![]() He believed that the point of public service was to improve the lives of one’s fellow citizens and fought for a national health insurance plan. Historians have tended to portray Truman as stolid and decisive, with a homespun manner, but the man who emerges in The Trials of Harry S. The nearly eight years of Harry Truman’s presidency-among the most turbulent in American history-were marked by victory in the wars against Germany and Japan the first use of an atomic bomb and the development of far deadlier weapons the start of the Cold War and the creation of the NATO alliance the Marshall Plan to rebuild the wreckage of postwar Europe the Red Scare and the fateful decision to commit troops to fight a costly “limited war” in Korea. Jeffrey Frank, author of the bestselling Ike and Dick, returns with the “beguiling” ( The New York Times) first full account of the Truman presidency in nearly thirty years, recounting how a seemingly ordinary man met the extraordinary challenge of leading America through the pivotal years of the mid-20th century. ![]()
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The breakneck thriller that inspired TV sensation Killing Eve, starring Sandra Oh, "unlike any other spy drama you've seen" ( Daily Beast). ![]() ![]() I first met Riley Boone when I was four years old. Now I’m on fire for this woman, and a man can only burn for so long before he destroys everything around him.Īn anthology of extras and never-before-released material, including a new short story featuring fan favorites Horse and Marie. She pretends we’re just friends, that I’ve still got a soul. Not my name, not my job, not even the clothes I wear. ![]() Now she’ll learn I’ve been lying to her all along. There’s another woman, another job, another fight just ahead. I can’t take her yet because the club still needs me. She deserves a good man-one better than me. She’s beautiful, she’s loyal, and she works so damned hard it scares me sometimes. My Reaper brothers took my back and I took theirs and it was enough. ![]() ![]() I’ve lived by those words my whole life-assumed I’d die by them, too, and I never had a problem with that. New York Times bestselling author Joanna Wylde returns to the “wild and raw”* world of the Reapers MC with the story of Gage and Tinker… ![]() ![]() ![]() PROFILE: Anonymous: Bernard Cornwell may be a prolific, best-selling author, but he's still trying to make a name for himself here (Alex Beam, December 23, 2004, The Boston Globe)Ĭornwell once met O'Brian, whose work he greatly admires. FAN SITE: The Sharpe Appreciation Society ![]() PROFILE: Bernard Cornwell (Bookreporter) AUTHOR SITE: Bernard Cornwell: Britain's Storyteller -INFO: Bernard Cornwell (Wikipedia) See also: Bernard Cornwell ( 2 books reviewed) Without the Christian trappings, seems fundamentally dishonest to me. This attempt to make Arthur a figure worthy of Instance, he views the job of a soldier as fighting for those who can'tįor themselves. Time, the Arthur he portrays has the qualities of a Christian knight So central to Western literature is because it is a Christian myth.Ĭornwell takes a pretty antagonistic stance against Christianity. ![]() ![]() I do have one major problem with the book. Guinevere is a manipulative wench & triggers the action in theīreaks a betrothal to elope with her. To Uther's throne, is Arthur's infant nephew & Arthur is his sworn Merlin is fighting a rearguard battle against Christianity. Tried to demythologize the story & return it to somewhat historicalĬamelot is the Kingdom of Dumnonia. Chuck gave me this one a while ago & finally convinced me to readĪdmit I wasn't anxious for another Arthurian series. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s beautiful, refined, and ripe for seduction. Suddenly he’ll brave sharks, fire, storm, and sea just to keep her at his side. A conscienceless scoundrel who sails the seas for pleasure and profit, Gray lives for conquest–until Sophia’s perception and artistry stir his heart. ![]() Tessa Dare has written a series of 25 books. To any well-bred lady, Benedict “Gray” Grayson is trouble in snug-fitting boots. Most Recommended Books presents the Tessa Dare series written by Tessa Dare. But it’s one thing to sketch her most wanton fantasies, and quite another to face the dangerously handsome libertine who would steal both her virtue and her gold. She wants a life of her own: unsheltered, unconventional, uninhibited. New author Tessa Dare takes passion to the high seas in this steamy tale of a runaway bride and a devilishly disarming privateer.