![]() Since founding the Alabama Christian Movement in 1956, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth had doggedly battled Birmingham's white leadership. ![]() ![]() Eugene "Bull" Connor, Birmingham's notorious Commissioner of Public Safety, maintained white supremacy with a ferocious combination of arrests, harassment, and violence. It is one of the most famous documents in American history.īy the 1950s, Birmingham, Alabama, a steel city that had once represented the best of the New South, had become symbolic of a South determined to maintain the old racial ways. ![]() Of all the inspiring words that came out of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, few are as famous as those contained in Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." Written in response to eight white local clergy who criticized his work and ideas as unwise and wrong, the letter is King's explanation of the importance of civil rights protesting. (1929–1968) was a Baptist minister and civil rights leader who, as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Council, spearheaded the struggle for racial equality throughout the late 1950s and 1960s. ![]()
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![]() 'Like an episode of Downtown Abbey mixed with a great rom-com' iBooks Best Books of March ![]() 'Quinn is incomparable! The latest addition to her beloved Bridgerton series is funny, charming, witty and wildly romantic' RT Book Reviews 'Powered by a surfeit of dazzling wit and graced with a cast of unforgettable characters' Booklist reminiscent of Helen Fielding' Time Magazine 'The next best thing to Georgette Heyer' Gloss 'Quinn writes delightfully fast-paced, funny, sparkling and bright romance' Romantic Times Return to the world of the Bridgertons with this first book in a dazzlingly witty prequel series from Sunday Times bestselling author Julia Quinn, featuring the ancestors of the Bridgertons you know and love.įind out why readers love Julia Quinn. And when these lifelong adversaries finally kiss, they just might discover that the one person they can't abide is the one person they can't live without. Which is perfectly convenient, as she can't stand the sight of him, either.īut when Billie and George are quite literally thrown together, a whole new sort of sparks begin to fly. He may be the eldest, and heir to the earldom, but he's arrogant, annoying and she's certain he detests her. There is only one Rokesby Billie absolutely cannot tolerate: George. ![]() ![]() ![]() Įveryone expects Billie Bridgerton to marry one of the Rokesby brothers, and she's not opposed: their families have been neighbours for centuries. Ī generation before the Bridgertons, there were the Rokesbys. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Basings/Mackworth murder is covered in S.J. 1444/5) of Empingham, which is how Empingham passed into the hands of the Mackworth family. As with the Pashley Case, this second murder was also motivated by the desire to secure an inheritance - Alice and her son Henry Mackworth arranged the murder of her nephew, the illegitimate son of Sir John de Basings (d. Margaret de Basing's granddaughter, Alice (de Basings) Mackworth, widow of Thomas Mackworth, was implicated in another murder in 1445. Perhaps there was something in the genes. Passele's second son and heir was named John. Margaret had previously been married to William Basing, who had died in the summer of 1316. 1282, and his wife, Denise, the daughter of John de Lovetot, a justice of the common bench disgraced in 1290. ![]() After the death of his first wife Maud, Passele is found as the husband of Margaret, the posthumous daughter of Thomas de Normanville, d. 1327, lawyer and justice, son of Robert of Pashley, in Oxford DNB. An Edmund de Passelewe was serjeant from 1299 to 1323, and chief baron of the exchequer from 1323 to 1326. ![]() ![]() ![]() It quickly becomes apparent that isn’t the case. In Contaminated our heroine accidentally finds herself on the planet where our hero kidnaps and hides her away thinking she is a new form of animal life. For this reason, they have cut themselves off from the rest of the universe. Their world has an issue with their genetics which mean most of their people suffer from a horrible illness and die early. We have two alien heroes, who kind of look like the alien from the Alien films, but with a less toothy face, who work in a lab. As these are both fairly short books that I enjoyed for very similar reason, I decided to do a joint review.įirstly, lets dive into a short synopsis about these books. I actually read them in the opposite order, but it doesn’t matter as what connects them are the characters – the heroes are best friends – and not the actual story. It starts with Contaminated and then Contagion is next. ![]() You’ll notice on Goodreads that these two aren’t collected together in a duology. ![]() Did she deliver with Contaminated and Contagion? Hell, yes. Honestly, when I pick up an alien romance, that’s what I want and she nearly always delivers. ![]() Her books always hit my sweet spot with their combination of alien heroes (who are very alien), humour, sexiness with an added dash of adorable. “Her books always hit my sweet spot with their combination of alien heroes (who are very alien), humour, sexiness with an added dash of adorable.