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Thank you for your servitude goodreads5/11/2023 Trump's savage bullying of everyone in his circle, along with his singular command of his political base, created a dangerous culture of submission in the Republican Party. What would these politicos do to preserve their place in the sun, or at least the orbit of the spray tan? What would they do to preserve their "relevance"? Almost anything, it turns out. Thank You for Your Servitude is Mark Leibovich's unflinching account of the moral rout of a major American political party, tracking the transformation of Rubio, Cruz, Graham, and their ilk into the administration's chief enablers, and the swamp's lesser lights into frantic chasers of the grift. Even more, in their outrage: Trump was a menace and an affront to our democracy. In the early months of Trump's candidacy, the Republican Party's most important figures, people such as Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Lindsey Graham, were united-and loud-in their scorn and contempt. "The new must read summer book." -Stephanie Ruhleįrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, the eyewitness account of how the GOP collaborated with Donald Trump to transform Washington's "swamp" into a gold-plated hot tub-and a onetime party of rugged individualists into a sycophantic personality cult. "Really fascinating.There are so many revelations." -Anderson Cooper "His writing is so damn good." -John Berman "This is a really funny book." -Kara Swisher "He's one of the best chroniclers of politics today." -Jake Tapper
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A Gorgeous Mess by Layla Wolfe5/11/2023 All he had to do to get there was learn to breathe and not get himself killed in the process. Only when he found himself on a path to Wonderland did he start to see a future beyond his past. In order to survive, Ethan had to dig deep and find a strength in himself not even he was sure existed. Inevitably, the darkness tried to sink him, and there was only one constant light that somehow seemed to shine brighter than the promise of escape: the mystery girl with the golden hair. His fists and fortitude became his bread and butter, but the new turn in his life rejected the familiar and opened the door to more evil. When temptation turned to indulgence, and the ghosts of his past encouraged him to dig deeper, Ethan sought salvation in the form of violence. With the life he’d always known gone forever, Ethan found himself battling demons in disguise, only to find his own weakness was his worst enemy. Unfortunately, reality came knocking at Ethan’s door, forcing him to face truths he’d never allowed himself to see in the past – truths that soon robbed him of his innocence and youth. His life was a blank page just waiting to be written, but that couldn’t last forever. He was happy, living at home with his family and partying when the mood struck. At nineteen, the world has so many possibilities.Įthan Walker was a typical teenager in that respect.
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Sandeep jauhar heart a history5/10/2023 The book relates the complications that arise when family members must become caregivers. In the book, Jauhar sets his father’s descent into Alzheimer’s alongside his own journey toward understanding his father’s disease. His latest book, "My Father’s Brain," published in April 2023, is a memoir of his relationship with his father as he succumbed to dementia. Sandeep Jauhar has written several bestselling books, all published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. He also confronts the limits of medical technology and argues that future progress will be determined more by how we choose to live rather than by any device we invent. People like Daniel Hale Williams, who performed the world’s first documented heart surgery, and Wilson Greatbatch, who accidentally invented the pacemaker.Īmid gripping scenes from the operating theatre, Jauhar interweaves stories about the patients he’s treated with the moving tale of his family’s own history of heart problems, from his grandfather’s sudden death in India – an event that sparked his life-long obsession – to the ominous signs of how he himself might die. He looks at some of the pioneers who risked their careers and their patients’ lives to better understand the heart. Practising cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar beautifully weaves his own experiences with the defining discoveries of the past to tell the story of our most vital organ. It’s so bound up with our deepest feelings that emotional trauma causes it to change shape. The heart lies at the centre of every facet of our existence.
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Elvira yours cruelly signed5/10/2023 Then a chance encounter with her idol Elvis Presley changed the course of her life forever. Run-ins with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Tom Jones helped her grow up fast. But she survived.ĭue to a complicated relationship with her mother, Cassandra left home at 14, and by age 17 she was performing at the famed Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. Third-degree burns covered 35% of her body, and the prognosis wasn't good. On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water. The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story, filled with intimate bombshells, told by the bombshell herself. Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark Celebrate the release of Yours Cruelly, Elvira with author (and Elvira herself!) Cassandra Peterson! Your ticket includes a copy of the book and a signed bookplate, as well as entrance to the virtual event.
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Golden Girls Forever by Jim Colucci5/10/2023 Illustrated with hundreds of photos, including stills from the show and a treasure trove of never-before-seen and newly rediscovered photos, Golden Girls Forever includes: Drawing on interviews with the show's creators, actors, guest stars, producers, writers, and crew members, Jim Colucci paints a comprehensive portrait of the Girls both in front of the cameras and behind the scenes. Now, Golden Girls Forever pays homage to this wildly popular, acclaimed, and award-winning sitcom. Over thirty years after it first aired, The Golden Girls has become a cult classic, thanks to fan fiction, arts and crafts, podcasts, hundreds of fan blogs and websites, and syndication. They were the Golden Girls, and for seven seasons, this hilarious quartet enchanted millions of viewers with their witty banter, verve, sass, and love, and reaffirmed the power of friendship and family. They were four women of a certain age, living together under one roof in Miami-smart and strong Dorothy, airhead Rose, man-hungry belle Blanche, and smart-mouthed matriarch Sophia. The complete, first-ever Golden Girls retrospective, packed with hundreds of exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes and never-before-revealed stories, more than two hundred color and black-and-white photos, commentary, and more.
