No matter the situation, on duty or at ease, SEALs never, ever give up. In the face of insurmountable odds and the imminent threat of death, they give all to protect those who cannot protect themselves. Richard Marcinko, the founder of SEAL Team Six, and a former Commander at SEAL team Six, Ryan Zinke, and we come away understanding the deep commitment of these military men who put themselves in danger to protect our country and save American lives. We hear reports on the record from retired SEAL officers including Lt. The book contains incredible accounts of major SEAL operations-from the violent birth of SEAL Team Six and the aborted Operation Eagle Claw meant to save the hostages in Iran, to key missions in Iraq and Afganistan where the SEALs suffered their worst losses in their fifty year history-and every chapter illustrates why this elite military special operations unit remains the most feared anti-terrorist force in the world. Told through the eyes of current and former Navy SEALs, EYES ON TARGET is an inside account of some of the most harrowing missions in American history-including the mission to kill Osama bin Laden and the mission that wasn't, the deadly attack on the US diplomatic outpost in Benghazi where a retired SEAL sniper with a small team held off one hundred terrorists while his repeated radio calls for help went unheeded.
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Speaking to you today, I cannot fail to recollect the names of people, places, and civilisations which light the glittering past of this region. This degree is all the more precious because of the illustrious personages who have been earlier recipients of your honour, and because this University is situated in one of the most historically awesome sites on earth. I do this especially because, as a Muslim it will remain a proud memory that the first such academic honour I have received has been given to me by this renowned Islamic seat of learning in Pakistan. I speak these words in no formal sense, but from the heart. I am deeply moved by the kindness of your welcome and by the outstanding honour this University has done in bestowing an honorary degree upon me today. Mr Chancellor, Mr Vice Chancellor, professors, students of this university and distinguished guests, Some of those stories include inspiring, sometimes-heart-breaking, bizarre - like the time a dead bird was found in a patient’s jacket - and infuriating true-life moments. “We wanted this to be a book that you would just keep reading the damn thing,” Patterson said, “because the stories are just so fascinating.” The pair of authors, Patterson said, didn’t want the project to be the kind of book someone would “keep in the bathroom and every 10 you read another” few pages. “If you read this book, you will understand nurses and hospitals in a way you didn’t before,” Patterson told ITK in a Tuesday interview. 11, features a compilation of interviews with hospital workers from across the country - everywhere from Wisconsin to Hawaii - telling their experiences in their own words. Nurses: True Stories from America’s Greatest Unsung Heroes.” The nonfiction tome with Matt Eversmann, poised to be released Oct. “It’s such a powerful book,” the prolific author says of “E.R. He’s thrilled readers with fictional tales of murder and mayhem, but James Patterson says he hopes his latest book helps “wake people up” by telling the gripping stories of real-life emergency room nurses. Touring with a huge rock band and landing a record contract means you’ve hit the big time, right? Sadly neither of those things gave Rusty Crawford, lead guitarist of the band Black Addiction, worldwide fame and fortune. As an act of violence threatens to tear apart the entire program, and the erotic pull between them grows irresistible, Paradise is tested in ways she never anticipated-and left wondering whether she’s strong enough to claim her own power…on the field, and off. Craeg, a common civilian, is nothing her father would ever want for her, but everything she could ask for in a male. the Dhestroyer, is having serious problems in his own life.Īnd that’s before she falls in love with a fellow classmate. The schooling is unfathomably difficult, the other recruits feel more like enemies than allies, and it’s very clear that the Brother in charge, Butch O’Neal, a.k.a. It’s a good plan, until everything goes wrong. Her strategy? Join the Black Dagger Brotherhood’s training center program and learn to fight for herself, think for herself…be herself. Paradise, blooded daughter of the king’s First Advisor, is ready to break free from the restrictive life of an aristocratic female. The legacy of the Black Dagger Brotherhood continues in a spin-off series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author… If the Boy Who Lived had wanted a preview of what awaited him at wizard school, he needn’t have looked any further than Mildred’s exploits at Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches. More than two decades before a certain boy wizard ditched his cupboard at 4 Privet Drive for the halls of Hogwarts, readers were introduced to clumsy but sweet-natured Mildred Hubble in the 1974 kidlit classic The Worst Witch. We don't allow personal recommendation posts. We also encourage discussion about developments in the book world and we have a flair system. We love original content and self-posts! Thoughts, discussion questions, epiphanies and interesting links about authors and their work. 