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The Next Big Story by Soledad O'Brien5/23/2023 I think most journalists would be like, 'yes, that's the goal,'" O'Brien explained. "The goal of journalism should be to hold people accountable who are empowered, and to make sure that we're educating the public and that we are bringing factual and accurate information to the public. Journalists and media organizations have struggled with how to cover Trump, and in the eyes of many, including O'Brien, they’ve missed the mark. He has also been consistent in fear-mongering when it comes to Democrats, immigration, and other issues.īut the lie that many experts say will be hailed as the greatest of our time, and will have the longest-lasting impact, is what led to the Capitol insurrection: that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from him. The president has lied an astronomical amount, according to the Washington Post fact-checker, which has chronicled over 29,000 false claims Trump has made during his four years in office. "If you're in a position of power and privilege, then I think you have an obligation to use your seat at the table to hold people accountable," she said.įor journalists everywhere, covering Trump and his administration has been no easy task. It's just an extension of what she says she's been doing since she became a journalist. But for O'Brien, her insistence on holding people, specifically journalists and media, accountable on social media is nothing new and wasn't necessarily a conscious decision.
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Tyrant tm frazier5/23/2023 I will say that this book is not for the faint of heart. Which doesn’t happen very often these days. I love books that can take me by surprise. There were so many twists and turns in this book that I didn’t see coming. True love always wins as long as you work for it. But in the end love triumphed proving once again that it doesn’t matter what life may through at you. It was filled with love, longing and difficult choices for all the characters. The conclusion to Pup and King’s story was much more than what I could have anticipated. Now it's my turn to do whatever it takes to save him.Įven if that means marrying someone else. He's already saved me in more ways than one. I don't know if I'm strong enough to resist the magnetic pull toward King that grows stronger every day. I will put the lives of those I love most at risk if I let on that my memory has returned, or if I seek help from the heavily tattooed felon who owns me body and soul. When the fog is sucked away from my mind like smoke through a vacuum, the truth that has been beyond my reach for months finally reveals itself.īut the relief I thought I would feel never comes, and I'm more afraid now than I was the morning I woke up handcuffed in King's bed.īecause with the truth comes dark secrets I was never meant to know. Also by this author: King, Lawless, Soullessįind the Author: Website, Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon
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Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley5/23/2023 A Jack Russell was about making noise, killing small animals and dragging It was not as though he didn't know what a Jack Russell was all about when Rosalind brought the dog home. Maybrick had discussed this issue with Rosalind on many levels. No Jack Russell sleeps though movement of any kind except as a ruse. With his wife, apparently sleeping, since she didn't raise even her head when Mr. In all things - and it seemed like every Persian carpet in every room every morning was adorned with tiny dark, dense turds deposited there by Eileen, the Jack Russell terrier. In every room his wife had laid a Persian carpet of exceptional quality - his wife had an eye for quality His office that adjoined the library, the weight room, the guest bathroom, the living room, and the dining room. On the way to the kitchen, he passed the library, Maybrick arose from his marriage bed at 6:00 a.m., put on his robe and slippers, and exited the master suite he shared with his wife, Rosalind. Had a runner, how could this possibly be his fault, hadn't he spent millions breeding, training, and running horses? Wasn't it time he had a runner in the Breeders' Cup or got out of the game altogether, On the second Sunday morning in November, the day after the Breeders' Cup at Hollywood Park (which he did not get to this year, because the trek to the West Coast seemed a long one from Westchester County and he didn't have a runner, had never
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Maybe a fox by kathi appelt5/22/2023 Appelt’s voice and pacing demonstrate her fine storytelling skills. Readers will revel in both the vivid stories of Zada’s past and the rich vocabulary of Texas desert life. A delight to the senses, Zada’s stories are a descriptive wonder, featuring roiling dust, howling winds, fresh figs, and cool water, bolstering the emotions shown in Rohmann’s grayscale oil paintings. Army in 1856, ending up in Texas (events inspired by actual history). The fledglings learn that Zada was raised by a Turkish pasha and gifted with eight other prized racing camels to the U.S. The evocative language is spellbinding as tales from Zada’s life calm the baby birds-and capture the interest of readers as well. Zada hopes to get the chicks to the safe meeting place chosen by their parents just before a dust devil snatched them away. The threesome shelter in an empty mountain lion’s cave, waiting for safety. It’s 1910, and she has charge of Wims and Beulah, two baby kestrels whose parents have vanished in a vicious dust storm. Like her namesake Scheherazade, elderly camel Zada has many stories to tell from her adventurous life. How does one entertain two baby kestrels in the middle of a West Texas dust storm? With camel stories, of course.
