![]() Virginia established vast spy networks throughout France, called weapons and explosives down from the skies, and became a linchpin for the Resistance. The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and-despite her prosthetic leg-helped to light the flame of the French Resistance, revolutionizing secret warfare as we know it. In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. "A meticiulous history that reads like a thriller." - Ben MacintyreĪ never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine. ![]() ![]() "A compelling biography of a masterful spy, and a reminder of what can be done with a few brave people - and a little resistance." - NPR “E xcellent…This book is as riveting as any thriller, and as hard to put down.” - The New York Times Book Review Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator, and the Times of London ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her poems and short stories have been published in various magazines, on-line magazines, journals and collections (Zarez, Fantom Slobode, Poezija, Treći trg, Libartes, Blesok, Forgetting – Brumaria works # 9, etc.) and have been aired on radio and TV. She combines writing with other artistic expressions with the aim to create interdisciplinary artworks close to literary performance and film (for example, short film "The Motel in the Well", with Sara Rajaei, 2016). Her published titles include short story collections, poetry collections and a picture book for children. She is active as a freelance author, arts critic, creative writing workshop teacher and curator. Neva Lukić (Zagreb, 1982) has completed her master's degree in art history and archaeology at the University of Zagreb, and in theory of modern and contemporary art at Leiden University. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The punishing midsummer heat turns into a sort of blessing when the seemingly uninterested Janusz asks Ludwik on a trip to Poland’s lake district before starting his job in the Office of “Press Control” (in the heaviest of inverted commas). The two meet on a state-enforced agricultural retreat where for a week, along with a troupe of other graduands, they are tasked with uprooting beets for hours on end. A bit like using a state-of-the-art camera to take an early photograph a twenty-first century Stieglitz.įor his debut novel Swimming in the Dark, Tomasz Jedrowski manages to capture much of the graininess of his setting -– 1980s Poland in the iron grip of the Communist Party and later martial law – while conveying all the churn and throb and boom and bloom of innocence on the brink of experience an innocence which for the 22-year old shy bibliophile Ludwik seems to extend beyond the beginnings of his first relationship, with the self-assured and problematically patriotic Janusz. ![]() ![]() ![]() How did a government that was spending $1 million per week in the 1850s, and which brought in a significant portion of its income as customs duties from ports in states that seceded, manage to pay for a war that was costing up to $3.5 million per day by the end? 2 Two books released this year have sought to answer that question: Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War by Roger Lowenstein, and Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union by David K. ![]() “In January, economist Amasa Walker wrote on ‘men and money,’ the two elements that Walker believed were ‘indispensable to war.’ Walker added, ‘You may, indeed, have money without men, but cannot have men without money.’” 1 – David Thomson in Bonds of War Newspaper illustration of war bonds being sold in New York, via Library of Congress ![]() ![]() And locals aren’t thrilled that their small town has been made infamous thanks to Maggie’s father. People from the past, chronicled in House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows. When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall after her father’s death, she returns to renovate the place to prepare it for sale. But she also doesn’t believe a word of it. Today, Maggie is a restorer of old homes and too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father’s book. ![]() ![]() His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity-and skepticism. