![]() ![]() ![]() The complex story is sorted out and eloquently told by Margaret MacMillan in Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed The World. In the first full-length look at the conference in more than 25 years, a descendant of one of those larger-than life political figures offers a fascinating portrait of the times, the personalities involved and the lasting consequences of their actions.īy redrawing national boundaries and stirring up ancient hatreds, the peace conference for all its good effects set in motion hostilities that still rage today. ![]() Coming on the heels of the slaughter of millions, the Paris Peace Conference that convened after World War I was a surprisingly civilized gathering of the era’s top statesmen. ![]()
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6/9/2023 0 Comments Author of the good lord bird![]() ![]() Over the ensuing months, Henry-whom Brown nicknames Little Onion-conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive. Henry is forced to leave town-with Brown, who believes he’s a girl. ![]() ![]() When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry’s master quickly turns violent. Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. ![]() Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction Soon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber and Jaden Smith A Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Oprah Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year “A magnificent new novel by the best-selling author James McBride.” –cover review of The New York Times Book Review “Outrageously entertaining.” –USA Today “James McBride delivers another tour de force” –Essence “So imaginative, you’ll race to the finish.” –NPR.org “Wildly entertaining.”-4-star People lead review "A boisterous, highly entertaining, altogether original novel.” – Washington Post From the bestselling author of The Color of Water, Song Yet Sung, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a James Brown biography, comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade-and who must pass as a girl to survive. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Books like jamaica inn![]() It doesn't take long to find out why the inn and its landlord are so feared. This is going to be a journey into darkness, and it's going to deliver both violence and sensation. ![]() By the end of the first day, as the light bleeds away and Mary barricades herself in her miserable little room, a pact has been made with the reader. The lovely giggling Aunt Patience is now a gaunt, shaky wreck, her spirit destroyed by abuse, and her husband, Joss Merlyn, is a monster: physically overwhelming, lumbering, violent and drunk. Inside, the place reeks of neglect, drink and male violence. At night the sign outside twists in the wind like a human body on a gibbet. ![]() Mary's destination, Jamaica Inn, stands dark and forbidding at the top of the moor. We are in the territory of the gothic novel, but one with an undercurrent of modern sensibility. Inside rides Mary Yellan, newly orphaned and en route from the tame farmland of the Helford area to the rainswept moors of nineteenth-century Cornwall and the married home of her aunt, a woman once known for her rich curls and girlish laughter. ![]() Jamaica Inn opens with echoes of Dracula: a carriage rattling through a desolate landscape and wild weather to a place where even the locals won't go, so ferocious is its reputation. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments The Underneath by Kathi Appelt![]() ![]() ![]() And one kitten's one moment of curiosity sets off a chain of events that is astonishing, remarkable, and enormous in its meaning. Kittens, however, are notoriously curious creatures. But they are safe in the Underneath.as long as they stay in the Underneath. Ranger urges the cat to hide underneath the porch, to raise her kittens there because Gar-Face, the man living inside the house, will surely use them as alligator bait should he find them. They are an unlikely pair, about to become an unlikely family. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend this cat, this feline, this creature he is supposed to hate. ![]() There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.Ī calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When she had a chance to take a sabbatical three years ago, Bennett opted to volunteer at the Harnas Wildlife Refuge. She’s the kind of woman who talks to squirrels, names the deer in her backyard and brings doggie treats to a friend’s dinner party instead of a bottle of wine. From TV to Reality Barbara Bennett takes a young lion for a walk at Harnas Wildlife Refuge in Namibia.Īn animal lover since childhood, Bennett grew up watching Wild Kingdom, The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau and National Geographic specials on TV. Or land a book deal with National Geographic.īut a stint volunteering at a wildlife refuge in Namibia proved a turning point that set the literature professor on a path of personal and professional discovery. Or that she’d master the art of diapering a baby baboon. ![]() Barbara Bennett never imagined that she’d fall asleep to the sound of roaring lions. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Carolyn jessop book![]() ![]() Instead, she found herself forced to marry a man named Merill Jessop just a year later.Īt the time, Carolyn Jessop was getting married to Merrill Jessop a fifty-year-old man. When she was in middle school, there was an incident in which there was a huge rift among members of the local FLDS community that saw leaders pull children from the local high school.