![]() Billy is meant to shoot and kill him at that time, and then disappear. The office has a direct view of the courthouse, where Joel Allen will eventually be taken to be arraigned for his murder charge. ![]() ![]() Billy's cover story is that he is a writer named David Lockridge, who has been tasked by his publishing agent to stay there, and go to the office and write each day in an attempt to meet his deadline. The job requires Billy to spend some quiet time undercover as a resident in the small town of Midwood, where an office space has been rented out for his use. Allen has claimed to have valuable information that the police wants in order to make a plea deal, and apparently, someone, whom Nick can't name, doesn't want Allen talking, which is why Billy has been hired to take him out. Nick Majarian, a mobster whom Billy has worked for many times before, offers him one last job-one that pays $500,000 up front, and $1.5 million after it's done.īilly's target is Joel Allen, also a hitman, who was arrested for murdering a man who won a fortune off of him in a poker game. Marine sniper, who only accepts jobs killing truly evil men, but now he wants to retire from the assassin life altogether. Plot īilly Summers is a 44-year-old hitman and former U.S. Billy Summers is a crime novel written by American author Stephen King, published by Scribner on August 3, 2021. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Philosophy Introduction: Learn some ancient wisdom from one of the world’s most influential philosophers.įew books have quite as complex a background as the Analects. ![]() With diligence and empathy for others, one can adhere to the Way. Virtuous behavior includes a devotion to learning and acting in accordance with your beliefs. Through virtuous actions, a leader can achieve effortless and harmonious influence. The teachings of Confucius are a response to the changes going on in China at the time. Introduction: What’s in it for me? Learn some ancient wisdom from one of the world’s most influential philosophers. ![]() These words of wisdom date back thousands of years, but they have remained remarkably relevant throughout the ages. The Analects is a collection of twenty “books” that contain valuable quotes and sayings from the Chinese philosopher Confucius, as well as his disciples. ![]() ![]() Being a half-human, half-angel nephilim with a bad rep and a worse attitude-not to mention temporarily playing Lucifer-James Stark aka Sandman Slim has made a few enemies. Sandman Slim must save himself-and the entire world-from the wrath of some enraged and vengeful ancient gods in this sixth high-octane adventure in the New York Times bestselling series. But their imminent invasion is only one of Stark's problems right now. None, though, are as fearsome as the vindictive Angra Om Ya-the old gods. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pushing Ice is a hard SF novel in the 'Big Dumb Object' tradition, following in the footsteps of Arthur C. Naturally, complications ensue and the crew of Rockhopper are forced to make a home on Janus as it accelerates towards lightspeed, which will carry them to Spica in 250 years, although thanks to time dilation only a dozen years will pass for those on board. The plan is for the ship to tail the anomaly for a week before returning to Earth. ![]() ![]() When Saturn's moon Janus inexplicably leaves its orbit and heads out of the Solar system in the direction of the star Spica, an 'ice-pusher' ship named Rockhopper is the only vessel positioned to intercept it. In the depths of the Solar system, large spacecraft routinely intercept and redirect ice asteroids and comets into Earth orbit, where their raw materials can be used to fuel Earth's growing economy and incessant need for raw materials. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like the unforgettable rural South Indian worlds those authors bestowed upon us with places like Kanthapura, Kedaram, Khasak, and Malgudi, respectively, Verghese has given us Parambil, a water-filled, near-mythical dreamscape in Kerala. We would also do well to consider Covenant as part of the Indian novel in English lineage that includes literary greats like Raja Rao, K Nagarajan, O V Vijayan, and R K Narayan. ![]() Indeed, the literary feats in The Covenant of Water deserve to be lauded as much as those of such canonical authors. There will also be continued invocations of the likes of Charles Dickens and George Eliot to describe Verghese's ambitious literary scope and realism. Much will be written about Abraham Verghese's multigenerational South Indian novel in the coming months and years.Īs we've seen with Verghese's earlier fiction, there will be frequent references to that other celebrated doctor-writer, Anton Chekhov. ![]() ![]() ![]() The elders consider it to be a customary tradition, handed down through the years as their tusks appear, but Ruby doesn’t like it even if it is a ceremony celebrating a rite of passage. Ruby isn’t happy being called a ’Tusky’, though, and would prefer to be just Ruby. This is the story of a young elephant, the littlest elephant as this story begins, a ’Tusky’ by the name of Ruby. ![]() ’I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange…There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.’ - Peter Matthiessen ’Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing.’ - John Dunne ’If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people, only more so.’ - Pierre Corneille ![]() ![]() As she struggles to sow the seeds of her freedom, love for the God of the Dead grows-a love that is both captivating and forbidden. The bet does more than expose Persephone's failure as a goddess, however. After her encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead, and his terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever. But nothing has ever intrigued him as much as the goddess offering him a bargain he can't resist. Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are rumored to be impossible. All of that changes when she sits down in a forbidden nightclub to play a hand of cards with a hypnotic and mysterious stranger. ![]() After moving to New Athens, she hoped to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. Since she was a little girl, flowers have only shriveled at her touch. She answered, "Yes." Persephone is the Goddess of Spring in title only. "You will worship me, and I won't even have to order you." His request felt sinful and devious, and she reveled in it. She remembered the words she had whispered to him in the back of the limo after La Rose. ![]() ![]() Clair comes a dark and enthralling reimagining of the Hades and Persephone Greek myth. ![]() ![]() Stubby's great deeds and brave heart make him an animal hero to remember and treasure." ![]() Stubby's brave deeds earned him a place in history and in the Smithsonian Institution where his stuffed body decorated with war medals can still be seen. Charmed, the CO awarded Stubby mascot status and sent him along with Conroy's unit to the Western Front. By the time Stubby encountered Conroy's commanding officer, the dog had perfected his right-paw salute. ![]() When Conroy's unit shipped out for France, he smuggled his new friend aboard. The young recruit never imagined that his stray dog would become a war hero. Private Robert Conroy casually adopted the orphan pup while attending basic training on the campus of Yale University in 1917. Stubby! That German shepherd star of the silver screen may have been born behind enemy lines during World War I, but Stubby, the stump-tailed terrier, worked behind enemy lines, and gained military rank and honors along the way. Stubby! That German shepherd star of the silver screen may have been born behind enemy lines during World War I, but Stubby, the stump-tailed terrier, worked behind enemy lines, and gained military rank and ho. ![]() ![]() ![]() I know of at least one writer, a winner of major literary prizes to boot, whose reputation around young women is so appalling that most of the PR staff at his publisher refuse to have anything to do with him. Sometimes, one wonders why certain figures have yet to be denounced. In other cases, as in the denunciation of David Starkey, a foolish and ill-considered statement has cost someone their livelihood, career and reputation. In the case of JK Rowling, the best-selling author living today, it looks as if the forces of cancellation may have met their match as she calmly doubles and trebles down on her original statements, and achieves widespread support, as well as hysterical criticism. Their crimes are the usual: a refusal to accept the doctrine foisted upon them by society, an out-of-place remark or statement that was widely pronounced beyond the pale or simply representing too stale and archaic a form of privilege. ![]() There seems to be a never-ending procession of writers and literary figures, living, dead and wishing that they were dead, who are being told that they have been cancelled by a braying and self-satisfied mob. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was under the influence of the Goddess Persephone, who was in return-under the manipulation of my husband’s very own grandfather. I could have not found this if not for Zachary Oliver who turned my boring, sin-eater life into a full three hundred and sixty throttle mode.And yet, here I am.Happily married to the man that my brother, Maddox had bitten. My mother does not love me or so I thought, but it turns out that she loved me the way that she knew how. ![]() Helena’s POVAll my life I thought that I was destined to live and die by myself. ![]() To hone the talent that I have (although I admit that I am a mediocre) and to pay it forward to the writers who have influenced me to write and to the friends who kept me going whenever I feel backing d i might not have written this perfectly or top notch, but I am sure that this is the best that I can offer while trying not to break down into pieces.I am a mother of two and I am messed up right now but the growing numbers of subscribers and readers gives me the push that I needed to type away, to put my thoughts into words. Each were given a piece of me, so I can feel less burdened. ![]() This book holds a special place in my heart because I was not at the top of my game while patcing sentence after sentence, imaginging sequences and mending a broken heart. I was trying to figure my life when I was writing this story-with only one thing in my mind: Escaping from reality. A message from the author to my readers: Thank you. ![]() |