![]() ![]() ![]() His confession is also backed up by a wealth of independent documentation. Using information never published before, the book uses Marcello’s own words to his closest associates to describe the plot. ![]() The book also uses government files including the detailed FBI confession of notorious Mafia godfather Carlos Marcello to simply and clearly reveal exactly who killed JFK. The Hidden History of JFK’s Assassination draws on exclusive interviews with more than two dozen associates of John and Robert Kennedy, in addition to former FBI, Secret Service, military intelligence, and Congressional personnel, who provided critical first-hand information. It explains why he was murdered, and how it was done in a way that forced many records to remain secret for almost fifty years. For the first time, this concise and compelling book pierces the veil of secrecy to fully document the small, tightly-held conspiracy that killed President John F. Novemmarks the 50th anniversary of the tragedy that has haunted America ever since. ![]()
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![]() ‘Very moving… Shriver has the magic ability to make the reader invested in the fate – fates, I should say – of her characters’ Daily Telegraph ‘I think Shriver’s novels are wonderful… fun, smart and, perhaps because of their author’s unconventional political views, unlike anything else you’ll read’ Financial Times ‘Witty and thought-provoking’ Woman’s Weekly With Should We Stay or Should We Go, she’s added triumphantly to their number’ The Times ![]() ‘Shriver said that her favourite novels are those that pack both an intellectual and emotional punch. ‘Thought-provoking, timely, and extremely funny’ Metro Disgust expands and bursts into belly laughs… a very funny book’ Sunday Times ‘Hilarious… Fiery phrases spit and crackle. ![]() ![]() A best fiction book of 2021 for The Times ![]() ![]() She is young, hardly more than a girl, pale-faced, with dark hair bound severely back beneath a flat-crowned chip, or willow-shaving, hat…She is evidently a servant, a maid. ![]() ![]() The woman raises her hands and pushes back the hood of her cloak, then loosens the white linen band she has swathed round the lower part of her face. Fowles’ lyrical language floats us, dream-like, into the story: Who except John Fowles of “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” would combine a story taking place in the 18 th century with the much-maligned and ridiculed subject of UFOs? It was fascinating to see the counterbalance between what at first appeared to be normal travelers plodding along and then the subtly unraveling mystery they all carried with them the shared, unspoken secret, the verboten knowledge. Fowles’ whim is often to tease…In ”A Maggot” the hypothesis seems to be that readers will tolerate more teasing, and more indeterminacy as to plot and character, than is usually expected of them. ![]() Though Fowles denies that “A Maggot” is historical, it does nevertheless take place during a precise historical timeframe of May 1736 to February 1737.Ī maggot in this sense is a whim, or a work based on a whim, and Mr. John Fowles’ “A Maggot,” circa 1985, a truly bizarre and fascinating tale revolving around one of the most unlikely subjects possible for the historical setting of the 1700s, slowly pushes open an eerily creaking door on the controversial world of UFOs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Those of you who've followed the series will likely know both Metro 2033 and Last Light are spin-offs of the original collection of books-the third and final entry of which released last year, and whose English language version is due December 10. According to a timeline on the Metro website, the next, and possibly final, game in the post-apocalyptic series is scheduled for launch next year. "When we have more news to share, we will.ĤA Games may be hard at work on the VR-exclusive Arktika.1, however it seems the Metro series developer hasn't forgotten its nuclear war-ravaged Russian roots. "But just to manage our fans' expectations - releasing the next Metro game in 2017 is not one of them. "As the exclusive rights holder to videogames set in the Metro 2033 universe, Deep Silver has ambitious plans for the hugely successful Metro series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Flint finds out his work for the law firm and the murder are connected. ![]() In the process, he comes across a murder at the moon marathon on the colony of Armstrong. ![]() He is chosen by a major law firm to investigate a former retrieval artist work on tracking this rogue scientist, Frieda Tey. ![]() But, Flint’s background as a detective and his strong moral compass has caused him to be conflicted as he works on his first assignment as a retrieval artist. Most retrieval artists usually work outside of the law. Miles Flint has become a retrieval artist after quitting the police force in the first book of the series, The Disappeared. Retrieval Artists are basically intergalactic bounty hunters that track down people who have disappeared in order to escape punishment from the human-alien societies created in this series. Extremes is the second novel in the multi-genre Retrieval Artist Series. What happens when a rogue scientist decides she wants to kill an entire moon city with a virus in order to create her own version of a superhuman race? That question is the basic plot of Extremes by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, I wanted to know more about his 1990s. With The Nineties, Klosterman removes himself almost entirely, allowing him to tell a more universal story of how the decade was understood as