![]() ![]() I filed Mandatory Declassification Review requests with the National Security Agency, resulting in the recent declassification of more material, including some fifteen oral histories conducted by NSA staff over the years with women code breakers, as well as volumes of a multipart history of wartime Arlington Hall. The collections run to hundreds of boxes and include thousands of memos, internal histories, reports, minutes, and personnel rosters, citing everything from lists of merchant ships sunk, to explanations of how certain codes and ciphers were broken, to names and addresses of newly arrived code breakers, to captured codebooks. Most were classified for many decades, and now can be found at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. ![]() Navy code-breaking units during and after the war. ![]() In researching and writing this book over several years, I drew from three large archival collections of documents produced by the U.S. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() An engaging, warmhearted tale in which the delicious, nostalgic illustrations are the chief delight. Ruff's adventures are rendered in Hissey's distinctive style, which uses a vivid palette and carefully delineated drawings to illustrate the toys and settings of some idyllic time before the onslaught of plastic, glitter, and electronic voices transformed kids' toys-and lives-forever. But to his surprise, the animals open their paws and hearts, and Ruff has a home at last. ![]() The parties are such fun, and his new friends so nice, that Ruff hates to see the week come to an end. So Old Bear and his pals set about righting the wrongs, giving the little stranger-now called Ruff-a birthday party every day for a week to make up for all the birthdays he never had. The poor thing has never even had a birthday. When Old Bear and the others hear a strange barking noise coming from the garden, they discover a little dog who has neither name nor home. Using the appealing cast of stuffed animals that she introduced in Old Bear (1986) author/illustrator Hissey creates a sweet, old-fashioned tale about a little dog who finds a home. ![]() ![]() ![]() The characterization was great, which is why I found the ending so disappointing. I liked how it wasn’t overly serious, but the themes were handled well and integrated into the story for us to realize rather than be forced upon us. It shows how sometimes when we overstep and the more we try to help, the worse we make things. The novel is an interesting look at themes of racism, motherhood, privilege, and growth. But then Emira is confronted by a security guard at a fancy grocery store and accused of kidnapping Briar-Alix’s child-everything changes. While Emira is a 25-year-old college graduate who has no idea what she wants to do with her life, Alix is a successful blogger with a seemingly perfect life. "I didn’t think I would enjoy Such a Fun Age since it’s not something I usually read, but the writing flowed so well that I just breezed through the book! Such a Fun Age is about two very different women, Emira Tucker-a babysitter-and her boss, Alix Chamberlain. A post shared by Ciera photo posted by on ![]() ![]() Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. But they can’t escape! They’re trapped on the island. When Simon Fear is murdered, Cari and her horrified friends want out. ![]() The four teenagers are thrilled…until they realize they have been put up in the “haunted wing”…until Simon's weird and frightening brother appears…until they hear a woman screaming, “No party-please, no party!”…until the walls and faucets begin to drip blood! The mysterious owner, Simon Fear III, allows Cari and her friends to stay, giving them the run of the hotel. But to their dismay, the hotel is completely deserted, and someone warns them to leave immediately. ![]() Wouldn’t you rather explore it yourself…and see if its dark terror and unexplained mysteries are true? You’re not afraid, are you?Ĭari Taylor and her three friends look forward to a “party summer,” working at The Howling Wolf Inn, an old hotel on a tiny island off Cape Cod. Don’t listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and changes his life forever.Įlio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.Īciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional nuances that are the substance of passion. In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Award–winning film starring Timothée Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student with whom he falls in love. an exceptionally beautiful book” (Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review). First published in 2007, it was hailed as “a love letter, an invocation. ![]() ![]() No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting. ![]() ![]() ![]() And if they're both going to survive, they must piece together the clues of their past before the Branch catches up to them and steals it all away. ![]() She soon discovers that she and Sam are connected in more ways than either of them expected. On the run, with her father's warning in her head, Anna begins to doubt everything she thought she knew about herself. ![]() Anna's father pushes her to go with them, making Sam promise to keep her away from the Branch, at all costs. who's stolen Anna's heart.When the Branch decides it's time to take the boys, Sam stages an escape. There's Nick, solemn and brooding Cas, light-hearted and playful Trev, smart and caring and Sam. Her father works for the