![]() ![]() For Jane, the betrayal triggers memories of a hauntingl incident that shaped her beliefs about marriage. The devout Katherine shows kindness to all her ladies, almost like a second mother, which makes rumors of Henry's lustful pursuit of Anne Boleyn-also lady-in-waiting to the queen-all the more shocking. ![]() But her large noble family has other plans, and as an adult, Jane is invited to the King's court to serve as lady-in-waiting to Queen Katherine of Aragon. Ever since she was a child, Jane has longed for a cloistered life as a nun. Print Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen (#3 Six Tudor Queens)Īcclaimed author and historian Alison Weir continues her epic Six Tudor Queens series with this third captivating novel, which brings to life Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII's most cherished bride and mother of his only legitimate male heir. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Coupled with the narrative speed, If/Then is a whirlwind of a story that somehow sticks with you. Ultimately, Day’s goal doesn’t seem to be human drama at all, she sidesteps that tension to favor headier topics like philosophy, aesthetics, and self-actualization. The residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by troubling visions of an alternate reality in this dazzling debut that combines the family-driven suspense. The sparse style has nothing extra - practically nothing that just adds texture or sets a scene. And, again, this is a book that moves at a steady clip. Day’s characters are thinly drawn, but her choice to showcase them across multiple realities ultimately fills each one out without sacrificing pace. It features talented, intelligent and (one could imagine) good-looking characters with personal problems, like Grey’s Anatomy - the comparisons could go on and on. The story is compact and experimental, like the recent Netflix show Russian Doll, and playful in its approach to character, like The Good Place. In fact, it’s hard to read this book and think of anything but TV. has the narrative propulsion of a television show, which makes sense because Kate Hope Day is a producer at HBO. ![]() ![]() Most of these nurses are hardcore, eyes-wide-open types who tell it as they see it (although some of the stories could have been edited so as to be less shocking to those who don’t hang out in emergency departments). Some started as EMTs or medics, but those who did often describe a single incident that turned their course towards nursing, whether it was a medical event of their own or just a kind nurse who treated a family member and made a difference in their lives. At least one remained determined to be a nurse even though she repeatedly failed to win admittance to nursing school. Some had abusive childhoods or encountered difficulty in school. The nurses in this book come from many different backgrounds. The truths that they bring to the table are powerful and reveal much about what it really means to be a nurse today. ![]() They include both men and women, young and old. The nurses featured in this book represent a broad section of the nursing profession: They work in cities and rural areas, on reservations, in both large and small hospitals. Nurses, cowritten with Matt Eversmann, he has chosen nonfiction to tell the stories of 50 critical care nurses from across the country. ![]() ![]() James Patterson is one of America’s finest storytellers, best known for his many popular mysteries and thrillers. ![]() ![]() ![]() As she writes, she discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, reestablishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world. Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state. The book tells the story of Mailhot’s life as a First Nations woman who moves from Canada to the American Southwest, struggles with bipolar disorder, and comes to terms with her past traumas and tumultuous, sometimes violent marriage. ![]() Mailhot trusts us to understand that memory isn't exact, but melded to imagination, pain, and what we can bring ourselves to accept. In her debut memoir, Heart Berries (Counterpoint, February 2018), Terese Marie Mailhot reflects on the challenges of negotiating the gap between the ugly truth and the art she hopes to make out of it. ![]() ![]() The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners a story of reconciliation with her father-an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist-who was murdered under mysterious circumstances and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. ![]() ![]() When a brutal murder shatters the isolation of this forgotten place, triggering the arrival of state police homicide detectives and a town-wide manhunt, both the local cops and Maddox appear to have something to hide. No hope.ĭonald Maddox, a man with no law enforcement background - indeed, no background at all - has returned to his hometown after fifteen years to find himself employed as an auxiliary patrolman on a local police force known to inspire more fear than trust in its citizenry. The crack of a handgun shatters the silence of a warm summer night.A notorious local felon and former child magician vanishes, seemingly without a trace.A corrupt police force applies a stranglehold to a failing town.An ailing old man hatches a last-ditch plan to save the police department he once headed, and the community he still loves.An outsider arrives, bearing a simple recipe for death that could destroy them all.