![]() The red terrorists detonated a number of powerful bombs that shook the center of the town. Dozens of people, including Tsarist Cossack guards and innocent bystanders, were killed or wounded during the attack. ![]() dollars, with a buying power at the time an order of magnitude greater. The terrorists made off with a huge, incredible sum of money, approximately 300,000 rubles or over $34 million U.S. ![]() The heist, carried out on Jby a 29-year-old “Soso” (Stalin’s nickname) and his band of Georgian gangsters, was orchestrated to help finance Lenin’s revolution. Following the usual formalities, the book begins with a tantalizing “Prologue,” the audacious robbery and bloody bombing at the festive Yerevan Square in the center of the town of Tiflis (now Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia). Young Stalin by Simon Montefiore is a well-researched, well-written, absorbing, and authoritative biography of Joseph Stalin’s early years. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I cannot stop being fascinated with the creatures within its depths, so I definitely felt a kinship with Jeanne Power. Once one falls under the ocean’s spell, you are forever her’s. ![]() His picture book debut, “Secrets of the Sea,” is a beautifully told story about a woman who was determined to discover more about the sea. You can learn more about him at his website. ![]() He lives in Austin, Texas with a mischievous tuxedo cat and several overflowing bookshelves. Through his role as the youth programming specialist at The Writing Barn, a creative writing education center, he also teaches online writing classes for kids. He worked for five years as an editor at Workman Publishing in New York City, where he specialized in non-fiction for children and adults, and he continues to edit books on a freelance basis. He studied creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received his MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Of course, with the subject of the sea and a female scientist, are you surprised that I was interested?Įvan Griffith is the author of the picture book biography Secrets of the Sea: The Story of Jeanne Power, Revolutionary Marine Scientist (Clarion) and Manatee Summer, a middle-grade novel forthcoming from Harper in 2022. ![]() Oh dear readers, I’m delighted to bring you an interview with both the author AND the illustrator (another two-fer) about a truly wonderful new nonfiction picture book biography. ![]() ![]() ![]() He takes the pristine black-and-white images of the American landscape but photoshops in errors and typically tacky items, like a plastic flamingo. “Cancel Ansel” is Waters’s defilement of classic Ansel Adams photographs. To her left is notorious and now-elderly womanizer Philip Roth under the headline “Philip Roth Dates 70 Year Old Woman.” To her right is the famously prolific Joyce Carol Oates with the headline “Help! I've Got Writer's Block.” Instead, Waters' National Brainiac features the famously petite Joan Didion puffy, distorted and clutching a hoagie under the headline “Joan Didion Hits 250 pounds.” ![]() “Brainiac” is a play on the cover of the National Enquirer. He makes something perversely beautiful and funny by mixing high and low into a delightful mish-mash. “Beverly Hills John” is the Waters who bathes in that corruption and ugliness. However, he first earned his name for his infamously controversial 1972 Pink Flamingos, a comedy which involved rape, castration, cannibalism, and (most notoriously) dog feces-eating. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you have not received your delivery following the estimated timeframe, we advise you to contact your local post office first, as the parcel may be there awaiting your collection.Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe. Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. 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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() He, also, heads a Sci-Fi & Fantasy Writers of Jacksonville, FL (SFFJAX) that meets once a month.Ĭhelsea Avenue 1-3 (supernatural thrillers)īelford Stories 1-4 (contemporary fiction)Ī View From My Seat (baseball nonfiction)ĭoris Ross (Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Dark Fantasy/Urban Fantasy) ![]() He has published three books in a fantasy series available on Amazon as well as on his website. He currently resides in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Plagued Primortus: A Teen Dystopian Adventure (The Primortus Chronicles Book 3) Hollowed Humusara (The Primortus Chronicles Book 2) – Nov 2014 (Co-Author J.L. Richards (YA Fantasy/Adventure)Įleventh Elementum (The Primortus Chronicles) (Volume 1) – Dec 2012 (Co-Author – J.L. 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Below is a listing of all the Northeast Florida published authors we can find or have been told about with the last names beginning with the letters R and S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tough to listen to, but interesting at times A lifelong rap fanatic, he amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs, telling it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in.