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Read This Next by Howard Mittelmark5/30/2023 ![]() The 500 book rmendations contained within these pages have all been carefullyvetted and approved by two literary professionals with discerning taste and witty wit. From the Back Cover Ever been betrayed by a pretty cover and a pair of alluring blurbs? Rest assured: Read This Next will never hurt you. A smart, irreverent, honest, and truly hilarious guide to your 500 new favorite books, Read This Next is aimed at those readers and book groups that are looking for great reading suggestions with more variety and spice than the usual book club picks-while offering food for thought and laughter in equal measure. Book Synopsis Are you tired of bland, overly earnest reading guides that discuss the same old books? Read This Next by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittlemark is the answer. ![]() ![]() About the Book Are you tired of bland, overly earnest reading guides that discuss the same old books? Read This Next by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittlemark is the answer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A waif from Kigen's gutters begins a friendship that could undo the entire empire. Kagé assassins lurk within the Shogun's palace, plotting to end the new dynasty before it begins. But Kin has his own secrets, and is haunted by visions of a future he'd rather die than see realized. Along with Buruu, Yukiko's anchor is Kin, the rebel Guildsman who helped her escape from Yoritomo's clutches. But Yukiko herself is blinded by rage over her father's death, and her ability to hear the thoughts of beasts is swelling beyond her power to control. Yukiko and the mighty thunder tiger Buruu have been cast in the role of heroes by the Kagé rebellion. The machine-worshippers of the Lotus Guild conspire to renew the nation's broken dynasty and crush the growing rebellion simultaneously - by endorsing a new Shogun who desires nothing more than to see Yukiko dead. The toxic blood lotus flower continues to ravage the land, the deadlands splitting wider by the day. ![]() ![]() The mad Shogun Yoritomo has been assassinated by the Stormdancer Yukiko, and the threat of civil war looms over the Shima Imperium. Kinslayer is Book Two in Jay Kristoff's critically acclaimed Lotus War series that began with Stormdancer, featuring an unforgettable heroine and a stunningly original Japanese dystopian steampunk world ![]()
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The iron king book maurice druon5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Unlike Martin’s multivolume Song of Fire and Ice, Druon’s saga is based on real history and features real people as its central characters. Against this sprawling backdrop, Druon tells the story of Robert of Artois, a French lord whose lands have been taken from him by his greedy aunt and whose efforts to reclaim his birthright will lead to all-out war between France and England. Philip’s increasingly desperate search for money to pay his massive debts has virtually bankrupted the country. Relations between France and England are as strained as they have ever been. Philip IV, the king of France, has disbanded the Knights Templar, arresting, torturing, and executing most of them. Originally published in 1955, the novel is set in the year 1314. publication of the first volume of French novelist Druon’s seven-volume historical saga, collectively known as The Accursed Kings. Martin (in which he calls the book “the original game of thrones”), this is the first U.S. *Starred Review* Sporting an enthusiastic introduction by George R. ![]()
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The Demeter Flower by Shelley Singer5/30/2023 ![]() The client is a professor from Berkeley who is currently a target by a radical group. One day Jake receives a phone call from a friend requesting him to help someone clear his name for the murder of his wife. Jake lives in Berkeley and rents a little house in his home to Rosie, a lesbian carpenter who later becomes his sidekick. He was tired of the rat race In his job, so he goes back to California to live with his cats Earlier, when he was a cop, he fought some people at the Democratic Convention in 1968, then resigned from the job where he later moved to Northern California in the East Bay. Jake’s an ex-Chicago cop though he doesn’t admit it. The savings can sustain him for quite sometime.Additionally, he’s a laid back kind of a guy, and he likes lying out on his patio to pass time. ![]() Jake is a guy with enough savings, so he doesn’t have to work so hard to make ends meet, though he’s forced sometimes. Samson’s Deal is the first installment in the Jake Samson series. ![]() Singer is a teacher of fiction writing classes, and she is also a manuscript consultant. In her journalism career, she met people like Xavier Cugat, Martin Luther King Jr, Mrs. She began working as a reporter with UPI in Chicago. ![]() One of her mysteries was nominated for the prestigious Shamus Award of the Private Eye Writers of America. Shelley Singer is an American mystery author with many published novels and short stories. ![]()
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The Iron Jackal by Chris Wooding5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() And when Frey falls into a life-threatening predicament, his crew are there, ready and waiting to help however they can. Not equally they’re not all loved up or anything like that, there’s not much affection spared for Pinn, for example, or Harkins, but the group feels tight nonetheless. They know who and what they’re fighting for when they wade in, and they care about each other. We’ve learned enough about them, and they’ve learned enough about each other, that they feel solid. What I liked most about The Iron Jackal is that the crew is a crew now and they’ve all realised it. It’s dieselpunk Indiana Jones all the way, baby. After the fairly grim happenings in The Black Lung Captain the crew are back on form here, quipping their way through a fast paced adventure involving an ancient relic, a deadly curse and a lost city. It has more of everything I’ve enjoyed in this series and a whole lot less of the stuff that was irking me. ![]() This is my favourite Ketty Jay book so far. “Welcome to the crew of the Ketty Jay … You ain’t a member till you’ve caused at least one major catastrophe.” ![]()
