![]() ![]() I finally got lucky at Harper’s, where fabled editor Lewis Lapham gave me an assignment that turned into a book, which in turn became a bestseller, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. But can you make it upscale?” Then there was the editor of a nationwide, and quite liberal, magazine who responded to my pitch for a story involving blue-collar men by asking, “Hmm, but can they talk?” I once spent two hours over an expensive lunch – paid for, of course, by a major publication – trying to pitch to a clearly indifferent editor who finally conceded, over decaf espresso and crème brulee, “OK, do your thing on poverty. It wasn’t easy to interest glossy magazines in poverty in the 1980s and 90s. What I wanted to write about, in part for obvious personal reasons, was poverty and inequality, but I’d do just about anything – like, I cringe to say, “The Heartbreak Diet” for a major fashion magazine – to pay the rent. My income was meager and I had to hustle to get it, turning out about four articles – essays, reported pieces, reviews – a month at $1 or $2 a word. ![]() B ack in the fat years – two or three decades ago, when the “mainstream” media were booming – I was able to earn a living as a freelance writer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her first book, How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life, was published in March, and she is in the middle of an international promotional tour, during which she shares what she has learnt about achieving success and happiness. That message, says the YouTube star, is meant to be uplifting. Parents have no idea what to expect, and then get totally blown away by the message I’m sharing.” “I love when parents come to my show and go back to their kids with my stories of how this journey has taught me to always pick myself up, to never let anything stand in my way, and that hard work is the real secret behind making dreams come true. “I want parents to come,” says the 28-year-old Canadian. Social-media comedy star Lilly Singh is hoping that when she faces an audience in Dubai on Wednesday, there are plenty of grown-ups in the crowd alongside her younger fans. ![]() ![]() English for University Studies II (LANG1003).Business Programming with Spreadsheet (CB2022).Statistical Methods for Economics and Finance (STATS314F).Basic Mathematics for Business and Social Sciences (MATH1530).Introduction to Information Systems or (ISOM2010).Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Iv (RS4790).Applied Linear Algebra and Differential Equations (MATH 2350).University English Writing Skills (ENGLA101F).The Rule of Law in Contemporary China (CCCH9041).Economics Of Behavioural Finan (ECON4470). ![]() ![]() English For University Studies (Ieee/Vancouver) (ELC1013).Soil Mechanics For Civil Engineers (CSE30307).Chinese Communication for Construction and Environment (CLC3231P).Advanced Financial Accounting (ACCT 4010).Intermediate financial accounting II (ACCT3103). ![]() ![]() Theodore Roosevelt arrived in Buffalo at 1:30 pm. His death was attributed to gangrene of both walls of the stomach and pancreas. McKinley had died at 2:15 that morning, September 14, 1901. He took a train to Albany and another one to Buffalo, arriving there at about 1:30 p.m. He arrived there just before dawn and was told of the President's death. TR left his cabin in the late evening of Friday, September 13 for the thirty-five mile carriage ride to the nearest train station at North Creek. During his return from the hike on Friday afternoon, Roosevelt was met by a messenger, who carried the news that McKinley was dying and the Vice President should return to Buffalo as soon as possible. ![]() Back in Buffalo, McKinley's condition had taken a turn for the worse and he was rapidly deteriorating. ![]() It was here, after the tragic assasination of President McKinley, that Theodore Roosevelt took the oath of office that began his presidency.įrom the Theodore Rooevelt Inaugral Site website at On Thursday evening, September 12, Roosevelt and a group of family and friends hiked up Mt. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This bestselling book is for those who may be feeling attracted to Jesus but who are faced with difficult questions standing squarely in their path.
![]() When it's discovered that The Flow is moving, possibly cutting off all human worlds from faster-than-light travel forever, three individuals - a scientist, a starship captain, and the empress of the Interdependency - are in a race against time to discover what, if anything, can be salvaged from an interstellar empire on the brink of collapse. Just as a river changes course, The Flow changes as well, cutting off worlds from the rest of humanity. The Flow is eternal - but it is not static. It's a hedge against interstellar war - and a system of control for the rulers of the empire. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. Our universe is ruled by physics, and faster-than-light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transports us to other worlds, around other stars. 2018 Locus Award, Best Science Fiction Novel ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Koffi believes finding the Shetani could also be the key to solving her own problems. Koffi’s power ultimately saves Ekon’s life, but his choice to let her flee dooms his hopes of becoming a warrior.ĭesperate to redeem himself, Ekon vows to hunt the Shetani and end its reign of terror, but he can’t do it alone. But on the night of his final rite of passage, Ekon encounters not only the Shetani-a vicious monster that has plagued the city for nearly a century and stalks his nightmares, but Koffi who seems to have the power to ward off the beast. But the night those she loves are gravely threatened by the Zoo’s cruel master, Koffi finally unleashes the power she doesn’t fully understand, upending her life completely.Īs the second son of a decorated hero, Ekon is all but destined to become a Son of the Six-an elite warrior-and uphold a family legacy. Indentured to the notorious Night Zoo, Koffi knows the fearsome creatures in her care and paying off her family’s debts to secure their eventual freedom can be her only focus. ![]() There’s no such thing as magic in the broken city of Lkossa, especially for sixteen-year-old Koffi, who holds a power within her that could only be described as magic-a power that if discovered could cost her life. ![]() In this much-anticipated series opener, fate binds two Black teenagers together as they strike a dangerous alliance to hunt down the creature menacing their home-and uncover ancient deadly secrets. ![]() ![]() ![]() William Forstchen is a professor of history at Montreat College. “We were spoiled unlike any generation in history, and we forgot completely just how dependent we were on the juice flowing through the wires, the buttons doing something when we pushed them.” If you do not know your weakest point, be certain, your enemy will.” ![]() “The enemy will never attack you where you are strongest. . . ![]() It can only live now in the artificial environment of vaccinations, sterilization, and antibiotics we started creating a hundred or more years ago.” “America is like an exotic hothouse plant. In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warned could shatter America. It has been discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. Months before publication, One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. that may already be in the hands of our enemies. A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, that sends America back to the Dark Ages. Forstchen brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real. In One Second After, New York Times bestselling author William R. Audiobook Length: 13 hours and 17 minutes ![]() ![]() ![]() Beloved Audiobook By Toni Morrison cover art. ![]() Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved" is a towering achievement. Beloved as its meant to be heard, narrated by Toni Morrison. ![]() And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Toni Morrison-author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby-is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). Books Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Buy now with 1-Click Add Audible narration to your purchase for just 8. Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is haunted persistently by the ghost of the dead baby girl whom she sacrificed. Beloved (Vintage International) - Kindle edition by Morrison, Toni. ![]() ![]() But when her cellphone unexpectedly calls it quits and things at camp start getting stranger and stranger, Vega has no choice but to team up with her bunkmates to figure out what’s going on! Except Vega is determined to get her old life back. To help her settle into her new life in Seattle, her parents send Vega off to summer camp to make new friends. Forced to leave her one and only best friend, Halley, behind, Vega is convinced she’ll never make another friend again. When her parents decide it’s time to pack up and leave her hometown of Portland, Oregon, behind for boring Seattle, Washington, Vega is more than upset-she’s downright miserable. ![]() Vega’s summer vacation is not going well. ![]() From the creator of Fake Blood comes another exceptionally charming middle grade graphic novel about friendships both near and far, far away. ![]() |