Īged seventeen, she graduated from high school and was intent on heading to college to study pediatric medicine but that was not to be. Tired of the beating, they came up with a clever strategy to ensure she spanked them in the morning so that they would have the rest of the day to enjoy. Her mother used to take out her frustrations on the children all the time. She was brought up with emotionally distant parents and remembers that her father was a domineering man. ![]() Growing up, she witnessed her father take the polygamy path when he got married to her cousin on her mother’s side. The author was born to a polygamous family that was part of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints. Carolyn Jessop is an American author and famously an ex-member of the FLDS church. ![]() ![]() It was a time when bandits would steal from others as well as destroy property, laws were broken, and they would kidnap children and threaten families in demand for money. ![]() The story is based off a true story during a time period when chaos broke out following Cuba's wars for independence from Spain. However, as the verse flow throughout the story, Fefa slowly grows in her writing and her reading starts improve as she learns to take her time and gains confidence. At first Fefa’s words are hesitant and stilted, like seedlings. She gives her daughter a blank book to fill with words, as if she is scattering wildflower seeds on the ground. Whenever she would write or try to read, it was like the words were "falling off the pages" and difficult syllables were unable to come out, or it was hard to speak about the words OUT LOUD. ![]() Fefa was diagnosed with “word blindness” and was told that she would never read or write because it was such a hardship for her and she was not obtaining it right away like others her age. ![]() The Wild Book introduces a girl named Fefa who struggles with "word blindness", which we call today as dyslexia. The book is told in verse about the struggles and hardships Margarita Engle's grandmother went through while growing up. The Wild Book is based on the life of the author's grandmother, Josefa de la Caridad Uria Pena. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross![]() ![]() Ordinary music enthusiasts filled out the crowd-"young people from Vienna, with only the vocal score as hand luggage," Richard Strauss noted. The widow of Johann Strauss II, composer of On the Beautiful Blue Danube, represented old Vienna. One of them, Alban Berg, traveled with an older friend, who later recalled the "feverish impatience and boundless excitement" that all felt as the evening approached. The bold young composer Arnold Schoenberg arrived from Vienna with his brother-in-law Alexander Zemlinsky and no fewer than six of his pupils. Gustav Mahler, the director of the Vienna Opera, attended with his wife, the beautiful and controversial Alma. Giacomo Puccini, the creator of La Boh è me and Tosca, made a trip north to hear what "terribly cacophonous thing" his German rival had concocted. The premiere of Salome had taken place in Dresden five months earlier, and word had got out that Strauss had created something beyond the pale-an ultra-dissonant biblical spectacle, based on a play by an Irish degenerate whose name was not mentioned in polite company, a work so frightful in its depiction of adolescent lust that imperial censors had banned it from the Court Opera in Vienna. When Richard Strauss conducted his opera Salome on May 16, 1906, in the Austrian city of Graz, several crowned heads of European music gathered to witness the event. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Seventh son card![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Books by Orson Scott Card: Alvin Maker novelsĮarthborn First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)ĭieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden. The first book in the acclaimed Tales of Alvin Maker series, by one of the world's best-loved SF/fantasy authors. is the seventh son of a seventh son and a Maker who uses his powers to fix things, which fights evil and protects the world. Somewhere out there is a power that will do anything to prevent him growing up. The Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card is the story of a young boys fight against an evil greater than the devil, the Unmaker, in a magical version of Colonial America. But even in the loving safety of his home, dark forces reach out to destroy him. Young Alvin is the seventh son, and such a boy is destined to become great - perhaps even a man with the enormous powers of a Maker. Amid the deep woods where the Red Man still holds sway, a very special child is born. ![]() Produktbeschreibung 'Card has uncovered a rich vein of folklore and magic here, to which his assured handling of old time religion and manifest love of children is admirably suited: an appealing and intriguing effort.' - Kirkus Reviews From the primal depth's of the world's greatest myths comes this gripping fantasy of a boy, born to be a Maker, whose dangerous journey towards knowledge and power makes history. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Economic doughnut![]() Kate Raworths economic theory is based on the picture of a doughnut. The basic principle of Doughnut Economics ( Spanish Version here) She presents a very convincing concept on how to create economies that are regenerative and distributive by design- a subject very dear to my heart. When researching about the author Kate Raworth- an economist at the University of Oxford, who calls herself a “renegade” economist- she is sometimes referred to as the “John Maynard Keynes of the 21st century”.įrom my point of view, her simple and brilliant book Doughnut Economics offers a game-changing analysis of our current economic system and is an inspiration for thinkers how to look at our world in a different way. ![]() I wanted to take some time offline but I have to share this as I hope it inspires some of you to take a different look at economics in 2020.įinally, I found the book that brings together all the hypothesis and concepts I was drawn to over the past years and puts them into a holistic picture how we can look at economics in a 21st century way. I spent the last few days in the mountains celebrating X-MAS with my dear ones and while relaxing I finally managed to read one of the best books I have read in ages- ” Doughnut Economics ” by Kate Raworth. ![]() |