![]() ![]() Throughout their 53-year marriage, Karen, a fiber artist and retired bank president, had been pretty tolerant of her husband’s poetic whims. 16, making their way through the Sierras and ancient bristlecone pine forests to visit their son in Mammoth Lakes, California, for the first time since the pandemic. The couple had already been on the road since Aug. The connection was strong enough that last week found Bodeen and his wife, Karen, pointing their motor home to Chinle, where Mitchell had lived, in order to understand his words more deeply. The 76-year-old poet and retired Spanish literature teacher stumbled onto, or perhaps was led to, the autobiography of the late medicine man Frank Mitchell about four years ago. That was the case for Jim Bodeen of Yakima, Washington. But after you hear or read their words, you’re not quite the same ever again. It can be someone from a different race or culture, even someone long dead. Sometimes, something someone says just strikes a chord, and you don’t really know why. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 19 also had to be between 5′3″ and 5′9″, between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years of age at the time of hire.Ĭooke’s intimate storytelling weaves together the real-life stories of a memorable cast of characters, from small-town girl Lynne Totten, a science major who decided life in a lab was not for her, to Hazel Bowie, one of the relatively few Black stewardesses of the era, as they embraced the liberation of their new jet-set life. Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men–era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted up. ![]() ![]() ![]() Monty is a hero worthy of Oscar Wilde (“What’s the use of temptations if we don’t yield to them?”), his sister Felicity is a practical, science-inclined wonder, and his relationship with Percy sings. Tongue-in-cheek, wildly entertaining, and anachronistic in only the most delightful ways, this is a gleeful romp through history. Several miscommunications, one truly terrible party, and an act of petty thievery later, Monty and Percy find themselves on the run across Europe with Monty’s sister Felicity in tow. Monty, of course, is hopelessly in love with him and plans to make the most of the tour, until his distinct flair for trouble gets in the way. At his side is his best friend: polite, gentlemanly Percy is the orphaned product of an English lord and a woman from Barbados. Still, Monty is in high spirits as he prepares for his grand tour of the Continent. A lover of vice and hedonism, Monty prefers to spend his time drinking (acceptable) and trysting, both with girls and boys (decidedly not acceptable). Henry Montague is the son of a lord, and as such, his behavior is entirely inappropriate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Three Roads to the Alamo a major and at times daring study." - Daily Press, Inc. So this book is effectively three books in one, and colorful ones at that.a dense but flowing narrative." - Bookist " myth-shattering retelling. ![]() Oates "Davis, a well-regarded biographer of Confederate figures, has turned over every documentary rock about Crockett, Bowie, and Travis, who had never encountered one another until the Texans revolted in 1835. The portraits of Crockett, Bowie, and Travis are brilliantly sketched in a fast-moving story that keeps the reader riveted to the very last word." - Stephen B. Davis's Three Roads to the Alamo is far and away the best account of the Alamo I have ever read. Three Roads to the Alamo will occupy the authoritative high ground for years to come." - Robert M. ![]() "Exhaustive research by a master practitioner sweeps aside layers of legendry to reveal three giants of the Alamo in their true character and significance. ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrative also reveals everything from Lecter’s childhood through to his arrival in the United States, meaning it subtracts much of the ambiguity that helped make the Chesapeake Ripper so chilling a decade and a half beforehand. However, that’s all that’s worth writing home about in this origin story, which is a dime-a-dozen revenge thriller depicting Lecter hunting down the Nazis that ate his sister. On screen, Gaspard Ulliel plays the young Lecter at only 22 years old, he matches the menace and measure that defined Anthony Hopkins’ take on the character. Harris penned the book Hannibal Rising and the film’s screenplay, both of which expand upon the cannibal’s backstory that the Hannibal novel whisked through. Hannibal and Red Dragon producer Dino De Laurentiis claims he told the author, “If you don’t do, I will do it with someone else,” which forced into existence a reviled 2006 novel and an even more hated film adaptation the following year. Hannibal Lecter novelist Thomas Harris was essentially blackmailed into writing this prequel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They both respect and honor that in one another, and they come to be very close. They both recognize something in one another that's very similar, but it's wrapped in things from opposite ends of the spectrum. They're partners in arms who are there for each other when shit hits the fan. Mustafa Speaks: The relationship is one where they're purely brothers. How would you describe Nate's dynamic with Joe, because they seem to have a really fun partnership that gets expanded on in the first season as well as over the course of the books? I dove into the series and read some of the books, and I fell in love with the world of the series and the character of Nate Romanowski. Part of my process is making sure I tell the most authentic story, and I needed the source material to do that. That led me to CJ Box's series, given that all the source material was there and available to me. Then I spoke to the showrunners, John and Drew, about their vision for the series and for the character and fell in love with