From the glory days of Detroit to the junk-sick streets of the East Village, from Key West to Nashville and sunny L.A., in and out of prison and on and off of drugs, his is the classic journeyman narrative, but with a twist: he's here to remind us that revolution is always an option. 'As gripping as it is sobering.' THE TIMES 'Voyerustically dramatic.' NEW YORK TIMES 'Eye-opening. The '60s were not all peace and love, but Kramer shows that peace and love can be born out of turbulence and unrest. A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR Wayne Kramer, legendary guitarist and co-founder of quintessential Detroit proto-punk legends The MC5, tells his story in The Hard Stuff. Kramer's story is (literally) a revolutionary one, but it's also the deeply personal struggle of an addict and an artist, a rebel with a great tale to tell. The band recorded three major label albums but, by 1972, it was all over. Kramer wanted to redefine what a rock 'n' roll group was capable of, and there was power in reaching for that, but it was also a recipe for disaster, both personally and professionally. They toured the country, played with music legends, and had a rabid following, their music acting as the soundtrack to the blue collar youth movement springing up across the nation. Led by legendary guitarist Wayne Kramer, The MC5 was a reflection of the times: exciting, sexy, violent, chaotic, and out of control, all but assuring their time in the spotlight would be short-lived. The missing link between free jazz and punk rock, they were raw, primal, and, when things were clicking, absolutely unstoppable. In January 1969, before the world heard a note of their music, The MC5 was on the cover of Rolling Stone.
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Since graduating, she has taught classics at various institutions across the United States and Canada, including Emory University, California College of the Arts, Princeton University, and McGill University. Education and Early CareerĬarson’s career as a writer has been influenced and shaped by her study of classics at the University of Toronto, where she completed her BA (1974), MA (1975), and PhD (1981), and at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, where she received a diploma in classics in 1976. Recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2000, winner of the Governor General’s Award and the Lannan Literary Award, and two-time winner of the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize, Carson is an internationally acclaimed poet, essayist and translator from Ancient Greek. Anne Carson, CM, poet, essayist, classical scholar and professor (born 21 June 1950 in Toronto, ON). In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations.Īt once familiar and elusive, Lincoln tends to be seen as the greatest of American presidents-a remote icon-or as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction. Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. One of the Best Books of the Year: The Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus ReviewsĪ president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis.Longlisted for the Biographers International Plutarch Award.Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize “Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time.”-Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how-and why-he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account. This might be one of the funniest in a series known for it’s off the wall humor. The matriarchal Elina meets the Dragon Warrior, Celyn the Charming.Ĭelyn is determined to charm the gruff and serious Elina, with mixed success. Ordered to meet with the leader of the warrior tribes, the two set off on a quest across the land. Months later…she asks the same dragon to reclaim the human, escort her home, and gain an alliance with her people.īut he left her in prison for months, and she does NOT approve. The Dragon Queen takes pity on the warrior woman, and sends her off for safe keeping with her trusted guard. A mission all involved knew meant her death. Aiken or in her Paranormal persona Shelly Laurenston.Ĭelyn the Charming, one of the Dragon Queen’s body guards, captures a human assassin.Įlina, a warrior of the Steppes, had been sent to kill the Queen by her tribe’s leader. Light my Fire (Dragon Kin Book #7) by G.A. Absolute temperature is one, but a key factor for the impacts of heat extremes is also how much higher temperatures are compared to normal for a specific location. There are many ways to measure extreme heat. 