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![]() ![]() It is a gripping saga alive with astonishing characters: Henry Knox, the former bookseller with an uncanny understanding of artillery Nathanael Greene, the blue-eyed bumpkin who becomes a brilliant battle captain Benjamin Franklin, the self-made man who proves to be the wiliest of diplomats George Washington, the commander in chief who learns the difficult art of leadership when the war seems all but lost. ![]() Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he recounts the first twenty-one months of America's violent war for independence.įrom the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the world's most formidable fighting force. Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative histories. ![]() The paperback edition of the New York Times bestseller that the Wall Street Journal said was "chock full of momentous events and larger-than-life characters." ![]() Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History ![]() ![]() ![]() Eva is a naturally gifted and imaginative storyteller who meets people from all walks of life. **The remarkable novel from the multi-million-bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and The Japanese Lover**Įva Luna is the daughter of a professor's assistant and a snake-bitten gardener - born poor, orphaned at an early age and working as a servant. ![]() Meet the unforgettable Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary and above all, a storyteller.Įva Luna is the daughter of a professor's assistant and a snake-bitten gardener - born poor, orphaned at an early age and working as a servant. **The remarkable novel from the multi-million-bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and The Japanese Lover** ![]() ![]() ![]() A policeman brings him back, and his mother once again picks him up. There, he makes more friends, but he is beaten and dragged across a splintered wooden floor by a nun and runs away. ![]() Jennings is held back from school for all his time in the home, and his mother gets sick, prompting his return to another children’s home. Jennings’ family is destitute, and this puts a great strain on their family unity. He is lent out to a severely abusive family at one point, where he is beaten and starved, before he makes it back to the home. ![]() At the home, Jennings experiences abuse and a precarious environment that discourages friendship, yet through his compassion he befriends children named Mark and Stacy. The main narrative begins with Jennings’ mother dropping him off at a children’s home she tells him she will be right back. The book opens at the zoo, where a grown Jennings takes care of his three children and remembers how the zoo was once a refuge for him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Glyndon King is an art student, a sketcher and dabbler in contemporary impressionism attending the Royal Elite University. These two combusted my iPad, hotter than the desert. But they have nothing on ‘Killer’ the boy who set his sights on the girl he should’ve left well enough alone.Ī threatening presence in her life, she wanted answers to a death which plagued her and she was certain he was at the bottom of it. What a CrAzY ride! Twists and turns, rival college gangs, initiation like the hunger games into a secret society run by a group of psychopaths. Is the first full length book in author Rina Kent's 'Legacy of Gods' series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Extremis can be read as a self-contained, standalone story without the need for any familiarity with the decades-long history of Iron Man. Originally published as the first six-issue storyline for Marvel Comics’ 2005 relaunch of The Invincible Iron Man (recently re-issued in a new hardcover edition as part of the comic book publisher’s ‘Marvel Select’ line), Iron Man: Extremis is a benchmark in modern Iron Man comics. Tony Stark faces a new and deadly threat as he dons his Iron Man armour to stop a biologically enhanced terrorist from destroying the U.S. ![]() Written by: Warren Ellis / art by: Adi Granov Art by Adi Granov (image credit: Marvel Comics). ![]() ![]() ![]() Every character felt so realistic because people aren't just black and white. ![]() Jun was basically a good Samaritan/arguably a truly Christlike person yet he was still human. this also acknowledges not to idolize a person/have unrealistic expectations. I wholeheartedly recommend and definitely would reread. Of course, there are many gut punches and some of the best family moments/dynamics I have seen. Patron Saints of Nothing masterfully tackles the bystander who looks at injustice and says nothing. "Truth is a hungry thing." (pg 29) "There are moments when sharing silence can be more meaningful than filling a space with empty chatter." (pg 123)A thrilling story with a crisp narrative that makes you think and demand change. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was also involved in cutting edge detective work tackling drug-related crime on London's most volatile estates. He had a fascinating career in policing, from the beat to the being on the front-line at the Brixton riots in 1981. He managed to overcome the extreme personal challenges of racism and bereavement, as described in his memoir. This was despite being discouraged by people of influence in his life who feared he would experience racism. During his childhood in care he became passionate about joining the Police. From the age of 18 months until 16 years old he was brought up in a care home by a white foster mother, 'Aunty Margaret'. ![]() Michael Fuller was born in London UK to Windrush-generation Jamaican immigrants in 1959. ![]() ![]() ![]() He re-examines her actions and choices and offers a lively textual analysis of letters usually used as evidence against her. ![]() Though not the first to challenge Mary's femme fatale image, Guy does not even deign to discuss the accusation that she was romantically involved with her Italian secretary Rizzio and convincingly absolves her of involvement in the death of her second husband. ![]() ![]() The most dramatic moments, however, are supplied by the Scottish nobles, who shifted alliances around her and colluded in kidnappings and assassinations. Negotiations with Elizabeth Tudor over the succession in England and the shadow of Mary's final fate dominate the narrative, but while Guy effectively establishes that Elizabeth's chief minister William Cecil was Mary's true English enemy, what is most shocking is how suppliant he shows Mary to have been to Elizabeth. Guy, a fellow at Cambridge University and BBC consultant, describes Mary's formative years in France, but the heart of the book is her short reign in Scotland. 8, 2003), but nowhere has she been defended more rigorously than in this new study. The story of Mary Stuart has been told in many contexts (most recently in Elizabeth and Mary ![]() ![]() Davisson helped to pioneer a mutually beneficial partnership with the White Mountain Apache Tribe. The articles were the result of the dogged work of journalist, librarian, and historian Lori Davisson along with Edgar Perry, a charismatic leader of White Mountain Apache culture and history programs, and his staff who prepared these summaries of historical information for the local readership of the Scout. ![]() Along the way, rich descriptions of Ndee ties to the land, subsistance, leadership, and values emerge. This twenty-eight-part series of articles shared Western Apache culture and history through 1881 and the Battle of Cibecue, emphasizing early encounters with Spanish, Mexican, and American outsiders. ![]() ![]() The book showcases and annotates dispatches published between June 1973 and October 1977, in the tribe's Fort Apache Scout newspaper. Dispatches from the Fort Apache Scout is the latest outcome of that ongoing commitment. Underneath it all was a group of people dedicated to this important goal. ![]() In the 1970s, the White Mountain Apache Tribe and the Arizona Historical Society began working together on a series of innovative projects aimed at preserving, perpetuating, and sharing Apache history. ![]() |