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Life After Death
By Damien Echols
In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr.—who have come to be known as the West Memphis Three—were arrested for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas. The ensuing trial was marked by tampered evidence, false testimony, and public hysteria. Baldwin and Misskelley were sentenced to life in prison; while eighteen-year-old Echols, deemed the “ringleader,” was sentenced to death. Over the next two decades, the WM3 became known worldwide as a symbol of wrongful conviction and imprisonment, with thousands of supporters and many notable celebrities who called for a new trial. In a shocking turn of events, all three men were released in August 2011.
Now Echols shares his story in full—from abuse by prison guards and wardens, to portraits of fellow inmates and deplorable living conditions, to the incredible reserves of patience, spirituality, and perseverance that kept him alive and sane while incarcerated for nearly two decades.
In these pages, Echols reveals himself a brilliant writer, infusing his narrative with tragedy and irony in equal measure: he describes the terrors he experienced every day and his outrage toward the American justice system, and offers a firsthand account of living on Death Row in heartbreaking, agonizing detail. Life After Death is destined to be a riveting, explosive classic of prison literature. -
Audiobooks and Ryan Gosling, what could be a better combination than that?!
Hooray for Audiobook month!
(source: http://audiobooker.booklistonline.com/2012/06/01/june-is-audiobook-month-3/ryan-gossling-2/)
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Video reblogged from The Cheat Sheet
5 Minute clip on our Soundcloud not enough? Check out this 30 minute clip and review of the book from CheatSheet.
30 whole minutes of Elizabeth McGovern (aka Lady Cora from ‘Downton Abbey’) reading from Laura Moriarty’s ‘The Chaperone.’ You’re welcome.
Like the story? Here’s our review, with an Amazon link.
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Marc Giai-Miniet’s miniature boxes are metaphors of the human life with inner mecanisms, materials to be transported or evacuated. Here, library and books represent Humanity and therefore Knowledge that anyone owns and passes on.
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Charlotte’s Web, Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz. Book sculptures by Kelly Campbell
You know, normally we like to read / listen to them…but…
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An Igloo made of Books by Miler Lagos
I suspect it won’t keep you warm in winter but it sure is awesome.
(Source: fer1972)
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Missing Downton Abbey? Check out our upcoming release of The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty, read by Elizabeth McGovern. Out on Audiobook July 15, 2012
A captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922, and the summer that would change them both.
Only a few years before becoming a famous actress and an icon for her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita to make it big in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone who is neither mother nor friend. Cora Carlisle is a complicated but traditional woman with her own reasons for making the trip. She has no idea what she’s in for: Young Louise, already stunningly beautiful and sporting her famous blunt bangs and black bob, is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will change their lives forever.
For Cora, New York holds the promise of discovery that might prove an answer to the question at the center of her being, and even as she does her best to watch over Louise in a strange and bustling city, she embarks on her own mission. And while what she finds isn’t what she anticipated, it liberates her in a way she could not have imagined. Over the course of the summer, Cora’s eyes are opened to the promise of the twentieth century and a new understanding of the possibilities for being fully alive.
- The Chaperone, by Laura Moriarty.