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Subreddit Rules - Message the mods - Related Subs AMA Info The FAQ The Wiki Join in the Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.New Release: Atalanta by Jennifer Saint. A third of them have taken home Hugo and Nebula awards, science fiction’s highest honors. In the past 28 years, he’s released 17 short stories and novellas. (He once refused a prize nomination because he felt the story had been rushed and didn’t meet its full potential.) And, as Lifecycle can attest, when they do appear, they can vanish just as quickly. He holds onto stories until they’re just right. Best known for “Story of Your Life,” which inspired Denis Villeneuve’s Oscar-nominated Arrival, he has a relatively small body of work that trickles out slowly. Already a legend in the sci-fi world, Chiang has a visionary knack for turning scientific discoveries and technological innovations into broader diagnoses of the human condition. Ted Chiang's new book of short stories, Exhalation, is his first collection since 2002. It was nearly impossible to read, at least until now. Lifecycle became a holy relic for sci-fi readers, with copies surfacing rarely, sometimes for hundreds of dollars. The book won a Hugo award for best novella, then, nearly as soon as it came out, ran out of print. The Lifecycle of Software Objects told the story of two people raising primitive AIs-think Neopets, except with the temperaments of precocious children-and captured the ongoing debate around artificial intelligence in vividly human terms. In 2010, a small book lit up the world of science fiction, then disappeared. However, when the kids try to get Grandpa Kurt to tell them a story, he ignores their request and goes to bed. Grandpa Kurt used to tell amazingly scary stories, and Grandma Miriam used to make amazing pancakes. When Jodie arrives at her grandparents house, she begins noticing subtle things wrong with their behavior. Stanley claims that he made the scarecrows, and he mutters that “The scarecrow walks at midnight”. While being driven to her grandparent's farm, Jodie notices that her grandparents have replaced their old scarecrow with multiple new scarecrows. For instance, he carries around a book of superstitions that he follows devoutly. Stanley is a middle aged man and nice, but he is also very strange. Grandpa Kurt and Grandma Miriam have sent one of their farmhands, Stanley, to pick up Jodie and Mark from the train station. The farm is located in the countryside, near a small town. Jodie and her brother, Mark, are sent to spend a month with their grandparents on their farm. Then one night Jodie sees something really odd. And the single scarecrow has been replaced by twelve evil-looking ones. But this summer the farm has really changed. And Grandma's chocolate chip pancakes are the best. Still, Grandpa tells great scary stories. Okay, so it's not the most exciting place in the world. Jodie loves visiting her grandparents' farm. Given that she wrote this long before GRRM wrote A Game of Thrones, I wonder if he was inspired or just a coincidence? Marriages among the lords are politically motivated to foster trade and unify the houses/seats and children of these lords and more powerful vassals are fostered at other seats until they become of age. The lords of these seats are peers to each other except to the High Prince. The lords have vassals that owe their allegiance to them and not to the High Prince (equivalent to King or Queen of Westeros). These seats have memorable names such as Greypearl of Dorval or Castle Crag of Princemarch. Dragon Prince world has a bunch of regions (13) all ruled by a ruling lord and has specific seat (house) that she/he rules from. I did note that the political structure that she devised for her world building was exactly the same as GRRM's Westeros. She sets up a nice uncompleted plot point that has me curious to read the concluding novel of the series to see that resolved. A huge improvement from the first book.Ģ. There was morally grey characters that developed (ie Pandsala and Andrade) and the motivations of the villians and the grey characters are believable and realistic. Villains are much more subtle and nuanced. A lot of the issues I mentioned in my review of Dragon Prince seems to be solved.ġ. Definitely an improvement from her debut novel. The Civil War is likely to stand unequaled." Walter Mills" Foote has the novelist's feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian's scrupulous regard for recorded fact. His organization of facts could hardly be better." Atlantic "Though the events of this middle year of the Civil War have been recounted hundreds of times, they have rarely been re-created with such vigor and such picturesque detail." The New York Times Book Review "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist's skill in directing the reader's attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war, without omitting items which are of momentary interest. The writing is superb.one of the historical and literary achievements of our time." The Washington Post Book World " Mr. "This, then, is narrative history a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition. Focused on the pivotal year of 1863, the second volume of Shelby Foote s masterful narrative history brings to life the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant s Vicksburg campaign and covers some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War. |