6/10/2023 0 Comments Lindbergh by a scott berg![]() ![]() The unbearable public hysteria generated by the trial of the assumed kidnapper forced Lindbergh into exile - to England and France. The most celebrated man of his day - a romantic symbol of the new aviation age - Lindbergh seemed to be living a charmed life until tragedy struck in 1932, when his twenty-month-old son, the 'Lindbergh baby', was kidnapped and later found dead. ![]() The astonishing press attention Lindbergh recieved subsequent to his awe-inspiring flight made him the first modern media superstar, condemned to be deified and demonized many times over in his lifetime. Lindbergh, the first solo pilot to cross the Atlantic non-stop from New Yrok to Paris, in 1927. From one of America's most acclaimed biographers, here at last is the definitive life of one of the most legendary, controversial and enigmatic figures in American history - Charles A. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Cutting for stone review![]() ![]() If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. 'I hope one day you see this as clearly as I did in Kerchele. In order to start to get rid of your slippers, you have to admit they are yours, and if you do, then they will get rid of themselves. The slippers in the story mean that everything you see and do and touch, every seed you sow, or don't sow, becomes part of your destiny. ![]() That night the old man died in his sleep. Why try to lose them? He'll never escape.' The old man laughed, and he seemed happy when he said that. 'One night when Tawfiq finished, another prisoner, a quiet dignified old man, said, 'Abu Kassem might as well build a special room for his slippers. But his every attempt to get rid of his slippers ended in disaster: when he tossed them out of his window they landed on the head of a pregnant woman who miscarried, and Abu Kassem was thrown in jail when he dropped them in the canal, the slippers choked off the main drain and caused flooding, and off Abu Kassem went to jail. ![]() At last, even he couldn't stomach the sight of them. “It was a tale well known to children all over Africa: Abu Kassem, a miserly Baghdad merchant, had held on to his battered, much repaired pair of slippers even though they were objects of derision. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Kitty Genovese by Kevin Cook![]() I don’t think I’ve read its compelling equal in twenty years. Kevin Baker, author of The Big Crowd and Paradise Alley He’s done a first-rate reporting job, one that delivers the truth at last about an infamous murder that came to define an age. Kevin Cook rips the cover off an enduring urban myth. Jordan Michael Smith - Christian Science Monitor reporting…is rich and deep.Ĭook manages to maintain an impressive level of tension…oving…compelling. Edward Kosner - The Wall Street JournalĬook’s restoration helps make Kitty human, not merely iconographic.Ī fully-realized portrait of Kitty… Readers won’t forget that she was a person, not a player in an anecdote. ![]() Provocative… As much about the alchemy of journalism as urban pathology. His peppy knowing style calls to mind pop-culture products from the time of the murder…he is firmly and persuasively in the revisionist camp. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rival's Challenge, by USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Abby Green Tycoon's Temptation, by USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Trish Morey Playboy's Lesson, by USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Melaine Milburneīillionaire's Secret, by USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Chantelle Shaw ![]() Sheikh's Scandal, by USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Lucy Monroe But when he meets the woman who came apart in his bed just hours before, Antonio decides to set his sights on a different kind of merger.Ĭollect all 8 titles in The Chatsfield miniseries: On the eve of a business deal, nerves get the better of Orla Kennedy, and a drink with a handsome stranger ends in a night of passion she'll never forget! Only after does Orla discover that the man in question is Antonio Chatsfield-her rival!Īntonio never wanted to return to The Chatsfield, but his sister needs his help, so he has little choice. When one night with a stranger becomes more. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Brent weeks the burning white![]() ![]() ![]() Interactions should not primarily be for personal benefit. Interact with the community in good faith. Respect for members and creators shall extend to every interaction. Visionīuild a reputation for inclusive, welcoming dialogue where creators and fans of all types of speculative fiction mingle. We reserve the right to remove discussion that does not fulfill the mission of /r/Fantasy. We welcome respectful dialogue related to speculative fiction in literature, games, film, and the wider world. r/Fantasy is the internet’s largest discussion forum for the greater Speculative Fiction genre. For updated information regarding ongoing community features, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. ![]() Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Frank dostoevsky![]() Written in a conversational style that combines literary analysis