Dangerous by minerva spencer5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() However, in need of an heir, Adam will use the arrangement to his advantage. Clearly Mia must resemble an aging matron, or worse. Nobody except Mia's father, the desperate Duke of Carlisle. Now there isn't a peer in England willing to let his daughter marry the dangerously handsome man the ton calls The Murderous Marquess. Adam de Courtney's first two wives died under mysterious circumstances. ![]() No doubt her potential groom is a demented octogenarian. Worst of all is her ashamed father's ultimatum: marry a man of his choosing or live out her life in seclusion. Now the sultan is dead and Mia is back in London facing relentless newspapermen, an insatiably curious public, and her first Season. "A delight from start to finish with swashbuckling action, scorching love scenes, and a coolly arrogant hero to die for."-Elizabeth Hoyt, New York Times bestselling author Lady Euphemia Marlington hasn't been free in seventeen years-since she was captured by Corsairs and sold into a harem. ![]()
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Vinland Saga, Tome 1 by Makoto Yukimura5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Much different from other manga I have read. This was a very well done epic historical manga. Thorfinn is sustained by dreams of somehow escaping his current situation and finding Vinland. He constantly seeks to defeat Askeladd in a duel, but has yet to succeed. Thorfinn is an excellent fighter, but he is still a boy. Now Thorfinn is being raised by the very Viking mercenaries who killed his parents, they are lead by Askeladd. Thorfinn dreamed of going to Vinland, but his dreams were shattered by a raid of Viking mercenaries. Thorfinn was raised on the stories of the great Leif Ericson, who told tales of a land where slavery doesn’t exist.Vinland. It ended up being a very well done historical manga about Vikings. I finally got a copy of the book for mother’s day and was excited to read it. ![]() I have been wanting to read Vinland Saga forever. ![]() American eclipse baron5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Had the tasimeter worked, the scattering of sunlight that we see as the inner corona would have misleadingly given Edison the Sun's surface temperature, 6,000 ☌. by David Baron (Author) Winner of the 2018 AIP Science Communication Award in Science Writing (Books) Richly illustrated and meticulously researched, American Eclipse ultimately depicts a young nation that looked to the skies to reveal its towering ambition and expose its latent genius. ![]() It wasn't until around 1940 that physicists Walter Grotrian, Bengt Edlén and Hannes Alfvén found the solar corona to have a temperature of at least 1 million ☌. He was unprepared for the strength of the signal, however, and his instrument's needle pinned at its maximum reading. Edison brought one of his devices, a tasimeter, to measure minute shifts in heat from the Sun's corona during the eclipse. David Baron talked about his book American Eclipse: A Nation’s Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World, in which he reports on the solar eclipse of 1878 and. But, as Baron relates, 31-year-old whizz-kid inventor Thomas Edison gained the lion's share of publicity, even though he was just tagging along. ![]() Nelson Nature 539, 491–492 2016), travelled to Rawlins, Wyoming, to witness it. (I read this book in draft and provided a blurb.) A group of eminent scientists, including astronomer Henry Draper and his wife, Anna (see S. ![]() In American Eclipse, journalist David Baron harks back to the total eclipse visible in the United States in July 1878. ![]() Handbook for mortals author5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() My Immortal memoir canceled: Author says she’s been ‘branded a liar’Ĭandy pairing: Kait says Raven’s Revenge, Kelly says Fun Dip, Renata says a stolen maraschino cherry.Ĭoming up next: Lizzie Borden by Elizabeth Engstrom. ![]() The Story Of “My Immortal” Is More Wild And Heartbreaking Than You Imagined The Making (and Unmaking) of a 23-Hour New York Times Best SellerĪuthor Removed From New York Times Best-Seller List Fires Back at Critics The Story of Lani Sarem & Her Handbook for Mortals Is Peak White Entitlement Sorry you missed our raffle.)įootnotes: Did This Book Buy Its Way Onto The New York Times Bestseller List? ![]() Special note: If you’re reading this the day it comes out, 10/9/17, it’s the last day to enter our raffle to benefit hurricane relief for Puerto Rico! (If you’re reading this in the future: greetings. Join us for a story about a girl who’s pretty, but not, like, too pretty? But pretty enough that her magick (with a k) brings all the boys to the yard, including Wayne Newton and Carrot Top. We’re so glad that CSI: YA solved this case and brought the book off the bestseller list, because, wow, it is not good. Kelly Jensen (Book Riot editor, co-host of Book Riot’s Hey YA podcast, & editor of Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World) joined us for the 23-hour bestseller, Handbook for Mortals by Lani Sarem. ![]() ![]() ![]() In They Came Before Columbus, we see clearly the unmistakable face and handprint of black Africans in pre-Columbian America, and their overwhelming impact on the civilizations they encountered. ![]() ![]() Combining impressive scholarship with a novelist’s gift for storytelling, Van Sertima re-creates some of the most powerful scenes of human history: the launching of the great ships of Mali in 1310 (two hundred master boats and two hundred supply boats), the sea expedition of the Mandingo king in 1311, and many others. Examining navigation and shipbuilding cultural analogies between Native Americans and Africans the transportation of plants, animals, and textiles between the continents and the diaries, journals, and oral accounts of the explorers themselves, Ivan Van Sertima builds a pyramid of evidence to