![]() ![]() ![]() The popularity of the series has been driven by the fact that it is not only detective thriller mysteries, but also a medical science type of series that includes references to science. Ken McClure the author of the series practiced medicine for many years before he become a novelist, and hence he uses a lot of his knowledge and experience in medicine in writing the “Dr. The series of novels are medical thrillers featuring ex Special Forces medical doctor Steven Dunbar, who uses his medical knowledge to resolve a range of medical threats and infractions. After the first novel became such a huge success, the author went on to publish nine more titles in the series with the last one being the 2013 published “The Secret”. Steven Dunbar series of novels was “Donor” that was first published in 1999 to critical acclaim and much popularity. Steven Dunbar is a series of award-winning novels by Ken McClure, a British novelist from Edinburgh Scotland. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Addams’s surreal juxtapositions made horror hilarious. They poured boiling oil on Christmas carollers they asked their neighbors for a cup of cyanide their idea of child’s play was to roll boulders onto passing cars. “The tasty little family”-as the first editor of The New Yorker, Harold Ross, called them-were figures of startling caprice, grotesques inhabiting a bourgeois world while taking revenge on its suffocating decency. His po-faced characters never explained themselves their behavior allowed us to connect the dots of their perversity. His game was to turn values upside down: bad was good ugly was beautiful freaky was normal the deadly gave life. Into innocent lives dedicated to the pursuit of happiness, Addams’s creepy crew injected a dose of gleeful dread. ![]() Illustration by Robert RiskoĪround 1938, the genial, suburban cartoonist Charles Addams invented in these pages a ghoulish tribe of sadists and malcontents, intended to tease the notion of American prosperity and the cult of the perfect nuclear family. Gargoyles on Broadway: Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, as Gomez and Morticia, head the creepy clan in this adaptation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ranger Larry, as his fans call him, has built quite a following in South Florida. He was signing a kid’s book when we walked in. He’ll sign as many autographs as his fans demand. The tall, dark and handsome type in a green uniform and ranger hat. Perez is waiting in the visitor’s center. “I learned my lesson last time I was out here,” he says. Our photographer, Angel Valentin, has a net to cover his face. I’ve got my laced-up shoes and long pants, as he suggested in his email, and some bug repellent for our three-hour tour. Perez just wrote a book, Snake in the Grass: An Everglades Invasion, about Burmese pythons in the park. I’m going to spend the rest of the afternoon and evening with Park Ranger Larry Perez ’96, MS ’08. Perez shares his love of nature with a local school group. ![]() ![]() ![]() She came to lust after her hot distant captor! I would dare say that Kader ‘s personality acted like fuel to her libido. Laurel had to evolve and adapt but the one changing most was Kader as he got back Mason’s memories! Slowly Mason’s personality was back and it was not without a little mourning from Laurel. Kader will be separated willingly from Laurel and they both will have things to do and decisions to make while under pressure and threats! ![]() What I loved was that things really accelerated in this last one. ![]() Questions answered and mysteries solved? Check.ĭon’t read this review if you haven’t read the first two books already or you’ll be spoiled! Talk about ending on a high note! It was my favorite of the trilogy! With danger lurking around every corner and my life turned upside down, I struggle with who to believe and who to trust.Ĭan my heart convince my mind that what was bound long ago is where I’ll find love, safety, and security?īOUND is book three, the final book of the TANGLED WEB trilogy that began with TWISTED and OBSESSED and is concluding with BOUND. You do not need to read the Web of Sin trilogy to get caught in this new and intriguing saga, Tangled Web. From New York Times bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes a brand-new dark romance trilogy bringing us back to the same dangerous underworld as WEB OF SIN. ![]() ![]() ![]() #1 Imager / #2 Imager’s Challenge / #3 Imager’s Intrigue / #4 Scholar / #5 Princeps / #6 Imager’s Battalion / #7 Antiagon Fire / #8 Rex Regis / #9 Madness in Solidar / #10 Treachery’s Tools / #11 Assassin’s Price / #12 EndgamesĪt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. However, court intrigues pursue Quaeryt even to the front lines of the conflict, as the Imager's enemies continue to plot against him. Quaeryt is poised to lead the first Imager fighting force into war. Continue the journey with Imager's Battalion. that RT Book Reviews says shines with engrossing characters, terrific plotting, and realistic world-building. ![]() But Quaeryt has his own agenda in doing so: to legitimize Imagers in the hearts and minds of all men, by demonstrating their value as heroes as he leads his battalion into one costly battle after another. The Imager Porfolio is a bestselling and innovative epic fantasy series from L. that RT Book Reviews says “shines with engrossing characters, terrific plotting, and realistic world-building.” Continue the journey with Imager's Battalion. The Imager Porfolio is a bestselling and innovative epic fantasy series from L. