![]() Master storyteller Ruta Sepetys is back with a historical thriller that examines the little-known history of a nation defined by silence, pain, and the unwavering conviction of the human spirit. ![]() And he said it without hesitation, without the pain and shameful truth it carriedthat the guards cared more about nicotine than humans. ![]() He eagerly joins the revolution to fight for change when the time arrives. As the saying goes, better to die standing than live kneeling. He's left with only two choices: betray everyone and everything he loves-or use his position to creatively undermine the most notoriously evil dictator in Eastern Europe.Ĭristian risks everything to unmask the truth behind the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren't free to dream they are bound by rules and force.Īmidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. A #1 New York Times and National Bestseller!Ī gut-wrenching, startling historical thriller about communist Romania and the citizen spy network that devastated a nation, from the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray. ![]()
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![]() ![]() His lasting contribution to warfare was a combination of his methodology for locating the remains of missing pilots (known as the Zinn system) and his innovation of imprinting all aircraft parts with the same serial number so that if a wreck was located, the crewman could be identified. ![]() Blaine Pardoe weaves together the complex story of a man who brought peace and closure to countless families who lost airmen during both world wars. ![]() Zinn created the techniques still in use to determine the final fate of airmen missing in action. Hardcover, University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor, MI 256 pages Near Fine in a VG+ DJ.tan cloth spine over green paper boards with green titles-corners sharp.just a touch of shelf/edge wear to DJ.no notes or writing - all pages are bright, clean and crisp.Few people have ever heard of Frederick Zinn, yet even today airmen's families are touched by this man and the work he performed in both world wars. ![]() ![]() ![]() I chose ‘The Feast of the Goat’ on recommendation of a dear learned friend because of it about a dictator (obviously ) and how the dictators reign ended. There is one colorful story of him punching the great Gabo in the face ending their friendship. ![]() Like so many south American writers, he is politically active, socially dynamic and never afraid of experimenting with writing or life itself. The answers varied but Mario Vergas Llosa, a Peruvian novelist, academic and politician, and a Nobel Prize Winner too – just to satisfy the social need to throw a name around. For example I asked myself who would be the second greatest South American Novelist? First one we all know of course. In isolation, I ventured to explore the writers I had not heard before (my loss of course) or have been seeing but scared to touch. All sorts of it - classical and popular, English and American ,the Russian classics and magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez a.k.a Gabo. No doubt fiction is said to be stuff for dreamers. In youth every one is a dreamer I am guilty of having the long youth hours spent devouring fiction endlessly. Fiction does not however offer solutions to immediate problems that concerns us the problems of personal development to economic development, and problems of skill building to earning livelihood. The time calls for imagination more than analysis, emotions more than calculations and thoughts more than opinions. May be it is due to the gloomy, uncertain and isolated environment all around. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Lindsay never fails to come up with uniquely weird mysteries for Dexter to solve and serves them up with a huge and satisfying dose of Dexter's inner turmoil." - Carol Memmott, USA Today."While the conflict raging in his recently discovered soul has turned this new, reformed Dexter into a more complex character, he’s not as much fun as the howling madman who used to get out his knives whenever the full moon rose." - Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review.(.) Lindsay's seamless transitions between light and dark - you can't get darker than human cannibalism - and between funny and horrifying are as jarringly effective in written form as they are in film." - J.A. "Lindsay's original, cockeyed view of the world is alive and well and utterly uncorrupted by Hollywoodese in his latest novel."(F)antastic coincidences aside, it does deliver the goods." - Martin Levin, The Globe and Mail.