![]() "It's been said that if you're going to pick up one memoir of the Civil War, Grant's is the one to read. Grant's style is strikingly modern in its economy." "What gives this peculiarly reticent book its power? Above all, authenticity. Grant provides essential insight into how rigorously these events tested America's democratic institutions and the cohesion of its social order. Grant Association's Presidential Library, this definitive edition enriches our understanding of the pre-war years, the war with Mexico, and the Civil War. With annotations compiled by the editors of the Ulysses S. ![]() ![]() This is the first comprehensively annotated edition of Grant's memoirs, clarifying the great military leader's thoughts on his life and times through the end of the Civil War and offering his invaluable perspective on battlefield decision making. Mark Twain and Henry James hailed them as great literature, and countless presidents credit Grant with influencing their own writing. Grant's memoirs, sold door-to-door by former Union soldiers, were once as ubiquitous in American households as the Bible. Ulysses Grant in his Memoirs gives us a unique glimpse of someone who found that the habit of reflection could serve as a force multiplier for leadership." "Provides leadership lessons that can be obtained nowhere else. "Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War." ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The majority of this book tends more towards domestic thriller than outright horror, with the horror kicking in near the end, but I loved that. All I really knew going into this book was that it was a horror-thriller written by an author I love – and that was the best way to experience this book.The audiobook, narrated by Xe Sands, is a fantastic experience and had me feeling genuinely freaked out at several points. I’m a huge Sarah Gailey fan, so I knew I had to read this ASAP. Vera must face them and find out for herself just how deep the rot goes. There are secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the notorious Crowder House. ![]() He insists that he isn’t the one leaving notes around the house in her father’s handwriting. A parasitic artist has moved into the guest house out back and is slowly stripping Vera’s childhood for spare parts. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there, beneath the house he’d built for his family.Ĭoming home is hard enough for Vera, and to make things worse, she and her mother aren’t alone. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories – she’s come back to the home of a serial killer. ‘Come home.’ Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. ![]() ![]() ![]() The friendships between these four girls are tried and tested. There are parties, and there are more parties, and there are boys, boys, boys. the looks of her parents, she could be adopted and she wants to investigate this further. Violet has a sneaking suspicion that because of her looks vs. They could be twins – except that the painting is from the 1700’s. Violet also has a secret reason for being so interested in this Italian course: she has seen a painting in which the subject, another girl, looks exactly like her. ![]() She is a dead ringer for an Italian girl despite the fact that her parents are Norwegian and Scottish. Violet is the story’s main focus, and she is an interesting gal. The girls live together and spend their time studying Italian art and culture, learning the language, and partying it up with Italian boys. My Thoughts: Oh boy, Flirting in Italian.įlirting in Italian is the story of four girls – Violet, Kelly, Kendra, and Paige – that take an immersion-type course together in Italy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stark’s book was severely criticized by various scholars in the disciplines of history and New Testament studies because he made a vigorous assault on a number of long held beliefs about the makeup and growth of the early church. Applying sociological theory and the use of metrics to the history of the early church, Stark provided a series of compelling arguments to show how the Jesus Movement grew from a tiny group of first century Jews to numerical dominance in the harsh and antagonistic environment of the Roman Empire three hundred years later. In 1996 sociologist Rodney Stark burst into prominence with the publication of his controversial and iconoclastic work, The Rise of Christianity. The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World’s Largest Religion. Denver Journal Book Review by Denver Seminary Professor Scott Wenig ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her work is exquisite! Truly, amazing talent knows no age. To say I was happy to have chanced upon BJ Rosalind’s work would be the understatement of the year. So I made it my life’s mission to promote poetry and to promote as much underrated authors as I can. Poetry is a genre that has been often put on the sideline, it isn’t something everyone usually picks up. I’ve always wanted to support independent authors since I started blogging, especially the underrated poets. I was contacted by the author in exchange for an honest review. Source: Author provided a copy in exchange for an honest review.