ĭesperate to escape a loveless marriage and society’s constraints, pampered heiress Sophia Hathaway jilts her groom, packs up her paints and sketchbook, and assumes a new identity, posing as a governess to secure passage on the Aphrodite. ![]() ![]() Engels paints an unforgettable picture of daily life in the new industrial towns, and for miners and agricultural workers-depicting overcrowded housing, abject poverty, child labour, sexual exploitation, dirt and drunkenness-in a savage indictment of the greed of the bourgeoisie. Written when Engels was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester, this forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1DBKE 3JH HBJD1 HBLL HBTB JFSC. ![]() Written when the author was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester, this title explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England. Description for The Condition of the Working Class in England Paperback. ![]() ![]() “Why do I see them as a unit? Why do I not see her as independent of him? Is that sexist of me?” “When I reread ‘Living History’ (Clinton’s 2003 memoir) as research for ‘American Wife,’ it made me revisit my opinion of her,” Sittenfeld said. ![]() Several themes emerged, including the tension between public and private lives, love and marriage, the impossible standards our society puts on successful women, and the way we tend to equate a woman with her husband. She read biographies, Clinton’s own memoirs, and books by other women who had run for office in 2016, including Amy Klobuchar. To get to the personality of Hillary, Sittenfeld said, she first plunged into the writing, but quickly realized she needed to do more research. ![]() She moves with him to Arkansas.īut then around page 150, Hillary turns down Bill’s proposal of marriage, moves back to Illinois, and the whole rest of “Rodham” flows straight from Sittenfeld’s fertile imagination. Character Hillary has a passionate affair with Bill Clinton, whom she meets at Yale Law School. ![]() The first quarter or so of the book follows the real Hillary’s life pretty closely. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marney ( Circus of Arts) has created a thrilling cat-and-mouse story in this taut, Silence of the Lambs–like thriller, which employs a teen behavioral psychologist’s trauma and resilience against a gripping, dangerous puzzle. Simon, intrigued by Emma’s prickly demeanor and traumatic history, tries to pull her out of her shell Emma, learning Simon’s sensibilities and interest in the Burkean sublime, realizes that he may be the key to identifying the Butcher. As Cooper hits a wall with an ongoing investigation-a string of teen murders in Pennsylvania by “the Butcher”-he pushes Emma to speak with Simon Gutmunsson, the artistic serial murderer responsible for Travis’s father’s death. When FBI agent Ed Cooper arrives to recruit her for a behavioral science unit, he offers her myriadīenefits in exchange for interviewing juvenile serial offenders withĪ partner, 18-year-old Travis Bell, son of a U.S. Ever since she escaped from and helped to apprehend serial killer Daniel Huxton, Ohio State freshman Emma Lewis has kept her hair buzzed and her running shoes laced. ![]() ![]() ![]() He co-authored a number of novels with Jerry Pournelle. ![]() Niven created an alien species, the Kzin, which were featured in a series of twelve collection books, the Man-Kzin Wars. His fantasy includes The Magic Goes Away series, which utilizes an exhaustible resource, called Mana, to make the magic a non-renewable resource. Niven also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. The creation of thoroughly worked-out alien species, which are very different from humans both physically and mentally, is recognized as one of Niven's main strengths. ![]() His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. Laurence van Cott Niven's best known work is Ringworld(Ringworld, #1) (1970), which received the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Katniss and Peeta have been cold towards each other since coming home, except when cameras are around, because her 'love' for him in the Games was staged, while his is real. He orders Katniss to convince the entire country that her and Peeta's love was the reason for their actions, and to convince Snow himself, or he will ensure that her loved ones suffer. President Coriolanus Snow visits Katniss in her new, lavish home and tells her she has inspired rebellions in the districts, when she and Peeta threatened to commit suicide so that they would both survive the Games. As the Victors of the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta Mellark are required to take a Victory Tour of the country and pay respect to the fallen tributes of the other districts. ![]() Due to PTSD from her time in the Hunger Games, she nearly shoots her friend Gale Hawthorne, as well as re-living the moment she killed Marvel during the Games. The movie begins with a distressed Katniss Everdeen hunting outside District 12. ![]() |