![]() One of the greatest wartime leaders of our time, he would go on to stand alone, politically isolated in Parliament, as he took the lead in warning of the growing Nazi threat, and would lead Britain to victory against Nazi Germany and the Axis powers in World War II. Universally acclaimed for their compelling narrative, their fresh insights, and their objective renderings of Winston Churchill's life, The Last Lion trilogy presents a revelatory and unparalleled portrait of this brilliant, flawed, and dynamic adventurer, aristocrat, soldier, and statesman.īorn at the end of the 19th century when Imperial Britain still stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power, Churchill would witness the shift a few years later as the Empire hovered on the brink of a catastrophic new era. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Promise is a fast-paced and incisive narrative of a young risk-taking president carving his own path amid sky-high expectations and surging joblessness. We see how a surprisingly cunning Obama took effective charge in Washington several weeks before his election, made trillion-dollar decisions on the stimulus and budget before he was inaugurated, engineered colossally unpopular bailouts of the banking and auto sectors, and escalated a treacherous war not long after settling into office. ![]() What happened in 2009 inside the Oval Office? What worked and what failed? What is the president really like on the job and off-hours, using what his best friend called “a Rubik’s Cube in his brain?" These questions are answered here for the first time. ![]() In The Promise: President Obama, Year One, Jonathan Alter, one of the country’s most respected journalists and historians, uses his unique access to the White House to produce the first inside look at Obama’s difficult debut. Despite all the coverage, the backstory of Obama’s historic first year in office has until now remained a mystery. But the great promise of “Change We Can Believe In” was immediately tested by the threat of another Great Depression, a worsening war in Afghanistan, and an entrenched and deeply partisan system of business as usual in Washington. Barack Obama’s inauguration as president on January 20, 2009, inspired the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() In more plain English, the idea is that there is a timeless realm that contains all possible universes and that our own is simply one of them, with the right properties for surviving long enough to eventually create atoms, stars and life. Second, that because quantum systems are always fluctuating (this is due to the quantum uncertainty), the universe could result from a zero energy spontaneous fluctuation from a soup of cosmoids, the possible universes that coexist in the timeless multiverse. Hence the “nothing” where everything comes from. First, that due to the gathering properties of gravity, the universe can be a solution of the cosmological equations with zero total energy. of how something can come out of nothing.Įssentially, the answer comes in two parts. ![]() Hawking’s main idea, which has been known in one form or another since the '70s, comes from the marriage of relativity and quantum mechanics to explain the origin of the universe, i.e. Stephen Hawking re-examines his theories on god, physics, and the origin of the universe in his latest book, The Grand Design. ![]() ![]() How can a person look both confident and vulnerable all in the same moment? Determined to learn more about her, he tries to get close, but is thrown into a world of lies and confusion. It’s her one shot at a normal life.Ĭurious by nature, Zach is immediately drawn to the new girl at school. ![]() Suddenly her natural instincts to lie, steal, and run are overshadowed by something else…the desire to stay. That is, until she meets Zach Schultz, a senior at Monte Vista High and the one guy she can’t bear to leave. The authorities can’t be trusted, so she remains in the shadows, always one beat ahead of the man who is forever hunting her. After witnessing the brutal murder of her parents, she’s spent five years in hiding - taking on different personas and faking her way through life. ![]() Check out this beautiful cover for Melissa Pearl’s latest novel, “I Know Lucy,” which releases on April 20, 2014. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s hard to explain but I didn’t even have to explain it to the person who recommended this series to me. I’ve finally found my people! People who also do a deep dive into a book with music that adds to the emotions and the atmosphere. I used to post a song at the end of my reviews on my blog and it was always a song that made me think of the characters or the story. ![]() Not only was the book recommended, but I was given a playlist full of songs to go with it. This book was recommended to me in my favorite way. So I still don’t even really know how I would feel I guess.