īJ Rosalind’s poetry is meant to be read out loud with intensity and full of emotions Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ![]() A collection of honest musings on the misadventures of life and love, “Fragmented Bliss” embarks readers on a journey to collapse in laughter and tears because that is how galaxies of memories are formed. ![]() ![]() Each book has a threat or challenge that must be overcome. The two of them are very different and both of them sit just outside the typical range of werewolf supernatural types. They’re very focused on Charles and Anna and how they see the world and each other. The Alpha and Omega books feel quite intimate. They’re books I look forward to because I know that I’ll slip into them completely and learn more each time. Although the two series share the same world and timeline and have an overlapping cast of characters, the Alpha and Omega series has developed a distinctive voice of its own. ![]() ![]() By the fourth book ‘Dead Heat’, that had changed. I started reading this spin-off series as a kind of filler while I waited for the next Mercy Thompson book to come out. ![]() This is my fifth visit with Charles and Anna and it’s the best of the series so far. ![]() ![]() ![]() I chose Pi as my main character's nickname because Pi, the number used so often in mathematics and engineering, is an irrational number that is, a number that goes on forever without any discernable pattern. Dear Emily, I don't know whether they would qualify as mystic puns, but: Our book club read the book last month, and wondered if there were more "mystic" puns such as the use of Tsimtsum as the ship's name? By the way, I was delighted to find out that "prusten" (a noisy sound used by tigers as a greeting) is a real word, and it seems to work with my cat.- EmilyĪ. Check out his answers to several readers' questions. Life of Pi is the latest selection in Good Morning America's "Read This!" book club series. 22, 2003 - Thanks for sending your questions to Life of Pi author Yann Martel. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the decline of the nation-state, the influence of the Jewish elite also declined significantly, but at the same time the influence of antisemitism as an ideology inexplicably seemed to grow. This exceptional position put them outside of class society and seemed to connect them to the state, making them a target of hatred whenever a class or group came into conflict with the state. To do this, Arendt studies their roles as financiers to the state and a special group in society that was not fully integrated into the nation-state. Arendt argues that it is not mere coincidence that they were chosen as the victims of the horrors of totalitarianism, and that by investigating their relationship to society as a whole, one might learn why they became the object of so much hatred. The first section, "Antisemitism," investigates why antisemitism and the figure of the Jew played such an integral role in Nazi and totalitarian propaganda. ![]() The first two sections are devoted to the historical developments in modern society from the 19th century until the crisis of the first World War that marks the beginning of totalitarian success in Europe. ![]() ![]() It is split into three parts: Antisemitism, Imperialism and Totalitarianism. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt is an in-depth analysis of the historical circumstances surrounding the rise of totalitarianism in the 20th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her late thirties, after twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didn’t dare to as a child and young adult. Yet Nora knew little about her own family’s involvement in the war: though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it. For Nora, the simple fact of her German citizenship bound her to the Holocaust and its unspeakable atrocities and left her without a sense of cultural belonging. ![]() Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow throughout her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. Nora Krug's story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family’s wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nonstop action moves between London, Venice, Paris, Moscow, and the Swiss Alps, as the two women track each other, and amoral Villanelle continues her murderous ways. With a second season about to air in April and the coming release of the second book in Luke Jennings's Codename Villanelle series, it is clear Eve and Villanelle - the MI6 operative and the talented assassin she is tracking - will be with us a while longer."- Washington Post, "The obsessive relationship between the two women deepens. This espionage romp keeps readers slightly off balance as it brilliantly walks the line between thriller and spoof-and readers will find the experience irresistible."- Shelf Awareness, "When Killing Eve crashed on our screens last year, it felt like a breath of fresh air: a feisty and funny entry in the recent revival of the staid, stuffy and overwhelmingly masculine spy genre. "But it's all good, nasty fun for lovers of James Bond and Modesty Blaise-although Jennings is much more sexually explicit than Ian Fleming or Peter O'Donnell. ![]() |