A respectable trade by philippa gregory5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Read more merchants and finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, rum and slaves. Trading her social contacts for Josiah’s protection, Frances enters the world of the Bristol. An arranged marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. But he needs ready cash and a well-connected wife. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. Bristol in 1787 is booming, from its stinking docks to its elegant new houses. From the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl. The devastating consequences of the slave trade in 18th century are explored through the powerful but impossible attraction of well-born Frances and her slave, Mehuru. Description for A Respectable Trade Paperback. ![]()
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Hailey bieber and justin bieber5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() The Biebers were spotted holding coffee mugs and seemed to enjoy their time together. The café hosted a special event where customers could enter to win Rhode skincare items. Hailey Bieber imparting a masterclass in acing your winter-to-spring transition footwear during a casual coffee run with her husband Justin in Los Angeles on April 29, 2023, in Los Angeles, California (Credit: Thecelebrityfinders / BauerGriffin / INSTARimages) The couple looked adorable together, with Hailey’s casual style complementing Justin’s sporty demeanor, giving off major couple goals vibes.Īs soon as the 26-year-old skincare entrepreneur and her 29-year-old musician husband arrived at the coffee café Community Goods, they caused quite a stir among the customers. Their love was displayed as they went to a Los Angeles café for a Rhode pop-up event on Saturday. Hailey Baldwin Bieber and Justin Bieber have been the talk of the town once again, and this time it’s for all the right reasons. ![]() ![]() ![]() "A frenetic sense of excitement and adventure permeates this nautical escapade. A high-seas adventure that will entice even the most confirmed of landlubbers."- Kirkus Reviews Praise for Treasure Hunters: A New York Times Bestselling Series! "This series promises it all: ruthless pirates, CIA spies, terrorists, stolen works of art and priceless treasure. It's up to the Kidd siblings to follow clues around the globe to uncover an ancient treasure and save their parents. But then their ship, The Lost, explodes in a ball of fire! Now Bick, Beck, Tommy, and Storm are stranded on a raft in the Mediterranean Sea, and their parents have been kidnapped by maniacal treasure hunters. ![]() The situation worsens when the treasure hunters kidnap their parents, forcing the Kidd siblings to follow clues around the globe to uncover an ancient treasure and save their family"-īook Synopsis Dodge missiles, map undersea caves, outrun secret agents, and uncover the ultimate treasure? That's a day in the life of the Kidds! The Kidd family is on an exciting new mission: use the augmented reality gear their parents created to uncover long-lost treasure. ![]() About the Book "When their ship, the Lost, explodes, Bick, Beck, Tommy, and Storm are stranded on a raft in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. ![]() ![]() ![]() Readings will be our bookseller at this event. Amra Pajalic, Omar Sakr, Wendy Chen, Jordi Kerr, Rebecca Lim, Michelle Aung Thin and Alice Pung, this anthology is designed to challenge the dominant. These are stories by and about Aboriginal Australians, queer Australians, people living with disabilities and more.Īt the Wheeler Centre in September, Lim and Kwaymullina along with contributors Jessica Walton and Ellen van Neerven, will discuss the meaning, and the value, of the Own Voices movement in YA writing today. Rebecca Lim is co-editor and she is joined by contributor, Olivia Muscat. The initiative aims to offer young readers a much broader, richer range of Australian perspectives beyond what passes for mainstream. Meet Me at the Intersection (Fremantle Press) features stories and memoir by writers from marginalised backgrounds. The anthology has emerged from Lim and Kwaymullina’s ongoing Voices from the Intersection initiative, which promotes YA and children’s authors of diverse backgrounds. ![]() Meet Me at the Intersection features the work of some excellent established writers, as well as up-and-coming names from all across Australia. It’s a book of short fiction, memoir and poetry by authors of various ethnicities, cultures, genders, sexualities and abilities. ![]() Meet Me at the Intersection is an anthology edited by two Australian powerhouse YA authors: Rebecca Lim and Ambelin Kwaymullina. ![]() A castle of sand by bella forrest5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, the hunters are gaining formidable strength and resources by the day they know that the safety of The Shade hangs entirely on its ability to remain hidden from them.Īnd a sinister secret lies in wait for Sofia within the bowels of an Egyptian desert. His hatred toward Sofia and thirst for fresh blood lead to a brutal war igniting between father and son. Since the return of Gregor Novak, the island has turned several shades darker. What Sofia has with Derek feels like a sandcastle temporary and something that the waves of life and time will soon ruin. Once I started to read this story I couldn't help but be captivated, the world Bella Forrest has brought to us is EPIC." - Lady Amber's Reviews ★★★★★ A Castle of Sand is the best yet, in my opinion. "Bella Forrest never ceases to amaze me!. ![]() The highly anticipated third book of the A Shade of Vampire series! ![]() ![]() ![]() And while there were no scarecrows, there was the thought that you could fall in and get stuck, or worse, someone who had the misfortune of falling in before would reach up and take you with them. While they are not tall enough to get lost in, they