![]() ![]() The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman’s story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man-a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined-but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters-Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson-and dramatic events. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian. ![]() ![]() The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. ![]()
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![]() Over and again, Tomie drives the men who fall for her into madness. Ito’s debut story, written when he was only 24 years old, was Tomie, a series of stories about a young woman who defies death and ageing. His horror stories, both short and long, are all written and drawn with a surreal, off-kilter, otherworldly eeriness. What makes Ito unique in the horror world is that he isn’t a novelist or a short story writer in the traditional sense he’s a mangaka. Combining a deft artist’s eye with a boundless and terrifying imagination, Junji Ito stands head and shoulders above every other horror writer around.īorn in 1963 in Gifu prefecture, Junji Ito is Japan’s most successful and lauded horror writer. Junji Ito is a mangaka who understands phobias, existential anxieties, and the terror of the unknown better than any other horror writer on Earth. Turn your eyes to Japan, however, and you’ll discover a writer and artist capable of injecting a far more potent amount of fear into his readers’ veins. ![]() The term master of horror is often attributed to American author Stephen King without any argument. ![]() ![]() ![]() I went on quite the journey with this book. How can law contradict the lives of millions of people and hope to be administered successfully? I think Native Son is one of the most powerful and important American books ever written. You can't read this story from a distance. That makes the way the man is treated thereafter so incredibly present and real. This book dares to tell the story of a young black man who, in a moment of panic, commits a horrible act. ![]() There have been many profound and moving stories, both true and fictionalized, of young black men wrongfully accused of crimes. Those who have studied the Harlem Renaissance know that Richard Wright was a passionate, angry man, the writer about whom other African American writers of his era would say, "Well, I'd never write THAT, but I'm glad someone did." Native Son is a brutally frank look at the racial divide of the America of the 1930s, and the relevance to today is positively painful. Well, here is Larry's two-word review of the book: He explained that he had actually never read it before, which he confessed was really odd, given that the book is an undisputed classic. ![]() My older brother Larry, who is extremely well-read, recently came to town for a visit. ![]() ![]() ![]() Carolanne returned to help her best friend Jill deal with the death of her grandmother, Pearl. Each have moved away from Adams Grove, Virginia to big cities and returned for different reasons. But I just really wanted to know how all of these great characters I was falling for were going to play into a murder investigation.Carolanne Baxter and Connor Buckham have known each other since childhood. ![]() Part of me felt bad waiting for the dead body to show up. But with that being said, I really liked this book.Wedding Cake and Big Mistakes just REALLY had me smiling. There were times when I just felt a little lost. It could possibly be because this is the third book in the series and I haven’t read the other two. It’s just because I couldn’t really get a feel of the book. Now, you’re asking WHY is this important. In fact, Nancy tells me it’s a contemporary romance, but she likes to call it a “small town suspense”. It doesn’t read like a cozy mystery, as least for me. Why? I think because Nancy hangs out with the mystery people. Reviewed by Kimfor Read Your Writes Book ReviewsOkay, so this was my first Nancy Naigle read. ![]() ![]() "One would not need to know Sally Mann's remarkable work as a photographer to be swept up in her memoir Hold Still, which draws upon a family history so rife with jaw-dropping drama that it could provide the grist for a dozen novels. My kind of true adventure."- Patti Smith, musician and National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life. ![]() ![]() racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder. ![]() Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. ![]() Description This National Book Award finalist is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Because “physical union” between two Marked is forbidden, Megan must decide if she should accept her fate and forsake Adam’s love or repress her Marked powers and let the world fall to ruin. But Megan is also the Carrier of the Mark and therefore responsible for producing children that will continue the Marked lineage. If she can invoke her powers, then she and the DeRíses can perform an alignment on the Summer Solstice and turn the world’s chaos into harmony. ![]() Megan soon discovers in a nonstop information dump (which leaves little room for authentic Irish dialogue or interesting action) that she, along with Adam and his two siblings, is Marked as one of the vessels of the four elements (earth, wind, fire and air). Despite rumors that his family may be witches, she’s instantly attracted to Adam DeRís. This obsessive, Twilight-like romance and teen debut, first discovered on, misses the benefit of thorough editing in a rush to be published.