![]() ![]() Volume boost is a must! This has always been one of my favorites of King’s short story anthologies. Old Pop Merrill, Castle Rock's sharpest trader, wants to crash the party for profit, but the Sun Dog, a creature that shouldn't exist at all, is a very dangerous investment.Įxcellent stories, excellent narration, TERRIBLE audio quality! What a bummer.Īudible will you PLEASE address these audio issues!?!? Your app is an AUDIO APP, please give users more audio control. ![]() If he can find it in time, he might stand a chance.įour Past Midnight: "The Sun Dog", a menacing black dog, appears in every Polaroid picture that 15-year-old Kevin Delevan takes with his new birthday gift - with each following photograph beckoning him to the supernatural. But for small businessman Sam Peebles, who thinks he may be losing his mind, another enemy is hiding there as well - the truth. Three Past Midnight: "The Library Policeman" is set in Junction City, Iowa, an unlikely place for evil to be hiding. Alone, that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger. ![]() Two Past Midnight: "Secret Window, Secret Garden" enters the suddenly strange life of writer Mort Rainey, recently divorced, depressed, and alone on the shore of Tashmore Lake. Only 11 passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn't. One Past Midnight: "The Langoliers" takes a red-eye flight from LA to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Four chiller novellas set to keep listeners awake long after bedtime. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "Absorbing adventure that revels in both the creepy and the courageous." Praise for Geist, Book One in the Books of the Order Between the fantastic electric machines of Edison, the eccentricities of MoPO consultant Nikola Tesla, and the mysterious machinations of a new threat known only as the Maestro, they may find themselves in far worse danger than they ever have been in before But what starts as a simple mission in the Statesintended to keep them out of troublesuddenly turns into a scandalous and convoluted case that has connections reaching as far as Her Majesty the Queen.Įven with the help of two American agents from the Office of the Supernatural and the Metaphysical, Braun and Books have their work cut out for them as their chief suspect in a rash of nautical and aerial disasters is none other than Thomas Edison. ![]() But even veteran agents Braun and Books are unprepared for what the electrifying future holdsĪfter being ignominiously shipped out of England following their participation in the Janus affair, Braun and Books are ready to prove their worth as agents. Working for the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, one sees innumerable technological wonders. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Caro said that President Johnson sought the presidency, yet the nomination went to John F. The fourth book covers 1958 until early 1964. Robert Caro discussed his newly-released fourth volume of his biography of former President Johnson, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power. He won Pulitzer Prizes for biography in 19, and has been researching Lyndon Johnson since 1977. Robert Caro was born and raised in New York City and graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Science degree in English. Caro suggests planted the seeds for President Johnson’s “War on Poverty” program. He described President Johnson’s leadership following President Kennedy’s assassination, and his skill at moving several major pieces of legislation through the House and Senate after he became president, which Mr. He detailed Vice President Johnson’s poor treatment at the hands of Kennedy staff, and his acrimonious relationship with Robert F. T20:00:05-04:00 Robert Caro discussed his newly-released fourth volume of his biography of former President Johnson, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is obviously violence, since the story takes place during a war, but the descriptions are not excessive. ![]() ![]() Kate Quinn is a wonderful writer and does a masterful job of weaving entertaining fiction with her much researched historical facts about Mila Pavlichenko and those who were close to her. She was credited with over 300 sniper kills and even traveled to the United States, meeting with President and Eleanor Roosevelt. Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a Ukrainian/Russian history student who became a trained marksman and fought on the front lines for her country against Hitler’s forces. I’ve read some great books this year, but The Diamond Eye is my favorite so far!! This historical fiction novel is based on the story of a famous female sniper during WWII. I was so intrigued by The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn that I could barely tear myself away from reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to the book’s core subject, Klinenberg has some interesting perspectives on isolation, climate change, the effects of the internet, amongst other things, concerning our social, political, and cultural spheres. ![]() In the wake of COVID, the perspectives offered are even more interesting to consider in retrospect and while imagining the future. Palaces for the People was enriching and inspiring to read in 2018 – especially as a librarian. Klinenberg shares stories from around the globe – from as far away as Spain to as close to home as the streets of Chicago – where civil and urban engineering have shaped and been shaped by the communities for the betterment of neighborhood and city alike. The reporting shared evidence of how established or developing social infrastructures support or grow populations is truly fascinating and remarkable. Kranzberg Art & Architecture Library Special CollectionsĮric Klinenberg’s Palaces for the People.Scholarly Publishing & Digital Scholarship.Kenneth and Nancy Kranzberg Art & Architecture Library.Special Collections Research Guidelines.Special Collections Collection Development Policy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I couldn't sleep because I would always be out in that water, as the waves got bigger and bigger around me."