Gore vidal american chronicle series5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() The cast of characters is almost Dickensian: politicians, generals, White House aides, newspapermen, Northern and Southern conspirators, amiably evil bankers, and a wife slowly going mad. In this profoundly moving novel, a work of epic proportions and intense human sympathy, Lincoln is observed by his loved ones and his rivals. ![]() Isolated in a ramshackle White House in the center of a proslavery city, Lincoln presides over a fragmenting government as Lee's armies beat at the gates. ![]() The future president is in disguise, for there is talk of a plot to murder him.ĭuring the next four years there will be numerous plots to murder this man who has sworn to unite a disintegrating nation. Gore Vidal's Lincoln opens early on a frozen winter morning in 1861, when President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. ![]()
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Dover thrift editions romeo and juliet5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Between 15 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. Scholars believe that he died on his fifty-second birthday, coinciding with St George’s Day.Īt the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. ![]() He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. ![]() Hooked and indistractable5/13/2023 ![]()
![]() ![]() An immensely popular work, the History contributed to the adoption of the Annus Domini dating system, which Bede used throughout his great work. Written by the Anglo-Saxon scholar and monk, the Venerable Bede, the work is at once a national history and a witness to the greatness of God and His church on earth. THE History of the English Church and People (also known as The Ecclesiastical History of England), completed in 731 and possibly revised and updated over the next few years, is arguably the greatest and most influential work of history of the Middle Ages. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. This 2012 edition published by Barnes & Noble, Inc.Īll rights reserved. Introduction and Suggested Reading © 2005 by Barnes & Noble, Inc. ![]() THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH AND PEOPLE BEDE ![]() ![]() ![]() Her first full length graphic narrative, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is an untold story of Canada: a country that prides itself on its egalitarian ethos and natural beauty while simultaneously exploiting both the riches of its land and the humanity of its people. For young Katie, her wounds may never heal.īeaton's natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime Albertan backdrop of wildlife, Northern Lights, and Rocky Mountains. ![]() ![]() Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet never discussed. It does not hit home until she moves to a spartan, isolated worksite for higher pay. As one of the few women among thousands of men, the culture shock is palpable. ![]() With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, what the journey will actually cost Katie will be far more than she anticipates.Īrriving in Fort McMurray, Katie finds work in the lucrative camps owned and operated by the world's largest oil companies. After university, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush, part of the long tradition of East Coast Canadians who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beatons, a tight-knit seaside community. ![]() As One Devil to Another by Richard Platt5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You can read more about our reading plan loosely related to Cycle 2 on this area of our website. We offer these books in our store, along with a reading plan, because we believe they are worth the investment. Many of our favorite books related to this cycle are offered here in our store. (I have a ream-of-paper I reference along with an assortment of catalogs when I make my booklists.) After many hours, I’ve finally finished updating our Cycle 2 Booklist! I have not reviewed or read all of these books, although I have sorted through book reviews and recommendations by others I trust in order to compile this list, including (but not limited to) suggested resources from Honey for a Child’s Heart, Timeline of Classics, The Classical Reader, Sonlight, Tapestry of Grace, Veritas Press, and Classical Conversations, as well as the 1000 Good Books List, Gospel Coalition, Old-Fashioned Education, IEW’s Books for Boys and Other Children Who Would Rather Build Forts All Day, and Ambleside Online. ![]() Fury bob woodward5/13/2023 ![]() The demand for the 357-page book has forced Simon & Schuster to go back for its 10th printing, the company said - ringing up the most first-week sales of any book in its 94-year history. ![]() 'Deep Throat' at 50: Still hard for America to swallowįrom Watergate to whinegate: The Washington Post is a hot messīob Woodward’s runaway best-seller, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” has sold more than 1.1 million copies across all formats in its first full week on sale, Simon & Schuster, its publisher, said Tuesday. ![]() Trump sues Bob Woodward for nearly $50M over release of interview recordings Bob Woodward says WaPo reporters ignored his Steele dossier warnings: report ![]() Foxfire 2 by Eliot Wigginton5/13/2023 ![]() It sent the students out to interview their neighbors and examine their communities and eventually grew to an enterprise that sold more than four million books worldwide, inspired a Broadway play and a created a network of more than 1,200 teachers in about a dozen states who actively promote the idea of the journals as learning tools. Wigginton's high school English class at Rabun County High School in the late 1960's. Named for a phosphorescent lichen common to the mountainous north Georgia area, Foxfire began as a student-produced journal in Mr. Wigginton appeared in a nearly empty courtroom in Clayton, Ga., 100 miles north of here, and entered a guilty plea to a single count of molestation. Wigginton molested them as children from 1969 to 1982. Since the indictment, however, local prosecutors have made known their intention to produce more than 20 people to testify that Mr. ![]() 15 but had vigorously maintained his innocence until now. Wigginton, 49 years old, was indicted on Sept. ![]() Eliot Wigginton, the Georgia school teacher whose students produced "The Foxfire Book," an acclaimed series of journals about their surroundings and local culture, surrendered to the authorities today, one day after pleading guilty to child molestation. ![]() The stolen village by des ekin5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Sack of Baltimore was the most devastating invasion ever mounted by Islamist forces on Ireland or England. The old city of Algiers, with its narrow streets, intense heat and lively trade, was a melting pot where the villagers would join slaves and freemen of many nationalities. The prisoners were destined for a variety of fates-some would live out their days chained to the oars as galley slaves, while others would spend long years in the scented seclusion of the harem or within the walls of the Sultan's palace. They captured almost all the villagers and bore them away to a life of slavery in North Africa. In June 1631 pirates from Algiers and armed troops of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, led by the notorious pirate captain Morat Rais, stormed ashore at the little harbor village of Baltimore in West Cork. ![]() Book review black cake5/13/2023 ![]() Deeply evocative and beautifully written, Black Cake is an extraordinary journey through the life of a family changed forever by the choices of its matriarch. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child, challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their lineage, and themselves.Ĭan Byron and Benny reclaim their once-close relationship, piece together Eleanor's true history, and fulfill her final request to "share the black cake when the time is right"? Will their mother's revelations bring them back together or leave them feeling more lost than ever?Ĭharmaine Wilkerson's debut novel is a story of how the inheritance of betrayals, secrets, memories, and even names, can shape relationships and history. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. ![]() In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. The scholar Christina Sharpe’s new book comprises memories, observations, artifacts and artworks fragments attesting to the. ![]() In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past-a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In ‘Ordinary Notes,’ a Radical Reading of Black Life. ![]() |