Dar Life May 2018 Edition

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BOOK REVIEWS

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James Comey (author)In this highly anticipated book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades in the American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader. Mr. Comey served as director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017, appointed to the post by President Barack Obama. He previously served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the U.S. deputy attorney general in the administration of President George W. Bush. From SURVHFXWLQJ WKH 0D¿D DQG 0DUWKD 6WHZDUW WR KHOSLQJ FKDQJH WKH %XVK DGPLQLVWUDWLRQœV SROLFLHV RQ torture and electronic surveillance, overseeing the Hillary Clinton’s e-mail investigation as well as ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, Comey has been involved in some of the most consequential cases and policies of recent history.

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By degrees hilarious and painful honesty, this is a no-holds barred account of one junior doctor’s WLPH RQ WKH IURQWOLQH RI WKH 1+6 ¾7KH KXPRU LV XQÀLQFKLQJ LQ LWœV GDUNQHVV <HW , GLG ODXJK $ ORW .D\ LV D VNLOOIXO PXVFXODU ZULWHU ,Q WKH HQG WKLV ERRN LV D FDOO WR DUPV WKDW WKH 1+6 ORVW Kay and it’s a tragedy. This diary was written well before the Government’s battle with junior doctors was more disturbing still’ -Independent. Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life DQG GHDWK GHFLVLRQV :HOFRPH WR D FRQVWDQW WVXQDPL RI ERGLO\ ÀXLGV :HOFRPH WR HDUQLQJ OHVV WKDQ WKH KRVSLWDO SDUNLQJ PHWHU :DYH JRRGE\H WR \RXU IULHQGV DQG UHODWLRQVKLSV :HOFRPH to the life of a junior doctor. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns, these diaries are everything you wanted to know - and more than a few things you didn’t - about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former junior doctor Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurt provides an essential, brutally frank account of what life is like for the beleaguered vanguard of the NHS. Now providing the groundwork for a sell-out stand-up tour, This is Going to Hurt is an unmissable window into Britain’s ailing health system and the lives of the people who are it’s lifeblood. Simply essential reading.

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A war-ravaged Britain is emerging from the Second World War. It’s a new start too for writer Juliet $VKWRQ NHHQO\ VHHNLQJ RXW PDWHULDO IRU D QHZ QRYHO )DWH KRZHYHU ÂżQGV LWÂśV ZD\ DV WKH FKDQFH ÂżQG E\ D *XHUQVH\ QDWLYH RI D ERRN EHORQJLQJ WR -XOLHW RSHQV D VXUSULVLQJ GRRU 6RRQ ZKDW EHJDQ as a writerly search for inspiration will result in changes she could never anticipate. In the tradition of Helene Hanff’s 84 Charing Cross Road, Mary Ann Shaffer’s The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society has become, since it’s posthumous publication, one of the classic epistolary novels. Set against a background of both physical and psychological recovery from the monstrosity of war, Shaffer ekes out a gentle but still penetrative comedy of manners, where the exchange of letters between two bibliophiles gradually draws together two different worlds. Simultaneously, we learn RI WKH GHHS DQG RIWHQ WHUULEOH VDFULÂżFHV PDGH E\ D VPDOO LVODQG FRPPXQLW\ WKDW IRXQG WKHPVHOYHV abandoned to the power of the Nazi war machine. Mary Ann Shaffer, who was born in West Virginia and lived for most of her life in California, tragically passed away during the manuscript’s HGLWLQJ WKH ÂżQDO GUDIWV ZHUH FRPSOHWHG E\ KHU QLHFH $QQLH %DUURZV dŚĞĆ?Äž Ć&#x;ƚůĞĆ? ĂŜĚ žĂŜLJ žŽĆŒÄž Ä‚ĆŒÄž ĂǀĂĹ?ĹŻÄ‚Ä?ĹŻÄž Ä‚Ćš EŽǀĞů /ĚĞĂ ŽŽŏĆ?ĆšĹ˝ĆŒÄžÍ˜ dĹ˝ Ĺ?ŜƋƾĹ?ĆŒÄž Ä‚Ä?ŽƾĆš Ä?ŽŽŏ Ć‰ĆľĆŒÄ?ŚĂĆ?ÄžĆ?Í• ƉůĞĂĆ?Äž Ä?Ä‚ĹŻĹŻ dĞů͗ нώϹϹ ĎŹĎŽĎŽ ώϲϏϭϏϴϴ Ĺ˝ĆŒ ĞžĂĹ?ĹŻÍ— Ĺ?ŜĨŽÎ›Ä‚ŜŽÇ€ÄžĹŻĹ?ĚĞĂ͘Ä?Ĺ˝Í˜ĆšÇŒÍ˜

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