![]() ![]() Shane Bauer reports in the best way a journalist can: by going into a prison himself. ![]() His book reveals much that that we didn't want to know about but, having learned about, can never forget." - Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed " American Prison is a searing, page-turning indictment of America's practice of corporate incarceration. "A penetrating exposé on the cruelty and mind-bending corruption of privately run prisons across the United States.Nearly every page of this tale contains examples of shocking inhumanity.A potent, necessary broadside against incarceration in the U.S." - Kirkus, starred review "Deprivation, abuse, and fear oppress inmates and guards alike in this hard-hitting exposé of the for-profit prison industry.A gripping indictment of a bad business." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Sometimes the only way to get the full story is to put yourself into it as an 'immersion journalist.' Shane Bauer wanted to know more about for-profit prisons so he got a job in one as a correction officer, or guard, and reports his experiences grippingly while weaving in the social and economic factors that give rise to these horrors. ![]()
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![]() "Smoking hot sex and romance that pulls at your heartstrings. "Smoking hot sex and romance that pulls at your heartstrings."-Romance Reviews "It just doesn't get any hotter or any better. "Snappy dialogue, dizzying romance, scorching hot sex, and realistic observations about life on tour make this a winner."-Publishers Weekly When Reagan's ex, Ethan Connor, enters the scene, Trey's secret desires come back to haunt him, and pleasure and passion are taken to a whole new level of dangerous desire. On the rebound from his over-the-top lifestyle, notoriously sexy rock guitarist Trey Mills falls for sizzling new female guitar sensation Reagan Elliot and is swept into the hot, heady romance he never dreamed possible.Įcstatic to be on tour learning the ropes with Trey's band, The Sinners, Reagan finds she craves Trey as much as she craves being in the spotlight. ![]() Olivia Cunning delivers the perfect blend of steamy sex, heartwarming romance, and a wicked sense of humor in this menage story featuring the hottest guy in the Sinners band. ![]() ![]() He craves her music and passion.she can't get enough of his body. Double Time Read Online List Chapter Book 5 in reading order of events in book series, per author. These two make incredible music together, but when her ex shows up, the three of them create an entirely new rhythm. ![]() ![]() ![]() But in Talley’s traumatic experience-and in many similar ones Fry recounts-she sees reasons for caution. ![]() No Luddite, Fry recognizes the immense benefits of relying on computers in diagnosing cancer, assessing parole risks, protecting drivers, and marketing entertainment: she hopes that society continues to find new ways to employ algorithmic servants. But precisely because that computerized identification proved erroneous-and costly and painful for Talley-Fry highlights this episode as symptomatic of a problem growing ever more inescapable in a world remade by computer algorithms. Denver police acted quickly and violently when facial-recognition software identified financial advisor Steve Talley as the perpetrator of two area bank robberies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the Japanese version of the anime, her name is Shida.The name Fern comes from a plant that has the same name and is green.She is the fourth fairy to be rescued by Rachel and Kirsty. Kathi introduces 'Fern the Green Fairy' and reads Chapter 1 Snohomish Goddard Teachers 227 subscribers Subscribe 1.8K views 3 years ago Ms."Of course we know your bubbles are scented, Amber! Us Rainbow Fairies all have scented auras, remember?" She also has tan colored curly toed shoes. ![]() She also wears green stretchy pants, with leaf shapes at the bottom of the legs. She wears a green long sleeved stretchy top, with leaf shapes around the neck and around the waist, gold bangles, a green leaf necklace, and an emerald and gold wand. Fern has chestnut brown hair tied in loose pigtails, and wears green leaf-shaped earrings. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Chapter Three, "The Era of the Witness," examines how the survivor's authority as a witness has been consolidated, in recent decades, through films and videotaped testimony archives. ![]() ![]() Chapter Two, "The Advent of the Witness," is concerned with the figure of the witness as it emerged from the Eichmann trial, which foregrounded victim testimony for its pedagogic and emotional value. Chapter One, "Witnesses to a Drowning World," considers testimonies left by those who did not survive. She describes three successive stages of testimony. In a lucid and accessible translation by Jared Stark, Annette Wieviorka's The Era of the Witness, originally published in French in 1998, examines the conditions under which testimony, and the social figure of the witness, emerged from the shadows of the Holocaust to become a significant force in contemporary culture. When Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub published Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History in 1992, they claimed that the twentieth century was "an era of testimony." Although their book helped to launch the field of trauma studies in the Anglo-American academy, in part by expanding the category of testimony to include literature, how testimony became a significant cultural form and how the Holocaust survivor acquired legitimacy as a bearer of truth remained uncharted territory. ![]() ![]() ![]() Detractors (notably fewer in number) have generally fastened on some version of that saga of gritty goodness too, irritated rather than awed.