![]() ![]() 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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![]() ![]() Description: The Devil Wears Plaid by Teresa Medeiros Print Date 2011. But he cannot allow either one of them to forget he is her enemy and she his pawn in the deadly Highland feud between the clans. Shop Homes Paperbacks Size OS Coffee Table Books at a discounted price at Poshmark. Jamie expects Emma to be some milksop English miss, not a fiery, defiant beauty whose irresistible charms will tempt him at every turn. ![]() and a perilous temptation for her yearning heart. Though he is Hepburn's sworn enemy, Emma's mysterious captor is everything her bridegroom is not-handsome, virile, dangerous. Passion sparks in USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Teresa Medeiros's irresistibly tempting new romance after a sexy Highlander kidnaps his rival's spirited English bride Emmaline Marlowe is about to wed the extremely powerful laird of the Hepburn clan to save her father from debtor's prison when ruffian Jamie Sinclair bursts into the abbey on a magnificent black horse and abducts her in one strong swoop. ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator was great, but I could not stand her voice for Owen and often times, messed up the way I wanted to see him versus the way she voiced him as. Their love story wasn’t interesting, but this book isn’t about that, but about the journey of self realization and character development for Annabelle. Although I get that that was the intention of his character, it was a bit overboard and it didn’t feel like he had any depth to him. The one thing I disliked was Owen and his obsession with music and literally that’s all he talks about. I just couldn’t see how their relationship turned into a romantic one when really, they seemed more so as friends than anything else, which can be a bummer to some people. Not that this book needed more insight into their relationship, but it would’ve been nice to get some cute romantic development in there, which only had a few moments. He was there to help Annabelle develop into who she wanted to be and that’s pretty much it. ![]() However, this book is about Annabelle only, meaning you shouldn’t read or listen to this if you want a fulfilling love story full of cute moments between the main character and the love interest Owen, which was essentially non-existent. ![]() ![]() The story itself is meaningful as you follow Annabelle into becoming the type of person she wants to be, instead of who she is at the beginning of the book. Read this as teenager when I was younger and it brings back all the memories I had experienced during my first time reading it. ![]() ![]() ![]() 11-478), "A Writer Until the End" by Janie Camp Hjortsberg (479-487), and "Afterlife" (unpaginated), a one-page poem by William Hjortsberg. Signed by artists Ricardo Martinez and Alessandro Boni, Janie Camp Hjortsberg, with fascimile signature of author. 9-307), "Alessandro Boni Artwork Gallery" (316-326), "Afterward" by William Hjortsberg (327-334), "Letter from Stephen King" (335-336), "Gatz" by Thomas McGuane (337-340), and "Remembering Gatz" by Russell Chatham. Each signed on special flyleaf page by the artist(s) and Janie Camp Hjortsberg, the author's widow, with fascimile signature of the author (1941-2017), and "signatures" from the book's fictional characters. Black cloth slipcase with red head and tail, cream titles with artwork to spine. Dramatic red and black artwork on endpapers, with red ribbons. Black cloth boards with embossed artwork in blind metallic red titles to spines. 343 (Falling Angel), 484 (Angel's Inferno). Ricardo Martinez, Alessandro Boni (illustrator). ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Batman must race to stop his archnemesis before his reign of terror claims two of the Dark Knight's closest friends. And he's going to use Gotham City's top cop, Commissioner Jim Gordon, and his brilliant and beautiful daughter Barbara to do it. Freed once again from the confines of Arkham Asylum, he's out to prove his deranged point. ![]() ![]() ONE BAD DAY.Īccording to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as the Joker, that's all that separates the sane from the psychotic. In Batman: The Killing Joke, he takes on the origin of comics' greatest super-villain, The Joker, and changes Batman's world forever. Batman: The Killing Joke Deluxe (New Edition) - HardcoverĬritically acclaimed author Alan Moore redefined graphic novel story-telling with Watchmen and V for Vendetta. ![]() ![]() And for some reason, my brain connected that the fact that I was so excited that I chose my own excitement over whatever safekeeping measures that I could have had I kept - I mean, it's - you know, saying it out loud, it seems ridiculous. ![]() And then when I looked back, that's when it exploded. And I was looking forward to it so much, that when it started the ascension, I looked away. For some reason watching the shuttle explode, one of the things that I did was I was so excited by it. SIMON: Help us understand an episode in your life you write about, which I don't know might be an early sign of what you were going to wind up contending with, like, a lot of other school children, really around the world that day in the 1980s. And in order for me to just sort of get through my day