Īfter years of moving since her mother died, Megan finally feels at home in her father’s most recent relocation, this time to Ireland. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When he’s not chasing down machete-wielding drug dealers or solving the mystery of a sex cult with a Satanist twist, Ethan hangs out in a dilapidated movie theater called the El Ricardo, which, as Brubaker told me in a recent Zoom conversation, was “a tip of the hat to Lucy and Ricky.” The venue’s projectionist, a punk rocker named Anna whom Ethan caught spray-painting anarchy symbols on the theater entrance, does double duty as his assistant. ![]() Part detective, part hired thug, Ethan moves through the world with ruthless efficiency, solving problems for people at the end of their rope. during the early 1980s, the first novel in Brubaker and Phillips’ series features a former FBI agent whose cover as a ‘60s radical was blown in a bomb blast. “ Reckless,” released in December 2020, announced the arrival of a new old-school antihero: Ethan Reckless. They now adorn a slick new series of graphic novels (with some key updates) by the legendary team of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. These images are no longer the sole province of vintage paperbacks from the heyday of pulp fiction. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.Įxploding cars, goons with guns, menacing figures who could be heroes or villains. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Obama, “JB” was allowed to run a global grifting operation that netted his family tens of millions. ![]() The facts have been out in plain sight since before a coalition of rogues and frauds stuffed him into the Oval Office, January, 2021. “Joe Biden’s” crimes have finally caught up with him. “Joe Biden” will either be impeached for real high crimes and misdemeanors, or he will be bum-rushed out of the White House on some medical pretext before Independence Day. Now I will tell you the truth: “Joe Biden” will not be running for president ever again. You understand, this is exactly what you get when all you do is tell lies, always and everywhere, about everything. There you have the sucking chest wound at the center of the Democratic Party, a malodorous vacuum where, as they like to say, democracy dies in darkness. But then, when they’re asked, ‘Well, who?’ There is no one else.” Is that so? One DNC strategist, Maria Cardona, was quoted saying, “Democrats complain that he might be too old. “If you’re going to lie,” Joseph Goebbels used to say (in German of course), “make it a whopper.” How did that work out for the Third Reich? Today, T he New York Times says “Joe Biden” is revving up to run for president again in 2024. ![]() Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon PageĪnd thanks to all my Patrons for your support For your reading pleasure Mondays and Fridays ![]() ![]() After some initial problems fitting in, Davis finds gainful employment while continuing to research what happened to his company, his business partner, his business partner’s step-kid and his fiancee. He is swindled by his fiancee and business partner, then sent on a one way trip via cold sleep to the year 2000. Synopsis: In 1970, Dan Davis invents several useful household robots, based on technology invented during WWIII. I like what appears to be a large waffle iron masquerading as a cold sleep chamber, though. ![]() ![]() Not sure the artist has any experience drawing people but the cat is Just Plain Wrong. A note about cover art: the edition I am reading has really awful art. ![]() ![]() It is ok to say “ouch” when you are in pain. I want to raise you to know that speaking up is not an act of anger or aggression no matter the color of your skin, the timbre of your voice, or your gender. Listen, for example, to Holmes teach her son about the ministry of reconciliation, and what that looks like for a black man: She loves the church deeply and so she can challenge the church, showing what it looks like to love across racial and cultural lines. Jesus and His Word always have pre-eminence in her teaching, and yet she carefully demonstrates the racist history behind the notion of “just preach the gospel,” a stance that failed black believers miserably across America for decades. We would do well to listen and learn.Īs an African American sister in Christ, Jasmine Holmes knows well the challenges facing her sons in a country where a black man might be shot on his afternoon run. ![]() Sharing a series of letters written to her oldest boy when he was two years old, Holmes invites her readers to eavesdrop on conversations she will have with her sons as they grow up. A gifted writer, Holmes is also a middle-school humanities teacher in Mississippi. ![]() Holmes, daughter of well- known Baptist preacher Voddie Baucham, is wife to Phillip Holmes and mother to two sons, Wynn and Langston. Written as “a testament of a mother’s love for her son and of a sister’s love for the body of Christ,” Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope is a book the church needs now. ![]() |
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