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. ![]() Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. ![]() ![]() Crais calls upon some classic elements of the L.A. ![]() All of this is handled with the aplomb that we expect from the ever-reliable Crais, and admirers of the author will be pleased to hear that Joe Pike calls upon his partner Elvis Cole to help them stay alive and track down those wanting to eliminate Joe's wealthy charge. ![]() ![]() Joe realises that he has to drag a reluctant Larkin from her privileged background and hide her from view in the more downmarket areas of L.A., while at the same time bloodily taking the battle to the enemy. The uneasy alliance between the two is not much helped when some very violent men start breathing down their necks. The witness, Larkin Conner Barkely, couldn't be more different from the close-mouthed Joe: she's rich, wilful and very much used to getting her own way. Joe has been asked to look after a young female witness in a case involving a very dangerous gangster. It's one of the tough long-term Crais protagonists, Joe Pike, who sets the edgy narrative in motion here, and the narrative barely pauses for breath once one of Crais most high adrenaline novels is in motion. ![]() In Robert Crais' The Watchman, we have the author firing on all cylinders - and Crais aficionados will know that's an experience to savour. ![]() ![]() ![]() I've said in the past that I'd like to read more on evolution, but the truth is, I haven't. The creation/evolution debate is one I find interesting, but not that interesting. It is his first major new statement on the subject and will be welcomed by the thousands who wish to continue this intense debate. Allen Orr said of Behe, "He is the most prominent of the small circle of scientists working on intelligent design, and his arguments are by far the best known." From one end of the spectrum to the other, Darwin's Black Box has established itself as the key text in the Intelligent Design movement - the one argument that must be addressed in order to determine whether Darwinian evolution is sufficient to explain life as we know it, or not.įor this edition, Behe has written a major new Afterword tracing the state of the debate in the decade since it began. Naming Darwin's Black Box to the National Review's list of the 100 most important nonfiction works of the 20th century, George Gilder wrote that it "overthrows Darwin at the end of the 20th century in the same way that quantum theory overthrew Newton at the beginning".ĭiscussing the book in the New Yorker in May 2005, H. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a nice change from the killing machine that is Blade. ![]() She has a completely different vibe that’s far more sympathetic and wholesome toward the monsters she comes across. Based on this book, it seems more like Brielle and Blade don’t have to be connected. Darboe, & Cris Peterīloodline is supposed to be the final iteration of this idea they had years ago: give Blade a daughter. Moon Knight is barely in this book! A Bloodline Story by Danny Lore, Karen S. ![]() Each part is from a different creative team, so it shouldn’t be shocking that they each get different reactions from me. White, Martin Biro, Annalise Bissa, Drew Baumgartner, Mark Basso, Anita Okoye, Sarah BrunstadĬrypt of Shadows is more a collection of stories than anything, so I guess I will have to review each part. Darboe, Geoff Shaw, Ibrahim Moustafa, Fran Galan, Adam Warren Coloring by: Rain Beredo, Cris Peter, Arif Prianto, Neeraj Menon, James Campbell, Guru-eFX Lettering by: Travis Lanham Editing by: Lauren Amaro, Jordan D. Tags: action, comic book reviews, Marvel Crypt of Shadows #1 Review Written by: Al Ewing, Danny Lore, Rebecca Roanhorse, Chris Cooper, Chris Condon, Adam Warren Art by: Ramon Bachs, Karen S. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Side note: creating genuine HEAs in LGBTQ+ historical fiction is always going to be tricky, so although I had my head in my hands I commend the author for her valiant effort!) I felt the ups and downs of their relationship in real time, and even though the Happily-Ever-After felt pretty contrived at the end, you couldn’t help but be grateful for it. ![]() Penn and Raff are clearly made for each other, and rooting for them over the course of the book was so much fun. The most important thing in a romance book is, of course the Big Romance, and these two delivered. This book was fun and ridiculous and everything I hoped it would be, with a surprising amount of darker twists too. ![]() ![]() As they wander toward the scalded heart of the city, they face fire, conspiracy, mayhem, unholy drugs, dragon-worshippers, and the monsters lurking inside themselves. When violence strikes, reality star Duncan Humphrey Ripple V, the spoiled scion of the metropolis’ last dynasty Baroness Swan Lenore Dahlberg, his tempestuous, death-obsessed betrothed and Abby, a feral beauty he discovered tossed out with the trash, are forced to flee everything they've ever known. In the burned-out, futuristic city of Empire Island, three young people navigate a crumbling metropolis constantly under threat from a pair of dragons that circle the skies. “Influenced by the likes of Jane Austen and Rick and Morty, Smith tackles timely issues while leaving room for some delicious reality TV references.” - Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal ![]() |