![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The opportunity was irresistible, and he was sure he could fit it in with the rest of his work.Īnd then Jack forgot all about the rest of his work, because one of his first assignments was to help debrief a high-level Soviet defector, and the defector told an amazing tale: Top Soviet officials, including Yuri Andropov, were planning to assassinate the Pope, John Paul II.Ĭould it be true? As the days and weeks go by, Ryan must battle, first to try to confirm the plot, and then to prevent it, but this is a brave new world, and nothing he has done up to now has prepared him for the lethal game of cat-and-mouse that is the Soviet Union versus the United States. A series of deadly encounters with an IRA splinter group had brought him to the attention of the CIA's Deputy Director, Vice Admiral James Greer -as well as his counterpart with the British SIS, Sir Basil Charleston -and when Greer asked him if he wanted to come aboard as a freelance analyst, Jack was quick to accept. Long before he was President or head of the CIA, before he fought terrorist attacks on the Super Bowl or the White House, even before a submarine named Red October made its perilous way across the Atlantic, Jack Ryan was an historian, teacher, and recent ex-Marine temporarily living in England while researching a book. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Johann discovered there are twelve deep cases of this crisis, all of which have robbed some of our attention. This has been done to us – by powerful external forces. We think our inability to focus is a personal failing – a flaw in each one of us. New York Times best-selling author Johann Hari went on an epic journey across the world to meet the leading scientists and experts investigating why this is happening to us – and discovered that everything we think we know on this subject is wrong. In the US, college students now focus on one task for only 65 seconds, and office workers on average manage only three minutes. All over the world, our ability to pay attention is collapsing. ![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t know if she finished writing before 3 September 1939, the day Great Britain and France declared war upon Germany. It was published in November of 1940 which means (due to the enormous lag between writing and publishing) that Agatha wrote it well before the Blitz began. Where the novel gets really interesting is in the politics. This mistake is even more glaring in the film. That plot point never got explained, by the way. ![]() One, Two, Buckle My Shoe is a complex novel, and not merely because of a convoluted plot involving accidents of fate and knowing which dentist a stranger would visit. Read more of Teresa’s Agatha Christie movie reviews at Peschel Press.Īlso, follow Teresa’s discussion of these movies on her podcast. ![]() I’m also very unsure about that opening sequence: It’s atmospheric, creepy, explains the nursery rhyme to everyone who’s forgotten it, and reveals too much. Teresa reviews “One Two Buckle My Shoe” (1992) and finds the unfortunate opening spoils an otherwise faithful adaptation.ĭropped characters to streamline the text for film, a minor adjustment in date, and a very different opening that reveals critical aspects of the plot. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And since the death of the Romanovs, women claiming to be Anastasia have been selling their stories to magazines. In the 1900s, a 40something woman named Margaret Lydia Burton embezzled money all over the country and stole upwards of forty prized show dogs, while a few decades later, a teenager named Roxie Ann Rice scammed the entire NFL. Meanwhile, Cassie Chadwick was forging paperwork and getting banks to loan her upwards of $40,000 by telling people she was Andrew Carnegie’s illegitimate daughter. A gal calling herself Loreta Janeta Velasquez claimed to be a soldier and convinced people she worked for the Confederacy-or the Union, depending on who she was talking to. ![]() ![]() In the mid-1800s, sisters Kate and Maggie Fox began pretending they could speak to spirits and accidentally started a religious movement that was soon crawling with female con artists. In the 1700s in Paris, Jeanne de Saint-Rémy scammed the royal jewelers out of a necklace made from six hundred and forty-seven diamonds by pretending she was best friends with Queen Marie Antoinette. As Tori Telfer reveals in Confident Women, the art of the con has a long and venerable tradition, and its female practitioners are some of the best-or worst. A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history’s notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scams-by the acclaimed author of Lady Killers.įrom Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and Charles Ponzi, audacious scams and charismatic scammers continue to intrigue us as a culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() Written in a hard-hitting journalistic style, The Case for Easter probes the core issues of the resurrection. ![]() The Evidence of Appearances - Was Jesus seen alive after his death on the cross?.The Evidence of the Missing Body - Was Jesus' body really absent from his tomb?.The Medical Evidence - Was Jesus' death a sham and his resurrection a hoax?.How credible is the evidence for and against the resurrection?įocusing his award-winning skills as a legal journalist on history's most compelling enigma, Lee Strobel retraces the startling findings that led him from atheism to belief. 