![]() ![]() For Sophie, an obstetrician and the orphaned daughter of free people of color, helping a desperate young mother forces her to grapple with her doctor's oath - and thrusts her and Anna into Comstock's orbit, a dangerous man who considers himself the enemy of everything indecent, and of anyone who dares to defy him. Faced with their helplessness, Anna must make the unexpected choice between holding on to the pain of her past and letting love into her life. ![]() For Anna, her role as a surgeon has placed her in the path of four children who have lost everything. Even when doing so puts all they've worked for in jeopardy. ![]() With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and the city in the grip of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, Dr Anna Savard and her cousin, Sophie - both graduates of the Women's Medical School - treat the city's most vulnerable. The year is 1883, and in New York City it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. " From the internationally bestselling author of Into the Wildernesscomes a magnificent epic about two pioneering women doctors in 19th-century New York. ![]() Print The Gilded Hour (#1 The Gilded Hour) ![]()
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![]() ![]() With the wisdom of their ancestors, the leadership of their elders, the power and vision of their scientists and warriors they charted a course to a better future. Freeing themselves from the endless wars and oppression of their home planet in order to shape their own futures and create a far-reaching coalition of city-states that stretched from Earth and Mars to Titan. ![]() The Muungano empire strived and struggled to form a utopia when they split away from old earth. Like energy we are neither created nor destroyed, though many try." - West African Proverb "The beauty in blackness is its ability to transform. (original earth) to Titan – as it faces an escalating series of threats. Epic in scope and intimate in voice, it follows members of the Muungano empire – a far-reaching coalition of city-states that stretches from O.E. Maurice Broaddus's Sweep of Stars is the first in a trilogy that explores the struggles of an empire. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Chasing prestige and security - How to build a state : Count Cavour, Itō Hirobumi, and Yamagata Aritomo - How to build wealth : Alessandro Rossi, Ōkubo Toshimichi, and Shibusawa Eichi - pt. 1: Creation stories: the nineteenth century. Preface : leaders matter - Introduction : why leaders matter - pt. Includes bibliographical references and index The author also tells the more recent stories of Umberto Bossi's regional experiment, the Lega Nord, the different choices made by Italian and Japanese communist party leaders after the collapse of the USSR, and the leadership of Silvio Berlusconi and Ishihara Shintaro on the contemporary right in each country."-Jacket Highlights of Machiavelli's Children include new accounts of the making of postwar Japanese politics - using American money and Manchukuo connections - and of the collapse of Italian political parties in the Clean Hands (Mani Pulite) scandal "Beginning with the founding of modern nation-states after the Meiji Restoration and the Risorgimento, Samuels traces the developmental dynamic in both countries through the failure of early liberalism, the coming of fascism, imperial adventures, defeat in wartime, and reconstruction as American allies. He draws on interviews and archival research in a fascinating series of paired biographies of political and business leaders from Italy and Japan." ![]() Samuels emphasizes the role of human ingenuity in political change. "In this book about leadership and historical choices, Richard J. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Signed and numbered by the artist, this book comes complete with gilt edging, a gorgeous slipcase cover with embossed plate, and an additional signed limited color painting on the inside cover. Set in the time of the Roman conquest of Britain, stories include 'The Lost Race', 'Men of the Shadows', 'Kings of the Night', 'The Dark Man' and the classic 'Worms of the Earth', plus poems.įeatures Howard's unexpurgated text, essays from noted Howard scholars, timelines, and letters between Howard and Lovecraft.Īccompanied by 12 new color oil paintings and over 45 pen and ink illustrations by Gary Gianni. Includes a CD with a dramatized reading of The Worms of the Earth.Īfter universal acclaim for his 'Savage Tales of Solomon Kane' illustrations, Garry Gianni applies his talents to these complete tales of Howard's doomed lost race and its tragic warrior king, Bran Mak Morn, last king of the Picts. The complete Bran Mak Morn with a restored and authoritative text. ![]() ![]() Atkinson is a masterful narrative strategist, linking her two stories by the appearance in Juliet’s postwar world of figures from her MI5 days and the suggestion that she is now at risk for what happened then. ![]() Often, when writers attempt to tell two related but different stories, the reader picks a favorite and loses interest in the other. What happens in 1940 to change Juliet’s view of the world is revealed gradually, as Atkinson jumps from wartime London to 1950 and Juliet’s postwar life as a radio producer for the BBC. In 1940, during the “phony war,” 18-year-old Juliet Armstrong is a well-read, if somewhat naive, young woman, “more concerned with the introduction of meat rationing” than with the coming of the real war, “the one where you might be killed.” Even her work, transcribing conversations between an MI5 agent and various fifth columnists, seems