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New York Times bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman's tenth book collects his most intriguing of those pieces, accompanied by fresh introductions and new footnotes throughout. Klosterman presents many of the articles in their original form, featuring previously unpublished passages and digressions. This is a tour of the past decade from one of the sharpest and most prolific observers of our unusual times. But in the past fifteen years, a revolutionary new standard of measurement—sabermetrics—has been embraced by front offices in Major League Baseball and among fantasy baseball enthusiasts.
But while sabermetrics is recognized as being smarter and more accurate, traditionalists, including journalists, fans, and managers, stubbornly believe that the "old" way—a combination of outdated numbers and "gut" instinct—is still the best way. Baseball, they argue, should be run by people, not by numbers. Ordinary women in s America. All they wanted was the chance to shine. Be careful what you wish for. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium.
It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous - the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. They were the radium girls. As the years passed, the women began to suffer from mysterious and crippling illnesses. The very thing that had made them feel alive - their work - was in fact slowly killing them: Yet their employers denied all responsibility.
And so, in the face of unimaginable suffering - in the face of death - these courageous women refused to accept their fate quietly, and instead became determined to fight for justice. Drawing on previously unpublished sources - including diaries, letters and court transcripts, as well as original interviews with the women's relatives - The Radium Girls is an intimate narrative account of an unforgettable true story.
It is the powerful tale of a group of ordinary women from the Roaring Twenties, who themselves learned how to roar. Small Crimes, which won the Levine Prize for Poetry, is her debut collection. When fifteen-year-old Lucy Willows discovers that her father has a child from a brief affair, an eight-year-old boy who lives in her own suburban New Jersey town, she begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her home and her life. How could her mother forgive him?
Due to time constraints, photos are allowed from the signing line, but no posed photos will be permitted. Nobel Prize novelist Toni Morrison writes about each of us, no matter the setting, the conflict, or the race of the characters. Can one stand alone without the sustaining support of others? If you would like more information on the lecture series, please listen to Pearl's interview with Lois Reitzes on City Lights. Over the course of one momentous day, two women who have built their lives around the same man find themselves moving toward an inevitable reckoning.
Former Lutheran minister Henry Plageman is a master secret keeper and a man wracked by grief. He and his wife, Marilyn, tragically lost their young son, Jack, many years ago. But he now has another child—a daughter, eight-year-old Blue—with Lucy, the woman he fell in love with after his marriage collapsed. Marilyn distracts herself with charity work at an orphanage.
Henry needs to wrangle his way out of the police station, where he has spent the night for disorderly conduct. Lucy must rescue and rein in the intrepid Blue, who has fallen in a saltwater well. But before long, these four will all be drawn on this day to the same destination: The collision of lives and secrets that follows will leave no one unaltered. Ballplayer , a new memoir by former Braves third baseman Chipper Jones, immerses us in the best of baseball. Chipper Jones was just a country kid from small town Pierson, Florida. Jones tells the story of his rise to the MLB ranks and what it took to stay with one organization his entire career with great detail and humor.
The National League MVP also opens up about his overnight rise to superstardom, and the personal pitfalls that came with fame. Due to time constraints Chipper Jones will not sign any memorabilia. Photos are allowed from the signing line, but no posed photos will be permitted. Frannie Lewis has a lot of bad history with men, starting with the first one she ever met.
She's watched her aloof father disappear in the summers to work with a traveling carnival, seen her mother grow ever more suspicious and resentful. All her life, Frannie has kept their secrets and told their stories. Now thirty-six, she remains a pawn in their longstanding marital chess game--and at this point, it has devolved into a grudge match. In partnership with A Cappella Books [https: Little Shop will be on hand with plenty of her cookbooks and delightful picture books for sale that evening.
Doors open at 6: Choices and Their Consequences: In each of these novels, classics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the protagonists are faced with nearly overwhelming odds as they revolt against the status quo of their cultures.
How Huck Finn and Jonas come to realize their worlds as drastically flawed and how they make decisions suggest to readers that choices have consequences, sometimes favorable, sometimes disastrous. Free and open to the public. From the New York Times bestselling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham comes a revelatory journey across four continents and 4, years exploring how Adam and Eve introduced the idea of love into the world, and how they continue to shape our deepest feelings about relationships, family, and togetherness.
