Its argument should be widely circulated, to poor people, social service workers and policymakers, but also throughout the professional classes. SHORTLIST: 2018 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice WINNER: The McGannon Center Book Prize for 2018 Deeply researched and passionately written, Automating Inequality could not be more timely. The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile. In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. While we all live under this new regime of data analytics, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. Today, automated systems control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. “This book is downright scary - but with its striking research and moving, indelible portraits of life in the ‘digital poorhouse,’ you will emerge smarter and more empowered to demand justice.” ― Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes Everything
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This legend of Aeneas's voyage, which the Romans elaborated for their own patriotic purposes, was recorded as far back as the fifth century B.C. Long before Virgil's time, Romans liked to believe that among their ancestors were the legendary Trojans, who, under Aeneas's leadership, sailed from Troy, in Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), westward across the Mediterranean Sea to Italy and settled in Latium, site of the future Rome. Because the events that take place in the poem were recounted from generation to generation, they eventually took on the appearance of unquestionable truth. We must bear in mind, however, that the epic was seen in an entirely different light by Virgil's contemporaries. It is primarily a fiction whose narrative fabric, woven from myth and legend, traces a pattern that appears in the most profound myths that concern the human spirit's eternal quest for self-perpetuation. The Aeneid, the story of a band of survivors who leave their destroyed city to seek another home in a faraway country, is about rebirth, about life springing forth from ruin and death. An eye-opening character of how difficult it must've been for those with OCD to live their daily life once it's messing with their head. The description of Melati's Djinn inside her head were too much for me to handle, I continuously had to skip that part from how uncomfy it made me feel tbh. People said it's one of the most able to hurt the reader kind of book, yep I agree. Have heard of this book for far too many times until I finally grab it on my own. ⚠ TW: // OCD, anxiety, murder, graphic contents ⚠ But this country belongs to all of us! We make our own sky, and we can hold it up-together.” We live and die by the rules of the land we live in. Have you heard this before? It means where we plant our feet is where we must hold up the sky. “Di mana bumi dipijak, di situ langit dijunjung. Some of the Firstborn, as they’re called, represent more than one figure from different mythologies, religions, and folklore around the world. evil throwdown and everyone in the universe is invited. But yeah, this is the continuing story of… uh, the gods? The gods are all real, some of them are evil and others are good, and things are really coming to a head here. I remembered more and more details as the recap went on. I have so many books and audiobooks go into my brain in a given year, that sometimes it’s just awesome to have a nice, detailed recap. Some of you are probably like ‘omg no’ at that, but let me tell you, that was a pretty awesome half an hour. I should also point out that this one has a recap of the first two books in the series, and that recap itself is nearly half an hour long. It’s a bit difficult to sum up the first two books. This is the continuing story of… well a lot of different characters at this point. And yet, it very much was the type of audiobook that I turned on, and just listened to for hours at a time. The audiobook is broken into three parts. This is the longest in the Paternus trilogy, by a not-small amount. It is and will continue to be one of those books that just tickles every single bit of the myth nerd in me. Fantastic Conclusion to a Fantastic Series Words of juvenile love letters pop out from the paper with mock elegance. Narrations are accompanied by quickly edited montages. Directed by Mark Meily, the movie version approximates the book’s charms with a bit of visual inventiveness. It is therefore not surprising that the book was eventually made into a movie. Sure, the book does rely on the device characterized by nostalgia, but at least it does so with such colloquial flair that it is almost impossible not to get hooked. While the book namedrops various references to ‘80s and ‘90s pop culture to tickle readers’ fancies, what really makes Ong’s work so memorable is its depiction of what seems to be a shared attitude towards a recent past. MANILA, Philippines – The pleasures of Bob Ong’s ABNKKBSNPlako?! are not hinged on its generic plot but on its unabashed appreciation of all things close to being forgotten from decades past. Accompanied by his camera operator, Teig hires a local Yakut guide