![]() ![]() This is just one example of African Americans’ complex and contested history, a history spanning 400 years. Even though they made history as the first Black residents of what would one day be the United States of America. Unlike the Pilgrims we learned about in school, these people don’t have names or stories. These captive people were sold as enslaved workers to Virginia’s colonists. Onboard was an English crew transporting around 24 Angola captives. These Pilgrim passengers’ names went down in history, and we still acknowledge their important role in shaping American history today.īut did you know there was another English ship that docked in Virginia just before that equally shaped the course of American History? It was the White Lion. Most American students can tell you the story of how the Pilgrims, some of the first non-native American settlers, arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*: ![]()
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![]() On the surface, Mo Lumen seems an unlikely suspect. Without closure and carrying the scars of every predator he’s hunted down, Palmer’s thrust into a new killer’s destructive path and forced to confront his own demons. Called back from an investigation that’s gone dry in Seattle to his field office in Boston, he’s assigned to a case closer to home. Under a celebrity veneer, the Beast in Palmer simmers. Who is destined to pay for the sins of their fathers, and who will pay for their own? Crippled by the loss of their families and haunted by mistakes, they wrestle with skeletons and ghosts neither understands. When FBI Chief Investigator Francis Palmer and Maurice Lumen’s paths collide, a dozen young women are already dead-bodies strewn in the woods across southern New England. Genre: Fiction | Historical Fiction | Mystery | Suspense ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So what does this model have to say about The Winds of Winter's release date? According to King_of_Pyjamas' fancy math problem, ASOIAF fans can make plans to read the sixth book sometime around Nov. with a standard error of 165 days!" The Redditor says that they know the sample size is far too small to generate any meaningful data, but they they thought they would have some fun with it anyway. King_of_Pyjamas says that their analysis "showed that the data thus far fits a quadratic model pretty well. The model spans all seven planned books in the ASOIAF series - the five already published, plus The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring - and it churned out some pretty interesting numbers. On Saturday, Reddit user King_of_Pyjamas posted data from their regression analysis to r/asoiaf. Could math predict The Winds of Winter's release date, though? One Redditor believes it may be possible. Martin might release the next book in his bestselling fantasy series. After nearly seven years spent waiting for the follow-up to A Dance with Dragons, A Song of Ice and Fire fans have grown increasingly desperate for any news on when George R.R. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Should I be seeking therapy for this? The bills will, of course, go to the aforementioned teacher.) “Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?” And then developed a strong desire to join a militant wing of the Apostrophe Protection Society. And had a very enjoyable few hours reading the creation of a fellow grammar stickler. But I am ok with being pathetic.) And then I found this book. ![]() Ah, never mind, I don't have a valid defense. In my defense, she is a language teacher. Sometimes I discuss punctuation when I talk to my mother on the phone*. This was the beginning of my grammar vigilante stickler life. ![]() This crime landed me on her "black list" for the rest of the year. My transgression - in my wide-eyed seven-year-old innocence I dared to correct my (very Soviet) teacher on her comma placement and a spelling mistake. I am kicked out of the classroom and sent home with an angry note. The setting is an ordinary Soviet elementary school, first grade. I proudly consider myself a punctuation martyr. Now, instead of peacefully munching, it EATS, SHOOTS, and LEAVES. ![]() Bad punctuation can force an innocent animal to live outside the law. ![]() ![]() ![]() She runs a company where women pay her when they need a bridesmaid or maid of honor for hire. Rachel is always the bridesmaid, never the bride. aga ehk avaneb ka tal endal võimalus altari ette astuda? Rachel on oma karjääris alati pruutneitsi. Nädalase pulmasündmuste jada kulgedes saavad Rachel ja Camden teineteise kohta teada peaaegu kõik, mis võimalik. Kui ta on spioon, siis kindlasti kõige kenam, keda mees eales näinud on. Kuid pidev seire avab tema silmad ka Racheli nende omaduste suhtes, mis talle meeldivad. Veendunud, et naine on firmaspioon, kelle eesmärgiks on rünnata tema ettevõtet, ei lase Camden teda silmist. ![]() Kõrgtehnoloogia ettevõtja Camden Lewis peab teada saama: kes on see kaunis, tark ja salapärane naine? Liiga hea, et olla tõeline. Muidugi siis, kui Rachel suudab hoida väga nägusat ning temast veidi liialt huvitatud isameest parajal