![]() ![]() ![]() Thomas weaves a wonderfully horrifying backstory for the titular domicile and then populates the promotional sleepover with a varied and interesting group of characters. Just as Thomas Olde Huevelt updated traditional ghost stories last year with Hex, first time novelist Scott Thomas brings the haunted house tale into the 21st Century with Kill Creek. As each of their lives spins wildly out of control it soon becomes clear that the only way to put an end to the madness and regain their lives is to do the one thing none of them wants to do: return to Kill Creek. But when morning comes, and they all go their separate ways, one thing becomes clear: Kill Creek is not yet done with them. To say that none of the participants are unprepared for the events that transpire in those 24 hours would be the very definition of an understatement. They also have their reasons for wanting to participate. ![]() All of the writers have reasons to be wary. ![]() Their time at the house, known as Kill Creek, will be broadcast live over the internet and also recorded so that those unable to watch live will be able to view it later. Four prominent Horror authors, all as different as the books they write and the readers who read them, are asked by an eccentric internet personality to spend Halloween night in one of the country’s most infamous haunted houses. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() We will see how large companies dealt with challenges and faced the market in search of success.Īnd the lessons learned range from marketing to innovation and investor characteristics, thus delivering a broad overview of the corporate world. So, if you are an entrepreneur, a businessman, a manager, a consultant, a leader, or deal with the business world in any way, this book is for you. John Brooks became famous for his book in the New Yorker magazine, where he contributed and developed several articles on finance and the business environment.Īwarded for his work, he was a bestselling author of major newspapers such as The New York Times and his books are considered classics, among them, the one we are analyzing now. In its 573 pages, we can understand what contributed to the failure of these companies, what people did to develop successful companies, and how this book conquered Bill Gates with its teachings. Originally published in 1969, Business Adventures presents in its 12 chapters, successful and failure stories of big companies and small entrepreneurs. So if this is the favorite book of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, we'd better go to its main ideas. The creator of Microsoft read the book by appointment of Warren Buffett, one of the richest men in the world. Who said that? William Henry Gates III, but the world knows him by another name: Bill Gates. “The best business book I have ever read.” A very successful entrepreneur once defined "Business Adventures" as follows: ![]() ![]() ![]() One of my favourite poems from ‘Now We Are Six’ has to be ‘Sneezles’. In some ways, maybe this could be seen as quite sad is it loneliness that has created 'Binker' or is it just for fun? Binker is a perfect friend who can always be relied on and a great way of getting double chocolate treats - ‘as his teeth are rather new’! ‘Binker’ is probably another verse many can relate to – he is a ‘secret’, or an imaginary friend, ‘who is always there’. ![]() But what to do in the meantime…make up a game (or two)!! A different game is imagined this time though – two raindrops on the windowpane are named John and James respectively, but which will win the race? Perhaps children and adults alike can relate to this poem as, at one time or another, maybe we've looked out of the window, willing the rain to stop, so that we can play outside again. A further verse that also seems to feature the nursery and the rain is ‘Waiting At The Window'. ![]() ![]() ![]() It doesn’t help that I recently read “Warbreaker” by Brandon Sanderson which was an amazing book. ![]() I tried to be patient and remember that sometimes good fantasies take a while to set up. ![]() The first part of this book was really slow for me. Seraph and her family are drawn into the very conflict that Seraph tried to avoid when she was younger. She thinks her and her husband have settled down for a life of farming when they find out a greater evil is targeting both the Travelers and the land as a whole. This series is written in a more traditional fantasy style, with less humor, and a slower pace. I have also read Briggs Mercy Thompson series (which I thought was okay, but lacking in character development) this series is much different from the Mercy Thompson series. I liked the world and the magic system but thought that the pacing throughout the book was a bit erratic. This is the first book in the Raven Duology by Patricia Briggs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In celebration of the Season 17, both items are on sale for 25% off! Just enter the code OPUS25 at checkout. The Opus fans can also pick up our official hoodie and T-shirt at the Consequence Shop. Host Jill Hopkins welcomes former commissioner of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Mark Kelly and Summer of Soul producer Joseph Patel to discuss the infamous moment that birthed a classic album.