Containing all the humor, insight, and wisdom that have endeared Bruce Feiler to readers around the world, The First Love Story is an unforgettable journey that restores Adam and Eve to their rightful place as central figures in our culture's imagination and reminds us that even our most familiar stories still have the ability to surprise, inspire, and guide us today. This program will be held at Holy Trinity Parish, E. Jones takes readers on a historical, geographical, cultural, and personal journey through her life and the life of her home state.
This debut poetry collection is an exploration of race, identity, and history through the eyes of a black woman from Alabama.
From De Soto s discovery of Alabama to George Wallace s infamous stance in the schoolhouse door, to the murders of black men like Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner in modern America, Magic City Gospel weaves its story through time, weaving Jones personal history with the troubled, triumphant, and complicated history of Birmingham, and of Alabama at large. In Magic City Gospel's pages, you ll find that gold is laced in Alabama s teeth, but you will also see the dark underbelly of a state and a city with a storied past, and a woman whose history is inextricably linked to that past.
Alongside this event, attendees are asked to bring a book whose story has stuck with them to swap for another. From the author of Before I Go comes an evocative, poignant, and heartrending exploration of the power and possibilities of the human heart. Love has no boundaries Jubilee Jenkins has a rare condition: After a nearly fatal accident, she became reclusive, living in the confines of her home for nine years. Jubilee finds safe haven at her local library where she gets a job. Eric is struggling to figure out how to be the dad—and man—he wants so desperately to be.
Jubilee is unlike anyone he has ever met, yet he can't understand why she keeps him at arm's length. So Eric sets out to convince Jubilee to open herself and her heart to everything life can offer, setting into motion the most unlikely love story of the year. Join us for an evening with two award-winning and best selling authors as they take questions, and chat about writing and publishing.
In the middle of the twentieth century, the music of the Mississippi Delta arrived in Chicago, drawing the attention of entrepreneurs like the Chess brothers. Their label, Chess Records, helped shape that music into the Chicago Blues, the soundtrack for a transformative era in American History. Using beauty, grace, humor, and the written or spoken word, rhythm and rhyme served as a balm for the troubled soul, and a voice for the voiceless. We invite you to an evening of poetry full of grace, humor, and beauty. Gangs, Bullies, and Difference: The classic teen book The Outsiders , written by S.
Hinton when she was 16, that pits the Socs and the Greasers against one another is resolved when Pony boy discovers that people are more alike than they are different. Spokane Indian Arnold Spirit, Jr. Adding to the angst of adolescence and the push and pull of values a visible difference that marks Auggie Pullman more so than even skin color, Wonder by R. Palacio is also a coming-of-age story in a school setting. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn M. Twain and The Giver L. Troylyn Ball and her husband, Charlie, an engineer and real estate investor, had spent their entire lives in Texas.
But after a near fatal trip to the emergency room with their mute, wheelchair-bound son Coulton, they admitted the dust and the heat were too dangerous. To save their boys, the Balls cashed out, sold their beloved farm, and moved to Asheville, North Carolina. Nearing fifty, Troy thought her chance at adventure had passed. She struck up a friendship with a legendary eighty-year-old raconteur from the mountains, met his friends, and soon found herself in a rickety country shack with an ingeniously inventive retired farmer trying to create the best recipe ever for traditional mountain moonshine.
If she was going to save her family—and she was definitely going to save her family—she needed to become the most successful woman in the legal whiskey business. Full of eccentric characters and charming locations—from a "haunted" cabin in the mountains to the last farm in the world to grow heritage Crooked Creek corn— Pure Heart is a charming story of a woman who set out to find a purpose in the most unexpected of places, and ended up finding happiness, contentment, and a community of love and respect.
Collin Kelley and Karen Head, two award-winning poets will read their poetry round-robin style, selecting poems on the fly to find common themes, moods and imagery. A senseless act of violence. A city in turmoil. While other detectives take the lead on the Spelman murders, Salt is tasked to investigate the case of a recently discovered decomposed body. When she combs through the missing-persons reports, it becomes clear the victim is a girl Salt took into custody two years before, and Salt feels a grave responsibility to learn the truth about how the girl died.
But before she can pursue any leads, Salt is called onto emergency riot detail—in the wake of the assault on the Spelman students, Atlanta has reached the boiling point. In a city burdened by history and a community erupting in pain and anger, Salt must delve into the past for answers. A gripping and astute story about what it means to serve and protect, Old Bones solidifies Trudy Nan Boyce as an evocative, authoritative voice in crime fiction.
