![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book Should We Stay or Should We Go written by Lionel Shriver which was published in. Subscribe to the MPR News with Kerri Miller podcast on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or RSS. Brief Summary of Book: Should We Stay or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver. Her latest book is “ Should We Stay or Should We Go.” Lionel Shriver is an award-winning author. How does one cope with the complexities of longevity? Is there a way to live a long, vibrant life and still go out in style? Maybe they enter a luxurious retirement village or their children stuff them into a grim, state-run institution called, paradoxically, Close of Day Cottages.įriday, host Kerri Miller talked with Shriver about her intensely personal book. ![]() One spouse goes through with it, while the other doesn’t. But when they actually cross that threshold, the novel spins out a dozen alternative scenarios. ![]() That’s the premise of Lionel Shriver’s new novel “Should We Stay or Should We Go.” The Wilkinsons are in their early ‘50s when they firmly decide 80 is their drop-dead date. Once they both turn 80, they will take their own lives together - the better to spare themselves and their loved ones a humiliating and protracted decline.īut what really happens when they turn 80? ![]() After Kay Wilkinson watches her father devolve from a kind and intelligent man into a paranoid stranger due to Alzheimer’s disease, she and her husband make a pact. ![]()
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A charming personality and appreciation for sappy music aren't the only things Maximilian Pearce is hiding, and just when Bethany thinks she might get her very own happily ever after, a shocking revelation forces her to make a heartbreaking choice.A 26,000-word novella from Marina MaddixLibrarian's note: This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B00DUYBF9I. more Curvy girl Bethany Mills can't believe her good fortune when her new neighbor turns out to be devastatingly hot. But someone that gorgeous could never fall for someone like her.could he? A charming personality and appreciation for sappy music aren't the only things Maximilian Pearce is hiding, and just when Bethany thinks she might get her very own happily ever after, a shocking revelation forces her to make a heartbreaking choice. Curvy girl Bethany Mills can't believe her good fortune when her new neighbor turns out to be devastatingly hot. ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 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Rescuing the missing is no easy task, but Badger has an ace up her sleeve: she’s learned the art of navigating a dream space in which the magically talented are beacons in the darkness-“sleepwalking.” True, her control isn’t perfect yet, but the sleepwalkers of the rogue Minor Arcanum have proven to be capable assistants. ![]() ![]() The former police detective now hunts for her scattered people, the Fringe, witches and lesser fae hiding from the murderous Arcanum. Some family secrets can’t stay buried.One year after her world fell apart, wizard-in-training Badger Parsons has built a new life from the rubble. Buy Blood Magic by Ash Fitzsimmons for 58.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. ![]() ![]() Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies follows the dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. 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Aleksandra Daniels hasn't set foot in the quiet seaside town of Bellamy Bay, North Carolina, in over 20 years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Written in the wake of the riots that erupted throughout the Paris suburbs in the fall of 2005 and presaging more recent riots and general strikes in France and Greece, The Coming Insurrection articulates a rejection of the official Left and its reformist agenda, aligning itself instead with the younger, wilder forms of resistance that have emerged in Europe around recent struggles against immigration control and the "war on terror". The Coming Insurrection is a strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine to "spread anarchy and live communism". ![]() One of its members more adequately described the group as "the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing contemporary cynicism and reality". Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord - and with comparable elegance - it has been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French government (who recently arrested its alleged authors). The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds, he offers the first substantive account of this frightening, fast-moving episode and its implications. Paul Farmer, the internationally renowned doctor and anthropologist, experienced the Ebola outbreak firsthand-Partners in Health, the organization he founded, was among the international responders. But why did it happen, and what can we learn from it? Causing severe loss of life and economic disruption, the Ebola crisis was a major tragedy of modern medicine. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert where basic health-care facilities were few and far between. In 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The public health legend Paul Farmer offers a provocative account of the 2014 Ebola crisis and why it occurred ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The earthquake further bolstered Voltaire's philosophical pessimism and deism. He railed against what he perceived as intricate but empty philosophizing which served only to demean humanity and ultimately lead to fatalism. The phrase what is, is right coined by Alexander Pope in his Essay on Man, and Leibniz' affirmation we live in the best of all possible worlds, provoked Voltaire's scorn. Polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and poet Alexander Pope were both famous for developing a system of thought known as philosophical optimism in an attempt to reconcile a loving Christian God with the seeming indifference of nature in disasters such as Lisbon. Voltaire was one of many philosophers, theologians and intellectuals to be deeply affected by the disaster. 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