īuried deep in the rural backcountry of New England, the town of Black Falls isn't dying so much as quietly fading away. ![]() With a brilliantly plotted new crime novel set in small-town Massachusetts, Chuck Hogan, prizewinning author of Prince of Thieves, delivers a page-turning, knockout thriller that demonstrates why he is the unrivaled master of gritty suspense. ![]() ![]() ![]() With this method, Keller gets a breakthrough into the world of communication. The Story of My Life is a heart rending story of the challenges Keller and her teacher Sullivan face to communicate with each other until Sullivan tries the method of finger-spelling the words on Keller’s hand. As a child, she would often be frustrated and would go in a rage, as she failed to communicate with her family.Įventually, after a lot of struggle, her parents find a teacher for her, Anne Sullivan, who goes on to change Keller’s entire life and teaches her how to communicate with her family and the outside world, without depending on anyone. From then on, she struggled to communicate with others. ![]() ![]() She was rendered deaf and blind at 19 months of age, when she contracted an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain (perhaps Scarlet Fever or Meningitis). Keller was born on Jin Tuscumbia, Alabama. The book is an autobiography of Helen Keller, who is one of the most respected and internationally recognised visually impaired and deaf ladies, who struggled against all odds to educate herself. ![]() ![]() ![]() The following figure, based on EPA data, shows the estimated change in greenhouse gas emissions from various alternative fuels: I will argue coal to liquids is not part of the solution-and would in fact make the problem worse. We are all grappling with how best to avoid catastrophic global warming. In that capacity, I helped manage the largest program in the world for working with businesses to develop and use clean energy technologies. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy during 1997 and as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary from 1995 through 1998. I served as Acting Assistant Secretary at the U.S. ![]() I am author of the recently book Hell and High Water: Global Warming-the Solution and the Politics (Morrow, 2007) and have published and lectured widely on energy and climate issues. ![]() I am a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress here in Washington, D.C., where I run the blog. Chairman, members of the Committee, I am delighted to appear before you today to discuss the subject of liquid fuel from coal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She was a young girl of royal blood who was used by greedy and unscrupulous men to satisfy their own ambitions. Alison Weir states 'Lady Jane Grey's story is compelling and shocking. Her honesty, intelligence and strength of character carries the enthralled reader through all the vicious twists of Tudor power politics, to her nine day reign and its unbearably poignant conclusion. Growing up with the future Queen Elizabeth and her reluctant nemesis Mary, she soon learns the truth of the values imparted to her by Henry VIII's last Queen, Katherine Parr. Child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother for whom she is a pawn in a dynastic game with the highest stakes, she lived a life in thrall to political machinations and lethal religious fervour. Lady Jane Grey was born into the most dangerous of times. Not price clipped (£12.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. ![]() Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, remains of old sticky labels on front jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, ON TITLE PAGE. ![]() First edition, subsequent printing with number line '3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2'. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jokaste remarks to Guion that the King would be pleased if they were to call the slave 'Damen'. Jokaste (an Akielon courtesan) and Adrastus (the Royal Slave Keeper) introduce a muscled and physically imposing man (who is heavily bound and restrained) to Guion - as a personal gift to the Prince of Vere. SECTION WARNING: This section is excessively detailed.Ĭouncillor Guion of Vere is in the Kingdom of Akielos, receiving twenty-four slaves as gifts from the Akielon King to the Regent of Vere. SPOILER WARNING: This section has important plot information. Because the one man Damen needs is the one man who has more reason to hate him than anyone else. But in the lethal political web of the Veretian court, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen finds himself caught up in a play for the throne, he must work together with Laurent to survive and save his country.įor Damen, there is just one rule: never, ever reveal his true identity. ![]() But when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave.īeautiful, manipulative, and deadly, his new master, Prince Laurent, epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos. ![]() ![]() ![]() The knowledge which introduced scepticism is infinitely more valuable than the faith it displaced but, in spite of that, there be few among us who have not… ( tovább) This is as it should be, in a realm about which cluster such delightful memories of the most poetic period of life – childhood, before scepticism has crept in as ignorance slinks out. ![]() Fairy Money and Fairy Gifts in General *** a selection from the first chapter: Fairy Tales and the Ancient Mythology WITH regard to other divisions of the field of folk-lore, the views of scholars differ, but in the realm of faerie these differences are reconciled it is agreed that fairy tales are relics of the ancient mythology and the philosophers stroll hand in hand harmoniously.Piety as a Protection from the Tylwyth Teg. ![]() |