![]() ![]() ![]() The novel circulated in samizdat for more than a decade, often attributed to Solzhenitsyn, before its publication in the West led to Vladimov’s harassment and exile.Ī starving stray, tortured and abandoned by the godlike “Master” whom he has unconditionally loved, Ruslan and his cadre of fellow guard dogs dutifully wait for the arrival of new prisoners-but the unexpected arrival of a work party provokes a climactic bloodletting. Dissident, he said, is a word that “they force on you.” His mother, a victim of Stalin’s anti-Semitic policy, had been interred for two years in one of the camps from which Vladimov derived the wrenching detail of Faithful Ruslan. “Every writer who writes anything in this country is made to feel he has committed a crime,” Georgi Vladimov said. ![]() Set in a remote Siberian depot immediately following the demolition of one of the gulag’s notorious camps and the emancipation of its prisoners, Faithful Ruslan is an embittered cri de coeur from a writer whose circumstances obliged him to resist the violence of arbitrary power. ![]() Unavailable for twenty years, this harrowing allegory of obedience to authority is esteemed as “one of the defining literary texts of the post-Stalin period.” ( The Guardian) ![]()
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![]() It’s like nothing Ella has ever experienced, and if she’s going to survive her time in the Royal palace, she’ll need to learn to issue her own Royal decrees.Ī fucking JAW DROPPER!!! I'm still reeling! Ahhhhh! Okay. He says she doesn’t belong with the Royals. Each Royal boy is more magnetic than the last, but none as captivating as Reed Royal, the boy who is determined to send her back to the slums she came from. Until Callum Royal appears, plucking Ella out of poverty and tossing her into his posh mansion among his five sons who all hate her. ![]() After her mother’s death, Ella is truly alone. ![]() She’s spent her whole life moving from town to town with her flighty mother, struggling to make ends meet and believing that someday she’ll climb out of the gutter. This a previously published edition of ASIN B01DT9ZWNI.įrom strip clubs and truck stops to southern coast mansions and prep schools, one girl tries to stay true to herself.Įlla Harper is a survivor-a pragmatic optimist. ![]() ![]() ![]() With pressure mounting from a tough, no-nonsense new sheriff, the media, and the parents of Bayou Breaux, Nick and Annie dig deep into the dual mysteries. ![]() A mother herself, Annie understands the devastation this woman is going through, but as a detective she's troubled: Who would murder a child and leave the only witness behind? When KJ's sometimes babysitter, twelve-year-old Nora Florette, is reported missing the very next day, the town fears a maniac is preying on their children. Meanwhile, Nick's wife, Detective Annie Broussard, sits with the grieving Genevieve. Genevieve's seven-year-old son, KJ, has been murdered by an alleged intruder, yet Genevieve is alive and well. When Detective Nick Fourcade enters the home of Genevieve Gauthier outside the sleepy town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana, the bloody crime scene that awaits him is both the most brutal and the most confusing he's ever seen. ![]() Now a New York Times bestseller An unfathomable loss or an unthinkable crime? #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag keeps you guessing in her most harrowing thriller yet. ![]() ![]() The pressure to meet deadlines ruins the ability to be spontaneous and as we’ve seen it comprises their safety along the way. I can understand the logic, but most of their big mistakes are made because of this tight schedule. Traveling on a strict schedule is the reason for most of their mistakesĪpparently Ewan has such a busy schedule that it has taken them 10 years to plan this trip and he only managed to get a 100 days off so the trip has to happen within this time frame. ![]() ![]() There is just not any reason you should ride at night, it’s not worth it and I can’t believe they keep risking it while they have a family waiting for them to come home. Other road users who don’t have lights and/or drive drunk especially in the night. You cannot see anything, no potholes in the road, no animals crossing the road. It is incredibly dangerous for so many reasons. ![]() Riding in the dark is a rookie mistake they should not have made What are the biggest mistakes made in the Long Way Up? ![]() ![]() ![]() You can’t live with the community anymore. Having a factionless life is nearly the same as having no life. When you don’t get through it and you are one of the last four people at the ranking list you will be factionless. When you choose a faction you have to get through the invitation, after that you will be a real member of the faction. Abnegation where she lives her whole life until then, with her family, or another faction? She chooses Dauntless. The day after the test Tris has to choose. Normal people don’t realize that it is a simulation, they think the simulation is the real world. When they are in a simulation, they realize that it is a simulation. In this world it is not safe to be a Divergent, the Divergents think different than normal people and they can manipulate the simulations. Tris fits in Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. When you are a Divergent you don’t fit in one faction like “normal” people do, but in several factions. Beatrice Prior (Tris) figures out that day, that she is a Divergent. The test indicates which factions fits best. ![]() ![]() Each year the 16-year-old people who live in Chicago will have a test in the form of a simulation. Write a summary in your own words of about 400-600 words.Īfter a war in Chicago, Chicago is split in five factions: Candor, Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity and Erudite. Tris chooses the faction Dauntless, but she is a Divergent, so she is in danger.