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Dieci piccoli indiani by Agatha Christie5/10/2023 Sayers and ten other crime writers from the newly-formed ‘Detection Club’ collaborated in publishing a unique crime novel. Inspector Rudge begins to wonder just how many people have contributed to this extraordinary crime and whether he will ever unravel it… There is clearly more to this case than meets the eye – even the identity of the victim is called into doubt. The vicar, whose boat the body was found in, is clearly withholding information, and the victim's niece has disappeared. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. Chesterton and nine other writers from the legendary Detection Club collaborate in this fiendishly clever but forgotten crime novel first published 80 years ago.
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Where Oliver Fits by Cale Atkinson5/10/2023 Chester spots Simon immediately and peppers him with questions. And to top it off, this house is occupied by an old lady - they’re the easiest to haunt! But things don’t go as planned when it turns out a KID comes with this old lady. He’s a professional ghost who has been transferred to his first house. In the aftermath of violence, someone has to pay. But someone clearly doesn’t want Skye back in town, and when she and Jesse uncover new evidence that could clear Luka’s name, it becomes obvious that someone wants the past to stay buried. Told in alternating points of view, Skye and Jesse wade into the mystery of what took place that fateful day. Her childhood crush and former best friend until the massacre tore them apart. And there’s one person Skye dreads seeing most: Jesse Matin. But the scars of the past don’t heal easily. Now, Skye returns to the small town she had fled to start anew. But there’s no sympathy for Skye and her family because Luka wasn’t a victim - he was a shooter. Three years ago, Skye’s brother Luka died in a mass shooting at the local high school. We would like to congratulate Kelley Armstrong whose Aftermath won the Snow Willow Award and Cale Atkinson whose Sir Simon: Super Scarer won the Shining Willow Award. The Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice Awards aims to promote reading and celebrate Canadian literature each year.
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Snapshot by Brandon Sanderson5/9/2023 The same can be said for Snapshot, Sanderson’s latest novella, that was published early 2017 (but which I only just got my hands on). It felt as if it was a good first try, but that needed to have the rough edges sanded off. You could see the characters who were designed around, “What is this character’s flaw, what makes him memorable, what are some personality quirks,” etc. A prime example was his Reckoners series, which started with Steelheart, which at times read as if it was a first-draft story written for a creative writing class. Unfortunately, some of his work reflects what I imagine stems from these classes. I have not had the time to watch the videos that often appear of these classes, but I have listened to Sanderson’s podcasts and read his work enough to get a sense of what he might teach. It is not a craft everyone can manage – and many have tried.īrandon Sanderson, in my opinion, gets it right half of the time.Īnyone with even a vague interest in the fantasy genre at the moment not only knows of Brandon Sanderson, but also knows that he teaches a creative writing course at Brigham Young University (BYU). It requires the ability to tell a self-contained story that feels as if it has been taken straight out of the middle of a book whilst at the same time giving it its own three-act structure – beginning, middle, and end. Short fiction – be they short stories or their longer cousins, the novella – is an artform that not everyone can master.
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Automating inequality5/9/2023 The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile. Talk: "Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor"Ībstract: In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. Today, she is a founding member of the Our Data Bodies Project and a fellow at New America. For two decades, Eubanks has worked in community technology and economic justice movements. Her writing about technology and social justice has appeared in The American Prospect, The Nation, Harper’s and Wired. She is the author of "Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor", "Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age," and co-editor, with Alethia Jones, of "Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith". Virginia Eubanks is an associate professor of political science at the University at Albany, SUNY.
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Experiments with truth book5/9/2023 His religiously tolerant political official father and devoted mother affected him as a child. Gandhi’s birth (October 2, 1869), childhood, adolescence, and period in England are all covered in Part One. The introduction describes his search for truth, and the conclusion summarises it, demonstrating the overall message. His account is almost entirely chronological. The majority of the chapters are short and cover a single occurrence in his life. The structure of Gandhi’s autobiography is as follows: an introduction, five parts containing chapters, and a conclusion. I live, move, and exist in order to achieve this aim.” Interpretation Of The Text “My life from this moment forth has become so public that there is almost anything about it that people do not know,” he writes in the final chapter.Īccording to the preface, “Self-realization, seeing God face to face, and attaining Moksha are what I wish to achieve – what I have been trying and longing for the past thirty years. The book is divided into five parts, beginning with his birth and ending in 1921. Gujarati was the original language, which was afterwards translated into English and other Indian languages. Above all, the author should have gone through all of this. Sathiya Sodhani, Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography, is one book that instructs you on what is right and bad. |