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Cherry by mary karr5/22/2023 Karr is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University and was the weekly poetry editor for the Washington Post Book World's "Poet's Choice" column, a position canonized by Bob Hass, Ed Hirsch, and Rita Dove. Her work appears in such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, and Parnassus. Her five volumes of poetry are Tropic of Squalor (Harper, 2018), which was long-listed for the Pulitzer Prize, Sinners Welcome (HarperCollins, 2006), Viper Rum (Penguin, 1998), The Devil's Tour (New Directions, 1993), and Abacus (Carnegie Mellon, 1986). She has won prizes from Best American Poetry as well as Pushcart Prizes for both poetry and essays. Her poetry grants include The Whiting Writer's Award, an NEA, a Radcliffe Bunting Fellowship, and a Guggenheim. Karr welcomes conversation with her audience and she is known for her spirited, lively, and engaging Q&A sessions. A born raconteur she brings to her lectures and talks the same wit, irreverence, joy, and sorrow found in her poetry and prose. She is the author of Lit, the long-awaited sequel to her critically-acclaimed and New York Times best-selling memoirs The Liars' Club and Cherry. Mary Karr is an award-winning poet and best-selling memoirist.
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Libba bray the diviners series5/22/2023 With terrible accounts of murder and possession flooding in from all over and New York City on the verge of panic, the Diviners must band together and brave the sinister ghosts invading the asylum, a fight that will bring them face-to-face with the King of Crows. Out on Ward's Island, far from the city's bustle, sits a mental hospital haunted by the lost souls of people long forgotten-ghosts who have unusual and dangerous ties to the man in the stovepipe hat, also known as the King of Crows. They're more determined than ever to uncover the mystery behind their extraordinary powers, even as they face off against an all-new terror. After battling a supernatural sleeping sickness that claimed two of their own, the Diviners have had enough lies.
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Wind sand and stars author5/22/2023 He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the French naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious art school l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He writes repeatedly of the house at Saint-Maurice. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in eastern France, he kept that ambition. He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 192 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. People best know French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for his fairy tale The Little Prince (1943).
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The Juniper Game by Sherryl Jordan5/22/2023 A recurring theme in her books is the everyday struggle of ordinary people, who must fight against intolerance, prejudice and superstition in order to become the extraordinary men and women they were born to be. Sherryl loves writing of Medieval times, of village life influenced deeply by the seasons, by seed-time and harvest, summer and winter. All her books are expressions of her own spiritual journey through life – of her dreams, her battles, her fears and triumphs. In her books Sherryl explores what she calls the boundless spaces between fact and fantasy, the real truth and the truth we imagine. Afflicted with occupational overuse syndrome in 1989, she recovered slowly and was able to return to writing. Sherryl trained in sign language as part of her work as a teacher’s aide working with deaf children and this was one of the inspirations for her novel The Raging Quiet. Her 13th novel, Rocco, which won the AIM Book of the Year in 1991, proved to be a turning point, although she had been in print as an illustrator before then. Of the 27 picture books and 12 novels she wrote in her apprenticeship years, only three picture books were published. She learned her craft by attending seminars and listening to other writers through criticism and rewriting and through determination and perseverance. Sherryl Jordan’s path to publication was long and arduous.
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My wife and sons learned to dread the mention of Thomas Cranmer's name in our household, because I had so often made the point that hearing his works, read aloud, for thousands of hours in my childhood permanently shaped my idea of how an English sentence should sound. That's not Ben at the right it's Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury through the mid-1500s, whose lasting effect on the world was to compose the Anglican Book of Common Prayer of 1549. The Atlantic's literary editor Benjamin Schwarz, who has read as much on as broad a range of topics as anyone I've known, provides the latest reminder for me in this month's " Editor's Choice" column in the magazine*.
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Come as you are nagoski5/22/2023 That is, until Emily Nagoski’s Come As You Are, which used groundbreaking science and research to prove that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life filled with confidence and joy is not what the parts are or how they’re organized but how you feel about them. A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times bestseller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life.įor much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less frequently-and far less seriously-than its male counterpart. |