![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() The public believed the “Honest President,” and Edwards was dismissed as “a disgrace to journalism.” The facts concerning the disappearance of Grover Cleveland that summer were so well concealed that even more than a century later a full and fair account has never been published. Edwards exposed the secret operation, Cleveland denied it. The President Is a Sick Man details an extraordinary but almost unknown chapter in American history: Grover Cleveland’s secret cancer surgery and the brazen political cover-up by a politician whose most memorable quote was “Tell the truth.” When an enterprising reporter named E. What happened during those five days, and in the days and weeks that followed, was so incredible that, even when the truth was finally revealed, many Americans simply would not believe it. He would not be heard from again for five days. He boarded a friend’s yacht, sailed into the calm blue waters of Long Island Sound, and-poof!-disappeared. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland vanished. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Little Book of Hygge introduces you to this cornerstone of Danish life and offers advice and ideas on incorporating it into your own life. It is the warmth of morning light shining just right on a crisp blue-sky day. It's that feeling when you're sharing comfort food and easy conversation with loved ones at a candlelit table. Hygge is the sensation you get when you're cuddled up on a sofa, in cozy socks under a soft throw, during a storm. "It is about being with the people we love. "Hygge is about an atmosphere and an experience," Wiking explains. Loosely translated, Hygge - pronounced Hoo-ga - is a sense of comfort, togetherness, and well-being. Why are Danes the happiest people in the world? The answer, says Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, is Hygge. The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets To Happy Living Description: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Selected by Emma Watson’s International Feminist Book Club, Our Shared Shelf About the Book ![]() Kai Cheng Thom is the winner of the 2017 Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers.įierce Femmes and Notorious Liars was nominated for the 29th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is her first novel. She is the author of several award-winning works, including the poetry collection a place called No Homeland, the children’s book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea, and the essay collection I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE: A Trans Girl’s Notes From the End of the World. Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performer, lasagna lover and wicked witch based in Toronto, unceded Indigenous territory. For more details or to schedule an interview, email Ashley Fortier or call 43 ![]() ![]() ![]() Kisses describes their first meeting as a “curiously pleasurable pressure…something tinged with pain at the edges. The two are magnet-drawn to one another’s talent, Sharon sensing in Mel a rawness she herself lacks, thrilled that someone so overtly talented, charismatic, and, well, cool wants to be friends. Kisses meets Mel Vaught in her first class. Sharon Kisses-yes, her name is explained-shows up at the renowned Ballister Art Institute with a chip on her shoulder about her poor Kentucky upbringing. Kayla Rae Whitaker writes with an awe-inspiring wildness and an undercurrent of anger. You’ll fall for the two main characters-animation partners, friends so close they’re family-as they falter, then rise, as they grow up and into their art and their life’s work. As it progresses, the work deepens to the profound. The Animators is at first wild, wicked fun. To borrow a phrase from its main character, this book is “a story of consumption.” Hunger-for sex, love, high art, truth, authentic experience-drives the narrative, wavering between hollow pain, satisfaction, and over-indulgence. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Without going into the contentious issue of the causes of such situations, here, in lieu of the previous, central rule of law, we have the rule of the strongest, or the most cunning, the most powerful: a de facto basis for ruling and not one based in right or law. From Sierra Leone, to Afghanistan, Iraq, to Libya, a war of each against each, tribe against tribe, warlord against warlord ensues. Perhaps Hobbes’ argument finds support in examples of those states around the world where, following the collapse of a central government and state, a condition of war ensues. These views were expressed in his book Leviathan (1651).