"Burrough, with his gifts for both synthesis and lyricism, brings more to the table. Seamlessly charting their collective rise and fall, The Big Rich is a hugely entertaining account that only a writer with Burrough's abilities-and Texas upbringing-could have written. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Sid Richardson, all swaggering Texas oil tycoons who owned sprawling ranches and mingled with presidents and Hollywood stars. Weaving together the multigenerational sagas of the industry's four wealthiest families, Burrough brings to life the men known in their day as the Big Four: Roy Cullen, H. "Full of schadenfreude and speculation-and solid, timely history too." -Kirkus Reviews "This is a portrait of capitalism as white-knuckle risk taking, yielding fruitful discoveries for the fathers, but only sterile speculation for the sons-a story that resonates with today's economic upheaval." - Publishers Weekly "What's not to enjoy about a book full of monstrous egos, unimaginable sums of money, and the punishment of greed and shortsightedness?" - The Economist Phenomenal reviews and sales greeted the hardcover publication of The Big Rich, New York Times bestselling author Bryan Burrough's spellbinding chronicle of Texas oil.
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Ishar's part at their inception was most important. The Heralds later took patronage of corresponding orders, but they didn't found them they began to lead them, using Shardplate and Shardblades to protect humankind against the Voidbringers during conflicts known as the Desolations. History Īccording to the visions from Honor left for Dalinar, the appearance of the Radiants was a surprise for both the Heralds and for him. Still, according to Kaladin, being a Radiant isn't so much about one's strength or skill, but about one's heart. Also, some orders were individualistic, while others - like the Windrunners - functioned in teams, with a specific hierarchy. Some were specific, others left to the interpretation of the spren. each order had different Ideals, or standards, to determine advancement. She zipped up to him and whispered, "That’s what they all were, silly." "I’m not some glorious knight of ancient days. "You want too much of me," he snapped at her as he reached the other side of the chasm. In a conversation between Kaladin and Syl the following exchange occurred: People who had been broken, but then instead of lying down and giving up, they stood up straight, shouldered the weights, and found they could continue. The Radiants were emotionally broken people. Now it flowers into something positively fantastic: a parallel-history England in which the Stuarts never left the throne (James III is King) and the Hanoverian George is a vile pretender whose supporters are thick with plots.Ī couple of years after the events of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, the charming, gifted goose-boy named Simon comes to London to study painting with his friend, Dr. In The Wolves of Willoughby Chase it seemed unusual enough: a version of 19th century England in which wolves are a constant threat throughout the winter. One of the funny, surprising, and weird things about this series is the setting. She also knows how to craft tired old plots into breathlessly exciting, funny, surprising, and weird adventures. Daughter of the poet Conrad Aiken, Joan writes with deft wit, original diction, and an ear for dialects and amusing slang. I think this is the second novel in the Wolves series that spans four decades of creativity by one of England’s more prolific children’s authors. People who claim to reject power due to moral values are often the true manipulators (or are simply naïve). Don’t judge people by their declared intentions, but the actual outcomes of their actions. You can use this book to learn about power in general, or study and reflect deeply upon the ideas to truly understand people and the world you live in. Greene encourages us to think of power-play as a game. In fact, there’s much that we can learn from the masterful scheming of the aristocratic courts of the past-those who can subtly charm, deceive and manipulate without others’ awareness can rise to power without others’ resentment or resistance. You can choose how to use power once you have it, but it’d be foolish to dismiss power as bad or unimportant. It’s important to realize that power is amoral-it’s neither good nor evil. No one likes being powerless, yet we don’t take well to power-hungry people due to our modern ideologies of fairness, equity etc. For more details, do get our complete book summary bundle in text, infographic and audio formats. In this free summary, we’ll briefly outline the 48 laws of power. In “The 48 Laws of Power”, Robert Greene distills 3,000 years of history into 48 laws to help us understand how we can masterfully acquire power and avoid being manipulated or crushed by others. Power is an integral part of our societies and lives. The chapters are not so much histories of individual rooms but rather act as springboards for exploring particular topics as varied as germs, ice, lighting, the construction of the Eiffel Tower, salt, cotton and much much more. About half of the chapter devoted to the kitchen, for example, is about Mrs Beeton where any number of different stories could have been chosen instead. For this reason, ‘At Home’ felt like quite a quick read in spite of the size of the book because there are some chapters where it feels like Bryson has barely scratched the surface. The book never drags as there is an awful lot of information crammed in from epic amounts of research – the bibliography and index alone take up 68 out of the 700 pages in the book. ‘At Home’ covers an ambitious amount of history without ever being overwhelming or tedious and Bryson’s characteristically dry humour makes it a thoroughly entertaining read. As well as exploring how the modern idea of the home has developed over history both in its architecture and our daily habits, each chapter covers a different room in the house – the kitchen, the dining room, the cellar (even the fusebox) and the stories behind how we live. The subtitle of ‘At Home’ by Bill Bryson is ‘A Short History of Private Life’ – in other words, a history of all aspects of