to take them to Oymyakon, the coldest settlement on Earth. Felix Teigland, or 'Teig, ' is a documentary producer, and when he learns about the Road of Bones, he realizes he's stumbled upon untapped potential. Their bodies were buried where they fell, plowed under the permafrost, underneath the road. Under Stalin, at least eighty Soviet gulags were built along the route to supply the USSR with a readily available workforce, and over time hundreds of thousands of prisoners died in the midst of their labors. Kolyma Highway, otherwise known as the Road of Bones, is a 1200 mile stretch of Siberian road where winter temperatures can drop as low as sixty degrees below zero. About the Book "A stunning supernatural thriller set in Siberia, where a film crew is covering an elusive ghost story about a highway built on top of the bones of prisoners of Stalin's gulag. But some secrets are better left buried.Ī House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher / Ursula Vernon related babbles. Kingfisher has come to be synonymous with a certain style of fantasy and horror. To find out what's got her mom so frightened in her own home, Sam will go digging for the truth. As the pen-name of the American novelist Ursula Vernon, the pseudonym T. And when Sam steps out back to clear her head, she finds a jar of teeth hidden beneath the magazine-worthy rose bushes, and vultures are circling the garden from above. Her mom jumps at the smallest noises and looks over her shoulder even when she's the only person in the room. Gone is the warm, cluttered charm her mom is known for now the walls are painted a sterile white. Her search will take her to the strange, surreal world of Orcus, where birds talk, women change their shape, and frogs sometimes grow on trees. Sam's excited for this rare extended visit, and looking forward to nights with just the two of them, drinking boxed wine, watching murder mystery shows, and guessing who the killer is long before the characters figure it out.īut stepping inside, she quickly realizes home isn't what it used to be. When the witch Baba Yaga walks her house into the backyard, eleven-year-old Summer enters into a bargain for her heart’s desire. She brushes the thought away as she climbs the front steps. Her brother's words echo in Sam Montgomery's ear as she turns onto the quiet North Carolina street where their mother lives alone. A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explores the dark, twisted roots lurking just beneath the veneer of a perfect home and family. But how did young Winston become Churchill? What gave him the strength to take on the superior force of Nazi Germany when bombs rained on London and so many others had caved? InĪndrew Roberts gives readers the full and definitive Winston Churchill, from birth to lasting legacy, as personally revealing as it is compulsively readable. When we seek an example of great leaders with unalloyed courage, the person who comes to mind is Winston Churchill: the iconic, visionary war leader immune from the consensus of the day, who stood firmly for his beliefs when everyone doubted him. In this landmark biography of Winston Churchill based on extensive new material, the true genius of the man, statesman and leader can finally be fully seen and understood-by the bestselling, award-winning author of A brilliant feat of storytelling, monumental in scope, yet put together with tenderness for a man who had always believed that he would be Britain's savior.". "Unarguably the best single-volume biography of Churchill. But things heat up quickly in Christmas Notch, Vermont, when Nolan recognizes his new co-star from her ClosedDoors account (oh yeah, he’s a member). Though it all becomes worthwhile when she discovers her co-star is none other than childhood crush Nolan Shaw, an ex-boy band member in desperate need of career rehab. Forced to keep her work as Bianca under wraps, Bee quickly learns this is a task a lot easier said than done. When Bee’s favorite producer casts her to star in a Christmas movie he’s making for the squeaky-clean Hope Channel, Bee’s career is about to take a more family-friendly direction. A Merry Little Meet Cute Julie Murphy & Sierra SimoneĪ steamy plus-size holiday rom-com about an adult film star who is semi-accidentally cast as a lead in a family-friendly Christmas movie, and the former bad-boy pop star she falls in love with.īee Hobbes (aka Bianca Von Honey) has a successful career as a plus-size adult film star. To prove his love and commitment for her and their unborn son, he will take a leave of absence from work to care for her around the clock. Aidan steps forward with a shocking proposal. But Aidan isn't going down without a fight-especially not until Emma lets him reveal the secret of his past that caused him to be so commitment phobic.But fate intervenes when premature labor forces Emma on strict bed rest for two weeks. Ignoring his countless texts, voice mails, and flowers, she isn't sure she wants to be won back by him. In the weeks following Aidan's betrayal, Emma has tried her best to move on. But Aidan isn't going down without a fight-especially not until Emma. |