Ĭheck out the final episode of The Opus Season 17 now, and make sure to review, like, and subscribe to The Opus to keep up with future seasons. ![]() In this final episode of The Opus: There's a Riot Goin On, we look back at the events of that day and what lead up to a Chicago riot that would change music history. As the next band, The Flying Burrito Brothers, appeared on stage, the crowd hurled projectiles at them, inciting a riot that would leave 162 injured. Before the Family Stone had even arrived, however, an unknown group called Fat Water had performed a three-song set - but the crowd wasn't expecting the show to have opening acts. On July 27th, 1970, Sly and his band were set to play a first-of-its-kind concert at the Petrillo Bandshell in Chicago's Grant Park. The title of There's a Riot Goin On is a reference to an actual riot that broke out during a Sly and the Family Stone concert that never happened. ![]() ![]() She is simply too deuced honest for that, too unwilling to play the romantic games that captivate gentlemen.Īmiability is not a characteristic shared by Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings. Everyone likes Daphne for her kindness and wit. The fourth of eight siblings in her close-knit family, she has formed friendships with the most eligible young men in London. ![]() A young, marriageable lady should be amiable…but not too amiable.ĭaphne Bridgerton has always failed at the latter. A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince-while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood. ![]() In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Daphne Bridgerton, in the first of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. ![]() ![]() This ancient political principle, so well understood in diplomatic circles, applied nearly as well to the original thirteen American colonies as to the countries of Europe. “Politics,” runs an old saying, “stops at the water’s edge." ![]() The presence of the enemy allays the most virulent of quarrels, temporarily at least. The imperative call to common defense, the habit of sharing common burdens, the fusing force of common service – these things, induced by the necessity of resisting outside interference, act as an amalgam drawing together all elements, except, perhaps, the most discordant. It is one of the well-known facts of history that a people loosely united by domestic ties of a political and economic nature, even a people torn by domestic strife, may be welded into a solid and compact body by an attack from a foreign power. ![]() Charles Beard, Mary Beard, 1921 CHAPTER IV THE DEVELOPMENT OF COLONIAL NATIONALISM ![]() ![]() He identifies more than three hundred such vigias, providing exact locations, details of their original discovery and those who discovered them, as well as Admiralty expeditions despatched to investigate them. What is the story behind these mysterious vigias? Raymond Howgego offers a unique study of this intriguing phenomenon. Yet amazingly none of these supposed hazards had any real existence. ![]() Known to seamen as 'vigias', these were dangers whose existence rested on authentic, documented sightings. ![]() Open any nineteenth century navigational chart of the Atlantic Ocean and what is immediately apparent is the proliferation of rocks, shoals, islands and other hazards that litter almost every corner of the ocean. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the American South, Esi’s daughter Ness has been enslaved since birth. Effia wears her stone on a necklace, and Esi loses hers in the Castle dungeon before being shipped away.Įffia’s son Quey is coerced into taking over a position of authority in procuring and trading captives, though he would prefer to live a different life with his childhood friend Cudjo. Effia is married to an Englishman who is the governor in Cape Castle, the source of the slave trade in Ghana, while Esi is captured and shipped to America from that same castle. These two half-sisters grow up unaware of each other, finding out about one another’s existence only when they inherit a gold and black stone from Maame. She was raped by Cobbe Otcher and gave birth to Effia before fleeing deep into Asante territory, where she marries and gives birth to Esi. Homegoing begins with a fire set by Maame as she flees the Fante village where she was a captive slave. The ability to tell one’s own story emerges as an important theme as these characters each share their experience of slavery and its long aftermath. With so many voices, a recurring message inherent in Gyasi’s storytelling is that there are few absolutes in life. ![]() Her storytelling style relies on flashbacks, often jumping between the past and present to reveal details of each descendant’s life. Told in the third person, Gyasi’s narrative shifts from Africa to America and back again. ![]() ![]() In 1999, Eric Blehm became the first journalist to accompany and keep pace with an elite Army Ranger unit on a training mission. Eric Blehm’s next book, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller The Only Thing Worth Dying For (HarperCollins, 2010), was hailed by former congressman Charlie Wilson, of Charlie Wilson’s War, as a “must read” among books about the current war in Afghanistan. In 2006, Eric Blehm won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for The Last Season (HarperCollins), a gripping account of the disappearance of legendary National Park Service ranger Randy Morgenson The Last Season was also named by Outside magazine as one of the ten “greatest adventure biographies ever written” in 2009. ![]() Eric Blehm is a bestselling and award-winning author of nonfiction books. ![]() |