![]() "Please don't take The Go-Go Years too much for granted: as effortlessly as it seems to fly, it is nonetheless an unusually complex and thoughtful work of social history." ![]() "Those for whom the stock market is mostly a spectator sport will relish the book's verve, color, and memorable one-liners." Ross Perot who lost $450 million in one day, Saul Steinberg's attempt to take over Chemical Bank, and the fall of America's "Last Gatsby," Eddie Gilbert. Included are the stories of such high-profile personalities as H. It was a time when greed drove the market and fast money was being made and lost as the "go-go" stocks surged and plunged. ![]() The Go-Go Years is the harrowing and humorous story of the growth stocks of the 1960s and how their meteoric rise caused a multitude of small investors to thrive until the devastating market crashes in the 1970s. You read it because it is a wonderful description of the way things were in a different time and place." ![]() You do not read this book to see our present situation reenacted in the past, with only the names changed. "The Go-Go Years is not to be read in the usual manner of Wall Street classics. ![]()
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Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. ![]() ![]() She found jobs first in London and then at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.Īfter her beloved younger brother Carl died in 1965 at age 25 while rescuing two drowning women in the waters off Crete, a shattered McCullough quit writing. Planning become a doctor, she found that she had a violent allergy to hospital soap and turned instead to neurophysiology – the study of the nervous system's functions. ![]() ![]() She flourished at Catholic schools and earned a physiology degree from the University of New South Wales in 1963. Raised by her mother in Wellington and then Sydney, McCullough began writing stories at age 5. ![]() S Colleen Margaretta McCullough was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and Tim. After her beloved younger brother Carl died in 1965 at age 25 while rescuing two drowning women in the waters off Crete, a shattered McCullough quit writing. She found jobs first in London and then at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. ![]() Colleen Margaretta McCullough was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and Tim. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her part was to suffer that was known and accepted. This fate seemed always to have been waiting for her, ever since time began. But she accepted the fact as she accepted all the things that happened to her, expecting to be ill-treated, to be made a victim, ultimately to be destroyed, either by unknown forces or by human beings. And there was another connected with him, they were in league together, or perhaps they were the same person.īoth of them persecuted her, she did not understand why. The fear she lived with, always near her, close behind the world's normal façade, had become concentrated on him. Sudden terror had seized her: the thought of the man whose ice-blue eyes had a magnetic power which could deprive her of will and thrust her down into hallucination and horror. “She was trying to become invisible in the snow. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Okay, she can be a bit of a mare but that was touching and definitely helped me to look at her with a ‘less frowny face’. Not to mention, and don’t pelt me with rotten fruit – but even the Duchess came out of that scene looking kind of good! She looks after her staff in their dotage. Letitia almost changed personalities when she was on her home ground and became a different person – it shows how out of water she was really feeling and how stressed with the whole ‘wedding’ thing. On top of that I was impressed with that whole chapter. ![]() ![]() She has that ‘caring’ thing down to a tee. It seems Letitia is much more than just a snivelly ‘princess in the tower’… What do you think of the way she handles the ghosts at Keepsake Hall? I thought it was great! She’s definitely a witch. The readalongs for Wintersmith and I Shall Wear Midnight have been hosted by the lovely ladies at Dab of Darkness and Over the Effing Rainbow for which I give much gushing goodly thanks and praise! Onwards: But, nae bother, onto the questions and if you haven’t read these books you definitely want to read no further. I’ve enjoyed spending time with Tiffany and the Wee Blue Men and will miss them. We’ve come to the end of the readalong, which is frankly a little bit sad. ![]() ![]() Marvin Surkin is a specialist in comparative urban politics and social change. He co-edited Solidarity Forever: An Oral History of the IWW, Encyclopedia of the American Left, and The Immigrant Left in the United States, and was a longtime editor of Cineaste magazine. “A historical narrative of the single most significant political experience of the 1960’s.”