![]() ![]() ![]() Yet this unknown lawyer shares with his famous adversary a compulsion to win at all costs. Edison is a wily, dangerous opponent with vast resources at his disposal-private spies, newspapers in his pocket, and the backing of J. The case affords Paul entry to the heady world of high society-the glittering parties in Gramercy Park mansions, and the more insidious dealings done behind closed doors. Paul’s client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the light bulb and holds the right to power the country? The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history-and a vast fortune.Ī young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. A thrilling novel based on actual events, about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America-from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and bestselling author of The Sherlockian. ![]()
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![]() ![]() While he’s writing and waiting, Billy also makes friends in that suburban neighborhood - something he normally guards against. King weaves Billy’s novel into this one, first a few paragraphs, then pages and chapters, and it’s a hell of a story. The plan is a bit too elaborate, but Billy goes with it, moving into the house Nick has rented for him in a suburban family neighborhood and into the rented office downtown with a clear view of the courthouse. Nick declines to identify the person who wants Allen killed, but he has an elaborate plan for Billy to move to the city and await Allen’s extradition from California, then shoot him on the courthouse steps. She pepper-sprayed him, and now Joel Allen is sitting in the Los Angeles jail.īilly and Nick don’t meet in Las Vegas to discuss the job, but in a fictional small city that “sits east of the Mississippi and just below the Mason-Dixon line.” More to the point, it’s a city where Joel Allen is wanted for shooting two men, one of them fatally, not on assignment but after losing big in a poker game - and it’s in a death penalty state, where a hitman looking at execution might make a deal and spill some secrets about his employers. ![]() The target, Nick tells him, is also a hitman, but one who has gone off the rails and been arrested for assault after propositioning a feminist writer he mistook for a hooker. ![]() Billy has worked before with the go-between who hires him, a Las Vegas mobster named Nick Majarian. ![]() ![]() ![]() Writes Laura, "Tita was preparing these fritters at the specific request of Gertrudis they were her favorite dessert. Place it on the heat, over a very low flame, and allow to thicken. The mixture should be no more than an inch thick in the baking pan. Pour it into a pot that has been greased with lard. ![]() Stir the six yolks with the cup of cream. Take the eggs, crack them, and separate the whites. In the month of October, Tita writes about Cream Fritters. The book is divided into twelve sections named after the months of the year. In this way, what might have been a story, or a recipe book, becomes a mixture of both. Through her cooking, Tita is able to show us the emotion she has for Pedro, and the changing relationships she has with her older sisters, Rosaura and Gertrudis. ![]() ![]() In Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown: they go downtown. There’s a community of immigrants, a reclusive rich man, and an undiscovered princess. With the girls reaching the advanced age of ten, the format shifts from a string of vignettes to an over arching plot. In Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill: they go over the big hill of course. In Betsy-Tacy and Tib: fearless Tib Muller is added into the mix and is a perfect fit. In Betsy-Tacy: imaginative Betsy Ray meets bashful Tacy Kelly and a lifelong friendship is formed. I am a little disturbed by Betsy’s flash of garter. Though this is a bit broader and cartoonish compared to those, it gets the job done. It’s done in the style of Lois Lenski’s illustrations. The paperbacks I read as kid fell apart about a decade ago. This is the cover to the anthology edition I read for this review. Talky Talk: Lovelaceian (Not to be confused with Lovecraftian)Īnti-Bonus Factors: Selective Diversity, Uncle Tom’s Cabin ![]() ![]() ![]() They are not intended in any way to be or imply an endorsement by Zondervan, nor does Zondervan vouch for the content of these sites and numbers for the life of this book.Īll rights reserved. Requests for information should be addressed to:Īny Internet addresses (websites, blogs, etc.) and telephone numbers printed in this book are offered as a resource. ![]() No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Zondervan. