About the Showīen Franklin’s World is a podcast about early American history. Vincent Brown, the Charles Warren Professor of American History and a Professor of African American Studies at Harvard University, joins us to investigate Tacky’s Revolt and how that revolt served as an eddy within the larger current of Atlantic warfare, with details from his book, Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War. Although the revolt took place on the island of Jamaica, the reverberations of this revolt stretched across the Atlantic Ocean and into the British North American colonies. Between 17, Great Britain witnessed one of the largest slave insurrections in the history of its empire.
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5/10/2023 0 Comments Hidden bodiesHe eats guac, works in a bookstore, and flirts with a journalist neighbor. In Hollywood, Joe blends in effortlessly with the other young upstarts. Now he's heading west to Los Angeles, the city of second chances, determined to put his past behind him. In the past ten years, this thirty-something has buried four of them, collateral damage in his quest for love. Joe Goldberg is no stranger to hiding bodies. In the compulsively readable sequel to her widely acclaimed debut novel, You, Caroline Kepnes weaves a tale that Booklist calls "the love child of Holden Caulfield and Patrick Bateman." "Obsessed." -Jessica Knoll, New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive "Delicious and insane.The plot may be twisty and scintillating, but its Kepnes's wit and style that keep you coming back." -Lena Dunham "Kepnes hits the mark, cuts deep, and twists the knife." -Entertainment Weekly THE RIVETING SEQUEL TO THE HIT BOOK YOU, NOW A NETFLIX SERIES The Mastery of Love PDF Summary - Don Miguel Ruiz - 12min Blog
He was a Heisman candidate and wasn’t applauded for it. Many people didn’t believe in him, and they were loud about it. He gave up his smartphone because texting and social media were a distraction. He didn’t let pride stop him from playing at a junior college to get the chance to get back to Georgia where he knew he belonged. Stetson got the nickname “the Mailman” because he delivered (and gave coaches a reason to remember him). He knew he was an underdog, so at the recruiting camps he wore a postal service hat so that he would stand out in a field crowded with taller, more seemingly atheletic competitors. A two-time walk on quarterback (one at a junior college, no less) and definitively not as tall as he “should be” at only 5’11”, he crushed it last night to win back to back National Championships for my very own Georgia Bulldogs.Įven if you aren’t a sports fan, reading about him is a lesson well learned. Stetson Bennett is a living example of having a belief that he could be something and accepting no one telling him otherwise. Either in evaluating someone as a hire, or as the person who is looking to advance their own career. I find that people routinely underestimate perseverance and hard work. They grew up in a succession of unpleasant orphanages with nothing but the letter P as a last name. One night many years before the beginning of our story, the parents of our protagonists Kate, Michael, and Emma gave them to unknown persons and disappeared, never to be heard from again. That such a TV producer/writer would move into YA fantasy fiction is itself an unusual turn, coupled with the gifted prose of the tale itself, makes The Emerald Atlas a uniquely enjoyable experience. It is a classic bildungsroman (coming of age tale) that breathes in the traditional elements of such a story, innovative and creatively adapted for maximum originality by John Stephens, the executive producer of Gossip Girls and a staff writer on the Gilmore Girls. This was one of the most interesting books I have read in a very long time. 5/9/2023 0 Comments Broken harbourPoignant, compelling, beautifully written and wonderfully atmospheric. The neat compartments of his life are breaking down, and the sudden tangle of work and family is putting both at risk. Seeing the case on the news has sent his sister Dina off the rails again, and she's resurrecting something that Scorcher thought he had tightly under control: what happened to their family, one summer at Broken Harbour, back when they were children. Scorcher's personal life is tugging for his attention. But there are too many inexplicable details and the evidence is pointing in two directions at once. At first he and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is a simple one: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, tried to kill his wife Jenny, and finished off with himself. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective. The mother is on her way to intensive care. In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are dead. Print Broken Harbour (Dublin Murder Squad #4) 5/9/2023 0 Comments The tale of peter rabbit bookThis week I unexpectedly received independent confirmation that I was not alone in the deep discomfort I experienced as a child with this book. Wrapping him in it was cause for inner debate: illustrations to the inside where I couldn’t see them, or on the outside so they wouldn’t touch and frighten him by osmosis. One received a baby quilt with illustrations from Beatrix Potter’s books, when he was born. It is possible my children-one now an adult and one dangerously close-have never heard the story. Some children’s books I still find disturbing as an adult.īeatrix Potter’s Tale of Peter Rabbit is one such book. Let’s just get this out here right now: I found certain children’s books disturbing as a child. No need to let us know it’s “wrong,” since we’re only joking. It’s an exaggeration, for the sake of smiles. Some of our commenters mistake this for our actual opinion (as if we would ever actually care to ban a book!). 5/9/2023 0 Comments Kj charles slippery creaturesIt reminded me of some of the thrillers I’ve read by authors like Molly Thynne and some of the more adventure-y Albert Campion stories. The blurb says that this is a m/m romance in the spirit of Golden Age pulp fiction and I think that’s pretty spot on. But Will is trapped in a game of cat and mouse over a deadly secret – and Kim might be the only person who can save him. Enter Kim Secretan, attractive and helpful but with a murky past. But when the great uncle dies he finds himself caught between the War Office and some very unsavoury characters who want a secret he doesn’t possess. Sometime just before getting rock bottom he writes to a great uncle he’s never met and gets invited to help out at his book shop. But it turned out that the country he’d been fighting for didn’t really have much use for him. After signing up at the start, he made it back to Britain with a lot of medals and a lot more mental scarring. Will Darling made it through the Great War. It’s the first part of a trilogy, and I can’t for the life of me find a pre-order link for part two and it is driving me mad. I said yesterday that I had a harder week concentrating last week so retreated to favourite authors, and this came out last week so it was perfectly timed. 5/9/2023 0 Comments Uzumaki bookThe story is written well and focuses on something that really isn’t scary to begin with, a simple spiral.īut as this story shows, there is much more to this symbol then meets the eye.Īs the story moves along, each chapter presents us a separate story that is completely different than the last, but still connects to the main plot. Soon, after the first chapter we get our first freak out and scary moment that is very twisted. Right away, we get the feeling that something isn’t actually right in this little coastal town. The story is simply starts us of quick with two main characters to get use to and He is known as the godfather of horror manga, but there is another called Junji Ito called the master of horror manga who has wrote something just as terrifying as any scary movie, book, or comic out there. Now there is Kazuo Umezu who really can write a horror story that’ll scare you. But often we just get a comic that’s more gory or disgusting than scary. There are many horror mangas out there that try to make themselves scary. 5/9/2023 0 Comments Ashley eckstein 2022While I grew up taking acting classes, a lot of my training has come on the job. Eventually I was able to make my dream come true, and I played Muffy on That’s So Raven on The Disney Channel! Shortly after, I was cast as the voice of Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and I’ve been the voice of Ahsoka for over 10 years. I continued to take acting classes and perform in plays throughout middle and high school until I graduated and was able to move out to Los Angeles. I also auditioned for my first play and I got the lead role of Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker. I began taking acting classes at my local community theatre, and I joined the drama club at my middle school. I started acting when I was 12 years old. When I was a young girl, I loved watching the Disney Channel and it was my dream to be an actress on the Disney Channel when I got older. I grew up in Orlando, Florida, and my Dad worked for Walt Disney World. What is your fashion design and acting background, and what kind of training do you have?Ī. Most known as the voice of Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars, Ashley founded Her Universe in 2010 - the groundbreaking fangirl fashion company and lifestyle brand.Ĭheck out our exclusive Q&A with Ashley who has some inspiration for aspiring actors, actresses, designers, and entrepreneurs: We recently sat down with Ashley Eckstein, who has been widely recognized and honored as an actress, entrepreneur, fangirl trendsetter leading voice for female fandom and now, author. |