![]() ![]() What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. ![]() There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. Handsome, charismatic, genius-his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. ![]() Listeners will be swept up as Alex and Henry face questions of identity and coming out amid familial duties and political machinations." - AudioFile Magazine What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. "Narrator Ramón de Ocampo brings out all the emotion in this tender, serious, funny, and warmly. ![]()
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![]() To order Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads for £16 (RRP £20) go to or call 0330 333 6846. Hayes’s prose reaches for the lyrical and sometimes comes up short, but this is a passionate picture of Guthrie and his times. The Depression overhangs everything, turning dreams to despair and the High Plains to dust. Hayes shows the camaraderie of the freight-train riders and the energy of Guthrie’s early gigs, which eventually take him to LA and New York and on to the nation’s radios. The angular Guthrie moves through it all, soaking up music and stories, travelling with his once-prosperous, still-proud father, from Oklahoma to Texas, where he meets his first wife, Mary. ![]() With a delighted eye and an ear for a tune, Nick Hayess follow-up to his. Hayes sets his characters against waves of heat and sky, and shows creases on tired faces and scars on a land torn apart by the quest for riches. La 4e de couverture indique : Woody Guthrie and the dust bowl ballads is a. ![]() The artwork, whose sepia palette seems drawn from the plains themselves, excels at both lively crowd scenes and portraits of the landscape. ![]() ![]() It’s a wonderful achievement that beats with a love for Guthrie’s music and America’s natural beauty, and rages at inequality. H ayes’s biography of a folk icon follows Guthrie from his teenage years to 1940, when he wrote his signature song, “This Land is Your Land”. ![]() ![]() He was teaching elementary school in the inner-city and getting a master’s degree at LMU, but his job was eliminated during budget cuts since he didn’t have tenure. He studied philosophy, and fell in love with writing again when he took a creative writing class. Cailler has spent most of his life in Palos Verdes where he started writing jokes as a 13 year old who wanted to become a stand-up comic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In current day Helsinki, Bekim, an isolated, gay, 20-something ethnic Albanian born in Kosovo, acquires a boa constrictor and intentionally keeps it out of its terrarium, preferring to let the snake wrap itself around his body instead. And it is this that, in turn, enables him finally, to open himself to true love-which he will find in the most unexpected place It is this witty, charming, manipulative creature who starts Bekim on a journey back to Kosovo to confront his demons and make sense of the magical, cruel, incredible history of his family. Then, during a visit to a gay bar, Bekim meets a talking cat who moves in with him and his snake. Aside from casual hookups, his only friend is a boa constrictor whom, improbably-he is terrified of snakes-he lets roam his apartment. Years later, her son, Bekim, grows up a social outcast in present-day Finland, not just an immigrant in a country suspicious of foreigners, but a gay man in an unaccepting society. Soon thereafter her country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee. In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but what was meant to be a happy match goes quickly wrong. A love story set in two countries in two radically different moments in time, bringing together a young man, his mother, a boa constrictor, and one capricious cat. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Legion, a distinctly contemporary novella filled with suspense, humor, and an endless flow of invention, Sanderson reveals a startling new facet of his singular narrative talent. ![]() His ambitious, multi-volume epics and his stellar continuation of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series have earned both critical acclaim and a substantial popular following. Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Novella, Science Fiction, Short Storiesīrandon Sanderson is one of the most significant fantasists to enter the field in a good many years. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() Let’s dive right in and discover how to become more confident! Your posture is evidence of how you feel about yourself, and by improving it, even right now, you will become more self-confident.Beat feelings of powerlessness by remembering past wins and other positive events.If you want more courage and the ability to handle stress better, find and write about your top core value.Here are just 3 of the many empowering lessons from this book: In her new book Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges Amy Cuddy will teach you all about how to stay confident even when you don’t feel like it. And you may even feel this way every day even now. ![]() Whether it’s at a new job or while giving a presentation, you can recall moments of doubt like this one in your own experience. Although it was terrifying, it wasn’t the first time I’d felt so helpless, inferior, and behind. This happened to me just a few days into my first real job after college. As you hear your coworkers talking about their projects you shrink with fear and powerlessness as you realize that you have no idea what they’re talking about. Then you get to the first weekly team meeting. It’s not easy but you ask a lot of questions, start improving, and begin feeling better about it. You’re excited yet nervous as you get to work the first day. Imagine you’ve just got your first job out of college. Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*: ![]() ![]() ![]() He is left by persons unknown at a white orphanage one Christmas day, thus his name. Joe Christmas lives as a white man but believes he has a little African blood in him. But what Faulkner shows us in Light in August seems to me a wholly unique recounting - despite the fact that it is fiction - of a huge part of our national catastrophe. Certainly the works of Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison and others should be part of that documentation too. What Faulkner has done here is to lay bare the racial tragedy of the American South in the 1920s such as no one else has ever done. ![]() It occurs to me on reading Light in August for the third time, that if America were ever to try to come to terms with its legacy of slavery-unlikely now at this late date-but if it ever were to empanel some kind of Truth and Reconciliation Commission, like the one South Africa had after apartheid, and which seems especially needed now that we are mourning the shooting deaths by cops of so many unarmed black men, then William Faulkner's novels, certainly this one, should be part of the background documentation of such a process. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not genre-shattering but a solid read for genre fans. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. The geography, politics, and magic of Morrigans world are created with care, and Morrigan is a brave free-thinker readers will look forward to meeting again. Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow Written by Jessica Townsend Publisher’s Synopsis: A breathtaking, enchanting new series by debut author Jessica Townsend, about a cursed girl who escapes death and finds herself in a magical worldbut is then tested beyond her wildest imaginatio. To order a copy for £11.04 go to or call 03. Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend is published by Orion (£12.99). The Trials of Morrigan Crow is one of those middle grade childrens books which is still perfectly readable by adults who like fantasy. It’s very firmly the first in a series – readers finish the book with as many questions as they started – but few will be disappointed: there’s still a whole Wundrous world to discover in future books. Add to this clever plotting, irresistibly quirky humour, a truly treacherous villain, and real heart in Morrigan’s quest for courage, hope and identity. Spectacular set pieces like the Fright Trial and the Battle of Christmas Eve lend a deliciously cinematic feel to her writing. And what a world it is: from the surreal Hotel Deucalion to giant Magnifi-cats and the Tube-inspired Wunderground transport system, Townsend’s vibrant world-building is what really sets Nevermoor apart. Once the mist rises over Nevermoor’s silver gates, a Wizard of Oz-style technicolor transformation takes place. Don’t be fooled by the gothic opening chapters. ![]() ![]() ![]() In both the opening letter (“My Dungeon Shook”) and the subsequent essay (“Down At The Cross”), the initiations of young people into the country’s previously-established racial animosities and plights demonstrate the importance of being aware-and in control-of the stories people tell themselves about who they are and what they believe. Concerning himself with how these longstanding beliefs about power are wrought, Baldwin demonstrates that parents (including black parents) ultimately teach their children a model of inequity from a young age, which sets the stage for the ongoing disenfranchisement of African-Americans. ![]() Baldwin makes it clear that norms surrounding authority-and the narratives that Americans of all races perpetuate regarding its influence-sustain a pattern of black oppression in the United States. The Fire Next Time examines race relations in America by interrogating the various power dynamics at play between white and black citizens. ![]() ![]() ![]() This, together with his broad knowledge of natural history, the keen firsthand impressions he brings to his tales (his research always includes traveling to each of his subject's habitats), and his overriding commitment to the welfare of all living creatures, animal and plant, adds up to fine reading. What makes the selections from the various books particularly appealing is a combination of elements, with Caras' well-honed storytelling ability topping the list. ![]() ![]() Choice excerpts from ten of nature-writer Caras' previously published works (some of which, like Panther and The Custer Wolf, date back to the 1960's) that, together, provide an intimate look at man's interrelationship with animals and the environment. ![]() |