ī. ![]() Summarize in one sentence what the book is about. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In her new book, “Blowout,” MSNBC host and part-time Valley resident Rachel Maddow observes that oil and natural gas are necessary evils that underpin the basic framework of the modern world. Some call it “black gold.” Another term is “Texas Tea.”Īnd a co-founder of OPEC, Venezuelan diplomat Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, reportedly once called oil “the excrement of the devil.” Photo by Keith Srakocic/Gazette file photo Photo by Olivier Dauliery/Abaca Press/TNSĪ Pennsylvania gas drilling site in 2012. secretary of state, has been an unapologetic advocate of drilling for oil and gas anywhere a profit can be made, Maddow writes. Rex Tillerson, head of ExxonMobil and former U.S. Russian President Vladimir Putin is a corrupt autocrat, Maddow writes, who has used his country’s oil and gas wealth primarily to enrich himself and his cronies. “Blowout” revisits one of the worst oil spills in history, following the destruction of the Deepwater Horizon platfrom in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Maddow says one of the founders of OPEC, Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, once called oil “the excrement of the devil.” Maddow says one of the founders of OPEC, Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, once called oil “the excrement of the devil.” MSNBC host and part-time Valley resident Rachel Maddow offers a scathing look at the oil and gas industry in her new book, “Blowout.” Photo by NBCUniversal Media, LLC ![]() ![]() ![]() Passion that could heal.or cause irreparable damage to their future. Yet as the three of them spend time together, the sins of the past blur and fade, leaving raw emotion-and unbridled passion. Or worse, fear that Trevor will stay with her only out of a sense of duty. Although Trevor is hat-over-bootheels in love with his sweet, feisty wife, the sense his life is missing a piece has always gnawed at him.Ĭhassie's shock that Edgard and Trevor were once lovers turns to fear of losing her husband. ![]() Now Edgard is back from Brazil to sort out their tangled past, and Trevor is plagued with feelings he thought he'd buried over three years ago. ![]() Trevor never expected to see Edgard Mancuso again, after it became clear he couldn't be the man Edgard needed. ROUGH, RAW, AND READY releases TODAY 11-4-08 NovemTrevor and Edgard from LONG HARD RIDE were popular characters and readers demanded their story. Then Trevor's old roping partner ambles up the driveway-and Chassie's life changes drastically. A year of wedded bliss to sexy-as-sin cowboy Trevor Glanzer has brought her the happiness and contentment she never thought she'd find, and mellowed Trevor's rodeo wanderlust. Torn between the love he has.and the love he's always wanted.Ĭhassie West Glanzer hasn't been a stranger to drama and tragedy. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s time to step up, to do what the Newport News police department won’t. If I was a better brother, she’d be finishing senior year instead of being another name on a missing persons list. If I hadn’t hung up on her that night, she would be at our house, spending time with Grandma. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. ![]() Harris and published by Quill Tree Books. I, Jay Murphy, can admit that, for a minute, I thought my sister Nicole just got caught up with her boyfriend-a drug dealer-and his friends. When You Look Like Us is written by Pamela N. No one even blinks twice over a missing black girl from public housing because she must’ve brought whatever happened to her upon herself. When you look like us-brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades-everyone else thinks you’re trouble. ![]() Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Tiffany D. From debut author Pamela Harris comes a timely, gripping teen novel about a boy who must take up the search for his sister when she goes missing from a neighborhood where black girls’ disappearances are too often overlooked. ![]() ![]() ![]() He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. ![]() ![]() Yet it will be love, not politics-their passion for the same woman-that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group - USĪ sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel-an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Readerware Library Page loaded on Tuesday, at 02:40 am ![]() ![]() ![]() When Maya and Skye are invited to star on the reality dating show Second-Chance Romance, they’re whisked away to a beautiful mansion-along with four more of Jordy’s exes-to compete for his affections while the whole world watches. Now his face is all over the media and Skye is still wondering why he stopped calling. ![]() Skye Kaplan was always cautious with her heart until Jordy said all the right things and earned her trust. If the world only knew the real Jordy, the manipulative liar who broke Maya’s heart. It’s been two years since Maya's ex-boyfriend cheated on her, and she still can’t escape him: his sister married the crown prince of a minor European country and he captured hearts as her charming younger brother. “Wickedly funny searingly sexy.”-Kelly Quindlen, author of She Drives Me Crazy When their now famous ex-boyfriend asks them to participate in a teen reality show, two eighteen year old girls-one bent on revenge, the other open to rekindling romance-get tangled up in an unexpected twist when they fall for each other instead in Never Ever Getting Back Together by nationally and internationally-bestselling and Indie Next Pick author Sophie Gonzales. ![]() 'Enjoy this rambunctious performance by glowing narrators Barrie Kreinik and Natalie Naudus.'- AudioFile ![]() |