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s an odd duality alluded to in the book - the communities and neighborhoods that the wiseguys inhabit are often clean from petty crimes, order is well maintained, and undisturbed by outsiders or troublemakers, however the wiseguys often bleed their earnings from blue-collar workers and middle-class families in the area via gambling, cons, or robberies and use their influence to run up tabs that will inevitably go delinquent or shutter honest businesses that encroach on their own enterprises. Organized crime has always been so interesting to me, in that it represents this shadow government and community with its own set of rules and regulations that exists to skirt the rules of the hierarchical and highly-organized society we live in. I haven’t been engrossed in a story like this for awhile. I often don’t read fiction, but this book felt like a fabricated story in the way that truth is stranger than fiction. But actually this was an entertaining read, and after having read it Goodfellas is even a better movie in that it’s based in truth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gates begins his search for the “black tradition’s” theory of itself in the Fon and Yoruba cultures of Benin and Nigeria, and among the remnants of those cultures that survived the Middle Passage to thrive in the Americas. Often regarded as a foundational text of black literary theory, the book’s stated intention is “if not exactly to invent a black theory…to locate and identify how the 'black tradition' had theorized about itself.” Gates achieves this by focusing on the Black cultural practice of “signifyin(g),” a sophisticated form of wordplay, which Gates traces back to a figure of Yoruba myth, and forward through the novels of Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and other major African-American authors. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism is a groundbreaking work of literary theory by revered African-American scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. ![]() ![]() It mirrors the other Short Stories From Hogwarts book ( Heroes) by setting silhouettes and smoke dance in front of an arched stain glass window. So, let’s admire the cover for a second because I’ve gotten into a pattern and I’ll stick to it. Once again though, the most important question is whether or not it provides any new content for fans. ![]() It covers, as you would expect, some important people, including an extensive list of past Ministers of Magic, potions masters, and, for the sake of randomness, Peeves. ![]() ![]() Like Hogwarts Heroes and the Hogwarts Guide, Hogwarts Politics covers a variety of tenuously linked subjects by splitting them into sections. This time I’m looking at the third of the three Potter Presents e-books, from my perspective anyway, Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (which I shall shorten to Hogwarts Politics). And here we have another component of this Harry Potter themed week, Part Three of what I have titled as Pulling a Pottermore (because if they can repeat and/or stretch out a tiny bit of content, so can I). ![]() ![]() ![]() Proposed articles should be jargon-free, and should attempt to shed new light on games, rather than simply use games as metaphor or illustration of some other theory or phenomenon. Game Studies is a non-profit, open-access, crossdisciplinary journal dedicated to games research, web-published several times a year at Our primary focus is aesthetic, cultural and communicative aspects of computer games, but any previously unpublished article focused on games and gaming is welcome. 'Nonsense,' says the sensible Bernard Suits: 'playing a game is a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles. ![]() ![]() Our Mission - To explore the rich cultural genre of games to give scholars a peer-reviewed forum for their ideas and theories to provide an academic channel for the ongoing discussions on games and gaming. : In the mid twentieth century the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously asserted that games are indefinable there are no common threads that link them all. The International Journal of Computer Game Research ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters in this novel crackle with complexity-with genuine psychology-and a walk through their minds feels as risky and exhilarating as crossing a minefield. As Theo attempts to break through to his silent patient-a woman convicted of murdering her husband-a dark story unfolds that is as shocking as it is expertly crafted. ![]() The Silent Patient is an eerie, bona fide psychological thriller starring Theo Faber, a psychotherapist who by trade dwells within the inner lives of his charges-one of whom refuses to speak. But Alex Michaelides is here to deliver the cure. We might rattle around in the heroine’s head, but absent idiosyncrasies, dimension, or even personality, it’s like touring an empty museum. More often than not, they focus on an imperiled protagonist-usually a young woman-whose psychology is neither nuanced nor particularly … well, particular. Another 44 were published in the past eight seconds alone-and precious few of these novels actually qualify as psychological suspense. ![]() Since Gone Girl conquered the globe in 2012, bookstore shelves have creaked beneath the weight of countless psychological thrillers. ![]() |