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Masquerade by Hannah Fielding5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() BAFTA-winner Daniel Rigby (Black Mirror) is the disgraced schoolteacher Partridge, who befriends Tom on his journey James Wilbraham (In My Skin) is Tom’s bitter cousin Blifil.įelicity Montagu (The Durrells) plays Blifil's mother Bridget Allworthy, a devoted aunt to Tom, and Janine Duvitski (Benidorm) is Mrs. Susannah Fielding (This Time with Alan Partridge) is Mrs. ![]() Tamzin Merchant (Carnival Row) is Sophia’s Aunt Harriet, with Julian Rhind-Tutt (Britannia) as her bellicose husband Fitzpatrick. ![]() Solly McLeod (The Rising, House of the Dragon) stars as the hero Tom, alongside Sophie Wilde (You Don’t Know Me) as the heroine Sophia Western and Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso, Sex Education) as the seductive and vengeful Lady Bellaston.Īlso starring are James Fleet ( Bridgerton) as Squire Allworthy, Tom’s warm-hearted adoptive father Alun Armstrong (Breeders) as Squire Western, Sophia’s hard drinking but loving grandfather, and Shirley Henderson ( Happy Valley) as Sophia’s Aunt Western. ![]()
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Jim henson by brian jay jones5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Soon he was doing short shows in the prime spot between the end of a newscast and the start of primetime programming, and then again between the late news and the Tonight Show on Washington’s NBC affiliate.īy 1963, Henson and his new wife/collaborator, Jane, had relocated to Manhattan for a regular gig on the Today show, plus lucrative side work making commercials. The Muppets (the name was there from the beginning) were a hit right away. The Mississippi-born Henson landed his first show - The Junior Morning Show - in June 1954, just weeks after his high school graduation, and never stopped working after that, taking six years to graduate from the University of Maryland (his family moved to the Washington suburbs when he was in elementary school) as he fit classes in around his rather hectic schedule. PHOTOS: The Booming Business of Ricky Gervais From ‘The Office’ to the ‘The Muppets’ ![]()
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Angel Of Darkness by Charles de Lint5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Crawford Award, Canadian SF/Fantasy Award, World Fantasy Award, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Short Fiction Award, Horror Writers of America Award, and Nebula Short Fiction Award member of Wickentree (traditional Celtic folk music band), Ottawa, 1972-85, and Jump at the Sun (Celtic/Americana folk band). Owner and editor of Triskell Press juror for William L. Worked in various clerical and construction positions, 1967-71, and as retail clerk and manager of record stores, 1971-83 writer in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1983. Agent - Russell Galen, Scovil Chichak Galen Literary Agency, Inc., 381 Park Avenue South, Suite 1020, New York, NY 10016. Box 9480, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1G 3V2. Hobbies and other interests: Music, fine arts. Education: Attended Aylmer and Philemen Wright high schools. De LINT, Charles (Henri Diederick H öefsmit) 1951-īorn December 22, 1951, in Bussum, Netherlands immigrated to Canada, 1952, naturalized citizen, 1961 son of Frederick Charles (a navigator and survey project manager) Hoefsmit and Gerardina Margaretha (a high school teacher) Hoefsmit-de Lint married MaryAnn Harris (an artist), September 15, 1980. ![]()
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Walter kaufmann nietzsche5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Ratner-Rosenhagen provides rudimentary outlines of versions celebrated by Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, Paul Tillich, and especially Theodor Adorno (pp. ![]() Several immigrant and émigré Nietzsches existed in American thought before Kaufmann’s work became prominent. ![]() Taken together these two parts of the book constitute the heart and soul of American Nietzsche. Along with the Interlude, this portion of the book also helps explain his relevance to the thinking realms of a democratic culture. That section goes to the paradoxical core of why Nietzsche is both valuable and problematic for philosophers and deep thinkers of all stripes. In this final entry of my series I return to him in order to reflect on a brief but noteworthy section of the book. Other reviewers have taken note, and I concur that Ratner-Rosenhagen’s analysis of that translator and promoter of Nietzsche’s thought deserves praise. Walter Kaufmann is a key figure in American Nietzsche. Prior Entries: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, and Part VI. ![]()
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Faithful ruslan by georgi vladimov5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() His first novel, The Great Ore (1961), although on a typically Soviet industrial theme, attracted widespread praise for its unconventional treatment of the individualistic main character. His mother had already fallen foul of the official anti-semitic campaign, and Vladimov himself felt under threat. His life was one of constant vicissitudes, but his authority and fortitude remained firm to the end.īorn Georgi Volosevich in Kharkov, Ukraine, of a Jewish mother and a father of mixed Polish and Belarusian origin, Vladimov studied at the Suvorov Military Academy and Leningrad University, graduating in law in 1953. Vladimov's particular distinction was as a dissident of immense moral courage, and as the author of Faithful Ruslan, one of the defining literary texts of the post-Stalin period. By the end of the 1970s, however, they had become disillusioned, and many, including Vladimov, had emigrated from the Soviet Union. Georgi Vladimov, who has died aged 72, was one of the promising young writers seen as representing new hope for Russian literature in the de-Stalinisation thaw of the 1950s and early 1960s. ![]() |