![]() ![]() Trailer for Graham Hancock’s Netflix series, Ancient Apocalypse. “Perhaps,” Hancock posits in the first episode, “the extremely defensive, arrogant, and patronising attitude of mainstream academia is stopping us from considering that possibility”. The reason little evidence exists, he says, is because it is under the sea or was destroyed by the cataclysm. The survivors of this advanced civilisation, according to Hancock, introduced agriculture, architecture, astronomy, arts, maths and the knowledge of “civilisation” to “simple” hunter gatherers. His argument, as laid out in this show and in several books, is that this advanced civilisation was destroyed in a cataclysmic flood. As an archaeologist committed to public engagement who strongly believes in the relevance of studying ancient people, I feel a full-throated defence is necessary.Īuthor Graham Hancock is back, defending his well-trodden theory about an advanced global ice age civilisation, which he connects in Ancient Apocalypse to the legend of Atlantis. Netflix’s enormously popular new show, Ancient Apocalypse, is an all out attack on archaeologists. ![]()
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![]() Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro's best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn.Susan is a frustrated mother of two trapped in a crumbling marriage.Ro is a single high-school teacher, trying to have a baby on her own while also writing a biography of Eivor, a little-known 19th-century female polar explorer.In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom. ![]() In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. ![]() ![]() The Great Believers has become a critically acclaimed, indelible piece of literature it was selected as one of New York Times Best 10 Books of the Year, a Washington Post Notable Book, a Buzzfeed Book of the Year, a Skimm Reads pick, and a pick for the New York Public Library's Best Books of the year. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. ![]() Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. ![]() Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. ![]() In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. ![]() A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris ![]() ![]() ![]() “I am with you when you scored that goal. “Yes, I am with you,” an angel wing-clad father figure wearing a trucker hat responds. ![]() In Richins’ book, the boy wonders if his father, who has died, notices his goals at a soccer game, his nerves on the first day of school or the presents he found under a Christmas tree. When she returned, she found her husband unresponsive, and she called 911, according to prosecutors. She then went to soothe one of their children to sleep in the next bedroom. Prosecutors allege Richins called authorities in the middle of the night in March 2022 to report that her husband, Eric Richins, was “cold to the touch.” She told officers she had made her husband a mixed drink to celebrate him selling a multimillion-dollar home. The murder charges filed this week come months after Richins self-published “Are you with me?” - an illustrated storybook chronicling a young boy who wonders how his deceased father remains a presence in his life. Kouri Richins, 33, is accused of poisoning her husband with a lethal dose of fentanyl at their home in a small mountain town near Park City, according to charging documents. ![]() SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A children’s book author who prosecutors say killed her husband has been battling with his relatives over the family estate since his death last year, court documents show. ![]() ![]() ![]() And so, unlike the Christian, Taoist and Muslim conquerors who came before him, he gave his subjects freedom of religion. He created the world's greatest trading network and drastically lowered taxes for merchants, but he knew that if his empire was going to last, he would need something stronger and more binding than trade. Genghis Khan conquered by arms and bravery, but he ruled by commerce and religion. ![]() ![]() Throughout history the world's greatest conquerors have made their mark not just on the battlefield, but in the societies they have transformed. A landmark biography by the New York Times bestselling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World that reveals how Genghis harnessed the power of religion to rule the largest empire the world has ever known. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bàn becomes the Druid whose eventual return to the Celts is Boudica’s salvation.ĭreaming the Eagle is full of brilliantly realised, luminous scenes as the narrative sweeps effortlessly from the epic - where battle scenes are huge, bloody, and action-packed - to the intimate. Dreaming the Eagle is also the story of the two men Boudica loves most: Caradoc, outstanding warrior and inspirational leader and Bàn, her half-brother, who longs to be a warrior, though he is manifestly a Dreamer, possibly the finest in his tribe’s history. She longs to be a Dreamer, a mystical leader who can foretell the future, but having killed the man who has attacked and killed her mother, she has proven herself a warrior. ![]() ![]() It is 33 AD and eleven-year-old Breaca (later named Boudica), the red-haired daughter of one of the leaders of the Eceni tribe, is on the cusp between girl and womanhood. She is the last defender of the Celtic culture in Britain the only woman openly to lead her warriors into battle and to stand successfully against the might of Imperial Rome - and triumph. Dreaming the Eagle is the first part of the gloriously imagined epic trilogy of the life of Boudica.īoudica means Bringer of Victory (from the early Celtic word “boudeg”). ![]() ![]() ![]() The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren ![]() ![]() With humor and insight, #1 New York Times bestseller Becky Albertalli explores the nuances of sexuality, identity, and friendship. Read on to discover our picks and let us know if you’re excited for any of these releases too! May is stacked with exciting book releases from the likes of Becky Albertalli, Justin Cronin, and Christina Lauren, and many more, plus those making their debut, you will definitely find a new release (or several) to add to your shelves! ![]() ![]() After the death of her father and abandonment of her mother, Violet moves to Nome, Alaska to live with her aunt and uncle who run the local fish cannery. The novel Icebreaker tells the story of seventeen-year-old Violet Barrett. Subpoint Introduction: Immerse yourself in Hannah Grace’s unique and captivating world in Icebreaker as you follow Raven on her quest to make sense of the secrets and adventures that await her. It follows the journey of Raven, a typical teen living in a rural village surrounded by forests, who is determined to uncover the secrets of her past and learn more about the mysterious family legacy that binds her to the strange locals in town. ![]() ![]() ![]() Icebreaker by Hannah Grace is a spellbinding coming-of-age story filled with gripping suspense and unexpected twists. ![]() ![]() That was before she was drawn into a passionate clandestine affair with the handsome bad boy of the reigning family. An ill-fated engagement to a man she didn't love convinced Val that finding Prince Charming wasn't in her cards. But after sharing an earth-shattering kiss with Val, Roland is the one swept off his feet. Lucky for him, Val has no intention of getting involved with the younger brother of the man to whom she was once engaged. Winning the beautiful Valora Harrington in a poker game is a scandal waiting to happen. ![]() Description: A royal wager Playboy prince Roland DeSaunters is ready to live up to his royal legacy-by betting on his future. ![]() ![]() ![]() He quickly wiped away his tears and went in search of Bonpland.Īy, mama mia! If my doughty dull dipsomaniacal Dr. ![]() He laid his cheek against the wood, then drew back and glanced around horrified in case anyone had seen him. Everything died, every human being, every animal, every moment. ![]() High above, the branches opened out, and the twittering of hundreds of birds pierced the air. Humboldt touched the deeply corrugated trunk. It carried time within itself as it ticked away, while this tree warded off time: a crag against which its river broke. It had been here before Christ and Buddha, Plato and Tamburlane. That was when he first noticed the dragon tree." The sight of a hairy spider sunning itself on the trunk of a palm tree filled him with shock and delight. "Humboldt, stupefied, was face to face with the first plants of the of New World. They climbed the volcano, and they reached the gardens of Orotava. ![]() |