- Malchkeoun’s mate Alice wrote this story in early 2000 and used exotic eyes 👀 on the first edition cover of the book 📚 Raindance by A.C. Flanagan
2006, English, Book edition: Raindance : Australia's longest summer - a story of conspiracy and betrayal / A.C. Flanagan. Flanagan, Alice.
Raindance, her first book, was inspired by the changes drought had brought to Australia in the early 2000s. In a ‘what if’ story Raindance explores the decisions poverty imposes on a mother as she is manipulated into becoming a terrorist in a time when drought and war has brought the western world to her knees.
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Set in a fictional Riverina town at the height of a devastating drought, Scrublands is one of the most powerful, compelling and original crime novels to be written in Australia.
In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated young priest calmly opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners before being shot dead himself.
Scrublands - Chris Hammer - 9781760632984 - Allen & Unwin ...
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Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage — and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child — but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn’t understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram’s private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation family, Thena, his chosen mother, a woman of few words and many secrets, and Sophia, a young woman fighting her own war even as she and Hiram fall in love, he becomes determined to escape the only home he’s ever known.
The NY Times has a bit more info here about the book.
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In January, BuzzFeed
News came out with a story that President Donald Trump directed his
attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about Trump’s business dealings in
Russia. But the office of special counsel Robert Mueller put out a statement
disputing parts of the report. BuzzFeed News stood by its story. Since then, no
news organization has been able to either confirm or shoot down BuzzFeed News’
report.
Then came Wednesday when Cohen testified before Congress. Did he
help or hurt BuzzFeed News’ credibility on that story? Uh, maybe both, writes
the Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan.
On one hand, in his written testimony, Cohen wrote: “Mr. Trump
did not directly tell me to lie to Congress.’’
So that disputes BuzzFeed News, right? Hold on. Cohen continued:
“That’s not how he operates.”
What Cohen is claiming is that Trump made it clear he was to
lie. Cohen testified: “In conversations we had during the campaign, at the same
time I was actively negotiating in Russia for him, he would look me in the eye
and tell me, ‘There’s no business in Russia,’ and then go out and lie to the
American people by saying the same thing. In his way, he was telling me to
lie.”
So, if you believe Cohen — and not everyone does — BuzzFeed News
seems to be vindicated. Ultimately, we might have to wait for the Mueller
Report to get a better sense of how accurate BuzzFeed News’ story was.