5/20/2023 0 Comments Frenzy by Rex Miller![]() ![]() Davis Cup team and the Association of Tennis Professionals. That path led Ashe to success at West Point and UCLA - as a champion and as the first Black captain of both the U.S. That activism had its roots in Ashe’s upbringing in the Richmond, VA, the capital of the Confederacy, where he faced obstacles including the death of his mother at age 6 (he was born the same year as Emmitt Till) and Vietnam (his brother, Charlie, volunteered for a second tour of duty so Arthur didn’t have to go himself). “He was a man who had a deep, deep commitment to activism deep, deep commitment to erasing apartheid in South Africa deep commitment to dealing with AIDS when he was diagnosed.” “I learned that Arthur Ashe from who I thought he was in 1960s was more than just a phenomenal tennis player,” Miller said. ![]() Contenders Documentary: Complete Panel Coverage ![]()
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5/20/2023 0 Comments Joyce tyldesley cleopatra![]() ![]() It also provides intriguing insights into life and society in the Egypt of the Ptolemies and the position of Egypt in the world-system of its time. Tyldesley presents the great queen in such a way that she almost leaps from the printed page." "Times Higher Education Supplement" "A very readable account of the life of Cleopatra VII, and one that goes some way to redress the way in which she is often viewed. Tyldesley takes this terrific story on in fine style.a gripping narrative." "Los Angeles Daily News" "Fascinating and irresistible." "Tucson Citizen" "This is a multilayered biography of one of the most interesting historical figures ever. She has extensive international excavation experience and is the author of many bestselling books such as Cleopatra: Egypts Last Queen (a BBC Radio 4 Book of. The Ptolemaic court was an in-bred and volatile place where assassination of family rivals was commonplace, and she brings out well the effect of the entry of Rome into this bewildering madhouse. ![]() "The Mail on Sunday" "One of the many merits of this sympathetic biography is that is able to place Cleopatra securely in Egyptian culture and history." "Sunday Telegraph" "Tyldesley's strength has always been her storytelling, and here she is on top form. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments The headmistress milena mckay![]() ![]() ![]() I was pleasantly surprised by the mysterious side arc that kept me guessing and coincided neatly with the main romantic plot to heighten the tension and suspense throughout, and ultimately result in a twisty and unexpected ending! The writing style was superb – elegant and unblemished. I knew there was also a mystery genre tag on this book, but I didn’t honestly know what to expect going into it. I loved the not-so-icy ice queen and the sweet, geeky math nerd! The romance was well-paced and steamy as hell (queue sizzling sound effects), with plenty of tension and plenty of gratification, but also very solid emotional development, and a satisfying conclusion. ![]() Abby Craden, as always, is the queen of Sapphic narration with perfect voices, inflection, emotion, all of it! I always know when I’m picking an audiobook that it’s a winner if Abby read it (even if the book sucks, I’d pay just to listen to her voice for 8+ hours…Can I get an amen, ladies? Has anyone else listened to her 6 minutes of the phonebook narration?!) The story itself was fantastic! The characters were well-developed and all very likable. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Cranford author elizabeth![]() ![]() Among them are the spinster Jenkyns sisters, Matilda (called 'Matty') and Deborah their houseguest from Manchester, Mary Smith Octavia Pole, the town's leading gossip the Tomkinson sisters, Augusta and Caroline Mrs Forrester, who treats her beloved cow Bessie as she would a daughter Mrs Rose, the housekeeper for Doctor Harrison Jessie Brown, who rejects Major Gordon's marriage proposal twice despite her feelings for him Laurentia Galindo, a milliner who strongly believes men and women are on equal footing the Honourable Mrs Jamieson, a snob who dresses her dog in ensembles to match her own Sophy Hutton, the vicar's eldest daughter and surrogate mother to her three younger siblings, who is courted by Doctor Harrison and the aristocratic Lady Ludlow, who lives in splendour at Hanbury Court and perceives change as a peril to the natural order of things. Set in the early 1840s in the fictional village of Cranford in the county of Cheshire in North West England, the story focuses primarily on the town's single and widowed middle class female inhabitants who are comfortable with their traditional way of life and place great store on propriety and maintaining an appearance of gentility. The teleplay was written by award-winning playwright and screenwriter Heidi Thomas. ![]() Cranford is a 2007 BBC television series based on four books by Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford, Mr Harrison's Confessions, and My Lady Ludlow, with themes from The Last Generation in England. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments The 9 billion names of god![]() As the process nears completion, the technicians learn the reason for the monks' task is that they believe that the universe exists solely for the purpose of finding all of God's names, and that once this is done, there will be no more reason for existence and God will bring the universe to an end.įearing the monks' reaction when the work is completed and nothing happens, the technicians sneak away on the night the list is due to be finished, heading to an airfield where a plane is waiting to take them home. It is about an order of Tibetan monks who purchase a computer for the purpose of transcribing every possible name of God according to a formula of their own devising, a purpose they have been working toward for centuries and that was expected to take a further 15,000 years, but with the help of a computer can be completed in a mere 100 days.