![]() ![]() ![]() Someone who didn’t know me at all could only love me if I was half myself.Īnd this, ladies and Gents, is how you obliterate a reading slump. So she isn't prepared for this version of Reiner Kulti who shows up to her team's season: a quiet, reclusive shadow of the explosive, passionate man he'd once been. Sal had long ago gotten over the worst non-break-up in the history of imaginary relationships with a man who hadn't known she'd existed. It didn't take a week for 27-year-old Sal Casillas to wonder what she'd seen in the international soccer icon - why she'd ever had his posters on her wall or ever envisioned marrying him and having super-playing soccer babies. When the man you worshipped as a kid becomes your coach, it’s supposed to be the greatest thing in the world. “Trust me, I’ve wanted to punch you in the face a time or five.” ![]()
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![]() This year, inside the ballroom, the dinner - while still amusing - had a weightier feel at times. INSIDE THE BALLROOM: Most years, the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is a light-hearted affair, as speakers crack jokes and poke fun at themselves and each other. President Joe Biden called out the wrongful detention of Evan Gershkovich and recognized Austin Tice. … JOHN HUDSON talking to CIA Director BILL BURNS. … JEFF NUSSBAUM chatting with New Hampshire Gov. ![]() … Secretary of State ANTONY BLINKEN talking to DASHA and YULIA NAVALNAYA. … JONATHAN KARL chatting with ANTHONY FAUCI. … DIANA ROSS performing at TheGrio after-party. … Stars and reporters at the Fox News table looking uncomfortable during jokes about TUCKER CARLSON and the Dominion settlement. JUSTIN PEARSON confronting a woman for pushing his fiancee. … NRCC Chair RICHARD HUDSON (R-N.C.) becoming starry-eyed when meeting JUSTIN HARTLEY from his all-time favorite TV show, “This is Us.” … A climate activist obstructing RON KLAIN’s path into the Hilton. ![]() … Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER posing with JULIA FOX in full “Black Swan” makeup. … KELLYANNE CONWAY chatting with Maine Gov. (“I just got chills,” remarked one nearby partygoer.) … RNC Chair RONNA McDANIEL walking over to DNC Chair JAIME HARRISON, their first in-person meeting. SCENES FROM THE WHCD - BRITTNEY GRINER holding court with GAYLE KING. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() McMaster, and others-many of them classmates or colleagues in West Point’s Social Science Department who rose through the ranks, seized with an idea of how to fight these wars better. But the main insurgency is the one mounted at home by ambitious, self-consciously intellectual officers-Petraeus, John Nagl, H. These would be wars not only of fighting but of “nation building,” often not of necessity but of choice.īased on secret documents, private emails, and interviews with more than one hundred key characters, including Petraeus, the tale unfolds against the backdrop of the wars against insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. ![]() ![]() Their aim was to build a new Army that could fight the new kind of war in the post–Cold War age: not massive wars on vast battlefields, but “small wars” in cities and villages, against insurgents and terrorists. The Insurgents is the inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars, led by General David Petraeus, who plotted to revolutionize one of the largest, oldest, and most hidebound institutions-the United States military. The inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars who-against fierce resistance from within their own ranks-changed the way the Pentagon does business and the American military fights wars. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() and fears she doesn’t know him at all.Ĭolin Bridgerton is tired of being thought of as nothing but an empty-headed charmer, tired of the notorious gossip columnist Lady Whistledown, who can’t seem to publish an edition without mentioning him. ![]() ![]() After half a lifetime of watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks she knows everything about him, until she stumbles across his deepest secret. Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend’s brother for. The inspiration for season three of BRIDGERTON, a series created by Shondaland for Netflix, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn: the story of Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington in the fourth of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then another fictional biblical account, and finally a summary, thoughts to ponder, and questions for further reflection. Next, she relates the biblical woman’s experience to her own experiences and ours. Each chapter features one biblical woman and opens with a fictionalized first person account as that woman. But her nonfiction title is actually a blend of fiction and nonfiction. She’s written a number of novel series and now steps into nonfiction. Jill Eileen Smith is an award-winning, bestselling author of biblical fiction. So don’t be misled into thinking this is only for women who are disappointed in life. I love reading about women of the Bible, and this is a good one. Honestly, for me, the subtitle better expresses the book than the title. Let me begin by saying that the subtitle for When Life Doesn’t Match Your Dreams is “Hope for Today from 12 Women of the Bible”. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She lives in Philadelphia, where she enjoys cheesesteaks while she writes. In addition to combating censorship, Laurie regularly speaks about the need for diversity in publishing and is a member of RAINN’s National Leadership Council. Edwards Award and has been honored for her battles for intellectual freedom by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the National Council of Teachers of English. Laurie was selected by the American Library Association for the 2009 Margaret A. Two more books, Shout and The Impossible Knife of Memory, were long-listed for the National Book Award. Two of her books, Speak and Chains, were National Book Award finalists, and Chains was short-listed for the prestigious Carnegie medal. Laurie has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award four times. Her new book, SHOUT, a memoir-in-verse about surviving sexual assault at the age of thirteen and a manifesta for the #MeToo era, has received widespread critical acclaim and appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for seven consecutive weeks. ![]() Combined, her books have sold more than 8 million copies. UPDATE! SHOUT, my memoir in verse, is out, has received 9 starred reviews, and was longlisted for the National Book Award!įor bio stuff: Laurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times bestselling author whose writing spans young readers, teens, and adults. ![]() ![]() ![]() But with each passing moment, doom draws closer. On the run, hunted by enemies old and new, they must learn to trust each other in order to survive in a world evolved in strange, beautiful, and deadly ways, and uncover ancient secrets that hold the key to their salvation. An imprisoned thief, who escapes the crushing dark and discovers a gleaming artifact - one that will ignite a power struggle across the globe. ![]() A drunken prince, who steps out from his beloved brother's shadow and claims a purpose of his own. Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he's forbidden to wield and carves a trail back home. A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins. ![]() ![]() In addition, many of the guitar evangelists, like Blind Willie Johnson, recorded music which had close affinities to blues. ![]() There is quite a bit of crossover with blues as many of the blues artists of the 20’s and 30’s I admire recorded some gospel material. Although I do a blues show, I have a long-standing love of vintage gospel music and occasionally spin some of it on the show where it fits into the weekly themes. I came across Michael’s writing on neither of those papers but rather through the liner notes to two Grammy nominated projects He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes (Tompkins Square, 2012) and Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams (Dust-to-Digital, 2017). Corcoran was a music writer at the Dallas Morning News and for some twenty years wrote for the Austin American Statesman. Over the course of today’s show we chat with music writer and researcher Michael Corcoran, someone I’ve wanted to interview for some time now. The Complete Aladdin Recordings of Charles Brown Washington Phillips And His Manzarene Dreams ![]() ![]() American Epic: The Best Of Blind Willie Johnson ![]() ![]() ![]() Heart of a Lion is a story of one heroic creature pitting instinct against towering odds, coming home to a society deeply divided over his return. Along the way, the lion traverses lands with people gunning for his kind, as well as those championing his cause. William Stolzenburg retraces his two-year journey - from his embattled birthplace in the Black Hills, across the Great Plains and the Mississippi River, through Midwest metropolises and remote northern forests, to his tragic finale upon Connecticut's Gold Coast. It was the farthest landbound trek ever recorded for a wild animal in America, by a barely weaned teenager venturing solo through hostile terrain. ![]() The lion was three years old, with a DNA trail embarking from the Black Hills of South Dakota on a cross-country odyssey eventually passing within thirty miles of New York City. ![]() But a more fantastic scenario of facts soon unfolded. Speculations ran wild, the wildest of which figured him a ghostly survivor from a bygone century when lions last roamed the eastern United States. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion. The creature appeared as something out of New England's forgotten past. Late one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising down a Connecticut parkway. ![]() |