įilled with his trademark humor and straight talk, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures, drawing from Horowitz’s personal and often humbling experiences. Ben Horowitz analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he’s gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies. While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley’s most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup - practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Provides a great deal of new perspective. A welcome addition to the literature of the campaign that sheds further light on the all-important and decisive Western theater in the Civil War."- The Historian "A readable and informative examination of the operations taken to defend the city of Vicksburg. Future campaign studies would do well to follow this example."- Journal of Southern History "An extremely useful summary of the campaign that succeeds in setting it in the wider context of the war itself. ![]() An extremely detailed and useful synthesis on the strategic, military and social aspects of the Vicksburg campaign in a single well-bound volume."- Journal of Military History "A complete picture of the campaign, spanning the full range of civilian-military interaction as well as the more traditional aspects of military history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chabon weaves these knotted-together tales together into a tapestry that’s as complicated, beautiful and flawed as an antique carpet. ![]() Sacks said, " Moonglow is a movingly bittersweet novel that balances wonder with lamentation." For The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani found that, "Mr. Sam Sacks writing for The Wall Street Journal appreciated the non-fiction elements of the novel in contrast to Chabon's other works. It starts with the narrator stating how his grandfather got arrested. The story is sort of a memoir, jumping around in time. Throughout the book, the grandfather's name is not referred to. The novel is about the story of the author's (Chabon) grandfather. The narrator functions as a proxy for the author, Chabon. Chabon tells the story using a mixture of strict memoir and creative fiction writing. The book chronicles the life of Chabon's grandfather, a WW2 soldier, engineer and rocket enthusiast who marries a troubled Jewish survivor from France and lives a challenging, wandering life in postwar America. ![]() ![]() Moonglow is a 2016 novel by Michael Chabon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Paullina Simons is an extraordinary storyteller and the book is full to overflowing as Tatiana and Alexander, both broken from what they've seen and lived through, try to rebuild their lives and protect their son as he grows up to become a soldier just like his dad and heads off to fight in Vietnam. This has everything a romance glutton could wish for: a bold, talented and dashing hero, a heart-stopping love affair! It also has - thank goodness - a welcome sense of humor and discernable characters rather than ciphers., 'A story of love and hope in the grand Russian tradition a sort of Second World War War and Peace, vast, epic, sweeping.' (Bookseller (London)), "This has everything a romance glutton could wish for: a bold, talented and dashing hero, a heart-stopping love affair! It also has - thank goodness - a welcome sense of humor and discernable characters rather than ciphers." - Daily Mail (London), 'BREATHTAKING! The final instalment in the lives of Tatiana Metanova and Alexander Barrington honestly takes the breath away. The Bronze Horseman 3 The Summer Garden Paullina Simons 4.09 29,578 ratings2,395 reviews The Magnificent Conclusion to the Timeless Epic Saga Through years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() McDonald’s “speedee service system,” a way of making burgers more efficiently and with little skill on the part of employees, marked, as Schlosser writes, a series of sweeping changes in fast food, causing it to become ubiquitous in America. The explosive growth of many of these chains was coupled with the expansion of the American suburbs, especially in California, as soldiers returned from the war and began settling with their families in car-based communities, along highways between major cities. Schlosser begins by noting the emergence of major American fast-food companies, like McDonald’s (with its Golden Arches), Burger King, and Wendy’s, after World War Two. ![]() Schlosser charts this transformation by tracking many different people: fast-food employees at franchises, and well-paid executives at fast-food conglomerates ranchers and potato farmers in Colorado and its environs large-scale farming and ranching operations workers at meatpacking plants food scientists tasked with creating new “natural” flavors for food products. Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation is an attempt to describe how American eating and food-production patterns have changed since World War Two. ![]() |