![]() ![]() Left and right, Carlson says, are no longer meaningful categories in America. ![]() They’ll outsource your job while lecturing you about transgender bathrooms. The patchouli-scented hand-wringers who worried about whales and defended free speech have been replaced by globalists who hide their hard-edged economic agenda behind the smokescreen of identity politics. ![]() In Ship of Fools, Tucker Carlson offers a blistering critique of our new overlords and answers the all-important question: How do we put the country back on course? Traditional liberals are gone, he writes. ![]() They fly on their own planes, ski on their own mountains, watch sporting events far from the stands in sky boxes. The people who run America now barely interact with it. “Informal and often humorous…an entertainingly told narrative of elite malfeasance” ( Publishers Weekly), Tucker Carlson’s Ship of Fools tells the truth about the new American elites, a group whose power and wealth has grown beyond imagination even as the rest of the country has withered. The #1 New York Times bestseller from FOX News star of Tucker Carlson Tonight offers “a targeted snipe at the Democrats and Republicans and their elite enablers” ( New York Journal of Books) in a funny political commentary on how America’s ruling class has failed everyday Americans. ![]()
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We are very proud of the condition of the books we sell (please read our testimonials to find out more!)Īs New: Pretty much new but shows small signs of having been read inside it will be clean without any inscriptions or stamps might contain a remainder mark. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Before that, as an undocumented immigrant, she did not want her life to be defined by being an immigrant in the ways her parents’ lives had been. Cornejo answered that the 2016 election changed her attitude toward her art. The book was named one of 20 “must read” books from 2020 by Barack Obama and is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Jon Leonard Award for best first book.Īfter an introduction by OSH Museum Educator, Mariana García, Hannon asked Cornejo to speak about her motivation to write the book. “ The Undocumented Americans: A Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio,” focuses on Cornejo’s experiences in writing her celebrated book, The Undocumented Americans, based on her travels across much of the United States to talk to undocumented immigrants about their lives. On the evening of Wednesday, 7 April, El Instituto, together with the Connecticut Democracy Center at the Old State House (OSH), Hartford, co-hosted a live-streamed conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Ecuadorian-American essayist and creative nonfiction writer, moderated by Fany Hannon, Director of UConn’s Puerto Rican and Latin American Cultural Center. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of our American conceptions of what constitutes a “traditional” Christmas come from this time in Victorian history. ![]() See my article about the life of Charles Dickens written on the anniversary of his 200th birthday here. He thus made it accessible to ordinary people, who could now participate directly in the celebration rather than merely witnessing its performance in church. In so doing, he brought the holiday inside the home. Chesterton noted long ago, with A Christmas Carol, Dickens succeeded in transforming Christmas from a sacred festival into a family feast. The 2017 film “The Man Who Invented Christmas” argues that very point. Some scholars have even claimed that in publishing A Christmas Carol, Dickens single-handedly invented the modern form of the Christmas holiday in England and the United States. None of Dickens’ other works is more widely recognized or celebrated within the English-speaking world. ![]() One of my favorite versions was watching Patrick Stewart perform his one-man version of the play at the Old Vic Theatre in London in the early ’90s. No other book or story by Dickens or anyone else (except the Bible) has been more enjoyed, referred to, criticized, or more frequently adapted to other media forms: theatre, opera, radio, film, TV, or comics. On December 19, 1843, Charles Dickens‘ novella A Christmas Carol was published in London, and its first edition sold out by Christmas Eve. ![]() ![]() In two stories ("The Musgrave Ritual" and "The Gloria Scott"), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, while Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. Watson two are narrated by Holmes himself ("The Blanched Soldier" and "The Lion's Mane") and two others are written in the third person ("The Mazarin Stone" and "His Last Bow"). ![]() The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1914.All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and biographer, Dr. ![]() The character grew tremendously in popularity with the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine, beginning with "A Scandal in Bohemia" in 1891 further series of short stories and two novels published in serial form appeared between then and 1927. ![]() The first novel, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. A London-based "consulting detective" whose abilities border on the fantastic, Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to adopt almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve difficult cases.Holmes, who first appeared in publication in 1887, was featured in four novels and 56 short stories. Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a graduate of the University of Edinburgh Medical School. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When a mysterious figure keeps getting in the way of Dinah's goals and threatens her friends and family, she'll learn more about herself, her mother's secret past, and navigating the various power chords of life. Who knows, her rock star group of friends may even save the world, but first they'll need to agree on a band name. First, she'll win the battle of the bands with her two best friends, then she'll join the Gotham City Junior Police Academy so she can solve crimes just like her dad. ![]() Thirteen-year-old Dinah Lance knows exactly what she wants, who she is, and where she's going. This mother-daughter story embraces the highs and lows of growing up without growing out of what makes us unique. Black Canary: Ignite is an inspirational song that encourages readers to find their own special voices to sing along with Black Canary In Shops: SRP: 9.99. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries comes Black Canary: Ignite, Meg Cabot's first graphic novel! With expressive and energetic art by Cara McGee to match the trademark attitude and spunk of Meg Cabot's characters and dialogue, this mother-daughter story embraces the highs and lows of growing up without growing out of what makes us unique. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Lockdown was soul-destroying for Nora’: John Lydon with his wife, Nora Forster, in 1986. No, no, no… It’s bare-bones, broken-heart stuff.” But over the years I’ve realised you need to go through it, because you’re charging the batteries up so you can go out and put your head on the guillotine and prepare to be sacrificed. Was he like this in the 1970s with the Sex Pistols? “Even worse then! It was all totally new to me. When we speak he is preparing to hit the road with his band Public Image Ltd, and the “stage fright, rack of nerves, whatever you want to call it”, is starting to bubble up again-“the worry that I will let people down, forget where I am and muck it all up.” It is not just laptop connections he has to contend with. But, increasingly, he is a man with a degree of vulnerability laid bare. Later I will get a dose of his current pro-Trump, anti-woke outlook. ![]() The 66-year-old hasn’t entirely lost the love of riling up an audience that he first displayed with the Sex Pistols. ![]() ![]() “I’ve got bad eyesight anyway, so I don’t know what I’m looking at.” He has had the challenging task of connecting to this video call, all by himself, from his home in California, and he seems surprised that he has managed it. “I always panic,” says an unexpectedly anxious John Lydon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Living Lively combines delicious recipes with advice and insights from her life as well as other dynamic, young women, leaders who are doing what they love, and making an impact. In Lively, she combines her uplifting message with tasty, wholesome food, providing dozens of nutrition-packed vegan recipes - all gluten, dairy, and egg-free. Now a social entrepreneur, speaker, and wellness & compassion activist, she is an advocate for conscious living who promotes resilience, positivity, and a healthy, nourishing lifestyle to young people everywhere.īy incorporating healthy, plant-based dishes into our daily routine, we can boost qualities such as confidence, happiness, energy, and positivity. When her father developed Type 2 diabetes, eight-year-old Haile Thomas began a journey that would improve her dad's health, and radically transform her life. 100 Plant-Based Recipes to Activate Your Power and Feed Your Potentialīy a superstar eighteen-year-old activist, motivational speaker, and the youngest Certified Integrative Health Coach in America, a unique cookbook and inspiring guide that combines 75 delicious, wholesome, super-powered plant-based recipes with a "7 points of power" manifesto to inspire you to take care of your health and nurture your ability to make an impact. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her time in France influenced the dramatic “Greengage Summer” and “Gypsy Gypsy”. ![]() The influence of India is reflected in “Black Narcissus”, “The River”, “Kingfisher’s Catch Fire”, “Breakfast with the Nikolides” and recently republished, “The Lady and the Unicorn”. Rumer Godden wrote some 60 works during her life, drawing on her experiences of life in India and Britain. In 2007 Cambridge University honoured her by holding a Symposium of her work to celebrate her Centenary. Her last book, “Cromartie versus The God Shiva Acting through the Government of India” was published by Macmillan in November 1997 and she died in 1998 aged ninety-one. She won The Whitbread Award for Children’s Literature in 1972 and was awarded the OBE in 1993. ![]() Nine of her books have been made into films. Rumer Godden, a well established author through Pan Macmillan and Virago Modern Classics, is considered by many to be one of the foremost English language authors of the 20th century. ![]() ![]() Joe Leaphorn demonstrates strength, wisdom, and especially the value of patience and silence in understanding the deeds men commit. Some reviewers have remarked that Hillerman's books are a bit slow. Leaphorn, in his search, learns more about Zuni customs and the ways of the ancient peoples of the American Southwest - and, thus, so do we. DANCE HALL OF THE DEAD (Navajo Magic & Murder) by HILLERMAN, TONY and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The tale involves an archaeological dig, Zuni Kachina gods, and 3 contrasting cultures, among other features of life in the desert. ![]() ![]() The Audible edition confirms and expands that in the following ways: 1) this book features an intricate and exciting mystery plot 2) the reader/listener learns a great deal about the Zuni and Navajo cultures and the differences between them 3) there's a never-to-be-forgotten lesson about differing priorities and 4) George Guidall makes every adventure even better! Two boys - one Navajo, one Zuni - are in great danger, and Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo police sets out to discover why. "Dance Hall of the Dead" has stuck in my mind for many years as among the best of Tony Hillerman. ![]() |