We will go back to bookstores next week, but we wanted to honor Brendan by talking to an organization doing work about which he is so passionate.Ĭopyright 2023, ABC Audio. We then talk to Afa Dworkin, President and Creative Director of the “Sphinx Organization.” “Sphinx” is doing amazing work, making sure that the country's orchestras reflect the diversity of our population. He reminds his readers that there is talent everywhere and anywhere, and he reminds us to look and listen closely to what we might ignore with his latest novel, Symphony of Secrets. His books could be classed as mysteries but they also bring into stark, painful relief the still largely white and privileged world of classical music. A violin virtuoso, music teacher, clarinetist AND oboist, he is also a best selling author who writes brilliantly about the world of music. Brendan Slocumb is a renaissance man who writes his novels with a mission in mind. Brendan Slocumb spent most of his career as a performer and teacher, but this year released his first book, a mystery called 'The Violin Conspiracy.' The novel is a reflection of Slocumbs.
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The Kings of Cool also chronicles how Elena Sanchez changed from devoted mother and wife to a ruthless leader of a drug cartel, recruiting former cop Lado as her henchman. In Don Winslows New York Times bestseller Savages two young marijuana dealers refuse to back down after they are blackmailed by a Mexican cartel. Winslow also shows the personal history of Ophelia’s much-married mother and Ophelia’s obsessive search for her father. Our minds, our blood.”įamily history plays an important part in The Kings of Cool from Chon’s fractious relationship with his father, John McAlister, a roofer turned drug kingpin, to Ben’s parents, Stan and Diane Leonard, former bookstore owners turned psychotherapists. Additionally, a TV adaptation of his Cartel trilogy, which includes the books The Power of the Dog, The Cartel, and The Border, is in development with FX Networks. His novel Savages was made into a film directed by Oliver Stone in 2012. “The past isn’t the past,” Winslow writes. Yes, some of Don Winslows books have been adapted into films or are in development. The Kings of Cool also highlights the Association’s activities through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The Kings of Cool smoothly moves from 2005, when Ben, Chon and O, as she prefers to be called, were just settling in, then back to 1967, their parents’ time, when several independent, nonviolent drug dealers were setting up a business called the Association. As one of a number of ways of thinking about personality, it is a helpful spiritual analogue to Myers-Briggs typology. The Enneagram also counsels humility and acknowledges its own limits (“ is not infallible or inerrant,” writes Cron and Stabile)-a welcome modesty in religious understanding today. The beauty of the Enneagram is its charity: the system clearly names the flaws as well as the virtues of each personality type. Cron ( Chasing Francis), an Episcopal priest, brings his witty, energetic voice to this collaboration with Stabile, a retreat director and expert on the Enneagram-a system of personality typology with roots in Christian and Islamic mysticism. Some examples include spending "too much" time playing video games or becoming pleasurably absorbed by one aspect of an assignment or task to the detriment of the overall assignment. However, hyperfocus is not always described in a positive light. The flow state shares many characteristics with hyperfocus. Named by the psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi in 1975, the concept has been widely referred to across a variety of fields (and is particularly well recognized in occupational therapy), though the concept has been claimed to have existed for thousands of years under other names. In essence, flow is characterized by the complete absorption in what one does, and a resulting transformation in one's sense of time. In positive psychology, a flow state, also known colloquially as being in the zone, is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. The book opens with a brief account of Bonaparte's early years, his military education and formative experiences, and his meteoric rise to the rank of general in the army of the Directory. Chandler examines in detail each campaign mounted and personally conducted by Napoleon, analyzing the strategies employed, revealing wherever possible the probable sources of his subject's military ideas. To clarify these underlying methods, as well as the style of Napoleon's fabulous intellect, Mr. But there were from the first to the last certain basic principles of strategic maneuver and battlefield planning that he almost invariably put into practice. To be sure, every operation Napoleon conducted contained unique improvisatory features. Napoleon disavowed any suggestion that he worked from formula ("Je n'ai jamais eu un plan d'opérations"), but military historian David Chandler demonstrates this was at best only a half-truth. The Campaigns of Napoleon is an exhaustive analysis and critique of Napoleon's art of war as he himself developed and perfected it in the major military campaigns of his career. The Napoleonic Wars were nothing if not complex - an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and dazing his conventionally-minded opponents into that state of disconcerting moral disequilibrium which so often resulted in their catastrophic defeat." For example, instead of providing for the election of England’s governors, it laid down a more precise line of Protestant succession, seeing this as a guarantor of English liberties. In his sermon, Price claims that, according to the principles of the 1688 Glorious Revolution, English people have the right “to choose our own governors” “to cashier them for misconduct” and “to frame a government for ourselves.” Burke argues that Price’s interpretation of the Glorious Revolution is inaccurate, and that its subsequent Declaration of Right laid down no such rights. Burke explains that he does not approve of the French Revolution, or the Revolution Society, which is in contact with France’s National Assembly and seeks to extend Revolutionary principles in England.