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![]() ![]() Readers would come to know Carrie, the glib and the profound in its own lively mix. As in Carrie’s real life, Suzanne Vale takes the cheesy role because she thought that, given her drug history, she’d never work again. She transformed her desperation work on the director Penelope Spheeris’s low-budget undercover-cop movie Hollywood Vice Squad into her character Suzanne Vale’s desperation work on a low-budget undercover cop film called The Kitchen Sink. “But then, I always have.”Ĭarrie used her real post-rehab experiences in the book. I distinctly feel as though I’m missing something.” Pause. Carrie opened the book with the line: “Maybe I shouldn’t have given the guy who pumped my stomach my phone number, but who cares?” She ended it with a letter to that same lifesaving doctor, concluding with witty melancholy: “That night in the emergency room, do you recall if I threw up something I needed?. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nobody desired an executive with powers so weak as to be ineffective, but at the same time, nobody wanted to be ruled by a monarchy similar to the one from which the country had just won independence. Constitution, explaining debates among the Founding Fathers about how much stability to offer a chief executive. ![]() Throughout the book, Priess delves into the provisions of the U.S. In each chapter, former CIA officer Priess ( The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America’s Presidents, 2016) discusses a discrete path toward departure: rejected by one’s own political party (Presidents Tyler, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Arthur, and Lyndon Johnson) undermined by opponents and/or subordinates (Nixon) sunk due to general unpopularity (Taft) death by natural causes (Harrison, Taylor, Harding, Franklin Roosevelt) assassination (Lincoln, McKinley, Garfield, Kennedy) temporarily unable to serve due to a traumatic occurrence (Wilson, Eisenhower, Reagan) and impeachment (Andrew Johnson, Clinton). ![]() president has left office, focusing on departures or near departures under duress. A timely anecdotal narrative about how every incumbent U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Parrish's gripping and atmospheric new Louis Kincaid novel is a quality read that will remind many of Dennis Lehane. In Hidden Lake hospital, where the walls are stained with secrets and the air thick with the history of lingering screams, Louis is on his darkest journey yetinto the mind of a deranged killer and into the locked rooms of his own psyche. When Louis tries to find the remains, he crosses paths with a reporter searching out rumors that a former patient, assumed dead, is alive and killing again. The coffin of Claudia DeFoe, the youthful love of Louis's foster father Phillip, is empty. ![]() The ruin is empty now, and the bulldozers have come to raze it. In a remote corner of the Michigan woods, behind rusted iron gates and crumbling walls, lies a notorious sanitarium and its forgotten cemetery. ![]() ![]() Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. ![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Similar to McQuiston's first two titles, readers can expect strong-voiced characters, passionate narration, and the underlined theme of finding a place where one belongs. McQuiston describes the plot of "I Kissed Shara Wheeler" as being about "a prom queen who runs away on prom night and leaves behind three people she kissed: her academic rival, the boy next door who has a crush on her, and her longtime quarterback boyfriend." The three characters left behind rally together to discover why Shara left - and what she's left behind. " I Kissed Shara Wheeler" has the same elements of LGBTQ representation and romance told through a younger lens, all while not feeling condescending to the young readers who are already fans of McQuiston's work. ![]() ![]() While " I Kissed Shara Wheeler" is McQuiston's first official YA release, they know that young readers are already in their audience - and make a conscious effort to hold similarities between their first two books and their upcoming third. "I Kissed Shara Wheeler" brings LGBTQ visibility to the world of a fictional, small-town Christian high school. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not a month later, she realizes that she is pregnant and must decide whether or not to get an abortion. She longs for the approval of an older man, so when her ice-skating instructor attempts to take advantage of her, she cannot resist. ![]() Mouvements Perpétuels tells of Cäcilia, a young lady shunned by her birth father. ![]() When she meets Jarvis, a young man obsessed with avenging all those students who delight in his daily debasement, she resolves to intervene before tragedy unfolds. The Phantom Glare of Day tells of Sophie, a young lady who has lived a sheltered life and consequently has no idea how cruel public school bullying can be. In this trio of novellas, three game young ladies enter into dangerous liaisons that test each one’s limits and force them to confront the most heartr In this trio of novellas, three game young ladies enter into dangerous liaisons that test each one’s limits and force them to confront the most heartrending issues facing society in the early twentieth century. We're giving away 10 copies of Phantom Glare of Day! We're giving away 10 copies of Phantom Glare of Day!. ![]() ![]() Elenora soon discovers that this lark will be a far more dangerous adventure than she'd been led to believe. Merryn appears to be hiding a secret or two, and things seem oddly amiss in his gloomy London home. ![]() Her sorry financial circumstances-and dreams of a life of independence-convince her to accept. But when he encounters Miss Elenora Lodge, the fire in her golden eyes sways him to make a generous offer. Finding the right candidate proves more of a challenge than he expected. The simplest solution is to hire a paid companion. He has his own agenda to pursue, and a false fiancEe will keep the husband-hunters at bay while he goes about his business. ![]() His intentions are purely practical-he simply wants someone sensible and suitably lovely to pose as his betrothed for a few weeks among polite society. ![]() ![]() During the struggle, a photograph of Peri, with two other women and a man in Oxford, falls out of her bag: Peri “flinched as though the photo were alive and might have been hurt in the fall”. Yet the attack seems to have less importance for Peri than an event arising from it. The plot wastes little time in beginning that journey into the void Peri is subjected to a robbery and an attempted rape. Today, the narrator warns us, Peri will confront “the void in her soul”. The reader is immediately alerted both to Peri’s standing as a “fine modern Muslim” and to the cracks in that appearance. We begin with middle-aged Peri and her teenage daughter Deniz stuck in a traffic jam in Istanbul in 2016 as they make their way to a dinner party. As a writer who stands between west and east, working in Turkish and English, living in Istanbul and London, she engages with some of the most pressing political and personal themes of our times. T here is a compelling confidence about the scope of Elif Shafak’s work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trace the connections further and further back and you find yourself moving from semi-respectable organizations through darker and darker levels of fascism and hatred. Scratch the surface of such groups and you'll find a web of complex ties and front groups created by fascist ideologues. Familiar narratives of insane lone wolves and Confederate flags masked the organizations that inspired Roof's act and their connections to politicians at the local, state, and federal levels throughout the South-groups like the Council of Conservative Citizens (formerly the White Citizens Council). ![]() When Dylann Roof murdered nine black parishioners in a Charleston church, media emphasis remained superficial. US society is notoriously complacent when it comes to the rise of fascist tendencies. ![]() |