5/22/2023 0 Comments Clotel by william wells brownBrown was still considered someone else's legal property within the borders of the United States at the time of its publication. It gained notoriety amid the unconfirmed rumors regarding Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings. The separation of these three women is just the beginning of the injustices they face. Clotel is bought by her lover Horatio Green. In the end, Currer and Althesea are auctioned to the notorious slave trader, Dick Walker. Because she was beautiful and the mistress of Jefferson, Currer and her daughters lived a confortable life, this changed when her master passes away. In the novel, Currer is the former mulatto mistress of President Thomas Jefferson who together have two daughters, Althesea and Clotel. It is about the tragic lives of Currer, Althesea, and Clotel. This novel focuses on the difficult lives of mulattoes in America and the "degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the USA" (Brown). It is often considered the first African-American novel. Download cover art Download CD case insert Clotel, or, The President's DaughterĬlotel or, The President's Daughter is a novel by William Wells Brown (1814-84), a fugitive from slavery and abolitionist and was published in London, England in December 1853.
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5/21/2023 0 Comments Some Desperate Glory by Emily TeshKyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity. Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Le Guin and Octavia Butler."- Publishers Weekly (starred review)Īn Indie Next Pick | A LibraryReads Pick | With three starred reviews!Ī Most Anticipated Book of the Year for LitHub, GoodReads, Bookish, New Scientist, FanFiAddict, and Nerd Daily | a Spring Book Pick for Library Journal | Summer Book Pick for Publishers WeeklyĪ Best Of Pick for The Guardian | Publishers Weekly | Amazon "Deserves a space on shelves alongside Ursula K. "This is the sort of debut novel every novelist hopes to write."-John Scalzi Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride."-Tamsyn Muir A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is Astounding Award Winner Emily Tesh's explosive debut novel. The results revealed a requirement for a smaller 50p coin, which was duly introduced on 1 September 1997. In October 1994, the Government announced a further review of the United Kingdom coinage. With the introduction of smaller 5p and 10p coins in 19 respectively, 50p coins became the largest in circulation. This made it easily distinguishable from round coins both by feel and by sight, while its constant breadth allowed it to roll into vending machines. While this design may have been traditional, the shape of the new 50p coin, an equilateral curve heptagon, was revolutionary. The design on the reverse of the 50p coin features a symbol of Britannia that has appeared on our coinage since 1672. In October 1969, 50p coins joined the 5p (shilling) and 10p (florin) coins in circulation, leaving only the three copper coins - to be introduced on 15 February 1971 - to complete the new series of decimal coins. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Finding love in the most unlikely of places, the passion is undeniable, but Clay and Melody know their haunted pasts and unpredictable futures leave the odds stacked against them. With an ex-husband after her and scars from her abusive marriage etched deep, the last thing she expects is to fall for a man who makes a living with his fists, but she can't resist Clay or the tender connection they share. Melody is running from her past and the small, country town of Garnet is the perfect hiding place. Touched by the gesture when it's obvious she can barely afford to survive, her warm smile and lush body churn up powerful feelings that leave Clay wanting more from her than pie. Everything changes when a new waitress at the local diner buys him a piece of pie on Thanksgiving. People in his hometown keep their distance and Clay is fine with that. Clay's large build and dangerous fists have always intimidated. The stranger ends up being Clay Powers, a famous UFC heavyweight fighter. When struggling waitress Melody Dylan gives a handsome, lonely stranger a simple gift she has no clue her life is about to take a drastic turn. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Chronicles of the one nora robertsShe’s Fallon Swift, a 13-year old girl who must leave her family and train with a warrior magician.Īnd 13-year olds lean towards whiny and tiresome behavior. In book two, Roberts needs to set up her teenage savior, who is both the titular The One and the only hope for magickal people and the world. That’s not how the first book felt, and not what I would have preferred. But in the end, the focus on teens as saviors made it feel a lot like a YA series. Roberts carries the same characters throughout the series, in varying degrees. I also thought she did a credible job of discussing the dangers of marginalizing people who are other than ourselves. What I loved about Year One was the characters and the suspense. The following two books of the series were satisfying in some respects, and pretty pedantic in others. When I finally listened to the audiobook last fall, I thought it was a gripping 4-star combination of post-pandemic survivalist epic and magical (or magickal as Roberts spells it) fantasy. I never thought about Nora Roberts as a fantasy author until she published Year One in 2017. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Carr the shallowsThe opposing view is that of instrumentalists, who view technology. One view is that of technological determinism, in which technology is a force that shapes the course of history and is outside people’s control. He discusses the intellectual ethics of a technology, which is often a subconscious byproduct of the inventor’s intent that ends up impacting the user.