Amie Parnes

Jonathan Allen

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveting story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate, no explanation of defeat can begin with anything other than the core problem of Hillary's campaign--the candidate herself. Through deep access to insiders from the top to the bottom of the campaign, political writers Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes have reconstructed the key decisions and unseized opportunities, the well-intentioned misfires and the hidden thorns that turned a winnable contest into a devastating loss. Drawing on the authors' deep knowledge of Hillary from their previous book, the acclaimed biography HRC, Shattered offers an object lesson in how Hillary herself made victory an uphill battle, how her difficulty articulating a vision irreparably hobbled her impact with voters, and how the campaign failed to internalize the lessons of populist fury from the hard-fought primary against Bernie Sanders. Moving blow-by-blow from the campaign's difficult birth through the bewildering terror of election night, Shattered tells an unforgettable story with urgent lessons both political and personal, filled with revelations that will change the way readers understand just what happened to America on November 8, 2016.

Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign

Shattered

The inside story of the historic 2020 presidential election and Joe Biden’s harrowing ride to victory, from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Shattered, the definitive account of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. Almost no one thought Joe Biden could make it back to the White House—not Donald Trump, not the two dozen Democratic rivals who sought to take down a weak front-runner, not the mega-donors and key endorsers who feared he could not beat Bernie Sanders, not even Barack Obama. The story of Biden’s cathartic victory in the 2020 election is the story of a Democratic Party at odds with itself, torn between the single-minded goal of removing Donald Trump and the push for a bold progressive agenda that threatened to alienate as many voters as it drew. In Lucky, #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes use their unparalleled access to key players inside the Democratic and Republican campaigns to unfold how Biden’s nail-biting run for the presidency vexed his own party as much as it did Trump. Having premised his path on unlocking the Black vote in South Carolina, Biden nearly imploded before he got there after a relentless string of misfires left him freefalling in polls and nearly broke. Allen and Parnes brilliantly detail the remarkable string of chance events that saved him, from the botched Iowa caucus tally that concealed his terrible result, to the pandemic lockdown that kept him off the stump, where he was often at his worst. More powerfully, Lucky unfolds the pitched struggle within Biden’s general election campaign to downplay the very issues that many Democrats believed would drive voters to the polls, especially in the wake of Trump’s response to nationwide protests following the murder of George Floyd. Even Biden’s victory did not salve his party’s wounds; instead, it revealed a surprising, complicated portrait of American voters and crushed Democrats’ belief in the inevitability of a blue wave. A thrilling masterpiece of political reporting, Lucky is essential reading for understanding the most important election in American history and the future that will come of it.

How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency

Lucky

"An examination of the strategy behind Hillary Clinton's political revitalization and her comeback in the US and abroad"--

State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton

The mesmerizing story of Hillary Clinton's political rebirth, based on eyewitness accounts from deep inside her inner circle Hillary Clinton's surprising defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary brought her to the nadir of her political career, vanquished by a much younger opponent whose message of change and cutting-edge tech team ran circles around her stodgy campaign. And yet, six years later, she has reemerged as an even more powerful and influential figure, a formidable stateswoman and the presumed front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, marking one of the great political comebacks in history. The story of Hillary's phoenix-like rise is at the heart of HRC, a riveting political biography that journeys into the heart of Hillaryland to discover a brilliant strategist at work.

state secrets and the rebirth of Hillary Clinton

Austin Spare's life-long interest in cartomancy is well documented, yet very few of his own fortune-telling cards were thought to have survived. This compelling new example of the artist's early work demonstrates his precocious involvement with the currents that shaped the British Occult Revival at the beginning of 20th century, and his interactions with some of the period's lesser-known protagonists. Magic Circle Museum curator and artist Jonathan Allen immediately recognised that Spare's cards were not only art-historically significant, but also entirely unknown outside of The Magic Circle's collections, and set about tracing the deck's provenance, its place in the artist's oeuvre and within the wider histories of cartomancy. Lost Envoy reproduces Austin Spare's tarot deck in its entirety for the first time, alongside new written and visual contributions from Jonathan Allen, Phil Baker, Helen Farley, Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill, Sally O'Reilly and Gavin Semple. The book is designed by Fraser Muggeridge studio, with a cover incorporating the vibrant back colours of Spare's cards, a period binding common to many of the volumes found in The Magic Circle library and a gold deboss of the artist's autographic 'bird-head' motif, as discovered within the deck itself. The numbered and debossed special edition contains several fold-out sections showing conspicuous alignment between cards.

The Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare

Lost Envoy

A one word story in which a mischievous monkey shares his bananas, causing trouble for his friends.