Since Reconstruction, African Americans have served as key protagonists in the rich and expansive narrative of American social protest. Their collective efforts challenged and redefined the meaning of freedom as a social contract in America. During the first half of the 20th century, a progressive group of black business, civic, and religious leaders from Atlanta, Georgia, challenged the status quo by employing a method of incremental gradualism to improve the social and political conditions existent within the city.
By the midth century, a younger generation of activists emerged, seeking a more direct and radical approach towards exercising their rights as full citizens. A culmination of the death of Emmitt Till and the Brown decision fostered this paradigm shift by bringing attention to the safety and educational concerns specific to African American youth. Deploying direct-action tactics and invoking the language of civil and human rights, the energy and zest of this generation of activists pushed the modern civil rights movement into a new chapter where young men and women became the voice of social unrest.
Myers is the most celebrated African American writer of novels for young adults. His more than books have earned him the Margaret A. In Monster , sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon finds himself in jail, a detention center, for being an accessory to a murder and writes his imagined trial as a screenplay. Fallen Angels tells the story of young Richie Perry in Vietnam, fighting to stay alive as his buddies fall, as he faces death.
Alexie , Wonder R. That he begins to find echoes of his recent past in the lives of the black family who work for the Jeslers—an affinity he does not share with the Jeslers themselves—both surprises and convinces Yitzhak that his choices are not as clear-cut as he might think. In It's Good Weather for Fudge: The past becomes the present in this poem that ranges from love and war to sickness and health, fudge and friendship. Its many allusions to the life and works of Carson McCullers make it a kind of poetic biography.
A Reading and Lecture Series presented by Dr. In light of the calls for justice in the US, and hearing our leaders from many areas say that one action that should be taken is to consider others, to think about being in their shoes, their situations, to understand the daily fear people of color experience, Pearl McHaney will present the following series for the Georgia Center for the Book for Spring Pearl believes that the way to the future is not in how we are different but how we are the same and that literature provides the thinking and actions that are being called for.
The texts she will present include young adult, adult, and crossover novels. The lectures will be suitable for general audience, young people, parents, and teachers. Attendees could read the books or not. Pearl will be bringing the texts to light in how the authors and their characters see other worlds, recognize and work with difference, make decisions, learn empathy. The remarkable untold story of how the American Revolution's success depended on substantial military assistance provided by France and Spain, and places the Revolution in the context of the global strategic interests of those nations in their fight against England.
In this groundbreaking, revisionist history, Larrie Ferreiro shows that at the time the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord the colonists had little chance, if any, of militarily defeating the British. Instead of viewing the American Revolution in isolation, Brothers at Arms reveals the birth of the American nation as the centerpiece of an international coalition fighting against a common enemy.
Seating will be based on a first come, first served basis. The doors will open shortly after 6: We will distribute numbered bracelets at the door, one per person. Once all those are distributed, no other persons will be admitted. There is no assigned seating; one bracelet equals one seat. We encourage all attendees to wear their beast Greaser or Soc attire! Please be advised there is limited parking in the Library Parking Deck. Please allow yourself extra time to locate other parking in Decatur once the deck is at capacity.
Please check our Facebook for the most current updates. The international bestseller and inspiration for a beloved movie--now with bonus content. Celebrating 50 years of the novel that laid the groundwork for the YA genre, this is the ultimate edition for fans of The Outsiders. Louise Runyon, dancer, choreographer, and poet, has performed her work in Atlanta and the Southeast for the past 35 years.
She will be joined on stage by Thrower Starr. He works at Paideia School as English teacher and as counselor, and is a psychologist in private practice. The Georgia Center for the Book is pleased to welcome two Georgia authors, for an evening of conversation on their debut novels Calamity and Eyes on the Island.
The Christian story, from Genesis until now, is fundamentally about people on the move—outgrowing old, broken religious systems and embracing new, more redemptive ways of life.
With McLaren's trademark brilliance and compassion, The Great Spiritual Migration invites readers to seize the moment and set out on the most significant spiritual pilgrimage of our time: When a job opportunity enters the frame in the form of the mysterious Mr. With the help of his eccentric new girlfriend Lucy, Will will do everything he can to deliver on his promise to help Mr. Dinsdale keep the Curioddity Museum in business. Paul Jenkins is the award-winning author of Wolverine: Black , Soul Reaver , Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction , God of War and many others.
