The Torment of Secrecy

The Torment of Secrecy
Author: Edward Shils
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1996
Genre: Communism
ISBN: 156663105X

Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States. Mr. Shils's "torment" is not only that of the individual caught up in loyalty and security procedures; it is also the torment of the accuser and judge. This essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy considers the cold war preoccupation with espionage, sabotage, and subversion at home, assessing the magnitude of such threats and contrasting it to the agitation - by lawmakers, investigators, and administrators - so wildly directed against the "enemy". Mr. Shils, widely regarded as one of the world's most influential social thinkers, has written an examination of a recurring American characteristic that is as timely as ever.

A Time of Torment

A Time of Torment
Author: John Connolly
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2017-05-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501118331

"Private investigator Charlie Parker descends upon a strange, isolated community called the Cut, and will face down a force of men who rule by terror, intimidation, and murder."--Provided by publisher.

The Secret Language of Girls

The Secret Language of Girls
Author: Frances O'Roark Dowell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2013-03-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1442490292

In the old days, when Kate had no interest in romance, she never cared what other people thought. Now, it appeared, love was turning her into a rotten human being. Eleven-year-old Kate Faber wishes she could talk to her best friend, Marylin, about this. But Marylin is no longer her best friend. Or is she? Kate and Marylin were always the kind of best friends who lived on the same block for their entire lives, and who agreed on what kinds of boys were worth kissing and who should be invited to their sleepover. The kind of best friends who didn’t need words to talk, but who always just knew. But lately Marylin has started to think that Kate can be a bit babyish. And Kate thinks Marylin is acting like a big snob. Somehow nothing is the same, but secretly Kate and Marylin both wish it could be...

Dark Rooms

Dark Rooms
Author: Lili Anolik
Publisher: Siddharth Katragadda
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2015-06-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"Murder and glamour set in the ambiguous and claustrophobic world of an exclusive New England prep school"--

Persephone: Hades' Torment

Persephone: Hades' Torment
Author: Allison Shaw
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2021-11-23
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1638581002

According to the ancient legend, the Lord of the Dead kidnapped the innocent daughter of Demeter--or did he? The truth is, Persephone is no damsel in distress, but a spirited young lady with an overbearing mother. A failed scheme by Apollo leads Persephone to a chance encounter with the mysterious and handsome Hades, who is struck by love's arrow. Now Hades must wrestle with his aching heart before he loses total control of his feelings, but desire is raging inside Persepone herself.

A Door Behind A Door

A Door Behind A Door
Author: Yelena Moskovich
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2021-05-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1953387039

"A Door Behind a Door is loose, dreamy, and symbol-packed... The resurfacing of characters from Olga’s past in her new city speaks to the theme of immigration in the novel, of new homes and the passage from old to new—a passage that is perhaps not ever fully complete in the sense that the past cannot be shaken." —Marta Balcewicz, Ploughshares In Yelena Moskovich's spellbinding new novel, A Door Behind A Door, we meet Olga, who immigrates as part of the Soviet diaspora of ’91 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There she grows up and meets a girl and falls in love, beginning to believe that she can settle down. But a phone call from a bad man from her past brings to life a haunted childhood in an apartment building in the Soviet Union: an unexplained murder in her block, a supernatural stray dog, and the mystery of her beloved brother Moshe, who lost an eye and later vanished. We get pulled into Olga’s past as she puzzles her way through an underground Midwestern Russian mafia, in pursuit of a string of mathematical stabbings.

The Neoconservative Imagination

The Neoconservative Imagination
Author: Christopher C. DeMuth
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1995
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780844738994

Covering a range of figures - from Norman Podhoretz to Leon Kass, from Robert H. Bork to James Q. Wilson - this study examines Kristol's ideas and contributions to American life as one of the nation's leading neoconservatives. Passages and epigrams from Kristol are documented.

The Kind of Friends We Used to Be

The Kind of Friends We Used to Be
Author: Frances O'Roark Dowell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2010-04-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 144240616X

Edgar Award–winning novelist Frances O’Roark Dowell explores the shifting terrain of middle-school friendship in this follow-up to the beloved The Secret Language of Girls. Kate and Marylin are smack dab in the middle of middle school—seventh grade—and they know they can never be best friends like they used to be. Marylin is a middle school cheerleader obsessed with popularity and hairstyles, and Kate is the exact opposite with her combat boots and hankering to learn guitar and write her own songs. Still, Kate and Marylin yearn to find some middle ground for their friendship—but it’s harder than they ever imagined.

MemoRandom

MemoRandom
Author: Anders de la Motte
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2015-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476788065

"David Sarac is a handler at the Intelligence Unit of the Stockholm Police Force, identifying, recruiting, and wrangling anyone who can support the police in their battle against organized crime. And David is very good at what he does: manipulation, bribes, and threats--anything goes, so long as he delivers. Other agents can do nothing but watch jealously as his top-secret, high-level informant, Janus, rockets David to success. But after David suffers a stroke during a high-speed car chase, crashing violently into the wall of a tunnel, he wakes up in a hospital with no memory at all of Janus or the past two years of his life. David only knows that he has to reconnect with Janus to protect himself and his informants before outside forces bring the whole network crashing down. Fortunately, he has his supportive friends and colleagues to help him rebuild his life ... or does he?"--