![]() ![]() ![]() The best thing about "The Rum Diary" is that it gives us this side of him without apology, even, I suspect, with a kind of pride. In later years, as Thompson refined and embellished his prose, as he invented and quickly personified the gonzo style, it became harder and harder to remember that at the core of this hard-drinking, hard-talking, hard-living man is a moralist, a Puritan, even an innocent. Yet his eyes were clear enough to see the beauties of a tiny island called Vieques and to know that, doing hack work for a developer, he "was being paid $25 a day to ruin the only place I'd seen in ten years where I felt a sense of peace." ![]() Thompson's eye for the ludicrous and incongruous obviously was already developed at this early stage in his career, and so too was his acidulous pen: "What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and philistines with gimp mentalities." The images that Thompson later would refine in Las Vegas and on the campaign trail had already taken shape in his mind. In this film image released by Film District, Johnny Depp, left, and Aaron Eckhart are shown in a scene from "The Rum Diary." (AP Photo/Film District, Peter Mountain) (PETER MOUNTAIN/AP) ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These books are all from the past year and include all kinds of creative activities for kids in both home and classroom situations, including art activities, craft projects, and more. 9 New Arts & Crafts Activity Books for Kids There’s a stack of new (and newish) kids’ activity books on my coffee table right now that I’m excited about and want to share with you. I see activities that I know will inspire us, bring us together, and that will be fun to make while adding to our repertoire of ideas and techniques. In my mind’s eye I imagine afternoon after afternoon of happy creating. I love checking out new books filled with arts and crafts ideas and other creative activities to do with the kids. Looking for arts and crafts ideas for the children in your life? These great new art activity books for kids are filled with hundreds of creative activities you can do at home or in a classroom environment! ![]() ![]() ![]() How could it happen that two people whose love for each other was all consuming end up as bitter adversaries? That is the heart of Penman’s tale in Devil’s Brood. Most devastating to Henry was not his sons’ rebellion but his wife’s betrayal in joining them. Curiously, it is a novel without villains-only flawed human beings caught up in misperceptions and bad judgment calls. Sharon Kay Penman has created a novel of tremendous power, as two strong-willed, passionate people clash, a family divides, and a marriage ends in all but name. But it is also the story of a great king whose brilliance forged an empire but whose personal blind spots led him into the most serious mistake of his life. This is a story of betrayal as Henry’s three eldest sons and his wife enter into a rebellion against him, aligning themselves with his bitterest enemy, King Louis of France. ![]() Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. ![]() And because it is a royal family whose domains span the English Channel and whose alliances encompass the Christian world, that collapse will have dire consequences. When Christ and His Saints Slept Plantagenets, Book 1 By: Sharon Kay Penman Narrated by: Anne Flosnik Length: 36 hrs and 36 mins 4.4 (1,040 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. Where the second novel in the trilogy, Time And Chance, dealt with the extraordinary politics of the twelfth century, climaxing with the murder of Thomas Becket and Henry’s confrontation with the Church and self-imposed exile to Ireland, Devil’s Brood centers on the implosion of a family. ![]() ![]() ![]() show moreīut when the trip goes horribly and hilariously wrong, the group wonders if maybe the legend of the hidden treasure wasn’t a gimmick after all. Unfortunately, Lily Wilder is all business, drawing a clear line in the sand: it’s never going to happen. Ready to leave the past behind him, Leo wants nothing more than to reconnect with his first and only love. Leo Grady knew mirages were a thing in the desert, but they’d barely left civilization when the silhouette of his greatest regret comes into focus in the flickering light of the campfire. Frankly, Lily would like to take him out into the wilderness-and leave him there. ![]() It pays the bills but doesn’t leave enough to fulfill her dream of buying back the beloved ranch her father sold years ago, and definitely not enough to deal with the sight of the man she once loved walking back into her life with a motley crew of friends ready to hit the trails. But Lily is nothing if not resourceful, and now uses Duke’s coveted hand-drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the red rock canyons of Utah. Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much patience for the profession…or much money in the bank. ![]() ![]() "One of the best and most interesting fantasy series I've ever read. Complex character relationships enrich this already complex world this is the sort of series fantasy fans will cherish."― B&N "The universe of Sapkowski's The Witcher is one of the most detailed and best-explored in modern fantasy, offering endless opportunities for fresh ideas. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Translated from original Polish by David French The Malady and Other Stories: An Andrzej Sapkowski Sampler (e-only) Witcher collections The Last Wish Sword of Destiny ![]() The tower of the swallow is waiting.Īndrzej Sapkowski, winner of the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement award, started an international phenomenon with his Witcher series:īaptism of Fire The Tower of Swallows Lady of the Lake Season of Storms Both sides of the war have sent brutal mercenaries to hunt her down. Geralt, the Witcher, has assembled a group of allies including Dandelion, Milva, Regis, and Cahir, to rescue her. Hunted by friends and foes alike, she has taken on the guise of a petty bandit and lives free for the first time in her life.