From two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene comes a profound and surprising account of dogs on the front lines of rescuing both children and adults from the trenches of grief, emotional, physical, and cognitive disability, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Her successful argument before the Supreme Court became the landmark Olmstead Decision. Although known for the Olmstead Decision, the story of Lois as an artist is often overlooked.
Lois' art has been exhibited in galleries throughout Georgia and in New York City. Join us as award-winning author Thomas Mullen and debut novelist Gray Stewart discuss their latest works and the process of writing a novel. Darktown by Thomas Mullen The award-winning author of The Last Town on Earth delivers a riveting and elegant police procedural set in Atlanta, exploring a murder, corrupt police, and strained race relations that feels ripped from today's headlines. Set in the postwar, pre-civil rights South, and evoking the socially resonant and morally complex crime novels of Dennis Lehane and Walter Mosley, Darktown is a vivid, smart, intricately plotted crime saga that explores the timely issues of race, law enforcement, and the uneven scales of justice.
Is it our school systems? Is it our popular media? This question animates HAYLOW as Travis rummages around in his family's history, looking for the truth behind what happened years ago on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp so he can understand how much of the burden of the South's racist history is his to shoulder. The exhibition is located in the Periodicals Gallery at the Decatur Library through September 30, Thursday evening, September 29, , we will host the second "White Glove Night", when we put away the "do not touch" signs, and provide participants with white gloves- allowing firsthand exploration of the books in the exhibition.
Volunteers will be on hand to assist participants, and we will have special presentations by some of the artists whose work is on display! For this evening's event, our featured speakers will be: Entry to the gallery will be through the first floor, rear doors of the Decatur Library. The Georgia Center for the Book is pleased to welcome poet Theresa Davis, who will discuss her latest book of poetry Drowned: Books will be available for purchase from our friends at Charis Books and More.
On the 20th anniversary of Trials of the Earth , we are pleased to welcome Kerry Hamilton for a special presentation of Mary Mann Hamilton's classic autobiography. Conveyed in frank and expressive prose by a natural-born writer, and withheld for almost a lifetime, Trials of the Earth will resonate with readers of history and fiction alike-an emotional testament to our ability to endure, as well as the story of extraordinary love and the allure of pioneer life.
Thursday evening, September 15, , we will host the first "White Glove Night", when we put away the "do not touch" signs, and provide participants with white gloves- allowing firsthand exploration of the books in the exhibition. On Thursday, September 15, our featured speakers will be: With precision and compassion, Lelyveld examines the choices Roosevelt faced, shining new light on his state of mind, preoccupations, and motives, both as leader of the wartime alliance and in his personal life. Co-sponsored by our friends at the Little Shop of Stories [http: In honor of the launch of their books, Furthermore and Tales of the Peculiar , our favorite literary couple will join in conversation to discuss all things magical, wonderful and peculiar!
This event is free and open to the public, however, guests must purchase either a copy of Furthermore or Tales of the Peculiar in order to get into the signing line. The authors are happy to sign backlist, and to pose for photos. On September 2, , at the age of sixty-four, Diana Nyad emerged onto the sands of Key West after swimming miles, nation to nation, Cuba to Florida, in an epic feat of both endurance and human will, in fifty-three hours.
In Find a Way , Diana engages us with a unique, passionate story of this heroic adventure and the extraordinary life experiences that have served to carve her unwavering spirit. This will be the seventh installment of this prestigious list to be unveiled. This year's lists can be found on the GCB Facebook [https: Human Rights in Children's Literature investigates children's rights under international law -- identity and family rights, the right to be heard, the right to be free from discrimination, and other civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights -- and considers the way in which those rights are embedded in children's literature from Peter Rabbit to Horton Hears a Who!
This book traverses children's rights law, literary theory, and human rights education to argue that in order for children to fully realize their human rights, they first have to imagine and understand them. Through an examination of their unique history and an incisive analysis of policy successes and failures, A Spirit of Charity reveals the remarkable story of why public hospitals matter and why they should play a more prominent role in our public policy discussions.
In its narrative scope, The Idealist spans two centuries, covering the 74 years of Coubertin's life from his birth in Pairs in to his death in Geneva in It reveals how the transformation of Paris into the capital of modernity helped fire a young man's imagination and how the drumbeats of war sounded by the German hosts of the Berlin Olympics spoiled an old man's dreams, and left him bereft of hope for the Movement he created to foster peace among nations.
