![]() ![]() ![]() Barbara Tuchman introduces a nobleman, Enguerrand de Coucy (1340-1397), a “whole man in a fractured time,” who takes the reader through the century and gives a personalized context through which to understand the events and attitudes of the day. People in the fourteenth century were subjected to natural and man-made disasters, including the Hundred Years’ War, the Crusades, insurrection, lawlessness, the Schism of the Church, massacres of Jewish people, and the Black Death, which claimed the lives of nearly half the population living between India and Iceland. In A Distant Mirror, historian Barbara Tuchman reveals in harrowing detail a “tortured century” with parallels to our own. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century ![]()
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![]() ![]() Every step is possible, and everyone is transmuted into romance by deliberate purpose. ![]() Review Quotes The story is the best kind of adventure story. Winter Holiday (originally published in 1933) is the fourth title in the Swallows and Amazons series, books for children or grownups, anyone captivated by a world of adventure, exploration, and imagination. More than just great stories, each one celebrates independence and initiative with a colorful, large cast of characters. Friendship and resourcefulness, dangers and rescues: Arthur Ransomes Swallows and Amazons series has stood the test of time. And, Nancy, the Amazon leader, is stuck at home with mumps. ![]() ![]() But a misunderstanding could lead to disaster as Dick and Dorothea head off across the frozen lake to a spot they have named the North Pole. The Ds (Dick and Dorothea) meet the Swallows and Amazons during the winter beside the lake and they all be great friends: joining together in ice skating, learning semaphore signals, refashioning an igloo, and building an ice sled. Its Swallows and Amazons to the rescue (they hope) in this wintertime adventure. Book Synopsis Lost in a blizzard on a frozen lake, a brother and sister, Dick and Dorothea Callum, are in great danger. About the Book First published: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1933. ![]() ![]() ![]() ✦ these two had such an unhealthy attachment to each other and i was gagging for it. ✦ omg why was this soooo cute!!! i did not expect all that tenderness and sweetness at all. ✦ Damiano is just a giant cat in human form, who just wants to lay on top of you, and have his hair stroked. Book 13 in the Straight Guys series, but it can be read as a stand-alone. This book contains explicit MM content, hurt/comfort, codependency, an emotionally stunted control freak who doesn’t know how to express his affections in a healthy way-and a man who loves him anyway. Can he trust a heartless, manipulative sociopath? Can he stop craving him after he returns to his normal life? When the family visit turns into a nightmare of betrayal, kidnapping, and murder, Jordan has to rely on Damiano to keep his sanity. But he can’t seem to stay away, fascinated with the man despite his better judgment. That someone is probably Damiano Conte, a cold, ruthless bastard who has no right to be so hot.Įveryone says Damiano is a sociopath with no capacity for real emotion. Someone in his boss’s mafioso family wants to murder them.ģ. ![]() He’s there as bait: Jordan has to pose as his boss’s real boyfriend, who looks a lot like Jordan.Ģ. ![]() He’ll get paid handsomely for his trouble. ![]() When his boss asks him to accompany him to Italy for a family wedding, Jordan agrees. Jordan Gates isn’t easily flustered-or easily scared. ![]() ![]() ![]() Baldwin slips past the conflict between fighting the garbage heap and settling into a long-gone private chianti-chisel-and-garret idyll, as do Fonny and Tish and the baby. ![]() Along with the reflex sprinkles of hate-whitey, there are powerful showdowns between the two black families, and a Frieze of people who - unlike Fonny's father - gave up and "congregated on the garbage heaps of their lives." The style wobbles as Tish mixes street talk with lyricism and polemic and a bogus kind of Young Adult hesitancy. It is sometimes saccharine, but it possesses a genuinely sweet and free spirit too. The book is anomalous for the 1970's with its Raisin in the Sun wholesomeness. He got framed on a rape charge and she got pregnant before they could marry and move into their loft but Tish and her family Finance a trip to Puerto Rico to track down the rape victim and rescue Fonny, a sculptor with slanted eyes and treasured independence. ![]() ![]() This new Baldwin novel is told by a 19-year-old black girl named Tish in a New York City ghetto about how she fell in love with a young black man, Fonny. ![]() ![]() The eight essays in Political Fictions–on censorship in the media, Gingrich, Clinton, Starr, and “compassionate conservatism,” among others–show us how we got to the political scene of today. ![]() In After Henry Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. ![]() Miami exposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. Salvador is a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war. The White Album covers the revolutionary politics and the “contemporary wasteland” of the late sixties and early seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black Panthers, and Hollywood. ![]() Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 19 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Includes seven books in one volume: the full texts of Slouching Towards Bethlehem The White Album Salvador Miami After Henry Political Fictions and Where I Was From. ![]() Read the works discussed in the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. ![]() ![]() ![]() Aside from that, I always have a stack of reference books on my right, which changes from time to time depending on the genre I’m working on.ĭo you have any rituals in your work habits? My mother is a potter and made me a sculpture of a rabbit surrounded by books, with some of my titles and old favourites scratched into the covers. List three of your most favourite things in your workspace and why they are meaningful. ![]() It makes for some late nights during the week, but I do enjoy getting up earlier on weekends to get some writing time in before the rest of my house wakes up. ![]() I work full-time and have two young children, so my writing time does not occur until the evening once they’ve gone to bed. I used to have the desk near a window, but I’m easily distracted. It’s similar to a cubicle, which keeps me focused. In my bedroom I have a desk, set between two dressers with a whiteboard above it. 21st – Here Skies Surround Us.Ĭonnect with Melanie at for free books and swag. Melanie has a new book coming out on Nov. She has four novels traditionally published and believes that a writer’s strength comes from their writing community. ![]() She likes to write dark stories from the past, present and future for teens and tweens. Whether it’s uncovering the corruption of the future or traveling to other worlds to save the universe, Melanie jumps in with both hands on her keyboard. Melanie McFarlane is a part-time author and full-time claims adjuster, living in Moose Jaw with her husband and two daughters. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Land Reforms (I): Colonial Impact and the Legacy of the National and Peasant Movements.The Indian Economy in the New Millennium.Indian Economy, 1947–1965: The Nehruvian Legacy.Politics in the States (II): West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir.Politics in the States (I): Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Assam. ![]()
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