![]() It coughs and wheezes like it’s gone asthmatic. The kitchen faucet makes the most bizarre sounds. And when her parents don’t return and her life-and the life of her brother-is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she’s going to survive. Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation neighbors and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of don’ts: don’t water the lawn, don’t fill up your pool, don’t take long showers. The drought-or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it-has been going on for a while now. ![]() ![]() When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman. “No one does doom like Neal Shusterman.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “The Shustermans challenge readers.” - School Library Journal (starred review) “The palpable desperation that pervades the plot…feels true, giving it a chilling air of inevitability.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) ![]() “The authors do not hold back.” - Booklist (starred review) ![]()
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![]() ![]() How will we pray, Christ’s disciples ask? “A failure to pray is therefore not only a sign of anemic spiritual life, it is disobedience to Christ,” says Mohler. “The Lord’s Prayer in the Sermon on the Mount is part of Christ’s vision for life in the inaugurated kingdom of heaven,” Mohler explains. Those 52 words become 175 small pages in Mohler’s book, explaining each line of the most famous prayer in the Bible. ![]() ![]() (Thomas Nelson, 2018), and that the book’s cover calls “a manifesto for revolution.” “The Lord’s Prayer is the most powerful prayer in the Bible, taught by Jesus to those closest to him,” says the flyleaf to The Prayer That Turns the World Upside Down by R. The Lord’s Prayer is just 52 words, when we do not include the 13 “concluding words” that most Christians finish with-“for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever, Amen,” and that do not appear in the original copy of Matthew. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prior to WNS, he has held several leadership positions in global companies, including President and CEO, Syntel Inc. Keshav is a Member on the Board of WNS Cares Foundation that focuses on community-related projects, especially education for lesser-privileged children in WNS locations globally. He was also the Chairman of the Nasscom Consumer Interest Protection Task Force. He is a member of The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) CEO Council and has been the Chairman of Nasscom* for 2019-2020. Based in Mumbai, Keshav is responsible for executing the business strategy, and directing the overall performance and growth of the organization. Keshav Murugesh serves as Group Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors of WNS. ![]() ![]() ![]() She lives in Vancouver, BC (the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples). Listing of events and press related to Lisa Brideaus novel Adrift, publishing May 9, 2023. When she takes breaks from trying to mitigate catastrophic climate change, she likes to write speculative fiction or practice her waltz. She has a B.Eng in Aerospace Engineering from Carleton University and an M.Sc in Urban Planning from the University of British Columbia and currently works as a sustainability specialist for the city of Vancouver. ![]() Lisa was born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada in the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaw People. This week on Killer Women, our guest is Lisa Brideau (‘bree-doe’). ![]() ![]() ![]() The income she receives from waiting tables is not enough to support her and to pay the next installment of rent, and Ehrenreich takes on a second job working as a hotel maid. Ehrenreich gets a job as a waitress in a diner-style restaurant, and finds a trailer to rent nearby. The first city chosen was Key West, Florida, due to the proximity to her home. The goal was to determine whether or not the author could both live off the money earned and have enough money at the end of the month to pay the next month’s rent. The experiment was to be held for one month in each location, working full time and living only off the amount of money earned in low-wage jobs. The experiment took place in Florida, Maine, and Minnesota, with the author finding a job and lodgings in each location. "Infobox Book" name Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America image image caption Cover of Nickel and Dimed author Barbara Ehrenreich country America language English genre Non-fiction publisher Owl Books release date 2001 media type Paperback pages 240 isbn 0805063897 Barbara Ehrenreich’s non-fiction bestseller, Nickel and Dimed, is the story of an essay writer who went undercover as a low wage worker to find out how non-skilled workers make ends meet. ![]() ![]() ![]() The action takes place in the present day at the Bryce Household and the surrounding areas of Brighton. When Detective Superintendent Roy Grace becomes involved, he has his own demons to contend with while he tries to crack the case in time to save the Bryce family’s lives. Reporting the crime to the police has disastrous consequences, placing him and his family in grave danger. hours after picking up a USB memory stick, left behind on a train seat, Tom Bryce inadvertently becomes a witness to a vicious murder. I had not read the book (sometimes it’s nice to not know the story or the outcome!) And all we knew was… ![]() Last Night Neva and I were invited