![]() ![]() It was a time of chaos and pain, for her and for the nation. In the months that followed, she endured personal tragedy while simultaneously being pulled into the blinding lights of the first impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump. In the middle of her third ambassadorship-a rarity in the world of diplomacy-she was targeted by a smear campaign and abruptly recalled from her post in Kyiv, Ukraine. ![]() Marie Yovanovitch was at the height of her diplomatic career when it all came crashing down. ambassador to Ukraine-a pioneering diplomat who spent her career advancing democracy in the post-Soviet world, and who electrified the nation by speaking truth to power during the first impeachment of President Trump. ![]() INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | An inspiring and urgent memoir by the former U.S. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Then late one night, something unspeakable happens, searing through the framework of their friendship and tearing them apart. It should be a summer of relaxation, a last hurrah before graduation and the pressures of postcollege life. The summer before senior year, Megan joins Lauren and her family on their private island off the coast of Maine. When they become roommates at a private women's college, they forge a strong, albeit unlikely, friendship, sharing clothes, advice and their most intimate secrets. ![]() Megan is a girl from a modest Midwest background, and Lauren is the daughter of a senator from an esteemed New England family. Compulsively readable!" -Kate Moretti, New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Year "This story particularly resonates now, in the throes of the #MeToo movement."- Booklist Megan Mazeros and Lauren Mabrey are complete opposites on paper. "A complex look at the long-standing consequences of privilege and toxic masculinity. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have never known one to solve their problem in such a creative way as Nolan, however. As a teacher, I've known a few Nolan's in my time-smart, socially awkward, unassertive. ![]() This is the first in a series of four books by Van Draanen telling the story of Nolan and Bubba. But will it help bring truth and justice back to Nolan's life? But how to do his assignment without getting pounded? Well, he needs a secret identity, of course, and, a website devoted to all things Bubba, is born. Green assigns a newspaper project in class, Nolan knows just what he wants to do-an investigative report on Bubba, proving once and for all what a bully he truly is. No matter how many times Nolan tells his teachers and parents about the mean things Bubba does, they never catch him in the act. ![]() Nolan is the school nerd-at least according to bully Bubba Bixby. ![]() ![]() Complex and inventive, with numerous and rewarding mysteries, this tale is certain to please. ![]() There is some amount of violence, but the upside is that. While he negotiates the hideous maze of the prison, Claudia makes her way through the equally deadly labyrinth of political intrigue. All of Catherine Fishers books are like this, but Incarceron is by far her crowning achievement. ![]() Finn, a young man without a past, is a prisoner in Incarceron, which has become a hideous dystopia, an “abyss that swallows dreams.” When Claudia and Finn each gain possession of a high-tech “key” to the prison, they exchange messages, and Finn asks Claudia to help him attempt an escape. Claudia, the brilliant daughter of the cold-blooded warden of Incarceron, has been raised from birth to marry and eventually control Caspar, the simpleminded heir to the throne. It has been sealed for centuries, and only one man has ever escaped. Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells and corridors, but metal forests, dilapidated cities, and wilderness. Simultaneously, all of the world's malcontents and madmen were sealed into an unimaginably vast, sentient prison named Incarceron, where a dedicated group of social engineers intended to create utopia. 42.95 11 Used from 5.60 3 New from 42.95. Fisher (the Oracle Prophesies series) scores a resounding success in this beautifully imagined science fantasy set in a far future where, many years earlier, civilization was artificially frozen at late-medieval levels in order to save the world from dangerous technologies. ![]() ![]() Both have a personal interest in the mysterious Cordova. McGrath has two young people, Nora and Hopper, to help in the investigation. ![]() It must have taken a lot of work to assemble. The graphics present a challenge to both author and publisher. In these, tension is created by the mere accumulation of detail and pseudo-documentary evidence. ![]() It’s the computer-age equivalent of the rhetorical horror stories of H. But I say take the next step, imagine a special e-reader edition, and now add some animation and put it on You Tube. These all give critical information to solve the puzzle. The first thing noticed is how the story advances through documentary evidence: photographs, official forms, newspaper web pages, text messages, and mock social media entries. Night Film is a very long book, but not all of it is text. McGrath tries to recover from the failure of his earlier investigation by looking into the unexplained death of Cordova’s young adult daughter. Actors working on them report being traumatized by the experience. Cordova is no longer making his disturbing pictures, and the director remains an enigmatic, reclusive figure to the verylast of Night Film’s almost 600 pages.