![]() ![]() ![]() Rage will be the foundational account of the Trump presidency, its turmoil, contradictions and risks. Kim describes the bond between the two leaders as out of a “fantasy film,” as the two leaders engage in an extraordinary diplomatic minuet. Woodward obtained 25 personal letters exchanged between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that have not been public before. Rage draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand witnesses, as well as participants’ notes, emails, diaries, calendars and confidential documents. What is not known is that Trump provided Woodward a window into his mind through a series of exclusive interviews.Īt key decision points, Rage shows how Trump’s responses to the crises of 2020 were rooted in the instincts, habits and style he developed during his first three years as president. President Trump has said publicly that Woodward has interviewed him. Woodward, the #1 internationally bestselling author of 13 #1 bestsellers, including Fear: Trump in the White House, shows Trump up close in his entirety before the 2020 presidential election. Rage goes behind the scenes like never before, with stunning new details about early national security decisions and operations and Trump’s moves as he faces a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest. An unprecedented and intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency from Bob Woodward. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Even after I spoil my chance at a good first impression, he still offers me a proposition I can’t refuse: play his girlfriend at a family function and he’ll hire me as his real estate agent. With his strong jaw, easy confidence, and form-fitting scrubs, it’s not long before every housewife in Hamilton is dragging neglected tomcats in for weekly checkups. ![]() Adam Foxe takes up residence as the town’s new vet. Instead, I’ve settled for the two guys who will never leave me: Ben & Jerry. Oh, and love? I’ve decided love might be a little ambitious for me at the moment. It’s just that my lofty dreams-making it as a real estate agent, paying rent on time, showering daily-have stayed just that: dreams. When your life is a hot mess at twenty, it’s cute. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Gave me the best thrill I have had for some time. “White has mastered the difficult art of writing a mystery-horror tale.” – New York Times “A really notable achievement in the macabre.” – Time and Tide This new edition of Wax (1935), a brilliant mixture of horror and mystery, is the first in decades and reproduces the original jacket art. One of the most popular crime novelists of the 1930s and ’40s, Ethel Lina White (1876-1944) is best known as the author of the books that inspired the films The Spiral Staircase and The Lady Vanishes. For slowly, ever so slowly, the horrible wax figures seem to be coming to life. Surrounded by gruesome wax figures of madmen and murderers in the evil chamber where someone has already met his death, Sonia suddenly feels terror grip her. So she resolves to spend a night there alone. Sonia Thompson, a young journalist, is determined to get to the bottom of the strange happenings at the waxworks. On the outskirts of the small English town of Riverpool stands a waxwork museum, where several people have died under mysterious circumstances. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps inevitably, considering her figurehead status, Campion's thoughts often turn to what women can and can't do in the film industry. It's a matter of looking after people – I think women do that really well." But I will also be trying not to let things get personal, and keep a sense of humour. They are all investing two weeks of their time to come and watch the films and think about them. ![]() "My job is to make sure everyone's voice gets heard. But as the only female winner, to date, of that top prize, it's the kind of honour that is her due.Īs the festival gears up for its 67th edition, Campion appears stoical about what she calls an "experiment in socialism", the shepherding of an eight-strong group – including fellow directors Sofia Coppola and Nicolas Winding Refn – around the Cannes competition films. She's actually the 10th woman to lead the festival's prize-giving committee – even if men have done it on 57 other occasions – and shares the honour with some heady company: Jeanne Moreau, Françoise Sagan, Liv Ullmann, Sophia Loren. So it comes as a surprise that her latest gig, as president of the Cannes film festival jury, isn't another act of pioneering gender breakthrough. Jane Campion was the first woman to win a Palme d'Or and only the second ever to be nominated for the best director Oscar. ![]() ![]() ![]() They’re refugees escaping to America from a region America burned to the ground, and Uncle Sam doesn’t tend to make such a process easy. How did we end up here, the story seems to ask, on the other side, so hopelessly jumbled?Īs with chess (as well as its Vietnamese counterpart, cờ tướng, which notably appears in the book), this family’s journey is maddeningly slow and constrained by a byzantine set of rules. ![]() ![]() In this case, that goal is understanding, be it on an individual or collective level. Nevertheless, they all push toward the same goal. The Best We Could Dois a fine moniker, but the name of this breathtaking work’s sixth chapter would fit the entire book even better: “The Chessboard.” Bui’s story is constructed like one, with the various members of her immediate and extended family beginning in the same place but moving away from it erratically, in fits and starts, eternally out of sync, and occasionally blocking each other’s paths. My only complaint about Thi Bui’s debut graphic memoir, which tells the sweeping tale of her family’s lives in Vietnam and the United States, relates to its title. ![]() ![]() ![]() Calico Palace is their story brought to vivid life. Some of them could not meet the demands of this strange new world others grew stronger and shared