Įssentially, without a government with absolute powers, anarchy will ensue. This support was in part, influenced by his philosophical views, especially his view of human nature. Before and up to the first English Revolution, he supported the monarchical forces of Charles Stuart against the revolutionary Parliamentary forces. Politically, Thomas Hobbes, (1588-1679) favoured Absolute Monarchy. Do you think that his call for an absolute government is merited? Relate your arguments with present day examples. Explain Hobbes justification for a government with absolute authority. ![]() ![]() ![]() Robin Cook's Blindsight creates a chilling, haunting aura of terror and suspense, where fact and fiction imperceptibly merge. Jeopardizing her professional future, Laurie Montgomery sets out to uncover the truth – which leads her to a distinguished New York hospital and, beyond that, to nightmare. ![]() The reason for the opposition range from political expediency to religious belief, but Laurie senses that something far more menacing links the so-called random deaths. But her feelings turn to anger and frustration when she attempts to autopsy the bodies and investigate the deaths, only to find herself at odds with her superiors, the police department, and the relatives themselves. As the friends and families of the deceased uniformly swear that their loved ones weren't involved with drugs, that curiosity intensifies. When a series of unrelated yuppie deaths by cocaine overdose are reported to the medical examiner's office, Dr. Laurie Montgomery's battle to foil a plot of unimaginable evil. Set in Manhattan, Blindsight tells of city forensic pathologist Dr. ![]() ![]() With a theme reminiscent of Coma, here is Robin Cook at his disturbing, electrifying best. ![]() ![]() The power of the Wizard Council is growing, and her people are starving and rebellious. ![]() Meanwhile, Princess Raisa ana’Marianna, heir to the Gray Wolf throne of the Fells, has her own battles to fight. Alister is unaware that this will lead to a series of events that threaten to consume the world in chaos. The Demon King – 16-year-old Han Alister encounters three underage wizards setting fire to the sacred mountain of Hanalea.How to read the Seven Realms/Shattered Realms Books in Order? I. The sequel series, titled Shattered Realms, takes place in the same world, but a generation after the events of The Seven Realms and follows the progeny of many of the characters in the original series. The story follows Han Alister, a thief-turned-wizard who joins forces with Princess Raisa ana’Marianna to defend her right to the Gray Wolf Throne. Written by the American author Cinda Williams Chima, The Seven Realms is a four books high fantasy series set in the Queendom of the Fells – a world of medieval technology, swordplay, castles, and keeps. ![]() ![]() Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon.Įnter the Seven Realms… What are the Seven Realms/Shattered Realms series about? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Exupery uses metaphors and allegories that children will not understand not unless the parent explains it to them. However, I do think that this book was written for grown-ups. I haven’t read the English version of the book, and I probably won’t because I feel I wouldn’t have that same enjoyment when I read the original version.Īnyways, the book is intended for little kids because it is a children’s book. In addition, it helped that I already knew a little bit of French (took French class…) so some of the words weren’t unfamiliar to me. The book is very short and half of the pages consist of mostly pictures and very little words, so it wasn’t that difficult. I had to use my French dictionary and all other translation tools to have better comprehension. I actually read The Little Prince in French which of course was a challenge that I took. His personal odyssey culminates in a voyage to Earth and further adventures. With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the vagaries of adult behaviour through a series of extraordinary encounters. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their bold prediction of disaster on Wall Street in Blood in the Streets was borne out by Black Tuesday. Original book introduction: Few observers of the late twentieth century have their fingers so presciently on the pulse of the global political and economic realignment ushering in the new millennium as do James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. ![]() ![]() Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Get the Summary of James Dale Davidson, Peter Thiel - preface & William Rees-Mogg's The Sovereign Individual in 20 minutes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His jobs are to cut wood and put it into the pottery kiln, cut clay from the riverbanks for the potter Min to make into clay, and drain clay to make it finer. To pay for his mistake, Tree-ear offers to work for Min for nine days in order to pay for the box, which then turns into eighteen months. When Min comes out and startles Tree-ear, he drops and breaks a box. One day Tree-ear goes into Min's yard and investigates the work that he was drying in the sun. Tree-ear is fascinated with the nearby potters in his village, especially Min, and often watches them work. Tree-ear is an orphan who lives under a bridge with Crane-man, a physically disabled man who took him in when Tree-ear was only a small child. A Single Shard is a novel published in 2001, awarded for excellence in children's literature, by Linda Sue Park, set in 12th-century Korea. ![]() |