6/29/2023 0 Comments Stephen sears gettysburgShe takes us back to Binh's youthful servitude in Saigon under colonial rule, to his life as a galley hand at sea, to his brief, fateful encounters in Paris with Paul Robeson and the young Ho Chi Minh."An irresistible, scrupulously engineered confection that weaves together history, art, and human nature.a veritable feast." ?-? Los Angeles Times "A debut novel of pungent sensuousness and intricate, inspired imagination.a marvelous tale." ?-? Elle"Addictive.Deliciously written.Both eloquent and original."?-?Entertainment Weekly. In a mesmerizing tale of yearning and betrayal, Monique Truong explores Paris from the salons of its artists to the dark nightlife of its outsiders and exiles. and impeccable scholarship that has made Stephen Searss other histories so successful. Sears writes a book that needs to be written and read by every Civil War buff. Somehow in all the literature on the Civil War, the 7 Days and Peninsula Campaign gets buried in all the Gettysburg hype. Toklas, by the author of The Sweetest Fruits.Viewing his famous mesdames and their entourage from the kitchen of their rue de Fleurus home, Binh observes their domestic entanglements while seeking his own place in the world. In Gettysburg Sears tells the whole story in a single volume. Stephen Ward Sears is an American historian specializing in the American Civil War. Winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award: A novel of Paris in the 1930s from the eyes of the Vietnamese cook employed by Gertrude Stein and Alice B.
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Thirteen storeys bookReview: As a huge fan of the Magnus Archives (Jonathan Sims horror short story podcast in which the stories are all loosely connected by one over-arching plotline) I was thrilled to see he had a novel out. His death has remained one of the biggest unsolved mysteries – until now. My Rating of ‘Thirteen Storeys’: 3 out of 5. Whether privileged or deprived, they share only one thing in common – they’ve all experienced a shocking disturbance within the building’s walls.īy the end of the night, their host is dead, and none of the guests will say what happened. None of them know why they were selected to receive his invitation. All the guests are strangers – even to their host, the billionaire owner of the building. A haunted house tour-de-force from the creator of THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES podcast.Ī dinner party is held in the penthouse of a multimillion-pound development. However, it will constantly feel like she is walking on sharp swords hard enough to make her bleed. Drinking the potion will make her feel as if a sword is being passed through her, yet when she recovers she will have two beautiful legs, and will be able to dance like no human has ever danced before. The Sea Witch warns, however, that once she becomes a human, she will never be able to return to the sea. “The Little Mermaid, longing for the prince and an eternal soul, eventually visits the Sea Witch, who sells her a potion that gives her legs, in exchange for her tongue (as the Little Mermaid has the most intoxicating voice in the world). Most of us are familiar with Disney’s version of Little Mermaid but few of us actually know of the original tale written by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen in 1837.ĭisney’s happy ending ensured kids would go to bed nightmare-free while Andersen’s version wasn’t exactly as mindful. 6/29/2023 0 Comments Eats shoots and leaves reviewTry making your own silly sentence by changing the punctuation! It’s harder than it looks and is a great way to engage your older children. Reading books, copy work, editing manuscripts, and these books are all we do! I have never taught a punctuation lesson with worksheets, a workbook, or lecture. I keep them on the bookshelf in our school room/family room and every so often they catch my child’s eye, and the books get reread, shared, and laughed at together. We gather together and read them aloud when we first buy them, like opening a treasure chest. There are four books, and we own three of them. It’s such a funny twist - just by moving or placing a comma in a different spot in the sentence. Thus the picture on the opposite page is different as well. One page shows a picture of a sentence, then the opposite page shows the same sentence with commas, periods, and more in different places - which completely changes the meaning of the sentence. My kids love the comic strip illustration style, with one window of illustration per page. This book shares her passion for the preservation of punctuation. The first book was inspired by the author’s original non-fiction, 240 page book called Eats, Shoots & Leaves: A No Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. This is a series of picture books, starting with Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference. About the Author: She is a former editor, television critic and sports journalist for The Times newspaper, and has written 8 novels, 6 non-fiction books, this series of children’s books, and more! 6/29/2023 0 Comments The great agnostic by susan jacobyTo the question that retains its controversial power today-was the United States founded as a Christian nation?