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Libra don7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Let’s devote our lives to understanding this moment, separating the elements of each crowded second.” The character is Nicholas Branch, hired by the CIA to write “the secret history of the assassination”-the real version, for Agency eyes only. ![]() “Let’s call a meeting to analyze the blur. “Six point nine seconds of heat and light,” muses a character in “Libra,” Don DeLillo’s vivid and haunting 1988 novel about the assassination of John F. The following essay by NBCC poetry award winner Troy Jollimore, on Don DeLillo’s Libra, a finalist for the 1988 NBCC award in fiction, is part of the NBCC’s “In Retrospect” series on Critical Mass, in which critics and writers revisit NBCC award winners and finalists from previous years. ![]()
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Saved by benjamin hall7/6/2023 ![]() Air Force E-4B with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, on the way to NATO headquarters in Brussels. He went by the code name Seaspray.Īfter Jen Griffin connected Seaspray to Fox executives in New York, and got them to sign off on moving me, she turned her attention to Poland-specifically, who was going to pick me up at the border?Īs soon as she got off the phone with Seaspray in Kyiv, Griffin sent an email to Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby, who was aboard a U.S. Save Our Allies had someone in Poland who could help-a former special forces who had played a vital, unsung role in evacuating thousands from Afghanistan during the U.S. Jennifer Griffin, Fox News’ chief national security correspondent, was instrumental to the effort, connecting with her friend Sarah Verardo cofounder of Save Our Allies, an organization that helps extract people from warzones. With the US military unable to set foot in the country to assist, an effort across multiple countries began to get Hall to safety. ![]() Gravely injured, he was rushed to a Ukrainian hospital, where the severity of his injuries made it clear he needed immediate evacuation out of the country. ![]() On March 14, 2022, Fox News reporter Benjamin Hall was on assignment in Kyiv and reporting on the Russian invasion, when the car he was traveling in was struck by a Russian bomb. ![]()
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Keep the aspidistra7/6/2023 ![]() Ravelston is acutely self-conscious about his upper-class status and defensive about his unearned income. ![]() The character of Ravelston, the wealthy publisher in Keep the Aspidistra Flying, has a lot in common with Rees. ![]() Orwell's early writings appeared in The Adelphi, a left-wing literary journal edited by Sir Richard Rees, a wealthy and idealistic baronet who made Orwell one of his protégés. Stone would prefer to prostitute his wife rather than prostitute his artistic integrity by writing advertising copy. At this time he wrote a fragment of a play in which the protagonist Stone needs money for a life-saving operation for his child. At the beginning of 1928 he lived in lodgings in Portobello Road from where he started his tramping expeditions, sleeping rough and roaming the poorer parts of London. Orwell wrote the book in 19, when he was living at various locations near Hampstead in London, and drew on his experiences in these and the preceding few years. ![]() The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results. Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. ![]()
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![]() ![]() So in love in fact, that this in itself is a source of conflict for Amy - who makes three a crowd. Unlike many novels, her parents are together and happily in love. ![]() ![]() She's honest and refreshing and she worked her way into my heart.Īmy's parents are portrayed awesomely. It got me from page one where I instantly fell in love with Amy's voice. The thing Elizabeth Scott does best is take a ordinary situation and not only make it startlingly original, but also infuse it with real, living breathing characters. On first appearances, LYHYMY may seem like a cliche story-line: girl's vibrant best friend dies, girl is somehow responsible, girl seeing a psych and trying to move on with life. Living Dead Girl so haunted my fave librarian that she is scared to let young teenagers read it :) Love You Hate You Miss You is edgier than some of her other work (nothing like Living Dead Girl though) and it's one of my favourite reads this year. My librarian recently read Living Dead Girl and was astounded when I said her other work is often funny and sweet. ![]() If you were to read Something, Maybe, you'd think she was a quirky, light-hearted rom-com kinda author. T's no secret that I am huge Elizabeth Scott fan. ![]()
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Christie tate book7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() On Thursday, I’ll join Tate for a Family Action Network event to discuss her book and where it fits into life today. And by well-attended, I meant at least 12 people. “My wildest dreams were I hoped to come out in hardback,” Tate said, “and I hoped to have five well-attended events at bookstores. ![]() During Tate’s writing process, author Rebecca Makkai urged Tate to write down her wildest dreams for “Group.” The book launched immediately onto the New York Times bestseller list, which transcended Tate’s fairly modest goals. Reese Witherspoon selected “Group” as her November book club selection - the equivalent, Tate said, of winning the lottery for an author. I didn’t know any stories like that, and I wanted them.” “I wasn’t averse to medication, but I knew whatever was wrong with me was going to take more than a pill. “I was always hungry for books about therapy where it was messy and it took more than 30 days and maybe it took more than a pill,” Tate said. ![]()
