![]() Thankfully Good Karma Brands is passionate about the audio business and helping their sales efforts. Relationships with radio operators have changed, interest in operating local markets has decreased, and though I’m sure some will defend the network’s interest in satisfying advertising partners, it’s hard to do that a day after the entire national audio sales team was gutted. ![]() But serving the company’s television and digital interests is what matters most now. That may be an opinion that folks in Bristol, New York, and Los Angeles offices don’t want to hear but the decisions made in recent years make it difficult to see it any other way.ĮSPN Radio used to obsess over serving the sports fan, its radio affiliates, and network advertising partners. This current version lacks radio instincts, focus, passion, and care. It is not the one that Traug Keller, Scott Masteller, and other radio-first believers oversaw. It was a special place to work and I learned a lot about becoming a pro in Bristol.īut this ESPN Radio is not the one that I and many others were fortunate to be a part of under Bruce Gilbert. I’ve maintained friendships at the network, the company has supported our BSM Summit, and I reflect fondly on the few years I spent working there earlier in my career. ![]() For years, I’ve expressed how much better the industry is when ESPN Radio is healthy. ![]()
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![]() The story line or plot in nonfiction consists of the twists and turns of a thought process working itself out. In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you’re always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. In the traditional short story or novel, a fictive space is opened up that allows you the reader to disappear into the action, even to the point of forgetting you are reading. “For all their shared boundaries, the experiences of fiction and nonfiction are fundamentally different. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Before the frequent hospital visits and stints in rehab, there was five-year-old Matthew, who traveled from Montreal to Los Angeles, shuffling between his separated parents fourteen-year-old Matthew, who was a nationally ranked tennis star in Canada twenty-four-year-old Matthew, who nabbed a coveted role as a lead cast member on the talked-about pilot then called Friends Like Us. So begins the riveting story of acclaimed actor Matthew Perry, taking us along on his journey from childhood ambition to fame to addiction and recovery in the aftermath of a life-threatening health scare. "Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. ![]() The BELOVED STAR OF FRIENDS takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this "CANDID, DARKLY FUNNY.POIGNANT" memoir ( The New York Times)Ī MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK by Time, Associated Press, Goodreads, USA Today, and more! ![]() ![]() Rumors of a hazardous outbreak spread through the family, school and community.Īs hysteria and contagion swell, a series of tightly held secrets emerges, threatening to unravel friendships, families and the town's fragile idea of security. Their seeming stability, however, is thrown into chaos when Deenie's best friend is struck by a terrifying, unexplained seizure in class. Tom is a popular teacher, father of two teens: Eli, a hockey star and girl magnet, and his sister Deenie, a diligent student. The panic unleashed by a mysterious contagion threatens the bonds of family and community in a seemingly idyllic suburban community in this "engrossing, disturbing, panic attack of a novel" from the award-winning author of The Turnout and Dare Me (Jodi Picoult). ![]() ![]() ![]() Some people call it “magical realism”, and there are some moments especially at the beginning that could help class it as such. YA is a genre I’ve had problems with in the past ( Marked being the most recent one I’ve had trouble with) and I’ve found the books can vary wildly in quality.Ĭonsidering this is a first book from this author, she has done a wonderful job. I’m slowly making my way through the stack of YA books I picked up from the event and this was next in the pile. I got a paperback copy of The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender from Waterstones during one of their 2015 blogging events. First-time author Leslye Walton has constructed a layered and unforgettable mythology of what it means to be born with hearts that are tragically, exquisitely human. ![]() On the night of the summer solstice celebration, the skies open up, rain and feathers fill the air and Ava’s journey and her family’s saga reaches a devastating crescendo. ![]() But it is a dangerous world for a naive girl – a world which may view her as girl or angel. In her quest to understand her peculiar disposition and a growing desire to join her peers, Ava ventures into the wider world. And for Ava Lavender, a girl born with the wings of a bird, it is an ominous thing to inherit. A mesmerizing, lyrical tale of the bright and dark sides of love and desire.