5/23/2023 0 Comments River of the gods candice millardWhen they returned to England, Speke rushed to take credit, disparaging Burton. Two years in, deep in the African interior, Burton became too sick to press on, but Speke did, and claimed he found the source in a great lake that he christened Lake Victoria. They would endure tremendous hardships, illness, and constant setbacks. Speke was a young aristocrat and Army officer determined to make his mark, passionate about hunting, Burton’s opposite in temperament and beliefs.įrom the start the two men clashed. He was also mercurial, subtle, and an iconoclastic atheist. Burton spoke twenty-nine languages, and was a decorated soldier. Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke were sent by the Royal Geographical Society to claim the prize for England. In the 19th century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. She is a graceful writer and a careful researcher, and she knows how to navigate a tangled tale.' - The New York Times Book Review Candice Millard has earned her legions of admirers. ' River of the Gods is a lean, fast-paced account of the almost absurdly dangerous quest. A story of courage and adventure, set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers.
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Ryan la sala reverieReverie is an intricate and compelling LGBT young adult book about the secret worlds we hide within ourselves and what happens when they become real. Nothing in Kane's life is an accident, and only he can keep the world itself from unraveling. But as he and the others are dragged into increasingly fantastical dream worlds drawn from imagination, it becomes clear that there is dark magic at work. Kane doesn't know what to believe or who he can trust. And when strange things start happening around him, Kane isn't sure where to turn.Īnd then three of his classmates show up, claiming to be his friends and the only people who can tell him what's truly going on. The world as he knows it feels different-reality seems different. The only thing he knows for certain is that the police found him half-dead in the river. A B&N's YA Book Club Pick * Walmart Buzz Pick * Indie Next Pick * Book of the Month Club YA BoxĪ "joyously, riotously queer" (Kirkus) young adult fantasy from debut author Ryan La Sala, Reverie is a wildly imaginative story about dreams becoming reality, perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Laini Taylor.Ī few weeks ago, Kane Montgomery was in an accident that robbed him of his memory. 5/23/2023 0 Comments Holy land a suburban memoirScroll down for downloadable versions, and subscribe to 's YouTube Channel to receive automatic updates when new material goes live. Topics include: Why contract cities pinch every penny the effects of a recession on suburbia and why residents are leaving California.Ĭamera by Paul Detrick, Alex Manning and Tracy Oppenheimer. Waldie is also the author of the book Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles, blogs at and is a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times. The film rights to Holy Land were bought in late 2010 by actor James Franco for a possible movie. For 34 years, Waldie served as the Public Information Officer for the city of Lakewood and still lives in the house he grew up in. Waldies 1996 memoir Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir as an intervention against the jaundiced portrayal of the United States suburbs as a place of alienation. Waldie sat down with Reason Magazine Editor in Chief Matt Welch, who also grew up in Lakewood, to talk about city planning and the unique issues affecting suburbia in 2011. Waldie who is most famous for writing Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir, set in 1950s Lakewood, California. "Lakewood is not really a suburb anymore, it's a particular kind of urban place that looks suburban superficially but which is netted fully in an urban fabric," says author D.J. 5/22/2023 0 Comments The Night Shift by Alex FinlayAlex lives in Washington, DC and Virginia. All of his novels have been optioned for film and television, and EVERY LAST FEAR is in development for a series on a major streaming service. Alex’s novels are regularly on "best of the year" lists, have been translated into nineteen languages and are sold around the world. Alex Finlay is the author of the 2021 breakout novel, EVERY LAST FEAR, the 2022 Goodreads Choice nominee for Best Mystery and Thriller, THE NIGHT SHIFT, and his latest March 2023 release, LibraryReads Hall of Fame recipient, WHAT HAVE WE DONE. He then became a carriage painter like his father. Born in the South Yarra neighborhood of Melbourne, Victoria, he moved to Adelaide, South Australia as a child and attended school there until the age of twelve. All of his novels have been optioned for film and television, and EVERY LAST FEAR is in development for a series on a major streaming service. Alexander Finlay (14 November 1887 2 March 1963) author of The Night Shift pdf Book was an Australian politician. His primary academic research interests are in the philosophy of mind, moral and political philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.įeser also writes on politics and culture, from a conservative point of view and on religion, from a traditional Roman Catholic perspective. He is also the author of many academic articles. in philosophy and religious studies from the California State University at Fullerton.Ĭalled by National Review “one of the best contemporary writers on philosophy,” Feser is the author of On Nozick, Philosophy of Mind, Locke, The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism, and Aquinas, and he edited The Cambridge Companion to Hayek. in religion from the Claremont Graduate School, and a B.A. in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara, an M.A. He has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. Edward Feser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California. 