Ĭarr reflects on the debate about technology’s role in shaping society. Transcendentalism, for Carr, is another way to access the meditative and subjective type of learning that is the hallmark of the literary mind. He views new technology as tools that allow people to gain more power and control over the situations surrounding their lives. Carr uses the Transcendental attitude to go deeper into what is at risk when we privilege efficiency over everything else. He uses the history of cartography and then the development of clocks to show how these technologies changed the way people thought about space and time. In Chapter 3, called “Tools of the Mind,” Carr reflects on how peoples’ intellectual maturation is demonstrated through the way they draw pictures and maps. 5/21/2023 0 Comments A Letter of Mary by Laurie R. KingBut why was she murdered? Was it her involvement in the volatile politics of the Holy Land? Was it her championing of women's rights? Or was it the scroll-a deeply troubling letter that could prove to be a Biblical bombshell? In either case, Russell and Holmes soon find that solving her murder may be murder itself. Clearly there was more to Miss Ruskin than met the eye. But when Miss Ruskin is killed in a traffic accident, Russell and Holmes find themselves on the trail of a fiendishly clever murderer. Miss Ruskin wants Russell to safeguard the letter. When on her return to England the archeologist is murdered, sleuth Mary Russell decides to find out why. Working in the Holy Land, she has unearthed a tattered roll of papyrus with a message from Mary Magdalene. An archeologist on a dig in 1920s Palestine discovers a letter purporting to come from a woman who was an apostle of Christ. When Dorothy Ruskin, an archeologist, visits the Russell Holmes estate, she leaves. The third book in the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series.It is 1923. Interrupting the idyllic scene, amateur archaeologist Miss Dorothy Ruskin visits with a startling puzzle. Description for Letter of Mary Paperback. Late in the summer of 1923, Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the illustrious Sherlock Holmes, are ensconced in their home on the Sussex Downs, giving themselves over to their studies: Russell to her theology, and Holmes to his malodorous chemical experiments. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Martel yannIt sounds like a colorful setup, but these wild beasts don't burst into song as if co-starring in an anthropomorphized Disney feature. After a harrowing shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker ("His head was the size and color of the lifebuoy, with teeth"). The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting "religions the way a dog attracts fleas." Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. Yann Martel's imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading experience, an endless blue expanse of storytelling about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. 5/21/2023 0 Comments The sword of kaigen reviewI read all three in eleven days, bam bam bam couldn't put them down. Do I hate or even dislike these books? Lol, nah. Alas, this is an axiom of the whole business of reviews. And because this thing impacted the whole of my experience, it ends up tainting my opinion of the whole story. There is one thing, one consistent-and, I imagine, very subjective-misstep made throughout (most of) the trilogy, in my opinion. I love so much about these books, and I won't forget to praise all of it, but I'm sure I'll end up pressing a few buttons best left untouched. Well, judging from the near exclusive adoration this series seems to attract, prepare to be disappointed. You love something to pieces and the reviewer points out flaws you hate something but the reviewer can't see how fucking awful it is. What results is the certainty of disappointing people. There's a lot you want to say and a hazy balance to strike between a readable review and a complete one. Trying to capture the essence and quality of a significant work in so few words is. Reviewing art is a difficult practice, often restrictive and incomprehensive. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Life of a cactusUse textual evidence to make a connection with a part of Aven’s story in Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus with something you watched in the video about Sophi.What do you notice about Sophi in the video?. For this primary source pairing, invite students to watch a YouTube video about Sophi – another girl who was born without arms and make connections to their struggles and celebrations. She is all of these things and not having arms has nothing to do with it. even without arms.Īven is a good writer, a soccer player, a kind friend, and a creative problem solver. But Aven’s about to discover she can do it all. It’s hard to solve a mystery, help a friend, and face your worst fears. INSIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF A CACTUS New York : Sterling, 2017. Her new life takes an unexpected turn when she bonds with Connor, a classmate who also feels isolated because of his own disability, and they discover a room at Stagecoach Pass that holds bigger secrets than Aven ever could have imagined. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing that she’ll have to answer the question over and over again. Life of a Cactus Series 2 primary works 2 total works Book 1 Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling 4. Insignificant Events in the Life of a CactusĪven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. |