Ĭordova’s films are always on macabre subjects. ![]() I. Scott McGrath has already damaged his reputation looking into the affairs of a mysterious film director named Stanislas Cordova. ![]() Night Film is a private investigation thriller with touches of the supernatural. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hemming takes the reader dramatically through a total "you are there" experience as the great ore boat and its crew battle the treacherous elements and plunge wildly and disastrously to the depths. Still argued over by Great Lakes experts, the fate of the freighter and its crew has attracted more widespread attention than any of the other thousands of shipwrecks recorded for these "inland seas." In Gales of November, author Robert J. ![]() ~The mystery~tinged loss of the 729~foot ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald with its crew of 29 during a violent November storm on Lake Superior in 1975 has become an American folk tragedy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no underlining, no remainder markings. couple of teeny tiny edge tears on rear panel, not price clipped. old name inked over on inside front cover, otherwise contents free of markings except for author's signature. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. Black faux leather "leatherette" hardbound 8vo. ![]() ![]() ![]() And the blight has finally come for her, too. Infected livestock and wild creatures alike staggered off into the woods by day-only to return at night, their eyes, fogged white, leering from the trees. It began by consuming the crops-thick, silver sludge bleeding from the earth. That’s when the quicksilver mercury blight first surfaced, poisoning the farms of Hollow’s End one by one. Tourists travel miles to marvel at its miracle crops, including the shimmering, iridescent wheat of Wren’s family farm. ![]() ![]() Wren owes everything she has to her home, Hollow’s End, a centuries-old, picture perfect American town. For fans of Wilder Girls comes a nightmarish debut guaranteed to keep you up through the night, about an idyllic small town poisoned by its past, and one girl who must fight the strange disease that's slowly claiming everyone she loves. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Graham's rich, balanced thriller sizzles with equal parts suspense, romance and the paranormal-all of it nail-biting." "Eerie and atmospheric, this is not late-night reading for the squeamish or sensitive." "If you like mixing a bit of the creepy with a dash of sinister and spine-chilling reading with your romance, be sure to read Heather Graham's latest.Graham does a great job of blending just a bit of paranormal with real, human evil." "A fast-paced and suspenseful read that will give readers chills while keeping them guessing until the end." "Graham wields a deftly sexy and convincing pen." "Graham expertly blends a chilling history of the mansion's former residents with eerie phenomena, once again demonstrating why she stands at the top of the romantic suspense category." -Publisher's Weekly on Phantom Evil, Starred Review Wake of Hurricane Katrina, Graham's atmosphericĭepiction of a lost city is especially poignant." Unrelentingly suspenseful plot, the charactersĪre likable, the romance convincing, and, in the ![]() "The paranormal elements are integral to the ![]() ![]() He achieved great success as a writer and public speaker. While a reporter, he wrote a humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," which proved to be very popular and brought him nationwide attention. He was a failure at gold mining, so he next turned to journalism. After toiling as a printer in various cities, he became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, before heading west to join Orion. ![]() He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. ![]() ![]() ![]() The other Penrics are novellas, while this one’s word count launches it into the book arena. It’s a rare week that goes by that I don’t think of a quote from her collected canon to describe something going on in life or politics. Lois’s work has touched my life in so many ways, and shaped my thinking. Image via Goodreads Blog the cover art is by Ron Miller. The Assassins of Thasalon is the 10th Penric and Desdemona story from Lois McMaster Bujold. ![]() So, it’s quite a treat to find that Lois McMaster Bujold’s new ebook, The Assassins of Thasalon, came out May 10th! Believe it or not, it’s book 10 of the delightful Penric and Desdemona series, about the life of a young man who contracts a demon - a demon with the accumulated memory and personalities of 11 women, a mare and a lioness. ![]() It has been a hard week of gardening, muscle recovery from gardening, and dentistry, and I haven’t opened my computer for days. ![]() |