![]() ![]() While leaving the era’s more-conservative, racist majority visible but at a remove from her white protagonists, the author introduces them to an interracial couple with a baby and a same-sex couple of Vietnam vets. The glittering supporting cast includes famed session musician Hal Blaine, Duane Allman, Elvis, and Wavy Gravy. ![]() Wiles opens and closes this musically and culturally immersive road trip with extensive montages of period news photos, quotes, headlines, and lyrics, scatters smaller documentary sheaves throughout, and enriches the song titles at each chapter head with production notes. Quickly turning into anything but a straight run, the journey plunges the naïve but resilient travelers into a succession of youth-culture hot spots from Atlanta’s funky Strip to a commune in New Mexico, with stops at renowned recording studios and live-music venues. Hints that her estranged but beloved big brother, Barry, has fetched up in San Francisco prompt 14-year-old Molly to enlist their fledgling-drummer cousin, Norman, 17, as driver and (with the collusion of their newly liberated moms) head west from Charleston in an old school bus. Two teenagers take a road trip-searching for a fugitive family member and finding…America. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There is a strong message here – world, take notice and act NOW, before it’s too late!” – Abigail Hart Praise for Ringlands:”Gripped, from start to finish. Swartz (Novem– January 11, 2013) – Champion of citizen-driven political change. RINGLANDS is dedicated to the memory and work of Aaron H. RINGLANDS is approximately 12,000 words in length, and is the first of the Kaplan short stories. Can he survive the seemingly relentless pursuit of the man he knows as ‘Glasses’, a tireless hunter with a murder mission and advanced technology at his disposal? This offer runs for TODAY ONLY, so you need to be quick, but it’s really easy to get your copy, just click here, and download it from the Amazon website.Īfter the suspicious deaths of his online friends, George Kaplan, an Internet activist, suspects his own life is also in danger and has no choice but to go on the run. If you haven’t read it yet, here is a great opportunity to read my short story, Ringlands, for free, zero pence, absolutely no cost, for the Kindle edition.ĭon’t have a Kindle? You may also be able to download it for your smartphone, computer (Windows/Mac) or tablet, with Amazon’s free reading app. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sagan in the series' episode, "Blues for a Red Planet" A book was also published to accompany the series.Ĭosmos: A Personal Voyage has been considered highly significant since its broadcast David Itzkoff of The New York Times described it as "a watershed moment for science-themed television programming". It won two Emmys and a Peabody Award, and has since been broadcast in more than 60 countries and seen by over 500 million people. As of 2009, it was still the most widely watched PBS series in the world. The series was first broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service in 1980, and was the most widely watched series in the history of American public television until The Civil War (1990). The subtitle began to be used more frequently in the 2010s to differentiate it from the sequel series that followed. Owing to its bestselling companion book and soundtrack album using the title, Cosmos, the series is widely known by this title, with the subtitle omitted from home video packaging. It covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles, and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers, David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others. Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part, 1980 television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter. ![]() ![]() In many ways the anecdotes on culture and customs are the substance of the book, but the final battles against the Persian under Xerxes still feature in our culture today - Thermopylae, immortalised by the stand of the Spartan 300. You can start and continue discussion in the forum, here, and we will meet via Google Hangout on Tuesday, March 22, at 11 a.m. The Histories is somehow a cross between a travel guide and a true history of the Persian invasions of Greece. ![]() This version at MIT is translated by George Rawlinson:Īnd on Project Gutenberg is the translation by G.C. The same translation is also available to download in PDF format here and is available in audio on Librivox. There are a number of free online translations available: Our next Book Club will feature selections from Herodotus Histories: Book 1 up to chapter 92, and the whole of Book 2. This is the display of the inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, so that things done by man not be forgotten in time, and that great and marvelous deeds, some displayed by the Hellenes, some by the barbarians, not lose their glory, including among others what was the cause of their waging war on each other. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL5110680W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.44 Pages 362 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0712611312 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:20:30 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA102701 Boxid_2 CH130923 Camera Canon 5D City New York Comment Set Scanfee to 100 on all Pre-June IA Sponsored Books as per Robert External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some reflections on phenomenology, structure, agency and actancy in medieval pottery studies – C. Mam Tor, Derbyshire: new plans outlining hill and fort, internal platforms and all – Graeme Guilbert Ī rich Late Iron Age burial from Canterbury – Timothy Champion ![]() Since John left Devon: some unanticipated outcomes of aerial reconnaissance in the county – F.M. a late review – Chris Gosden Įxploring the origins and character of transhumance in England – Andrew Fleming The latest in a series of online seminars organised by the Department of Welsh and Celtic Studies at Aberystwyth University. The Gauls against the State – Sophie Krausz The Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland: a consideration of the coastal and inland promontory forts and enclosures of Scotland – Stratford Halliday and Ian Ralston Ī long, largely aceramic, period of Devon’s prehistory – Henrietta Quinnell ĭeconstructing archaeological databases – Martin Kuna John Collis is the leading expert on the Celts and in this book argues that they are an invention mainly from the late 16/17th centuries. ![]() ![]() ![]() In them, she discovers a fifty-year family history littered with secrets from the past-secrets that have present day consequences for herself, her marriage, and for Travis, the boy who broke her heart during that long-ago summer. As she relives the languid summer days of her youth and prepares the house for sale, she struggles to come to terms not only with the looming threat of divorce, but also with the Pandora's Box of family revelations she uncovers in Nonna's hidden notebooks. Now, years later, BJ seeks refuge in her late grandmothers' house in the wake of her husband's affair. During BJ's summer vacations at their home on Blue Lake, Nonna and Lena taught her to swim and play cards, provided a lively contrast to BJ's conservative parents, and comforted BJ when her first summer romance ended abruptly and without reason. Even as a child, Barbara Jean Ellington knew her grandmothers were lesbians, a truth they never concealed. ![]() She thought that her family was an open book, without secrets. ![]() ![]() As Germany descends into chaos, Helga's and Hermann's lives intertwine, then finally collide. ![]() It is the story of an unlikely friendship and of a childhood betrayed, a grim parable of naivete and evil, and a vivid, unsettling masterpiece of comics storytelling. There he meets Helga, the eldest daughter: bright, good-natured, and just beginning to suspect the horror that surrounds her.īased on the acclaimed novel by Marcel Beyer, Voices in the Dark is the first graphic novel by the award-winning cartoonist Ulli Lust. Employed by the Nazis, his assignments take him to party rallies, to the eastern front, and into the household of Joseph Goebbels. Hermann Karnau is a sound engineer obsessed with recording the human voice in all its variations - the rantings of leaders, the roar of crowds, the rasp of throats constricted in fear - and indifferent to everything else. Germany, in the final years of the Third Reich. ![]() ![]() In 1909 he formed the first legal reserve insurance company for blacks, and in 1921 he was one of the principal founders of the National Negro Insurance Association. Attaway, a physician, and Florence Parry Attaway, a schoolteacher. ![]() William Alexander Attaway was born in Greenville, Mississippi, on 19 November 1911, the son of William A. During the resurgence of interest in Afro-American culture, Attaway was rediscovered as a novelist of power and penetration. He virtually was forgotten by reading audiences until the 1960s. Attaway wrote no more novels, however, and for several decades made his living by writing scripts for television, radio, and film. Indeed, the most striking feature of the original reviews is the prediction of a great future for Attaway as a writer. Upon publication both works were reviewed in major critical journals, and both received high praise. ![]() ![]() The notion, repeated in some later criticism, that Attaway's novels were neglected by the critics is untrue. Bone "by far the most perceptive novel of the Great Migration," the period spanning the 1920s and 1930s, when Afro-Americans in large numbers moved from the agrarian South to the industrial North. The 1939 publication of his first novel, Let Me Breathe Thunder, William Attaway was hailed by Stanley Young in the New York Times Book Review as a writer of great promise, "an authentic young artist not to be watched tomorrow but now." His second novel, Blood on the Forge (1941), not only confirmed his promise but has been called by critic Robert A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hades, God of the Dead, is burdened by a hellish past that everyone’s eager to expose in an effort to warn Persephone away. Persephone’s relationship with Hades has gone public and the resulting media storm disrupts her normal life and threatens to expose her as the Goddess of Spring. I won’t share too many spoilers for the book, but I did want to share some thoughts. Not to mention Persephone and Hade’s relationship is now public after they made out in public before vanishing. The fallout over Persephone not doing what her mother wanted. So, that’s where I figured A Touch of Ruin was headed. And Persephone did stand up to her mother. Granted, there were plenty of things to suggest marriage would happen. The only real thing that didn’t get reflected in the book from the mythology was Demeter declaring wore and Hades/Persephone becoming married. For the most part, everything had been wrapped up. Clair, I was curious where the rest of the series was going to go. These help support the blog, so I can keep creating content.Īfter finishing A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. ![]() This post may contain affiliate or referral codes, for which I receive a small compensation and you get a discount in exchange. ![]() |