Destroy me tahereh mafi5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() At Bob Cratchit’s house Scrooge sees Tiny Tim, who is very ill, but full of spirit. The Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge his clerk, Bob Cratchit’s family. The Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge on a journey through Christmases from his past, taking Scrooge to see himself as an unhappy child and a young man more in love with money than his fiancé. When Scrooge gets home, he is visited by the ghost of his old business partner Jacob Marley – and then by three ghosts! They are the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future. One cold Christmas Eve, Scrooge is unkind to the people who work for him, then refuses to give to charity, and then is rude to his nephew when he invites him to spend Christmas with him. ![]() ![]() A Christmas Carol is a play about a mean-spirited and selfish old man, Ebenezer Scrooge, who hates Christmas. ![]()
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Presence amy cuddy review5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() No wonder such books toggle unnervingly between awkward confession and ephemeral vision quest. ![]() ![]() We are all meant to be as charismatic as Steve Jobs or Oprah, with our creations always secondary to the spectacle of our passionate, unfailingly genuine personalities. If the Gilded Age celebrated the inventor and the innovator, our modern age wants to transform us all, no matter what we do, into some combination of expert, pop star and beneficent guru. This is the paradox of the modern digital world: It demands broadcast-quality demonstrations of social value, even as it steadily erodes our ability to deliver them.Įnter: a brand new era of self-help books in which happiness not only takes precedence over success, but poise and popularity sometimes seem to take precedence over skill or originality or productivity. Slipping into the shadows in the wake of an achievement is no longer an option you must re-enact your value in real time, on a world stage, via conferences, TED talks, panels, festivals, radio appearances and podcasts, all the while conjuring a level of poise and grace that was once the sole purview of news anchors and talk-show hosts. ![]() But success without popularity doesn’t count, either. That’s the message coming in loud and clear in this dawning era of transparency, whether it’s embodied in enraged emails from a powerful movie producer or depressive tweets from a wealthy celebrity. ![]() Never Say Invisible by Jeremy Schreiber5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He and Ronnye, CEO of an event production company, quickly recognized the increased role they would soon play in Jeremy’s imminent battle with the disease. ![]() A longtime chemist, Fred stepped away from his own job in favor of retirement when Jeremy was diagnosed. However, his ALS diagnosis in January 2018 halted his career and hobbies, immeasurably and permanently altering Schreiber’s life and that of his parents, Ronnye and Fred Schreiber. He was an avid traveler, got big air on his snowboard and chased adrenaline to the highest of heights (literally) as a frequent rock climber. Less than three years ago, Schreiber was an accomplished sales professional with a resume that included stints at several Fortune 500 companies. All these things hold promise for a cure, but this isn’t enough.” “Smart home technology that makes adjustments to our life-saving equipment the moment our vitals change, self-driving cars that accommodate our self-driving wheelchairs, drug repurposing, disease on a chip, and stem cells. “We need technology in our homes and in our medicine,” Schreiber said. While self-driving cars would be nice, PALS like 40-year-old Jeremy Schreiber understand that advancement in mobility technology is just one bullet point on a long list of needs. For people with ALS, also known as PALS, a future with self-driving cars is a world with one less limitation than there is today. For tech junkies and suburban commuters, a future with self-driving cars is a fun but fleeting thought on long trips and at stoplights. ![]() Dean koontz devoted sequel5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Not when his father died in a freak accident. ![]() Woody Bookman hasn’t spoken a word in his eleven years of life. ![]() Of all the characters Koontz has created in his storied career, canine Kipp is top five. Devoted is a towering achievement that is both suspenseful and full-bodied in terms of character development. Here’s our list of Koontz’ best books according to our staff of reviewers and other associates.Ĭheck back often, as we’ll update and expand this list over over time.įollowing up on his brilliant Nameless story collection, Koontz once again proves that age continues to make his work even more spellbinding and potent. While Koontz published his first novel way back in 1968, he has truly been at the height of his powers in the 21st century. Much of his recent work – including his Nameless short story collections – ranks among his best. Koontz’s books are primarily thrillers, but commonly incorporate elements of horror, science fiction and mystery.Īnd like Stephen King, Koontz seems to have only gotten better with age. Rowling.īut if you’re new to Koontz’s work, where do you start? Koontz is listed at #2 overall in Amazon’s Author Rank, behind only the inimitable J.K. With more than 100 novels published and a reported 450 million novels sold, is it any wonder that Dean Koontz is one of the most popular writers of all time? ![]() The Savage Shore by David Hewson5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Puffed up with anticipatory pride, Godolphin supplements the family circle including his wife, producer and former student, Lady Felicity, and his son, Jolyon, by gathering once more the Gilded Circle of academics he taught at Cambridge-Caroline Fitzroy, Bernard Hauptmann, and George Bourne-and he commissions Luca Volpetti of the State Archives and his recently widowed friend Arnold Clover to sift through the Wolff Bequest looking for two telltale papers that implicate Lodovico Buonarroti, better known as Michelangelo, in the killings. So he leaps at the news that Grigor Wolff, an antiquarian who’s followed him appreciatively for years, has died and left him the Wolff Bequest, 13 trunks of papers that may throw dazzling new light on the assassinations of Duke Alessandro de’ Medici in 1537 and Lorenzino de’ Medici, the cousin long presumed to be his killer, 11 years later. TV historian Sir Marmaduke Godolphin, who hasn’t had a hit series in years, doesn’t think 75 is too old for a comeback. ![]() An English archivist retired to Venice gets sucked into a 500-year-old murder case. ![]() Fixed on You by Laurelin Paige5/30/2023 ![]() And she did lapse into some into some negative behaviors with Hudson. She wasn’t coping by herself she attended meetings had a sort of sponsor to help her with her issues. I did appreciate that her psychological issues were treated with some seriousness. We really only get allusions to her past bad behavior so her hurtful stalking tendencies don’t really seem real in the story. Is Alayna’s obsessive behavior going to return? Will it turn off Hudson? Can Hudson overcome his own belief that he cannot attach? If not, how will that affect Alayna. He can’t become attached.