oddly unthreatening, given the dim-witted ordinariness of these comically British would-be traitors, obsessed with their numerous “biscuit breaks.” But then, suddenly, it doesn’t seem ordinary anymore. ![]() As in her sublime Life after Life(2013), Atkinson again jumps between different periods in the mid-twentieth century to tell the story of a singular Englishwoman trapped in the vice of history. ![]() ![]() This section needs additional citations for verification. ![]() ![]() This is affirmed by God, and they live forever in His "city of gold" and garden of Paradise. These are taken up to heaven by an Angel that has deemed them the two most precious things in the city. The people, unaware of their good deeds, take the statue down from the pillar due to its shabbiness (intending to replace it with one of the Mayor ) and melt the metal in a furnace, leaving behind the broken heart and the dead swallow, which are thrown in a dust heap. As winter comes and the Happy Prince is stripped of all of his beauty, his lead heart breaks when the swallow dies as a result of his selfless deeds and severe cold. Viewing various scenes of people suffering in poverty from his tall monument, the Happy Prince asks the swallow to take the ruby from his hilt, the sapphires from his eyes, and the gold leaf covering his body to give to the poor. ![]() In a town full of suffering poor people, a swallow who was left behind after his flock flew off to Egypt for the winter meets the statue of the late "Happy Prince", who has never experienced true sorrow, for he lived in a palace where sorrow was not allowed to enter. Plate 1 for the first edition by Walter Crane ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This fall, Baptiste takes readers on the grandest adventure yet in the thrilling culmination of the trilogy, THE JUMBIE GOD’S REVENGE! Baptiste’s 2017 follow-up, Rise of the Jumbies, was declared a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal and Kirkus, and called “a captivating tale” in a rave review from BookPage. The Jumbies, which introduced middle-grade readers to the titular spirits that trick, steal, and go bump in the night in Afro-Caribbean stories, garnered remarkable praise from the Washington Post, Bustle, The Horn Book, and more. Tracey Baptiste’s extraordinary 2015 novel The Jumbies was celebrated as a “spellbinding adaptation of a Haitian folktale” ( Parents ), with “endlessly addictive and hypnotic” storytelling ( Essence ). Today, I’ll be sharing an excerpt for this thrilling middle grade book and a fun Q&A with the author. Hello Book lovers and Happy Weekend! Welcome to my Blog Tour Stop for The Jumbie God’s Revenge by Tracey Baptiste. ![]() ![]() In this charmingly pictured fable, Avi calls courage by its rightful name. It's then that Poppy learns there is no bully worse than a bully whose bluff is called. That moment begins all the trouble.įrightening trouble, as it turns out, for Poppy must come face-to-face with a dreaded porcupine and, equally alone, confront Mr. He refuses, saying that Poppy and her boyfriend did not request permission for a little dancing on Bannock Hill. In order to expand beyond Gray House (where they have lived since the farmer left), the mouse family must ask Mr. Darker than the Newbery Medalist’s usual fare, this powerfully evocative WWI novel set in Poland parallels a child’s game with the war. Ocax has declared himself king of Dimwood Forest, claiming that he alone protects the mice from porcupines. Candlewick, 16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9053-3. Ocax, a great horned owl, who, compared to you, is huge. Instead, you have to defend yourself against the tyranny of Mr. Besides, if you are Poppy you would rather be dancing in the moonlight. ![]() ![]() Especially if you are a deer mouse and only six inches long (and three inches of that is your tail). ![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:oclc:182580884 Republisher_date 20120319102433 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120319012742 Scanner . In the TV series, leukemia patient Kevin (Igby Rigney) tells a story that is one of the few in the series to play out over three separate episodes: 3, 6, and 10. ![]() OL1000822W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 88.41 Pages 166 Ppi 600 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0340505907 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:10:25 Boxid IA173801 Boxid_2 CH103301 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Date-raw JanuDonorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() The pity is that this book should not have had to be written. It is hard to imagine a better introduction to, as the book’s subtitle baldly puts it, the biology of gender, race, and class. Murray has a gift for explaining science. ![]() This is his most scientifically ambitious book - much of the material comes from genetics research that uses complex, cutting-edge analysis - but Dr. Murray bases his conclusions on an exhaustive survey of the relevant literature. (3) Increasingly, the people who are rich and influential got that way because they have biologically rooted talents and abilities, not because of unfair privilege.Īs he always does, Dr. (2) Human populations have evolved so many genetic differences that different groups cannot be expected to think and behave identically. In Human Diversity, Charles Murray sets out to demonstrate three things: (1) There are biological reasons why men and women behave differently. Charles Murray, Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class, Grand Central Publishing, 2020, 528 pp., $31.50. ![]() |