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. JenkinsĪll rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Though None Go with Me Copyright © 2000 by Jerry B. ![]() ![]() ![]() Le roman de Hamilton, au contraire, est postérieur à 1945, ce qui permet sans doute à l’auteur de faire preuve d’un sens de l’humour et de l’ironie assez déroutant. No Directions fut écrit et publié alors que la guerre n’était pas encore terminée, ce qui crée un véritable suspense quant à l’issue du conflit et aux orientations de la société anglaise. En apparence, The Slaves of Solitude est un roman plus conventionnel pourtant sa langue et son univers sont profondément polyphoniques. No Directions entretient des liens assez forts avec la rhétorique et les images-alors à très la mode-des Poètes de la Nouvelle Apocalypse (New Apocalyptic poetry) l’expérimentation formelle et linguistique y est donc omniprésente, frisant même l’artificiel par endroits. ![]() ![]() Aucun de ces deux textes ne doit être considéré comme un documentaire sur l’existence urbaine pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Cette étude analyse la représentation de la ville anglaise en guerre-ou plus exactement de Londres et de sa banlieue-dans deux romans britanniques des années quarante : No Directions de James Hanley (1943), et The Slaves of Solitude de Patrick Hamilton (1947). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The biography of Rask and his wife Helen reveals a narrowly focused, solitary man who only loves manipulating the market to amass a fortune. Having recently read The Personal Librarian, that fictionalized one aspect of Morgan’s life, I had in mind some of Morgan’s story. The book begins with a short biography written by the fictional Harold Vanner about a titan of the world of finance, Benjamin Rask, whose life story made me think of J.P.Morgan. But in this case, I enjoyed having the feeling of slowly coming to understand what each of the four parts meant for the previous ones. Personally I do not mind knowing what to expect in my reading and in fact consider it a bonus to read with knowledge of what’s coming. While I rarely hesitate to divulge plot twists and probably should always post “spoiler alerts” on my posts, I want to limit that as much as possible for this one. ![]() ![]() Juno Rushdan turns up the pressure in a high-octane, non-stop thriller where one woman's defiance-and her fierce love for the man she could never forget-may be all that's standing in the way of a new bioterror threat.Ĭonnie Mann shows that in central Florida's untamed wilderness, paradise has a dark side, and the heroes of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) are trained to face the worst that man-and nature-can dish out. Katie Ruggle brings trademark wit and warmth to her introduction of a family of five bounty hunter sisters making the Rocky Mountains a safer place-finding love and sowing chaos along the way.Īdriana Anders plunges readers into a thrilling tale of survival (and steamy romance) as a deep sea diver and a former SEAL escape a derelict oil rig overrun with men who have a secret worth killing for. These thrilling tales of love and suspense will leave you breathless. ![]() Or delving deep into an untamed wilderness, ![]() ![]() Racing the clock against global annihilation, Whether you're diving into treacherous waters, ![]() ![]() ![]() For many boxing authorities, Sugar was pound for pound the greatest fighter to ever lace on gloves. ![]() Herb Boyd has done a superb job of capturing Ray Robinson’s life and ring prowess, particularly those stirring bouts with Jake LaMotta, Gene Fullmer, Kid Gavilan, and Carmen Basilio. The Sugar Man was a most radiant personality. Sugar Ray Robinson, then and always, had enough celebrity, glitter, and glamour wattage to match all the neon that glowed from his array of businesses on Seventh Avenue. When Sugar was seeking to get his tavern and businesses on the New York City Visitor’s Bureau schedule of important places to see, I successfully represented him. In the first instance, I was his lawyer in an incident involving an itinerant car washer who left a scratch on the Sugar’s beautiful pink Cadillac. But after meeting the Sugar Man, I represented him on two occasions on matters of not great monetary consequence to him or to me however, it was of some emotional consequence to Mr. ![]() He had incredibly fast fists and feet, and matchless pugilistic skills in the ring. Sugar Ray Robinson was born in Georgia, nurtured in Detroit, and developed as a boxer in New York City. It was in the mid- to late 1950s in Harlem, on a Saturday afternoon at a Malcolm X rally that drew more than twenty thousand spectators, that I met the man called Sugar. ![]() Herb Boyd with Ray Robinson II DEDICATIONĭedicated to the memory of Edna Mae Robinson CONTENTS ![]() ![]() There are prayers for couples, for parents, and for children prayers to mend broken relationships and prayers to overcome obsessive and compulsive love. "To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living." Illuminata brings prayer into our daily lives, with prayers on topics from releasing anger to finding forgiveness, from finding great love to achieving intimacy. Prayer is practical, Williamson tells us. Synopsis: Marianne Williamson's bestselling A Return to Love ended with a prayer in which she asked God to help us "find our way home, from the pain to peace, from fear to love, from hell to Heaven." Now, in this stunning new collection of thoughts, prayers, and rites of passage, Marianne Williamson returns to prayer. ![]() |