![]() ![]() ![]() The Japanese branch of the CIA starts sniffing around under the auspices of the United States Department of Homeland Security. ![]() FBI asks the CIA's Tokyo office to investigate the killing, believing it to be linked to the Yakuza, a dangerous Japanese mafia syndicate. Upon hearing news of the incident, the U.S. The assassination of Tokyo's governor Takayama causes a stir of public outrage in Tokyo, Japan. It was theatrically released in Japan but only went direct-to-DVD in the United States. Set in Japan, Seagal plays a CIA operative who takes down Yakuza gangsters. Joe Halpin, a former undercover narcotics detective, rewrote the script with Seagal to avoid making it a costly remake. The original script, written by Trevor Miller, was very similar to Sydney Pollack's The Yakuza. Into the Sun is a 2005 action film directed by Christopher Morrison and starring Steven Seagal (who also produced), Matthew Davis, Takao Osawa, Eddie George, Juliette Marquis, and William Atherton. ![]()
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![]() Calvin and Hobbes appeared in newspapers from November 1985 until Watterson's retirement in 1995. There are quite a few of the famous philosophical sled rides with Calvin and Hobbes careening down dangerous hills while pondering some of the most significant aspects of our daily lives. Readers are delighted by Calvin's resourceful wit, which applies to everything from philosophical speculations to attempts to outsmart his parents.īill Watterson is the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, one of the most popular and well-regarded cartoon strips of the twentieth century. Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons is a delightful Calvin and Hobbes collection with lots of strips and storylines that focus on winter activities. ![]() Yet Calvin conquers all with his irrepressible spirit and a little help from alter-egos Spaceman Spiff, Stupendous Man, and Tracer Bullet, private eye. And if that wasn't enough, the ethicated duplicate of Calvin's good side wreaks havoc with his reputation by doing good deeds. Self-multiplying deranged mutant killer monster snow goons threaten to take over the yard. His father cancels Calvin's personal TV network. ![]() Hobbes gets kidnapped by Susie, a slimy girl. He gets attacked by his new two-wheeler bike. In Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons, Calvin suffers a host of hardships. ![]() Calvin and Hobbes are back in another thrilling adventure involving escapes from girls, parents, and snow goon monsters. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The central protagonist, a Venetian secret policeman hiding his Jewish heritage, is forced to flee the city state after he becomes a convenient scapegoat for an episode of sabotage. Altai takes us further east to the Ottoman empire of Selim II during a period of intense inter-imperial struggle within the Mediterranean, which would soon culminate with the naval battle of Lepanto. Written under the previous nom de plume of Luther Blissett, Q was a sprawling epic set within the borders of Christendom during the reformation and its accompanying political upheavals. ![]() After having explored the cold war (’54) and the American war of independence (Manituana), Wu Ming return to the 16th-century world of their first novel, Q. Altai is the latest novel by the radical Italian writing collective, Wu Ming, to be translated into English. ![]() ![]() ![]() The staff (and guests) have complicated pasts, and the hotel can’t seem to overcome the bad reputation it earned in 1922 when a tragic fire killed nineteen-year-old chambermaid Grace Hadley. And while the Hotel Nantucket appears to be a blissful paradise, complete with a celebrity chef-run restaurant and an idyllic wellness center, there’s a lot of drama behind closed doors. ![]() When she’s named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly Carpenter, the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can help put them back on the map. ![]() Check into a storied Nantucket hotel for a summer of scandal in this immensely satisfying page turner from "the queen of beach reads" (New York Magazine) and #1 New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand.įresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The dwarf brought home several items plundered from ruins on Foren, the largest of Eiselcross’s islands. Urgon Wenth, a dwarf explorer, recently returned home to Palebank Village after exploring the icy wastes of Eiselcross for a year. Are they citizens of Uthodurn now aiding in the surface expansion of their civilization? Have they come north to seek freedom from the wars of other lands? Any number of options can help tie characters to this frigid region and the mysteries it holds. If your players are using the heroic chronicle to create their characters (see chapter 4 in the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount), work with them to decide how they made their way to Palebank Village. “Frozen Sick” is an adventure that takes characters from 1st to 3rd level and introduces them to the continent’s Biting North region-the bleak arctic realms of the Greying Wildlands and Eiselcross. Something is killing people in Palebank Village, and if the characters don’t stop it, they might be next. ![]() Monstrous Compendium Vol 3: Minecraft Creatures ![]() ![]() ![]() And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. In Daevabad, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by-palm readings, zars, healings-are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles and a reliable way to survive.