In A Thousand Days, Schlesinger combines intimate knowledge as one of President Kennedy's inner circle with sweeping research and historic context to provide a look at one of the most legendary presidential administrations in American history. Kennedy throughout his presidency-from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy's tragic and unexpected assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald. served as special assistant to President John F. A THOUSAND DAYS is "at once a masterly literary achievement and a work of major historical significance" (New York Times).īook Synopsis Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner: "Of all the Kennedy books. Schlesinger's close relationship with JFK, as a politician and as a friend, has resulted in this authoritative yet intimate account in which the president "walks through the pages, from first to last, alert, alive, amused and amusing" (John Kenneth Galbraith). About the Book As special assistant to the president, Arthur Schlesinger witnessed firsthand the politics and personalities that influenced the now legendary Kennedy administration.
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Now it's time to dig a little deeper and conjure up some new projects and decorating ideas to impress this year's ghouls and goblins! Inside, How to Haunt Your House, Book Two, you will find a broad range of home haunt prop step-by-step instructions. The coffin lid was raised a little higher in, How to Haunt Your House, Book one. See how to hack store bought props into something truly ghoul-a-rific. From animated props to full sized grave ghosts there is something for the haunt enthusiast in everyone. She's had published two original supernatural thrillers and a short story which the Guardian said, ".combines thwarted ambition and a gallery of fascinating secondary characters to wonderfully readable effect". Rebecca Levene is an experienced author of fiction and non-fiction and has written scripts for TV and video games, including one voiced by Mickey Rourke. The Ninth Rain is the first novel in a brand-new trilogy from Jen, following on from The Copper Promise, The Iron Ghost, and The Silver Tide in her highly acclaimed Copper Cat trilogy. She started writing about pirates and dragons as a young girl and has never stopped. JEN WILLIAMS lives in London with her partner and her cat. He currently lives in Ontario, Canada, and is probably writing at this very moment. Nicholas loves black coffee, neat whiskey, the month of October and video games. Nicholas Eames was born to parents of infinite patience and unstinting support in Wingham, Ontario. Overseeing proceedings with an iron fist of fury will be Dark Societies very own Leila Whether you love mercenaries or dragons, carnivals or gladiatorial battles, magic or science, this panel will be perfect for you! Join us for a night of magic and mayhem with Nicholas Eames, Jen Williams, Rebecca Levene, Ed Cox and Mark De Jager. The book is narrated by Scott McGrath, a 43-year-old divorced dad and freelance journalist who five years earlier was blackballed after attempting to investigate the cult horror filmmaker Stanislas Cordova. The new novel is intricately plotted, nicely paced and scattered with “extras” that blend fluidly into the story-screen grabs of authentic-looking-but-fabricated magazine and newspaper stories, phone book scraps, message boards from a locked site on “the anonymous Internet”-with photos staged by actors Pessl is said to have auditioned herself. Readers riveted by Pessl’s debut outing, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, waited seven years for a second fix, and it’s easy to see why. The suggestion of sex at the start is part of the movie’s candid tone. Sweating and freezing, Cheryl wants to expunge loss and self-disgust from her soul. Each stopping place in the wilderness is a kind of marker along the road to redemption. In 1995, she walked eleven hundred miles, through desert, bush, and snowy mountains, from Mojave, California, to the Oregon-Washington border. Her mother died in 1991, and Strayed, grief-stricken and lost, cheated on her devoted husband (played by Thomas Sadoski in the film), and, with one lover, fell into a heroin haze. “Wild” is based on Strayed’s autobiographical best-seller, published in 2012, seventeen years after her arduous trek, which she reconstructed in punishing and exhilarating detail. One of the boots falls into a canyon, and, with a curse, she throws the other after it. When she gets there, she takes off her too-small boots, to reveal blackened toenails that are painfully loose. The woman, however, turns out to be a hiker, Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon), with a huge pack on her back, laboring to reach an exposed high place. “Wild” opens with a shot of majestic forested mountains and the sound of a woman breathing harder and harder, as if in sexual excitement. And an enemy who will stop at nothing to crush them both. But can her childhood fantasies survive an encounter with the hardened man, and newly minted rebel leader, once she learns the truth about her father’s death? Or will her passion for revenge put not only their