![]() If you’re looking for a page-turner you can’t put down, Chris Keys has one right here. Politics, terrorism and personal ambition creates a toxic mixture that will have the reader lost deep within the action, wondering how things can get worse for the good guys. ![]() Reprisal! The Eagle Rises! is a hold-on-to-your-seat action thriller from beginning to end. I give it 5 stars!!!!!Ī MUST READ-FIVE STARS! Frank Fiore the author of CyberKill! ![]() ‘Reprisal’ has answered that question – in spades. I’ve often thought, out of frustration with a liberal administration, what kind of response unlimited wealth could achieve to do the job of protecting America when the Ideological Administration refused to do so. REPRISAL! THE EAGLE RISES! BY CHRIS KEYS Reprisal! The Eagle Rises & Reprisal! The Eagle's Guantlet: The Fishing Trip-A Ghost Story! I LOVED THE BOOK, EVERYONE SHOULD READ IT!!!!!!! A truly chilling (fish) tale that will satisfy the ghost Gruesome ghouls to be likeable and entertaining his storyline, enthralling andįilled with sus¬pense. ![]() My opinion might be slightly biased, I found Key’s colorful characters and “I had the pleasure of editing The Fish¬ing Trip-A Ghost Story. Praise for The Fishing Trip-A Ghost Story! I wrote the first four books under a pen name- Chris Keys-Just so you know. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eventually the independent-minded May meets a young Japanese man who likes milk in his tea too, and at the very end of the book, readers discover that these are the author’s parents. There Masako struggles to find her place between her two cultures, each represented throughout the book by tea – either American-style, with milk and sugar, or plain, green, and Japanese. For ages 4-8.Īllen Say’s Tea with Milk (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009) is the story of young Masako – known as May – raised in San Francisco and then moved as a teenager to Japan. Eventually, however, one wet and stranded moth breaks the ice and the book ends with a crowd of insectile guests happily sharing tea and cupcakes. For ages 3-7.ĭavid Kirk’s Miss Spider’s Tea Party (Scholastic, 2007) is the tale of an almost-failed tea party: none of the insects want to attend since they all know what spiders eat. In Judith Kerr’s The Tiger Who Came to Tea (Candlewick, 2009), just as Sophie and her Mummy are sitting down to tea, a hungry and rambunctious tiger arrives who eats and drinks everything in the house, including all the biscuits and Daddy’s beer. In Rosemary Wells’s Ruby’s Tea for Two (Viking Juvenile Books, 2003) – featuring Max and Ruby, possibly the world’s most adorable bunny siblings – Ruby and a friend are having a tea party for two and insist that Max be the waiter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Having immersed himself in Johnson?s life and world, Caro is able to reveal the true story of the fiercely contested 1948 senatorial election, for years shrouded in rumor, which Johnson was not believed capable of winning, which he ?had to? win or face certain political death, and which he did win-by 87 votes, the ?87 votes that changed history.? Telling that epic story ?in riveting and eye-opening detail,? Caro returns to the American consciousness a magnificent lost hero. The culminating drama?the explosive heart of the book?is Caro?s illumination, based on extraordinarily detailed investigation, of one of the great political mysteries of the century. ![]() ![]() This multifaceted book carries the President-to-be from the aftermath of his devastating defeat in his 1941 campaign for the Senate-the despair it engendered in him, and the grueling test of his spirit that followed as political doors slammed shut-through his service in World War II (and his artful embellishment of his record) to the foundation of his fortune (and the actual facts behind the myth he created about it). Here, Johnson?s almost mythic personality?part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating?is seen at its most nakedly ambitious. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years. ![]() In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. ![]() ![]() Despite a minuscule budget, “It Happened Here” was so convincingly realized that it sparked controversy and discussion and is now considered a masterpiece of independent filmmaking.Īfter a brief career as an editor, Brownlow found his true calling as a film historian and preservationist. Co-directed by Andrew Mollo, who was two years younger, the film was ultimately released in 1966 with the help of director Tony Richardson. At 18 he channeled his interest in World War II into the making of the feature film “It Happened Here,” which depicted a Britain occupied by the Nazis. He has spent more than four decades championing filmmakers who might otherwise have been forgotten and introducing once-lost gems to new generations of moviegoers.īorn in Sussex, England, on the eve of World War II, Brownlow was fascinated with film from an early age. Kevin Brownlow has made a career of drawing attention to the work of past cinematic masters, but his own achievements are no less deserving of appreciation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To contrast and compare the experiences of her interview subjects, she places them within the changing psychosocial context of the last few decades and categorizes them according to their reasons for childlessness. Using contemporary psychoanalytic theory, she reexamines female identity development and presents a positive interpretation of women who-for whatever reason-are not mothers. Ireland reframes childlessness as a concept and lays a groundwork for an expanded view of women's identity and psychic development. Challenging the assumption of deprivation or deviance that is traditionally applied to childless women in psychological theory and popular culture, Dr. Her work offers all women-mothers and nonmothers alike-a vision of self-defined adulthood and a recognition that every woman is the subject of her own life. She draws extensively from interviews with over 100 childless women from various ethnic and educational backgrounds, demonstrating the myriad ways they came to view themselves as complete adults without recourse to the traditional defining criteria of motherhood. In this important new work, Mardy Ireland defines a place for women outside the parameters of motherhood and gives voice to the significant number of women who are not mothers. Yet these women are virtually missing from accounts of women's lives. According to recent surveys, approximately 40% of American women between the ages of 18 and 44 do not have children. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has kidnapped Joanna Sedley from her legal guardian, intending to marry her off to Dick. Sir Daniel buys up guardianships so that he can plunder their money before they reach maturity. Unfortunately Dick’s guardian is Sir Daniel, he’s a rogue although supposedly a gentleman. Sadly it didn’t come up to the standards of Treasure Island, Kidnapped or even its sequel Catriona.ĭick Shelton’s father was murdered when Dick was younger and now that he is grown up Dick wants to get justice for his father. It’s set during the Wars of the Roses in the time of King Henry VI and as you would expect it’s a combination of adventure and romance. ![]() The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson was first published in 1888 and it’s one of the books on my Classics Club list. ![]() ![]() ![]() For listeners who enjoy brother's best friend, second chance, dark mafia, forbidden romance.īrilliant Story & Listen□ Mesmerizing & Intense! This is a full-length stand-alone novel with no cliff-hanger and an HEA. Until a twist of fate puts Natalia in his path again, and this time, he is powerless to resist. ![]() Yet he keeps his distance, dedicating himself to his new role as underboss to Bennett Mazzone, while the love of his life is married to another man. Years have passed, and his feelings remain the same. It saved Natalia from a life of hell, but his actions set her on a different course. Leo risked everything for the one woman he can never have. Until one forbidden night changes everything, and she readily hands Leo the key to her heart. He won’t allow them to give in to temptation, so Natalia is forced to love him from afar. A man with strong ambition and an even stronger resolve. So, she grabs happiness when she finds it - in the somewhat reluctant arms of Leonardo Messina. And there is nothing but torture, pain, and heartache lying in wait. It’s her duty, and she would never dishonor her beloved father.īut the man she’s promised to is a monster. As the only daughter of one of New York’s most powerful mafia dons, she knows she can’t refuse. ![]() Natalia Mazzone has grown up knowing she is promised to a made man. A new stand-alone dark mafia romance from USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-selling author, Siobhan Davis. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through a series of flashbacks, we come to understand Jeannette’s rocky relationship with her parents. One night, while driving home with her fiancé David (Max Greenfield), she sees her parents Rex (Harrelson) and Rose Mary (Watts) digging through trash on the side of the street. The film opens in 1989 in New York City, where Jeannette (Larson) works as a gossip columnist for New York Magazine. It’s beautifully shot and acted, boasting of a stellar cast including Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. Based on Jeannette Walls’ 2005 memoir of the same name, “The Glass Castle” is a thoughtful drama that expertly tackles issues like abuse, trauma, unconditional love, and the power of forgiveness. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lenny has a lot of female relatives and this novel has a plethora of characters, but Ayah is the one she is most intimate with. Ayah's admirers are a cross section of the Lahore residents before Partition. Sexual awakening is a major theme of the book but so is communal identity as the story takes place between 19 when India gained independence but was split into two countries. Their relationship is the main narrative because Lenny spends a lot of time with her Ayah and she learns a lot about adult relationships from being with the voluptuous nanny and her very diverse group of admirers. She spends most of her time with her ayah Shanta, an 18-year-old Hindu girl from Amritsar. ![]() The plot involves Lenny, a 4-year-old Parsee girl who recounts her childhood memories after she is struck by polio in her infancy. This novel is generally referred to as a story about the Partition of India – hence the title – but its original title was "Ice-Candy-Man" which allows for broader interpretation of the story. Cracking India (1991, U.S., 1992, India originally published as Ice Candy Man, 1988, England) is a novel by author Bapsi Sidhwa. ![]() ![]() ![]() The films share the same jungle sets and even some of the same actors - Wray played the female lead in both, and Robert Armstrong played her character’s goofy brother in the former as well as the movie director Carl Denham in the latter. Cooper worked on both pictures together, as director and producer in the former and as co-directors and co-producers in the latter. ![]() Schoedsack’s 1932 film The Most Dangerous Game falls prey to the misogyny found so often in action and adventure films, as can be observed in its reduction of its only female character to a damsel-in-distress archetype as well as its implicit affirmation of Zaroff’s ideology.ĭangerous Game and King Kong (1933) were produced concurrently. ![]() Despite its apparent criticism of the objectification of women, Irving Pichel and Ernest B. ![]() Created in a period during which women were commonly seen in Hollywood films and in American culture more broadly as mere housewives and sexual objects, this jungle adventure movie is no exception. Since the words come from the mouth of the antagonist, one who enjoys hunting men, their sentiment is presented as evil and archaic, but this does not stop the movie from reinforcing misogyny. “Only after the kill does man know the true ecstasy of love.” These words from the villainous Count Zaroff (Leslie Banks) to protagonist Bob Reinsford (Joel McCrea) in the 1932 film The Most Dangerous Game imply that whichever man succeeds in killing the other will receive the pleasure of sexual relations with Eve (Fay Wray), regardless of her consent. ![]() |