are spread out enough you can lose your way. The closest example to cornfields in my life might be the rice paddies that patterned every roadside in the Philippines. And when my family traveled, it was into deserts or so far west that we ended up in the east. Now, I have never seen these interminable rows of clustered vegetation because I have never been to the midwest. ![]() ![]() Children of the Corn, In the Tall Grass, and countless other examples demonstrate how terrifying cornfields are to them. I’ve gone my whole life without ever seeing those vast cornfields that Boomer and Gen X writers are obsessed with. ![]() Book the overstory5/12/2023 ![]() They both act in a production of Macbeth, then Ray proposes to her. ![]() ![]() Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly begin dating. He had an interest in nature and eventually went on to study psychology at college. She grows up to be an engineer and travels the world because of her job, but she has trouble dealing with the aftermath of her father’s suicide.Īdam Appich grew up as a loner. Her father takes her and her sisters on trips to national parks in America, which helps them bond as a family. Mimi Ma is the daughter of a Chinese immigrant. The insurance money allows him to stay on the farm and create art pieces about the chestnut tree planted by his ancestors. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2019.Ī young man returns to his home for Christmas, only to find that his family had died in a gas leak. It tells the story of several environmentalists and their struggles to make people hear their message about saving the environment. ![]() The Overstory is a novel by Richard Powers. 1-Page Summary of The Overstory Overall Summary ![]() Four quartets text5/12/2023 ![]() Seduced by the desire for a systematic argument, criticism has overestimated these passages' straightforwardness and largely neglected their ambiguity and indeterminacy. Meanwhile, relatively little attention has been paid to the working of the poetry itself, to the construction of the presumed meaning, in these "discursive" or "conceptual" passages. As the text of the poem itself apparently gives license to the view that its "poetry does not matter," the preponderance of critical attention to the Quartets' non-lyrical passages has been devoted to philosophical and theological paraphrase of its argument, to explicating the system of belief or thought behind the words. ![]() Of course, the Quartets offer enough cues toward this critical attitude that it may fairly be said to reside within the poem at least as much as it is imposed from without. Since the initial appearance of "Burnt Norton" it has been a critical commonplace to regard these portions of the text as at once its most conceptually profound and its most formally prosaic. Eliot's Four Quartets afford no such easy approach. Though its more lyrical passages present detailed and evocative imagery, substantial portions of T.S. ![]() The Seduction of Argument and the Danger of Parody in the Four Quartets ![]() Finding my father blair linne5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() She is a contributing writer in the devotional His Testimonies, My Heritage, and her brand new book Finding My Father: How the Gospel Heals the Pain of Fatherlessness just released October 1st of this year. Blair serves in discipling women at Risen Christ Fellowship. She lives with her husband Shai and their three children in Philadelphia. Check out Shai Linnes Jesus Kids album on Spotify Resources by Shai Linne. Author of Finding My Father, Blair tells her story of fatherlessness. Proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ through spoken word is her passion. Artists Blair and Shai Linne know the yawning gaps of living without a dad. She has been featured on ABC’s Nightline, 102.3 KJLH, Revive Our Hearts, the Los Angeles Times, and several Christian Hip Hop albums. Since then, she has written poetry for Sprite, Neutrogena, NBC, and the Gospel Coalition. ![]() At 13, she was one of the youngest contributors at The World Stage Anansi writer’s workshop. She has appeared in numerous theater productions, commercials, and television shows including Days of Our Lives, Alias, Malcolm in the Middle, Boston Public, The Parkers and American Dreams, as well as her own Saturday morning show, SK8 (Skate) on NBC.īlair has toured globally and is known as one of the originators of the Christian Spoken Word genre. Blair Linne is an author, speaker, actress, and Christian spoken word artist. ![]() The last house on the street review5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() “It’s a strong word.” “Couldn’t it be seen as insulting?” I asked. (5 / 5) “Why do you say ‘black’ instead of ‘Negro’?” I asked. Is Ellie on a quest to right the wrongs of the past? And does the house at the end of the street hold the key? Told in dual time periods, The Last House on the Street is a novel of shocking prejudice and violence, forbidden love, the search for justice, and the tangled vines of two families.Ĭheck Goodreads to see the book’s ratings. ![]() Kayla’s elderly new neighbor, Ellie Hockley, is more welcoming, but it’s clear she, too, has secrets that stretch back almost fifty years. It’s clear this woman has some kind of connection to the area…and a connection to Kayla herself. But when she is confronted by an odd, older woman telling her not to move in, she almost agrees. But the trophy home in Shadow Ridge Estates, a new development in sleepy Round Hill, North Carolina, will always hold tragic memories. When Kayla Carter’s husband dies in an accident while building their dream house, she knows she has to stay strong for their four-year-old daughter. Diane Chamberlain Contemporary, Women’s Fiction, Historical Fictionįrom bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel that perfectly interweaves history, mystery, and social justice. ![]() |