-Ingersoll answered an emphatic no. When he died in 1899, even his religious enemies acknowledged that he might have aspired to the US presidency had he been willing to mask his opposition to religion. “Jacoby writes with wit and vigor, affectionately resurrecting a man whose life and work are due for reconsideration” ( The Boston Globe).ĭuring the Gilded Age, which saw the dawn of America’s enduring culture wars, Robert Green Ingersoll was known as “the Great Agnostic.” The nation’s most famous orator, he raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separation of church and state with a power unmatched since America’s revolutionary generation. 6/29/2023 0 Comments The earthsea cycleThis is the tumultuous tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death’s threshold to restore the balance. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. A Wizard of Earthsea – Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk.How to read the Earthsea Books in Order? I. An error leads him to learn the hard way how to become a great sorcerer. Those who are born with Magic are sent to a school in order to become wizards, like the young mage named Ged. The story takes us in the world of Earthsea which is a vast archipelago of hundreds of islands where Magic is a central part of life-except in the Karg society where it is banned. Le Guin, The Earthcea Cycle was published between 19, beginning with A Wizard of Earthsea. What is the Earthsea series about?Ī series of fantasy novels written by the American writer Ursula K. Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon.Ī classic of the young adult fantasy canon. Alchemy explains why, ultimately, this was and remains a crisis not of banking - even if we need to reform the banking system - nor of policy-making - even if mistakes were made - but of ideas. But those events, vivid though they remain in our memories, comprised only the latest in a long series of financial crises since our present system of commerce became the cornerstone of modern capitalism. Most accounts of the recent crisis focus on the symptoms and not the underlying causes of what went wrong. Almost overnight, belief turned into incredulity. In the space of little more than a year what had been seen as the age of wisdom was viewed as the age of foolishness. The past twenty years saw unprecedented growth and stability followed by the worst financial crisis the industrialised world has ever witnessed. 6/29/2023 0 Comments God emperor of dune deluxe editionAnd as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.Ī stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction. When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness.
“Well, I am good, it’s true, but no no NO! One cat will NEVER do!” Surely “Amazing Maurice” is the answer to the infestation? The rotund tabby - funny character design - shows up in a town unchanged since the Tudors and gives the locals the hard sell spiel about “rat INFESTATION,” romping through taverns and barns crawling with rodents, rhyming couplets with a carnival barker’s zeal. The Carnegie award-winning children’s novel “The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents” makes its way to the screen more or less intact in a delightful and sometimes droll British animated film, “The Amazing Maurice.”Ĭreated originally for Sky TV in the UK but coming to theaters in the US via Viva Kids, it features Hugh Laurie as the voice of the “sentient cat” who ate the wrong thing and learned to talk and run a Big Con the length and breadth of what appears to be 18th century Britain.Ĭan you imagine Hugh Laurie as “The Music Man?” Of course you can, right here in Liverpool City! Hung a cloud of intense gloom and devout sorrow over your household.Ĭ HARMION. Most fearfully, fearfully! - this is indeed no dream.Ĭ HARMION. Let us converse ofįamiliar things, in the old familiar language of the world which has so fearfully perished.Į IROS. I am burning with anxiety to hear the details of that stupendous event which threw you among us. Your mind wavers, and its agitation will find relief in the exercise of simple memories. Majesty of all things - of the unknown now known - of the speculative Future merged in the august and certain Present.Ĭ HARMION. Oh God! - pity me, Charmion! - I am overburthened with the You have now suffered all of pain, however, which you will suffer inĮ IROS. You undergo - yet the remembrance of it hangs by me still. It is now ten earthly years since I underwent what A few days will remove all this - but I fully understand you,Īnd feel for you. Yet my senses are bewildered, Charmion, with the keenness of their perception of the new.Ĭ HARMION. The terrible darkness have left me, and I hear no longer that mad, rushing, horrible sound, like the “voice of many waters.” Your allotted days of stupor have expired and, to-morrow, I will myself induct you into the full joys and wonders of yourĮ IROS. The film of the shadow has already passed from off your eyes. Rejoice to see you looking life-like and rational. Dreams are with us no more - but of these mysteries anon. My earthly name, and speak to me as Charmion.Ĭ HARMION. So henceforward will you always be called. |