![]() ![]() I’m also ready to talk about the fascinating and sometimes challenging people with whom I’ve worked, the radical transformation of my industry, and the heartbreaking losses I’ve endured. I’m excited to share what it was like being at the center of so many historic events and game-changing stories. ![]() I’ve experienced so much, both professionally and personally, but have never really had an opportunity to reveal what was going on behind the scenes. In a statement, Couric gave insight into what memoir readers can expect, saying, “ I’ve been privileged to lead an extraordinary life, one that I never anticipated. ![]() Tell me what you want to know as I set out to write a book about my life.” I’m looking forward to hearing from you because I want to know what you’d like me to talk about because I want this to be a bit interactive. It’s very emotional going back in time and revisiting really difficult things and it’s better to revisit joyous things, but I’m very excited about it. In a video she posted on Twitter, Couric said, “I’m writing my autobiography because I wanted to do it while I can still remember everything that’s happened. ![]()
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![]() ![]() All overseas buyers need to contact me to check shipping rates prior to ordering as there is currently no Economy Air option for shipping outside Australia. I will only ship this book insured, insurance at my cost. The dustjacket is protected by an archival cover and the book comes with custom clamshell case included. The dustjacket has one small chip at the top of the spine and a small tear at the bottom of the spine it has some creasing and some dark marks on the back cover - please see the pictures for more detail. The pages are heavily foxed on the front page there are both a sticker for a Sydney bookshop and the stamp of a Neville Cohen - the same person to whom the book is inscribed. The book and dustjacket are in Very Good condition. This is the day after Robert attended a meeting of the Futurian Society of Sydney in Oxford Street Darlinghurst. ![]() The inscription reads:" To Neville Cohen - Between raindrops, in Sydney, 21 Feb 54 All good wishes!". Heinlein" above the title on the title page, inscribed on the title page and signed again as "Bob Heinlein" - but then it is also initialed on the dedication page (To Ginny) as "RaH", under a drawing of a female figure labelled as "Ginny" next to a depiction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The UK First edition hardback from 1953, with green boards this is the first volume of the Future History Series and contains a reprint of his first published story "Life-Line" along with five other stories and an introduction by John Campbell. ![]() ![]() His awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (a 'genius award'), and the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. In his fifties he gradually developed a third career in environmental history, becoming Professor of Geography and of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA.Īs well as being renowned in academic circles, Jared Diamond is famous for his prize-winning books The Third Chimpanzee and Why is Sex Fun?, and for revolutionizing the study of global human history with Guns, Germs and Steel. That led him to explore some of the most remote parts of that great tropical island, and to rediscover New Guinea's long-lost Golden-fronted Bowerbird. ![]() However, already while in his twenties, he also developed a second parallel career in the ecology and evolution of New Guinea birds. After training in laboratory biological science he became Professor of Physiology at UCLA Medical School in 1966. Jared Diamond was born in Boston to a physician father and a teacher/musician/linguist mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The magical system is fun, the unfolding of the tournament fascinating, and the characters compelling. Even though it uses a trope previously done before, there's enough newness in here that it still feels fresh. This story grabbed me from the very first moment. Who will emerge victorious, when victory carries such a high cost? And so for the current seven champions, thus begins the battle of their lives. During the Blood Moon, each family must offer a champion to fight to the death, with the winner gaining control over the highly sought-after resource. In a world greedy for high magick, seven families in Ilvernath are bound to a powerful secret. ![]() All this time, I'd just been waiting for a captivating tale to reel me in and All of Us Villains does just that. But here is definitive proof to the contrary. We decided it was ours to claim.It's been so long since I've felt the magnetic pull of YA fantasy, I wondered if I'd outgrown the genre altogether. High magick fell from the stars, and when we found it, we did what humans always do. ![]() ![]() JLG reviews thousands of books a year and many of their picks go on to win awards. It’s already received a starred review in Kirkus and is a 2016 pick by the Junior Library Guild. ![]() as a contender for major awards as well as a favorite title among librarians and educators. With the surprise win for Last Stop on Market Street for the coveted John Newbery Medal earlier this year, it wouldn’t be a shock to see Thunder Boy Jr. But considering the universality of the topic and the creators behind it, it makes sense that Thunder Boy Jr. This size print run is uncommon for most titles, let alone a picture book. is also evident in its initial print run of 100,000 copies and a 12-city tour for Sherman Alexie including a reading at Symphony Space on May 11th with Edwidge Danticat. ![]() being “a joyful book about identity, and a celebration of a modern American Indian father and son relationship.” LBYR editor-in-chief Alvina Ling expressed her excitement for Thunder Boy Jr. The book represents both Alexie and Caldecott honored illustrator Yuyi Morales’ individual styles, incorporating the poetic flow of Alexie’s words along with the vibrant illustrations and magical world that Morales brings to each of her books. ![]() isn’t the anticipated sequel to the award-winning The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, it is a story centered on recognizing one’s identity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Events seem to be centring round a country inn, yet it soon becomes apparent as more people die and further coups are staged that there is a mole within Scotland Yard, keeping the criminals one step ahead. This is a move Scotland Yard are reluctant to take, that is until one of their own, Superintendent Harvey, is murdered shortly after meeting up with Temple and it soon becomes more and more evident that the police are up against a substantial criminal enterprise, which is not above silencing its’ members if it looks like they will blab.