![]() Coletta, The Presidency of William Howard Taft, Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2020ĭavid Burton, William Howard Taft: Confident Peacemaker, St. Burns, William Howard Taft and the Philippines: A Blueprint for Empire, Univ. Bromley, William Howard Taft and the First Motoring Presidency 1909-1913, McFarland, 2003Īdam D. Anderson, William Howard Taft: An Intimate History, W.W. ![]() Anderson, William Howard Taft: A Conservative's Conception of the Presidency, Cornell Univ. Campbell, The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, 8 vols., Ohio Univ. Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers, Columbia Univ. The Anti-Trust Act and the Supreme Court, Harper & Bros., 1914 Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and its Peril, Yale Univ. ![]() Present Day Problems: A Collection of Addresses Delivered on Various Occasions, Dodd, Mead, 1908 reprint At present, these earnings are only enough to partially offset the costs of maintaining this website, but but I do deeply appreciate the support.įour Aspects of Civic Duty, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906 reprint As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. ![]() This also benefits me, because I am an Amazon Associate. I hope this benefits you by making it easier to locate material that may be of interest to you. Notice: Many of the books listed below include a link to Amazon. References, Links, & Further Reading: Books, Articles, Links ![]() Summary of Religious Views: Views on Religion & Politics: ![]()
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![]() Her short stories include "Even the Queen' and "Close Encounter" her novels include the John W. Although her books involve some sci-fi elements (especially time travel), she is more known for psychological dramas that mix farce with fantasy. She won the Hugo and the Nebula in 1983 for the novelette Fire Watch, and since then has been a regular winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. Heinlein, Willis began writing full-time in the early 1980s, starting with short stories published in sci-fi magazines. ![]() Influenced by novels of Victorian England and the science fiction of Robert A. ![]() Author Connie Willis has been winning science fiction awards since the late 1980s, including Hugo Awards for the novels The Doomsday Book (1992) and To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Tessa tries to revive her damaged relationship with her father Hardin rants and raves about his presence. Meeting her dad after ten years an overwhelmed Tessa and an ever- frustrated Hardin brings him to their apartment. Leaving us at a cliff-hanger in the previous book After we collided, when Tessa addressed a beggar as her dad took the fandom’s breath away. Language - Originally: English Adapted: Portuguese, Spanish, and many others So, if you are ready to witness this eventful journey of your favourite couple then dive right into this madness. The one question that keeps popping up shatters all their faith in each other, that ‘Is love enough? This was never a fairy tale and now more than ever the dark and toxic aspects of this complicated tale surfaces, turning Hardin and Tessa’s world upside down. Packed with more twists and turns, intense toxicity and a mind-boggling drama, the next phase in the story of Hardin and Tessa showcases the actual problems of a couple deeply in love albeit their priorities are different. When one thinks the preceding two books would be the last straw in their messy relationship, the third installment proves to be a bombshell. And maybe that’s why we never rise in love, we fall however what matters is that how far we are willing to go to bounce back rising in the said love together.’Īs if their love wasn’t already a precarious tightrope of challenges that we now have a third book in the After series ‘After We Fell’. ‘What defines us is how well we rise after falling. ![]() ![]() Saunders is one of those rare writers who can effortlessly blend satire and sentiment", particularly praising the story "Offloading for Mrs. McInerney also said, "Quite unexpectedly, between guffaws, you find yourself moved. In the same magazine, Jay McInerney dismissed the story "Downtrodden Mary's Failed Campaign of Terror" as having too many "wacky tics" but still described the overall collection as "just about the quirkiest and most accomplished short-story debut since Barry Hannah's 'Airships'", a 1978 collection. ![]() Saunders' satiric vision of America is dark and demented it's also ferocious and very funny." In a rave review in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani had high praise for Saunders' writing style: "He's a savage satirist with a sentimental streak who delineates, in these pages, the dark underbelly of the American dream: the losses, delusions and terrors suffered by the lonely, the disenfranchised, the downtrodden and the plain unlucky." Comparing him to Nathanael West, she concluded, "Mr. "Downtrodden Mary's Failed Campaign of Terror" The collection was listed as a Notable Book of 1996 by The New York Times, as well as a finalist for the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award. Many of the stories initially appeared in different forms in various magazines, including Kenyon Review, Harper's, The New Yorker and Quarterly West. Published in 1996, it was Saunders's first book. ![]() ![]() CivilWarLand in Bad Decline is a book of short stories and a novella by the American writer George Saunders. ![]() ![]() ![]() A leash.") and letting another character reference a "Mockingbird mentality" referring to "that novel" - quiet ways of letting us in on the changed future. ![]() ![]() Still, Winters reels readers in with details like Victor's tiny tracking implant ("When I was too quiet for too long I heard it singing in me: humming, taunting, burning. That's all I was."