support his claim of an African presence in the New World centuries before Columbus. They Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in ancient America. An edition of They came before Columbus (1976) They came before Columbus the African presence in ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima 5. ![]() ![]() The subject and themes of Benjamin's essay: the aura of a work of art the artistic authenticity of the artefact its cultural authority and the aestheticization of politics for the production of art, became resources for research in the fields of art history and architectural theory, cultural studies, and media theory. ![]() ![]() Written during the Nazi régime (1933–1945) in Germany, Benjamin presents a theory of art that is "useful for the formulation of revolutionary demands in the politics of art" in a mass culture society. " The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935), by Walter Benjamin, is an essay of cultural criticism which proposes and explains that mechanical reproduction devalues the aura (uniqueness) of a work of art, and that in the age of mechanical reproduction and the absence of traditional and ritualistic value, the production of art would be inherently based upon the praxis of politics. In "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935), Walter Benjamin addresses the artistic and cultural, social, economic, and political functions of art in a capitalist society. ![]() Eyes that kiss corners5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Take a brain break with the Book Boys as they perform an original music video to celebrate what makes us all special! Play it for your class as a brain break between lessons or after recess or lunch.Here are some teacher-created resources to help you share Eyes That Kiss in the Corners with your students: With beautiful illustrations and lyrical text, Eyes That Kiss in the Corners carries a powerful message of self-affirmation and encourages readers to embrace their families, their cultures, and most importantly, themselves. ![]() She was chosen as one of several students to attend a weekend leadership program that included deep discussions on racism and systems of oppression, and today, all of her work in education and as an author is carried under an umbrella of inclusion and equity. Joanna is also a vice principal of a high school in the San Francisco Bay Area and says that her interest in education actually started when she was in high school. ![]() The amateurs halberstam5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Informative and compelling, The Amateurs combines the vividness of superb sportswriting with the narrative skills of a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent. Four New York Times bestsellers by a remarkable Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist capture and celebrate America’s passion for sports (The Seattle Times). And even if they succeed, they will have to live with the bitter knowledge that they were not the best, only close to it. ![]() The man who wins will gain the right to represent the United States in the 84 Olympiad the losers will then have to struggle further to gain a place in the two- or four-man boats. What drives these men to endure a physical pain known to no other sport? Who are they? Where do they come from? How do they regard themselves and their competitors? What have they sacrificed, and what inner demons have they appeased? In answering these questions, David Halberstam takes as his focus the 1984 single sculls trials in Princeton. While other athletes are earning fortunes in salaries and-or endorsements, the oarsmen gain fame only with each other and strive without any hope of financial reward. ![]() This time he has taken for his subject the dramatic and special world of amateur rowing. In The Amateurs, David Halberstam once again displays the unique brand of reportage, both penetrating and supple, that distinguished his bestselling The Best and the Brightest and October 1964. ![]() Donald spoto marilyn5/9/2023 ![]() The BBC/HBO television film The Girl (2012), about Tippi Hedren's experience during the filming of The Birds (1963), was based in part on Spoto's work on Hitchcock. ![]() Spoto has written 29 books, including biographies of Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Olivier, Tennessee Williams, Ingrid Bergman, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Alan Bates. He was known for his best-selling biographies of people in the worlds of film and theater, and for his books on theology and spirituality. Iona College (BA, 1963) Fordham University (MA, 1966 PhD, 1970) ĭonald Spoto (J– February 11, 2023) was an American biographer and theologian. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jenny apologizes, her parents give her a lecture on jumping to conclusions-she had also thought her mother was having a baby because of a baby-naming book she saw in the garbage-and there the story thankfully ends. Munch tells how Jenny spoiled his surprise birthday present for Mrs. ![]() Katz strangling Kiss-Kiss, but a large tear in the seat of Mrs. Katz accuses her of libel and demands the incriminating picture-which actually shows, not Mrs. The neighbors storm Jenny's house in a rage: Mrs. Munch is a car thief, Jenny writes anonymous letters of warning. Imagining that Kiss-Kiss is in danger and Mr. Katz, strangling her dog, Kiss-Kiss, and almost takes one of a plastic-covered car in neighbor Mr. She takes a picture of what she believes is a neighbor, Mrs. Her first roll is a disaster, but she reads the instruction booklet and tries again, looking for the perfect ``candied'' shot for the contest. When she sees an ad for a photography contest in Kid Talk magazine, however, she decides to give the camera a try. Jenny Archer (Can Do, Jenny Archer, 1991, etc.) is disappointed when her grandfather's ballyhooed surprise for her turns out to be nothing but a used camera. ![]() |