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Celia garth6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Out of the ashes of Charleston and the Carolina countryside will rise a new nation-and a love that will change Celia Garth forever. The rebel cause seems lost until the Swamp Fox, American General Francis Marion, takes the fight to the British-and one of his daring young soldiers recruits Celia to spy on the rebels’ behalf. When the unthinkable occurs and the British capture and occupy Charleston, bringing fiery retribution to the surrounding countryside, Celia sees her world destroyed. : Celia Garth (11) (Rediscovered Classics) (9781556527876) by Bristow, Gwen and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. ![]() Recently engaged to the heir to a magnificent plantation, Celia Garth watches all of this thrilling activity from the window of the dressmaker’s shop where she works. This New York Times bestseller set during the American Revolution is “an exciting tale of love and war in the tradition of Gone with the Wind” ( Chicago Tribune).Ī bustling port city, Charleston, South Carolina, is the crossroads of the American Revolution, supplies and weapons for the rebel army being unloaded there and then smuggled north. Free Essay: Green In the novel, Celia Garth, by Gwen Bristow, the struggles and crucifying aspects of the Revolutionary War took place in a prominent area. ![]()
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Wayward lives saidiya hartman6/28/2023 ![]() Hartman narrates the story of this radical social transformation against the grain of the prevailing century-old argument about the crisis of the black family. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage. ![]() In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Conviction corinne michaels6/28/2023 ![]() If you know me, you know I have a list a mile long of books I need to read because I review, a lot. You should STOP if you haven't read Consolidation! Because I believe in second (and yes, sometimes even third) chances, and I think she writes well, she just needs to vary her writing a little bit more. Would I buy another book by this author? Possibly. I didn't even read their marriage vows to each other because I didn't want to read the same repetitive cheese that I had been reading since the first book. I was waiting for something to come along and draw me in, but it never happened. There was little to no action, and about halfway through it I started to get bored. Why even bother to mention it? I felt like the book just fell flat for me. ![]() Enough with it already! During the first book and this one, there seemed to be another sub plot about supplies disappearing and a lot of investigation into it, but there was never any outcome on that. Yes, we get it, you will absolutely die if you don't have him. It is basically the same repetitive and cheesy lines as the first one. My neurotic "must finish a series" has finally bitten me in the butt. After giving the first one in this series a three star review, I'm asking myself why I even bothered to buy this one. ![]()
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Stars and Shadows by Saladin Ambar6/28/2023 ![]() Stars and Shadows-which takes its name from Huckleberry Finn-provides a unique and rigorous assessment of two centuries of noteworthy interracial friendships that each serve as a window into the state, at the time, of American race relations-and, as Ambar shows, as models for advancing racial equality. The author will be in conversation with Hunter College professor of history D’Weston Haywood. The first historical analysis of its kind, Stars and Shadows delivers a sweeping and comprehensive exploration of the significance of interracial friendships to American democracy, from the founding to the present. ![]() ![]() ![]() To mark Black history month, Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the new book Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama by Rutgers University professor of political science Saladin Ambar. ![]()
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The long secret louise fitzhugh6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Beth Ellen's life is now disrupted by the reappearance of her delinquent but glamorous mother whom she hadn't seen in seven years. Beyond that, The Long Secret is not as good, or perhaps cohesive, a story as the first one, partly because Harriet is subsidiary to her friend Beth Ellen. And if it don't work, it is a bad tool." Then there's a perfectly natural short discussion of that natural feminine phenomenon, menstruation, which occurs at this age but is seldom mentioned in juvenile fiction at this age level. There is some consideration of religion with a valid if unorthodox conclusion-"It is a tool to get through life with. ![]() ![]() There are however occasional sequences which make the book, rather than Harriet, vaguely (very vaguely, by our standards) liable to censure. In any case, in this sequel, Harriet is much less of a controversial character, and, sadly, she's lost lots of her sassy spriteliness. This is more about that spankingly (spankably?) fresh heroine Harriet The Spy whose initial appearance occasioned all kinds of discussion among those who monitor juvenile literature some thought she wasn't very "nice" some even took the position that she was "sick." ![]()
