![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This instance of “alternative facts” will resonate with many Trump opponents, as will Snyder’s dissection of the leadership style of oligarchs, both Russian and American. In perhaps its most audacious PR coup, Russia’s downing of a Malaysia Airlines flight over Ukraine was spun so successfully that well over 80% of Russians believed their country wasn’t to blame. ![]() He relates Ilyin’s belief that strong rulers favor self-serving myths over empirical evidence to numerous examples of the Putin regime’s propaganda. Those included the 2014 invasion of Ukraine, which Snyder considers “the warning that went unheeded” of Russia’s willingness to interfere with other countries’ political systems, as later seen during the 2016 U.S. Beginning by discussing the obscure early-20th-century Russian philosopher Ivan Ilyin, who regarded “fascism as the politics of the world to come,” Snyder traces Ilyin’s influence on Vladimir Putin’s aggressive efforts to return his country to superpower status. Yale history professor Snyder ( On Tyranny) buttresses his denunciation of Donald Trump as a nascent authoritarian with a fascinating, detailed exploration of how recent events in Russia presaged Trump’s administration. ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Sophia nasty gal![]() ![]() ![]() It was in that lobby that Sophia decided to start selling vintage clothes on eBay.įlash forward ten years to today, and she’s the founder and executive chairman of Nasty Gal, a $250-million-plus fashion retailer with more than four hundred employees. By age twenty-two she had dropped out of school, and was broke, directionless, and checking IDs in the lobby of an art school-Ī job she’d taken for the health insurance. Sophia Amoruso spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and scrounging in dumpsters for leftover bagels. ‘ In the New York Times bestseller that the Washington Post called "Lean In for misfits," Sophia Amoruso shares how she went from dumpster diving to founding one of the fastest-growing retailers in the world. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Fire with fire destiny soria![]() And, with Dani lost to the dragons, Eden turns to the mysterious and alluring sorcerers to help save her sister. As she gets to know Nox, she realizes that everything she thought she knew about dragons is wrong. ![]() Until Dani comes face-to-face with one and forges a rare and magical bond. ![]() Yet they both agree on one thing: it's kill or be killed where dragons are concerned. For Dani, dragon slaying takes a back seat to normal high school life, while Eden prioritizes training above everything else. Two sisters raised to be fierce dragon slayers end up on opposing sides of an impending war when one forms an unlikely, magical bond with a dragon, in this exciting, fresh contemporary young adult fantasy.ĭani and Eden Rivera were both born to kill dragons, but the sisters couldn't be more different. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Falls the shadow sharon penman![]() ![]() Her trilogy of the decline of the Welsh kings ( DRAGON, FALLS THE SHADOW and THE RECKONING)is a holiday gift I give year after year, and I'm happy to say they have always been embraced and loved. I started with HERE BE DRAGONS and I have never looked back. ![]() It's funny, you can sell something for years before you notice that the author has been quietly making a powerful impact on people everywhere. It is in these Staff Recommend sections that I kept on seeing our Penman's titles, HERE BE DRAGONS, FALLS THE SHADOW, THE RECKONING and also SUNNE IN SPLENDOUR and WHEN CHRIST AND HIS SAINTS SLEPT. It is here that you can find treasured, beloved books quite dear to someone who works in the stores, someone waiting quite eagerly for the chance to hand sell their recommended titles. What interests me first about these stores is what titles are being displayed in the 'Staff Recommends' section of the store. As a publisher I have been lucky to be able to visit bookstores all over the country, independent and chain alike. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The rithmatist book![]() ![]() Then students start disappearing-kidnapped from their rooms at night, leaving trails of blood. ![]() As the son of a lowly chalkmaker at Armedius Academy, Joel can only watch as Rithmatist students study the magical art that he would do anything to practice. Having nearly overrun the territory of Nebrask, the Wild Chalklings now threaten all of the American Isles. Rithmatists are humanity's only defense against the Wild Chalklings-merciless creatures that leave mangled corpses in their wake. ![]() Chosen by the Master in a mysterious inception ceremony, Rithmatists have the power to infuse life into two-dimensional figures known as Chalklings. Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson: his debut novel for the young adult audience More than anything, Joel wants to be a Rithmatist. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Night sins guilty as sin tami hoag![]() Ellen suddenly finds herself swept into a cruel contest of wits, a dark game of life and death. A young boy disappears and the only clue is a notetaunting and casually cruel. NIGHT SINS A peaceful Minnesota town is about to face its worst nightmare. Is the nightmare continuing.or just beginning? Prosecutor Ellen North believes she has the right man-but that he has an accomplice in the shadows. 