![]() He must convince Ophelia that their blazing sensuality, his exquisite castle, and his eight charming children add up to a match made in heaven. ![]() Now he faces the greatest challenge of his life. Ophelia, Lady Astley, has a fine house, one well-behaved daughterand no husband. Yet when he meets Ophelia again, the duke realises that he will marry her, or no one. My Last Duchess by Eloisa James My Last Duchess A Novella in the Wildes of Lindow Castle series Every Duke needs a Duchess Hugo Wilde, the Duke of Lindow, has a drafty castle, eight naughty childrenand no wife. She takes one look at him and heads for her carriage.ĭesperate to find a duchess, Hugo identifies an appropriate lady to woo. Hugo Wilde, the Duke of Lindow, has a drafty castle, eight naughty childrenand no wife. Hugo takes one look at Ophelia and loses his heart, but she doesn't want more children or a castle. New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James returns to the Wildes series with a prequel about the Wilde childrens parents, Hugo, Duke of Lindow, and Ophelia, Lady Astley. Ophelia, Lady Astley, has a fine house, one well-behaved daughter - and no husband. Hugo Wilde, the Duke of Lindow, has a drafty castle, eight naughty children - and no wife. New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James returns to the Wildes series with a prequel novella about the Wilde children's parents, Hugo, Duke of Lindow, and Ophelia, Lady Astley. 'Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James' Julia Quinn ![]()
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![]() In New York, as Ona caters to the nervous, recalcitrant Martha, she encounters for the first time communities of free Black men and women living communally and autonomously. In 1789, as Washington ascends to the presidency, the 16-year-old Ona-now in the personal employ of Martha Washington as a seamstress and handmaiden, charged with outfitting the first lady in finery each day-accompanies the Washingtons northward to New York, the nation’s temporary capital. The daughter of Betty, one of Martha Washington’s “dower slaves,” or human “property” from her first marriage, and a white indentured servant from England named Andrew Judge, Ona was raised primarily by her mother after her father departed alone once his tenure of servitude at Mount Vernon expired. ![]() Ona was born in 1773, just days after the death of Martha Washington’s daughter Patsy. Ona escaped to freedom in 1796, absconding from Philadelphia to New Hampshire. ![]() In Never Caught, historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar tells the story of Ona Maria Judge Staines, who was born into slavery at George and Martha Washington’s Mount Vernon plantation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This must-watch show more than proves its worth.Īt the Donmar Warehouse, London, until 4 February. Last year the Donmar became a victim of Arts Council England’s funding cuts. 2nd St., Minneapolis Tickets: 77-15, 61 or Tags: Theater Things to do Chris Hewitt. While its plot has the feel of a twisty crime thriller and a textbook villain in the dastardly count who holds the house to ransom, we are so engaged by what it asks of us and its tension that the melodrama does not jar. What: Watch on the Rhine When: Through Nov. ![]() As the play enters dangerous waters it is Waschke who steals this show with the earnest heroism of a man compelled to act – the antithesis of David Tennant’s SS officer in Good, recently staged in the West End. Hodge channels Bette Davis to fantastic effect (Davis played Sara in the 1943 film) and is matched by every other cast member, including the three children (Billy Byers, Chloe Raphael and Bertie Caplan, the last making a very charming stage debut). The play’s politics are immaculately couched in story Hellman’s dialogue zings with wit and thunders with eloquent conviction. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was close to Ella Baker and with her, co-founded In Friendship, a New York-based organization to support local southern leaders being battered by economic reprisal as they struggled against segregation and fought for voting rights. a deeper understanding of of nonviolence as a way of life, as well as a political tool. ![]() ![]() Nonetheless, Rustin was important to the early development of SCLC, going to Montgomery, Alabama in February 1956 to instill in Martin Luther King Jr. ![]() “My activism did not spring from being black,” he explained, “Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values instilled in me by the grandparents who reared me.” Rustin fought against the system of racial inequality that undermined the “oneness of the human family.” As an openly-gay Black pacifist, discriminated against by American society, he had to fight against marginalization within various civil rights organizations as well. Bayard Rustin and Cleveland Robinson at March on Washington, August 7, 1963, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, LOCīayard Rustin, a nonviolent activist for peace and integration, inspired critical debates within SNCC. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anyone with sensitive triggers should skip the flashbacks. **BE WARNED: Some of the flashbacks in this one do get a lot more intense and detailed than the ones prior to this book. Because his girlfriend is a little bit crazy. If anyone touches him, harms him, or even threatens him, then they should probably run. Something I laugh about to myself, while secretly soaking in all his protectiveness and concern. He makes me feel something other than cold. It just means I want more…one day.