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Bless Me Father by Tom Walsh6/28/2023 ![]() He is sucked into a trail of evidence that he cannot ignore. Complications arise when their brief but romantic history begins to spark.ĭamien immerses himself into investigating the death of retired priests apparently linked to the alleged confession. This time O'Keefe jeopardizes much more than his position by breaking sacramental confidentiality and revealing information.Ī church promotion brings Damien back to his old neighborhood where he reconnects with Molly Patterson, a childhood friend who operates a local women’s shelter. The mentor, Father O’Keefe, has historically bucked church authority. When Father Damien Dolan is told about a confession heard by his mentor he is convinced of its authenticity but baffled that the penitent is suspected to be another priest. ![]() There is no place as intimate as where you go to confess your sins. ![]()
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Pack darling lola rock read online6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() I’d rather run for days and keep running until my feet bleed. I’d rather disappear into the tree line and live in a cozy cave somewhere than step a single toe onto this pack’s territory. “The alphas are waiting for you.” He licks his lips, almost bouncing as he glances toward the house. “Get out,” Craig barks, beta-style with zero power but plenty of catty attitude. I like nice things as much as the next girl, but I don’t for a second think of any of this as mine. Underground nests, swimming pools, and gourmet kitchens. The other omegas were always lusting over real estate. ![]() Herebeing a freaking three-story mansion complete with whimsical ivy-choked pillars that make me feel a million miles away from my dream cottage in the woods. ![]() Turns out, the road is a long-ass driveway. Another gate, another code for me to memorize. We must almost be there, but we stop again. It’s all a blur of trees and big sky until at least an hour later when he turns down a country road and stops to punch in a code. I can’t appreciatethe scenery as Craig drives us out of the city. ![]()
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Frank wilczek ten keys to reality6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() He had decided to sit in on a class by physics professor Peter Freund, who, with a zeal “bordering on rapture,” led students through mathematical theories of symmetry and ways in which these theories can predict behaviors in the physical world. It was during this turbulent time that Wilczek found unexpected comfort, and a new understanding of the world, in mathematics. At the University of Chicago, where Frank Wilczek was an undergraduate, regularly scheduled classes were “improvised and semivoluntary” amid the turmoil, as he recalls. ![]() In the spring of 1970, colleges across the country erupted with student protests in response to the Vietnam War and the National Guard’s shooting of student demonstrators at Kent State University. To understand ourselves and our place in the universe, “we should have humility but also self-respect,” the physicist writes in a new book. Credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT, stock imagery I haven’t been disappointed.” - Frank Wilczek. ![]() ![]() “To experience the deep harmony between two different universes - the universe of beautiful ideas and the universe of physical behavior - was for me a kind of spiritual awakening. ![]()
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The Hockey Sweater by Roch Carrier6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This full reproduction of the 1984 illustrated version includes some interesting background by Roch Carrier himself. Perhaps, one could highlight why you would add the 30 th anniversary edition to your collection (not already having it is reason enough!). Indeed, the 30 th Anniversary Edition has these and more fascinating testimonials by a Who’s Who of Canadian culture. Could we even go all out and call it the “Bible” of “the Canadian religion”? Roy MacGregor claimed that one. Maybe, “will always stand the test of time”? That was taken by Cassie Campbell-Pascall. How about “undeniably a Canadian classic” or “iconic depiction of a truly Canadian experience”? Nope, both done ( by Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau respectively). What can one say about “The Hockey Sweater”? Could we simply say it is “most beloved”? No, that was used by Ken Dryden. The Hockey Sweater: 30 th Anniversary Edition. ![]()
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Juliet takes a breath age appropriate6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() There are no answers or pathways-unlike Harlow Brisbane’s book, where tracking your menstrual moon cycle is the key to understanding the universe, and where womanhood is a wide expanse of expression only if you possess a working uterus-just methods of understanding. ![]() This book examines white liberalism in general and hippies in particular, especially that of white womanhood and white feminism, and all of the contradictions that that entails. I grew up steeped in this very brand of white hippy feminism, and holy hell has it been a struggle to get out of and unfuck my brain. ![]() This might seem overly harsh, but I am from Oregon, and went to high school in the very liberal (and very white) city of Eugene, which shares many of Portland’s ideals and a similar lack of introspection. But instead of learning about the mysticisms of womanhood, Juliet is confronted in a world of contradictions and white feminist hippies, and is forced to discover what it means to be at the intersection of brown, Latinx, gay and female.Įverything about this book is absolutely fantastic, from its insightful skewering of second wave feminism to its critical analysis on the LGBTQIAP+’s gatekeeping to life in Portland, Oregon, home of hippies and hypocrites. Puerto Rican and brown and from the Bronx, she comes out to her parents just before stepping off a plane to begin a summer internship with Harlowe Brisbane, the Pussy Power feminist who is about to change her life. Juliet is a baby dyke about to enter her second year of college. ![]() |