įoolish love appears to be a Roux family birthright. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Born to enslaved African parents on a ship in the Middle Passage bearing its human cargo from Africa to the Americas and then brought to England, Ignatius Sancho… one of the earliest black critics of the institution of slavery" (Carretta and Gould, eds. ![]() ![]() Octavo, period-style full tree calf gilt, red and green morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers.įirst edition of the landmark Letters of Ignatius Sancho, born on a ship from Africa in the Middle Passage who rose to become renowned in British society, issued posthumously following his death in 1780, featuring his views of slavery-"especially noteworthy because they were made before sustained opposition to the African slave trade began"-including his famous letter to Laurence Sterne and his letter praising Phillis Wheatley, with engraved frontispiece plates in each volume including his striking portrait after a painting by Gainsborough. To which are prefixed, Memoirs of his Life. Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. "ONE OF THE EARLIEST BLACK CRITICS OF THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY": EXCEEDINGLY RARE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION OF THE LETTERS OF IGNATIUS SANCHO, 1782, A CLASSIC WORK IN THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY, FEATURING THE ELEGANT FRONTISPIECE OF SANCHO AFTER THE FAMED GAINSBOROUGH PORTRAIT ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() But he can't stop now, for his magic has marked him, so he must fight the odds, even though he seems hopelessly overmatched, his doom seeming certain at the spectral hands of one he cannot even see. ![]() Already a man with a dark past, he can ill afford to fail, lest his livelihood be forfeit. Ethan is in way over his head, and he knows it. If confirmed by the Senate, Brown would replace the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. ![]() ![]() Brown is a history-making fighter pilot with years of experience in shaping U.S. to serve as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His adversary has already killed - and not for his own gain, but in the service of his powerful masters, people for whom others are mere pawns in a game of politics and power. President Joe Biden is expected to announce Air Force Gen. Suddenly, he faces another conjurer of enormous power, someone unknown, who is part of a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of power in the turbulent colony. But for Ethan Kaille, a thieftaker who makes his living by conjuring spells that help him solve crimes, politics is for others…until he is asked to recover a necklace worn by the murdered daughter of a prominent family. Jackson's Thieftaker, revolution is brewing as the British Crown imposes increasingly onerous taxes on the colonies, and intrigue swirls around firebrands like Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty. ![]() ![]() His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and enjoying literary fame. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a translator and later as a biographer. But in agreeing to take on Czentovic, what price will Dr B ultimately pay?Ī moving portrait of one man's madness, The Royal Game: A Chess Story is a searing examination of the power of the mind and the evil it can do.Ī new edition of this classic Zweig story – an epic chess match on a transatlantic liner during WW2 unearths a story of persecution and obsession.Ībout the Author: Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. But there is another passenger with a passion for chess: Dr B, previously driven to insanity during Nazi imprisonment by the chess games in his imagination. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertains himself on board by allowing others to challenge him in the game, before beating each of them and taking their money. ![]() Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. ![]() ![]() Jennifer: Well, thank you! How do I stay creative? For some reason, that's the easy part. How do you stay creative and inspired writing at that pace? Do you work on multiple stories at once? Do you ever hit a wall? And here's the thing: Your books are good. Seven! That was on top of re-releasing three older titles. You are one of the most prolific authors I know, writing across several sub-genres - historical romance, contemporary romance, paranormal, urban fantasy and even mysteries. So how does she do it? We connected with her to find out, and to hear what she has in store for us all in 2013. ![]() Her books have earned RWA's RITA award, the Golden Quill, RT Reviewer's Choice awards, and the Prism award - and they've landed her on the USA TODAY and New York Times best-seller lists. Whether she's writing historical paranormal, or contemporary romance as Jennifer Ashley, mysteries as Ashley Gardner or paranormal romance and urban fantasy as Allyson James, Ashley creates worlds that hold readers' attention. ![]() Jennifer Ashley is one of the most prolific authors in romantic fiction. ![]() |