![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What would these politicos do to preserve their place in the sun, or at least the orbit of the spray tan? What would they do to preserve their “relevance”? Almost anything, it turns out. Thank You for Your Servitude is Mark Leibovich’s unflinching account of the moral rout of a major American political party, tracking the transformation of Rubio, Cruz, Graham, and their ilk into the administration’s chief enablers, and the swamp’s lesser lights into frantic chasers of the grift. Even more, in their outrage: Trump was a menace and an affront to our democracy. In the early months of Trump’s candidacy, the Republican Party’s most important figures, people such as Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Lindsey Graham, were united-and loud-in their scorn and contempt. From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, the eyewitness account of how the GOP collaborated with Donald Trump to transform Washington’s “swamp” into a gold-plated hot tub-and a onetime party of rugged individualists into a sycophantic personality cult. ![]()
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Jane finds the coin, and because she and her siblings are having the worst, most dreadfully boring summer ever, she idly wishes something exciting would happen.Īnd something does: Her wish is granted. It all begins with a strange coin on a sun-warmed sidewalk. Book one in the series called "truly magic in a reader's hands" by Jack Gantos, Newbery Medal winner for Dead End in Norvelt. ![]() ![]() Julian rushes in to find three of the band members, including Desari, lying amongst blood-spattered instruments. ![]() While he revels in his discovery, gunfire rings out on stage. Julian instantly knew he had found his lifemate because of his ability to see in colour, accompanied by the return of emotions. The colours he hadn't seen in over eight hundred years were now vivid and bright. ![]() However, upon hearing the singer's hauntingly beautiful voice, he was mesmerized. 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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham will deliver the Jefferson Scholars Foundation's inaugural Shadwell Lecture on University of Virginia founder Thomas Jefferson on Oct. ![]() |