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And that was also a thematic story that fit neatly into a memoir, which was a story about growing up. " My first book was all my good stories," Alderton tells BBC News. Through her tell-all dating columns for Sunday Times Style to her bestselling memoir, Everything I Know About Love, and cult podcast, The High Low, Alderton has amassed a legions of fans, all ready and waiting for her debut novel, Ghosts – out now. Dolly Alderton's ability to capture the anxieties and ambitions of her generation with both style and humour have made her a firm favourite among millennials. With a campaign running on Indiegogo through May 17th, Spectacular Optical is offering genre fans an early opportunity to pick up this limited-edition book, as well as a slew of additional perks such as Blu Rays, soundtracks, books, festival passes, a Rollin Mystery Boardgame deigned by cover artist Jessica Seamans (limited to 100 copies), and – most exciting of all - the ‘Tour de sang’: an immersive tour through eight Rollin film locations in the French countryside! Spectacular Optical has put out some tremendous books, like Kier-La Janisse's Satanic Panic and Janisse and Paul Corupe's Kid Power, and we're very pleased to exclusively debut a page from their upcoming publication, Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin!īut first, some info from the press release:Ĭanadian micro-publisher Spectacular Optical has just launched pre-sales for its newest book focused on the career of French fantasy and horror filmmaker Jean Rollin, LOST GIRLS: THE PHANTASMAGORICAL CINEMA OF JEAN ROLLIN, penned by all women critics, scholars and film historians. “Thomas has given a voice to her generation.” Stylist “Passionate and uncompromising.” Observer “The Hate U Give says more about the contemporary Black experience in America than any book I have read for years.” Guardian Winner of the Amnesty CILIP Honour for the Carnegie MedalĪ major motion picture from Fox starring Amandla Stenberg Winner of Children’s Book of the Year at The British Book Awards Winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Award But when King Lord blood runs through your veins, you don’t get to just walk away. So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. Suddenly it’s not so easy to deal drugs and finish school with a baby dependent on him for everything. Life’s not perfect, but he’s got everything under control. With his King Lord dad in prison and his mom working two jobs, seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter helps the only way he knows how: slinging drugs. From international phenomenon Angie Thomas comes a hard-hitting return to Garden Heights with the story of Maverick Carter, Starr’s father, set seventeen years before the events of the award-winning The Hate U Give. Here William Hurt stars as John Renshaw, an assassin who executes a toy company executive in Dallas, then flies home to San Francisco. The miniseries takes its title from King’s 1993 short story collection, though only five of the eight episodes are from that book “The Road Virus Heads North” and “Autopsy Room Four” are from his 2002 anthology Everything’s Eventual, and series opener, “Battleground,” is from 1978’s Night Shift, King’s first story collection. Will it be the erudite King, who’s capable of crafting dark, textured, adult stories? Or will it be the goofy shockmaster, delivering scenes of gruesome terror and borderline nonsensical plot twists? In TNT’s anthology series, Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King, the answer is: both. To borrow a phrase from a film that clobbered Shawshank at the Oscars, King’s work is “like a box of chocolates.” You never now what fresh hell you’re gonna get. The stylistic gap between Carrie and Shawshank highlights the biggest problem with adapting King. In 1976, Brian De Palma turned King’s debut, Carrie, into iconic cinematic horror 1990’s Misery won Kathy Bates an Oscar and in 1994, the cult status and adoration of the adult and engaging Shawshank Redemption cemented King’s reputation as a critically acclaimed popular storyteller. It’s possible that more film and TV adaptations have been made from the works of Stephen King than any other living author. So this book is packed with facts, stories, names, and countries to the point it starts resembling a suitcase with a bit too much clothes in it or a crazy wall from a detective series. Mind that it's not a manual or anything, it's more of a story about the ideas how football should be played and how they have been developing in time and why. This is definitely the book about football tactics. The story of the game through the story of tactics PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. It also analyses the tactical evolution of Pep Guardiola, the increasing alternatives to possession-based football and the changing role of the goalkeeper, as well as investigating the trend of full-backs developing into midfielders and the consequent return of three at the back. This 10th-anniversary edition of a footballing modern classic has been fully updated to include the development of gegenpressing as pioneered by German coaches such as Ralf Rangnick and Jürgen Klopp, and its subsequent influence on the world game. Along the way, he looks at the lives of great players and thinkers who shaped the sport and probes why the English, in particular, have 'proved themselves unwilling to grapple with the abstract'. In Inverting the Pyramid, Jonathan Wilson pulls apart the finer details of the world's game, tracing the global history of tactics, from modern pioneers right back to the beginning when chaos reigned. |