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![]() ![]() ![]() The author of four previous novels and a collection of short stories, Egan broke free of the Brooklyn-writer pack with her Pulitzer Prize–winning A Visit From the Goon Squad (2010), one of the most stirring and unusual works of fiction of the past decade. Joy, purification, renewal, death-the sea is all of these things in Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan’s intricately patterned and visionary new novel. A symbol of solace and rejuvenation, in Paul Valéry’s poem “The Graveyard by the Sea”: “The sea, the sea, always beginning anew.” A source of fear and violence, in the famous monologue of Molly Bloom in Ulysses: “That awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire.” c., when they finally glimpsed the Black Sea, and thus their salvation, on their way back from fighting in Persia, in Xenophon’s telling. The shout of mercenary Greek soldiers-“ Thalatta! Thalatta!”-in 401 b. “The sea, the sea!” It’s the jubilant, elemental cry of a child released from a hot car on a summer day, but also a phrase with deep historical and literary roots. ![]() ![]() Every kid in my class (or so it seemed) was getting a pair of royal blue-and-white “Starsky Shoes,” from the TV show Starsky & Hutch. Those Shoes was written from a series of snapshots, with the first going back to sixth grade. ![]() This fascination with kids, coupled with a passion for writing, lead me to the place right here. When my husband and I were raising our kids - Adam, Hanna, and Will - there was even more to learn, enjoy, and experience. ![]() The stuff they worried about in the dark of the night. If only I could write like that! But it wasn’t just writing that held my attention as I went through high school and on to college-it was children. There was something I loved about her friendly, interesting, and believable stories. ![]() I was in second grade, reading a Beverly Cleary book, when I realized that I wanted to be an author when I grew up. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alfonso finds them in bed together, so she goes to a nunnery, and Juan (Canto II) gets shipped off east from Cadiz. (Canto I) Juan grows up in Seville gets seduced at sixteen by his mother's compadre Doña Julia, wife to Don Alfonso. That's how it stole up me - at least the first four cantos. Not only did I hear it out, all twelve discs - I turned around and went back and started listening all over again. ![]() I suspect that you might have the same reaction. ![]() Believe me when I tell I couldn't get enough of it. Over this last week I listened to all seventeen cantos here in this version from Naxos, narrated by Jonathan Keeble. I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan*** -Īnd we get this terrific sad beautiful funny joshing waggish story of a young man from Seville who cannot turn around without ladies throwing themselves at him. Of such as those I should not care to vaunt, The age discovers he is not the true one Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, When every year and month sends forth a new one, He was a man who could write like a dream and tell a story so good you don't want it to end.īyron tells us he is going to use that reprobate as his model in this new version, which spins out here in seventeen cantos. This Lord Byron! A scandal to his class, the upper class of early nineteenth century England.īorn with a clubfoot, he grew up handsome, had money and wit and a way with the words, and the ladies (and the young men) - and then he ran off to help the Greeks in their fight for independence. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you want to save this summary for later, download the free PDF and read it whenever you want.ĭownload PDF Lesson 1: Decreasing the size of government and decentralizing it will help keep political and economic freedom strong. A negative income tax, among other measures, should replace the current inefficient social welfare systems.Īre you ready to learn some important lessons about capitalism and freedom? Let’s begin!.When the feds mess with the economy things get worse even though politicians are trying to make them better.Freedom, both political and economic, is healthier when government is small and decentralized.Here are the 3 most important lessons I got out of this book: He also reveals how monopolies, poorer living standards, and inequality all result when politicians get too involved in the economy. ![]() In this book, Friedman teaches the benefits of capitalism. Milton Friedman, author of Capitalism and Freedom: A Leading Economist’s View of the Proper Role of Competitive Capitalism, would have been worried about all of this. On the other hand, the tenets of communism are back on the rise. In the words of Margaret Thatcher, “there is no alternative.”īut now, in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, politicians and citizens are questioning whether the risks of this economic standard are worth it. ![]() Government leaders and scholars both agreed that this was the way to go. ![]() The smashing victory of the West’s capitalism over Soviet socialism in the Cold War cemented it as the leading system. Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*: ![]() ![]() ![]() 21, 1920, in Donora, Pa., a mill town south of Pittsburgh. Of Polish and Czech extraction, Stanley Frank Musial was born Nov. ![]() Musial retired in 1963 with so many firsts to his credit that he may have carved out a new category: the record for holding the most records at one time. After spending the entirety of his 22-year career with the Cardinals, Mr. ![]() 331, his total of 3,630 hits ranks fourth all-time, and he was a perennial all-star. Musial led the National League in batting seven times in the 1940s and ’50s and was voted the league's most valuable player three times. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that he had Alzheimer’s disease. Stan “The Man” Musial, one of major league baseball’s most prolific hitters and a model of good sportsmanship during his Hall of Fame career with the St. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A night of skating and fun turns into a night of violence and bloody mayhem. Opening day is just around the corner, and Cyndi is starting to wonder if her water park nightmare is really over, or if it's just beginning.ĭisco Deathtrap- Disco Deathtrap is an 80's slasher novel about a masked killer crashing an All Night New Year's Eve Lock-In party at a roller disco during a huge blizzard. Worst of all, there's a new water park opening up in town, and it looks eerily similar to the one from last year. Wherever she goes, she keeps thinking she sees the killer from last summer watching her from the shadows. Her nightmares about the water park and her dead friends are getting worse. She has every reason to be happy and forget about the past. Cyndi has a boyfriend, a new group of friends, and a part-time summer job. Now it's 1984, and summertime has come around again. Cameron lives in Thornton, Colorado, with his wife Darla, and cat, Penny. His love of his local water park WaterWorld inspired him to write his debut slasher novel Kill River. He grew up in Westminster, Colorado, and was hugely influenced by Stephen King and R.L. One full year since she learned how to be strong, how to be a survivor. Cameron Roubique is a horror author specializing in retro 80s slasher horror. Kill River 2 - It's been a year since Cyndi went into the empty water park with her friends and almost got killed by a masked maniac. It's a wild water park ride filled with blood, gore, and 80's nostalgia. 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Volume two is finally here, completing the most important work of political thought in at least a generation. ![]() The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time." And in The Washington Post, Gerard DeGrott exclaimed "this is a book that will be remembered. ![]() ![]() ![]() They also have their own fulfillment times and shipping options so the above won’t apply. 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A funny, frisky, often outrageous book about love, literature, and modern lifeand a wink of the eye toU and I, Nicholson Baker’s classic book about John Updikeby an award-winning author called wonderfully bright by The New York Times Book Review.Nearly twenty-five years ago, Nicholson Baker published U and I, the fretful and handwringingbut also groundbreakingtale of his. Please allow 1-10 days for your order to process.There maybe some delays, but I fully expect to make the 10 day period we quote getting them out. It’ll take us a while to get caught up with orders due to volume. We should see replacement stock in about 2 weeks around 5/19/23. Many books sold out due to larger than expected order volumes. Thank you for a incredibly busy opening day. ![]() ![]() While this mythology and beautifully imaginative setting first drew me in, the complexity of the tale became a source of disappointment. While it’s categorized as adult fantasy, The City of Brass first appears to be a clichéd young adult novel, where the orphaned heroine discovers she has magic and is not like other girls, but as the book progresses, the reader discovers a dark, complex story rich in setting and riddled with Middle Eastern folklore. It will take all her cunning to survive the coming confrontation. The shafits - the offspring of human and Daeva - are being persecuted for their abhorrent mixed blood, and soon Nahri finds herself trapped in a web of court politics. ![]() Dara tells her she will be protected there, but behind the gilded walls of the city, old prejudices simmer among the six djinn tribes. With the warrior, Dara, at her side, Nahri is forced to flee from ifrits, ghouls, and marid-infested waters to Daevabad, the legendary city of brass. ![]() They’re all tricks and sleights of hand, of course - a way for her to make ends meet on the streets of 18th-century Cairo. But when Nahri accidentally summons a mysterious djinn warrior during one of her cons, she has to accept that real magic exists. ![]() ![]() Nahri is a sharp-tongued, independent young woman, and she can swindle just about any of the Ottoman nobles, be it through palm readings, zars, or healings. ![]() |