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author ![]() Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]() ![]() Such attention to one of America’s literary masterpieces is gratifying, but it tends to mask the agony and the ecstasy of the novel. Scores of classrooms will turn their attention to the novel. ![]() The University of Alabama’s prestigious Literary Symposia series will this year focus on "The Steinbeck Question." Dozens of other enterprises have developed, including several new scholarly treatises. ![]() In celebration of this anniversary the Steinbeck Research Center of San Jose State University will sponsor a conference exploring the novel from every conceivable angle - sociological, political, historical and literary. John Steinbeck’s classic novel, while important as a social document that vivifies the despair of the early 1930s, is also significant for its spiritual affirmations. Current articles and subscription information can be found at This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted & Winnie Brock. Copyright by the Christian Century Foundation and used by permission. ![]() This article appeared in the Christian Century, App. Timmerman is professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now the nation of Dhai is under siege by the same force. And those who survive must contend with friends and enemies newly imbued with violent powers. The kingdom of Saiduan already lies in ruin, decimated by invaders from another world who share the faces of those they seek to destroy. ![]() Loyalties are tested when worlds collide…Įvery two thousand years, the dark star Oma appears in the sky, bringing with it a tide of death and destruction. ![]() A “completely original and inventive” epic fantasy set in a land of blood mages and sentiment plants, dark magic, and warfare on a scale that spans worlds ( Locus) ![]() ![]() ![]() The ingenious, fast-paced mystery is a bonus., "Sam Thomas has created one of the most fascinating detectives in contemporary mystery fiction-a crime-solving, wealthy, widowed midwife in embattled 17th-century York, England. ![]() Thomas's fiction debut is packed with fascinating information about a midwife's skills and life during the English civil war. ![]() ![]() Western scholarship on the subject has useful insights for the Muslim policy makers on religion based economy. It touches the originality of religion and economy and their nature of relationship including their independence and dependence. ![]() The subject of relationship between religion and economy raises many issues. ![]() ![]() Showing that modernity is mediated by historical and cultural backgrounds of the society it encounters the essay argues for the potency of the “multiple modernities” paradigm as a better analytical framework for the prosperity gospel in Africa. Does the prosperity gospel demonstrate distinctively modern and anti-modern (or anti-western) themes? Drawing insights from the Akan cultural concepts of well-being, dualistic view of life, and the role of religious functionaries, this essay develops a sustained critique of the classical Eurocentric and unilinear view of modernity used in assessing the prosperity gospel. On the other hand, so-called “enchanted” forms of prosperity refute Weber’s central claim of modern societies. On one hand, the phenomenon inspires entrepreneurship and individual autonomy. ![]() Scholars have persistently invoked Weber’s Protestant Ethic yet findings reveal the prosperity gospel in Africa challenges dominant conceptualizations of modernity. The role of African Neo-Pentecostalism in effecting modernity through its widespread “prosperity gospel” remains inconclusive. ![]() ![]() ![]() Life inside the notorious mansion wasn't a dream at all - and quickly became her nightmare. ![]() ![]() But like Alice's journey into Wonderland, after Holly plunged down the rabbit hole, what seemed like a fairy tale life inside the Playboy Mansion - including A-list celebrity parties and her own number-one-rated television show for four years - quickly devolved into an oppressive routine of strict rules, manipulation, and battles with ambitious, backstabbing bunnies. The shocking, never-before-told story of the bizarre world inside the legendary Playboy Mansion - and finally the secret truth about the man who holds the key - from one of the few people who truly knows: Hef's former number-one girlfriend and star of The Girls Next Door.Ī spontaneous decision at age 21 transformed small-town Oregon girl Holly Sue Cullen into Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner's number-one girlfriend. ![]() ![]() ![]() With Annalee Newitz as your guide, you’ll join archaeologists at work in some of the most fascinating spots around the world. In Four Lost Cities, their latest outing into the realm of the printed word, they venture into urban history through the lens of archaeology. The subjects of these works include mass extinction, race and class in America, popular culture, robots, and alternate feminist history, among many others. ![]() And a third novel is scheduled for publication later this year. Newitz has also edited or co-edited a number of other nonfiction books and contributed chapters to several more. ![]() They-Newitz’s personal pronouns are they/their/theirs-are the author of two science fiction novels and two works of nonfiction that sprawl across a broad swath of issues and preoccupations. To say that Annalee Newitz’s interests are eclectic grossly understates the point. ![]() |