the greatness of the country they had helped build. And they laid the foundation of the golden empire before the first forty niners got there. They were there when the first people who saw the gold were laughed at and called crackbrains. Gwen Bristow Celia Garth (The Rediscovered Classics) Audio CD Unabridged, Maby Gwen Bristow (Author) 24 ratings Hardcover 11.25 31 Used from 6.00 Paperback 37.91 5 Used from 41.86 2 New from 37.91 Audio CD 20.99 2 New from 20. They saw the first samples of gold brought to the quartermaster, who said they were flakes of yellow mica. This novel tells the unforgettable story of how these people walked into one of the most spectacular adventures in the world’s history. CELIA GARTH by Gwen Bristow RELEASE DATE: With a record of wide popularity, from Deep Summer in 1937 to Jubilee Trail in 1950, this newest novel, of Charleston in the last years of the Revolution, should have an assured audience. These were the people who went up to the hills and came back staggering under the weight of the treasure they carried, and who began transforming San Francisco from a shantytown into one of the most brilliant cities in the world. ![]() ![]() This thrilling story of the California gold rush is not about the forty niners, the prospectors who came rushing to the San Francisco area in 1849, but about the men and women who were there when it all began with the first discovery of gold in 1848, when San Francisco was a village of 900 people. ![]() ![]() I lay on the hot pavement of the driveway, my ears pricked forward, my eyes attentive, my heart racing-not only from the heat, but from hope. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Find more about Elizabeth’s novels at and on Facebook. The Mussers have two sons, a daughter-in-law and three grandchildren. For over twenty-five years, Elizabeth and her husband, Paul, have been involved in missions work with International Teams. ELIZABETH MUSSER, an Atlanta native and the bestselling author of The Swan House, is a novelist who writes what she calls ‘entertainment with a soul’ from her writing chalet outside Lyon, France. Told from the alternating points of view of Sunny and Lanie, Waiting for Peter is the story of the healing power of love between a boy and his dog and an analogy of how we should view our relationship with God, our Master. ![]() So begins the relationship between Peter and his neurotic mutt, Sunny. ![]() ![]() Hoping to find a way to help Peter reconnect with his family, his mother, Lanie, agrees to let him adopt a dog from the Humane Society. ![]() Peter is a young teen who is emotionally and physically scarred following a tragic accident. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I predict young readers will do the same. I finished this small gem’s final sentence with a sigh – and then started again at the beginning. Urban (author of the terrific 2007 tween novel “A Crooked Kind of Perfect”) weaves bullying, family dynamics, an intimidating teenage girl next door, and a smidgen of janitorial facts into a truly perfect novel. When she slips nine washers on her arm like bangle bracelets, her uncle shares these “hound-dog true” words: “Could be one is all you need.” Just like friends. 22, 01-0868557, EO-2014262-000278, 062014, 1, GRAND FORKS DOG TRAINING CLUB. Hoping to shine as his apprentice, Mattie writes janitorial wisdom in a notebook: days for garbage pickup, don’t leave mops in buckets overnight, pizza day on Tuesdays. But she and her mom have just moved in with her understanding uncle, who is also the school’s custodian. ![]() In Hound Dog True ( Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 160 pp., aimed at ages 9-11), by Linda Urban, protagonist Mattie is scared of just about everything – and worst of all, she’s starting a new school with no notion of how to make friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No doubt, copies of each of these books will be available (maybe even signed!) at the fest. Click through the book cover images below to learn more about the books on or buy them from your favorite awesome local bookseller. Look for the following authors at the Children and Family stage at the Outdoor Fair. ( See the full youth schedule here >.) Face painted child reads at the festival | Photo: Bay Area Book Festival Children’s Authors at the Bay Area Book Festival on Saturday, May 7 Here’s a cheat sheet of the children’s books that will be represented. The Bay Area Book Festival lands in Downtown Berkeley on May 7+8, 2022, and brings with it tons of authors, including young adult and children’s book authors to speak. ![]() ![]() ![]() Without a convenient rain-swept moor to flee to, Mary is forced to admit that real life doesn’t follow the same rules as fiction and that if she wants a happy ending, she’s going to have to write it herself.Īmanda Sellet had a previous career in journalism, during which she wrote book reviews for The Washington Post, personal essays for NPR, and music and movie coverage for VH1. But despite her best efforts, she soon finds herself unable to listen to her own good advice and falling for a supposed cad-the same one she warned her friends away from. ![]() When some new friends seem in danger of falling for the same tricks employed since the days of Austen and Tolstoy, Mary swoops in to create the Scoundrel Survival Guide, using archetypes of literature’s debonair bad boys to signal red flags. Mary Porter-Malcolm has prepared for high school in the one way she knows how: an extensive review of classic literature to help navigate the friendships, romantic liaisons, and overall drama she has come to expect from such an “esteemed” institution. In this clever YA rom-com debut perfect for fans of Kasie West and Ashley Poston, a teen obsessed with nineteenth-century literature tries to cull advice on life and love from her favorite classic heroines to disastrous results-especially when she falls for the school’s resident Lothario. ![]() Preorder Amanda Sellet's debut novel BY THE BOOK from the Raven today! ![]() |