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![]() ![]() Oh, and, Deanna, I think you have a lot of Aunt Dove in you. I feel most fortunate in having seen her twice. I got caught up on having my books authored by her signed. Then, last month I attended the Virginia Festival of the Book based solely on Deanna's appearance there. I first met Deanna at the Southern Kentucky Book Festival, where she stood out as the most charming, interesting person in the room. ![]() And, Deanna, I'm so happy to know that there will be more Julia and Brisbane, and that it will be coming soon! Of course, the e-books that accompany the three series are great treats while waiting for the next big adventure. ![]() The men in these novels are also delicious, and there is, as always, that witty banter that is so much fun to read. A Spear of Summer Grass with Delilah Drummond is wonderful, and City of Jasmine with Evangeline Starke and her unforgettable Aunt Dove is amazing. Now, I was a bit disturbed when you, Deanna, turned to the two new series, but, as I've told your before, I worried for nothing. The pair, along with my Reds' couples, are among my favorite series' couples. ![]() Lady Julia and her Gypsy Nicholas Brisbane are full of witty conversation that will delight you. And, yes, I agree with Kristopher, if you haven't read the Lady Julia series, I encourage you to buy or check out Silent in the Grave. I have been a fan of Deanna's for some years now, having found the Lady Julia series when it just had a couple of books out. ![]() ![]() ![]() In short, he broke into the company warehouse and destroyed all of the modern, and therefore anachronistic, sewing machines.* In late 1998 Saunders was only 24 and became a member of an historical truthers movement located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania called HistoricalTruthNow! and, as a sort of homage to the founder with whom he’d fallen in love, decided to “correct” the industrial procedures of a small company manufacturing Civil War uniforms for re-enactors. Let me begin by sharing a colorful anecdote about the conditions whereby this collection of stories, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, emerged into the world: George Saunders, its author, published this story just after he was released from prison after serving a 72-month term for corporate espionage. ![]() ![]() Jesus Christ, I know a lot about this story! Having read this story two times, I am now an expert. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Jackdaw kj charles![]() ![]() “The dialogue between the heroes is fun and intense… The building steam combusts into heat that sizzles right off the pages.” ![]() “This combination of magic, mystery, and mayhem will have crossover appeal for fans of several genres an exciting new voice in the paranormal world.” “Charles begins a new gay Victoria fantasy series with this short but colorful novel Sexual tension between the men is sizzling…” Evil pervades the house, a web of plots is closing round Crane, and if Stephen can’t find a way through it-they’re both going to die. But Crane’s dangerous appeal isn’t the only thing rendering Stephen powerless. Soon Stephen is falling hard for the worst possible man, at the worst possible time. Besides, the earl is unlike any aristocrat he’s ever met, with the tattoos, the attitude…and the way Crane seems determined to get him into bed. ![]() Unfortunately, it’s his job to deal with supernatural threats. ![]() Magician Stephen Day has good reason to hate Crane’s family. He’s also inherited his family’s enemies. But with the mysterious deaths of his father and brother, it seems the new Lord Crane has inherited an earldom. A snowball in hell.Įxiled to China for twenty years, Lucien Vaudrey never planned to return to England. A Charm of Magpies series The Magpie LordĪ lord in danger. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In that story, I tried to show how Native people who live in urban areas struggle to hold onto their traditions and their sacred sites. As a fiction writer, I put my years of reporting on these topics into Naked Edge (I-Team #4). As a reporter, I spent years traveling back and forth to the Navajo and Lakota reservations covering a range of issues from forced relocations to the struggles of traditional native people to hold onto their culture and languages. Anyway, what a timely post, and lovely yet painful – like so much of Native American history.Īs a writer of Native descent, I’ve tried to cover Native issues in ways that make them accessible to the outside world. I don’t know if you’ve ever read her I-Team stories, but if not, you really have to, and especially don’t skip book 1 – Extreme Exposure – which is one of my favorites. ![]() Hi friends! Time flies, yes? Today we have Pamela Clare is visiting with us today, and I’m so excited to have her share. ![]() ![]() She isn’t interested and would prefer to become her mistress to being tied down, but Flynn isn’t known for giving up and when he sets his heart to something – he usually gets it. This is trouble for the Irishman Patrick Flynn who is falling for her and wishes to marry her. The book sees Daisy Chance as a woman who is not looking for a marriage or babies, but instead wants to concentrate on her career as a dressmaker. ![]() They didn’t marry for love, but can they find it anyway?Īnother series by Gracie is the Chance Sisters series and the first book in that series is called The Summer Bride. ![]() Cal attempts to marry her in a marriage of convenience, but the teacher is far more independent than he had in mind and her strong will is quickly seducing him. His wild sisters are a major problem for him, but Miss Emmaline Westwood is the girls’ former teacher and one of the few who can control them. ![]() The book sees Major Calbourne Rutherford return to England on the trail of an assassin, but ends up becoming Lord Ashendon. ![]() Marry in Haste is the first book in the Marriage of Convenience series. The Perfect Stranger (Merridew Series) Mass Market Paperback Jby Anne Gracie (Author) 1,090 ratings Book 3 of 4: Merridew Series See all formats and editions Kindle 7.