īut when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she's forced to question all she believes. For the warrior tells her an extraordinary tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling birds of prey are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass-a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound. ![]() Certainly, she has power on the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, she's a con woman of unsurpassed talent. ![]() Chakraborty-an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts. Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you find Anya SOOO irresistible, don't just say so. You'd think with names like that I'd remember it.īut honestly. Anya and Zander (ohhh like A and Z I guess). They skipped cheesy and jumped onto pathetic and lame and just UGHHH (for lack of better words). In like an hour since I finished the book. So, I literally had to go back and figure out the characters' names cuz I forgot them. Ok so you know how in books, the author wants you to fall in love with the main characters? Or at least SOME character? Yeah, don't expect that. With cheesy lines and atrocious declarations, it was TERRIBLE. Who are you trying to convince? Yourselves? It seemed fake, despite the characters' insisting that it was anything but that. ![]() It doesn't take much to please me a clever quote, or swoon-worthy romance would suffice.īut this? This "romance" was FAR from swoon-worthy. But maybe I could bump it up to two stars. I could already see myself giving it a one star rating. ![]() My thoughts while reading were OMG this is SOOOO bad. Maybe something would change and I would actually LIKE the book. So, if it's so bad, why did I keep reading it?For one thing, I don't like the idea of stopping a book in the middle, no matter how bad it is because maybe it has some redeeming qualities. Usually, as soon as I start a book, I can tell if I like it or not. ![]() ![]() In her introduction, McGhee explains why she quit her job leading the economic policy think tank Demos to write this book. Meanwhile, conservative politicians, media figures, and billionaires deliberately stoke white fear to win power, and when they do come to power, they continue with the same political agenda that has economically devastated the American middle class since the 1970s: cutting taxes for the wealthy, deregulating corporations, privatizing schools, defunding social programs, and suppressing labor unions. Thus, these white voters reject policies that help nonwhite people, even when those policies would actually benefit everybody. Specifically‚ she argues that many white voters view the world through a zero-sum paradigm: they see politics as a competition between themselves and people of color, and they think that, in order for themselves to win, people of color must lose. ![]() ![]() lags far behind other developed countries in fields like healthcare, education, pollution, and voting rights because of the way that racism shapes American politics. In The Sum of Us, policy researcher Heather McGhee argues that the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Needless to say in typical RAH fashion, adventures ensue, so if one enjoys any RAH books then this should also be put on your list ![]() And in typical Heinlein fashion within the first few pages we are immersed in the belief that in no possible way could humans have evolved on Earth, only weird geeky anthropologists believe that, and even they can't agree. This book introduces us to the Fries family from Mars, and in particular the precocious daughter Podkayne. He certainly did have an amazing ability to develop a storyline and make the future setting seem unbelievably natural. This book is seen now as one of his YA novels, although in my opinion as an (early ha ha) middle aged man I still enjoyed both the characters and the story. I never did quite catch up with his prolific output as in my honest opinion his standard declined rapidly, and so I had (and still have) no desire to read some of his later novels. He was still merrily writing away as I grew up and started reading his early novels. RAH was one of the first authors that I read way back in the mid 70s in my early teens as I got into sci-fi in a big way (Wells, Asimov and Clarke were also amongst the first). ![]() ![]() Well liked and respected by those who work with and under her, she walks a fine line to preserve the military’s chain of command while connecting with those under her care and supervision. Plus, her long-term relationship with a civilian back home is quickly becoming another casualty of war.Ĭolonel Rebecca Keane is an enigmatic career officer who runs the surgical unit like clockwork. Dealing with loss and mortality, lack of privacy, sleep deprivation, loneliness and the isolation forced on her by “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” are all taking their toll. ![]() ![]() Usually driven and focused, Sabine finds that battles raging both inside and outside the perimeter walls are making it more and more difficult for her to deal with her emotions. She is also one of the thousands of troops who are forced to serve in silence because of the military’s anti-gay policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT).” ![]() Army surgeon deployed to a combat hospital in Afghanistan. Where can you turn when you’re caught in a crossfire of war and passion?Ĭaptain Sabine Fleischer is a skilled and dedicated U.S. ![]() |