East Wind Blowing

East Wind Blowing is a boatload of inspiration and insight with stories to bring bravery and healing to anyone who has had the riveting grips of an alcoholic and/or addict in their life. A modern day odyssey. Be prepared for a journey... a journey that will illuminate your life and shine choices down on you. The power of choice is yours - it is your God-given value of your soul. Although the journey is challenging it becomes conquerable when someone else has also walked the road...like me. This book will put a spark in your survival instincts after an alcoholic/addict has tried to dampen it.

Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who’s who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China’s Cultural Revolution, were seized with a fascination for Maoism. Combining a merciless exposé of left-wing political folly and cross-cultural misunderstanding with a spirited defense of the 1960s, The Wind from the East tells the colorful story of this legendary period in France. Richard Wolin shows how French students and intellectuals, inspired by their perceptions of the Cultural Revolution, and motivated by utopian hopes, incited grassroots social movements and reinvigorated French civic and cultural life. Wolin’s riveting narrative reveals that Maoism’s allure among France’s best and brightest actually had little to do with a real understanding of Chinese politics. Instead, it paradoxically served as a vehicle for an emancipatory transformation of French society. Recounting the cultural and political odyssey of French students and intellectuals in the 1960s, The Wind from the East illustrates how the Maoist phenomenon unexpectedly sparked a democratic political sea change in France.

Mel Keegan's latest historical romance is set in the very depths of the Dark Ages, in the northeast of a country not yet known as England. The Romans have recently departed, though fragments of their world still linger on. The native Britons are being pressed back by the barbarian Angles from over the water, as they sail in on the east wind seeking new land to settle. Ronan and Bryn are two young men eager to defend their land against the invaders, but Ronan is a common freeman, and Bryn the son of an overweening lord. As with his Fortunes of War and White Rose of Night, Mel Keegan conjures up an atmospheric tale in which love between men is forged in the battles they must fight.

A violent explosion kills thousands and destroys an entire beachfront community in Los Angeles, and while the president attempts to keep the public calm about reports of a nuclear device, the government receives a call warning that similar attacks will be launched on other American cities unless all aid to Israel is terminated.