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Alienist, The

To Catch a Predator Author: Caleb Carr It is 1896, New York, a world teaming with opulence and severe oppression. The seedy underbelly of society is thriving: brothels are teaming, criminal organizations and crime lords run rampant, immigrants live in sordid tenements, and everything that seems innocent is underpinned by the money and political influence of the malevolent. Worse yet, a sadistic killer is on the loose, a man who targets young boys working out of brothels and leaves them carved open, mutilated and abused. He has struck before, and he will strike again. But these are forgotten boys; they come [...]

2022-07-31T19:15:02-07:00July 31st, 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

God Is a Man of War

Tackling the Difficult Concepts in the Old Testament Author: Stephen De Young I discovered God is a Man of War through a YouTube recording of Father Stephen de Young discussing perceptions of unsubstantiated violence and brutality recorded in the Old Testament. De Young’s logical arguments and his willingness to address the proverbial elephant in the room drew me to reading the larger, more in-depth work from which he was drawing summary arguments. De Young starts out quite in-your-face with a refreshing honesty. The verses, even the entire chapters, which we as a society find distasteful and downright disturbing are there and [...]

2022-07-26T09:20:34-07:00July 17th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Reckless Girls

Drunken Days and Murderous Nights Author: Rachel Hawkins Mero Island is outwardly beautiful and very isolated, but it has a dark history. There were shipwrecks, cannibalism, and lonesome men living stranded in the depths of the jungle. But Lux McAllister doesn’t know all this as she accompanies her boyfriend, Nico, as he charters his boat to take two college best friends to the island in Reckless Girls. This was hardly Lux’s dream when she left everything behind. She was supposed to travel the world with Nico, but a fight with his wealthy family and his continual stubbornness has put them in [...]

2022-07-26T09:34:35-07:00June 23rd, 2022|Tags: , , , , |
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