that. Mustafa Speaks: Before taking it on, I hadn't read any CJ Box or Joe Pickett, but when I first received the script the character just jumped off the page for me and I fell in love with Nate Romanowski. Obviously, the book series is too prolific to expect an actor to read every single book in it, but were you familiar with the novels before signing on for the show? The first season of Joe Pickett has gotten some really positive feedback. ![]() ![]() ![]() With tensions rising all around them, Lorna must decide how much she's willing to sacrifice before the end of the war determines their fate. Loving Paul could mean losing her family and the life she's always known. Soon Lorna is battling her own warring heart. This is a book that makes you want to curl up with a cuppa and read straight through till the morning. The more she learns about him-from his time fighting a war he doesn't believe in, to his life back home in Germany-the more she sees the boy behind the soldier. Praise for Wait for Me Caroline Leech’s story shines a beautifully written light on the precarious nature of love and war and asks its readers to believe, even when the hero doesn’t, that love can prevail. ![]() How can she possibly work alongside the enemy when her own brothers are risking their lives for their country?But as Lorna reluctantly spends time with Paul, she feels herself changing. So when Paul Vogel, a German prisoner of war, is assigned as the new farmhand, Lorna is appalled. It's 1945, and Lorna Anderson's life on her father's farm in Scotland consists of endless chores and rationing, knitting Red Cross scarves, and praying for an Allied victory. The perfect blend of sweet romance and historical flavor, Wait for Me, from debut author Caroline Leech, brings a fresh new voice to a much-loved genre. ![]() ![]() If you find they are no longer free, kindly notify us immediately through our contact form. Items posted here are free at the time of posting. If you wish to download this title directly, click on the format of your choice – EPUB, Kindle, PDF If you wish to download this title directly, click on the format of your choice – EPUB, Kindle, PDF EmpireĮmpire (In Her Name: Redemption, Book 1) – 367 pages (ePUB, Kindle, PDF) Ichiro, the sole survivor, is returned to Earth as a messenger to warn of the aliens’ coming invasion of human space.Ĭlick on the link below to download this free ebook:-įirst Contact (In Her Name: The Last War, Book 1) – 460 pages (ePUB, Kindle, PDF) Boarded by nightmarish blue-skinned warriors with claws and fangs, the aliens learn all there is to know about the ship, including all its stored information about humanity, before the crew is slaughtered in a series of ritual combats. In an uncharted star system where Aurora’s crew discovers two planets inhabited by a non-human civilization, Aurora is disabled by gigantic alien starships before she can escape. He had no idea when he boarded the survey starship Aurora for his first assignment that he and his crew would make humanity’s first contact with a sentient alien species. ![]() Young Midshipman Ichiro Sato joined the Terran Navy to escape a tyrannical father and find freedom among the stars. First Contact (In Her Name: The Last War, Book 1) & Empire (In Her Name: Redemption, Book 1) In the third book of the In Her Name: The Last War trilogy, three years have passed since the brutal first contact encounter with the alien Kreelan Empire. ![]() ![]() ![]() She began her studies at the Académie Julian with Tony Robert-Fleury (1837–1911) and took additional lessons at the private academy of Carolus-Duran. She travelled together with Amanda Sidwall (1844–1892) and Johanna Sophia Södergren (1847–1923). On the advice of Boklund, she went to Paris in 1874 to continue her studies. While there, she studied with Carl Gustaf Qvarnström (1810–1867) and after his death, with Johan Christoffer Boklund (1817–1880). In 1865, she enrolled in formal studies at the Slöjdskolan Stockholm and later became one of the first female students at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. She attended the girls' school in Skara, where her teachers noticed her artistic talent and began giving her lessons in oil painting. Ten years later, they returned to Mariestad then in the 1860s, lived at Sjögerås, another estate near Falköping. The year she was born, they moved to Åsen, an estate near Hjo. She was born at Mariestad to landowning family. Her work is mostly a variation on the Academic style and she remained unimpressed by Impressionism. She specialized in portraits and genre scenes. Anna Christina Nordgren ( – 10 September 1916 ) was a Swedish painter and draftswoman. ![]() ![]() ![]() We’ve had Ross Poldark, Revenant, Demelza: Mistress Poldark, Herstory, Jeremy Poldark, the midst of life. Here am I to relive with a you a little of the experience of this fourth of Winston Graham’s marvelous Poldark novels: Warleggan. The hard capitalist (new world, our world) Warleggans. Caroline, strong woman brought out of 18th century gay witty lady, Enys as disillusioned as Ross. ![]() Demelza, refusing to accept this situation, hating herself for not retaliating by going to bed with the hard but fair Captain who tried to capture Ross et alia as smugglers. Ross Poldark, jacobin landowner, in the film an unabiding renegade who rapes Elizabeth in order (he tells himself) to try to prevent her from marrying George Warleggan, capitalist villain, ruthless, malevolent. 314(įinal shots of Season 1: Film ends with Trenwith burned down, Mark Daniel killed, all money and hopes lost, Ross to go abroad as soldier, leaving Demelza with Jeremy (very different from book here) ![]() ![]() Let us make the most of the shadows … Ross to Elizabeth, before raping her (Bk 3, Ch 5, p. Those who are left are different people trying to lead the same lives … Demelza to Captain MacNeil who attempted to console her for death of infant Julia (Bk 1, ch 4, p 55) ![]() |