hearts but their lives at risk? It’s an impossible mission: A man who feels he can’t love. Rya Bennton has been in love with Philip Guthrie since she was a girl. She’s the daughter of his best friend and first commander-a man who died while under Philip’s command and whose death is on Philip’s conscience. Not much can rattle Philip’s legendary cool-but the woman who helps him foil an assassination attempt on Kirro Station will. Or would be if he can get his command ship-the derelict cruiser called Hope’s Folly-functioning. Summary: Admiral Philip Guthrie is in an unprecedented position: on the wrong end of the law, leading a ragtag band of rebels against the oppressive Imperial forces. But really, you should read Gabriel’s Ghost and Shades of Dark because they are GOOD. Stand Alone/Series: third book in Linnea Sinclair’s Dock 5 series but it can be read as a stand alone. Morris is an exponent of highly technical sci-fi that details aerospace exploration and innovation practically down to the last rivet. The prospect of extraterrestrial life awaiting discovery in the solar system prompts a worldwide effort under NASA to recruit, train, and finally send several scientists on a 2046 mission to explore below Enceladus’ surface in the Valkyrie, a manned vessel described as “a drill that could swim, not a submarine that could drill.” Its co-pilot is Martin, a cool-headed Jet Propulsion Laboratory contractor who seems to have no fear of death due to a personal tragedy the epic unfolds from his point of view during the risky, monthslong voyage. In 2031, a long-range automated spacecraft confirms biological material on Saturn’s ice moon Enceladus, where a liquid ocean exists beneath the frozen surface. A probe’s discovery of organic molecules on a moon of Saturn-proof positive of alien life-prompts an international team of scientists to embark on a dangerous journey in Morris’ ( Der Riss, 2018, etc.) hard-sci-fi novel. We don't allow personal recommendation posts. We also encourage discussion about developments in the book world and we have a flair system. We love original content and self-posts! Thoughts, discussion questions, epiphanies and interesting links about authors and their work. 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Subreddit Rules - Message the mods - Related Subs AMA Info The FAQ The Wiki Join in the Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread!. He and his friends do attend Woodstock, but instead of being the beginning of a carefree, happy lifestyle, it is the end of summer, end of Lucas' irresponsibility, and the beginning of the end of an entire era. Lucas' cousin Barry, who is 4-F due to mental health issues, hangs out with a woman named Tinsely who is whole heartedly embracing the Free Love mentality of the era, and who is happy to share these experiences with Lucas, although he is somewhat conflicted about her philosophy in a very middle class, bourgeoise way. A friend from work, Chris, who dropped out of school at 16, is fighting in Vietnam, and his letters worry Lucas. Lucas does a lot of drugs, smoking marijuana daily and taking LSD when offered, although he wisely draws the line at heroin. He has a developmentally delayed younger brother, Alan, for whom he has to care his mother gave up her career as a reporter years ago and seems perpetually depressed and his father is controlling and distant, preferring to spend his time playing tennis at the club or seeing other women on the side than spending it with his family. He's doing some work for one of his father's businesses, but otherwise just hanging out with his friends Milton and Arno and his cousin Barry. Lucas' summer is ruined when his girlfriend Robin decides to be a camp counselor some distance from their Long Island home. She convinces Paulo to join her on a trip to Nepal, aboard the Magic Bus that travels across Europe and Central Asia to Kathmandu. His travels take him further, to the famous square in Amsterdam, where Paulo meets Karla, a Dutch woman also in her 20s. He sets off on a journey in search of freedom and a deeper meaning for his life: first, with a girlfriend, on the famous “Death Train to Bolivia,” then on to Peru and later hitchhiking through Chile and Argentina. They were a generation refusing to live the robotic and unquestioning life that their parents had known.Īt this time, Paulo is a young, skinny Brazilian with a goatee and long, flowing hair who wants to become a writer. In the Dam Square in Amsterdam, long-haired young people wearing vibrant clothes and burning incense could be found meditating, playing music and discussing sexual liberation, the expansion of consciousness and the search for an inner truth. In Hippie, his most autobiographical novel to date, Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to re-live the dream of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order – authoritarian politics, conservative modes of behavior, excessive consumerism, and an unbalanced concentration of wealth and power.įollowing the “three days of peace and music” at Woodstock, the 1969 gathering in Bethel, NY that would change the world forever, hippie paradises began to emerge all around the world. |