īut the net around her is closing. Ciri, the child of prophecy, has vanished. ![]() The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, races to find her - but time is short, and an army is on his heels in the fourth book of the NYT bestselling series that inspired the blockbuster video games. The world is at war and the prophesied savior is nowhere to be found. Soon to be a major Netflix original series! ![]() ![]() ![]() National socialism - Moral and ethical aspects. ![]() Moral and ethical aspects of National socialism, From mobile killing units, to the camps, to the death marches, Goldhagen shows how ordinary Germans, nurtured in a society where Jews were seen as unalterable evil and dangerous, willingly followed their beliefs to their logical conclusion. Drawing on a wealth of unused archival materials, principally the testimony of the killers themselves, Goldhagen takes us into the killing fields where Germans voluntarily hunted Jews like animals, tortured them wantonly, and then posed cheerfully for snapshots with their victims. The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your groups reading of Daniel Jonah Goldhagens Hitlers Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. Goldhagen reconstructs the climate of "eliminationist anti-Semitism" that made Hitler's pursuit of his genocidal goals possible and the radical persecution of the Jews during the 1930s popular. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans. Terry Gross talks with DANIEL JONAH GOLDHAGEN, (pronounced GOLD-hay-gen) author of the controversial bestseller, 'Hitlers Willing Executioners' about how ordinary Germans knowingly. This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. ![]() ![]() ![]() unleashed on twitter becoming racist almost immediately after scouring the internet. Reading this book will remind readers of recent machine learning experiments, such as an A.I. However, as Tobey attempts to make the story more realistic, he draws on real-world A.I. The basic premise of The God Game is that an artificial intelligence has arisen in the modern day. Unfortunately, The God Game by Danny Tobey never quite reaches the heights its predecessors achieved. Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot, William Gibson’s Neuromancer, Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, and Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell all come to mind as stories about A.I. story, there are piles of unsuccessful ones. ![]() ![]() Artificial intelligence, or A.I., is all over fiction, yet very difficult to get just right. Our collective worry about creating machines smarter and stronger than us crystallized into its own genre. Artificial intelligence has become one of the most common staples in science-fiction, the embodiment of human concerns with being replaced. ![]() ![]() ![]() Flowers had dropped his ex-wife, Svetlana Chudinova, at a homeless shelter without any of her belongings after telling her that he was taking her to Walmart to go shopping.ĪPN obtained court records to verify and research the controversy.įlowers had met Chudinova, who is Russian, in Afghanistan while he was a military contractor. In July 2021, the New Republic magazine revealed, among other things, that Mr. ![]() Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and former City of Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young.įlowers claims in his mass emails to be the only candidate in the race, but Rome Commissioner Wendy Davis (Ward 2) and Holly McCormack are also seeking the Democratic nomination. ![]() He boasts the endorsements of former U.S. Flowers, a political newcomer and military veteran in a cowboy hat, has raised millions of dollars in his campaign for the Democratic nomination. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and covering northwest Georgia, has captured national attention because of the incumbent, freshman Congresswoman’s far-right positions and bombastic nature. The race for the Fourteenth Congressional District seat, currently held by U.S. Congress for Georgia’s Fourteenth Congressional District, dropped his ex-wife at a homeless shelter, according to court documents reviewed by Atlanta Progressive News. (APN) ATLANTA – Marcus Flowers, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. ![]() ![]() Then one day, Bird receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, and soon he is pulled into a quest to find her. He doesn’t know what happened to her-only that her books have been banned-and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him. His mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club October ’22 Pick) “Thought-provoking, heart-wrenching…I was so invested in the future of this mother and son, and I can’t wait to hear what you think of this deeply suspenseful story!” Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review A TIME Magazine Best Book of 2022 įrom the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes the inspiring new novel about a mother’s unbreakable love. ![]() ![]() In the decades since, Australian history has been pushed back into the dizzying expanse of deep time. ‘When John Mulvaney began his fieldwork in January 1956, it was widely believed that the first Australians had arrived on this continent only a few thousand years earlier. It brings to life the deep time dreaming that has changed the way many Australians relate to their continent and its enduring, dynamic human history. It explores what it means to live in a place of great antiquity, with its complex questions of ownership and identity. In this original, important book, Griffiths investigates a twin revolution: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in the second half of the twentieth century, and the simultaneous uncovering of the traces of ancient Australia by pioneering archaeologists.ĭeep Time Dreaming is about a slow shift in national consciousness. Equipped with a historian’s inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent.ĭeep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. ![]() ![]() Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Award - Book of the Year ![]() |