![]() Through years of hard work and self-examination, she turned her demons into historic victories. Among many others, we meet legal pathfinder Pauli Murray, who was tortured by both her mixed-race heritage and her “in between” sexuality. ![]() In a series of character portraits, The Fifties invokes the accidental radicals-people motivated not by politics but by their own most intimate conflicts-who sparked movements for change in their time and our own. Gaines.Īn “enchanting, beautifully written book about heroes and the dark times to which they refused to surrender” (Todd Gitlin, bestselling author of The Sixties). An “exciting and enlightening revisionist history” (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that upends the myth of the 1950s as a decade of conformity and celebrates a few solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Review 2: Disliked it! I get that it was a dark erotic romance, but what i was reading made me feel dirty, because (spoiler) it was about a woman getting raped.If a woman says 'no' she means 'No!' not, 'keep going because i may start to enjoy. ![]() This book goes to show love can be found anywhere.*Not good at reviewing but had to comment* However it was written in such a way I fell in love with him, I felt like I was Nora. ![]() The author had me liking Julian even though I know what he did to get her was wrong. Review 1: This book was good, had to give 5 stars, only problem I had was him calling her 'pet ' but under the circumstances it's understandable.As the title says Twist Me, it kinda says it all when u twist something you change its form, just like what Julian did to Nora. ![]() ![]() ![]() She ends up in Ohio after quickly marrying her dim-witted boyfriend, having become pregnant by another man. Meanwhile, Marigold, who dreams of becoming a lawyer, works for the Mississippi Summer Project to help Blacks register to vote. Knowing that as a Black woman in the Jim Crow South she won’t be treated fairly, Violet sneaks out of Jackson, Miss., with her wealthy white boyfriend before abandoning him in Alabama to catch a Greyhound bus that takes her to Chillicothe, Ga. ![]() The quiet life of Violet Richards and her older sister, Marigold, ends when Violet kills the white man who raped her. The notorious 1964 murder of three civil rights activists in Mississippi provides the backdrop for Morris’s stunning sophomore novel (after 2021’s All Her Little Secrets), which revolves around two Black sisters’ relationship while exploring racism, family, and small-town sensibilities. ![]() ![]() ![]() And during this labyrinthine investigation, Strike's own life is far from straightforward: his newfound fame as a private eye means he can no longer operate behind the scenes as he once did. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy's story, Strike and Robin Ellacott - once his assistant, now a partner in the agency - set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. ![]() When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. ![]() ![]() He loves Arsenal and watching people fall down holes. Biografía del autor Robert Muchamore was born in Islington in 1972 and spent thirteen years working as a private investigator. For official purposes, these children do not exist. The reason for CHERUB's existence is simple: adults never suspect that children are spying on them. He'll need all his specialist training if he's going to bring down the man at the top. James Adams is on his biggest mission yet, working to nail Europe's most powerful cocaine dealer. ![]() ![]() When CHERUB kids go undercover, no one suspects that they are trained professionals, working to infiltrate criminal organisations that have eluded MI5 and the police for years. ![]() Descripción - Experience the second CHERUB international bestseller in graphic novel format! James Adams' mission is to succeed where dozens of attempts by undercover police officers have failed. ![]() ![]() The second track consists of a series of philosophical and autobiographical discourses. This track features the vivid descriptive language, dialogue, plot, and character development typical of a realist novel. The first track, told in the present tense, follows an unnamed narrator (whom Shortform, because of the numerous parallels between the narrator and the real-life Robert Pirsig, has chosen to call “Pirsig”) and his 11-year-old son Chris on a motorcycle trip from Minnesota to California. ![]() Robert Pirsig: Author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceĪ cultural touchstone of the Seventies, Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ( ZAMM) is a smorgasbord, equal parts autobiographical novel, travelogue, and collection of philosophical essays. Read more about Robert Pirsig and his book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The book is considered an autobiographical novel, and Robert Pirsig’s life is an important part of the story. Robert