5/13/2023 0 Comments The lighthouse book pd james![]() “If I had a friend in distress I would have no hesitation in putting my arms around her to comfort her,” she once said, “but part of me would be observing the scene.”Īlongside the Dalgliesh novels, she wrote two books about Cordelia Gray, a tough female detective. James’s writing could be nasty, and she had plenty of cold steel in her. Violence and fear entered the cosy world she had first described. Dalgliesh appeared in 14 novels, and while his essential characteristics remained the same, the books grew deeper and darker. “I gave him the qualities I admire,” she said many years later, “because I hoped he might be an enduring character and that being so, I must actually like him.” ![]() She woke up at five in the morning, and wrote before going to work, to produce her first novel, Cover Her Face, a kind of cosy crime caper featuring a refined poet policeman called Adam Dalgliesh. That career began in 1962 when James was in her 40s and raising two children, working in a London hospital and looking after a husband who had returned from the second world war with mental-health problems. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Empire summer moon book![]() ![]() In a raid that left many family members dead and others captured, the fates of the Comanches intertwined with that of the Parker family the reason for this is because one of Parker captives, a young girl named Cynthia Ann, would be adopted into the tribe and marry a Comanche chief. One of the earliest settlements to experience the brutality of a Comanche raid was owned by a renowned family, the Parkers. The Spanish surrendered plans to conquer areas of Comancheria (the name given to the lands controlled by the Comanches).Īs American pioneers pushed further west, however, confrontation with the Comanches was inevitable. ![]() ![]() They also fought the once-mighty Spanish Empire to a standstill. They became so adept at mounted warfare that they were able to defeat their rivals, the Apaches, and exercise dominance over all the other southern plains tribes. The Comanches were a warring tribe, and raiding settlements and other Indian tribes was as central to their culture as was the buffalo hunt. ![]() The Comanches quickly learned to wrangle and tame those horses they even learned to breed them, something that no other tribe learned to do. There they discovered wild horses, escapees from the Spanish herds. The Comanches migrated from the northern regions of modern-day eastern Wyoming into the southern plains region comprising much of modern-day Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, and Texas. ![]() ![]() It also won Best Miniseries or Television Film and Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film for Garner at the 51st Golden Globe Awards. The film earned nine nominations at the 45th Primetime Emmy Awards, winning one for Outstanding Made for Television Movie. ![]() Ross Johnson, who was the president and CEO of RJR Nabisco.īarbarians at the Gate received generally positive reviews from critics. ![]() The film stars James Garner, Jonathan Pryce, and Peter Riegert. Barbarians at the Gate is a 1993 American biographical comedy-drama television film directed by Glenn Jordan and written by Larry Gelbart, based on the 1989 book of the same name by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments A merry little meetcute![]() ![]() Now Bee and Nolan are sneaking off for quickies on set, keeping their new relationship a secret from the Hope Channel’s execs. Nolan’s promised his bulldog manager to keep it zipped up on set, and he will if it means he’ll be able to provide a more stable living situation for his sister and mom.īut things heat up quickly in Christmas Notch, Vermont, when Nolan recognizes his new co-star from her ClosedDoors account (oh yeah, he’s a member). Though it all becomes worthwhile when she discovers her co-star is none other than childhood crush Nolan Shaw, an ex-boy band member in desperate need of career rehab. ![]() But when Bee’s favorite producer casts her to star in a Christmas movie he’s making for the squeaky-clean Hope Channel, Bee’s career is about to take a more family-friendly direction.įorced to keep her work as Bianca under wraps, Bee quickly learns this is a task a lot easier said than done. With a huge following and two supportive moms, Bee couldn’t ask for more. Cowritten by #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Murphy and USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone-a steamy plus-size holiday rom-com about an adult film star who is semi-accidentally cast as a lead in a family-friendly Christmas movie, and the former bad-boy pop star she falls in love with.īee Hobbes (aka Bianca Von Honey) has a successful career as a plus-size adult film star. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Bulawayo noviolet![]() ![]() Ultimately what lingers is Bulawayo’s poignant insights into how a person decides what to embrace and what to surrender when adapting to a new culture in a new land. She and her new family struggle while America fails to live up to her hopes. There she discovers a country that has fallen into a different kind of chaos, primarily economic. Yet she evinces a sense of chauvinism regarding her corrupt homeland when she joins her aunt in America. Darling must cope with absentee parents gone to who-knows-where, seeking jobs and a better life abusive adults and murdering bands of self-appointed police in a country gone horribly wrong. What is at once delightful and disturbing is the fact that young Darling and her friends are so resilient amidst chaos. In Bulawayo’s engaging and often disturbing semiautobiographical first novel, 10-year-old Darling describes, with childlike candor and a penetrating grasp of language, first, her life in Zimbabwe during its so-called Lost Decade and then her life as a teenager in present-day America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Alsatian Lorraine theologian, physician, philosopher, and Nobel Prize winner Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) exemplified a life committed to serving others. Schweitzer’s lesson continues to resonate: There is no greater motto that one could follow than to live a life of service. The third healer in this series, Albert Schweitzer, committed his life to service and as such, taught the art of medicine by example as he served the poor at his jungle hospital in Gabon. He urged physicians to use all of their senses when evaluating patients and to show equanimity and imperturbability when practicing medicine. Sir William Osler (Consultant, September and October 2013) took the art and teaching of medicine to a new level. Florence Nightingale (Consultant, December 2012) is a name that is recognized around the world, even today, as someone who dedicated her life to caring for her patients. The art of caring had many proponents in the 20th century and we’ve already looked at some of these luminaries. “I do not know your destiny, but I do know one thing: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.” ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Sing unburied sing amazon![]() With Sing, Unburied, Sing, she continues telling tales we need to hear with rare clarity and power-stories of a world that “gives a little luck to the small, that sometimes shows a little mercy. ![]() On his grandfather’s gift for spinning yarns, Jojo reflects, “Hearing him tell them makes me feel like his voice is a hand he’s reached out to me, like he’s rubbing my back.” Ward’s narrative has a similar effect: It not only rubs your back, but also prickles the hairs on the nape of your neck. Ward is an attentive and precise writer who dazzles with natural and supernatural observations and lyrical details. Meanwhile, back at home, Leonie’s dying mother tries to hang on until everyone returns so she can reconnect her daughter with the family’s ancestral spirits. Along the way, Jojo, one of the novel’s three powerful narrators, has his first daunting encounter with the police. The presence in the car of both the living and the dead-ghosts and haints abound-makes for an unexpected ride, by turns suspenseful, somber, revelatory. Jesmyn Wards Sing, Unburied, Sing is a narrative so beautifully taut and heartbreakingly eloquent that it stops the breath. In this road novel like no other, Leonie, the drug-addicted mother of 13-year-old Jojo and 3-year-old Kayla, heads out with her kids and a friend to pick up the children’s father, who’s just been released from jail. Jesmyn Ward, author the National Book Award–winning, Hurricane Katrina–inspired novel Salvage the Bones and the memoir Men We Reaped, now returns to the Gulf Coast with a tour de force, Sing, Unburied, Sing. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Deadwake![]() ![]() On Saturday, May 1, 1915, a notice appeared in New York’s newspapers. Larson gives us fascinating details about this historic event. ![]() Many of us are somewhat familiar with the sinking of the Lusitania and are aware that the U-boat attack changed the course of history by helping to draw the United States into World War I. Erik Larson’s new book “Dead Wake” chronicles the days, hours and minutes leading up to this disaster, with well-researched information sure to engross readers. One hundred years ago the British luxury ocean liner Lusitania was attacked and capsized by a German U-boat’s torpedo with 1,265 passengers and almost 700 crew members onboard. “Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania” by Erik Larson Crown Publishing Group March 2015 Book Reviews by Ann Jonas, Tradebook Buyer - CSB/SJU Bookstores ![]() ![]() ![]() I will get to that at a later date, but for now, this book indeed has lessons one can learn. ![]() Paxton (Author) 514 ratings Part of: Allen Lane History (52 books) See all formats and editions Kindle 14.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 14.27 14 Used from 8.93 2 Collectible from 59. I have the book that this is taken from, but I have not read that book. Robert Paxton The Anatomy of Fascism Paperback Maby Robert O. Its definition of Fascism is good, but that does not mean that our understanding should come only from this book. This book is not comprehensive by itself. We need to be serious about the threat of Fascism at all times. In those far-off times, people, with very few exceptions, thought of fascism solely as a system of government, and one could only. Paxton NYR, Octohas one great merit: it takes us back to the 1950s, to the good old days when things were clear and unambiguous. Nevertheless, if we want to make sure Fascism never happens again, a desire that is being challenged at this very moment in history, then this book can show us the seriousness needed when identifying Fascism in a short time. Adrian Lyttelton’s review of The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. ![]() It can lead to other resources, it clarifies some of the ongoing debates on the definition of Fascism, and then gives its own definition of fascism as tendencies to watch. Even though there is information that is not present, one can still gain some useful insight from this. It functions as a conclusion and often makes references to work done in other chapters that do not appear in this book. In fact, it is a reprint from another book. ![]() ![]() Self-Adaptation: As noted above, Judd Winick, the author of the original comic, also wrote the film.From Batman: The Brave and the Bold: In addition to Batman and Nightwing, Xavier Fagnon as the Joker and Jean-Claude Donda as Ra's Al Ghul.From The Batman: In addition to Alfred, Adrien Antoine as Batman/Bruce Wayne and Alexis Tomassian as Nightwing/Dick Grayson.From the Batman Film Series: Jacques Ciron as Alfred.In the French dub, several voice actors from previous adaptations reprised their roles here:.In the Latin American dub: Hector Hidriago ( The Batman, Batman: The Brave and the Bold as well as most of the DC Animated Movies) returns as Bruce Wayne/Batman, and Rubén Leon, who has voiced the Joker (Guason in Latin America) in animation since the nineties, returns to voice him. ![]() Real-Life Relative: Teenage!Jason is voiced by Vincent Martella while Young!Jason is voiced by his younger brother, Alexander Martella.Playing Against Type: John DiMaggio as The Joker. ![]() Fake American: Canadian-born Bruce Greenwood as Batman, an American. ![]() |