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Stephanie is a regular blue-collar American, but her life is far from ordinary. Early Standalone Romance NovelsĪfter several years of success writing strictly in the romance genre, Evanovich decided it was time to change course and incorporate some elements of mystery and adventure into her work.Īnd so began her beloved ‘Stephanie Plum’ series, which centers around a spunky, mystery-solving bounty hunter of the same name. So, if you’re interested in diving into this prolific author’s work, then you’ve come to the right place.īelow, I’ll list every book by Janet Evanovich, from her early romance stories and smash-hit series, to her latest 2022 release. A Complete List of Every Janet Evanovich Book in Reading OrderĪ Complete List of Every Janet Evanovich Book in Reading Order IMAGEĮvanovich is most famous for her mystery series, ’Stephanie Plum,’ but she’s got plenty more captivating reads to explore. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nobody's asking the town clown out for a night of hot sex, that's for sure. Phase one: new framework for her business (a website from this decade, perhaps) Phase two: a gut-reno on her wardrobe (fyi, leggings are pants.) Phase three: updates to her exterior (do people still wax) Phase four: put herself on the market (and stop crushing on Travis Ford!) Living her best life means facing the truth: Georgie hasn't been on a date since, well, ever. She's determined to fix herself up into a Woman of the World. Georgie loves planning children's birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. ![]() A spicy, hilarious HGTV-inspired romantic comedy trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer and Hook, Line, and Sinker! Georgette Castle's family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven't taken her seriously since. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Prepare Christmas cards, either homemade or store bought, and send hope-filled notes to friends and family.What about celebrating St Nicholas Day? Check out this Catholic Mom article of ideas HERE.Do you want to try a Jesse Tree with your children? Check out the Peg Doll Jesse Tree on Catholic Mom HERE.D on’t let the craziness of the world stop you from enjoying Advent and Christmas traditions this year. ![]() ![]() Note: you can find inexpensive Catholic notebooks and prayer journals perfect for prayers and planning HERE.Ĭonsider the traditions you have and those you’d like to add. Let’s plan our Advent Scripture reading and prayers. And let’s focus on preparing for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. So let’s back off from the news and social media for a bit, break out our Advent Wreaths, and replace our half-spent purple and pink candles. LesleaWahl on Harley Does a Cameo Role in Su…Ĭarolyn Astfalk on Harley Does a Cameo Role in Su… Theresa Linden on Harley Does a Cameo Role in Su… Harley Does a Cameo Role in Summer at West Castle.Saint Clare & Her Cat – now available in Spanish.CWG Book Blast! Rebellion by Michael LaMorte.CWG Book Blast! Survival Spirit, by Theresa Alt.Join 487 other subscribers Follow Things Visible & Invisible on Search for: Recent Posts ![]() ![]() I found an article in the Smithsonian magazine (opens in new tab) in June 2017 about the Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky, complete with amazing black-and-white pictures of teams of women, on horseback, preparing to take books to remote mountain communities at a time when those people might not have read anything but the Bible. Jojo Moyes: Most of my books are inspired by a snippet of news or conversation, and this was no different. But the constants-as with all my books-are probably the fact that you will laugh and maybe cry, and hopefully feel a bit of female empowerment too." "I tried to capture some of the lovely lyricism of the way people speak in that part of Kentucky in my writing. "It’s very different in tone from, although possibly not dissimilar to my other historical novels," explains Moyes. ![]() Moyes says it's her favorite book she's written yet. Set in small-town 1930s Kentucky, the novel centers on a group of women, known as the Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky, who deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's traveling library-defying their husbands along the way. ![]() ![]() ![]() Moyes' latest, The Giver of Stars, is set to receive the same treatment almost a decade later (exact release date TBD (opens in new tab)). If you weren't sobbing the entire time, did you even read Jojo Moyes' Me Before You (opens in new tab) (2012)? The first installment of the best-selling author's trilogy was adapted into a movie starring Emilia Clarke. ![]() ![]() ![]() Severance, a novel written by Chinese-American writer Ling Ma, tells the tale of a fatal fungal infection called Shen Fever, and how it affects the life of a young woman who continues to go into work even after the majority of the world has been wiped out. No, I actually spookily began reading this prior to Covid-19, in a novel that was published two years ago. I didn’t just read this in the news, and it wasn’t a story based on my own life, though it did in fact foreshadow events that would end up happening to me over the course of 2020. In the midst of it all, a young millennial, feeling disillusioned with her career and the city around her, continued to go into the office even as people started to die around her, because someone still needed to go into the office to complete tasks like pick up the mail. ![]() Seemingly mild and innocuous at first, the infection worsened rapidly, eventually spreading across the world and exploding into a devastating pandemic. Back in November, I started reading about an infection that emerged on the other side of the globe. ![]() |