7/8/2023 0 Comments Claudio sauntSaunt does an excellent job of capturing the significance of the war and not getting caught up in the gory details. The war was vicious and the slaughter was great on both sides. This is popularly remembered in American history as Andrew Jackson's war against the Creeks. The final part of the book looks at the response to the New Order through the redstick war and the British support during the war of 1812. European viewpoints became infused with Indian ones creating a "new order" that changed the Indians lives. Saunt looks at religion, trade, the role of women, and the most importantly how private property changed the conception of what the Creek believed. The author provides an excellent start to the research available on this subject by looking at the aspects that affect Creek culture following not only the coming of Europeans but the United States as well. This book provides a unique look at how the Muscogee Nation (called Creek by the Europeans) developed into a culture after the arrival of Europeans.
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7/8/2023 0 Comments City of Shadows by Peter DoyleEven if you are safe on the ground, you might want to buckle up nice and tight." Book a flight. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Dan Simmons, and many others, Flight or Fright is, as King says, "ideal airplane reading, especially on stormy descents. but now you will the next time you walk down the jetway and place your fate in the hands of a total stranger. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some we'll bet you've never thought of before. In a metal tube (like""gulp ""a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you. 7/8/2023 0 Comments Stormfire monsonThere is plenty here to sink your teeth in. He and many real life historical figures such as Metternich, the Archduke Ferdinand, Czar Nicolas, and even Queen Victoria and her consort Albert make fun cameos throughout the book. The scene above depicts Hungarian icon Sándor Petőfi reciting a nationalist poem to the Hungarian rebels in 1848. Let my desire be as ashes, my heart as a stone lost in a dark river.Ĭhristine Monson's Surrender the Night is a bodice-ripper where the author seriously researched the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 against the Austrian Empire, created an amazing, kick-ass heroine (and not a bad hero), and as bonus, inserted really poetic, lovely passages among all the purpletastic love scenes. Let there be sleep after death.Let me not be lonely for her. This is absolutely insane to do this,’” Mother Delores Hart remembered in a recent interview, conducted 50 years after she entered the Order of St. “Even my best friend, who was a priest, Father Doody, said, ‘You’re crazy. Let’s set this question up, via some material from a new Religion News Service piece (it’s much better than the norm) about Hart:Īs if to test her resolve in those weeks before she left Hollywood, Universal Studios offered her a role opposite Marlon Brando, a role she turned down shortly after she broke off her engagement to Don Robinson, a kind and handsome businessman who loved her intensely. The answer? I’m not really clear on that, but based on reading a number of mainstream press reports on this subject I can say that her decision - if the mainstream media is to be believed - had very little to do with her love for Jesus or his church. The question, stated simply, is this: Why did she do it? 7/8/2023 0 Comments Home to Woefield by Susan JubyJuby is hilarious, a salubrious mixture of warm heart and satire. “My favorite girl-in-high-school read for this summer is British Columbian Susan Juby’s third Alice book, Alice MacLeod: Realist at Last. PRAISE FOR ALICE MACLEOD: REALIST AT LAST Battling the big questions of sex, self-doubt, and how to deal with reality when fantasy is so much more fun, Alice is a girl for our times. The jobs do, however, introduce her to an interesting range of older - and younger - potential new romantic interests. With the family finances squeezed even tighter than normal, Alice is forced to score not one but three part-time jobs, none particularly well suited to her eclectic, but limited, range of talents. Fortunately, these misfortunes are giving Alice plenty of material for the screenplay she’s writing (populated by Very Attractive People), which is going to make her rich, famous and fabulous. Except for the fact that it’s been one romantic setback after another and her family life has finally fallen apart, everything’s going just great for Alice this summer. Alice MacLeod: “Realist at Last” Īlice MacLeod has officially graduated from the ranks of the weirdly marginal into the realm of the practically normal. 7/7/2023 0 Comments Green Arrow by Mike GrellHe says he got that job because he was walking in the editor’s door to ask for work, literally, as the previous artist, Dave Cockrum, was walking out the door, having just quit. His first assignment at DC was on Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, a high-profile assignment for an artist with no prior experience illustrating a monthly comic book. Air Force. In 1973, Grell moved to New York, and began his long relationship with DC Comics. Hoping to avoid service in Vietnam during the war, he served in Asia in the U.S. He studied at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, the Chicago Academy of Fine Art, and took the Famous Artists School correspondence course in cartooning. Mike Grell was born Septemand is an American comic book writer and artist, known for his work on books such as Green Lantern/Green Arrow, The Warlord, and Jon Sable Freelance. 