![]() Later I bought the paperback at our middle school book fair in 1981, which I read twice in sixth grade, once devouring it on the plane to England, and following up with Clavell’s Taipan and Noble House. Read About My Home Town and CIA’s Use of Literature To Promote Perversion Here Did I mention I grew up in a satanic cesspool, run by CIA, masquerading as a cute little town, and our neighbor worked for a defense contractor? You can read about our neighbor’s daughter, CIA’s promotion of perversion through books, and a transcript of a programming session under MK-ULTRA below. My dad read Shogun in the 1970s, and I remember feeling intrigued by the hardback two-volume set our neighbor lent him. Read More on MI7’s Use of Literature To Promote Perversion Here ![]() ![]() Through papers, books, and tv, the New World Order programs us. They use literature to control how we think, dream, feel, and act–and they don’t call miniseries, like the blockbuster into which they made Shogun, programs for nothing. Like the control of all media, not just the news and propaganda, the Book of the Month Club, the New York Times, and the literature itself were part of CIA OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD. The book was a major best-seller, the Book of the Month Club mailed it to our houses, and the New York Times wrote rave reviews. When I was a boy, everyone read Shogun by James Clavell. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The nation’s second-biggest private prison company, CCA operates nearly 100 correctional facilities across the country. In 2014, Bauer applied for a job with the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which has since rebranded itself as CoreCivic. “American Prison” is the remarkable story of a journalist who spent four months working as a corrections officer, and a horrifying exposé of how prisoners were treated by a corporation that profited from them. So journalist Shane Bauer, a Minnesota native and a reporter for Mother Jones magazine, decided the only way to find out what life inside a private prison was like was to get a job at one. It can be tough to know what goes on behind prison walls, and private corrections companies are especially reluctant to open up to outsiders. ![]() ![]() Americans like to think of our country as the land of the free - but that’s not the case for everyone: More than 2 million Americans are in jails or prisons in the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() This was confirmed by Jorge Herralde, who explained that Bolaño "abandoned his parsimonious beatnik existence" because the birth of his son in 1990 made him "decide that he was responsible for his family's future and that it would be easier to earn a living by writing fiction." However, he continued to think of himself primarily as a poet, and a collection of his verse, spanning 20 years, was published in 2000 under the title The Romantic Dogs. In an interview Bolaño stated that he made this decision because he felt responsible for the future financial well-being of his family, which he knew he could never secure from the earnings of a poet. He continued with his poetry, before shifting to fiction in his early forties. ![]() Bolaño moved to Europe in 1977, and finally made his way to Spain, where he married and settled on the Mediterranean coast near Barcelona, working as a dishwasher, a campground custodian, bellhop and garbage collector - working during the day and writing at night. For most of his early adulthood, Bolaño was a vagabond, living at one time or another in Chile, Mexico, El Salvador, France and Spain. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But while Aunt Rose leaves the family estate to Janice, Julie is bequeathed next to nothing, just a passport, a key, and a secret-that her real name is Giulietta Tolomei, a descendant of the Tolomeis and the Salembenis, the real families that inspired Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet-and that the "Curse upon both your houses," is alive and well, 600 years later. (Their parents died years earlier in Tuscany). ![]() Our story begins when Julie’s beloved Aunt Rose dies, leaving Julie and her twisted sister, Janice orphaned. You’re in for a wild ride-a lush, romantic voyage that will stimulate all of your literary senses. Secondly, my advice-aside from urging you to buy this book before someone else in your book club beats you to it-is to buckle up and hold on with both hands. Not only are you intrepid enough to find this gem of a debut novel, but you are about to embark on a journey to Sienna (not Verona, for you Romeo and Juliet purists out there-don’t feel bad, I was one of them too) with our heroine, Julie Jacobs. ![]() Okay, you’re here, on Amazon and by some clever and fortunate happenstance you’ve clicked over to Anne Fortier’s Juliet. Jamie Ford is the New York Times Bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, which was chosen as the #1 Book Club Pick for Fall 2009/Winter 2010 by the American Booksellers Association. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the more she pushes him away, the closer he seems to get. Rowen knows there's no happily-ever-after for the golden boy and the rebel girl-happily-right-now is a stretch-so she tries to forget and ignore the boy who makes her feel things she's not sure she's ready to feel. He's the bright and shiny to her dark and jaded. Jesse's like no one else, and certainly nothing like her. Until Jesse Walker saunters into her life wearing a pair of painted-on jeans, a cowboy hat, and a grin that makes something in her chest she'd thought was frozen go boom-boom. Cooking breakfast at the crack of dawn for a couple dozen ranch hands and mucking out horse stalls are the last things in the world Rowen wants to spend her summer doing. Her mom agreed to front the bill to Rowen's dream art school only if Rowen proves she can work hard and stay out of trouble at Willow Springs Ranch. After numbing pain for the past five years with boys, alcohol, and all-around apathy, she finds herself on a Greyhound bus to nowhere Montana the summer after she graduates high school. ![]() ![]() ![]() I now understand why she’s the way she is. I know this is not really a good start to Chloe and Lucca’s story, and kidnapping someone doesn’t make for a good romance, but all will be explained.Ĭhloe tries to push Lucca away and convince herself that he isn’t a good person, she’s right, he isn’t, but he’s different with her, he actually cares for her and only her. She soon finds out that Lucca has kidnapped her to stop her from going off to California for college and making a huge mistake. It just had to be Lucca, and I’m so happy that it is!Ĭhloe wakes up and fins herself alone in an unfamiliar bedroom. ![]() ![]() If Chloe didn’t choose Lucca, I was choosing for her. I feel like I’ve been waiting forever for this book to come out. The world as she knows it will come crashing down. The only way to save her from her past is to delve into his. Her soul might have been better off claimed by the devil. He has waited long enough to claim her soul, but he must take it from the devil first. Chloe was scarred by her past, learning too young that nightmares are real. Lucca was made the underboss, being what nightmares are made of. ![]() ![]() The small island setting and the limited number of characters made spotting the villain pretty easy and left me with some nagging plausibility questions, but that is a small quibble. This is a quick paced and satisfying teen mystery with some truly scary moments (a near drowning, claustrophobic moments in tight caves, and chases through the rain-soaked jungle at night), lots of intrigue and a dash of romance. ![]() ![]() Despite the rich and famous guests she mingles with, Aphra doesn’t find island life so exciting … until one day a mysterious family – which just happens to include a hot guy Aphra’s age – shows up and sets off a chain of events which includes one of guests being strangled by her own bikini… Aphra Behn Connolly lives at a tropical island resort her father owns. ![]() ![]() ![]() 3-6)Ī pleasing poem that celebrates babies around the world. This lesson in assertiveness-hardly clouded by the notion that a good swat is the answer to fear-gives preschoolers a congenial view of the things that frighten the kitten in gleefully expressive illustrations adults may gain a new sense of just how big and forbidding the world can appear to the very young. When the kitten mistakes the dog's nose for an ``eensie-weensie'' spider and takes a swing at Scratchpooch, ``Kapow!'' and this scaredy cat is transformed into Tiger Cat: ``WOW!/are eensie-weensie spiders/scared of me!'' The upbeat message-that courage may be only a matter of perspective-lights up a cheerful comedy from Rankin (The Little Cat and the Greedy Old Woman, 1995), who shows Tiger, in the last scene, going nose-to-nose with a huge neighborhood dog. ![]() The narrator also dislikes crocodiles (``Auntie B.'s shoes'') and the dark forest that is really the four hairy legs of Auntie B.'s dog, Scratchpooch. ``I don't like GIANTS,'' reports a small quivering kitten, but Mama Meow reassures her child that this particular giant is their kindly owner, Auntie B. ![]() ![]() ![]() * BingeBooks earns revenue from qualifying purchases as an Amazon Associate as well as from other retail partners. Drew, getting over his own heartbreak, sees Sunny across the crowded room and he’s instantly smitten.Īs the townspeople gather, two lonely revelers decide the best balm for their broken hearts might just be each other. But her uncle and his fiancée drag her to Jack’s Bar. Sunny was dumped at the altar the previous New Year’s Eve and is in no mood to celebrate. Locals and newcomers alike find themselves eager for that special countdown…and that midnight kiss.ĭrew Foley and Sunny Archer are each visiting Virgin River for the holidays. alike find themselves eager for that special countdownand that midnight kiss. In Virgin River, holiday kisses don’t end with Christmas-there’s still the inaugural New Year’s Eve party at Jack’s Bar to attend. holiday romance from 1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr. Come back to Virgin River for New Year’s Eve in this classic holiday romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first thing to know about Count Rostov, is that he didn't write the poem, his best friend Mishka did. The novel unfolds over the course of the 32 years that Rostov spends under house arrest. The only catch? If Rostov ever leaves the hotel, he will be executed. The story opens on his trial in 1922, where he's shown leniency as a reward for having written a revolutionary poem that pre-dated the Russian Revolution. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, is a novel about Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, a Russian aristocrat who is condemned by Communists to spend the rest of his life confined in the Metropol, the capital's most glamorous hotel. Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Amor Towles's A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel, includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed "About the Author" section. Please note: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. ![]() |