it unfolded. His 2003 best-seller, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, essentially serves as a ’90s memoir, with personal essays on The Real World, Saved by the Bell, and other totems of the era. ![]() A nostalgia-laced memoir The Nineties is not, which may surprise or even disappoint those who know only the author’s earlier works, among them Fargo Rock City and Killing Yourself to Live, which delivered a highly approachable blend of autobiography and pop critique. What’s noticeably absent from Klosterman’s twelfth book is Klosterman himself. ![]() For more than 300 pages, he covers the waning years of the 20th century: Bill Clinton and Ross Perot, Seinfeld and Friends, “Achy Breaky Heart” and Garth Brooks, Michael Jordan the baseball player and Pauly Shore the movie star, the slow, steady creep of the web and “the slow cancellation of the future”-the dispiriting notion that our post-internet world is unable to produce genuinely new culture, only recycled versions from the past. It’s the same conclusion Klosterman lands on in The Nineties, a fairly straightforward history of the American decade enlivened by his exceptional ability to draw unexpected insights from mass culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Author says he could not imagine Bell Labs having a future". "This new laboratory will explore how people can truly flourish at work". įacebook co-founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg recommended The Idea Factory to his book club in 2015, saying of the choice, " very interested in what causes innovation - what kinds of people, questions and environments." See also ![]() Three adapted excerpts from the book were published in TIME. ![]() The Idea Factory was reviewed favorably by Foreign Policy, the New York Times, the Cleveland Plain-Dealer and others. Gertner's "portraits of Kelly and the cadre of talented scientists who worked at Bell Labs are animated by a journalistic ability to make their discoveries and inventions utterly comprehensible - indeed, thrilling - to the lay reader". The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation is a 2012 book by Jon Gertner that describes the history of Bell Labs, the research and development wing of AT&T, as well as many of its eccentric personalities, such as Claude Shannon and William Shockley. The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future Print ( hardcover), print ( paperback), e-book, audiobook ![]() ![]() ![]() “Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez” by Adrianna Cuevas.“What is Given from the Heart” by Patricia C.“Rescue and Jessica: A Life Changing Friendship” by Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes.“Pipsqueaks, Slowpokes, and Stinkers” by Melissa Stewart.“Rumple Buttercup” by Matthew Gray Gubler.Learn more about the awards and find resources for teachers and librarians. During the next school year, Wyoming students will be encouraged to read these and vote for their favorites. ![]() Nominees for the 2023-24 awards cycle have recently been announced. The purpose of these awards is to provide an opportunity for the youth of Wyoming to read and select favorite books and to honor the authors of those books. The Wyoming Library Association and the Wyoming State Literacy Association jointly sponsor three awards: the Buckaroo Book Award for children in grades K-3, the Indian Paintbrush Book Award for children in grades 4-6, and the Soaring Eagle Book Award for youth in grades 7-12. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s a hole in the story, and everything works up toįilling it. The narrative unfolds in two parallel tracks, one starting at the beginning andīuilding to the climax, and one starting at the end, detailing theĪftermath and slowly building to the point where you find out what theĬlimax was. The result was awful, and tragic, and moving,Īnd worth overlooking any flaws that came before. But you know what? None of that mattered. “I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE,” observing structure, and cataloging flaws Reading it my critic brain ran a constant parallel track, noting This tale hit me on emotional, intellectual, and visceral levels. Sufficient time has passed when it comes to spoilers. ![]() The Sparrow won the Clarke award back in 1998, so I feel like ![]() It compares to the most tragic stories I’ve ever read,įull stop, except that non-fiction must trump fiction when it comes to Sparrow must be the single most tragic science fiction story I’ve ever ![]() ![]() Her latest novel, Serious Moonlight, is and now was my most anticipated release of 2019, thanks to its swoon-worthy synopsis. Daniel also shares her appetite for intrigue, and he’s stumbled upon a real-life mystery: a famous reclusive writer-never before seen in public-might be secretly meeting someone at the hotel.īetween Alex, Approximately and Starry Eyes, Jenn Bennett stole my contemporary-loving heart in 2018. The hotel’s charismatic young van driver shares the same nocturnal shift and patronizes the waterfront Moonlight Diner where she waits for the early morning ferry after work. In her new job, Birdie hopes to blossom from introverted dreamer to brave pioneer, and gregarious Daniel Aoki volunteers to be her guide. ![]() But her solitary world expands when she takes a job the summer before college, working the graveyard shift at a historic Seattle hotel. Raised in isolation and homeschooled by strict grandparents, she’s cultivated a whimsical fantasy life in which she plays the heroic detective and every stranger is a suspect. Summary (from the publisher): Mystery-book aficionado Birdie Lindberg has an overactive imagination. ![]() |