The writers will be reading from new and favorite work, as well as talking about their experiences with the award-winning small press. Borland will discuss SRP's exciting transition to a nonprofit, which will create even more opportunities for authors. Books will be available for sale. The story of the first airplane flight in Georgia has not been told correctly in more than one hundred years.
The year given for this flight, , is not correct, the plane identified as the first to fly never got off the ground, and Ben T. To Lasso the Clouds sets the historical record straight and brings to light the complete, incredible story of the two young men from Athens, Georgia who achieved their dream of flight.
Epps and Zumpt A. Huff were described by one newspaper after that first flight as a "second pair of Wright brothers. Aldridge resides in Winterville, Georgia. The creative team behind the debut graphic novel series The Jekyll Island Chronicles joins us to discuss their work, the process of creating a graphic novel and what we can expect from them in the future. As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August , and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as "black rage,??
With so much attention on the flames,?? Since and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South while taxpayer dollars financed segregated white private schools; the Civil Rights Act of and Voting Rights Act of triggered a coded but powerful response, the so-called Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs that disenfranchised millions of African Americans while propelling presidents Nixon and Reagan into the White House.
Carefully linking these and other historical flashpoints when social progress for African Americans was countered by deliberate and cleverly crafted opposition, Anderson pulls back the veil that has long covered actions made in the name of protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud, rendering visible the long lineage of white rage. Compelling and dramatic in the unimpeachable history it relates, White Rage will add an important new dimension to the national conversation about race in America.
The White House Ground have been an unwitting witness to history—a backdrop for soldiers, suffragettes, protestors, and activists. Kings and queens have dined there, bills and treaties have been signed, and presidents have landed and retreated. The front and back yard for the first family, it is by extension the nation's first garden. Starting with the seed-collecting, plant-obsessed George Washington and ending with Michelle Obama's focus on edibles, this rich and compelling narrative reveals how the story of the garden is also the story of America.
Readers learn about Lincoln's goats, Ike's putting green, Jackie's iconic roses, Amy Carter's tree house, and much more. They also learn the plants whose favor has come and gone over the years and the gardeners who have been responsible for it all. Fully illustrated with new and historical photographs and art, refreshingly nonpartisan, and releasing just in time for election year, this is a must-read for anyone interested in the red, white, and green!
From the nationally bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls comes The After Party , a story of s Texas socialites and the one irresistible, controversial woman at the bright, hot center of it all. Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the s Houston social scene. Tall, blonde, beautiful, and strong, she dominates the room and the gossip columns. Every man who sees her seems to want her; every woman just wants to be her. But this is a highly ordered world of garden clubs and debutante balls. The money may flow as freely as the oil, but the freedom and power all belong to the men.
What happens when a woman of indecorous appetites and desires like Joan wants more? What does it do to her best friend? Devoted to Joan since childhood, Cece Buchanan is either her chaperone or her partner in crime, depending on whom you ask. A thrilling glimpse into the sphere of the rich and beautiful at a memorable moment in history, The After Party unfurls a story of friendship as obsessive, euphoric, consuming, and complicated as any romance.
Some people stay all summer long on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina. Riley Griggs has a season of good times with friends and family ahead of her on Belle Isle when things take an unexpected turn. While waiting for her husband to arrive on the ferry one Friday afternoon, Riley is confronted by a process server who thrusts papers into her hand. And her husband is nowhere to be found. So she turns to her island friends for help and support, but it turns out that each of them has their own secrets, and the clock is ticking as the mystery deepens Cocktail parties aside, Riley must find a way to investigate the secrets of Belle Island, the husband she might not really know, and the summer that could change everything.
Each novel has taken Hart higher on the New York Times Bestseller list as his masterful writing and assured evocation of place have won readers around the world and earned history's only consecutive Edgar Awards for Best Novel with Down River and The Last Child. Now, Hart delivers his most powerful story yet.
A boy with a gun waits for the man who killed his mother. A troubled detective confronts her past in the aftermath of a brutal shooting. After thirteen years in prison, a good cop walks free as deep in the forest, on the altar of an abandoned church, a body cools in pale linen… This is a town on the brink. This is Redemption Road. Brimming with tension, secrets, and betrayal, Redemption Road proves again that John Hart is a master of the literary thriller.
