5/30/2023 0 Comments Save me by ashley n rostekIf she were to be broken again, would it kill her this time? Or can she endure the pain of a shattered and ruined soul yet again? It is what has happened before and she barely survived it. Even though Maura’s each of these awful things, she can still be broken. “Endure the Pain” is the second novel in the “Maura Quinn” series and was released in 2020. Most of all, this is how she embraces the darkness. Proceed with caution, because this is Maura’s descent or her rise, just depends on how you look at it. Maura Quinn is the Banphrionsa, the princess of her dad’s dark kingdom of crime. Maura is smarter, stronger, and she refuses to submit in a world that is ruled by dangerous men. However things are going to be different this time around. Six years back, she walked away from the family. However the darkness cannot be suppressed forever. “Embrace the Darkness” is the first novel in the “Maura Quinn” series and was released in 2020. She picked up a pen at seventeen and has yet to put it down. Whether it’s a lusty and dark novel or a sweet YA, she has to read it. Her favorite genre is romance and has got the overflowing bookshelf to prove it. To Ashley, there is not a better pastime than allowing your mind escape in a good book. She survives on coffee, enjoys collecting offensive coffee mugs, and is an unashamed bibliophile. Rostek is a mom and wife by day and a writer by night.
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Foremost, President Kennedy emerges as less of an accomplished figure in foreign-policy planning than Camelot legend has it, and Khrushchev as less of a villain than we had assumed after he had so dastardly deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba and threatened us with war over Berlin. The Crisis Years, centering principally on Cuba, Berlin and the American-Soviet nuclear-policy confusions and miscalculations, belongs to the modern (and somewhat revisionist) school of postwar history, and it is bound to revive basic arguments and debates of three decades ago - which should be most useful in the light of newly available information concerning events between 19. Beschloss, who has written the acclaimed Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair, now offers us what he calls "The Years of Kennedy and Khrushchev," which is a sequel drawn on a vastly broader canvas with an extraordinary wealth of human detail. Beschloss is a remarkable tour de force in Cold War history, a superbly documented and argued account of probably the most important and dangerous period in the nuclear age. THIS NEW book by young historian Michael R. 5/30/2023 0 Comments Fates & furies lauren groffWith stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years.Īt age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies. To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but is the very core of his power. In the piece, Coates write, “It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true - his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power. The title alone is very provocative: “The First White President.” It’s a fascinating read and it addresses the ways in which the eight-year presidency of the first black president, Barack Obama, was seized on by Trump trying to make his way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates recently wrote an article about Trump that has sparked a lot of discussion and debate. So how much of Trump is who he is and what he believes and how much of it is how he does it and how he speaks? He deliberately chooses to inflame situations. But Trump says things that are horrifying. He’s doing what American presidents do, albeit with some tweaks and differences here and there. Trump is not really taking the war positions he is because he’s Donald Trump. President Obama was a belligerent war president. Part of the horrors emanating from Trump involves style, and some involve substance. Book cover of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy.” Set in a richly imagined new world, The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski is a story of deadly games where everything is at stake, and the gamble is whether you will keep your head or lose your heart. It’s not long before she has to hide her growing love for Arin.īut he, too, has a secret, and Kestrel quickly learns that the price she paid for a fellow human is much higher than she ever could have imagined. Following her instinct, Kestrel buys him-with unexpected consequences. Arin’s eyes seem to defy everything and everyone. One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in a young slave up for auction. Add it: Goodreads Goodreads Summary: Winning what you want may cost you everything you love.Īs a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. The videos have helped Paul, despite a lifelong drug problem, tap into his creative gifts. Paul, meanwhile, has set Vincent’s old videos to music. Finished with Jonathan and the affluent lifestyle and ignored by her best friend, Vincent takes a job as assistant cook on a container ship. When Jonathan’s Ponzi scheme collapses, he goes to prison, where his victims’ ghosts visit him. Vincent relocates to the East Coast and what Mandel calls the kingdom of money to play trophy wife for investor Jonathan Alkaitis. Paul leaves after writing on a window in acid marker a message even he doesn’t understand. Five years later, in the wilderness north of Vancouver, Vincent tends bar at a luxury hotel where Paul works as the night houseman. Vincent has just lost her mother and acquired her first video camera. In 1994, 18-year-old drug-using dropout Paul Smith visits his 13-year-old half-sister, Vincent, in Vancouver. Settings include British Columbia’s coastal wilderness, New York City’s fashionable neighborhoods and corporate headquarters, a container ship in international waters, and a South Carolina prison. Mandel’s wonderful novel (after Station Eleven) follows a brother and sister as they navigate heartache, loneliness, wealth, corruption, drugs, ghosts, and guilt. 