domestic life including eating, cleaning and sleeping and so on. In the wake of the consequences to her social life that take place afterwards, Cynthia must also juggle the fact that her new relationship may implicate her professional career, and in her line of work, that can lead to a political disaster. Completely enthralled, and a little bit tipsy after a few drinks, Cynthia disregards that she's in a stale but committed relationship with her longtime partner, Dan, and ends up sharing a passionate, unprotected night with Sky. During that period, she catches the attention of a charming and whimsical stranger by the name of Sky Eastman, who keeps her company during the ordeal and offers her shelter. In what's later brushed off to the public as a simple accident by a hobbyist, a drone bypasses the walls of the White House, instigating a lockdown that traps Cynthia for hours in traffic. While in that piece, we glimpse Cynthia mainly in her professional capacities and her budding relationship with Dan MacIntyre, here, we're exposed to a chapter of her personal life that threatens to damn not just her private life, but also may compromise a grave secret mission she and her brother have set out to do waging a cyber war against the enemies of the United States. The enchanting tale she's weaved this time revolves primarily around Cynthia, a character she has put to use before in another of her books, The Fairfax Fix. Cynthia and Dan: Cyber War is another fiction piece by veteran author Dorothy May Mercer. The Hating Game is lovely, fun, and hot romance about two nemesis, Lucy and Joshua, falling for each other. Now up for the same promotion, their battle of wills has come to a head and Lucy refuses to back down when their latest game could cost her her dream job…But the tension between Lucy and Joshua has also reached its boiling point, and Lucy is discovering that maybe she doesn’t hate Joshua. Joshua is clearly baffled by Lucy’s overly bright clothes, quirkiness, and Pollyanna attitude. Lucy can’t understand Joshua’s joyless, uptight, meticulous approach to his job. And they have no problem displaying their feelings through a series of ritualistic passive aggressive maneuvers as they sit across from each other, executive assistants to co-CEOs of a publishing company. Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman hate each other. Tea for this book : Indian Masala Chai Synopsisġ) An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome I practically fell in love with every character Thomas presented. Like the title of the book, Maverick is like a rose coming out of the concrete: unexpected, yet resilient. This book shows that even when you make bad decisions, it’s never too late to turn your life around. Maverick is in a place of distress and doesn’t know what he will do with his life. Now, he has to worry about caring for his son’s needs, being on the brink of not graduating high school, and the troubling death of someone he deeply loved. Suddenly, Maverick’s life turns upside down when he realizes he is a father. He deals drugs to make money for his mother, and he is cool with his life as a King Lord, the gang in his area, Garden Heights. He is the son of a gang leader, and feels pressure to live up to his old man’s legacy. Maverick is a 17-year-old who has major shoes to fill. This book holds a powerful story that shows how choices can become consequences. In her latest novel, Concrete Rose, Thomas tells the story of Maverick Carter, dad of the main character in The Hate U Give. You’ve probably read or heard about the bestselling novel The Hate U Giveby Angie Thomas. She admits to her childhood selfishness which deeply hurt her family and to the self. Her older sister, Moira, comes to her in the evenings, sits beside her in a green-walled hospital room. Category: Fiction Fiction ISBN: 0007250444. The second novel from highly acclaimed young writer Susan Fletcher, author of the award-winning Eve Green Amy lies in a coma. A novel about trust, loss and loneliness, 'Oystercatchers' is a love story with a profound darkness at its core. But it is as Amy lies half-dying that she sees the real truth: she's been a cruel sister, and it is this cruelty that has led them both here, to this hospital bed. Her second novel, Oystercatchers, was published in 2007, and her third. Moira knows this: that she's been a poor daughter, and a deceptive wife. Eve Green won the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award and the 2005 Betty Trask Prize. She admits to her childhood selfishness which deeply hurt her family and to the self-imposed exile from the dramatic Welsh coast that had dominated and captivated her childhood to her savagery at boarding school to the wild, bitter and destructive heart that she carried into her adult life. Oystercatchers From the author of the award-winning Eve Green, Oystercatchers is a heart-rending tale about the bonds of sisterhood and one womans. The second novel from highly acclaimed young writer Susan Fletcher, author of the award-winning 'Eve Green' Amy lies in a coma. That purported to expose Scully's sources as con artists who had hoaxed Scully. Scully's 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers expanded on the themes of flying saucer crashes and dead extraterrestrials, with Scully describing one of his sources as having "more degrees than a thermometer." In 19, True magazine published articles by San Francisco Chronicle reporter John Philip Cahn Scully publicized the Aztec, New Mexico UFO hoax when, in 1949, he authored two columns in Variety claiming that dead extraterrestrial beings were recovered from a flying saucer crash. pas comme les autres ( The Secret of Magic Island). Scully received a screenwriting credit for the American version of the film Une fée. His authored books include Rogue's Gallery and Fun In Bed: The Convalescent's Handbook. Scully studied journalism at Columbia University, was on the reporting staff at The New York Sun, and was a contributor to Variety. Gregory the Great in 1956 įrancis Joseph Xavier Scully (Ap– June 23 1964) was an American journalist, author, humorist, and a regular columnist for the entertainment trade magazine Variety. Desert Memorial Park, Cathedral City, California Īlice Scully (1909–1996 his death) (married 1930) |