Īlternative-history fiction is nothing new, and it's been done by the best ( The Plot Against America, anyone?). A man was missing, that's all, missing and hiding, and I was not a person but a manifestation of will. it was my practice at the beginning of a new job, to think of myself as having no name at all. I remember them all" he says, of the men, women, and children he's been forced to hunt down. This man, whose name is generally Victor, simmers with rage early on and throughout: "I remember them. Worse, he's working for a Union that supports slavery through its cooperation with the "Hard Four" states that maintain it. The book's narrator is an African-American man living in a near-future United States in which slavery has never been entirely eliminated ("Big Abe," meaning President-elect Lincoln, was shot early in his campaign, and several Southern states amended the Constitution to retain it). Underground Airlines will start a lot of conversations. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Underground Airlines Author Ben H. ![]() ![]() The Radleys themselves are instantly recognisable. Books always work best when they work on more than one level and this is successful not only as a tale of vampires but also as a study of suburban Britain – albeit one with its tongue stuck very firmly in its cheek. ![]() Suddenly their suburban anonymity is at risk and they have no choice but to call in Uncle Will – Peter's brother and all round bad boy vamp. Inevitably, there is an incident involving Clara and a sudden attack of OBT (Overwhelming Blood Thirst). Helen and Peter have, perhaps rather naively, decided to be abstainers, denying their base cravings for blood in order to live a perfectly ordered, perfectly dull, middle-class existence. This is, of course, because they are teenage vampires – they just don't know it yet. ![]() Rowan can't go out in the sun without wearing factor 60 sunblock and cannot sleep at night while Clara is struggling with her recent conversion to veganism – it just doesn't seem to agree with her and she can't understand why. ![]() And school is a bit choppier for them than for most. Peter is the local GP, Helen stays home, manages the house and paints watercolours while Clara and Rowan navigate the choppy waters of high school. We first find Peter, Helen, Clara and Rowan in typical English suburbia. ![]() ![]() "You're a Better Man Than I Am, Gunga Dinsdale" (with John Wagner, in 2000 AD #1210, 2000). ![]() ![]() 2014), the third issue of Grant Morrison's The Multiversity project. Oliver returned to Marvel to pencil the one-shots " Ultimatum: X-Men Requiem" and " Dark Reign: The List - Hulk". He also returned to Wildstorm to work on "A Narrow Pass!" written by Uttley, a back-up feature running through the core Wildstorm Universe titles involved with the World's End storyline. Recent projects include returning to 2000 AD to finish of the second Ten Seconders story and to illustrate another Judge Dredd story by Al Ewing. He then moved to Marvel Comics where he worked on Ultimate X-Men, a couple of Thunderbolts one-shots with Christos Gage and a Wolverine one-shot written by Simon Spurrier. His first professional work in America came out in 2003 when he got work at DC Comics imprints, like Wildstorm, Vertigo and America's Best Comics. He started work on Judge Dredd and then illustrated the Com.x limited series Puncture written by Russell Uttley. ![]() Ben Oliver is a British comics artist who has worked for 2000 AD on Judge Dredd as well as providing art for The Authority, The Losers, and Ultimate X-Men Biography īen Oliver lives in Bristol, his first professional work in England came out in 2000. ![]() ![]() Blood, death, conquest, starvation, plague and horror. He did not need to be able to hear the words to know the topic of every conversation: it had been the same for days. ![]() He pulled his blue cloak more tightly about his shoulders. Like someone walking over your grave, he thought. He shivered as someone laughed – the sound was as cold as the winter wind beating against the wooden walls. Then it was gone as a newcomer slammed shut the wooden door, muttering his apologies to the crowded inn.Ĭonversation which had died in the sudden blast of frosty air now resumed, a dozen voices from different groups merging into a babble of meaningless sounds. A lantern flame danced briefly in the icy wind as a shaft of cold air brushed the room. ![]() A log fire in the hearth warmed his back, the smoke stinging his eyes, the acrid smell of it mixing with the odour of unwashed bodies, forgotten meals and musty, damp clothing. ![]() Not enough to matter, but enough not to matter, he thought, staring at the ruby wine casting blood shadows in the lead crystal glass. ![]() ![]() ![]() With John, Marjorie’s father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts’ plight. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. To her parents’ despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie’s descent into madness. The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In, and Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House. A chilling thriller that brilliantly blends domestic drama, psychological suspense, and a touch of modern horror, reminiscent of Mark Z. ![]() |