![]() The judge could also order the FBI to keep looking for additional materials to turn over to the treasure hunter. Parada’s dispute with the FBI is playing out in federal court, where a judge overseeing the case must decide whether the FBI will have to release its operational plan for the gold dig and other records it wants to keep secret. The FBI defends its handling of the materials. ![]() They accuse the FBI of distorting key evidence and improperly withholding records in an apparent effort to conceal the recovery of a historic, extremely valuable gold cache. Parada and his advisers, who have spent countless hours poring over the newly released government records, believe otherwise. The FBI, which went to Dents Run after sophisticated testing suggested tons of gold might be buried there, has long insisted the dig came up empty. ![]() Dennis Parada waged a legal battle to force the FBI to turn over records of its excavation in Dents Run, Pennsylvania, where local lore says an 1863 shipment of Union gold disappeared on its way to the U.S. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The poem by Black Orpheus the poet who wrote about everyone who was anyone in the Inner Frontier. In the attic there a treasure just waiting for the universe to remember it. Danny Briggs is just a thief with a forgettable face. More and more of people's rights are being taken in the name of safety. In the year 3407 the democracy is as greedy as ever. A very big thanks to Angela Leonard from for taking the time to read and critique my review. I am going to be putting in some changes to my reviewing because I got a professional to read one of my reviews and give me some help. ![]() ![]() Go get some of his stuff, read it and thank me later. If you have not read either Mike Resnick before or Santiago stop reading this right now and get to your library. This is a sequel to Santiago also by Mike Resnick. It is 464 pages long and published by TOR. Today's post is 'The Return of Santiago' by Mike Resnick. ![]() ![]() ![]() "With a plot as timely as it is riveting.this is one of her best." (Booklist) And the fallout will lead them into the Appalachian mountains, to the terrible truth about really happened to Michelle, and to a remote compound where a radical group has murder in mind. Within hours the situation has spiralled out of control. But on this one terrible day that instinct betrays them. ![]() Sara and Will are trained to run towards an emergency, not away from it. But the serenity of the summer's day is broken by the wail of sirens. A month later, on a sleepy Sunday afternoon, medical examiner Sara Linton is at lunch with her boyfriend Will Trent, an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The police search for her, her partner pleads for her release, but it's as if she disappeared into thin air. The routine of a family shopping trip is shattered when Michelle Spivey is snatched as she leaves the mall with her young daughter. New York Times best-selling author Karin Slaughter brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won't see coming. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book draws its inspiration from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s struggle to stop the construction of the pipeline. ![]() The snake, which is shaped like a pipe in the book, represents the Dakota Access Pipeline – a controversial crude oil project that spans 1,172 miles and extends over four states – and is a reference to the Black Snake Prophecy, according to Goade. The story follows a young Native American girl as she takes a stand against a black snake threatening to poison her people’s water, according to the book’s description. “We Are Water Protectors” was written by Carole Lindstrom, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe. ![]() I won’t be the last! It brings me so much joy to think about Indigenous youth who will see themselves in this recognition and know that their stories are powerful and value.” “I think it’s important to acknowledge and reflect on the significance of being the first in 2021, while also looking towards the future with much hope. “It’s a great honor to be the first Indigenous artist to win this award, but I am of course standing on many shoulders,” Goade, a member of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, said in a statement to CNN. Michaela Goode is the first Native American to win the Caldecott Medal for children's book illustration. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s what you may have missed on the blog since my last Sunday Post:īook Blogger Birthdays and Blogoversaries: The choreographers are the ones competing in this one. Definitely an interesting twist on a dance competition show. I watched the first episode of Dance 100.This is fun to watch with my daughter, since she was home. I watched all the available episodes of the current season of American Idol.I still have one last episode of The Last of Us to watch.I’m listening to Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley.I read The Snatcher of Raven Hollow by Matt McMann and Momo Arashima Steals the Sword of the Wind by Misa Sugiura and then I started reading The Stranded by Sarah Daniels.It was nice to spend time with family, even though we all would have preferred to get together under better circumstances, of course. Then, my daughter was home for spring break, so we had some fun game nights and did some early clothes shopping for our trip to Spain and Italy this summer. Since my last post, we planned and attended my mother-in-law’s celebration of life service in Tucson. It’s starting to seem like a Sunday Post every two weeks is going to be the norm around here. ![]() ![]() The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It’s a chance to share news ~ A post to recap the past week on my blog and share news about what’s coming up in the week ahead. ![]() ![]() It took about 15 minutes.