īut even during this murder investigation, further robberies occur and the reader is able to view events both from the guilty and detecting parties. However, today’s book, Send for Paul Temple (1938) is Temple’s debut appearance and the newspapers are clamouring for him, a mystery novelist to help Scotland Yard solve a recent spate of diamond robberies which have been taking place in the Midlands. This is my second return to Durbridge’s Paul Temple tales, though unfortunately my last read, Paul Temple and the Front Page Men(1939), was a bit disappointing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rich with romance, spine-tingling suspense, and supernatural horror, the novel profoundly influenced the works of Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, and Mary Shelley. ![]() Only a shocking twist of fate can save Isabella and ensure that the Castle of Otranto falls to its rightful heir.Īn immediate sensation when it was published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto is widely considered to be the first Gothic novel. Manfred threatens to kill Theodore unless Friar Jerome turns the girl over to him. But Isabella escapes into the gloomy passages beneath the castle, and with the help of a young peasant named Theodore, finds sanctuary in a nearby monastery. Desperate to hold on to their power, he decides to divorce his wife and marry Isabella, his sons betrothed. When Prince Manfred of Otranto loses his son in a strange and terrifying accident, he fears that an ancient prophecy has come to pass and his family will be stripped of its castle and lands before he can produce a new heir. The Gothic masterwork that revolutionized popular fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To wit: Poet Ilya Kaminsky, who is Russian by ethnicity, was born in Odessa, and came to the US with his parents in 1993 his latest book, Dancing in Odessa-a modest, chapbook-length volume of 56 pages-is being published by Tupelo Press with the announcement, For, clearly, many Russians are unhappy with this sad turn of events, not to mention its brutal instigator Putin. ![]() Now, I would hope that readers rightly appalled by the current, scorched earth policies of the Russians in the Ukraine do not so easily lump enemies according to broad categories of ethnicity or nationality. Such connections, I am not even sure how-such connections make the current events in Ukraine seem even more immediate. He was also too far to the left for the politics of the country, then under pre-Soviet Russian rule. (Sadly she is no longer with us to correct my vagaries.) The story is that the family left for the US when her father was asked to join the Russian (Czar's) army: "You people have visited too many pogroms upon our people," he was supposed to have said. when it was subsumed into Russian territory. My beloved mother-in-law, Rachel's, Jewish family came from-in or around-Kyiv. ![]() ![]() Īrmstrong moved to London in the early 1970s where he developed a new line of electric instruments, amplifiers and effects boxes. A second reissue of the Dan Armstrong guitar was launched in 2006. There was a reissue, made in Japan, in 1998, where the reissue was compared to the 1968 original, as being identical. The guitars had long sustain caused by the solid Plexiglas body, though that material made for a heavy guitar-around 10 lbs. ![]() ![]() These guitars had interchangeable pickups designed by Bill Lawrence who shared the Greenwich Village shop with Armstrong, and eventually took it over when Armstrong moved to London. He designed a new line of guitars and basses that were constructed of clear Plexiglas. In 1968 the Ampeg Company of Linden, New Jersey hired Armstrong as a consultant to improve their Grammer line of guitars. The building was razed in 1968, and Armstrong relocated his shop, renamed 'Dan Armstrong Guitars', to 500 Laguardia Place in Greenwich Village. In 1965 he opened his own guitar repair shop, 'Dan Armstrong's Guitar Service', on West 48th Street. ![]() ![]() He started playing the guitar at age 11, and moved to New York in the early 1960s in order to work as a studio musician and guitar repairman. Dan Armstrong Ampeg era "see-through" guitar, in the Phoenix Musical Instrument Museum.Īrmstrong was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ![]() ![]() ![]() While it might be beneficial to give my readers a full recap of the book, I won’t do that. Instead, it sat untouched for almost six months. Written by Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy, No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work, is something I wish I had read when I initially came into contact with the uncorrected proof that I own. Yet, unlike the first few months of the year, in April, I shifted from fiction over to a book about business culture. In fact, it’s probably been the easiest of my multiple resolutions to abide by. ![]() I can say with pride that, since January, I’ve been very diligent about sticking to this particular decision. But, nowadays, I’m finding that this past love has been put on the back burner. Over the summer, you would find me at the library getting my hands on as many novels as they’d allow me to have at one time. When I was a child, I devoured books like candy. Since the beginning of 2019, one of my resolutions for the year has been to read at least one new book every month. My uncorrected proof of No Hard Feelings. ![]() |