5/26/2023 0 Comments Pirate's Paradox by Lisa Kessler![]() ![]() Nor the terrible dreams of sailing through a vicious, supernatural storm that he keeps having. And yet he can’t explain the erratic tides threatening Savannah. ![]() There’s an excerpt below and I’m having a giveaway if you scroll down you can enter the Rafflecopter!īLURB – Pirate Caleb Graves may be an immortal, but he’s also a navigator and a man of science. ![]() The Sea Dog crew is setting sail again and this time it’s Caleb’s story! Our ship’s navigator is going to take us on a quest for the key to Atlantis! He’s by far my quirkiest hero, and Diana is a free spirit that will pull him out of his shell… I can’t wait for you to read it! ![]()
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![]() ![]() Kindly enough, Jonathan was happy to spend time with us chatting about his book and sharing his knowledge (which is ridiculously vast!), and expand on why the fantasista is so fundamental to Argentina – a nation that has always focused on the game’s creator due to its infatuation with the Pibe. No other country prizes the enganche’s essence more – and Angels With Dirty Faces certainly doesn’t disappoint in revealing the reasons why. Not only is Argentina one of the true world giants of the game with a strong, proud and rich heritage, it’s also, perhaps, the true spiritual home of the Number 10 in its purest form. ![]() When we heard that celebrated football writer, Jonathan Wilson (author of Inverting The Pyramid), was writing a book on this very topic we couldn’t wait to get our hands on a copy. ![]() The Footballing History of Argentina, we’ve been waiting for you. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Dani shapiro book![]() ![]() theme of the coercive power of family secrets, and I understood that there were secrets in my family. There was a sense that I was trying to uncover something that I couldn’t get at. I think that is true in all of my work even my first unpublished work of really bad short stories that sit in my basement. I typed that exact paragraph from Still Writing into an email to my editor, like "oh my God." was the unthought known writ large on the page. But I did read through some of my previous books while I was thinking, exploring and writing Inheritance. ![]() I don’t think any writer is you do so at your own peril. What have you learned about the impact of keeping a secret for an entire lifetime?ĭani Shapiro: Wow, I am sitting here, smiling and shaking my head because I am not in the habit of going back and rereading my earlier work. You clearly grew up with a powerful sense that something wasn’t quite right in your family and you wrote memoir after memoir trying to uncover the truth. ![]() They tried to protect me from themselves, from their own histories.”. Though I couldn’t have expressed it, I knew with a child’s instincts that life was seen by both my parents as a teeming, seething, frightful hall of mirrors. Every word spoken by my parents contained within it a hidden hard kernel of what wasn’t being said. In Still Writing you wrote: “Secrets floated through our home like dust motes in the air. Girls At Library: Your previous memoirs share a theme of family secrets and lies. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Confessions of an advertising man![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Also known as the “Father of Advertising” he became one of the most dazzling figures in the advertising industry of his time. The book “Confessions of an Advertising Man” is written by David Mackenzie Ogilvy a Scotsman born in 1911. As with my first review I have done for March, I’ve also structured the April review into three parts, first a short introduction of the author, secondly a quick summary of the books content and thirdly a conclusion on what I most liked / disliked about the book, as well as a rating. Writing this second review feels somehow even more challenging than the first and in part I think, because I believe this is a book that has to be read and questioned multiple times before one can do it justice. For whatever reason it took me quite some time last month before I started reading the book, but once I went over the first few paragraphs it was quite a page turner. Coming into April I put up a short poll with three book options for this review and “Confessions of an Advertising Man” came out on top. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Huxley brave new world![]() ![]() A version of it, anyway-the miniseries had shrunk from six, to four, then finally three hours and been reduced to a TV movie. NBC found out that adapting Brave New World was tricky indeed-and not for the last time.Īfter pulling Brave New World from its schedule several times, NBC finally aired it in March 1980. And perhaps inspired by the Star Wars–stoked interest in all things science fiction, she also commissioned an adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopian landmark Brave New World-despite it being, as a profile of Barkley described at the time, “a tricky property everyone in Hollywood had been afraid of.” Starring 2001: A Space Odyssey’s Keir Dullea and Harold and Maude’s Bud Cort, it was set to debut in 1979 and run for six hours across several nights. By 1978, she’d locked down the rights to James Michener’s Centennial, recruited Natalie Wood for a six-part adaptation of From Here to Eternity, and picked up James Clavell’s Shogun for a lavish production destined to become a ratings sensation in 1980. In the back half of the 1970s, when miniseries adaptations like Rich Man, Poor Man and Roots became runaway hits, a great book could make or break a TV career-so the influential NBC producer Deanne Barkley scooped up as many great books as she could. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Timeless carriger novel![]() ![]() ![]() Living in an alternate universe, in historical England where vampires and werewolves not only exist, but are known and accepted members of society, Tarabotti stars as a soulless woman, or a preternatural (the only one in Great Britain), who finds herself under the heated lights of a murder investigation after accidentally killing a vampire.ĭespite her commission of the original murder, Tarabotti maintains innocence of a piling stack of high society murders plaguing Victorian England, but as she is a spinster with a deceased father and a disapproving mother, she is left to prove for herself that she is innocent. Her first novel was entitled Soulless and begins a saga based on the life of her sole protagonist, Alexia Tarabotti. ![]() In 2009, Gail Carriger released the first of a series of novels known as The Parasol Protectorate. ![]() ![]() Although untouchability was abolished in 1949, But Dalits is being unrelenting to face prejudice, economic deficiency, aggression and mockery. ![]() India's untouchables have been obligatory to acknowledge and eat leftovers for centuries, and these terms encompasses the pain, humiliation and poverty of the group of people enforced to survive at the underneath of India's societal pyramid. The tale of Joothan refers to scraps of food left on a plate this is meant for waste and animals. Omprakash Valmiki portrayed his life as an untouchable and Dalit in the newly self-governing India. In the meantime, it is also the fairy-tale of a Dalit family unit in search of self-esteem and identity in the Indian Hindu society. The Valmiki kin is under pressure for schooling and position in the social order. Thus, Omprakash Valmiki's Joothan is about the voyage of Dalit discrimination and social boycott. He describes every aspect of his disturbing social experiences, unfolding his complete life. ![]() Omprakash Valmiki, like other writers of autobiographies, articulates the Dalit confrontation in his renowned story, Joothan. ![]() ![]() ![]() In May of 1998, the university awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Commercial Science. Pecker holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Pace University and attended Pace University Graduate School of Business. Pecker had served as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Hachette Magazines, Inc. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer in 1992, after being named President of Hachette Magazines, Inc. Pecker was President and Chief Executive Officer of Hachette Filipacchi Magazines. ![]() (DSI), the leading supermarket in-store merchandiser.īefore acquiring American Media, Inc. ![]() The company’s holdings also include Distribution Services Inc. Today, AMI is the leading publisher of celebrity and health & fitness magazines including Star, National Enquirer, Shape and Men’s Fitness. (AMI) in May 1999, when along with Evercore Partners, he purchased the company. ![]() Pecker became Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of American Media, Inc. ![]() 5/25/2023 0 Comments Rebel in the sands series![]() ![]()
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