īurke begins by critiquing a sermon that was recently delivered by Dissenting minister and political radical Richard Price. Edmund Burke writes to a young French correspondent, Depont, who has asked for his views of the current revolutionary events taking place in France. Lola needs more than a pack to shield her. Sheltered with the pack of her dreams, at first it seems like the hardest challenge isn’t even staying safe from Indy. 13,865 Ratings Lola is being hunted by her past, stalked with every step she takes.One way or another, he’s determined to get his hands on her again. Lola & the Millionaires: Part Two (Sweet Omegaverse, 3) by Kathryn Moon 4.42 avg. Lola is quickly realizing that her worst enemy is herself, and it’s like walking the tightrope to find a balance with the pack that gives her strength rather than sends her toppling to the ground.īut Indy won’t be ignored. If only it weren’t just one monstrous alpha that twisted her own thoughts. Tensions at work are at a tipping point and after taking the role of management’s spy, Lola’s in the crossfire if anything goes wrong.Īs romances between Lola and the pack members are developing left and right, the woman who swore she wanted nothing to do with alpha is turning to them like a bloom to the sun. Lola is being hunted by her past, stalked with every step she takes. Lola & the Millionaires, Part 2 by Kathryn Moon – Free eBooks Download The key events fall unevenly (to its credit) and as more and more secrets are revealed, you come to wonder what is true and what isn’t. Psychologically disturbing, akin to Iain Banks’ The Wasp Factory (with a moment that will similarly live on in my mind, even if not quite as vividly) and Stephen King, this is one of those books that gets under your skin and makes you question everything you’re reading. As the summer progresses, however, Holland’s pranks become more and more sinister, and Niles can’t keep excusing them. As the family gather one summer to mourn the death of the boys’ father, Mrs Perry still hasn’t recovered from the shock of her husband’s accident, and the Holland and Niles are left to roam the farm unsupervised. Holland, however, is bold and a terrible influence, with a darkness in his soul that makes him fond of destructive pranks. Niles is the sort of boy who makes his parents proud, kind and pleasant. Identical twins, Holland and Niles Perry, are thirteen-years-old, and despite looking the same and having a very close relationship, they couldn’t be more different. Although he had quite a successful career in his day and there was even a film made of this book, these days he’s nothing like a household name, especially in Britain. Thomas Tryon is one of the forgotten authors I found last year. “How old do you think Miss DeGroot really is?” Wings and Feet by Lisa Reinicke, illustrated by Scot McDonald Miles and Jax: Master Planners by Kimber Iverson, illustrated by Jill Pearson Stanley, illustrated by Jack Fosterĭon’t Feed the Elephant by Sherry Ellis, illustrated by Md. Tales From A Crowded Pet Room by Theresa Cones Quincy the Quail Saves a Life by Barbara Renner, illustrated by Amanda M. Miles and Jax by Kimber Iverson, illustrated by Jill Pearson Macaulay, illustrated by Javier DuarteĬhuck’s Journey Home by Anne E. Tamara Turtle’s Life So Far by Regan W.H. Noname The Feral Cat! by Cynthia O’Brien, illustrated by Anne Berry Conran Activity Booksġst Place: Dino Mazes: The Colossal Fossil Book by Elizabeth CarpenterĢnd Place: Mindful Me Activity Book by Whitney Stewart, illustrated by Stacy Peterson Animals/Petsġst Place: Looking for Lola/Taco by Jennifer Kuhns, illustrated by Gabrielle Pate and Edward LuenaĢnd Place (tie): Penny the Pink Nose Poodle by Dana DiSante, illustrated by Ingrid LefebvreĢnd Place (tie): Bubby’s Puddle Pond: A Tortuga’s Tale of the Desert by Carol Hageman, illustrated by Nathaniel JensenĬloud the Horse: Cloud and Reddy the Red-Shouldered Hawk by Elizabeth Goodman Hardwick, illustrated by Lindsey RowlandĮllie the Wienerdog: It’s Hard to Swim by K.J. The Hugsmiler’s Hugs: A Story About Learning Values by Jessica L. His experiences in the former Soviet Union were the most illuminating for me. Nowadays our biggest problems seem to be whether we can get a wi-fi connection but in those days even finding a good quality pencil to write with was a challenge for Hughes! I couldn’t help thinking how difficult travelling was back then. I learned some fascinating information about the world and also about Hughes, the most interesting was perhaps that he was quite good friends with Alfred Koestler, whom he travelled with. He showed that the world was a lot more diverse than many thought, even back then. His experiences as a black man were even more so as race did play a part in his travels. His insights were really fascinating and thought-provoking. Some of the places he visited were Haiti, Cuba, the former Soviet Union, and Japan. The autobiography focused on Hughes’ thoughts and experiences while travelling around the world during the 1930s, and how his travels shaped his craft and personal philosophy. His influence on Black world literature is immense.” In the preface, Margaret Walker says about Hughes, “Langston Hughes loved life and all people, and at the same time worked diligently at his craft and art of writing and was one of the most prolific writers in this (20th) Century. This was an incredibly enjoyable autobiography of one of my favourite poets, Langston Hughes. |