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Whatever the merits of this assessment-it warrants some examination and revision-it certainly is widely shared. His role there in formulating the so-called containment doctrine led no less an observer than Henry Kissinger to suggest that Kennan "came as close to authoring the diplomatic doctrine of his era as any diplomat in our history." ![]() ![]() His reputation and significance derive primarily from his service as Director of the Policy Planning Staff in the State Department from 1947 to 1949. Kennan must surely be numbered among the most notable members of the Foreign Service of the United States. The article originally appeared in the Foreign Service Journal and is reprinted with that publication's permission. In this article Father Miscamble recounts the life and career and accomplishments of this extraordinary diplomat, scholar and man of letters. George Kennan's career in the Foreign Service spanned only a quarter-century, yet his name remains inextricably linked to the creative burst of policy-making during the Truman Administration. ![]() George Kennan, a Life in the Foreign Service ![]() ![]() Mayes and her husband spent countless hours renovating this enchanting ruin, all the while she immersed herself in the culture, food, and language of Tuscany, Italy. So much so, she followed her passion all the way to the Italian countryside and made her home in a 200-year-old Tuscan farmhouse. Her body of work serves as a picturesque glimpse into the culture of Italy and masterfully envelopes the story with themes of finding a home and new life.Īfter traveling to Italy with her husband, she immediately became enraptured by the country and way of life. A voracious writer and poet, Mayes has multiple titles to her name, including international bestsellers Under the Tuscan Sun, Bella Tuscany, and Every day in Tuscany. ![]() The memoir’s embodiment of wanderlust garnered national praise and even inspired an award-winning film by the same title in 2003. Frances Mayes paints an exuberant picture of her newfound life in Italy in her best-selling novel Under the Tuscan Sun. ![]() ![]() We make plans on how and when to break the glass. How might we handle the document differently (as we stay wary of the atrocities of the manual), move with it, fight with it, care for the people entangled in its web? We ask questions-How did it feel? What did they want? Why did they go rather than where?-respecting their right to disappear as well as the structures of violence that accompanied this disappearance (as Jack Halberstam once put it to me). Be with me huddling, squinting, poring, back aching, neck spasming, knees stiffening, your body carrying what others have given up. With me, here at the table, in the box, with gloves off, holding the withered photograph, the dog-eared pamphlet, the crumbling letter, the fragile diary. ![]() An edited version of the Barnard Center for Research on Women’s event “ Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: A Salon in Honor of Saidiya Hartman” on March 4, 2019, featuring Hartman with Daphne Brooks, Aimee Meredith Cox, Macarena Gomez-Barris, and Alexander G. ![]() ![]() ![]() The four girls increasingly mature and develop differently as each adapts to African village life and the political turmoil that overtakes the Belgian Congo in the 1960s. ![]() The narrative then alternates among the four daughters, with a slight preference for the voice of the most outspoken one, Leah. Orleanna Price, the mother of the family, narrates the introductory chapter in five of the novel's seven sections. In his hurried mispronunciation, he actually says "Jesus is poisonwood". He concludes his sermons with the Kikongo expression "Tata Jesus is bängala" with the intent of saying "Jesus is most precious". The father of the family creates his own "misprint" of the Bible. The novel's title refers to Bible errata. state of Georgia to the village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo, close to the Kwilu River. The Poisonwood Bible (1998), by Barbara Kingsolver, is a best-selling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "A charming little French snail takes center stage as it entices a child to share a meal.It's hard to imagine an escargot heading toward a salad as destined to be anything other than part of the dish, but this engaging snail upends convention.An unusual, tongue-in-cheek aid to getting children to eat a disliked food-even the dreaded carrot."- Kirkus Reviews ![]() Give this charming read-aloud a little extra joie de vivre by reading it in your best French accent." - Booklist "Say bonjour to your new favorite animal, the garden snail!.In Hanson’s soft, cartoonish illustrations, Escargot’s hammy expressions are perfectly in keeping with his gently boastful narrative. Winner of the Minnesota Comstock-Gag Award! Winner of the 2019 Kentucky Bluegrass Award! ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.įor Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics-and their enemies. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as “the radio people,” Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. ![]() “With The Bone Clocks, Mitchell rises to meet and match the legacy of Cloud Atlas.”- Los Angeles Timesįollowing a terrible fight with her mother over her boyfriend, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her family and her old life. An American Library Association Notable Book.Named One of the Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, and O: The Oprah Magazine.The New York Times bestseller by the author of Cloud Atlas ![]() |