without having to worry about worrying them, I'm OK is the easy and accessible answer. I'm hyperaware, especially now, that the people in my life are very worried about me. ![]() As open as I am about where I am with my emotional and mental health, I still think that the easy answer of I'm OK helps alleviate any guilt or pressure for other people to try and make me feel better. Did you have to tell that to survive? Do you still have to say it now? ![]() SIMON: I want to begin with another arresting phrase early in the book, the lie I tell the most is I'm OK. BASSEY IKPI: Thank you so much for having me. ![]() ![]() ![]() The mad, bad scientist himself, Victor Helios (nee Frankenstein), a bio-something-or-other who is creating the New Race, genetic freaks born in tanks with no human weakness such as love or compassion who he hopes will exterminate the weak, fickle Old Race. The main players are: Deucalion, the ‘monster’ the mad, bad scientist first created over 200 years ago using body parts (ugh) from a prison graveyard. Dead and Alive is the third novel is a series of five novels that re-imagine this famous tale. You’ve heard of Mary Shelley’s famous novel about mad, bad Frankenstein and the monster he created? You might have seen the movie with Robert DeNiro or another version of it. As New Orleans descends into chaos, his engineered killers spin out of control, and the only hope rests with Victor’s first and failed attempt to build the perfect human, whose damned path has led him to the ultimate confrontation with his pitiless creator.īut first, Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even Victor’s malignant mind could have imagined – an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind’s collective nightmare with one purpose: to replace us… ![]() ![]() TITLE: FRANKENSTEIN BOOK THREE: DEAD & ALIVEĪs a devastating hurricane approaches New Orleans, Victor Helios, once known as Frankenstein, has unleashed his benighted creatures onto the streets. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you have an original idea, such as a premise for a screenplay that you've written a summary of, congratulations! Your work has some copyright protections.Ĭopyright protection attaches when an original work is set into tangible form. Patents protect inventors' rights to their inventions inventions which can vary from machines to chemical compounds and even plants.Trademarks apply to words, names, or symbols intended to identify and distinguish goods or services of one manufacturer from another.Copyrights cover tangible artistic, musical, and literary works, such as paintings, lyrics, books, photographs, etc.Legal protection falls into three basic categories: copyrights, trademarks, and patents. ![]() Which kind of protection does your idea need? IP includes almost any kind of original creation-a novel, a logo, a song, or a new process for developing film. It all depends on your idea, which may qualify as "intellectual property" (IP). ![]() You're convinced it will fund your retirement handsomely, and even your muse will get a cut. How can you help safeguard your richly deserved rewards? You're ready to unleash your blockbuster idea. ![]() ![]() The plot starts slowly and gently then gathers pace to become an exciting and tense tale which could twist and turn in any way. ![]() Delicately woven, passionate and utterly engaging, this has to rank as one of the best novels of 2013 - Manda Scott Imogen Robertson's fourth novel is a breakaway from her much-acclaimed Harriet Westerman books, and fully confirms her as a true force in historical fiction ― Daily Mail This book is beautifully constructed around the device of a series of paintings. Addictive ― Nicci French Imogen Robertson has created a masterpiece of modern literature, establishing herself as one of the rising stars of a rising genre. ![]() ![]() A charming, fast-paced thriller ― People magazine Matchless storytelling, gripping and moving in equal measure. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her sister also encouraged her to read, and made a list of recommended books for Elizabeth. This was to become one of her favorite books. At the age of 12, at the request of her father, Yates read through the whole Bible. Yates credited her mother for instilling in her a love for books by reading aloud to the family. īooks were an important part of her life. ![]() ![]() Yates then spent a year at Oaksmere, a private school near New York City, founded by mathematician Winifred Edgerton Merrill. She attended Franklin School, graduating in 1924. She had a love of animals and the land, which stemmed from her childhood experiences. Early years and education Įlizabeth Yates was born in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of Harry and Mary Duffy Yates. Yates wrote a three-volume autobiography: My Diary – My World (1981), My Widening World (1983), and One Writer's Way (1984). Many of her books were illustrated by the British artist Nora S. She began her writing career as a journalist, contributing travel articles to The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. She had been a Newbery runner-up in 1944 for Mountain Born. She may have been known best for the biographical novel Amos Fortune, Free Man, winner of the 1951 Newbery Medal. Elizabeth Yates McGreal (Decem– July 29, 2001) was an American writer. ![]() |