![]() ![]() And, based on some very murky math, it seeks "compensatory, punitive damages and disgorgement" of "at least $49,980,000." ![]() As expected, lawyers for Simon & Schuster and bestselling author Bob Woodward have filed two new motions to dismiss an amended $50 million lawsuit filed by former president Donald Trump, which alleges that Woodward and S&S breached Trump’s copyright interests by publishing The Trump Tapes: The Historical Record.įirst filed in January (and amended on April 24), Trump’s complaint accuses Woodward of "systematic usurpation, manipulation, and exploitation of audio of President Trump" gathered in connection with a series of interviews initially recorded for Woodward’s 2021 book Rage: "Said audio was protected material, subject to various limitations on use and distribution-as a matter of copyright, license, contract, basic principles of the publishing industry, and core values of fairness and consent.” The suit seeks a declaratory judgment acknowledging Trump's "full copyright interest" in the recordings and all works derived from the recordings. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Bryn grew up knowing she was the underdog (no pun intended), and that shaped a lot of her personality. When I'm writing, I never think "I have to make this believable" or "I have to make the main character strong." I think "I wonder what it would be like to grow up as the only human among a bunch of werewolves," and everything else just falls out of that. Is it difficult to strike that balance where Bryn is human but still capable of holding her own in a world that is predominantly male and where dominance is key and still make it believable to the reader? She doesn’t possess their powers or strength. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's closer to Buffy than to a straight paranormal romance: lots of action, lots of sarcasm, friends who are like family, and coming of age.īryn is a human girl raised in a world of werewolves. Since then, she's been raised as part of the local werewolf pack, and she's actually pretty comfortable in their world-until the pack starts keeping secrets from her and she finds herself drawn into a fight for her independence- and for justice. I know this is the standard boring question - but for those who haven’t read Raised by Wolves yet, could you tell us a little bit about it? Raised By Wolves is the story of a human teenager whose family was killed by a rabid werewolf when she was very young. ![]() ![]() After some troublesome trials in book 1 we know that many of the students were dropped without a chance of making it to the Wonderous Society, but now it is time for the ones who have made it to go to WunSoc and learn about just what they can do. This book continues where the first one leaves off. I think if you like the first you will love the second! There was so much to like in this book, and Morrigan's story felt a bit darker and the stakes were higher too. I think this one gave me all those nostalgic feelings of when I first read Harry Potter, and I couldn't help but to fall in love with the world once again and get emotionally invested in the characters. ![]() Wow, this was brilliant fun and in my opinion even better than the first in the series. ![]() ![]() But the question remains: do these men want to solve the crime or exploit it? In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the crime and to the township - Andrew Knox, Dove River's elder statesman Thomas Sturrock, a wily American itinerant trader Donald Moody, the clumsy young Company representative William Parker, a half-breed Native American and trapper who was briefly detained for Jammett's murder before becoming Mrs. Within hours she will regret that knock with a mother's love - for soon she makes another discovery: her seventeen-year-old son Francis has disappeared and is now considered a prime suspect. Ross's knock on the door of the largest house in Caulfield that launches the investigation. ![]() Ross, stumbles upon the crime scene and sees the tracks leading from the dead man's cabin north toward the forest and the tundra beyond. The same accident afforded him the little parcel of land in Dove River, land that the locals called unlucky due to the untimely death of the previous owner.Ī local woman, Mrs. ![]() Laurent Jammett had been a voyageur for the Hudson Bay Company before an accident lamed him four years earlier. ![]() Winter has just tightened its grip on Dove River, a tiny isolated settlement in the Northern Territory, when a man is brutally murdered. ![]() ![]() ![]() She joined PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown on Thursday to answer your questions about her reporting. ![]() But the film has also received criticism for underplaying the harsh realities of working for big-box retailers such as Amazon, particularly following an unsuccessful effort by workers at the company's warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., to unionize.īruder, a journalist, spent three years speaking to folks on the road to write the book, and lived briefly as a nomad herself. It won a Golden Globe for best picture in the drama category, and Zhao won best director - the first Asian woman to do so in the show's 78-year history. In her book she examines the ongoing societal Nomadland."Nomadland" served as inspiration for the new film of the same name, directed by Chloé Zhao and starring Frances McDormand. Jessica Bruder talked about Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. Without enough saved for retirement, and unable to pay off their mortgages, they moved their lives into RVs and trailers, congregating in camps stretching from North Dakota to California to Texas. The nomads Bruder followed were usually workers who did not completely recover from the 2008 Recession. Watch Bruder's conversation in the video player above. ![]() Our March/April book club selection for Now Read This is Jessica Bruder's "Nomadland," which