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The villain lj shen online7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Those who know her well jokingly say that she is not a good companion, forgets birthdays of people very often, and never sends cards to her friends on Christmas. Before settling down, she traveled to different locations across the globe and made numerous friends. Author Shen was born and brought up in San Francisco, California. When Shen is not writing, she can be found reading her favorite books or watching TV on Netflix and HBO with a glass of wine or even catching the rays of the sun with her cat. Currently, she resides in California along with her beloved husband, a son, and a cat. ![]() Shen’s books have been sold in more than 20 countries in the world. Additionally, she has contributed to a few omnibus and short story collections by teaming up with other authors such as Adriana Locke, Kate Stewart, Ella Fox, Emma Scott, Sara Ney, Charleigh Rose, Meghan Quinn, Kennedy Ryan, Sawyer Bennett, Julia Kent, Carrie Ann Ryan, Sarina Bowen, Kendall Ryan, Corrine Michaels, etc. Shen has also penned several single novels. ![]() They include the Sinners of Saint series, All Saints High series, Boston Belles series, Hollywood Chronicles series, and California Love series. She has written a few widely popular novel series in her career. Shen is a USA Today and international bestselling American writer of romance, new adult, chick-lit, young adult, and contemporary stories. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]()
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Bbc the pale horse7/6/2023 ![]() InMacbethian fashion, the series kicks off with three witches (but are they?)telling a woman’s future in a small cottage in Much Deeping. These are required for period dramas to stay current,especially those that have been adapted countless times, and they’re all thebetter for it.īut, similar to Dublin Murders, The Pale Horse’s approach to the horror-detective arena wields very few scares or surprises falling into a slow and unsubtlepredictability that makes the darkness something to sleep through without nightmares. Toher credit, Phelps isn’t content with a bog-standard, comfy-telly version of Christie’sworks (to the anger of some) – she loves to lash the classics with sex and blood and overall darkness. One of Christie’s stranger novels, thisstory bursts with witches, prophecies and unnerving rituals within the tinyvillage of Much Deeping, in 1961. Nowshe returns to that very local, very communal creepiness in ThePale Horse, her latest and (reportedly) final Agatha Christie adaptation. TV writer Sarah Phelps ( The ABC Murders) appears to lovethe genre, as herhit horror-detective series Dublin Murders showed last year. ![]() ![]() England’spagan past, and its implementation in the present, is a favourite subject for folkhorror movies – just look at The Wicker Man. ![]()
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Zero fail book7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but its story begins in earnest in 1963, with the death of John F. But the Secret Service wasn’t always so troubled. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POSTĬarol Leonnig has been reporting on the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the secrets, scandals, and shortcomings that plague the agency today-from a toxic work culture to dangerously outdated equipment to the deep resentment within the ranks at key agency leaders, who put protecting the agency’s once-hallowed image before fixing its flaws. The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years, right up to the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6-by the Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of A Very Stable Genius and I Alone Can Fix It “This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work-the determinative work-in this field. ![]()
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One fish two fish book7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() A hot/cold outdoor shower welcomes you to rinse off the sand from playing on the beach all day. Your private boardwalk to the beach invites you to take in the coastal scenery. A screened-in outdoor summer kitchen and entertainment space is located underneath, featuring a pool table, full sized refrigerator, microwave, farm style stainless sink, built-in gas grill and a convenient half bathroom. A 6-person hot tub located on the deck overlooks the Gulf of Mexico. ![]() There is a private pool with a beach chair/walk-in shelf/splash area that's perfect for the kids and elderly alike, making it easy access into the cool waters. The exterior features a wide variety of amenities that makes it the perfect vacation home. Boasting three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a private pool and a hot tub, it is tastefully decorated in coastal decor. Welcome to "ONE FISH, TWO FISH"! This lovely beachfront home is in the Gulf Beaches area of St. ![]() |