and cultural history, Lectures on Dostoevsky places the novels and their key characters and scenes in a rich context. Presented here for the first time, these illuminating lectures begin with an introduction to Dostoevsky's life and literary influences and go on to explore the breadth of his career-from Poor Folk, The Double, and The House of the Dead to Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. His never-before-published Stanford lectures on the Russian novelist's major works provide an unparalleled and accessible introduction to some of literature's greatest masterpieces. ![]() Joseph Frank (1918-2013) was perhaps the most important Dostoevsky biographer, scholar, and critic of his time. From the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible introduction to the Russian writer's major works ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Expanse books leviathan falls![]() "Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written." -George R. ![]() And on the Rocinante, James Holden and his crew struggle to build a future for humanity out of the shards and ruins of all that has come before.Īs nearly unimaginable forces prepare to annihilate all human life, Holden and a group of unlikely allies discover a last, desperate chance to unite all of humanity, with the promise of a vast galactic civilization free from wars, factions, lies, and secrets if they win.īut the price of victory may be worse than the cost of defeat. Through the wide-flung systems of humanity, Colonel Aliana Tanaka hunts for Duarte’s missing daughter. In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight of her investigation. ![]() But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. ![]() “An all-time genre classic.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review) Corey’s Hugo-award winning space opera that inspired the Prime Original series. The biggest science fiction series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S.A. ![]() ![]() It also proposes to raise taxes and spend more on welfare, though how much is likely to be subject to intraparty negotiations. One of the party’s campaign pledges was to reform the military and end conscription. On May 14, Move Forward Party, which is led by a young, U.S.-educated leader, won the biggest share of seats in parliament on a wave of support from younger voters, easily defeating parties backed by the military, which has governed Thailand since a 2014 coup. Move Forward has since begun talks with other parties to form a coalition government. Think of this as Thailand’s “deep state.”Now the military faces a dilemma after an election that could prove the most consequential in a generation. Any elected government that takes on the military, or is seen as a threat to its status, runs the risk of being deposed, if not by tanks in the streets then by a “judicial coup,” in the form of a court order that disbars politicians and dissolves their parties. ![]() As a Monitor correspondent in Thailand, I covered elections and coups, in that order. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments James michener colorado![]() ![]() ![]() Return to Paradise combines fictional short stories with Michener's factual descriptions of the Pacific areas where they take place. His non-fiction works include Iberia, about his travels in Spain and Portugal his memoir, The World Is My Home and Sports in America. Michener's books include Tales of the South Pacific, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948 Hawaii The Drifters Centennial The Source The Fires of Spring Chesapeake Caribbean Caravans Alaska Texas Space Poland and The Bridges at Toko-ri. Many of his works were bestsellers and were chosen by the Book of the Month Club he was known for the meticulous research that went into his books. He wrote more than 40 books, most of which were long, fictional family sagas covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating detailed history. James Albert Michener ( / ˈ m ɪ tʃ ə n ər/ or / ˈ m ɪ tʃ n ər/ Febru– October 16, 1997) was an American writer. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Geisha novel![]() ![]() While one considers that the nature of the geisha profession is itself a metaphor on patriarchal Japanese society, there are further incarnations of this cultural paradigm. One of the most pervasive understandings is that the characters in Memoirs of a Geisha are highly influenced by the greatly patriarchal structure of this historical Japanese period. This essay examines how the characters and ideas expressed in the novel are a product of the time and place of the story. ![]() Chiyo’s life and development is followed within the historical backdrop of the turbulent 1940s, as she struggles in this cultural climate, before ultimately moving to New York City. In these regards, the text follows the life of a woman born Sakomoto Chiyo as she is sold into a geisha boarding house. The novel is relayed in a first-person perspective of a geisha working in the historical of Japan surrounding World War II. ![]() Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden’s novel Memoirs of a Geisha was written in 1997 and has come to be a heralded work for its exploration of a numberof themes and cultural concerns. ![]() |