1 New York Timesbestselling author Tami Hoag delivers a double shot of suspense in these two adrenaline-charged classic thrillers offered together in one powerful volume. But when a second boy vanishes, a frightened public demands to know if the police have caught the wrong man. ![]() Now a respected member of the community stands accused of a chilling act of evil. GUILTY AS SIN A psychopath has been playing a twisted game with a terrified Minnesota town. Together they'll hunt a madman who knows no bounds and for whom no sin is forbidden. ![]() ![]() For a local cop, it's the fear that big-city evil has come to stalk his small-town home. Has a cold-blooded kidnapper struck? Or is this the reawakening of a long-quiet serial killer? For a tough-minded investigator, it's her first make-or-break case. A young boy disappears and the only clue is a note-taunting and casually cruel. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments After you sequel to me before you![]() ![]() Louisa reached deep within her bag of sunshine to convince him that life was worth living, and the two fell in love. Though wealthy and receiving top-notch care, Will was struggling to tolerate his restricted existence and bouts of excruciating illness he planned to travel to Switzerland to carry out an assisted suicide. ![]() In her first outing, Louisa, from an English working-class family, is a 27-year-old caregiver to Will Traynor, a once-active and enterprising man in his mid-30s who, two years earlier, was rendered quadriplegic in an accident. ![]() We first met her in Jojo Moyes’ 2012 breakout, “Me Before You,” and later in “After You.”īoth novels were narrated by Louisa and filled with elements essential to understanding the newest book. “Still Me” is the third installment in the adventures of Louisa Clark, she of the ditsy fashion sense and knack for sweetening up sourpusses. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Thornton wilder 1938![]() ![]() some guilt because he was the survivor and perhaps he had deprived that brother of blood or tissue or breath or life. He felt a certain incompletion because that brother had not survived. Like many twinless twins, this was a death event which haunted him for most of his life. He had an older brother, Amos, and Thornton's twin brother died at birth. "Thornton was the second live child born into the Wilder family. She joins NPR's Scott Simon to discuss Wilder's life and the universal appeal of Our Town. Now, acclaimed biographer Penelope Niven has written a book, Thornton Wilder: A Life, that tells the story of how the signature play came to be written. In fact, the play is probably being performed by a community, church, high school or professional theater group somewhere this fall. It's been produced for film, radio and television, starring, at times, Paul Newman, Hal Holbrook, Helen Hunt and Frank Sinatra. ![]() The play explores life - from childhood to marriage to death - in the fictional town of Grover's Corners, N.H. Wilder was also an acclaimed novelist and essayist, but none of his dramas were as enduring as Our Town, which won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize. ![]() Thornton Wilder's Our Town is widely considered to be a classic American play: It puts plain-spoken lyricism on an empty stage with a story as simple as life and death. His titles include the plays Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), as well as the novels Heaven's My Destination (1935) and The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927). Thornton Wilder works in a Berlin hotel in 1931. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Within the mind alice winters![]() ![]() I think it’s the humorous juxtaposition of the Big Scary Vampire versus the Cute Fluffy Kitty (with razor sharp claws) that I’ve conjured up in my mind. First let me say, THANK YOU! I’ve been waiting for a cat and one has finally arrived into the VRC universe! I’m not sure why, but this series has been crying out for a cat. It’s just as fantastic as the previous three titles. Welcome to How to Save a Human, the fourth installment in the Alice Winters’ VRC: Vampire Related Crimes series. Naked vampire streaking, unicorn porn, and a cat named Banshee. But I know that if I want to keep him by my side, I will need to do everything I can to help him so our love doesn’t get cut short before it can truly grow. River makes me feel like every day is worth living and enjoying-like I’m not so alone. We’re facing something that runs so deep that we don’t know who we can trust besides each other, even within the VRC. My time is ticking down while I’m wound up in this role I’ve been forced to play, but I know that I would be drowning without Bentley by my side. The same organization that stands in my way. Things get complicated when I find out he’s with the Vampire Related Crimes Unit, the organization looking for answers about the abductions of prominent vampires. Bentley makes me laugh and care and love, but what does any of that mean when I’m living a lie? ![]() When I meet Bentley DeGray, I’m at the lowest point in my life because no matter how much I fight, my past won’t let me escape. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Blue maggie nelson![]() Three forms inspire Bluets: the philosophical tract, the lyric poem, and the autobiography. Yet what could be more invented than a life story that reads like a novel? Bluets doesn’t invent that way: its inventions are wilder, wiser (and more true) than that. Empathy is based on trust, they say, and inventions are lies. ![]() ![]() To hear the mass media speak of it, the mere suggestion of embellishment, never mind invention, disrupts the hopeful economy of memoirs in which a writer bares their soul and the reader feels less alone. Maggie Nelson’s Bluets takes aim at one of today’s most beloved forms of writing-the autobiography-coyly challenging the genre’s attachment to truthful stories of the self and the form thought best to convey them: that of the realist novel. ![]() |