![]() ![]() Chandler finds himself in Milpitas, California, a small town whose name rings a bell––his closest childhood friend lived there, once upon a time. ![]() But now he is being offered the chance for the big break: to move into the house where a pair of briefly notorious murders occurred, apparently the work of disaffected teens during the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success-and a movie adaptation-to his name, along with a series of subsequent less notable efforts. It’s better.” -Dwight Garner, The New York Timesįrom John Darnielle, the New York Times bestselling author and the singer-songwriter of the Mountain Goats, comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, and the dangers of storytelling. “It’s never quite the book you think it is. ![]()
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![]() Kelefa Sanneh, one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture, has made a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us, charting the way genres become communities, shape-shifting across the years, giving us a way to track larger forces and controversies. ![]() There will also be an option to snag the book during the event.Īn epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance music, and pop Click here to register for the event with a donation of any amount of your choice or you can order the book below to be added to the event's registration list. Donations will go to B LM DC. ![]() Loyalty is so excited to celebrate Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres with Kelefa Sanneh and Will Welch! This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mayu decides to help recreate the rainbow drink element to help Pucho turn into an adult by finding the different colored water droplets needed for the drink. Pucho tells Mayu that she cannot drink anything other than water, as the properties of other drinks will cause her to transform (ex: drinking cold milk will make her bigger drinking warm milk will make her smaller). She explains that the drink that Mayu drank had a rainbow drink element, and it was meant for Pucho so that she can turn into an adult and use special magical powers. It's easier said than done, especially with Amamiya being in Mayu's homeroom class and sitting right next to her.īut when Mayu drinks a water drink that changed colors after her tears fell in it, the drink guardian spirit, Pucho, appears. The manga was licensed in English by Tokyopop.Īfter getting rejected by her middle school crush Shinya Amamiya, Mayu Kousaka decides to enter the new year of school forgetting about Amamiya and finding a new love. It was serialized in Nakayoshi from 2004 to 2005, and compiled into three volumes. Pixie Pop ( Gokkun! Pucho in Japanese) is the first manga series of Ema Toyama and is considered her best work. a cup of tea might just be what you need!" "So remember: whenever love gets you down. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once excruciating and torturous, they’ve matured and become the source of much enlightenment. You stare at them perplexed, but as I gaze at them they unveil realms of my imagination. I admit, the scars on my flesh aren’t charming to anyone, but they’re emblems of my life’s narrative. ![]() I would not be complete without it and so it is sewn into my life with a fragile Zen-like thread. It is, after all, a component of my character. I adopt it as any other part of the human experience, and I am not ashamed to call on it for inspiration. It crawls beneath your skin, indulges in pain, and scrambles reasonable judgment into chaos. It leaves a mark on you that is as permanent as any scar and as deep as any wound. ![]() It’s a state of mind, a place where you view the world within its context. I’m not talking evil, but a blackness that can dwell in your soul, lurking in suspicion and toying with your heart. I will share a personal truth with you darkness is not so intimidating once you’ve resided within its confines. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "I see the scriptures of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament very much the same way that I see the scriptures of the Quran or the Gathas or the Vedas or what have you. ![]() Religion Bart Ehrman's 'Misquoting Jesus' "That person became so much more real to me than the celestial spirit that I had been introduced to in church," Alsan says. the more I started to realize that there was this chasm between the historical Jesus and the Jesus that I had been taught about in church," he tells NPR's Rachel Martin.Īslan became more interested in Jesus the man than Jesus the Messiah, and that's now the subject of his new book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. "The more I started studying the historical Jesus, the man who lived 2,000 years ago. But later, when Aslan went to college and began working toward a degree in the New Testament, he found he had doubts. It was a profound experience for him, and he immediately converted. For the first time, he heard the gospel story - the story of Jesus. When religious scholar Reza Aslan was 15, he went to an evangelical Christian camp. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Zealot Subtitle The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth Author Reza Aslan ![]() ![]() Her Amanda is never less than fully persuasive. ![]() The pathos in Miss Woodward's delineation of the character is almost unbearable on some occasions, as in the famous jonquil soliloquy, in which she conveys, with hushed voice and beatific eyes, a sentimental recollection for lost time (and lost love) that is not only wholly personally convincing, but also manages to imprint her sentiment onto the audience with all the deja vu of Proust's madeleine. Though everyone involved (on both sides of the camera) does a first rate job, special accolades are due to Joanne Woodward, who is perhaps the first actress to really understand Amanda, since the role's originator-Laurette Taylor. The depth of feeling manifested in the acting on display here easily trumps both the (wildly miscast)Gertrude Lawrence and the (vastly overrated) Katherine Hepburn versions of this celebrated play. ![]() ![]() All three of the sources asked not to be named due to the sensitive nature of their work. The analyst also shared with Reuters research documents that included the timeline of attacks, the targets, and provided some technical data relating to the compromise of a server used exclusively by Kenya's main spy agency.Ī Kenyan cybersecurity expert described similar hacking activity against the foreign and finance ministries. ![]() ![]() The hacks constitute a three-year campaign that targeted eight of Kenya's ministries and government departments, including the presidential office, according to an intelligence analyst in the region. The hacking campaign demonstrates China's willingness to leverage its espionage capabilities to monitor and protect economic and strategic interests abroad, two of the sources said. But, like several African nations, Kenya's finances are being strained by the growing cost of servicing external debt - much of it owed to China. ![]() ![]() China's foreign ministry said it was "not aware" of any such hacking, while China's embassy in Britain called the accusations "baseless", adding that Beijing opposes and combats "cyberattacks and theft in all their forms."Ĭhina's influence in Africa has grown rapidly over the past two decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, Katie\'s killer smile triggers something deep in his gut. Under other circumstances, he might be thrilled to find a gorgeous woman sleeping in his cabin, but now, while he\'ll risk his body taking clients on adrenaline-drenched excursions, his heart is off limits. Waking up to find a magnificently built stranger towering over her bed-that part defies explanation.After wandering the planet for months following a life-changing accident, Cameron Wilder has come back to the only home he knows. Which explains why she just took a job in Wishful, California, working for Wilder Adventures and Expeditions. Well, that-and amazing sex, and the kind of daredevil escapade she can look back on when she\'s crunching numbers in a dusty cubicle. And Then Get Wilder.Accountant Katie Kramer is a quintessential good girl-working hard, recycling diligently, all the while trying to ignore the feeling that she doesn\'t fit in anywhere. ![]() ![]() Wilder-three bad-boy heroes who effortlessly mix breathtaking adventure and scorching sex appeal.Get Wild. The first in a sensational new series, Jill Shalvis introduces Cameron, Stone, and T.J. ![]() ![]() ![]() I don't write in a linear progression of events, but more I write several events at different times depending on my mood and piece them together later. I don't outline the entire story, so I suppose I wing it, but I generally have an idea of where I want it to go. ![]() Sometime over time folders end up merging when the ideas work right. I usually have several folders put aside on my computer just accumulating imagery or writing files for me to see what takes off and what doesn't. What does your general process usually look like, from initial idea to published book? Do you outline or wing it? Write digitally, or by hand?Įverything for me is digital, and the ideas just come to me and I collect them and expand on them. I hung out for Wednesday's when my family would take their weekly trip to the local public library. I used to write ghost stories for myself after I finished my homework after school everyday. I wanted to be a writer as a child already. When did you decide or realize you wanted to write? ![]() ![]() The first usage I can find for travel mercies is from 1914, in John Faris’s Book of Answered Prayer (published by Hodder & Stoughton). Others tie it to early Protestant missionaries, but it predates them as well. A quick Google search shows that some link it back to Southern Baptists, but a more thorough search shows that it (or a similar phrase) predates the establishment of that group. ![]() No, I’m referring to the phrase travel mercies itself. Maybe it’s a testament to just how safe we are otherwise in our daily lives. I get that, though I don’t understand why a four-hour trip to St. ![]() Where does that come from? Not the desire for safety. Whether it’s for a drive across the state or a plane ride to another country (with an occasional cruise thrown in), we long for God’s blessing of safety, or, as it’s often phrased, “travel mercies.” A friend of mine once joked that if you listen to prayer requests in church long enough, you’ll come to the conclusion that traveling is the most dangerous endeavor known to Christians. ![]() |