5/30/2023 0 Comments Eighteen acres by nicolle wallace"Eighteen Acres," which gets its name from the size of the White House compound, tells the story of Charlotte Kramer, the country's first female president. How many presidencies fit a description like this? Some real successes and some bitter disappointments. Bush, surely knows are implausible, it is also filled with disappointments. Bedraggled by plot points that the author, a former White House communications director under President George W. With realistic characters and unusual insight into the West Wing, a place that will be opaque to most readers, "Eighteen Acres" is, on some levels, very successful. So it's fitting, in a way, that Nicolle Wallace's new novel is such mercurial reading. "Eighteen Acres" (Atria Books, $25), by Nicolle Wallace: American presidencies tend to be filled with a series of dizzying highs and precipitous lows.
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Vera nabokov biographySelect the quantity of the product you desire and click the "Add" button. Read Less Below is a list of products arranged by condition. Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form. She spoke June 8 to a packed auditorium of alumni, including some of Nabokovs former Cornell students, during Cornell Reunion Weekend. Véra, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine-a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. “Without my wife,” he once noted, “I wouldn’t have written a single novel.” Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the century, the story of the Nabokovs’ fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. Vladimir Nabokov-the émigré author of Lolita Pale Fire and Speak, Memory-wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, Véra, and third for no one at all. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. She was also a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Saint-Exupry: A Biographyof Antoine de Saint Exupry. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both “monumental” (The Boston Globe) and “utterly romantic” (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff’s Véra (Mrs. Schiff won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiographyfor Vera, a biography of Vera Nabokov, the wife and muse of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. 5/30/2023 0 Comments 1966 play by tom stoppardThe ambassadors count the bodies, name them, and then conclude there are eight deaths in all. Stoppard picks up from there, and has two ambassadors from England enter. In Hamlet, Fortinbras orders for the tragic spectacle of the dead bodies to be cleared. The most significant change was the ending. In 1967, 29-year-old Stoppard became the youngest playwright to have his work performed by the National Theatre the play opened later that year on Broadway.īetween the amateur Edinburgh production and the publication of the second edition in 1968, only a few changes were made to the script. Ronald Bryden's glowing review caught the attention of professional companies. The play was first produced by an amateur company in the Edinburgh festival on April 11, 1966. In Stoppard's revision, the characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who are not fully developed in the original play, fumble around bewildered about their mission and the reason for their existence. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) imagines Shakespeare's Hamlet from the perspective of two minor courtiers. 5/30/2023 0 Comments Messenger lowryHigh school was back in New York City, but by the time I went to college (Brown University in Rhode Island), my family was living in Washington, D.C. I was born in Hawaii, moved from there to New York, spent the years of World War II in my mother’s hometown: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and from there went to Tokyo when I was eleven. I was a solitary child who lived in the world of books and my own vivid imagination.īecause my father was a career military officer - an Army dentist - I lived all over the world. That left me in-between, and exactly where I wanted most to be: on my own. Little brother Jon was the only boy and had interests that he shared with Dad together they were always working on electric trains and erector sets and later, when Jon was older, they always seemed to have their heads under the raised hood of a car. My older sister, Helen, was very much like our mother: gentle, family-oriented, eager to please. "I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of three. 5/30/2023 0 Comments NixonlandHence the remarkable contrast between the 19 presidential elections - two of the most lopsided in American history, the former yielding an activist-government Democratic president, the latter a law-and-order Republican. The 1960s brought enhanced government support for economic security and opportunity via Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” programs, civil rights legislation that opened economic and social doors for racial minorities and women, and massive cultural liberalization among young Americans. It’s difficult to read the book and not be at least somewhat convinced. 747): “I have written of the rise, between the years 19, of a nation that had believed itself to be at consensus instead becoming one of incommensurate visions of apocalypse: two loosely defined congeries of Americans, each convinced that should the other triumph, everything decent and true and worth preserving would end.” Here’s how he puts it on the book’s penultimate page (p. Perlstein suggests that during these years Americans increasingly divided into two political groups, and these groups’ opposition to one another grew more intense and passionate. Nixonland aims at more than a historical recounting. I had such a hard time putting the book down it nearly spoiled my recent family vacation. It’s a fascinating history of American society and politics from 1965 to 1972, woven together in a compelling and exceptionally well-written narrative. Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland is a terrific book. Reynolds' background as a scientist is evident in spades, and i'm happy to report that my right-brained self didn't suffer at all when reading this - concepts were explained carefully and clearly, in a way that didn't make me feel particularly stupid and never felt didactic or condescending. it is certainly an elephantine one fortunately, the size didn't seem unecessary and i was aborbed by the ideas and narrative from beginning to end. Overall, i think this is a pretty good first novel. so i guess it depends on your perspective: do you want your space opera glass to be half-full or half-empty? one writes about factions of humanity trying to come together to fight off threats the other depicts humans turning on each other and how things fall apart. Hamilton's characters run the gamut of loveable to outright villainous Reynolds prefers to write mainly about self-absorbed killers and assholes. on the other hand, Reynolds' interests arise from the basic idea that the universe is a cold, scary place, full of dead things and barely-understood terrors. but Hamilton writes about a future that despite having its ups, downs, and various inequities, is mainly Bright & Shiny, full of possibility. both write space operas that come complete with mind-boggling concepts, galaxy-spanning adventures, bizarre aliens, space politics, love stories, and eons-old mysteries. I suppose you could call Alastair Reynolds the Bad Twin of Peter Hamilton. 5/30/2023 0 Comments Ps i love you by cecelia ahernGerry Clark: Holly's husband, John's best friend.Holly Kennedy: Gerry's wife, Sharon's best friend.With Gerry's words as her guide, Holly slowly embarks on a journey of rediscovery. As the months pass, each new message fills her with encouragement and sends her on a new adventure. Within the package are ten envelopes, one for each month after Gerry died, containing messages from him, all ending with "P.S. By winter that year, Gerry suddenly dies of a brain tumor and Holly realizes how much he means to her as well as how insignificant their arguments were.ĭeeply distraught, Holly withdraws from her family and friends out of grief until her mother calls her informing her of a package addressed to her. They are deeply in love, but they fight occasionally. Holly and Gerry are a married couple who live in Dublin. It claimed the number one best-seller status in Ireland, Britain, the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands, and was on the number one spot in Ireland for nineteen weeks. PS, I Love You is the debut novel by Irish writer Cecelia Ahern, published in 2004. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Endangered by lamar giles“An emotionally resonant and action-packed sequel that manages to be an even greater adventure than its predecessor.“ – Booklist (Starred Review) “A fantastic second addition to an already-acclaimed series.” – Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) This funny and off-the-wall adventure is perfect for readers of Jonathan Auxier and Lemony Snicket. One of her worst prisoners has escaped, and only the Legendary Alston Boys of Logan County can help bring the fugitive to justice. However, she’s willing to overlook the cousins’ misdeeds if they help her with a problem of her own. Usually that’s an unforgivable offense, punishable by a million-year sentence. Unlike the majority of Logan County’s residents, Missus Nedraw of the Rorrim Mirror Emporium remembers the time freeze from The Last Last-Day-of-Summer, and how Otto and Sheed took her mirrors without permission in order to fix their mess. Summary: In this new Legendary Alston Boys adventure from Edgar-nominated author Lamar Giles, Otto and Sheed must embark on their most dangerous journey yet, bringing a fugitive to justice in a world that mirrors their own but has its own rules to play by. Pulication Date: October 20th, 2020 from Versify A Legendary Alston Boys Adventure: The Last Mirror on the Left Erich Maria Remarque, infantry soldier, wounded in Passchendaele ( All Quiet on the Western Front).Mellersh, infantry officer in the East Lancashire Regiment ( Schoolboy Into War) Lewis, British Army, Third Battalion Somerset Light Infantry, served in trench warfare at Somme Valley ( The Chronicles of Narnia) Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia ( Seven Pillars of Wisdom) William Hope Hodgson, Killed by the direct impact of an artillery shell at the Fourth Battle of Ypres ( The House on the Borderland).Ernest Hemingway, drove ambulances in Italy ( A Farewell to Arms).Jaroslav Hašek, served in Austrian and Czech armies (who were on opposing sides), ( The Good Soldier Švejk).Robert Graves, infantry officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers ( Goodbye to All That).Cummings, volunteer ambulance driver ( The Enormous Room) Henri Barbusse, served in France ( Under Fire). Some of them are outright memoirs or fictionalized accounts of their exploits. Many of the authors that served in various real-life wars (and survived) wrote stories that are at least somewhat based on their own experiences. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Penelope and the monsters bookShe'll need the help of an unlikely team, from a handsome jazz musician able to hypnotize with a melody to an aging actor who can change his face, to pull off the impossible. The task: steal a magical ring from the wealthiest woman in the District.Ĭlara can't pull off this daring heist alone. So when a powerful spirit offers her an opportunity to gain her freedom, Clara seizes the chance, no questions asked. C., 1925: Clara Johnson can talk to spirits-a gift that saved her during her darkest moments, now a curse that's left her indebted to the cunning spirit world. "Never make a deal with shadows at night, especially ones that know your name." NPR Best Book of 2022! Paste Best Fantasy Book of 2022! "This smart and entertaining, magical heist novel hits all the right notes!" ―T.L. "itch perfect, with wit, romance, and a lovable found family." ― Publishers Weekly (starred review) |