This is mostly due to them giving up on finding out what happened to her father the year before. After two girls are found in the woods torn apart, Lauren is shocked but doesn’t really expect the police to find out what happened. When people start to go missing the only person who ever has a clue as to what’s going on is a teenager who had a terrifying vision. This is a safe town where nothing really major happens other than small petty things. This town is small and everyone knows everyone or they at least know about that person. The Ghost Tree is a horror book by Christina Henry. Amazon | Bookshop | Goodreads The Ghost Tree book summary: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He cannot grip a shield or swing an axe, so he must sharpen his mind to a deadly edge. Born a weakling in the eyes of his father, Yarvi is alone in a world where a strong arm and a cold heart rule. And he must do it all with only one good hand. But first he must survive cruelty, chains and the bitter waters of the Shattered Sea itself. Prince Yarvi has vowed to regain a throne he never wanted. Will Thorn always be a tool in the hands of the powerful, or can she carve her own path? Is there a place outside of legend for a woman with a blade? But warriors can be weapons, and weapons are made for one purpose. A failure in her eyes and his own, the voyage is his last chance at redemption. Beside her is Brand, a young warrior who hates to kill. Fate places her life in the hands of the deep-cunning Father Yarvi as he sets out to cross half the world in search of allies against the ruthless High King. But when she kills a boy in the training square she finds herself named a murderer. ![]() But when Mother War spreads her iron wings, she may cast the whole Shattered Sea into darkness… Others – like Brand the smith and Koll the wood-carver – would rather stand in the light. Some – like Thorn Bathu and the sword-bearer Raith – are born to fight, perhaps to die. But now he faces the greatest army since the elves made war on God. The deep-cunning Father Yarvi has walked a long road from crippled slave to king’s minister. But the right words can be as deadly as any blade. Princess Skara has seen all she loved turned to ashes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Want to lose those extra pounds and live a healthy lifestyle?The best new vegetarian weight loss diet. Vegetarian Weight Loss: How to Achieve Healthy Living & Low Fat Lifestyle (Weight Maintenance & Heart Healthy Diet) (Special Diet Cookbooks & Vegetarian Recipes Collection Book 1) And all with just a few simple lifestyle changes! Not in a month or two, but now! Now is the time for t. Would you like to improve your health and boost your immune system?You can do it with clean food diet!Clean eating improves your health, it boosts your immune system, it helps you think better, it makes your skin look better, it makes your hair shine, and your tummy feel much better as well. ![]() Clean Food Diet: Avoid processed foods and eat clean with few simple lifestyle changes(free nutrition recipes)(natural food recipes) (Special Diet Cookbooks & Vegetarian Recipes Collection Book 4) ![]() ![]() You have two heroines sharing the spotlight, Solange who is a vampire and Lucy who is mortal. And really, is there such a thing as too many cute vampire boys? I hope their journeys are such that readers can be entertained but also feel they can overcome whatever it is that might be complicating their own lives as well. HR: Your latest book My Love Lies Bleeding is a YA vamp fantasy, with so many YA Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy style books around what do you feel sets your first Drake book apart from the field?ĪH: There’s no denying there’s a glut of vampire novels out there… but I hope that my heroines stand alone. Many thanks to Alyxandra for her time and I am really looking forward to reading more from this series. ![]() I loved the book and immediately pestered Alyxandra’s lovely publicist for an interview. A few days ago I reviewed My Love Lies Bleeding, a YA vamp romance novel by Alyxandra Harvey. ![]() ![]() “ The White Mountains” is the first volume in the Tripods Trilogy, by the British author John Christopher, who died in 2012. “And I knew that I would rather die than wear a Cap.” “I could not stay, any more than a sheep could walk through a slaughterhouse door once it knew what lay beyond,” he tells us. He has adventures on the high seas and amid once great but now abandoned cities, finally finding his way to a small group of free humans working to launch a resistance. Then a young hero named Will, through a great deal of luck combined with an innate skepticism, figures out what’s coming and flees before being capped. When the adolescents are returned to the outside, they have mind-control devices woven into their scalps, robbing them of free will-depriving them, more specifically, of any desire to fight the creatures that manipulate the machines. ![]() ![]() Humans attend “capping” ceremonies around the time of their fifteenth birthdays, in which long mechanical tentacles swoop down from the Tripods to yank eager teens skyward, one by one, into their interiors. ![]() ![]() Towering, inscrutable machines called Tripods stride about like giant Humvees atop metal stilts. “The White Mountains,” a young-adult novel first published fifty years ago, is set in the future, at a time when the Earth has been rendered entirely rural and has been taken over by aliens. ![]() |