īut how do you make a good man love the monster inside you without stripping his soul away as well? He is all the best parts of me right now, resurrecting bits of my heart I forgot could even exist. Logan Bennett makes me want to have a future not tainted by the constant hunger for revenge. To love a monster, you have to share your soul… To kill a monster, you have to be twice as monstrous. Abby Category: Romance Series: Mindfck 3 Pages: 129 Status: Update Views: 1368 New chapters. ![]() ![]() Sparks leaped from the hearth and settled onto my fingers, heat drawn to heat, and glittered like molten gems against my skin. I'd never heard of this series prior to a month or so ago, but I'm so glad I found it! I will definitely be reading the next book! Library, here I come! There are completely brutal and bloody moments, and romantic moments, as well as bits of humor thrown in here and there too. This was one of those books that really has a little bit of everything. ![]() I had some things figured out long before Ruby, but that didn't take away from my enjoyment of the story whatsoever. I felt like I got to know him right along with Ruby. It was definitely not a love at first sight thing, but the more I read the more Arcus grew on me too. It was a process, and I really like that. She doesn't become Wonder Woman overnight. This is a tough girl, yet she stays believable even as she strengthens her ability. Life has never been easy for Ruby, and she has so much thrown at her from the start. I knew this book sounded good from the blurb, but I had no idea how much I'd really love it. ![]() ![]() Frostblood is the first book in the Frostblood series by Elly Blake. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now though, we have this excellent oversized hardcover from Dark Horse, and being an artbook, it’s best read as an artbook too. ![]() Without those Buddhist ‘hooks’, 'The Monkey King' is a visually stunning but thoroughly confusing comic… and best read as an artbook. Even as an Agnostic who turned his back on fundamentalist dogma as a teen, remnants of that faith still have their hooks in me. It's not a great read, at least for those of us without the same species of intimate connection to the sacred Buddhist text I think it requires a relationship to the material similar to the one Christians and ex-Christians have with the Bible. Terada's full-color manga adaptation of the Buddhist classic 'Journey to the West' is the 'Monkey King' referred to in the title, a visually spectacular epic that radically re-imagined it's source material, with a sexually-charged irreverence typical of his career. Yoshitaka Amano and Katsuhiro Otomo are likely his equals in terms of influence - Amano as an illustrator, and Otomo as the mangaka who reordered the sequential art universe with Domu and Akira - but Terada was one of the true pioneers of digital painting perhaps the first artist to create art from ones and zeroes that still felt organic and expressive. ![]() Katsuya Terada doesn't have many rivals in the world of Japanese illustration and manga. Terada Firma: Dark Horse Deliver the First Significant Art-book on Katsuya Terada for North American Markets ![]() ![]() Bern Dibner's Heralds of Science also cited that and Napier's Rabdologiae. Harrison Horblit's One Hundred Books Famous in Science and Printing and the Mind of Man cited only the seventeenth century invention of logarithms by John Napier relative to the history of computing. Few of the bibliographies of scientific and technological classics consulted by twentieth-century science collectors included any representation of computing. The material it describes ranges chronologically from 1613 to about 1970. ![]() ![]() This book, published in an edition of 500 copies, describes a library of technical reports, books, pamphlets, ephemera, letters, typescripts, manuscripts, prints, photographs, blueprints, and medals on the history of computing, networking, and related aspects of telecommunications. ![]() ![]() I ultimately ordered Island of Shattered Dreams a few months later and read it just at the onset of August. Moreover, I was fascinated by the idea of exploring Tahitian and Pacific literature, since these are regions of the world I know very little about. In the course of the talk, she discussed Spitz (as well as other, untranslated writers), and I jotted down in my notes "French is 'not her language', but the language she writes in due to school and education". For me, Anderson's presentation was one of the most fascinating and memorable of the conference as a whole. I'm not in the literary field, after all, and the Translating Women conference was my first experience attending a literary academic-style conference I've attended other literary events and plenty of scientific conferences, but nothing like this. ![]() Spitz's English-language translator Jean Anderson presented a paper about cross-cultural literature, representing Pacific literature in a way that I had never before heard. Spitz at the wonderful, inaugural Translating Women conference last year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For instance he talks about the doctors wife being distraught about not winding her watch. There are so many incongruous elements in time and space, its like a Dali painting. I am an ophthalmologist myself, I found this story to be an intriguing thought experiment, but I was waylaid by the fact that the author made no attempt, or possibly consciously avoided the attempt, to make the story scientifically plausible. In the story he has the blind listening to readings from the only sighted individual as their only source of entertainment, and he may have intended this as a more powerful verbal parable that a written one. Maybe this was the intention of Saramago. The endless run-on sentences and lack of proper names makes the reading hard to follow, but as a narrative, it isnt so bad. I agree with the reviewer that pointed out that this parable is much more accessible in the oral than in the visual format. Blindness is a powerful parable, but I think it has to be read as a surrealistic allegory rather than any attempt to portray the situation as it might actually occur in the real world. Saramago is a Nobel laureate, so I think we have to credit him with having insight worthy of our attention. ![]() |