![]() “Your always-busy man accomplishes little ” Carnegie wrote in 1883, “the great doer is he who has plenty of leisure. Their work required imagination, thought, calculation. Manually laboring drudges might work long hours without sacrificing productivity, but businessman could not. ![]() The successful man of business was not a wage slave, paid by the hour or the day or the task, and he should not behave as if he were. For Andrew Carnegie, at one point the world’s richest man, and many of his robber baron colleagues of the Gilded Age a century ago, diligence, perseverance, and industry were virtues to be preached-not practiced. ![]() Historically, there is something quite curious about the all-encompassing work ethic of many of today’s masters of the universe. ![]()
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Instead of being named Richard or John or Scott, or something you would expect an FBI agent to be named, the FBI agent here is named Lucien. Meanwhile, some other people want to steal a chryselephantine statue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and so does this other person, who instead of just stealing it hatches an elaborate plot involving stolen artwork that they use to bribe the Met into surrendering the statue of Hypnos. FBI Art Crime agent Lucien Glass is trying to crack down on Malachi, who specializes in past life regression (this plot is continued from the previous books in the series, which I haven't read). ![]() ![]() ![]() Talk about an edgy thriller!ĭeanna is one complicated character. Torre (Alessandra Torre’s pseudonym) for creativity alone. The Girl in 6E is incredibly unique, so props to A.R. What if you hid yourself away because all you could think of was killing? And what if one girl's life depending on you venturing into society?Įnter a world of lies, thrills, fears, and all desires, in this original thriller from A. ![]() Their secret desires are nothing compared to why I hide. They get satisfaction, I get a distraction. Not many shut-ins have a 200-member fan club, a bank account in the seven-figure range, and hundreds of men lining up to pay for undivided attention. I am, quite possibly, the most popular recluse ever. ![]() That seems like it would be a difficult task, but it's not. I haven't touched a human in three years. Published by Redhook on January 27th 2015 The Girl in 6E (Deanna Madden, #1) by A.R. ![]() ![]() WILLA OF DARK HOLLOW, which can be read as a stand-alone story or as a follow-up to WILLA OF THE WOOD, is now available for order. He is also an Executive Producer for the WILLA live-action television series that is currently in development. Robert Beatty is the author of the #1 New York Times best-selling Serafina series and Willa of Dark Hollow, both published by Disney Hyperion. Is unleashing these dangerous spirits the key to stopping the loggers? Willa must find a way to save the people and animals she loves and take a stand against an all-consuming darkness that threatens to destroy her world. ![]() How can she fight the destroyers of the forest and their powerful machines? When Willa discovers a mysterious dark hollow filled with strange and beautiful creatures, she comes to realize that it contains a terrifying force. But as crews of newly arrived humans start cutting down great swaths of the forest she loves, Willa is helpless to stop them. Willa and her clan are the last of the Faeran, an ancient race of forest people who have lived in the mountains for as long as the trees have grown there. Loved by adults and young readers alike, Kirkus Reviews has awarded Dark Hollow the prestigious Kirkus Star, calling it "a captivating, stirring tale of family and friendship." Plunge into an exciting story of history, mystery, & magic from the best-selling author of the Serafina series. ![]() ![]() NOTE: Willa of Dark Hollow is a stand-alone story that does not require reading any of the author's previous books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Really? Don't you remember that Shaggy and Polychrome met each other and traveled together three books ago? Or that the Love Magnet doesn't need to be seen to work? And why on earth did you change the Nome King's name from Roquat to Ruggedo? Even my 9-year-old remembered that Ozma had told him his name after he drank from the Waters of Oblivion before she sent him back home through the tunnel. "Oz" lovers of all ages will delight in this charming flight of fancy, embellished with 93 illustrations by John R. After many diverting escapades, Shaggy's brother is found and the expedition arrives before the gates of the Emerald City. Thanks to some timely assistance from a quizzical character named Quox, the Nome King is defeated. The Nome King's magic proves especially troubling. Before they can do that, however, they must first overcome the Nome King, a tricky bit of business with many pitfalls. ![]() You'll also meet Betsy Bobbin and Hank, a mule.Įventually, everyone comes together in the expedition to help Shaggy locate his misplaced sibling. Tik-Tok, a curious mechanical man, agrees to assist Shaggy in his search, and Polychrome stops to play and suffers the awful fate of being deserted by her rainbow. What follows is a series of exotic adventures in which the Shaggy Man attempts to find his long-lost brother, held captive by the Nome King. In this delightful fantasy, we meet Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo and her army - sixteen officers and one private soldier - who set out to conquer the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() The donation includes nearly all pages from Saint Cole and the complete Fante Bukowski, both published in 2015 from Fantagraphics, as well as the story Wolf Nerd from NOW no. Debs (forthcoming), and Joseph Smith (forthcoming) successfully cut to the inner world of otherwise austere figures. ![]() Van Sciver’s graphic novel explorations of historic persons including Abraham Lincoln, Elijah Pierce Lovejoy, Johnny Appleseed, Eugene V. In 2016, Van Sciver won an Ignatz Award at the Small Press Expo in the category of ‘Best Story’ for My Hot Date. His work has appeared in Mad magazine, Mome and Mineshaft. ![]() Noah Van Sciver Donates Original Art to Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & MuseumĬOLUMBUS – Award-winning cartoonist Noah Van Sciver has donated more than 140 pages of original art, including near complete works, to The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.Īs one of the most prolific and acclaimed contemporary cartoonists, Van Sciver’s career includes the publication of more than ten graphic novels in English and French, ten issues of the popular comic book Blammo published by Kilgore Books and weekly comic strips for the alternative newspapers Columbus Alive and Denver’s Westword. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is considered the most accurate interpretation of the prophecies ever printed.During the past eighteen years Dolores has been a UFO investigator, using her skills as a regressionist to help people that been involved in abduction cases. ![]() This series contains the translation of almost 1000 prophecies, all interpreted for the first time and have been in print since 1989. His revelations and their impact on our own time are both fascinating and at times frightening.ĭolores has written the three volume set "Conversations With Nostradamus", the series on the translation of Nostradamus' quatrains. The results were, to say the least, quite spectacular!Working through several different subjects, Dolores was able to establish communication with the living Michel De Notredame, better known as the prophet, Nostradamus. She has been specializing in past-life therapy since 1979.Dolores has become, perhaps, the world's most unlikely expert on the prophecies of Nostradamus.Ī retired Navy wife from Huntsville, AR, USA, Dolores was nearly fifty years old when she began experimenting with hypnosis and past-life regression. Her roots in hypnosis go back to the 1960s. ![]() Dolores Cannon is a past-life regressionist and hypnotherapist who specializes in the recovery and cataloging of "Lost Knowledge". ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, in 2000, he defected - and it turned out he had one more secret. He was a legend in the SVR, the man who kept the secrets. He recruited spies, planted agents, penetrated security, manipulated intelligence, and influenced American policy - all under the direct leadership of Boris Yeltsin and then Vladimir Putin. He directed all Russian spy action in New York City and personally oversaw every covert operation against the United States and its allies in the United Nations. But one thing never changed: the spies.įrom 1995 to 2000, a man known as "Comrade J" was the highest-ranking operative in the SVR - the successor agency to the KGB - in the United States. In 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed, the cold war ended, and a new world order began. ![]() Spymaster, defector, double agent.Here is the remarkable true story of the man who ran Russia's post-cold-war spy program in America. ![]() |