chronicles the growing community of transient older Americans who have taken to the road in search of seasonal work. ![]() ![]() ![]() "A powerful, well-written, beautifully reported book." ![]() ![]() If you love a good story, well-told and with a social purpose, you'll enjoy Unearthing the Ghosts. Unearthing the Ghosts argues for an end to well-meaning abuses in the name of "treating" mental illness and a quest to nurture and protect mental health. Within this highly personal story, Wagner weaves social history based on research that uncovers other mysteries, both solved and unsolved. Through this memoir, she discovers the forces that coalesced into her doctor's misdiagnosis and mistreatment and shares how she recovered from coming-of-age trauma. A healthy "hippie" at age 17, Linda Mary Wagner is assumed mentally ill by her Depression-era parents who are puzzled by the massive social changes in American society in the 1960s. The author of Unearthing the Ghosts seeks to solve the mystery of how she wound up on anti-psychotic drugs in a psychiatric ward before seeing the doctor who put her there. ![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t know that this series’ intention was to point out the Facebookisation of the world, but it spotlighted it brilliantly. I’m sitting here, writing this review, and I have text open on my phone, chats on Facebook going, and I check Twitter every few minutes. ![]() Here’s the odd part: I got it immediately. The books are written all in text message form, which–as a Lit major–should have taken me awhile to get used to. The Internet Girls series follows the lives of three Atlanta girls who are BFF’s: wild-child Maddie, relatively normal Angela, and the quiet, bookish Zoe. I went to Amazon to read a synopsis, and somehow my finger hit the “Buy With One-Click” or whatever button, and there it was, on my Kindle. What happened was I read an article on banned books, and this was mentioned. ![]() I hadn’t originally intended to read this book (or this series), and I’m writing one review for the whole series. ![]() ![]() ![]() She shows the drama, the chemistry, the feelings and emotions developing over time. Cora Brent has this way of capturing the intensity between a couple Roslyn & Conway have a history that makes it highly unlikely they would ever entertain the idea of them being a couple, and she manages that very well. I’ve read all of the Gentry Boys books and I could not wait for this one to come out. ![]() They grow closer and closer and he has to decide if he’s ok with moving on or if he still thinks he has to be unhappy. After his girlfriend, Erin, died he decided he had nothing to live for so why not go wild right? When he runs unexpectedly into Roslyn he is hit with a blast from the past. Not quite to Emblem but close she works in a shelter helping young women move on to better aspects of their life.Ĭonway Gentry has travelled far down the wrong path in life but he figures he’s got nothing to live for. She threw herself in to her studies and has moved back home, so to speak. She grew up and moved on, but will always remember her friend, Erin. Roslyn Tory lost her best friend at such a young age. ![]() ![]() ![]() So when she finds herself stranded with bounty hunter Dextro Arez on the unforgiving ice planet of Solera, Andi seeks out the mysterious Arachnid, the one person who seems to be fighting back against the vicious queen…and uncovers the true, devastating reason for Nor’s takeover.īack on Andi’s home planet of Arcardius, Nor’s actions have made Mirabel vulnerable to invasion from an outside force. ![]() And with most of the galaxy now trapped under the mind control of the bloodthirsty Queen Nor, not even the farthest reaches of Mirabel can offer safety for the queen’s most-hated adversary.īut Andi will risk anything, even her precious freedom, to save her crew. With her crew captured and her ship a smoldering ruin, notorious mercenary Androma Racella is no longer the powerful Bloody Baroness, but a fugitive on the run. Return to the high-stakes, riveting world of The Androma Saga in this dazzling finale from #1 New York Times bestselling authors Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings. Join Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings as they talk about their highly anticipated sequel and finale to their New York Times bestseller, Zenith. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kehlmann's unforgettable joker we have a picture of humankind in all of its madness and strutting pride." - The Wall Street Journal He is a playful realist, a rationalist drawn to magical games and tricky performances, a modern who likes to look backward. ![]() "Kehlmann is a gifted and sensitive storyteller. A spellbinding memorial to the nameless souls lost in Europe's vicious past, whose whispers are best heard in fables." - The New York Times Book Review "Brilliant and unputdownable." - Salman Rushdie **Shortlisted for the Booker International Prize** Translated from the German by Ross Benjamin The result is both a riveting story and a moving tribute to the power of art in the face of the senseless brutality of history. As a juggler and a jester, Tyll forges his own path through a world devastated by the Thirty Years' War, evading witch-hunters, escaping a collapsed mine outside a besieged city, and entertaining the exiled King and Queen of Bohemia along the way. After Tyll flees with the baker's daughter, he falls in with a traveling performer who teaches him his trade. Tyll is a scrawny boy growing up in a quiet village until his father, a miller with a forbidden interest in alchemy and magic, is found out by the church. Description The New York Times Best Historical Fiction of 2020ĭaniel Kehlmann transports the medieval legend of the trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel to the seventeenth century in an enchanting work of magical realism, macabre humor, and rollicking adventure. ![]() |