Join novelists Collin Kelley and Erica Wright in a discussion about their latest works and the process of creating an alluring mystery. In Leaving Paris , Collin Kelley's conclusion to the Venus Trilogy, Paris teeters on the brink of a chaos that eerily foreshadows the city's recent turmoil. Erica Wright's disguise-skilled private detective, Kat Stone, is on the trail of a deadly gangster in The Granite Moth. In a dual biography covering the last ten years of the lives of friends and contemporaries, writer Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain and statesman John Hay who served as secretary of state under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt , The Statesman and the Storyteller not only provides an intimate look into the daily lives of these men but also creates an elucidating portrait of the United States on the verge of emerging as a world power.
In what has to be viewed as one of the most shameful periods in American political history, Filipinos who believed they had been promised independence were instead told they were incapable of self-government and then violently subdued in a war that featured torture and execution of native soldiers and civilians. The United States also used its growing military and political might to grab the entirety of the Hawaiian Islands and a large section of Panama.
As secretary of state during this time, Hay, though a charitable man, was nonetheless complicit in these misdeeds. Nearing the end of their long and remarkable lives, both men found themselves struggling to maintain their personal integrity while remaining celebrated and esteemed public figures. Come Home is the first book by Atlanta-based photographer and storyteller, Brent Walker.
Through stunning portraiture and intimate conversations, Brent takes the reader on a journey across the Southeast United States, uncovering stories of heartbreak, addiction, and hope. The book features more than stories and portraits of people from all walks of life juxtaposed with photos of the Southern landscape that help paint a rich and complex picture of The Hidden South.
It quickly garnered attention from press and is followed by thousands on social media. Just because people call his dad Big Thunder doesn't mean he wants to be Little Thunder. But just when Thunder Boy Jr. National Book Award-winner Sherman Alexie's lyrical text and Caldecott Honor-winner Yuyi Morales's striking and beautiful illustrations celebrate the special relationship between father and son. For this event, you must purchase a copy of Thunder Boy Jr. Reina Castillo is the alluring young woman whose beloved brother is serving a death sentence for a crime that shocked the community, throwing a baby off a bridge—a crime for which Reina secretly blames herself.
With her brother's death, though devastated and in mourning, Reina is finally released from her prison vigil. Seeking anonymity, she moves to a sleepy town in the Florida Keys where she meets Nesto Cadena, a recently exiled Cuban awaiting with hope the arrival of the children he left behind in Havana.
Set in the vibrant coastal and Caribbean communities of Miami, the Florida Keys, Havana, Cuba, and Cartagena, Colombia, with The Veins of the Ocean Patricia Engel delivers a profound and riveting Pan-American story of fractured lives finding solace and redemption in the beauty and power of the natural world, and in one another. And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. To rule Russia was both imperial-sacred mission and poisoned chalice: Peter the Great tortured his own son to death while making Russia an empire, and dominated his court with a dining club notable for compulsory drunkenness, naked dwarfs and fancy dress.
Catherine the Great overthrew her own husband who was murdered soon afterward , enjoyed affairs with a series of young male favorites, conquered Ukraine and fascinated Europe. Alexander II liberated the serfs, survived five assassination attempts and wrote perhaps the most explicit love letters ever composed by a ruler. The Romanovs climaxes with a fresh, unforgettable portrayal of Nicholas II and Alexandra, the rise and murder of Rasputin, war and revolution—and the harrowing massacre of the entire family.
Dazzlingly entertaining and beautifully written from start to finish, The Romanovs brings these monarchs—male and female, great and flawed, their families and courts—blazingly to life. Drawing on new archival research, Montefiore delivers an enthralling epic of triumph and tragedy, love and murder, encompassing the seminal years , and , that is both a universal study of power and a portrait of empire that helps define Russia today.
Like most kids, Little Shaq doesn't love trying new things, especially if he might not be very good at them. So when his class is assigned projects for the school's upcoming art show, he's not sure that his skills will transfer from the basketball court to the art studio. Rosa Lindy and Barry have their projects all figured out. Can Little Shaq find the confidence to embrace his own style and create a piece for the show?
