![]() ![]() And suddenly, after her own secret is revealed, Alexa finds herself confronted with two men vying for her heart: the safe and steady Rylan, who has always cared for her, and the dark, intriguing Damian. The longer Alexa is held captive with both Rylan and the prince, the more she realizes that she is not the only one who has been keeping dangerous secrets. But when a powerful sorcerer sneaks into the palace in the dead of night, even Alexa, who is virtually unbeatable, can't prevent him from abducting her, her fellow guard and friend Rylan, and Prince Damian, taking them through the treacherous wilds of the jungle and deep into enemy territory. Defy A lush and gorgeously written debut, packed with action, intrigue, and heart-racing romance.Alexa Hollen is a fighter. ![]() Forced to disguise herself as a boy and serve in the king's army, Alexa uses her quick wit and fierce sword-fighting skills to earn a spot on the elite prince's guard. A lush and gorgeously written debut, packed with action, intrigue, and a thrilling love triangle. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The point was not so much to become poor as to get a sense of the spectrum of low-wage work that existed-from waitressing to maid work, from feeding the elderly to prowling the aisles of Wal-Mart. Except, of course, Ehrenreich set limits and rules for herself, held onto a car and an ATM card for emergencies, and hopped from locale to locale when the going got tough. It was the "old-fashioned kind of journalism" as she put it, true undercover reportage. Her familial roots may have been decidedly blue-collar, but she was now anything but.Įhrenreich's journey, as chronicled in her book, immediately caught attention. Ehrenreich was comfortably ensconced in the upper-middle-class world of high-brow writing. As she relates in her introduction to the book, the idea of trying out low-wage work in the interest of investigative reportage came up during a lunch with the editor of Harper’s. Barbara Ehrenreich was already a highly respected figure in the world of journalism before she penned Nickel and Dimed. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the story of how it all came to be…and how it all ended.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. He created Rapture-the shining city below the sea.īut as we all know, this utopia suffered a great tragedy. And so he set out to create the impossible, a utopia free from government, censorship, and moral restrictions on science-where what you give is what you get. That man is Andrew Ryan, and he believed that great men and women deserve better. America's sense of freedom is diminishing…and many are desperate to take that freedom back.Īmong them is a great dreamer, an immigrant who pulled himself from the depths of poverty to become one of the wealthiest and admired men in the world. The rise of secret government agencies and sanctions on business has many watching their backs. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has brought a fear of total annihilation. FDR's New Deal has redefined American politics. How the majesty of Rapture, the shining city below the sea, became an instant dystopia The prequel story to the award-winning and bestselling video game franchise. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But to do so, they would first have to quit school. ![]() Maybe there's a way to escape their crushing debt, expose the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specializing in student loans, the three know they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * John Grisham's newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that's on shaky ground. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Ariah's children learn that their past is enmeshed with a hushed-up scandal involving radioactive waste, they must confront not only their personal history but America's murky past: the despoiling of the landscape, and the corruption and greed of the massive industrial expansion of the 1950s and 1960s. What unfurls is a drama of parents and their children of secrets and sins of lawsuits, murder, and, eventually, redemption. What follows is their passionate love affair, marriage, and children - a seemingly perfect existence.īut the tragedy by which their life together began shadows them, damaging their idyll with distrust, greed, and even murder. At her side throughout, confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby is unexpectedly transfixed by the strange, otherworldly gaze of this plain, strange woman, falling in love with her though they barely exchange a word. "The Widow Bride of The Falls," as Ariah comes to be known, begins a relentless, seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found. ![]() A newlywed, he has left behind his wife, Ariah Erskine, in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. A haunting story of the powerful spell Niagara Falls casts upon two generations of a family, leading to tragedy, love, loss, and, ultimately, redemption.Ī man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. A stunning, major achievement from Joyce Carol Oates, "one of the great artistic forces of our time" ( The Nation). ![]() ![]() Rather, it initiated a losing streak which, stretching through The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes ( 1911), was only broken by Chance ( 1913), his first major financial success. When Nostromo appeared, first as a serial in T.P.’s Weekly (January to October 1904) and then, significantly revised, as a book, it failed to win critical or public approval. The work grew from a projected short-story into his longest novel. It is like a kind of tomb which is also hell where one must write, write, write.” He was beset by gout, depression, and financial collapse. The composition was, even by Conrad’s standards, a ghastly ordeal: “I see nothing, I read nothing. Joseph Conrad wrote Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard between 19, the year of its publication, in the middle of his “major phase.” Lord Jim ( 1900), Heart of Darkness ( 1899 1902), and two collaborations with Ford Madox Hueffer were behind him The Secret Agent ( 1907) lay ahead. “It is, in my view, the masterwork of that ‘puissant rêveur,’ as Gustav Kahn once called Conrad….one of the few mastering visions of our historical moment and our human lot.”