I received an arc of this book from Dutton but the opinions are my own I love to read a book where women stand up for themselves, has some message, something to learn when I finished this books, I was happy for both the women, content with their story and a ending they chose. There was so many mouth licking recipes included in most of the chapters which I have bookmarked to try later. Karma has beautifully narrated this story & though it might have been difficult for women to have freedom to choose what is right for them or what they want, with Alice’s story it also looks like things have not changed so much. I just got sucked in to their lives to find more about Nellie and Alice. Their story is separated by decades yet it looks so similar on the freedom they have, the choices they make. One day she finds Nellie’s cookbook which has some notes and she starts reading about her wondering what kind of life she was having. I enjoyed reading Recipe for a Perfect Wife and is one of my favorite books of 2019.Ī story of 2 married women, Alice moves in to a house with her husband where Nellie used to live.
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6/6/2023 0 Comments Steinberg bismarckHe towered physically and intellectually over his contemporaries. William I observed that it was hard to be emperor under a man like Bismarck. The sheer power of his remarkable 'sovereign sel' awed even his enemies. The 'Iron Chancellor', the image of Prussian militarism, suffered from hypochondria and hysteria.Ĭontemporaries called him a 'dictator' and several observers credited him with 'demonic' powers'. He planned three wars and after a certain stage in his career always wore military uniform to which he had no claim. He made speeches, brilliant in content but hesitant in delivery, and rarely addressed a public meeting. For twenty eight years he acted as a prime minister without a party. Otto von Bismarck 'made' Germany but never 'ruled' it. We see him through the eyes of his secretaries, his old friends, his neighbours, his enemies and the press. It takes the reader into close proximity with a human being of almost superhuman abilities. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 18 by the sheer power of his great personality. This is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health. The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law. 6/6/2023 0 Comments Lovecraft the terrible old man"The Haunted Oak" was written just 6 years before passing away at the age of 33 from health complications. But we can at least enjoy this short poem from Christina Rossetti and ponder what could've been the cause of the tragic ending.Īccording to the University of Dayton Paul Laurence Dunbar, the son of two freed slaves from Kentucky, “was the first African American to gain national eminence as a poet." But who is to blame? The ocean or the boy? We may never know. Unrequited love ending in the death of two young people on a beach. Who is the "Terrible Old Man"? Where did he come from? How old is he? What is his name? We may never know, but this much we know.his eyes were yellow. It is a very short story filled with a great deal of mystery. Lovecraft to introduce readers to his imaginary New England setting of Kingsport. "The Terrible Old Man" is the first short story by H. 6/6/2023 0 Comments The house of salt and sorrowI wasn’t aware that this standalone was going to be infused with both horror and fantasy elements. For a debut novel, this book came ready to pack punches and it definitely delivered. Although I am aware of the plot found in “The Twelve Dancing Princesses,” this book takes those familiar elements and updates them with horror and fantastical elements. This standalone retelling of “The Twelve Dancing Princess” took me on a spooky, haunting ride from start to finish. When Annaleigh’s involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies, it’s a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family-before it claims her next. Because who-or what-are they really dancing with? Her sisters have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn’t sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Each death was more tragic than the last-the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge-and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods.ĭisturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that the deaths were no accidents. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls’ lives have been cut short. In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.Īnnaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Auntie Po is also a protector, a kind spirit who can be called upon when the work of chopping and delivering towering trees becomes life-threatening. Auntie Po may not know Paul Bunyan, but Bunyan “sure knows about” her, Mei says. After work, she entertains children with stories of Auntie Po, a colossal god in a pink Chinese tang suit and blue jeans. Mei helps her immigrant Chinese father in the kitchen and is renowned in the camp for her mouthwatering pies. This new myth is conjured by 13-year-old Mei, who lives in a Sierra Nevada logging camp with her father in 1885 and spins tall tales of “mother of all loggers” Auntie Po and her giant blue water buffalo - a counterpart to legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his ox. Shing Yin Khor’s charming graphic novel The Legend of Auntie Po bills itself as “a new American myth,” a testament to the way stories and culture are ever-evolving. Most of the browsers support the use of Cookies. 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Grubes distinguished translations, as revised by John. The trial & death of Socrates: Platos Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and death scene from Phaedo 1975, Hackett Pub. The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socrates presents G. The trial and death of Socrates being the Euthyphron, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Plato. Cooper at the best online prices at eBay Free shipping for many products Skip to main. Buchanan's learned and engaging introduction. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato, John M. Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagination of the West for more than 2,000 years: what is virtue? How should we love? What constitutes a good society? Is there a soul that outlasts the body and a truth that transcends appearance? What do we know and how do we know it? Plato's inquiries were all the more resonant because he couched them in the form of dramatic and often highly comic dialogues, whose principal personage was the ironic, teasing, and relentlessly searching philosopher Socrates.In this splendid collection, Scott Buchanan brings together the most important of Plato's dialogues, including Protagoras, The Symposium, with its barbed conjectures about the relation between love and madness, Phaedo and The Republic, his monumental work of political philosophy. The trial and execution of the philosopher Socrates in 399 BC, on charges of religious eccentricity and corruption of the young, besides being a crucial event. 6/5/2023 0 Comments The lost unicorn bookForever.Ī modern fairy tale, The Last Unicorn is a beloved classic, voted by TIME as one of the 100 greatest fantasy novels of all time. If she fails, then unicorns will be lost. The road is dangerous, and the risks are great. Overhearing a chance conversation, she resolves to venture out and discover the truth. Living in peace in her lilac wood, the Unicorn didn’t know the world had changed, or that anything had happened to the rest of her kind. ‘If men no longer know what they are looking at, there may well be unicorns in the world yet, unknown and glad of it.’ This is a novel that every writer should read and reread’ – Chicago News With a sprayed edge, bespoke cover foiling, patterned endpapers, a marker ribbon and head and tail bands, this edition does justice to one of the greats of fantasy literature. This special edition of The Last Unicorn is one to include in every collection. 6/5/2023 0 Comments Black Athena by Martin BernalUnsurprisingly, it met also with withering criticism from prominent scholars of archeology, linguistics and literature, the primary disciplines from which Bernal, who teaches government and Near Eastern studies at Cornell, collected his evidence. This controversial thesis attracted a great deal of popular media attention. He further argues that, because many of these scholars were overt racists and anti-Semites, they wanted those features that are considered to be the cornerstones of Western civilization to be the work of white people, and particularly Aryans. Bernal also argues that in the 19th and early 20th centuries, scholars of ancient Greece purposefully ignored or distorted evidence of the Afro-Asiatic roots of Greek achievement. In 1987, Bernal published Black Athena, in which he argued that many of the cultural accomplishments traditionally attributed to the ancient Greeks originated, in fact, in Africa, especially among the Egyptians. 6/4/2023 0 Comments Alex cross along came a spiderCross and Sampson drive to Sojourner Truth School in Southeast where the mutilated body of Shanelle Green was found.Īlex then starts an investigation to find the child killer. a different killer kills a child named Shanelle Green using a baseball bat.Ĭross is awoken by his partner, John Sampson at the dead of the night and is promptly told there is a new case for them- "this one is a honey, Alex." Sampson said (last line of the previous book kiss the girls indicating that Jack and Jill happened right after kiss the girls. The book starts when a man named Sam Harrison or Jack (not his real name) and a woman Sara Rosen or Jill set-up a United States Senator. psychologist and homicide police detective Alex Cross. Jack & Jill is the third novel in a series written by James Patterson which features Washington, D.C. |