7/7/2023 0 Comments Queen afua sacred womanYou’ll also receive discounts on detox kits, formulas and other products from the Queen Afua Wellness Store. You’ll be assigned a mentor who will be there throughout your journey to provide accountability, tutelage and ongoing support. You will have access to community of Sacred Women from around the world, who you’ll be able to connect with, share resources and support each other in a private Facebook. You will receive a program manual, informational handouts and weekly worksheets. The replays from Sundays & Thursdays classes will be available on demand. There will also be 12 Thursday workshops with master teachers via teleconference call. (There will be gaps due national holidays)ĭuring this time there will be 12 Sunday workshops taught by Queen Afua via Video Conferencing. The program will be taught from September 29th - Jan 9th. Prior to the commencement of the official class on September 29, 2019, we're going to host a welcome and open house on September 22nd via livestream. 7/7/2023 0 Comments Coop knows the scoop bookAnd while some of the clues are subtle and well placed, others are so obvious that it’s not clear how Coop manages to miss them. As one of the premier rare book sites on the Internet, Alibris has thousands of rare books, first editions, and signed books available. Much of the earlier chapters are devoted to introducing Windy Bottom’s abundant quirky residents and offering plentiful details of the town’s quaintness, which may lose some readers’ attention. Coop Knows the Scoop Barrel of Books and Games When mysterious remains are found beneath the local playground and foul play is suspected, Coop jumps to solve the case The morning human bones turned up buried beneath the slide in the old playground, Coop was busy helping his mom at her caf and bookstore, A Latt Books. The mystery itself is intriguing, but it doesn’t take off until almost halfway through the book. Coop winds up suspended from school and grounded by his widowed mom, but, as the title suggests, he indeed “knows the scoop” by the end of the story. Convinced of Gramps’ innocence, Coop and his twin pals, Liberty and Justice, set out to solve the mystery and clear his name. Coop’s excitement is soon replaced by worry when his beloved Gramps is implicated in a long-unsolved crime. Gr 4-6–Summer is winding down in Windy Bottom, GA, and Cooper “Coop” Goodman and his friends can barely contain their curiosity when construction at the town playground uncovers a human skeleton buried under the rusty slide. The whole town is talking about whats buried beneath the playground.Windy Bottom, Georgia is usually a peaceful place. When we asked campus faculty and staff for recommendations for this year’s topic, “Bio-graphy/Writing a Life,” we had no idea that our campus community would recommend books that are all more than simple retelling of people’s lives. These biographies and autobiographies are about the human spirit. To paraphrase the opening of Hermann Hesse’s great novel Demian, we are all more than just ourselves we each also represent the unique, the very special, and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. There is surely a title on this list that you’ll enjoy reading and that will truly inspire you. You may find them in bookstores, and all are available in the Berkeley campus libraries. The list itself is also available, along with past lists, at. We hope you’ll choose one of these books to read this summer, as a reminder that Berkeley is a vital intellectual community that generates and debates fascinating and important ideas.Īssociate University Librarian for Educational InitiativesĪ shocking memoir by Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas who recounts his journey from a poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba to his death in New York City. He was apprenticed to a waterman named Mr. A flashback shows the early life of Thornhill in London. The European convicts are not permitted to leave, the Aboriginals are spiritually part of the land and do not desire to leave. Two very different groups are occupying the same land. When the man approaches Thornhill, seemingly out of nowhere, Thornhill tells him to, “Be off!” The native simply repeats his words back to him symbolically setting in motion the central conflict of the novel. His first night in a convict settlement in Sydney includes his first encounter with an Aboriginal. Instead of being executed, however, he and his family are sent to New South Wales in Australia. In 1806, he is convicted of stealing wood and sentenced to death. William Thornhill was born into poverty, leading to a life of crime in the slums of London. In Searching for the Secret River, she tells of doing the research for the first book and of how that book was initially conceived as a biographical work about a familial ancestor Solomon Wiseman. In 2006, Grenville published a work of nonfiction as a follow-up to The Secret River. The story examines the colonization of the land of the Aborigines by the Europeans. In Kate Grenville’s 2005 novel The Secret River, William Thornhill is a nineteenth-century Englishman who, facing a death sentence for theft, is sent to Australia instead. |