kaugusel. See tähendab uute kontaktide paradiisi, mis võib olla õnnistuseks tema niigi õitsvale ärile. Tema järgmine tööots on pulmad võõrsil – otseülekandega veebis ja sponseeritud – Instagrami mõjuisikule. Rachel Vinson on palgaline pruutneitsi: osalt usaldusisik, osalt pulmaplaneerija ning sada protsenti võlts-parim-sõbranna. ![]() ![]() ![]() Suzanne Collins’ novel Mockingjay does not reach the same dizzying heights of The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, but as the finale of one of the most entertaining trilogies I have read, it remains a must read. I was particularly moved by a scene in which Katniss visits a hospital ward full of District 8 residents. ![]() Again McCormick delivers a heartfelt and stirring performance. Having thoroughly enjoyed audiobook narrator Carolyn McCormick’s delivery of Hunger Games and Catching Fire, I chose to complete the series in audio. The dangers she and her compatriots face are less contrived, the baddies act with greater malice and the relationship problems are more mature. In the final instalment to the dystopian Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay, our heroine Katniss Everdeen is forced to grow up. Disclosure: If you click a link in this post and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission. ![]() ![]() ![]() He lives in a suburb of Toronto, Ontario. Sawyer is the Nebula Award–winning author of The Terminal Experiment. How can he possibly prove his innocence when he has no idea what actually happened to Ponter? ![]() Ponters partner, Adikor Huld, finds himself with a messy lab, a missing body, suspicious people all around and an explosive murder trial. But Ponter is also befriendedby a doctor and a physicist who share his questing intelligence, and especially by Canadian geneticist Mary Vaughan, a woman with whom he develops a special rapport. Almost immediately recognized as a Neanderthal, but only much later as a scientist, he is quarantined and studied, alone and bewildered, a stranger in a strange land. Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist, accidentally pierces the barrier between worlds and is transferred to our universe. The Neanderthal civilization has reached heights of culture and science comparable to our own, but with radically different history, society and philosophy. We are one of those species the other is the Neanderthals of a parallel world where they became the dominant intelligence. Hominids examines two unique species of people. ![]() ![]() ![]() We also offer a full and expert bookbinding and restoration service.Īward-winning Ian Fleming Bibliographer Jon Gilbert curates our world-class stock of James Bond material, including first edition novels, film posters, original scripts and associated ephemera. ![]() Hall's remains on the ground floor offering an exceptional range of quality used books.Īdrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields. He moved to Kensington Church Street in 1997, and in 2014 Adrian relocated to the historic Hall's Bookshop in Royal Tunbridge Wells, occupying the first floor of this iconic building near The Pantiles area of the town. Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road. ![]() ![]() ![]() These and other scenarios investigate the ways that the outlandish and the ordinary are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly alike. An ancient ritual might heal you of anything-if you bury yourself alive. A toxic friendship grows up around a drug that makes you invisible. A woman lives in a house with all her ex-boyfriends. In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home. What happens when fantasy tears the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end? “Dazzling.” -Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air ![]() Genius.” -Michele Filgate, The Washington Post Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Story Prize, and a Windham-Campbell Literature PrizeĪ Best Book of the Year at The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, Houston Chronicle, Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, Mashable, Polygon, Kirkus Reviews, and Library JournalĪ New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice ![]() ![]() No Skype, but lots of messages and phone calls.Ģ. It just depends on what works best for the situation and story.Ī: We tend to work in Google docs, then switch to Word when the MS is done. ![]() We’ve even worked on stuff real-time together, each adding sentences to paragraphs. Sometimes it depends on what the scene is, sometimes we split chapters, sometimes we’ll each write two chapters in a row. We do sort of each take a POV, but inevitably we’ll end up writing from the other POV as well. What’s your process of co-writing? Do you each take a POV, or do you both write different chapters, or is it more of a blend? Do you Skype or work on a collab document?Īndi James : All of the above? LOL. ![]() ![]() It’s book three in their Oh My! Series and it’s out now!ġ. Happy Sunday everyone! Today we have the fabulous writing duo of Andi James and Lila Wilde here to chat about their amazing new book, Tony & His Tiger. ![]() |