ĭan Georgakas (1938-2021) was a writer, historian, and activist with a long-time interest in social movements. ![]() “he insights offered by the League … remain as urgent and relevant today as they were in the 1970s.” ![]() “ Detroit: I Do Mind Dying is a beautiful, riveting account of one of the most important radical movements of our century – a movement led by black revolutionaries whose vision of emancipation for all is sorely needed today.” ![]() This particular piece of American history has never been covered in such depth … everyone who is concerned with political change will learn a lot from this book.” Georgakas and Surkin’s account of the movement is widely heralded as one the most important books on the black liberation movement and labor struggles in US history. ![]() Haymarket Books (November 2012, north American English rights)ĭetroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Azucena sets off in search for her lost love, she will trigger a chain of events that puts her in the midst of an intergalactic political uproar.Īccompanied by stunning original illustrations from Spanish artist Miguelanxo Prado, the music of Puccini, and traditional Mexican danzón, The Law of Love is a feast for the senses and an unforgettable journey through time, space, and the human heart. But their perfect union is limited to just one night of bliss, as Rodrigo is framed for murder soon after and banished. She has finally repaid the karmic debts she accumulated during her previous fourteen thousand lives, and in recognition of her newfound purity of spirit, she will at last be permitted to meet her twin soul, Rodrigo Sanchez. Selections from opera and Latin American popular music intended to accompany the novel 'La ley del amor' by Laura Esquivel. 2K views, 27 likes, 7 loves, 18 comments, 0 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Dbstvstlucia: DBS MORNING SHOW & OBITUARIES 25TH APRIL 2023 APRIL 2023 No. ![]() ![]() It's the year 2200, and Azucena Martinez is a lonely astroanalyst living in Mexico City. New York Times bestselling author Laura Esquivel brings readers a tantalizing sensory experience with her wildly inventive novel of a love spanning many lifetimes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This special edition includes an excerpt from Joe Hill's newest novel, Horns, and a letter from the author … ( more) Waitingâ?with a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one bony hand.Ī multiple-award winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a blood-chilling roller-coaster ride of a novel, a masterwork brimming with relentless thrills and acid terror. seated in Jude's restored vintage Mustang. It's the real thing.Īnd suddenly the suit's previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door. What's one more?īut what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost, no benign conversation piece. He has spent a lifetime coping with ghostsâ?of an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed. I will "sell" my stepfather's ghost to the highest bidder.įor a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an item for sale on the Internet, a thing so terribly strange, Jude can't help but reach for his wallet. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals. ![]() ![]() In the first part of the book, Smith traces the three great periods in human history: the traditional, the modern, and the postmodern highlighting the achievements and deficiencies of each. ![]() In fact, he finds that too much of what passes as religion these days is actually a privatized and ungrounded debasement of true religion. ![]() ![]() Weaving together insights from comparative religions, theology, philosophy, science, and history, along with examples drawn from current events and his own extraordinary personal experience, Smith gives both a convincing historical and social critique and a profound expression of hope for the spiritual condition of humanity.ĭespite the widespread belief that these are halcyon days for religion and spiritual awareness, Smith shows how our everyday worldview is instead dominated by a narrow scientism, materialism, and consumerism that push issues of morality, meaning, and truth to the outer margins of society and our lives. Huston Smith, the most eloquent and respected world authority on religion, offers a timely manifesto on the urgent need to restore the role of religion as the primary humanizing force for individuals and society. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When she befriends a firefighter at a downtown boxing gym, Lou is shocked to realize that though she has no memory of meeting him, she’s been drawing his face for years. She’ll go on to become the first Black female journalist at the Los Angeles Times, but Lou’s extraordinary life is about to take an even more remarkable turn. Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. ![]() Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles with no memory of how she got there or where she’s from. A Black immortal in 1930's Los Angeles must recover the memory of her past in order to discover who she truly is in this extraordinarily affecting novel for readers of N. ![]() |