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback from 20.93 1 New from 20. If You Like Anne Gracie Books, You’ll Love… ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Evidence poems mary oliver![]() ![]() "It was pastoral, it was nice, it was an extended family. In an interview with the Christian Science Monitor in 1992, Oliver commented on growing up in Ohio, saying As a child, she spent a great deal of time outside where she enjoyed going on walks or reading. Her father was a social studies teacher and an athletics coach in the Cleveland public schools. ![]() (Vlasak) Oliver on September 10, 1935, in Maple Heights, Ohio, a semi-rural suburb of Cleveland. Mary Oliver was born to Edward William and Helen M. In 2007, she was declared to be the country's best-selling poet. It is characterised by a sincere wonderment at the impact of natural imagery, conveyed in unadorned language. Her work is inspired by nature, rather than the human world, stemming from her lifelong passion for solitary walks in the wild. ![]() Mary Jane Oliver (Septem– January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Joyful militancy![]() ![]() ![]() Astra Taylor, author of The People’s Platform and co-founder of The Debt Collective This is a thought-provoking, morale-boosting, hope-inspiring tonic offered at the moment we need it most.” Resisting the rising tide of dread, this unique, genre-bending book offers a spirited defense of a militant politics of joy-an affirmative theory of openness and experimentation, curiosity and questioning. ![]() “The resurgence of the reactionary right has led many on the left to feel overwhelming despair. Interviewees include Silvia Federici, adrienne maree brown, Marina Sitrin, Gustavo Esteva, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Walidah Imarisha, Margaret Killjoy, Glen Coulthard, Richard Day, and more. ![]() In conversation with organizers and intellectuals from a wide variety of political currents, the authors explore how rigid radicalism smuggles itself into radical spaces, and how it is being undone Why do radical movements and spaces sometimes feel laden with fear, anxiety, suspicion, self-righteousness, and competition? Montgomery and bergman call this phenomenon rigid radicalism: congealed and toxic ways of relating that have seeped into social movements, posing as the “correct” way of being radical. Joyful Militancy investigates how fear, self-righteousness, and moralism infiltrate and take root within liberation movements, what to do about them, and ultimately how tenderness and vulnerability can thrive alongside fierce militant commitment. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Gloria steinem outrageous acts![]() Houston and history - The international crime of genital mutilation - Rx fantasies : for temporary relief of pain due to injustice - If Hitler were alive, whose side would he be on? - Night thoughts of a media watcher - If men could menstruate - Far from the opposite shore. Marilyn Monroe : the woman who died too soon - Patricia Nixon flying - The real Linda Lovelace - Jackie reconsidered - Alice Walker : do you know this woman? She knows you - Transforming politics. Words and change - In praise of women's bodies - The importance of work - The time factor - Men and women talking - The politics of food - Networking - Transsexualism - Why young women are more conservative - Erotica vs. Life between the lines - I was a Playboy bunny - Campaigning - Sisterhood - College reunion - Ruth's song (because she could not sing it). 1, 1983 The world didn't lose a great journalist when Gloria Steinem focused her energies on feminist activismbut because she was a working journalist (and, from 1968, political columnist for first-person-prone New York magazine), the light bulb goes on right here. Includes bibliographical references (pages xxi-xxii) and index.Ĭontents Learning from experience. OUTRAGEOUS ACTS AND EVERYDAY REBELLIONS by Gloria Steinem RELEASE DATE: Aug.Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315ĭetails Description xxii, 406 pages 21 cm Summary This phenomenally successful book, which has sold nearly a half a million copies since its original publication in 1983, is Gloria Steinem's most diverse and timeless collection of essays. 'Weve demonstrated that women can do what men. ![]() ![]() Around this time, Steinem discussed some of the pressing issues of the day. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. It called on women to engage in outrageous acts for simple justice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ivan Van Sertima who made is transition on May 25th, 2009. ![]() ![]() Something like 100,000 years part in linguistic phylogeny. This video is dedicated to the memory of Dr. He could not know Gobekli Tepe, the surrounding settlements, the Natufian villages, etc., all going back to 12,000 years BC which is more than 6,000 or 7,000 years before the Egyptian civilization and 9,000 before the invention of the first known writing system in the Middle East, the Sumerian writing system too often identified as the Akkadian cuneiform writing system because the scribes were Akkadian speaking a Semitic language though the language was Sumerian, a synthetic-analytical language, probably post-agglutinative. We cannot of course reproach the author with what he could not know in 1976. It insists on the leading role it played in some periods and it tries to find out in what periods there existed contact between Black Africa and the Americas. Ivan Van Sertima, an African studies professor at Rutgers University, said he has had to master many disciplines, like the study of metals, plant life and map-making, to help him pursue the. Price New from Used from Hardcover, Black & White 'Please retry' 64. It asserted the historical participation of Black Africa as far back as the birth of the Egyptian civilization. They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America Hardcover Black & White, Novemby Ivan Van Sertima(Author) 4.7 out of 5 stars127 ratings See all formats and editions Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. BLACK AFRICA’S HISTORY This book was salvational in many ways at the time of its publication. ![]() |