5/22/2023 0 Comments The natural by bernard malamudAs Roy and the Whammer attempt to outdo one another at the various carnival games, Sam makes a bet with Mercy that Roy can strike out the Whammer. On the way to Chicago, the train stops at a rail-side carnival. Roy also sees a mysterious and beautiful woman, Harriet Bird, to whom Roy is immediately attracted. With the Whammer is the sleazy sports journalist Max Mercy. Also on the train is Walter "The Whammer" Whambold, the American League's leading hitter who is loosely based on Babe Ruth. Compared to many of the other passengers, Roy is something of a country bumpkin. Accompanying Roy is the prominent Cubs scout, Sam Simpson. When the book begins, Roy Hobbs is a nineteen-year-old pitcher on a train to Chicago where he is scheduled to try out for the Chicago Cubs. Though widely considered to be one of the greatest sports movies of all time, the film adaptation was also criticized for its ending which differed significantly from the one found in Malamud's book. In 1984, Robert Redford starred as Roy Hobbs in a film adaptation of The Natural directed by Barry Levinson. The character of Roy Hobbs is very loosely based on the real-life baseball player Eddie Waitkus who was shot by an obsessed fan in 1949. Malamud's debut novel, The Natural tells the story of Roy Hobbs, a once-promising baseball prodigy who attempts to make a comeback after a gunshot wound ruined his career. The Natural is a baseball novel published in 1952 by the American author Bernard Malamud. 5/22/2023 0 Comments The simple wild book reviewAlthough Jonah is convinced that Calla, the city girl, is too high maintenance to handle the “wild,” Calla is determined to prove him wrong. Through the unlikely help of Jonah, an obnoxious pilot who helps run her father’s charter plane company, Calla starts to understand the not so simple truth about her dad’s side to her parent’s story. When she learns that Wren’s days are numbered, she knows it’s time to make the trek back to her remote birthplace and attempt to get to know her estranged father, before it’s too late.Īlthough adjusting to the odd daylight hours, rugged environment, and simple lifestyle of Bangor is a bit difficult for Calla, she can’t help but care for her father as well as embrace the people who live there. At age twenty-six, life in Toronto is all Calla knows. After living in Alaska for over a year, her mother decided to flee when she realized she could no longer handle the isolation of the extreme, rural lifestyle of Bangor, leaving behind Calla’s father, Wren, in the process. Calla is a busy twenty-six-year-old fashion and lifestyle blogger, who lives in the heart of Toronto she finds herself without a job the same day that she gets the news that her estranged father, Wren, has cancer.Ĭalla wasn’t even two the last time she saw her father. Tucker is a contemporary romance novel set in the fictional town, Bangor, Alaska. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Alien the illustrated story 1979Published the same year that Alien released but written while the film was still a two-and-a-half-hour rough cut and three different scripts (see CBR’s 2012 interview with Walt Simonson), The Illustrated Story was published by Heavy Metal Communications in 1979, first as a two-part teaser in Heavy Metal Magazine, and then as a standalone trade paperback to tie-in with the release of the movie. It wholly belongs to Alien: The Illustrated Story, the comic book adaptation of the original movie. This uncanny introduction to the first entry of the sprawling xenomorph saga, which is both familiar and entirely different to the theatrical release of Alien (1979), is not another stab at an Alien: Director’s Cut (2003). 5/22/2023 0 Comments The Spellman Files by Lisa LutzMy enjoyment of The Spellman Files was only slightly undercut by my irritation that I hadn't written it myself. But when a disappearance occurs far closer to home, Izzy's Impossible Case becomes the most important of her life. Before they'll let her go, her parents ask her to solve one last case - a 15-year-old, ice-cold, missing person, impossible-to-solve case. To be a Spellman is to snoop on a Spellman tail a Spellman dig up dirt on, blackmail and wire-tap a Spellman.īut when Izzy's parents hire her 14-year-old sister to discover the identity of her new boyfriend, Izzy decides she wants out. Invading people's privacy comes naturally. She might have a chequered past littered with romantic mistakes - but at least she's good at her job. Izzy Spellman is 28, single and works for Spellman Investigations, a family-run private detective agency. ‘Fast-paced, irreverent, and very funny, The Spellman Files is like Harriet the Spy for grown-ups’ Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Eligible and American Wife 5/21/2023 0 Comments Ashes to ashes book tami hoagFor she’s the only woman who has what it takes to stop the killer…and the one woman he wants next. Now she faces the most difficult role of her career-and her life. But the FBI ’s ace profiler of serial killers is the last person Kate wants to work with, not with their troubled history. When Peter pulls strings, Special Agent John Quinn gets assigned to the case. Her superiors are interested only because the latest victim may be the daughter of Peter Bondurant, an enigmatic billionaire. Not even she can tell if the reluctant witness is a potential victim or something more troubling still. But she isn’t talking.Įnter Kate Conlan, former FBI agent turned victim/witness advocate. He has already claimed three lives, and he won’t stop there. He performs his profane ceremony in a wooded Minneapolis park, anointing his victims, then setting the bodies ablaze. |