Continuing this series that celebrates community, family, and education, Little Shaq Takes a Chance will inspire readers the to be brave, have fun, and love reading! The event will end promptly at noon. Tickets will be given at time of purchase. No jerseys, photos, or sporting equipment will be signed. Georgia Center for the Book is pleased to welcome Julia Franks and Mark Beaver for a lively discussion of their recent publications. There she meets farm wife Irene Lambey, who is immediately drawn to the lady agent's self-possession. Already, cracks are emerging in Irenie's fragile marriage to Brodis, an ex-logger turned fundamentalist preacher: To Brodis, these are all the signs that Irene tiptoeing through the dark in her billowing white nightshirt has become a witch.
Beaver invites us into a world filled with Daisy Duke fantasies and Prince posters, Nerf Hoops and Atari joysticks, raggedy Camaros and the neon light of strip malls. As much about the adolescent heart as the evangelical mind, the story explores similar emotional terrain as coming-of-age classics like Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life and Mary Karr's Cherry.
Suburban Gospel is a tale of growing up Baptist, all right, but also of just growing up. Set in the glamorous s, A Fine Imitation is an intoxicating debut that sweeps readers into a privileged Manhattan socialite's restless life and the affair with a mysterious painter that upends her world, flashing back to her years at Vassar and the friendship that brought her to the brink of ruin. Vera Bellington has beauty, pedigree, and a penthouse at The Angelus--the most coveted address on Park Avenue. But behind the sparkling social whirl, Vera is living a life of quiet desperation.
Her days are an unbroken loop of empty, champagne-soaked socializing, while her nights are silent and cold, spent waiting alone in her cavernous apartment for a husband who seldom comes home. Then Emil Hallan arrives at The Angelus to paint a mural above its glittering subterranean pool. Kelly - Death of a Friend T. Hard Labour as Editor: A Island territory Mariana Islands: Micronesia Sherry Dixon - Natural Destiny fiction about war crimes is probably not technically crime fiction but I thought it was worth listing for historical relevance N. Jarrett series Tom Butler - John.
Joe Race - The Mystery Hotel: Come for a Rest Micronesia Louis Becke - The Mutineer: Melvin Leavasa - Detective Tan: Wallis and Futuna - France Polynesia?????? Boje Willow Rose - One, Two Persson - Johansson and Jarnebring inc sub-series: Staes - The Bruges Tapestry historical mystery set in present day California and 16th c. Robert Janes - St. Grazzi - murder on the night train from Marseilles to Paris Martin R.
Auguste Dupin trilogy E. Stephen Brodsky - The Lame King: Kaye - Death in Berlin Death in. Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Mr. Lloyds - The Mystery in Monte Carlo: Morris - Porfiry Petrovich series Thomas C. Clio Challis - Murder in Atlantis: Stephen Brodsky - The Kali Pact: Kaye - Death in Cyprus Death in. Revenge or Honor Philip Wooderson - Acropolis: Ann Crew - A Murder in Malta: Turney - The Ottoman Cycle series set in the 15th c. Carpenter - Fires of Alexandria mystery surrounding the burning of the Library of Alexandria in the 1st c.
A Deadly Tragedy Edward J. Navy supercarrier and in Dubai Tori St. Aug 1, , 9: A Novel of Antarctica P. McGrath - White Heat: Dangerous Cargo set on board a yacht during a transatlantic crossing to the Mediterranean Laurence U. Jance - Birds of Prey Bk 15 J. Missing in the Caribbean R. Kaye - Death in Cyprus Bk 3 'Death in Law - Tenacity APA: Shewmaker - The Ticket: Morgan - Vessel Marty Steere - Sea of Crises mystery thriller about an ill-fated Apollo 18 mission partialy set on the moon Duane Swierczynski - Point and Shoot part of the story takes place onboard a satellite orbiting the earth F.
An Island Afloat set in the near future J. Dark matter on Earth R. Lawton - Connor Stone: Reed - Murder in Space K. The Becoming of Irkoniss Mikka's Chronicles: Soriano - The ElectroLive Murders: Stith - Memory Blank J.
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Return to Book Page. During the Seventies, most everyone in our small Appalachian town of Mountain View had some indiscretions. Even as town Police Chief and deacon of the church, I had mine too — I just pretended to go fishing every Saturday night. Our fooling around seemed tolerable — until a pretty young woman showed up one summer.
I also heard talk that Walter Smith was trying to catch you red-handed with his wife tonight. Everybody knows you go fishing on Saturday nights although not in the same spot each time. I took a chance on you being here and got Will Bennett to drive me out and drop me off. I reached out and grabbed her hand to stop her.
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