![]() ![]() In 1982 she joined the Daily Mail as a feature writer, with a special interest in historical subjects, leaving in 2003 to concentrate on books, on which she has talked widely both here and in the United States.Ī critically-acclaimed and best-selling author, she believes that as well as telling the story of its subject’s life, a biography should depict the social history of the period, since so much of action and behaviour is governed not simply by obvious financial, social and physical conditions but also by underlying, often unspoken, contemporary attitudes, assumptions, standards and moral codes.Īnne is on the committee of the Biographers’ Club and a past judge of their annual Prize. In the 1970s she was Woman’s Editor on the London Evening News until its demise in 1980, when she joined the Evening Standard as a columnist and feature-writer. ![]() ![]() Born in 1927, Anne de Courcy is a well-known writer, journalist and book reviewer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Living outside mainstream Mormonism and federal law, Warren Jeffs established a cult in which members do his bidding underage girls are married off parents live apart from their children and people are cast out forever on a whim. Rachel grew up her father’s favorite as he attained ultimate control of the FLDS Church, where women are subordinate to men, and everyone is at the mercy of their unstable Prophet. ![]() In this searing memoir of resilience and redemption, Rachel Jeffs-daughter of the self-proclaimed Prophet of the Funda-mentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints-writes about her life inside, and triumphant escape from, a dangerous cult that still holds thousands in its thrall. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Is police brutality really about race?” “What is cultural appropriation?” and “What is the model minority myth?” Her sharp, no-nonsense answers include talking points for both blacks and whites. Throughout the book, Oluo responds to questions that she has often been asked, and others that she wishes were asked, about racism “in our workplace, our government, our homes, and ourselves.” “Is it really about race?” she is asked by whites who insist that class is a greater source of oppression. In her feisty debut book, Oluo, essayist, blogger, and editor at large at the Establishment magazine, writes from the perspective of a black, queer, middle-class, college-educated woman living in a “white supremacist country.” The daughter of a white single mother, brought up in largely white Seattle, she sees race as “one of the most defining forces” in her life. ![]() Straight talk to blacks and whites about the realities of racism. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kelsea Glynn, now a prisoner, is being taken to Mortmesne the Mace is trying to run the Tearling (he has the entire damn church to contend with) the Red Queen ( we know who she is now!!!!) has an enemy other than Kelsea. Where to even start? It’s hard to review without describing the whole plot of this and the previous two books, because a lot of things get followed up and pulled together, some of which I had not even noticed being foreshadowed. I am going to try to avoid spoilers, but there will definitely be some for the previous two books. I finally finished this incredible trilogy, and oooooh do I have a lot to say! If you want to catch up, you can find my reviews of the previous books here and here. Long before the Red Queen of Mortmesne came to power, the Glace-Vert was already a lost cause. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their regular Wednesday evening dinners were the gathering place for the best literary minds of the time. Charles Lamb also wrote excellent essays (compiled in a volume titled The Essays of Elia) and tried his hand at poetry and drama. His glittering circle included contemporary poets like Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey and Leigh Hunt, the Chinese scholar Thomas Manning, political philosophers like William Godwin and his daughter the famous creator of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, and essayists like William Hazlitt. However, far from being a melancholy duo, they led an active and ample social life in the company of some of the literary greats of the Romantic movement of the 19th century. ![]() The pair lived together for life, having gone through immense trauma caused by mental illness and tragedy. Lamb co-authored them with his beloved sister Mary. Tales from Shakespeare was written in 1807 by a young clerk called Charles Lamb in the offices of the East India Company. This little gem of a book was probably the first introduction to Shakespeare that most readers have had as children. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Amber uses Daphne’s compassion and caring to insinuate herself into the family’s life-the first step in a meticulous scheme to undermine her. ![]() To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne and her husband, Jackson-the beautiful philanthropist and the confident real estate mogul-are a golden couple straight out of a fairytale, blessed with two lovely young daughters.Īmber’s envy could eat her alive. She deserves more-a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. ![]() Parrish is a mesmerizing debut psychological thriller full of delicious twists about a coolly manipulative woman who worms her way into the lives of a wealthy “golden couple” from Connecticut to achieve the privileged life she wants.Īmber Patterson is fed up. Recipient of starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal. Genre: domestic thriller, psychological thriller, suspense, women's fictionīuy the Book: AMAZON, APPLE BOOKS, BARNES & NOBLE, BOOKS-A-MILLION, BOOKSHOP, INDIEBOUND, AUDIBLEĪ national and international bestseller with over one million copies sold, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, soon to be a Netfilx movie, a People Magazine Best Pick, a New York Post Must Reads, a “Best Of Skimm Reads 2017” selection, and a Library Reads selection. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I know surely that my soul shall sup with my Saviour Christ this night.” -George Wishart, in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. Consider and behold my visage, ye shall not see me change my colour. For this cause I was sent, that I should suffer this fire, for Christ’s sake. Notable Quote: “I suffer this day by men, not sorrowfully, but with a glad heart and mind.Biographies Included: John Wickliffe, Sir John Oldcastle, Jan Hus, William Tyndale, Martin Luther, John Hooper, Rowland Taylor, Patrick Hamilton, George Wishart, Hugh Latimer, Bishop Ridley, Thomas Cranmer, and many more.Subject: History of Protestantism Christian Martyrology.Originally Published: March 20, 1563, in England, UK Foxe's Book of Martyrs John Foxe, William Grinton Berry (Editor) 4.25 18,726 ratings456 reviews Reformation-era EnglandJohn Foxe recounts the lives, sufferings, and triumphant deaths of dozens of Christian martyrs.Original Title: Acts and Monuments of Matters Happening to the Church.The book’s author, John Foxe, was a Protestant educator in 16th-century England who took a keen interest in church history and particularly the martyrs of the Reformation. Foxe’s Book of Martyrs is a Christian classic recounting the lives of persecuted believers from the earliest days of the church until the time of the Protestant Reformation. The Actes and Monuments (full title: Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church), popularly known as Foxes Book of Martyrs, is a work of Protestant history and martyrology by Protestant English historian John Foxe, first published in 1563 by John Day. ![]() ![]() ![]() Exploring the artistic challenges, technical impossibilities, marketplace demands, and Donkey Kong-sized monkey wrenches thrown into the works by corporate, Blood, Sweat, and Pixels reveals how bringing any game to completion is more than Sisyphean-it's nothing short of miraculous. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier takes readers on a fascinating odyssey behind the scenes of video game development, where the creator may be a team of 600 overworked underdogs or a solitary geek genius. ![]() NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The stories in this book make for a fascinating and remarkably complete pantheon of just about every common despair and every joy related to game development.” - Rami Ismail, cofounder of Vlambeer and developer of Nuclear Throne Developing video games-hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thankfully, Burgess uses historical record, previous biographies plus his muse to flesh out a man who lived and loved (the love that dare not speak its name) hard and was brave (or foolish) enough to question the church, state and the Machiavellian machinations of royalists, loyalists, Catholics, protestants and God himself. His life, his poems and plays, his work as a spy and his assassination nearly lost to the annals of history in favour of his contemporaries. I'm a fan of Anthony Burgess and more importantly, Christopher Marlowe, heretofore to be called Kit, as those who knew him did. 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