along to Norwich Theatre Royal to review Looking Good Dead, another of Peter James’ novels brought to life on the stage. ![]() ![]() ![]() He further cites writers like Montaigne, who could not remember what he read, and Paul Valéry, who found ways of praising authors whose books he had never opened. ![]() ![]() And he recalls passionate exchanges with people who also have not read the book under discussion. Bayard reassures them that there is no obligation to read, and confesses to lecturing students on books that he has either not read or has merely skimmed. “With this book, they can shake off their guilt without psychoanalysis, so it’s much cheaper.” “I am surprised because I hadn’t imagined how guilty nonreaders feel,” Mr. “How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read?” has become a best seller here, with translation rights snapped up across Europe and under negotiation in Britain and the United States. Now Pierre Bayard, a Paris University literature professor, has come to their rescue with a survivor’s guide to life in the chattering classes. Of course, many people don’t get through these books, either, and too embarrassed to admit it, they worry constantly about being exposed as philistines. In practice, primed by publishers, critics, teachers, authors and word-of-mouth, a form of natural selection limits essential reading to those classics and best sellers that become part of civilized intellectual and social discourse. 23 - It may well be that too many books are published, but by good fortune, not all must be read. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are no superheroes or fairies here-just good, everyday people dealing with day-to-day issues as life presents them, learning about love, trust, and honesty.” - VOYA “Doktorski has written a satisfying novel that readers will enjoy. “A smart, compact, and pleasurable read.” - Booklist A satisfying office romance set against the backdrop of tight deadlines and a changing media landscape.” - Publishers Weekly “It’s easy to fall for Sam’s self-deprecating wit, go-getter enthusiasm, occasional stumbles, and fascination with boys her dedication to the imperiled newspaper and her eccentric colleagues will endear her to readers, too. But once she figures out what-or who-is the best part of her summer, will she mess it all up?Īs Sam learns her way around both the news room and the real world, she starts to make some momentous realizations about politics, ethics, her family, romance, and most important-herself.Ī Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year for 2014 Between Shelby, Sam’s boy-crazy best friend her boss Harry, a true-blue newspaper man and AJ, her fellow “intern scum” (aka the cute drummer for a band called Love Gas), Sam has her hands full. Her summer internship at the local newspaper has her writing obituaries instead of soaking up the sun at the beach. ![]() In Famous Last Words by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, sixteen-year-old Samantha D’Angelo has death on the brain. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Reservation Blues, National Book Award winner Alexie vaults with ease from comedy to tragedy and back in a tour-de-force outing powered by a collision of cultures: Delta blues and Indian rock. He found Big Mom and has been staying at. The story takes a quick glance at what Robert Johnson has been doing. It all started one day when legendary bluesman Robert Johnson showed up on the Spokane Indian Reservation with a magical guitar, leaving it on the floor of Thomas Builds-the-Fire’s van after setting off to climb Wellpinit Mountain in search of Big Mom. Last Updated on May 5, 2015, by eNotes Editorial. Winner of the American Book Award and the Murray Morgan Prize, Sherman Alexies brilliant first novel tells a powerful tale of Indians, rock n roll. The band sings its own brand of the blues, full of poverty, pain, and loss-but also joy and laughter. Backup vocals come from sisters Chess and Checkers Warm Water. ![]() Thomas Builds-the-Fire takes vocals and bass guitar, Victor Joseph hits lead guitar, and Junior Polatkin rounds off the sound on drums. ![]() ![]() Winner of the American Book Award and the Murray Morgan Prize, Sherman Alexie’s brilliant first novel tells a powerful tale of Indians, rock ’n’ roll, and redemptionĬoyote Springs is the only all-Indian rock band in Washington State-and the entire rest of the world. ![]() ![]() If Songs of Praise was fuelled by pint-sloshing teenage vitriol, then Drunk Tank Pink delved into a different kind of intensity. This era, of being forced to endure reality and the terror that comes with your own company, would form shame’s second album, 2021’s Drunk Tank Pink, the band’s reinvention. For the first time, since being plucked from the stage of The Windmill and catapulted into notoriety, shame were confronted with who they’d become on the other side of it. shame’s frontman, Charlie Steen, suffered a series of panic attacks which led to the tour’s cancellation. ![]() ![]() They tried to bite off more than they could chew, just to prove their teeth were sharp enough – but eventually, you’ve got to learn to spit it out. In 2018, they took their incendiary debut album Songs of Praise for a cross-continental joyride for almost 350 relentless nights. ![]() The freefall of their early twenties, in all its delight and disaster, was tangled up in being hailed one of post-punk’s greatest hopes. ![]() Shame were tourists in their own adolescence - and nothing was quite like the postcard. ![]() |