![]() ![]() The journal, actually a series of letters to her closest friend, Sarah Prince, illustrates the quality of ``sisterly'' relationships among Colonial women eager to improve themselves and make sense of their lives in a society that encouraged them to perceive themselves as ``exemplary,'' but which restricted their participation. Mother of the notorious Aaron Burr and daughter of the famous evangelical preacher Jonathan Edwards, Esther Edwards Burr (1732-1758) began her journal after marriage brought her from her native Massachusetts to the wilds of New Jersey. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754-1757, edited, with an introduction by Carol F. Jones, who teaches American history at Wellesley College, provides commentary that is trenchant, thought-provoking, but never merely tendentious. Nor does it neglect the crucial role of black women in working for the civil rights movement. Spanning the years from slavery to the present, it covers all kinds of work, from slave labor to paid factory work, from freely given, unpaid work within the black family to domestic service outside the family, from farming to handicrafts to the professional careers of teachers, writers, artists, and entertainers. This comprehensive, prize-winning study combines insightful analysis with vivid depictions of the concrete experiences of individual women. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present, by Jacqueline Jones. ![]()
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![]() On his arduous journey Morpheus encounters Lucifer, John Constantine, and an all-powerful madman freshly escaped from arkam asylum who has corrupted one of dreams most powerful items his soul stone. ![]() After his 70 year imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus while initially infuriated at the death of his mortal jailer inflicts a dire punishment on his son instead turning life into an eternal nightmare, Dream then goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. In PRELUDES & NOCTURNES, an occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. Gaiman created an unforgettable tale of the forces that exist beyond life and death by weaving ancient mythology, folklore and fairy tales with his own distinct narrative vision. New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman's transcendent series SANDMAN is often hailed as the definitive Vertigo title and one of the finest achievements in graphic storytelling. ![]() ![]() I don't do regrets, because the past is just that, the past. heck get started RIGHT NOW! I wanted to write a book 20 years ago. I have one bit of advice for anyone reading this. I also love dreaming, which brings me to my next point. ![]() ![]() Some of my favorite things: reading, writing, the two coolest guys on the planet (my husband and son), my bicycle (my husband built it for me), Facebook (I'm fairly certain it's an addiction at this point), iced coffee (hazelnut), and music (LOVE Sunset Sons, the 1975, Dredg, the xx, Balance and Composure, Teenage Bottlerocket, and 30 Seconds to Mars). ![]() ![]() ![]() In April 2007, her children's book The Gulps featuring illustrations by Marc Brown was released. She has also written Noisy Nora, Yoko, Voyage to the Bunny Planet series, a Christmas Book called Morris's Disappearing Bag and a collected book of illustrations of Rodgers and Hammerstein songs. ![]() Her West Highland Terriers Lucy and Snowy have also worked their way into her books, as McDuff and insight for other characters. She gets the inspiration for Max and Ruby from her two daughters and the experiences they have with friends and school. Rosemary Wells is the author of a number of popular children's books, most notably the Max and Ruby series which follows the everyday adventures of sibling bunnies - curious three year old Max and bossy seven year old Ruby. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Delightful, intense, irreverent, and compelling. Complex character relationships enrich this already complex world this is the sort of series fantasy fans will cherish."- B&N "The universe of Sapkowski's The Witcher is one of the most detailed and best-explored in modern fantasy, offering endless opportunities for fresh ideas. ![]() "This is a series you can sink your teeth into."- BuzzFeed News Translated from original Polish by David French Leo Bonhart, the man who chased, wounded, and tortured Ciri, is still on her trail. She knows she must escape to finally rejoin the Witcher and his companions-and also to conquer her worst nightmare. ![]() She is trapped.īut this is the child of prophecy, and she will not be defeated. Time does not seem to exist and there are no obvious borders or portals to cross back into her home world. Trapped in a world ruled by the Elves, separated from Geralt and her destiny, Ciri will need all her training as a fighter and sorceress to survive in the fifth novel of the Witcher, Andrzej Sapkowski’s groundbreaking epic fantasy series that inspired the hit Netflix show and the blockbuster video games.Īfter walking through the portal in the Tower of Swallows and narrowly escaping death, Ciri finds herself in a completely different world. ![]() ![]() I felt Paxton’s glare as I shoved my beanie over my black hair, but I ignored him anyway and grabbed my coat from the bin. “We’re going to miss our plane,” my boyfriend griped for the fortieth time since he opened his eyes this morning. ![]() ![]() THE BOARDING DOORS WILL BE CLOSING IN FIVE MINUTES. LAST CALL FOR FLIGHT 1719 TO ASPEN, COLORADO. The Wrong Blue Eyes is a novella and a complete standalone. If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what do you call a sexy fourth wheel with blue eyes and a killer smile? ![]() When Paxton suggests a trip to Aspen for the weekend, Noelle decides to find that missing spark.