Branch, at the helm of its latest project: monitoring and administering treatments to the four genetically altered boys in the lab below their farmhouse. Jennifer currently lives on the shoreline of Lake Michigan with her husband and daughter, and occasionally gets to see her son when he needs to do laundry. Everything about Anna's life is a secret. She is the author of the Altered saga and Bot Wars series (written under the pen name J.V. A thrilling new urban fantasy filled with magic and motorcycles from Jennifer Rush, author of the Altered saga-perfect for fans of Beautiful Creatures. ![]() ![]() His take and satirical view on his childhood allowed me to step back and view my own through a humorous lens. What authors, or books have influenced you? For instance, I had to have Magnum P.I on and my ’80s playlist going while hammering away at my ’80s memoir. Not really unusual but I entirely absorb myself in the decade that I am writing about. However, as I got older I realized that my childhood, how I lived, what I experienced became the best parts of myself and I was compelled to share that with others. For many years I hid where I lived during my upbringing even claiming that we only lived in a trailer while having a normal (brick house) built. What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it? I have only had one book published but I have a box somewhere in my basement of over 20 books that I should finish one day. ![]() I’ve been writing blogs and articles for most of my adult life many of those ghost-written including content (under a male pseudonym) for a men’s lifestyle magazine. ![]() Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written. ![]() ![]() “This is not going to be the Will and Hanna show, you guys. When Hanna asked where the restrooms were, then headed in that direction, I leaned in toward the group, meeting each of their eyes. Sara squeaked out a tiny, thrilled noise and Chloe smiled at us as if we had turned into a photograph of two cuddling baby sloths. With a little wave of her hand, Hanna explained, “It’s our system: I’ll only have a few sips of my drink and then he’ll finish it. Once Maddie left us, I pulled away from Hanna and glanced around the table, finding four very interested faces looking back at us. “It’s a really hoppy beer,” I told her, kissing the corner of her mouth. “I’d drink that.” I looked up at Maddie and said, “Jack and Coke for the lady, and I’ll have a Green Flash.” I shook my head and made a face, leaning into her, our foreheads practically touching. “Would you drink a vodka and 7-Up?” she asked, anticipating our usual routine where she ordered the drink and I was the one who actually drank it. ![]() ![]() “If you don’t like beer, there is whiskey.” “Soda is expressly forbidden,” Max chided. She listed the beers on tap, and because I knew she wouldn’t like any of them, I leaned close to tell Hanna, “They also have regular bar drinks, or sodas.” Maddie herself approached our table, tossing down a couple more coasters in front of us and asking what we wanted to drink. ![]() ![]() ![]() A literary agent that was trawling the forums approached her asking to see some of her manuscripts. Over time, she started thinking that she had it in her to write something original, just to do something different and challenge herself.Īt some point, she wrote on the fan fiction forums that she was interested in reworking some of her fanfiction. ![]() ![]() She used to write a ton of “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” fan fiction as she loved the community and the amazing stories they made.ĭuring this time, she was having a lot of fun and made so many friends with whom she shared notes with. Growing up and well into her teenage and young adult years, Ali Hazelwood was very much into fanfiction. When she is not working on her novels or teaching she can be found watching science fiction movies, eating cake pops or running. She recently took up a job as a college professor and is getting used to it even though she was initially terrified of it. She would then move to the United States, where she graduated with a neuroscience doctorate. The author is originally from Italy but over the years she has lived in varied places including Japan and Germany. She has written articles on the subject of brain cancer and her stories are known for often unhappy ever afters in which most of the characters do not make it out. Ali Hazelwood is a chick lit, contemporary and romance novelist with several published works and peer reviewed articles. ![]() ![]() ![]() The good parts: Wesley, he is just a fun to read character, flighty and hilarious, I was only a few pages in when the sound of a broken toilet was described as reminiscent to the first time giving head and I knew then, I was reading the right kind of book. When I heard about a third book I knew I would love it and I have to say this book did not disappoint. Anyta excels at relationships, each character has quirks and little unique behaviors that manifest in speech, actions and friendship/relationships, a talent that makes these books shine. When I first read Anyta Sunday's Scorpio Hates Virgo, Signs of Love #2, I was both instantly in love and unbelievably angry at myself for not knowing about these books sooner! I have since bought, read, and loved the first book, Leo Loves Aries and was floored, again, with the genius writing, wit, word games and slow burn hotness that is Anyta Sunday's writing. Love the book- the narrator need to improve ![]() |