![]() ![]() It was the first of Cunard’s “grand trio” of four-funneled ships. In response to competition, it was designed in 1907 to be one of the biggest, fastest, most luxurious and most modern ships around. The Lusitania was a Cunard transatlantic liner that navigated between New York City and Liverpool. In his characteristic compelling biographical style, Larson educates readers on this maritime catastrophe.įirst, let’s talk basics. Many people have heard of this World War I disaster, but few know the minute details, the ill-fated set of conditions that culminated in the deaths of hundreds of passengers. In “Dead Wake,” Larson explores the events during the weeks leading up to the sinking of the luxury ocean liner the Lusitania on May 7, 1915. (Can I take a second to brag that my copy of the former is signed by the author?!) If you have not read any of this guy’s books, you need to. ![]() I did not think it would be possible, but “Dead Wake” has replaced “The Devil in the White City” as my favorite Erik Larson book. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator begins his story by recalling his high school graduation speech, which attracted the attention of the white school superintendent who invites him to give the same speech at a local hotel to the town's leading white citizens. Now in his 40s, he recalls a time when he was a naïve young man, eager to become a renowned educator and orator. ![]() In the Prologue, the narrator - speaking to us from his underground hideout in the basement (coal cellar) of a whites-only apartment building - reminisces about his life as an invisible man. during the pre-Civil Rights era when segregation laws barred black Americans from enjoying the same basic human rights as their white counterparts, the novel opens in the South (Greenwood, South Carolina), although the majority of the action takes place in the North (Harlem, New York). Told in the form of a first-person narrative, Invisible Man traces the nameless narrator's physical and psychological journey from blind ignorance to enlightened awareness - or, according to the author, "from Purpose to Passion to Perception" - through a series of flashbacks in the forms of dreams and memories. Invisible Man is the story of a young, college-educated black man struggling to survive and succeed in a racially divided society that refuses to see him as a human being. ![]() ![]() But soon after opportunity's door slams shut, Ky finds herself with a ticket to ride-and a shot at redemption-as captain of a Vatta Transport ship. Expelled from the Academy in disgrace-and returning home to her humiliated family, a storm of high-profile media coverage, and the gaping void of her own future-Ky is ready to face the inevitable onslaught of anger, disappointment, even pity. But with a single error in judgment, it all comes crumbling down. And despite her family's misgivings, there can be no doubt that a Vatta in the service will prove a valuable asset. ![]() It's adventure, not commerce, that stirs her soul. shipping concern can't hold a candle to shipping out as an officer aboard an interstellar cruiser. For Ky, it's no contest: Even running the prestigious Vatta Transport Ltd. ![]() Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her father's only child to buck tradition by choosing a military career instead of joining the family business. ![]() ![]() ![]() He examines Anaximander as a scientist interested in shedding light on the deep nature of scientific thinking, which Rovelli locates in his rebellious ability to reimagine the world again and again. In this elegant work, acclaimed physicist Carlo Rovelli brings to light the importance of Anaximander’s overlooked legacy to modern science. He introduced a new mode of rational thinking with an openness to uncertainty and to the progress of knowledge. ![]() Anaximander’s legacy includes the revolutionary idea that the earth floats in a void, that the world can be understood in natural rather than supernatural terms, that animals evolved, and that universal laws govern all phenomena. Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved the way to cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in motion a new way of seeing the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Reprint edition (August 15, 2017).It is these individual stories, like the ones Willner tells in Forty Autumns that help inspire us. In a nation that stands divided due to ideology and discord, it’s important to look at lessons about division (and uniting) from our not-so distant history. Nina Willner paints a picture of this tragic occurrence and shares the stories of five women and how they were reunited once the wall came down. Forty Autumns is a memoir that adds to the narrative of families torn apart by the Iron Curtain. A couple of my favorite movies – Goodbye Lenin and Das Versprechen – offer treatments of this time period. ![]() In 1989, the wall came down, but until then, there were some moving stories that surrounded those who were torn apart due to the Berlin Wall. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Like Us series takes place twenty years after Long Way Down and ten years after the ending of Some Kind of Perfect. ![]() They'll be published on the 21st and 28th respectively. The two books will expand on where the web-series abruptly left off. In January 2020, Whatever It Takes (book) and Wherever You Are will be published as the Bad Reputation Duet to replace Whatever It Takes (web-series) in canon. Krista and Becca Ritchie's website states "you don't have to read the Addicted series prior to reading Whatever It Takes." However, the story takes place during the same timeline as Addicted After All, Fuel the Fire, and Long Way Down. Whatever It Takes, Bad Reputation Duet, and Like Us series The Like Us series is a true series, one continuous timeline, that follows a family of wealthy celebrities and the. If you only want to read only about Lily and Loren's journey (Addicted series), this is the order you should follow: Every day, Maximoff & Farrow's feelings grow stronger, and together, they'll either sink or swim. Some Kind of Perfect (epilogue novel with all six POVs). ![]() However, if you prefer to just read the Calloway Sisters series, this is the way to read it: ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Yet Claire wonders if it can last, or if she's just setting herself up for more heartache. Soon they're caught up in an all-consuming sexual storm they can't fight even if they wanted to. And with Claire thrown into the mix, life becomes even plicated.Ĭlaire is blindsided by her attraction not only to Dylan, but also to Aidan, a man she's just met. Elle Kennedy Hotter Than Ever (Out of Uniform) MP3 CD MP3 Audio, by Elle Kennedy (Author), Katie McAble (Reader) 193 ratings Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback 15.27 2 Used from 12.22 1 New from 15.27 MP3 CD 7.53 4 Used from 14.94 6 New from 7. Dylan's relationship with Aidan is.complicated. Three is most definitely not a crowd Claire McKinley has just experienced every. Bringing her home seems like a good idea-until he remembers his new roommate. Furious and humiliated, Claire seeks help from the most unlikely candidate-her almost-brother-in-law, who promptly whisks her away to his apartment in San Diego, where she can recover her pride in peace and quiet.ĭylan Wade is no fan of Claire's, but no way can he leave the jilted bride in her time of need. ![]() The groom is a no-show, and now she must face five hundred guests alone. ![]() When you land in hot water, swim for safety-or let the fire burn.Ĭlaire McKinley has just experienced every bride's nightmare. ![]() ![]() Wen creates a relatable story line for teens discovering who they really are and want to be. For a girl who has lived by her parents’ strict rules, this freedom is refreshing and exciting. However, Ever learns from the other students that this educational experience is really a chance for teens to live without rules and experiment with love, and it may not be as bad as she anticipated. Once again, her parents are deciding her future without her involvement, and dancing is looking more and more like an impossibility. When she is forced to leave Ohio and study abroad in Taipei, Ever is devastated. She longs to dance while her parents expect her to attend medical school, for which they have been grooming her since birth, and it doesn’t seem to matter that the sight of blood makes her faint. Like many teenagers, the path she dreams of is not the same as the one her parents have in mind. Ever Wong is waiting to hear back from colleges and decide where her life will lead. ![]() ![]() To prevent jeopardizing the plan in case Quilan's mind is scanned by an AI, the living Chelgrian has his memory wiped, and while the soul knows the exact nature of the mission, the living one only regains his memories slowly, until the truth of what he accepted to do reveals to him entirely. ![]() He is provided with the "soul" (the electronically stored memories and personality) of an old general, dead about 80 years previously. ![]() Major Quilan IV lost his wife in the conflict, and consequently any will to live. Unlike in most cases of Cultural intervention, this went catastrophically wrong and caused the Chelgrians to descend into a bloody civil war. It is based around Masaq', a vast Culture orbital home to billions of people, and a secret plot involving it.Ī short time before the events of the book, the Culture secretely interfered with the societal development of the Chelgrians, a five-legged predatorial race, with the aim of dismantling their repressive caste system. ![]() Look to Windward is the seventh Culture novel by Iain M. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When it’s clear, or at least partially clear, what happened to the child, any remaining tension hisses out like a pricked balloon. ![]() What ensues is a paint-by-numbers police investigation, led by the personality-free Detective Rasbach, who seems to cycle through potential theories as to Cora’s whereabouts the same way Lapena must have in her early plotting stages, except it all ended up on the page. When they return, drunk, after 1:00 a.m., Cora is gone. But when the babysitter cancels, Anne and Marco decide to leave Cora alone, taking the baby monitor with them and checking on her every half hour. ![]() A nice night out at a neighbor’s birthday party might be just the thing everyone needs. Yet looks are deceiving: his company is floundering, and she’s struggling with postpartum depression. He runs a successful software development company while she stays home with 6-month-old Cora maybe soon she’ll go back to work at the art gallery she loved. A questionable decision leaves a couple in a situation no parent wants to face: it’s the middle of the night and their baby is gone.Īnne and Marco Conti seem like the perfect upstate New York family. ![]() |