![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Occupy Radio: American Healthcare Victimizes the Poor, and Uninsured The latest addition to the OTMC line-up is OTMC Live!, a live program airing Sundays at 8 p.m. OTMC consists of eight Occupy and social justice podcasts and radio shows, airing seven days a week and twice on Sunday. Occupy Radio is part of the most prominent national Occupy media network, the Occupy the Media Collective, or OTMC. From famous police reformer, Frank Serpico, to activist Tim DeChristopher, to comedian Lee Camp, and Green Presidential Candidate Jill Stein, Occupy Radio brings national voices into the same forum with local voices. Camilla Mortensen, Associate Editor of the Eugene Weekly, brings the focus back to local issues with frequent appearances. On Occupy Radio, Getch and Rivera host an ongoing conversation about the issues that gave rise to the Occupy movement. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The veil is always thinnest on Samhain, and what awaits them on the other side is the stuff of nightmares. With New York City under control of their god pack, Patrick and Jono must fall back on every alliance they’ve brokered to fill the front lines of a war coming directly to the city streets. ![]() With the future unknown, Jono will follow Patrick wherever he goes, even to Salem, where a family reunion reveals a bitter secret that was never going to stay buried. ![]() Jonothon de Vere knows survival isn’t a guarantee, but he’s desperate to keep Patrick safe, even as hope slips through his fingers. But truth alone can’t set Patrick free, and time is running out to stop the Dominion Sect from turning his father into a god. There’s no denying his past any longer, not after giving up the truth to save himself from a murder charge. SOA Special Agent Patrick Collins has lived a life full of lies, and it has finally caught up with him. I’ve been anticipating this for years, loved the way Hailey Turner brought the story to a close, and am bereft that I’ve said a fond farewell to these characters and the strange and beautiful world they inhabit.īlurb: Death is the last lover you will ever know. At a Glance: Seeing this series come to its inevitable fruition is the proverbial double-edged sword. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Don’t worry, there are no spoilers ahead! General Overview of The Alchemist Is The Alchemist worth your time or not? Here are all the things you need to know before you decide whether or not you want to read “The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho”. So, read this article till the end to know whether The Alchemist is the book you should be reading or not. Reading The Alchemist has been a life changing experience- not just for me but I’m sure for a lot of my fellows whom I don’t even know. The book has proven itself to be life changing for many while others think the book is a complete hokum. So it definitely has something about it which has compelled readers all over the world ( about 65 million till now and counting) to find out what lies behind the pages of this book. The Alchemist is one of the very few books that have spent over 300 weeks on the New York Times best seller book’s list. ![]() ![]() ![]() I do not believe that it will eventually be placed among Hemingway’s major writings. Though the merit of this new story is incontestable, so are its limitations. Publicity is the reward as well as the nemesis of celebrities, but it has nothing in common with judgment. ![]() ![]() It is to be hoped that the recovery is more than temporary and that it will stand him in good stead in the completion of the long work he is reported to have embarked on some years ago.īut free as this latest work is of the faults of the preceding one, it is still by no means the masterpiece which the nationwide publicity set off by its publication in Life magazine has made it out to be. The artist in him appears to have regained control, curbing the over-assertive ego which sometimes declines into a kind of morbid irritability of self-love mixed with self-pity. Hemingway’s new story happily demonstrates his recovery from the distemper that so plainly marked his last novel, Across the River and into the Trees. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please read The Mystic Wolf Pub Critiquing Guide. He must confront his nemesis, and that confrontation will forge his destiny. He has a quest to fulfill, and though the mightiest warriors in the land stand between him and the king, he will do what it takes to complete it. But Talon is a demon, and refuses to play by the rules of men. Most men would flee with such overwhelming odds facing them. ![]() Five men will pit their skills against his, tracking him across Sorathale and setting deadly traps in hopes of claiming his head and the prize of becoming Andestor's heir. King Andestor has called a Royal Hunt, with Talon as the quarry. Yet he is not out of danger, for the King of Sorathale has put a price on his head. The Talon Saga, Book 6: Champion of the Huntįormer demon Talon escaped the Dungeon of the Forgotten and rescued the young girl who had been imprisoned with him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mary Roach is a science author who specializes in the bizarre and offbeat with a body of work ranging from deep-dives on the history of human cadavers to the science of the human anatomy during warfare. Like all of Roach’s books, Gulp is as much about human beings as it is about human bodies. With Roach at our side, we travel the world, meeting murderers and mad scientists, Eskimos and exorcists (who have occasionally administered holy water rectally), rabbis and terrorists-who, it turns out, for practical reasons do not conceal bombs in their digestive tracts. ![]() We go on location to a pet-food taste-test lab, a fecal transplant, and into a live stomach to observe the fate of a meal. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of-or has the courage to ask. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. “America’s funniest science writer” ( Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As one of those soldiers put it in a letter to the N.A.A.C.P., the mighty federal government seemed to cower before local sheriffs and lynch mobs - the petty tyrants of Jim Crow: “It’s odd that the U.S. Racist violence in the South meant that even something as basic as the homeland safety of Black soldiers couldn’t be secured. Redundant buildings continued to be built and maintained troop transportation continued to be a logistical nightmare. ![]() Roosevelt issued an executive order to desegregate private defense contractors, he would continue to resist desegregating the military. Delmont details in “Half American,” his new book about African Americans and World War II, even the bluntest appeals to the national interest couldn’t get some white Americans to budge. DelmontĪt the time, it should have been an easy argument to make: World War II was a total war, requiring an enormous mobilization of resources therefore anything impeding the efficient deployment of American forces had to be renounced - including the military’s policy of segregation and, most glaringly, the brutal Jim Crow regime in the South.īut as Matthew F. HALF AMERICAN: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad, by Matthew F. ![]() ![]() ![]() The woman keeps an American Negro lover, (very risqué for 1928), and her business turns out to be a prostitution racket. ![]() An aristocratic mother of one of his pupils then employs him in her business. Evelyn attempted to imitate the sexual undertones of his brother's successful book in Decline and Fall (1928), in which a student, Paul Pennyfeather, is expelled from Oxford and becomes a private school-master. Waugh attended Hertford College, Oxford, in the 1920s, by which time his brother Alec, who had been expelled from his public school for homosexuality, had already gained notoriety as a writer with his novel The Loom of Youth (1917). ![]() In 1981 a critically-acclaimed 13-part ITV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited drew popular attention to the novel, The Loved One and Decline and Fall were filmed in 1965, The Sword of Honour was adapted for TV in 1967, and a film of Vile Bodies, directed by Stephen Fry and renamed Bright Young Things, appeared in 2003. ![]() John Waugh’s reputation as a prose stylist is due to the elegance and wit of his early novels, which remain highly readable though his general fame may be credited to cinema and TV versions of his works. ![]() ![]() The unfortunate consequence is that Anglophone audiences are relatively unfamiliar with her works in comparison to one of her contemporary American expatriates, Gertrude Stein. ![]() A writer herself, Barney has been far less known on this side of the Atlantic because her French literary production remained untranslated into English. ![]() She actively worked to promote female writers and artists, often offering everything from emotional to financial support. Barney established a reputation as an engaging intellectual force around whom circulated some of France's most celebrated writers, musicians, artists, and thinkers. ![]() As an American heiress, she was educated at the exclusive girls' school, Les Ruches, outside of Paris, and afterwards spent most of her life as an expatriate in France. Originally published posthumously in French in 2013, this experimental novel reveals not only new dimensions of Barney's personal life, but it also makes an important contribution to LGBTQ and French literature, as well as cultural history.īarney was at the epicenter of Paris's burgeoning lesbian communities of the Belle Époque and interwar years. Chelsea Ray's translation of Natalie Clifford Barney's Women Lovers, or The Third Woman provides a fresh and fascinating window into the life of the writer, salonière (salon hostess), and translator Natalie Barney for English-speaking audiences. ![]() ![]() Another deliciously hair-raising entry in a series that continues to make a huge splash. The deliberate pacing maintains a palpable sense of dread, equally anxiety-inducing and terrifying. Praise for Dark Waters: An Amazon Best Book - August 2021 Arden skillfully blends a creature feature with a survival tale, taking the series into new territory without deviating from its successful formula. One thing is for sure, the smiling man is back and he wants a rematch. When they're left shipwrecked on an island haunted by a monster on both land and sea, Brian's survival instincts kick in and it's up to him to help everyone work together and find a way to escape. But first, the three friends will have to survive a group trip to Lake Champlain where it's said Vermont's very own Loch Ness monster lives. ![]() ![]() The smiling man loves his games and it seems a new one is afoot. Only, there's no one there, just a cryptic note left outside signed simply as -S. So when the lights flicker on and off at Brian's family's inn and a boom sounds at the door, there's just one visitor it could be. ![]() ![]() And as the trio knows, the smiling man always keeps his promises. That was chilling promise made to Ollie, Coco and Brian after they outsmarted the smiling man at Mount Hemlock Resort. Filled with chills, New York Times bestselling author Katherine Arden's latest installment in the creep-tastic Small Spaces Quartet is sure to haunt. ![]() |