![]() ![]() If Jake can’t control his mind by doing everything in a proper order at the precise moment of a prime number on clock, his life will surely spin out of control. ![]() It’s a disjointed, fragmented, disturbing world that chokes both Jake and the reader with the omnipresent threat of both exposure and insanity. Heidi Ayarbe plunges the reader into Jake Martin’s obsessive compulsive world from the first page of Compuls1on. Jake’s third soccer state final championship is coming up on Saturday, and if everything goes perfectly by the numbers, he’s sure he’ll be free of the demons that plague him. But the magic means more to Jake than just winning on the field his obsession with prime numbers and his increasingly complex daily rituals keep him focused, keep his family “safe,” and keep the spiders and their choking webs from taking over his mind. Senior Jake Martin is the school’s soccer star: he’s got the magic that pulls off win after win and keeps him at the center of the school’s in-crowd. ![]()
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Jacobin’s Meagan Day talked with Davis about how the historical crimes of capitalism differ from those of socialism, and how to talk about the differences between them in an era of ever-more savage capitalism - as well as new openings for the socialist left. ![]() If famines are the yardstick we’re using to measure the suitability of a global economic system, then capitalists have a lot to answer for. Capitalism has an enormous death toll of its own. Mike Davis’s book Late Victorian Holocausts complicates that story significantly. Horrifying episodes like the Great Chinese Famine and the Soviet famine under Stalin are brandished as proof that socialism can never work and is too dangerous to attempt, so we’re better off with capitalism. ![]() For decades, one of the most popular methods of undermining socialists has been an appeal to the atrocities that occurred in Stalin’s Russia and Mao’s China. Not only did we gain an extraordinarily wide hearing for our political ideas, but we also spooked our ideological opponents, and as a result got a good look at their rhetorical arsenal. This summer’s electoral wave gave the US socialist left a much larger audience than we’re used to. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Julie Kawaga has done a fantastic job in creating this fantastic series (including Evenfall), and I have added her to my list of authors I must read. I loved the first book in this series, and equally loved The Iron Sword I had noted previously I would have to go back and read some of the earlier books of The Iron Fey I have read a few, and will continue to go back when time allows. The Iron Sword by Julie Kawaga is the 2 nd book in her The Iron Fey: Evenfall series. And if Ash and his allies cannot stop it, the chaos that has begun to divide the world will shatter it for eternity. Something more ancient than the courts of Faery and more evil than anything Ash has faced in a millennium is rising as Evenfall approaches. Their son, King Keirran of the Forgotten, is missing. ![]() ![]() Now he faces even more incomprehensible odds. The Iron Sword by Julie Kagawa – Review & ExcerptĪmazon / B&N / Kobo / Google Play / Apple / BAM / Book DepositoryĪs Evenfall nears, the stakes grow ever higher for those in Faery…īanished from the Winter Court for daring to fall in love, Prince Ash achieved the impossible and journeyed to the End of the World to earn a soul and keep his vow to always stand beside Queen Meghan of the Iron Fey. ![]() ![]() Her new cozy mystery series, Vintage Sweets, came out from Lyrical in March 2020. ![]() Other short stories appears in various magazines and anthologies. She reviews for "Suspense Magazine", and Kaye George, an Agatha nominated short story and novel writer, is the author of the Imogene Duckworthy Mystery series (Agatha nomination for best first novel), EINE KLEINE MURDER by Barking Rain Press (Silver Falchion Award finalist), DEATH IN THE TIME OF ICE (A Neanderthal Mystery) (Agatha nominee and Silver Falchion finalist) and the Fat Cat Mystery series by Berkley Prime Crime (as Janet Cantrell), as well as A PATCHWORK OF STORIES, a collection of her previously published stories, and several stories available at Untreed Reads. ![]() Kaye George, an Agatha nominated short story and novel writer, is the author of the Imogene Duckworthy Mystery series (Agatha nomination for best first novel), EINE KLEINE MURDER by Barking Rain Press (Silver Falchion Award finalist), DEATH IN THE TIME OF ICE (A Neanderthal Mystery) (Agatha nominee and Silver Falchion finalist) and the Fat Cat Mystery series by Berkley Prime Crime (as Janet Cantrell), as well as A PATCHWORK OF STORIES, a collection of her previously published stories, and several stories available at Untreed Reads. ![]() ![]() The rich and the well-to-do fled the city. 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The Autobiography of Mother Jones Chapter I – Early Years ![]() ![]() According to Republic World, the film tells the story of the 2002 Oakland Athletics, who put together an American League record 20-game winning streak. ![]() ![]() Goals from Said Benrahma and Michail Antonio kept West Ham’s dreams of a first trophy in 43 years alive after a 2-1 victory in the first leg of the Europa Conference. When the film 'Moneyball' came out in 2011, moviegoers witnessed the true story of one of the greatest sports underdog narratives in recent memory. Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. 2 days ago &0183 &32 West Ham 2 AZ Alkmaar 1. It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games? With these words Michael Lewis launches us into the funniest, smartest, and most contrarian book since, well, since Liar's Poker. But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write it, before I had a story to fall in love with. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manager, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball book ever" (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what "may be the best book ever written on business" (Weekly Standard). ![]() Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. ![]() |