5/30/2023 0 Comments Kon tiki 1947Wrote about it endure as pivotal individualistic triumphs of the modern Wooden raft drifting slowly across the mythical Pacific of Cook,īougainville, Banks, Roggeveen, and FletcherĮxpedition and the incomparable book Heyerdahl The Kon-TikiĮxpedition and the book Heyerdahl wrote about itīecame landmarks of 20 th century anthropology, adventure, andĮxpedition offered a world exhausted by war the enduring simplicity of a Prehistoric balsa wood raft and with five companions drift from Peru to an island in Polynesia in the summer of 1947. Have come drifting or sailing to these remote islands.” The unique method that HeyerdahlĬhose to study this anthropological question was to build a replica of a “the original Polynesian race must at some time, willingly or unwillingly, Capelotti, Kon-Tiki Museet, Oslo, 2004). ( photo by P.J.Ī view from abaft the starboard beam of the original Kon-Tiki raft, Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, Norway (photo by P.J. Heyerdahl interpreted the carving of a vessel on this Capelotti, Kon-Tiki Museet, Oslo, 2004).Ī copy of Easter Island moai statue No. Raft, Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, Norway (photo by P.J. Section 1: The Kon-Tiki Expedition Section 2: Kumara, Balsa, and MoaiĪ view from the forward deck to the sail of the 5/30/2023 0 Comments Warriors the new prophecy setYou guys should read these amazing books! I recommend this to ages 4-12. New territory brings new troubles for the fierce cats of the warrior Clans.Īs shadows of the past continue to plague the forest, Brambleclaw is haunted by a dark figure. The Clans have finally arrived in their new home. Several moons have passed since six cats set out from the forest on an urgent journey to save all their Clans.ĭarkness, air, water, and sky will come together and shake the forest to its roots. In the exciting second Warriors story arc, the wild cats of the forest have lived in peace and harmony for many moons. Warriors: The New Prophecy Volume 7 to 12: ThunderClan's darkest hour is upon them, as Tigerstar's quest for power plunges all the Clans. Firepaw, the warrior brave, is now Fireheart, warrior cat.Īllegiances are shifting among the Clans of warrior cats that roam the forest.įireheart's traitorous enemy Tigerclaw has been vanquished and exiled.īattles for honour and territory continue as Fireheart takes over the ThunderClan in this dramatic adventure. The second of six titles, set in a thrilling world of wild cat clans. When 'kittypet' Rusty strays into the forest beyond his owner's garden and is ambushed by a wild cat, life as he knows it is over. Warriors: The Prophecies Begin Volume 1 to 6: Warrior Cats Volume 1 to 12 Books Collection Set: Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively: I understood her being confused, messing things up and trying to figure the new world out. I really wanted to love Megan as a character. I’m not even sure where the story is going from here frankly. Then things between Megan and Ash ramped up quickly without enough moments for me to ship them.Įven more so, the ending happened so fast!! All of a sudden this evil guy was gone, Megan was home, brother rescued. It didn’t come about til after the second half when I was already waning on my cares for the plot. I think I would have also appreciated the romance more if I was enjoying the book more. Moving between the two takes me out of the world building and story itself. I like being immersed in one world or the other. The addition of Meghan going back and forth between the fae lands and human lands was no good. I love all things fae and loved being in that fantasy world again. The best portion was the fact that there were lots of faeries. It seemed liked a great fae book with a swoony romance.Īnd maybe the later books are like that, but this was not the case here. I was really excited to start this book because I’ve heard great things about it. Even Alexander Graham Bell, who hoped that one of his inventions might save the president's life, plays a role. Under Millard's (The River of Doubt) pen, Garfield's deranged assassin, his incompetent doctors (who, for example, ignored antisepsis, leading to a blood infection), and the bitter politics of the Republican Party come sparklingly alive through deft characterizations. Then, breaking free of the sulfurous factional politics of his party, he governed honorably, if briefly, until shot by an aggrieved office seeker. Garfield, little recalled today, gained the Republican nomination for president in 1880 as a dark-horse candidate and won. This rendering of an oft-told tale brings to life a moment in the nation's history when access to the president was easy, politics bitter, and medical knowledge slight. |