Īnd that’s the nature of travel – what was once an expedition is now a relatively safe afternoon stroll – as evidenced by the ridiculous queues to get up Everest (though plenty still die up there) and what I imagine are (or were?) streams of gap year backpackers falling over each other to get into a once remote location. Many years later I persuaded my daughter to take the same walk – which is lovely. ![]() Given it was the first time I had ever done it on my own it seemed like a lengthy expedition. This involved walking from Thornhill down to Low Mill along the river Ehen by the beck fields and past the shoe factory into Egremont. When I was about ten I went to see ‘Born Free’ with a friend. ![]() ![]() An influential if at times flawed travelogue from the late 1970s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Level five mage (the most powerful), studying at the university as an apprentice to the weapons guild. Trystan Gardner – Sixteen years old, youngest Gardner sibling. Protective elder brother, master hunter and tracker. ![]() Rafe Gardner – Eldest of the Gardner siblings, enrolled in the university. ![]() Has a connection to wood, able to see the origin tree to any piece of wood she touches. Wants to be an apothecary, enjoys making and playing violins. Raised by her uncle with her two brothers out in Halfix (remote Gardneria). I’m begging you.Įlloren Gardner – Seventeen years old, middle child in the Gardner family. Just click away unless you’ve read the book already. This is my favorite high fantasy YA series of ALL TIME, I recommend reading it. Same stuff I said in my previous post, do not read on, dear friend, unless you have read the book. I’m going to be posting my summaries here, just in case anyone else wants to check them out if they don’t have time to re-read the series before The Demon Tide. Hi everyone! So this month in preparation for the release of The Demon Tide, the long awaited new book in the Black Witch series, I’m re-reading the three previous Black Witch books. ![]() ![]() On Maps, woods continues to be at odds with the world around him, struggling with the anxiety and loneliness of a rapper on the road. Maps expands on the foundations of Hiding Places by largely concerning itself with the touring life that its predecessor and woods’ various projects since have enabled. Maps by billy woods & Kenny Segalīilly woods and Kenny Segal reconnect for a second time following their 2019 collaborative debut, Hiding Places.Tiffany, Ecstatic Editions’ first release is a victory for explorative, thoughtful electronic.–KD With songs from Ciel’s The Trojan Horse EP, remixes and a collaboration with D. 1 a great opportunity to revisit the career of the excellent Xi’an-born, Toronto-based producer and DJ. These tracks have previously never received a vinyl release, making Ecstatic Editions Vol. ![]() 1 is an anthology collection of Ciel cuts. ![]() Our top picks for May, including Arlo Parks, Khruangbin, Overmono and more.Īlbums selected by VF’s Kelly Doherty and Becky Rogers.Ĭoming via Eris Drew’s new label, Ecstatic Editions Vol. May your month be filled with new releases. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Its accomplishments and prosperity - 'the wealth created by vast and varied industries' - were succinctly described by a Yorkshire-born American Unitarian minister, J. India that the British East India Company conquered was no primitive or barren land, but the glittering jewel of the medieval world. "Company official John Sullivan observed in the 1840s: 'The little court disappears - the capital decays - trade languishes - the capital decays - the people are impoverished - the Englishman flourishes, and acts like a sponge, drawing up riches from the banks of the Ganges, and squeezing them down upon the banks of the Thames'. The following quote summarises the core theme of the book. Subsequently, his publisher floated the idea to transform the speech into a book despite being initially skeptical, he went on to write a 330 page book. ![]() Tharoor made a speech at a 2015 Oxford Union debate on the topic " Does Britain owe reparations to its former colonies?", which went viral over the web. In 2017, Tharoor won the 2017 Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award and the 2019 Sahitya Akademi Award for this work. Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India, first published in India as An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, is a work of non-fiction by Shashi Tharoor, an Indian politician and diplomat, on the effects of British colonial rule on India. ![]() ![]() ![]() Blatty doesn’t recall what exactly happened with the first guest, but he remembers that he was gone after the first commercial. “I got into makeup and went into the green room.”Īs he waited for his brief appearance scheduled for the final minutes of the show, that “divine hand” intervened further. “I threw down my napkin and ran all the way,” he said, recalling the twist of fate. It seems a guest had suddenly dropped out of that night’s show and he was desperately needed. “She said to me, ‘Can you get over to the show, like, within minutes?’” Sometime after his dispiriting interview for the Cavett show, Blatty was having lunch at the Four Seasons with a woman from Harper & Row when she got a phone call. “I always believe that there is a divine hand everywhere,” said Blatty, who prior to “The Exorcist” had co-written such Blake Edwards comedies as 1964’s “A Shot in the Dark” and penned the screenplays to several films, including the 1965 adaptation of his novel “John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!” ![]() After doing a pre-interview for a possible guest appearance on “The Dick Cavett Show,” the interviewer told him not to hold his breath about getting a slot on the popular talk show because the host wasn’t keen on paranormal stories. ![]() |