īut I know how I felt about this book… I LOVED IT. There was one scene where it was full-on RH. ![]() Just because I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel if I got into it and didn’t care for the RH but loved the characters or the plot or something and then had to force myself to finish the series because of the plot/characters. I’ve never really dabbled in the reverse harem books and I was honestly a little nervous going into it. I’m going to be 100% honest with you guys right now… I wasn’t sure I was going to like this book. I grew up believing that real love stories include a martyr or demand great sacrifice to be worthy. ![]() ![]() ![]() After being accused and acquitted in the death of his girlfriend, seventeen-year-old David is. ![]() Urn:oclc:400427439 Republisher_date 20120723152100 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120723060554 Scanner . Buy a cheap copy of The Killers Cousin book by Nancy Werlin. The snowy prep school setting is the perfect backdrop for Werlins ( The Killers Cousin) chilling and well-constructed. ![]() Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:27:55 Boxid IA181401 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, N.Y. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You could also put your own spin on stories from the past, as Clive did with ‘New Murders in the Rue Morgue’ (which I was proud to include years later in my own anthology Beyond Rue Morgue). You could make people laugh (in tales like ‘The Yattering and Jack’) make them think (in stories like ‘Human Remains’), make them question their very humanity (‘The Skins of the Fathers’) or sanity (definitely in ‘Age of Desire’). At the risk of repeating myself, this collection turned things around and made me realise just what could be done with the horror genre. This is where, like many people, I came across his stuff for the first time in my teens and it simply blew me away. ![]() Anyone who knows me and my work will know how much of an impact and influence Clive’s fiction (films, paintings…you name it) has had on me. I’m cheating a little by including this as one book, but then I do have the hardback Stealth edition which gathers all the six volumes together in a single gorgeous tone. My Ten Favourite Books – In No particular order… ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The London Royal National Theatre staged a two-part adaptation of the trilogy in 2003–2004. The trilogy has attracted controversy for its criticism of religion. It functions in part as a retelling and inversion of John Milton's epic Paradise Lost, with Pullman commending humanity for what Milton saw as its most tragic failing, original sin. The fantasy elements include witches and armoured polar bears the trilogy also alludes to concepts from physics, philosophy, and theology. Īlthough His Dark Materials has been marketed as young adult fiction, and the central characters are children, Pullman wrote with no target audience in mind. In 2003, the trilogy was ranked third on the BBC's The Big Read poll. The novels have won a number of awards, including the Carnegie Medal in 1995 for Northern Lights and the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year for The Amber Spyglass. It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes. His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights (1995 published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() streaming service picked up the anime when it debuted in the winter of 2009. Surprisingly faithful, it not only stayed true to the story, but rendered it with such care that it became a thing of beauty. Being a slow moving character piece, it would not have been a surprise if the anime adaptation changed things considerably. ![]() Only the second series by author Shiina, it ended up becoming a smash hit and won multiple critics awards. It is a theme done to death in the genre, but what set Kimi ni Todoke (From Me to You) apart was the execution and attention to detail regarding the characters. In 2005, a shojo (girl’s) manga (comic book) debuted about a shy girl falling for the most popular boy in school. But will that world accept a weird looking girl who has little in the way of social skills? When strange feelings stir in her after meeting the most popular boy in class, Sawako finds a whole new world opening before her. Karuho Shiina’s beloved romance manga is adapted into a beautiful anime depicting an outcast girl’s attempts to make friends in high school. ![]() ![]() ![]() This, however, has some unexpected consequences. And when Irial discovers that he is drawn to Leslie - as she is to him, even if she doesn’t realize it - he realizes he can use their connection to feed his court: use Leslie as a conduit for mortals’ emotions. The Dark Faeries feed off of negative emotions: greed, lust, revenge, fear… and with peace there aren’t as many of those hanging around. His court is barely surviving with the peace that has been established between the Summer and Winter courts. Which is why she wants a tattoo: to do something to herself for herself.īut the tattoo that calls to her is a dangerous one: it’s the mark of the faerie Dark Court king, Irial. With a deadbeat dad who drinks away everything she can earn, and a druggie brother who actually sold her body for drugs, things are not as cheerful as she makes them seem. ![]() |