-Robert Penn Warren ![]() “ne of the finest of all English historical novels”-Terry Eagleton. “The greatest novel in English of this century”-Walter Allen. “I’d rather have written Conrad’s Nostromo than any other novel”-F. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am especially rapt by the Cat Eyes piece. Nrama: But outside of Sarah's Scribbles, you're doing the more polished-looking Fangs and even outside illustration work. ![]() I went from sketchbook scans and MS Paint drawings to a proper process in photoshop, with layers and everything. The process has certainly refined itself. The new title was a reference to the simplistic way it started. It was very amateur.Įventually, I took down everything but the comics and that blog became the site for Sarah's Scribbles. Years ago I had a blog called 'Doodle Time' where I just posted sketches and some very early comics which were just MS paint drawings. How did you go about finding your style for the webcomic - and has it become more seamless to you over the years?Īndersen: It certainly started from an unfinished place. Nrama: The title - Sarah's Scribbles - infers an unfinished aspect. (Image credit: Sarah Andersen (Tapas Media)) (opens in new tab) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Milligan also reveals never-before-published court transcripts, laying bare the flaws that are ignored, and a court system that can be sexist, unfeeling and weighted towards the rich and powerful. And she speaks to the defence lawyers who have worked in these cases, discovering what they really think about victims and the process, and the impact that this has on their own lives. ![]() She interviews high-profile members of the legal profession, including judges and prosecutors. Then she was a witness herself in the trial of the decade, R v George Pell. Charting the experiences of those who have the courage to come forward and face their abusers in high-profile child abuse and sexual assault cases, Milligan was profoundly shocked by what she found.ĭuring this time, the #MeToo movement changed the zeitgeist, but time and again during her investigations Milligan watched how witnesses were treated in the courtroom and listened to them afterwards as they relived the associated trauma. ![]() A masterful and deeply troubling expose, Witness is the culmination of almost five years’ work for award-winning investigative journalist Louise Milligan. ![]() ![]() But this read, and a good one, goes deep into the trenches of how this hierarchy in the Bronx puts this together. In the Bronx, at their Tampa Florida complex, it’s all about winning and taking it all in October as Cashman reiterates,Īgain, that’s nothing new about the Yankees. The complexion of this franchise changes often and for a reason. “That seventh month’s a very different deal.” Meaning, it comes down to trade deadlines and how the complexion of teams change from Spring training to October.Īnd with the Yankees, changing names on uniforms is nothing new. “But just remember what I told you,” says Cashman to the authors. ![]() Behind those closed doors the authors get a good take of strategy and that word analytics, a part of baseball and the Yankees daily vocabulary. Those insights and what drives the mind of GM Brian Cashman are explained. Many call this an Empire, and “Inside The Empire- The True Power Behind the New York Yankees” authored by Bob Klapisch and Paul Solotaroff, goes behind the scenes and chronicles a behind the scenes look at the 2018 New York Yankees. ![]() There is more about this hierarchy in the Bronx and how the historic franchise continues to build. The Yankees are baseball and of course the history speaks for itself from Babe Ruth, the exploits of owner George Steinbrenner, and the current corporate hierarchy that refuses to take a loss. They are the lucrative baseball franchise and own the championships. ![]() Everything about the New York Yankees is not a secret. ![]() ![]() ![]() And medical progress has always reflected the realities of a changing world, and the meanings of being human.' ![]() The history of medicine, of illness, is a history of people, of their bodies and their lives, not just physicians, surgeons, clinicians and researchers. But medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. We want our doctors to listen to us and care for us as people, but we also need their assessments of our pain and fevers, aches and exhaustion to be free of any prejudice about who we are, our gender, or the colour of our skin. ![]() And as a science, we expect medicine to uphold the principles of evidence and impartiality. 'We are taught that medicine is the art of solving our body's mysteries. 'UNWELL WOMEN is a powerful and fascinating book t hat takes an unsparing look at how women's bodies have been misunderstood and misdiagnosed for centuries. 'One of the most important books of our generation' Fern Riddell 'A searing, brilliant investigation, an intricate and urgent book on how women's health has constantly been misunderstood and miscast throughout history' Kate Williams 'A passionate and indignant history' The Times ![]() Unwell Women is not just a compelling investigation, but an essential one' Observer 'A richly detailed, wide-ranging and enraging history. 'Seamlessly melding scholarship with passion, Unwell Women is the definition of unputdownable' Telegraph ![]() |