Ī pair of technicians are hired to travel to the monks' lamasery and oversee the computer as it works. ![]() "The Nine Billion Names of God" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Too Much by Rachel Vorona Cote![]() Rachel Vorona Cote braids cultural criticism, theory, and storytelling together in her exploration of how culture grinds away our bodies, souls, and sexualities, forcing us into smaller lives than we desire. Written in the tradition of Shrill, Dead Girls, Sex Object and other frank books about the female gaze, TOO MUCH encourages women to reconsider the beauty of their excesses-emotional, physical, and spiritual. A woman who is Too Much is a woman who reacts to the world with ardent intensity is a woman familiar to lashes of shame and disapproval, from within as well as without. On rare occasions, we might revel in our excess-belting out anthems with our friends over karaoke, perhaps-but in the company of less sympathetic souls, our uncertainty always returns. After bellowing like a barn animal in orgasm, hoovering a plate of mashed potatoes, or spraying out spit in the heat of expostulation, we've flinched-ugh, that was so gross. Women who are one or more of these things have heard, or perhaps simply intuited, that we are repugnantly excessive, that we have taken illicit liberties to feel or fuck or eat with abandon. So too is a fat woman, a horny woman, a woman shrieking with laughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, "TOO MUCH spills with intellect, with sparkling prose, and with the brainy arguments of Vorona Cote, who posits that women are all, in some way or another, still susceptible to being called too much." (Esmé Weijun Wang)Ī weeping woman is a monster. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Red Dog by Louis de BerniŠres![]() This book inspired the film, Red Dog, which has gone on to become one of Australia's highest grossing films of the past few decades. Red Dog will delight readers and animal lovers of all ages. The result is an utterly charming tale of an amazing dog with places to go and people to see. ![]() After travelling to Western Australia and meeting countless people who'd known and loved Red Dog, Louis decided to spread Red Dog's fame a little further. While visiting Australia, Louis de Bernieres heard the legend of Red Dog and decided to do some research on this extraordinary story. Red Dog is a West Australian, a lovable friendly red kelpie who found widespread fame as a result of his habit of travelling all over Western Australia, hitching rides over thousands of kilometres, settling in places for months at a time and adopting new families before heading off again to the next destination and another family - sometimes returning to say hello years later. The story of the legend of Red Dog, the most famous red Kelpie in Western Australia. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Can't Shake You by Molly McLain![]() ![]() Josh: Secret? What makes you think I have a secret? (Holy cow, he’s doing that pulsing thing with that strong, stubbly jaw of his. The only people I talk to are in my head. Me: C’mon, big guy, it’s just you and me here. Josh: (blinks those beautiful indigo eyes) I don’t know what you’re talking about. Me: I was hoping you’d tell me a little something about this crazy tension cracklin’ between you and certain drop dead gorgeous guidance counselor. Josh: (leans back in his seat, probably to get away from me, but, hey, the way he’s stretching his big, muscly arm across the back of the chair and sipping his beer? Yum-my.) So what is it you wanted to talk about exactly? All that matters is that we’re both here now, right? (OMG, he even has a pet name for ME!! *vapors*) Josh: (clears his throat and arches an eyebrow at me) Pretty sure you asked me to meet up, Mol. ![]() (I may or may not be almost falling off of my bar stool at McCauley’s Pub, whilst getting close enough to sniff. I’ve, uh, always had a thing for guys with tattoos and big, beefy forearms. ![]() Thanks so much for inviting me out for drinks. Or wait…maybe that should be post-Carissa? Post-pre-Carissa? Crap, I dunno. Readers, fans, and friends…I give you Josh Hudson from CAN’T SHAKE YOU. J Shh, don’t tell my husband-he’d totally be jealous, even though I’m pretty sure the guy I met up with is plenty spoken for. ![]() So, guess what? I, uh, had a little date after work today. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Demon in the wood graphic novel![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They are not only Grisha - they are the deadliest and rarest of their kind. Eryk and his mother, Lena, have spent their lives on the run. Before he led Ravka's Second Army, before he created the Fold, and long before he became the Darkling, he was just a lonely boy burdened by an extraordinary power. ![]() The Darkling's origin story comes alive in this exquisitely illustrated prequel to Shadow and Bone, the hit Netflix original series. ĭemon In The Woods by Charles Edwin Price But sometimes deadly secrets have a way of revealing themselves. Feared by those who wish to destroy them and hunted by those who would exploit their gifts, they must hide their true abilities wherever they go. They are not only Grisha-they are the deadliest and rarest of their kind. Before he led Ravka’s Second Army, before he created the Fold, and long before he became the Darkling, he was just a lonely boy burdened by an extraordinary power. We only index and link to content provided by other sites.ĭiscover the start of a grand and sinister destiny in Demon in the Wood, the must-have graphic novel prequel to the bestselling book series and international Netflix sensation Shadow and Bone from spectacular new talent Dani Pendergast and #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo. Disclaimer: This site does not store any files on its server. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Maurice em![]() This painful episode preceded, by only a few months, the momentous announcement from the American Psychiatric Association that removed homosexuality from its roster of psychiatric disorders-December 15, 1973. (The psychiatrist gave up on me after one visit and no, I did not change my name.) ![]() They loved me, and love eventually prevailed. My parents, who, trust me, were excellent people, died many years ago, having long since repented their bigotry. After a late-night scene of tears, insults, reproaches, and rage worse than anything I had imagined, they implored, then insisted, that I see a psychiatrist to be “cured.” My father, a gentle, mild-mannered man, very proud of me, suggested that I change my name to spare him a family scandal. Rather, they confronted me with the “evidence” of a phone bill. My parents’ learning that I’m gay triggered a family trauma. ![]() |