Don Winslow Synopsis: In The Death and Life of Bobby Z by Don Winslow, Tim Kearney didn’t have a choice but to murder a Hell’s Angel and now he’s looking at spending life in prison with buddies of the man he killed. But now he has an alternative; given an offer by the Feds ...
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Indeed, even more than the experience of self-reliance that the war bestowed on many women—symbolized in the United States by the iconic image of Rosie the Riveter—what shaped our relation to reproduction in the postwar period, especially in Europe, was the memory of the carnage into which...
4.City on Fireby Don Winslow (William Morrow) 14 Rave • 4 Positive Read an interview with Don Winslowhere “Winslow…brings his sharp interpretive skills to Virgil’sAeneid,and makes the events at Troy and the founding of Rome into a riveting gangster tale. He makes me...
devalued, not genuine, deflated.” Mascolo tells her the Resistance plans to kill Rabier, but in the end, he is arrested and Duras testifies at his trial. And then he goes “completely out of my head…. He must have been shot during the winter of 1944-1945. I don’t know where....
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang accelerated depreciation, affirmative action, Alan Greenspan, AOL-Time Warner, Asian financial crisis, bank run, banking crisis, basic income, Berlin Wall, Bernie Madoff, borderless world, business logic, Carmen Reinhart, central ba...
Judges’ comments: This second novel of the Millennium trilogy interweaves an unusual range of characters in a plot of remarkable complexity. Jo Nesbø, The Redeemer, translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett, Harvill Secker 2009 [2005] ...
Funny Feelings by Tarah DeWitt When falling in love is the punchline… Farley Jones is being forced to date Meyer Harrigan, the man she has come to love, in order to make all of her stand-up dreams come true. It’s agony— a tragedy, even. In lieu of flowers, please send cash…...
In addition, the texts are presented not in chronological order, but — in my opinion, at least — in order of merit, and the first three are far better than the last. The book takes its title from Duras’s first piece, La Douleur, drawn from the diary she kept over the weeks when...
They must find a solution together in order to save their lives from collapse. People We Meet on Vacation, by Emily Henry (2021) Poppy and Alex have maintained their tight-knit relationship throughout their entire lives. While they are as different as two people can be, they still know ...