Īs far as impossible conflicts go, this is a pretty good setup. Hudson Pierce is need of a fiance to thwart his mother’s plans to marry him off to her best friend’s daughter. We all see where this is going right? Enter, Hudson Pierce. He doesn’t excite her so she allows herself to dream of a future with him. She has a flirtation with the manager of the bar where she works because he’s safe. When the book opens, Alayna Wither’s is coping with her past negative behaviors that have ruined most of the relationships. ![]() She has obsessive tendencies toward the men in her life to the extent she’s damaged them emotionally and she’s had restraining orders issued against her. ![]() ![]() This book intrigued me because the heroine is a stalker and not in a cute or funny or sexy way. Jane C Reviews Contemporary / mental illness 1 Comments ![]() Ballpark by paul goldberger5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() In Ballpark: Baseball in the American City Goldberger expertly examines baseball’s urban roots and how the architecture of ballparks reflects how Americans have viewed cities, the game, and how the two relate to each other. ![]() ![]() Was it the green of the field? The intimacy of the seating? The way the park rose from its surroundings?Īccording to Paul Goldberger, an award-winning architecture critic currently writing for Vanity Fair, the magic of the ballpark comes from all those things and is deeply tied to baseball’s urban nature as well. If you grew up a baseball fan the magic of the ballpark was always present, although maybe it was difficult to articulate what exactly was magical about it. “The baseball field is much more than a random piece of landscape it is a magnificently conceived piece of geometry, a diamond whose dimensions are precisely and brilliantly configured to connect to a marvelous moment of human possibility: whether it will take more time or less time for a player to run ninety feet to a base than it will take a ball hit by his bat to be retrieved and thrown to that same base.” – Ballpark: Baseball in the American City ![]() Lisa selin davis tomboy5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Above all else, Davis's comprehensive deep-dive inspires us to better appreciate those who defy traditional gender boundaries, and the incredible people they become. She highlights the forces that have shifted what we think of as masculine and feminine, delving into everything from clothing to psychology, history to neuroscience, and the connection between tomboyism, gender identity, and sexuality. In Tomboy, Davis explores the evolution of tomboyism from a Victorian ideal to a twentyfirst century fashion statement, honoring the girls and women-and those who identify otherwise- who stomp all over archaic gender norms. ![]() But "tomboy" seemed like an outdated word-why use a word with "boy" in it for such girls at all? So was it outdated? In an era where some are throwing elaborate gender reveal parties and others are embracing they/them pronouns, Davis set out to answer that question, and to find out where tomboys fit into our changing understandings of gender. Her child favored sweatpants and T-shirts over anything pink or princess-themed, just like the sporty, skinned-kneed girls Davis had played with as a kid. So when author and journalist Lisa Selin Davis's six-year-old daughter first called herself a "tomboy," Davis was hesitant. We are in the middle of a cultural revolution, where the spectrum of gender and sexual identities is seemingly unlimited. ![]() The Speech by Bernie Sanders5/30/2023 ![]() Find and support your local public radio station. Subscribe to the NPR Politics Newsletter. Email the show at Join the NPR Politics Podcast Facebook Group. Connect: Subscribe to the NPR Politics Podcast here. This episode: campaign correspondent Asma Khalid, campaign correspondent Scott Detrow, and White House correspondent Tamara Keith. Though his speech failed to sway hearts and minds in the Senate - the deal passed with a bipartisan super-majority - but gained traction online and to helped establish Bernie Sanders as a progressive standard-bearer. Sanders was upset that the package included tax cuts for high-income Americans. ![]() ![]() On December 10th, 2010, Bernie Sanders gave a marathon speech on the floor of the Senate protesting a tax deal negotiated between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and then-Vice President Joe Biden. The Eight-Hour Speech That Made Bernie Sanders A Household Name : The NPR Politics Podcast This week, the NPR Politics Podcast investigates defining moments in the lives of four top Democratic presidential candidates to understand how those experiences shape their politics today. ![]() ![]() "A rich, enchanting read and an impressive debut.”―Ava Reid, award-winning author of Juniper & Thorn ![]() And in the end, she’ll become something she never imagined. Yet it’s hard to ignore power when it has always been denied you. Magic is the sign of the dark god, and using it is punishable by death. She tries to be the perfect daughter, but Eva is hiding a secret: Magic calls to her.Įva knows she should fight the temptation. Illegitimate and of mixed heritage, Eva is her family’s shame. Even the bidding of an ancient god who whispers to her at night. Now dependent on the Doña’s magic for her life, Reina will do anything to earn-and keep-her favor. But the journey to her is dangerous, and prayer can’t always avert disaster.Īttacked by creatures that stalk the mountains, Reina is on the verge of death until her grandmother, a dark sorceress, intervenes. Stuck on the edges of society, Reina’s only hope lies in an invitation from a grandmother she’s never met. ![]() Two women embark on a unforgettable quest that draws them into a world of dark gods and ancient magic in this sweeping fantasy debut inspired by the history and folklore of colonial South America. An enthralling tale of ancient gods, dangerous magic, family and love." ―Sue Lynn Tan, author of Daughter of the Moon Goddess ![]() |