īut what Noelle thinks is a romantic getaway turns out to be a party for four. In fact, she can be downright bad.Įveryone she meets adores her wild antics. Heat up the holidays with this new forbidden romance from the bestselling author of Fear Me and Lilac. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nichol left the island to go to college in Edinburgh and he loved the experience a gay boy with a closeted boyfriend, the freedom of Edinburgh was wonderful, but a tragedy forced him to come back home. ![]() The setting is wonderful, the Isle of Arran in Scotland I hadn’t the chance to visit this particular island, since it’s connected to mainland through a ferry service, but I did visit the Isle of Skye, and I think the feeling is probably similar, a place where you can still lose yourself in the moors, where everyone knows everyone else, in good and bad. ![]() Elisa_rolle Scrap Metal is a very particular book, quite long in length if you consider recent standards, more than 300 pages, that doesn’t mean that is filled with action, on the contrary, the major feeling of the plot is of peace and learning to joy the basic element of life. ![]() ![]() Set 25,000 years in the past, yet utterly relatable today, The Clan of the Cave Bear is an epic tale of love, identity and the struggle to survive.'Beautiful, exciting, imaginative' New York Times'A major bestseller. Where others see similarity, he can only see difference, and as his hatred for the strange girl of the Others deepens, he grows determined to get his revenge. Everyone, that is, except Brun, the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader. Yet Iza, the Clan's medicine woman cannot leave the child to die.As Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza's ways of healing, Iza grows to love her, and the rest of the Clan to accept her. The Clan of the Cave Bear is the start of Jean M Auels epic Earths Children series. The Clan of the Cave Bear is a 1980 novel and epic work of prehistoric fiction by Jean M. ![]() To them Ayla looks peculiar and ugly, her blonde hair and blue eyes marking her out as one of the Others, who have recently invaded their ancient homeland. ![]() The first book in the internationally bestselling Earth's Children series, an epic work of prehistoric fiction beloved by generations of readers.When an earthquake destroys her family's camp, Ayla is left orphaned and alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land, her likelihood of survival slim.But then she is found by a woman of the Clan, a people very different from her own kind. Auel Earths Children Series Six Book Set Clan of the Cave Bear, Valley of the Horses, Mammoth Hunters, Plains of Passage, Shelters of Stone, and Land of. ![]() ![]() I have been curious about him and wanting to know more of him from the previous book in this series. Such powerful, complex, dynamic characters and such beautiful, intense, emotional scenes. ![]() My heart was again put through the ringer which seems to be a common thing with every book in this series but I keep going back like I need my next fix because Jay McLean’s writing is that good. ![]() These characters touched my soul so deeply. If between the two, go read More Than Forever because it is much better IMO.ĥ+ stars! WOW! I did not think I could love a couple more after reading Lucy and Cameron’s story in More than Forever but Jay McLean did it again! She has written a stunning, emotional impactful story with More than Enough. Oh well just my opinion but I couldn't rate it higher. I cared nothing for the plot or character. Maybe if I could have gotten past the 22 chp it might have gotten better but if something can't grab my interest in 22 chapters then I am done. I am also surprised it is getting the high ratings. It has lots more angst to where it is overloaded trying to get to anything else. More Than Forever was fantastic so I am surprised this one is so much more boring IMO. ![]() And now at 23 chapters, I still find the storyline boring and I feel nothing for the two main characters. Well it hadn't changed at 10 chp or 15 chp or 20 chp. Five chapters in I was bored but I said to myself give it more time. I just can not force myself to continue on with this one. I have listened to 22 chapters of More Than Enough and I find it completely boring. ![]() ![]() nationalism but instead ushered in the era of high sectionalism that is now marked in official U.S. ![]() nation building did not in fact lead to a golden age of U.S. She writes, “Contrary to truisms that link the production of collective affect to the existence of material institutions (from post roads to print culture), the golden age of U.S. 2 As she demonstrates, the emergence of print networks, as well as railroads and other technological routes, in the mid-nineteenth century seem to have had perhaps the inverse effect on the institution of the nation. 1 In one of the most sustained oppositions to this thesis’ applicability to the American context, Trish Loughran has recently argued that the nation dissolved at precisely the moment when mass print culture exploded. literary culture have begun to chip away at the validity of Benedict Anderson’s longstanding, influential claim that nations (“imagined communities”) emerge out of print culture. ![]() |