![]() ![]() history, both holding the taint of catastrophic failure. The distinguished Stanford scholar was asked to combine two of the most unpopular and misunderstood periods of U.S. I will go on record as expressing my sympathy for White's difficult assignment. Readers eager to pursue further study of the era can consult a comprehensive bibliography. ![]() As expected, the hefty tome integrates and highlights recent scholarship as well as relying on classic works in the field, and provides useful maps and evocative illustrations. His book closes out the story of a tumultuous century for the acclaimed multivolume Oxford History of the United States. Richard White's sweeping The Republic for Which It Stands offers a crisply written exploration of two distinct periods covering the last decades of the nineteenth century. ![]()
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Law enforcement officers rushed to the scene and shoppers were evacuated. ![]() ![]() ![]() Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life Arguing that a scientific perspective on sexuality can free women from unrealistic standards and help them to appreciate their individual experiences, Nagoski considers sexuality from every biological angle while dispelling cultural misconceptions along the way.īelow is a brief overview of the key themes explored in the book. In her book Come as You Are, Emily Nagoski uses scientific research and her years of experience as a sex educator to change the negative way that women talk, think, and feel about their sexuality. What is Emily Nagoski’s book Come as You Are about? What misconceptions about sex does modern culture perpetuate? Like this article? Sign up for a free trial here. ![]() ![]() Shortform has the world's best summaries and analyses of books you should be reading. This article is an excerpt from the Shortform book guide to "Come As You Are" by Emily Nagoski. ![]() ![]() ![]() But though Cats worn disguise after disguise to keep her. Now Cat will have to choose a side-and Bones is turning out to be as tempting as any man with a heartbeat. With her undead lover Bones at her side, shes successfully protected mortals from the rogue undead. But before she can enjoy her status as kick-ass demon hunter, Cat and Bones are pursued by a group of killers. She's amazed she doesn't end up as his dinner.are there actually good vampires? Pretty soon, Bones will have her convinced that being half-dead doesn't have to be all bad. Danger waits on both sides of the graveHalf-vampire Cat Crawfield and her vampire husband Bones have. In exchange for help finding her father, Cat agrees to train with the sexy night stalker until her battle reflexes are as sharp as his fangs. This Side of the Grave audiobook, by Jeaniene Frost. Then she's captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, and is forced into an unlikely partnership. ![]() ![]() ![]() Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father-the one responsible for ruining her mother's life. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was once a brother, friend and son, but his coming of age and trying to learn to become a man would finally change him. ![]() ![]() It’s important to note that this novel is a standalone, but reading the Ol’ Boys series will give you a better perspective on the characters’ arc.Īlejandro was once an ordinary man- he wasn’t the devil he is today. He’s an alpha who doesn’t disappoint, first introduced in Crave Me, the final book in Good Ol’ Boys series. It is the story of Alejandro, a ruthless mob boss. Robinson is best known for her 2016 novel El Diablo, a standalone that features a character from her 2015 The Good Ol’ Boys series.Įl Diablo is a dark but delicious romance book full of romance, suspense, action, angst, intrigue and passion. She also enjoys Starbucks coffee, taking her dogs on a walk, reading good books or spending time with her family. When not writing, you will find Robinson shopping and living her best life on a boat in Florida with her loving husband, Bossman and her pet lobster. Her romance books feature sweet romance that promises a rollercoaster ride of emotions that will leave you yearning for more. Robinson is an American USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling romance author popularly known as the Queen of Angst. ![]() ![]() King’s skillful use of criminal forensics helps to ground his tale in a believable clinical reality where the horrors stand out in sharp relief.” “What begins as a manhunt for an unlikely doppelgänger takes an uncanny turn into the supernatural. will remind readers of King's early novel It." "A juicy tale that plays at the forefront of our current phobias. ![]() He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. ![]() His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now that you know what this is all about, I want to tell you about this year’s collection. It is free, and because it is judged blind, it does not matter where you come from, your color, gender, or age-everyone has an equal chance to win. How would you like to have one of them read your story?Īlso, any new writer can enter the contest. Anderson, Jody Lynn Nye, Tim Powers, Larry Niven, Katherine Kurtz, and many more. The best part is that the stories are selected by top sci-fi and fantasy authors, like Brandon Sanderson, Nnedi Okorafor, Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. The purpose, as he stated, was to create “a means for new and budding writers to have a chance for their creative efforts to be seen and acknowledged.” You may know him for his sci-fi classic Battlefield Earth. 20220408_Writers and Illustrators of the Future Event_02A5925.NEF There is NOTHING else like for new authors. Winners and judges flew in from around the world. ![]() Writers of the Future Volume 38 just release at a huge awards-gala in Hollywood last week. Not only that, but every story is illustrated by a winner in the sister illustration contest. In case you did not know, there is a contest for new writers that publishes the winning stories each year. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rodzina Brodski, a Polish-born Chicago girl, had a happy, reasonably comfortable life with her parents and little brothers, until a series of accidents and illnesses left her orphaned and alone. ![]() Recommended for girls 9-12 - and I enjoyed it, too! This is my favorite kind of book - spunky characters, fun to read, and along the way I learn something! The story of Rodzina, as she grows from grouchy and sad to a more hopeful and independent girl is one that evolves, as she faces two women who want her for her labor, and later, a man who wants her to replace his dying wife. In the early 1880s, westerners were mostly hard-scrabble ranchers, farmers and miners, who needed a hard worker with a strong back, not another mouth to feed. Not every family wants a child to love and cuddle, however. Rodzina Brodski, a 12-year-old Polish orphan girl from Chicago, and two dozen other children were put on an orphan train headed west in the hope that they could be adopted by good families. ![]() How did I not know the history of the children's orphan trains in the United States? I found myself fascinated all the way through, not just with the events of this journey, but also with the delightful characters. ![]() ![]() Was Operation Paperclip a moral outrage, or did it help America win the Cold War?ĭrawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators, and with access to German archival documents (including previously unseen papers made available by direct descendants of the Third Reich's ranking members), files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and dossiers discovered in government archives and at Harvard University, Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into a startling, complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secret of the twentieth century. They were also directly responsible for major advances in rocketry, medical treatments, and the U.S. Many of these men were accused of war crimes, and others had stood trial at Nuremberg one was convicted of mass murder and slavery. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler's scientists and their families to the United States. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. ![]() In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51 ![]() ![]() ![]() In this groundbreaking work, based on massive research, Chernow shatters forever the stereotype of George Washington as a stolid, unemotional figure and brings to vivid life a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and many moods. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one volume biography of George Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his adventurous early years, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's first president. I can’t recommend it highly enough-as history, as epic, and, not least, as entertainment.” -Hendrik Hertzberg, The New YorkerĬelebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president of the United States. “Until recently, I’d never believed that there could be such a thing as a truly gripping biography of George Washington. well-researched, well-written and absolutely definitive biography” -Andrew Roberts, The Wall Street Journal ![]() ![]() Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography ![]() From the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical, comes a gripping portrait of the first president of the United States. ![]() |