īrubaker then discussed how Pulp tied into this harrowing experience: " Pulp was the first story I wrote after that day, and there's a clear strand of the story that comes from that day in the sea, where I can see myself trying to process the fear I felt." ![]() It was a harrowing day, and for a long time afterwards, every time I closed my eyes I was still in that water, waving for help, struggling to get out. "I got to a point where I was pretty sure I would never make it out of the water, and my wife was on the beach watching, on the phone with 911. "I was very lucky that a brave young man leapt into the riptide to save me and we managed to get back to shore with a lot of effort," he continued. RELATED: Friday: Brubaker & Martin on Blending Occult, Noir for New Webcomic ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The illness in Ma's work also originated in a Chinese economic center (Shenzhen rather than Wuhan) and features a respiratory illness chillingly similar to Covid-19 plus the resulting global upheaval. The piece explores more common instances as well, such as breakups, grief, and immigration, not to mention a global pandemic, which became ubiquitously relatable just a year after the novel was first published, eerily enough, in 2018. ![]() Candance Chen's life is full of sudden cutoffs and transitions outside of the office as well, including the end of society itself. The book's title is a clever reference to the sudden end of our protagonist's career as well as a theme of the entire work. In the same way that it seamlessly merges genres, Severance manages to maintain a tart sense of humor while facing the absurdities of living through an age of planned obsolescence as well as its ensuing demise. In each scenario, our protagonist has to figure out how to survive and find meaning in a world that is overcome by routine, leaving its citizens brain-dead at work and unaware that they're dying. In her debut novel, Ling Ma contemplates whether a world plagued by global capitalism is that different from one plagued by zombies. SEVERANCE IS A zombie apocalypse tale, a workplace comedy, and a classic coming-of-age story all in one. ![]() ![]() Then suddenly, the family is forced to deal with a shocking reminder of their turbulent past. ![]() They had no idea it would be their last full night together, and the last night they would ever step foot in their beloved home again.Ī horrible and unspeakable act of hate and prejudice shatters their peace and causes Katie and her family to move to California, where she attempts to rebuild her life.Īlthough she had put hundreds of miles between herself and her Alabama farm, there were some things that followed her to California things she could not outrun things she would have to grapple with if her life, and the lives of her children, were ever to return to normal. ![]() On one night in 1960, Katie went to sleep along with her husband in their modest home. Here was where she was raising her children to love God and love others. ![]() Here, she could witness God’s handiwork in the beauty of the land. Katie’s rural Alabama farm, which she shared with her activist husband, was her oasis, her retreat. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She was established as a writer by the time she reached her twenties but it was not until she published The Heart is a Lonely Hunter at the age of twenty-three, that she won widespread recognition. They did, however, keep in touch and subsequently remarried, separating finally in 1953 he later committed suicide. The marriage was not a success and they divorced. In 1938 she married James Reeves McCullers, a corporal in the US army. For a while she could only use one finger to type, and for years before her death could not sit at a desk to work. She was always a delicate person and as a young adult she began to suffer from strokes, and by the age of thirty-one she was paralysed down her left side. Carson McCullers was born at Columbus, Georgia, in 1917. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Defensiveness blocks us from hearing feedback and evaluating if we want to make meaningful changes in our thinking or behavior based on input from others. In order to try to limit our exposure to information that differs from how we think of ourselves, we get defensive and overjustify, make excuses, minimize, blame, discredit, discount, refute, and reinterpret. Any perceived call-out of our weakness is experienced as an attack on our worth, so we fight hard to defend ourselves against it. It makes sense that defensive-ness occurs in areas of our lives where we have fragile self-esteem, or across several areas of our lives if the fragility is more general. With grounded confidence, we accept our imperfections and they don’t diminish our self-worth. In our work, the opposite of a fragile self-esteem is grounded confidence. Our research team member Ellen Alley explains that our self-esteem is considered fragile when our failures, mistakes, and imperfections decrease our self-worth. At its core, defensiveness is a way to protect our ego and a fragile self-esteem. ![]() |