Banana!

Little Yak is excited about seeing snow for the very first time. All of Little Yak's friends are busy preparing for winter--but what do little yaks do when the snow comes?

When the Snow Comes

"An interesting environment I have not seen done before in my 28 years of reading fantasy; dungeon crawling as a form of entertainment akin to football. Humorous and light, a joy for any tabletop RPG player I'm sure." -Austin Koepp, Author of Valhalla Forever. You think you had a bad day at work? It was just another Tuesday morning at the ol' grind for Tk'char, a Master Mason at Dungeon Corp. At least that's what he thought when he teleported into the dungeon to begin repairs, after a party of adventurers had made a giant mess of the place the night before. Only today, when he was trying to have a little private time to relieve himself of too much morning coffee, a giant black dragon burst out of a hallway and snatched him up, thinking he looked like the biggest, most delicious half-ork flavored donut it had ever seen! This time, they had gone too far. How could he work in such a toxic environment? The answer is simple, right? Just follow in the footsteps of his famous grandfather, become a great Warrior. But, who is he to be an adventurer? He has a family that relies on him, and Warrior school is so expensive! But is this it? Is being a corporate drone really all there is to his life? The Truth About Dragons follows Tk'char as he finds the truth about how to live the life he wants to live, and not the one he's been told that he is supposed to.

A Dungeon Corp Story

The Truth about Dragons

A one-word slapstick story, in which no one will be able to resist joining in with the refrain 'Banana!' A very cheeky monkey enjoys throwing bananas from trees in the jungle and watching unfortuante animals slip, trip and drop! But monkey is about to get his comeuppance... This is Jonathan Allen at his very best.

Baby Owl decides to explore the woods but all the animals he meets think that he is so cute and so fluffy that they all want to give him a hug! But Baby Owl tells them “I’m not cute!” A perfect bedroom read that all children will relate to. A real hoot!

I'm Not Cute!

Sylvia Walby

This report presents the findings of a computerised self-completion questionnaire included in the 2001 British Crime Survey to determine the nature and extent of inter-personal violence in England and Wales. The results of the survey show that inter-personal violence is widespread: approximately one third of the population has been affected by inter-personal violence at some time in their lives; one in twenty women have experienced serious sexual assault; and one in five women and one in ten men have been victims of domestic violence. The results also indicate that there are high levels of repeat victimisation, especially in cases of domestic violence.

Findings from the British Crime Survey

Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking

After staying up all night as owls do, Baby Owl insists that he is not sleepy, despite his yawning and stretching and behaving very grumpily. By the creator of I'm Not Cute!

I'm Not Sleepy!

Baby Owl has stayed up all night, but he’s definitely NOT sleepy. So why do all the other animals in the forest think it’s past his bedtime? He’s not stretching, after all, he’s justexercising his wings. And he’s only yawning because he’s bored – owls need a lot of excitement, you know. This comic tale of a little one who isn’t quite ready for bed will be a sure-fire hit with children – and parents!

A sideways look at life in the Ark, where skunks and polecats form The Smelly Society, batstry hang gliding, Noah goes water sking and the penguins cool of in the fridge!!

Two by Two by Two

Ideal for use in the Literacy Hour, a LARGE FORMAT version of a split-page story in which the three pigs try to outwit the big bad wolf who appears at their door in a number of disguises. Illustrated in colour throughout.

Who's at the Door?

"Is that my cat? It can't be. My cat is a slim, sleek pussy cat." Something strange is happening with this rather large kitty-the one who used to fit through the cat door, climbed trees fearlessly, and always wanted to play. Now she lazes on the windowsill, and it takes two hands to pick her up! Keep guessing as the story unfolds page by page, until right at the end when there's a big surprise!

Is That My Cat?

Orlando Britto Jinorio

Yolanda Peralta Sierra

José Arencibia Gil, Sergio Calvo, Elvireto Escobio, Carlos Morón, Chelín Reino, Cirilo Suárez : San Martín Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 09.11.2017-18.02.2018

Los pasos perdidos

'An appraisal of a compelling character who might, at the age of 69 in January 2017, be sworn in as the most powerful woman in the history of the world.' The Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A revealing window into the le Carré-like layers of intrigue that develop when a celebrity politician who is married to another celebrity politician loses to yet another celebrity politician, and goes on to serve the politician who defeated her.' Washington Post 'Provides useful context and intelligent analysis . . . pumped full of colorful you-are-there details.' New York Times Combining deep reporting and West Wing-esque storytelling, HRC reveals the strategising, machinations and last minute decision-making that have accompanied one of the greatest political comebacks in history.

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