īut Alcott herself took a more skeptical view of her enterprise. ![]() During the 150 years since the novel’s publication, fans have worshipped Alcott’s story of the four March sisters and their indomitable mother, Marmee, who navigate genteel poverty with valiant acceptance and who strive-always-to be better. The scene nods to an awkward truth: Little Women is the window tableau and we, its readers, are Laurie, peering in and savoring its sham perfection, or at any rate its virtuous uplift. “You must cherish your illusions if they make you happy,” Jo replies. “It’s like the window is a frame and you’re all part of a perfect picture.” “It always looks so idyllic, when I look down and see you through the parlor window in the evenings,” he says. E arly in the recent BBC/PBS miniseries Little Women, the first significant adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel in 24 years, Laurie (played by Jonah Hauer-King) tells Jo (Maya Hawke)-the first March sister he falls in love with-how much he enjoys watching her family from his nearby window. ![]() ![]() ![]() I found your book Zodiac and started reading, but I hadn't any money to buy it. We would hang out at Books A Million every few days and just read. When I moved back with my parents after a nasty divorce, I met a new friend who reads a whole lot. So get yourself a copy of Wandering Star, and join us as we explore the galaxy of the Zodiacs and follow Rho on her quest to fight evil and create peace!įeel free to add your friends and other people who might want to join! -). So get your inner interviwer out and ask away ^_^ Once again, the author herself, Romina Russell, wil be joining us at the end of the month to answer all of your questions about the book, or if you have anything else to ask her about. At the end (in the last folder) we will then be able to talk about all of the book. ![]() We have made several little discussion folders, dividing the book in 4 parts, so we can talk about the book as we go on reading it. The read-along will run all throughout the month of February. Mallie and I Rikke decided to do yet another readalong of a Romina Russell book the sequel to Zodiac called Wandering Star. ![]() Mallie and I Rikke decided to do yet another readalong of a Romina Russell book the sequel to Zodiac called Wand Hey Guys ![]() ![]() It is 13 pages long, with an additional a four-page excerpt from the novel at the end. The companion looks and feels like an official document. But the publisher had also sent something else: a laminated booklet of thick, glossy pages, displaying the same cover as the ARC but with additional text printed along the left edge: “A Reader’s Companion to The Books of Jacob by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Olga Tokarczuk.” It did not look different from other ARCs. I ripped open the envelope to unveil a stepstool of a novel, more than 950 pages long: The Books of Jacob, in paperback proofs, translated by Jennifer Croft and published by Riverhead Books. ![]() Sometimes I received PDFs, as all the printed copies had been shipped to other reviewers. Publishers have sent me ARCs before, but those deliveries were unbranded, the books often folded or creased, battered from their journey from the epicenter of American publishing to the Midwest. This, I understood, would not be the typical advance review copy. ![]() On the back, I found, adhered to the envelope mailer, an image of a comet set behind a quotation: “I have always been interested in the mechanisms of forgetting, and fascinated by how much of people’s lives and realities they fail to remember.” The attribution showed these words were Olga Tokarczuk’s, “winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.” EARLY IN OCTOBER, I received a package from New York: one of those mailers padded with bubble wrap. ![]() ![]() ![]() And it is indeed a lost grandmother that precipitates the plot of Finna. ![]() Cipri doesn’t use the name IKEA, of course, though the giant “LitenVärld” home furnishings store features the familiar garish blue-and-yellow design, and the prospect of losing a grandmother among the endless showrooms sounds entirely reasonable to anyone who’s spent time there. I suppose the giant retail emporium has served as a portal into shadowy realms at least since John Collier’s “Evening Primrose” almost eighty years ago, but the deliberately labyrinthine layout of IKEA stores seems almost designed for creepy stories – something that Nino Cipri enthusiastically takes advantage of in their novella Finna, which is partly a testy workplace romance and partly a surreal consumer-satire horror story. ![]() ![]() ![]() But she absolutely refuses to get involved with a student. As the two women work together to make their case, they grow closer than Carmen ever imagined. She has no intention of coming out, least of all to Molly, a troublemaking grad student who can’t stop picking fights with the conservative faculty.īut when Molly discovers evidence implicating a homophobic colleague in a scandal, Carmen can’t ignore it-even if the subject hits too close to home. Professor Carmen Vaughn is stuck in small-town Maryland with smarmy blowhards for colleagues and ungrateful students who can’t handle her high standards. Molly decides to give a PhD a whirl but finds herself more interested in campus politics…and her strict and sexy statistics professor. ![]() It might be the nineties, and everything’s shoulder pads, Doc Martens, and The X-Files, but people won’t budge on gay rights. Molly Cook is almost thirty, with dismal career prospects, and has given up on saving the world. A smart, opposites-attract, student-professor romance filled with nostalgia, edgy politics, and the forbidden thrills of lesbian love in the nineties. ![]() |