He explores the wit behind Poor Richard’s Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation’s alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America’s best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.īenjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble.
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A populist rebellion against the established churches, it became the dominant religious force in the country.ĭuring the nineteenth century white evangelicals split apart, first North versus South, and then, modernist versus fundamentalist. The evangelical movement began in the revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, known in America as the Great Awakenings. “We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally important religious sensibility, and FitzGerald has now provided it” ( The New York Times Book Review). This “epic history” ( The Boston Globe) from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Frances FitzGerald is the first to tell the powerful, dramatic story of the Evangelical movement in America-from the Puritan era to the 2016 election. * Time magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year * Winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award Welcome news, of course, as only a few decades ago these birth defects were considered a death sentence, but as with any chronic condition, survival does not mean the issue is cured. With great advances in surgery and medicine, however, survival rates have improved by 75% since the 1940s. Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) is the most commonly diagnosed birth abnormality in the US. Full of evidence-based, easy to understand information about CHD, Healing Hearts and Minds offers strategies for learning to thrive despite living with this condition, but most importantly it will offer hope and connection. This book has been on my wishlist for a really long time and I’m sad that there aren’t any more that follow it. He has a plan, and he’s not stopping until he proves he’s more than just a pretty face – he’s someone worthy of winning Fee’s heart. Too bad Ash has never been the type to give up easily. He wants someone to share his life with, and he won’t settle for anything less. Ash may burn hot for Fee, but Fee isn’t willing to take a chance on a vain, little party boy with too many tats and an oversized ego. He doesn’t do casual, and he knows guys like Ash are nothing but. He’s also used to getting what he wants – until he meets Felipe Navarro.įee Navarro has everything he needs: A great IT job, a nice apartment, and all the high-tech toys his geeky heart could ever want. He’s hot, and rest assured no one knows it better than him. After all, what else is there for him to worry about? Aside from his hair and his clothes, not much. In the meantime, he spends his nights partying, flirting, and having sex. TITLE: The Party Boy’s Guide to Dating a GeekĪshley Byrne only wants one thing in life: To finish his tattoo apprenticeship and fulfill his dream of owning his own shop. Here is the cover of “APOLLYON”, book 4 in the Covenant Series by Jennifer L. Will she listen to the one who calls to her in nightmares and eventually finds her in the flesh? Will she succumb to his will or will she cling to her human soul and her human heart? She reaches out to Clara, yearning for the impossible-to be free of the reapers’ enslavement.īeyond Clara’s battle to save a lost loved one and to keep Gabe close to her heart, another threat stirs, whispering to Clara in the dark. Jessie, now a shadow scout, defies the reapers’ malevolent power. She wonders why she should resist at all. Good-looking and self-assured, Clara finds his charms difficult to resist. New clansman and fellow Guardian, Michael, steps in all too willingly to take Gabe’s place as her confidant and more. Clara’s constant defiance against Gabe begins to sever the bond between them. While Gabe grows in confidence, Clara begins to doubt everything, including her feelings for Gabe. Yet, Gabe and Clara both know that they must chance the danger in order to fulfill a dark destiny. No one knows what lurks when night falls. Gabe, Clara, and their clan must leave the relative safety of Beau Chêne, Louisiana, in order to train with others gathering in the north. A constant gray pall reminds the Setti that reapers are still here-watching, waiting, hunting. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without the written permission of the Publisher, except where permitted by law. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.Īll rights reserved. A definite keeper!Ī touching story that is full of heart and centered on what truly matters in partnerships and families regardless of the manner in which they come together ~ unconditional love, respect, understanding, support and above all courage. It will have you laughing, smiling, and reaching for the tissues in places. This is one book that will make it to several keeper shelves to be read again and again.Ī story filled with laughter, sadness, joy, love and family.with all of the nuttiness that it entails. It is both bittersweet and uplifting, and reminds us that love can be generous and selfless and that a true family and sense of belonging don’t necessarily require blood ties. I tend to like independent, wise-cracking heroines, but only when there is substance behind the defiance and snark. She spent most of the book bumbling about, making erroneous assumptions, treating others rudely-unless she wanted something from them-and generally being a PITA. Indeed, while the powerful head of a vampire family seemed immediately drawn to and trusting of her (wth was that with her sleeping in his bed, anyway?), I could see absolutely no reason why he would do so. A coworker noted that people seemed to like her though she had no friends to speak of. She claimed to be smart yet repeatedly said and did stupid things. Unfortunately, that was not the case here.įrom the start, I found Bo unlikable. I can forgive a lot of faults in a book-plot holes, mediocre writing, inconsistencies, etc.-if the story and the characters are compelling enough. Penguin Books Ltd., 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada All rights reserved.:ģ75 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune followed, completing the saga that the Chicago Tribune would call “one of the monuments of modern science fiction.” Herbert was also the author of some twenty other books, including The White Plague, The Dosadi Experiment, and Destination: Void. But his emergence as a writer of major stature did not occur until 1965, with the publication of Dune. In 1952, Herbert began publishing science fiction with “Looking for Something?” in Startling Stories. He worked a wide variety of jobs-including TV cameraman, radio commentator, oyster diver, jungle survival instructor, lay analyst, creative writing teacher, reporter and editor of several West Coast newspapers-before becoming a full-time writer. He was born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle. Frank Herbert was the bestselling author of the Dune saga. A striking feature of the book is how relatively sheltered the sisters’ lives remained even after the Russian Revolution. It’s as if 100 years from now an author were to collate contemporary news reports about Prince William, Kate Middleton and their son into an epic tome viewing early 21st century history from the point of view of regal domesticity.īut it’s not all pointless. There is a lot more of this in the book, a great accumulation of it. We also learn that on a trip to England in 1910, Olga and Tatiana bought some postcards and also “treated themselves to some perfume from Beken & Son’s pharmacy.” Maria and Anastasia, however - gasp - wore their hair down. How unscintillating are the details Rappaport includes? We learn that at a ball given on her 16th birthday, Olga wore her hair up, as did her sister Tatiana. Henry ( When All the World Sleeps) skillfully portrays her hero as a young man learning to embrace his desires, but internal angst runs heavy throughout. When Elijah’s adopted father is murdered, the young man sets forth on a risky path of vengeance and anger. Meanwhile, Elijah is pursued by Grady Mullins, a wandering cowboy who wants to treat him with tenderness and care, which Elijah’s not sure he deserves. He surrenders himself to the rich, cruel Harlan Crane, whose brutal domination further fuels his self-loathing and confusion. Elijah Carter’s deafness has always set him apart in South Pass City, but he’d be outright detested if they knew he was gay as well. A melancholy vibe permeates this historical romance, in which a conflicted gay man in 1870 Wyoming Territory comes to terms with his “unnatural” desires-and other men’s desire for him. |