![]() ![]() He proceeded to combat the problems of race and labor relations and trust control while making the Panama Canal possible and winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Youngest of all our chief executives, he rallied a stricken nation with his superhuman energy, charm, and political skills. ![]() A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, “TR” succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terrorism. Theodore Rex is the story-never fully told before-of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States.
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Then a sudden dorm reassignment lands him with a roommate in the form of one of the football team’s top players-working-class jock Stewart Adam (Sam) Morley-and life gets increasingly complicated. By Scotty Cade 6.99 ADD TO CART Bay Whitman, scrittore di gialli di successo, vive una vita da celebrità, perlomeno in apparenza. ![]() With the infamous Hell Week behind him, he quickly realizes being a Knob (a freshman cadet) is just as tough-especially for a man like Gus who must keep his sexuality a secret. ![]() Angus Conrad (Gus) McRae is a privileged Charlestonian following family tradition and attending the Citadel, harboring big dreams of a military career. ![]() ![]() ![]() Noor, meanwhile, walks a harrowing tightrope: working at her wrathful uncle’s liquor store while hiding the fact that she’s applying to college so she can escape him-and Juniper-forever. 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Heres the first thing you need to know about Miss Cathy Williams: I am the daughter of a daughter of a queen and my mama never let me forget it. Christina Baker Kline Named Best Fiction Writer in the Austin Chronicles Austins Best 2018 Named one of Lone Star Literary Lifes Top 20 Texas Books of 2018 The compelling, hidden story of Cathy Williams, a former slave and the only woman to ever serve with the legendary Buffalo Soldiers. ![]() Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author An epic page-turner. About the Book Includes Reading Group Gold extras (10 unnumbered pages at end) Book Synopsis Youll be swept away by the passion and power of this remarkable, trailblazing woman who risked everything to follow her own heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever? But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat. Pursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince-the friend-who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. Mare Barrow's blood is red-the color of common folk-but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. ![]() Martin’s Game of Thrones series, Glass Sword is the high-stakes follow up to the #1 New York Times bestselling Red Queen. The #1 New York Times bestselling series! ![]() ![]() In Tempest Rising, McKinney-Whetstone richly evokes the early 1960s in west Philadelphia in this story of loss and healing, redemption, and love. ![]() As Ramona struggles with Mae's abuse and her own hatred for the foster children, she also tries to keep at bay a powerful attraction she has for her boyfriend's father. Though Mae lavishes affection onto her foster children, she is abusive to her own child, Ramona, a twenty-something stunning beauty. ![]() A trio of Philadelphia-born sisters is the focus of this solid if uninspired second novel: Shern, Victoria, and Bliss are born to loving, well-meaning parents, but the forces of circumstance cause their lives to change drastically one day in 1965. ![]() The girls are wrenched from their mother and dumped into foster care in a working-class neighborhood in the home of Mae, a politically connected card shark. McKinney-Whetstone (Tumbling, 1996) scores big on mood and language, less on plot and character. When their father disappears suddenly, he is presumed dead, sending their mother spiraling into an apparent breakdown. But their lives quickly unravel as their father's lucrative catering business collapses. Set in west Philadelphia in the early sixties, Tempest Rising tells the story of three sisters, Bliss, Victoria, and Shern, budding adolescents raised in a world of financial privilege among the upper-black-class. ![]() Class, race, and sexuality converge in this page-turning story of desire, jealousy, and survival. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their case has its origins in Iraq, which can be seen as a tip of the hat to The Exorcist, though here the opening scene has to do not with archaeology but with shock and awe. You wouldn’t necessarily know it from many scenes in Deliver Us, though, as the screen Sarchie (Eric Bana), sometimes accompanied by partner Butler (Joel McHale), prowl through the dankest, filthiest apartments and basements you’d never want to explore. ![]() The inspiration is pretty loose, considering that Sarchie worked the beat he wrote about in his book Beware the Night in the ’80s and ’90s and the movie is set in 2013, when many parts of the borough had been cleaned up. The fresh approach here is to combine the demon-made-me-do-it stuff with a detective procedural, inspired (as the ads make sure you’re aware) by actual cases investigated by Ralph Sarchie, a real-life Bronx cop who became a self-styled demonologist. įorgive Deliver Us from Evil its trespasses, for it finds new ways to negotiate the tropes of the possession genre, and climaxes with what may be the best exorcism sequence since the devil was cast out of Linda Blair. Editor's Note: This was originally published for FANGORIA on July 2, 2014, and we're proud to share it as part of The Gingold Files. ![]() ![]() |a Describes why the twenties can be the most defining decade of adulthood and offers tips on making the most of work and relationships during this still-formative time in a person's life. |a Preface: the defining decade - Introduction: real time - Work - Identity capital - Weak ties - The unthought known - My life should look better on facebook - The customized self - Love - An upmarket conversation - Picking your family - The cohabitation effect - On dating down - Being in like - The brain and the body - Forward thinking - Calm yourself - Outside in - Getting along and getting ahead - Every body - Do the math - Epilogue: will things work out for me?. ![]() ![]() |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-236). Read more Print length 272 pages Language English Publisher Twelve Publication date ApDimensions 5.5 x 0.85 x 8. |a The defining decade : |b why your twenties matter and how to make the most of them now / |c Meg Jay. The Defining Decade is a smart, compassionate and constructive book about the years we cannot afford to miss. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Russell converted to Judaism from agnosticism during the time she was writing the two books. In a recently published sequel entitled Children of God, Russell explores the aftermath of first contact both on Earth and on the other world, Rakhat. The story begins with the expedition in ruins and gradually untangles the complex series of events leading up to the disaster. Her 1996 novel The Sparrow tells the story of a Jesuit-led expedition to make contact with the population of a world circling the three suns of Alpha Centauri. Though the thought of Jesuits exploring space may raise a few eyebrows in the provincial’s office, the idea seems quite natural to anthropologist – turned-novelist Mary Doria Russell. ![]() Insight from Afar An Interview with novelist Mary Doria Russell From the National Jesuit News ![]() ![]() Because the sovereign simply consists of the people, Rousseau continues, legislation really consists of a people collectively choosing to do what is in their collective best interests, which means that they preserve their freedom through society (rather than sacrificing it to the state, as thinkers like Hobbes and Grotius suggest). Rousseau emphasizes that this public good is about what people share in common, and not simply “the sum of individual desires,” because one individual may desire something that is harmful to another individual (and therefore not beneficial for the citizenry as a whole). Rousseau argues that a state is only legitimate if it follows the general will-or, more specifically, if its sovereign (legislative) power is guided by the general will when it formulates the nation’s laws-that is, if it creates the policies that are in the public good. ![]() General will is a complicated but very important concept that essentially refers to a society’s capacity to pursue the goals that are in its citizens’ common interests. ![]() |