Pirsig is the author of the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. ![]() Who is Robert Pirsig? What is his role in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? Like this article? Sign up for a free trial here. ![]() ![]() Shortform has the world's best summaries and analyses of books you should be reading. This article is an excerpt from the Shortform book guide to "Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig. ![]() ![]() ![]() Offering up 30 years of pointed insights and inquisitions, Cambridge classics professor Beard (The Fires of Vesuvius) returns with a collection of primarily reprinted reviews of her classicist peers' work that somehow manages to touch on nearly every notable person, place, and event associated with the Ancient world. With capacious wit and verve, Beard demonstrates that, far from being carved in marble, the classical world is still very much alive. How did they live? Where did they go if their marriage was in trouble or if they were broke? Or, perhaps just as important, how did they clean their teeth? Effortlessly combining the epic with the quotidian, Beard forces us along the way to reexamine so many of the assumptions we held as gospel-not the least of them the perception that the Emperor Caligula was bonkers or Nero a monster. Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal, but also the common people-the millions of inhabitants of the Roman Empire, the slaves, soldiers, and women. ![]() A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, this is “the perfect introduction to classical studies, and deserves to become something of a standard work” (Observer). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Mayans kidnap the vice president of the Iron War. In the bathroom he attacks the murderer and leaves him twitching on the floor. He can't let the murder of a child go unpunished. But then Miguel sees the thug who killed Tomas, Martin's son, in Mayans M.C. Villar-Fuentes agrees to an alliance so the factions can build a stronger network and operate independently of the US government. Miguel admits that Lincoln Potter (Ray McKinnon) has sent them to Villar-Fuentes to work out an alliance. Villar-Fuentes, a no-nonsense cartel boss who sees right through them. Soledad and Miguel (Danny Pino) have lunch with Mr. ![]() ![]() He has to find a way to start winning.ĮZ isn't the only one looking to form alliances. He knows he's losing the battle for the pipeline and proving he can lead the Mayans. But EZ tells the Iron War members if they let Mayans get hit inside, the Mayans can get them at any time on the outside.ĮZ looks for guidance in the military strategy book he was given for his birthday. Angel tells EZ to let it go, knowing it's not the time for a fight. With everyone questioning his leadership, that hits EZ hard. The leader of Iron War taunts EZ, saying the Mayans were a great club when Alvarez (Emilio Rivera) was in charge. But backup arrives for the Iron War when some of the officers on duty come out to support them. ![]() ![]() ![]() The surrealities of the Reign of Terror convinced horrified Christians in Britain that the world was coming to a crashing halt in fulfillment of the catastrophes described in Revelation. ![]() Oddly enough, the French Revolution changed all that. They were not thought to refer to a near or distant future. Throughout the long history of Christianity - from at least the 4th century to the early 19th - the vast majority of those who read and heard the stories in the Bible (including the forerunners of modern evangelicals) believed Revelation was describing events that had already happened or were happening in their own time in the life of the church. ![]() This is widely known among historical scholars of the Bible but scarcely at all outside our ranks. In fact, Scripture says no such thing, either in Revelation or in any other book. Although evangelicals emphatically believe these predictions, and non-evangelicals decidedly do not, it’s broadly assumed that this is indeed what the Bible predicts. Jenkins’ blockbuster “Left Behind” novels (with movie spinoffs) - has led many more Americans to believe the Bible predicts our imminent end. Popular evangelical culture - including Hal Lindsey’s bestselling 1970 book “The Late Great Planet Earth” and, more recently, Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. ![]() ![]() ![]() The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster. ![]() ![]() ![]() While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico’s little sister. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico’s funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. An absorbing and emotionally riveting story about what it’s like to live during times of crisis.” -The New York Times Book ReviewĪ dazzling novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris Soon to Be a Major Television Event, optioned by Amy Poehler ![]() |