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Meet Sam Thornton, collecter of souls. The souls of the damned, to be precise. Because of his efforts to avert the Apocalypse, Sam Thornton has been given a second chance: provided he can stick to the straight-and-narrow. Which sounds all well and good, but when the soul that Sam is sent to collect goes missing, he finds himself on a path leading straight to Hell.

Lucky, a naive American actress, has an accident in Tangier during a break from touring Europe performing in summer drama festivals. While her ankle heals, she takes a temporary job working at the American consulate where the Puppet Master, secret head of the CIA’s North Africa operations, is headquartered. He sees Lucky’s innocent appearance as an asset. He trains her as a courier and decoder, enticing her to stay for a year with enough money to pay for her future travels and higher education.

1984 centers on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviors within society. Orwell modeled the totalitarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated. The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984 when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda.

The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984 when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a totalitarian superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employs the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist.

LUCKY WOLFESON is declared legally dead after a flashflood sweeps her SUV into a streambed on the island of Maui. Why she “died” is at the heart of this story of serial murders, abuse, illegal sales of Hawai’ian land, and love gone wrong. News of a killing shocks and seems rare; yet killing is a fascinating and quite common occurrence. What if the killer is kind, compassionate, and never prone to any sort of violence?

Despite the fact that the sisters lived relatively short lives (Charlotte lived to be 38, Emily 30, and Anne 29), their works continue to be widely read and admired. Their novels have been adapted into numerous films, plays, and television programs, and their influence can be seen in the works of many contemporary writers.