![]() ![]() The garden and its maze is a topic that's always avoided by their parents and the gardener Luke. Susan and her wheelchair-bound brother, Gary, share a typical elder brother-younger sister relationship where they just can't stand each other but they both have to let go of their egos and arrive at a common consensus for the decisions they have to make once they enter the 'magical maze' of their other-worldly garden put up by their ancestors. ![]() "Will keep readers turning the pages until the very end." - Kirkus "Sleator has fashioned a perfect 'what if' story." - Kliatt ![]() ![]() "Science fiction fans, science nerds, and random readers alike will appreciate this latest offering." - Voya "Sleator is a master of suspenseful science fiction and that mastery is evident here.entirely shocking." - School Library Journal Sleator keeps readers guessing right up to the shocking ending. Sickly Gary sees a chance to change his fate Susan sees that they may both be lost forever. The teenagers discover that each turn they take alters their world in some way. Planted by a scientist uncle who disappeared long ago, the maze offers seemingly endless routes and choices. In this gothic, sci-fi thriller from a master storyteller, Susan and her wheelchair-bound brother, Gary, discover a mysterious maze in the vast gardens of their isolated home. Sleator is at his sci-fi best with this quantum thriller, now available in paperback ![]()
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![]() In fact, the book’s final chapters share the painful details of a wife coping with loss. Readers may be tempted to write off The End of Normal as a book to heal by simply because of its affiliation with the notorious Madoff name. This book exposes three elements: first, a girl’s view of the interactions among wives of the wealthy second, the expected behind-the-scenes glimpse at Bernie Madoff and finally, Stephanie’s personal experience following the suicide of her husband. But the real value of the book is the experience she shares of her pain following Mark’s suicide, two years to the day after his father confesses to his Ponzi scheme. ![]() ![]() ![]() At first glance, Stephanie Madoff’s Mack’s The End of Normal grabs our attention solely because she’s the wife of one of Bernie Madoff’s two sons, Mark. ![]() 5/20/2023 We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip GourevitchRead Now![]() ![]() ![]() Gourevitch holds the international community accountable because it failed to segregate killers from innocent refugees. Housed in refugee camps primarily in neighboring countries, forces who called themselves Hutu Power were behind the attacks. Visiting Rwanda one year after the genocide, he chronicles its psychological toll on survivors and the continuing threat to the Tutsi minority. Gourevitch chastises the international community, especially the United States and France, for failing to stop the genocide in accordance with obligations under the Genocide Convention. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (1998) describes the Hutu majority’s slaughter of at least 800,000 Tutsis in 100 days in 1994-with author and journalist Philip Gourevitch documenting the meticulous planning behind the genocide. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This period excludes delivery times, which depend on your geographic location. The usual time for processing an order is 24 hours (1 business day), but may vary depending on the availability of products ordered. ![]()
![]() Service in Chasseurs a Cheval regiments follow before he once again joins the heavy cavalry of the Imperial Guard for the campaigns that closed the epoch of the First Empire. Gazzola wins his first award as a member of the 'forlorn hope' at Mantua and then-donning the spurs of the horse soldier-he becomes a mounted grenadier of the Consular Guard. This Italian centaur joined the Revolutionary French Army in the early days of Napoleon's career, for engagements in his home country before departing for Egypt-and thereafter many of the pivotal battles of the age culminating in the retreat from Moscow, where, left behind, wounded and frost-bitten, he ends his military career when taken into captivity by the Russians. He tells his story vividly-almost certainly with advantages-for it is one of passionate love affairs, attempted murder, duels, flight from retribution, hard campaigning and violent battles. ![]() Galloping into danger-on and off the battlefield Jean Baptiste Gazzola's memoir of his life in Napoleon's cavalry regiments is a remarkable and exhilarating one. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But he also thinks the basic, hand-me-down cliché of the time is a pretty good shorthand. Throughout, Klosterman tries to resist reducing the time to neat narratives about globalization and neoliberalism, American empire and the rise of the culture wars, or to impose the perspective of the decades to come on the past. There is also a lot of other stuff - about the internet, Ross Perot, the Biosphere 2 project launched out of environmental anxiety. There is indeed a lot about Reality Bites, and Nirvana, and selling out in The Nineties. It was, he writes, “a remarkably easy time to be alive” - at least as it was experienced by someone like Klosterman, most known for his obsessive meditations on pop culture in books like Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and whose “experience across the nineties was comically in line with the media caricature of generation X.” ![]() In his new collection, The Nineties: A Book, the critic Chuck Klosterman works ground up from culture to build a sort of mood-board history of a decade that floats a little out of focus in the national memory: close enough to feel familiar, far away enough to feel weird. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only by attending to the cultural politics of the exotic, I want to suggest, can we open up discourses of race and gender to productive and transformative cultural critique.īuilding on recent work in rhetoric and composition that takes an historical materialist approach, Dangerous Writing outlines a political economic theory of composition. MacDonald’s novel thus deserves renewed attention precisely because it traces critically the historical continuum along which exoticist constructions of race and gender have shaped the experiences of many immigrants in North America. It is in fact this underlying exoticism that has persistently structured the experiences of several generations of racial and sexual minorities in North America and relegated those minorities to the margins of social life. Focusing on Canadian author Ann-Marie MacDonald’s critically acclaimed Fall on Your Knees (1996), this essay argues that the figure of the Arab in the novel represents an ethnic otherness whose strategic exoticization exposes a highly racialized and gendered early twentieth-century North American culture, one that has historically been informed by a latent, economically motivated exoticism. ![]() ![]() ![]() Doc and Art go out to reconnoiter, and the first words said upon stepping onto the lunar surface are: Here’s an example: Doc Cargraves and his crew land on the moon. What’s quaint, and also interesting, about this novel isn’t how wrong it is about the science, engineering, cost and dangers of going to the Moon, but how it captures an instant in American cultural thinking. Here, Doc Cargraves enlists his nephew Art and two of Art’s friends, Ross and Morrie, and employs these three college-age teenagers as his crew for slapping together an atom-powered rocket and flying it to the Moon. It’s sort of a lunar version of a Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland “Hey, kids, let’s put on a show” story. ![]() It happened that, a week or so after the death of Neil Armstrong, I picked up this 1947 novel, and to say it’s quaint is an understatement. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not only will you learn more about yourself, but you will also start to see the world through other people's eyes, understanding how and why people think, feel, and act the way they do Witty and filled with stories, this book allows you to peek inside each of the nine Enneagram types, keeping you turning the pages long after you have read the chapter about your own number. In The Road Back to You Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile forge a unique approach - a practical, comprehensive way of accessing Enneagram wisdom and exploring its connections with Christian spirituality for a deeper knowledge of ourselves, compassion for others, and love for God. ![]() ![]() Saturday is also expected to be wet for much of the UK with showers spreading in from the southwest. “The showers will affect most parts of the UK, including London, with some more persistent rain affecting parts of eastern Scotland.” “Friday will be a day of sunshine and showers, which could be heavy and slow moving at times with some thunder, lightning and hail,” the Met Office said. King Charles will be officially crowned during an ornate and deeply religious ceremony in London this Saturday, the same weekend the UK will see “unsettled” weather “with showers or longer spells of rain for many,” the UK Met Office said in a press release regarding the coronation forecast. ![]() Numerous waves of showers and thunderstorms will move across the United Kingdom over the next several days, leaving those celebrating King Charles III’s coronation to dodge the rain over the weekend of festivities. ![]() |