![]() ![]() ![]() In 1841 he addressed a convention of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Nantucket and so greatly impressed the group that they immediately employed him as an agent. Soon thereafter he changed his name to Frederick Douglass. In 1838 he escaped from slavery and went to New York City, where he married Anna Murray, a free colored woman whom he had met in Baltimore. As a young boy he was sent to Baltimore, to be a house servant, where he learned to read and write, with the assistance of his master’s wife. He was not sure of the exact year of his birth, but he knew that it was 1817 or 1818. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slaveįrederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. ![]()
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![]() ![]() His diaries, written in secrecy, provide a vivid account of everyday life in Hitler's Germany.What makes this book so remarkable, aside from its literary distinction, is Klemperer's preoccupation with the thoughts and actions of ordinary Germans: Berger the greengrocer, who was given Klemperer's house ("anti-Hitlerist, but of course pleased at the good exchange"), the fishmonger, the baker, the much-visited dentist. ![]() A Dresden Jew, a veteran of World War I, a man of letters and historian of great sophistication, Klemperer recognized the danger of Hitler as early as 1933. "In its cool, lucid style and power of observation," said The New York Times, "it is the bestwritten, most evocative, most observant record of daily life in the Third Reich." I Will Bear Witness is a work of literature as well as a revelation of the day-by-day horror of the Nazi years. On of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1933-1941 (Living Language Series) Book Information: ![]() ![]() If (('gtm=off') const isAppRedirect = ('appRedirect') Ĭonst isAndroid = /Android/i.test(erAgent) Ĭonst isIphone = /iPhone|iPad|iPod/i. But if they succeed, she just might be able to restore her family and carve out the life she's always envisioned. But what she does know is that together, she and Carden must pass a series of tests and trials. The rules the fae queen gives them are vague, and it's obvious there are things Queen Coeur isn't telling them. ![]() Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. A chance encounter with Carden changes everything for her, but the deadly game he's dragged her into might cost her life. Under the name Michelle Lynn, she writes romance and dystopian as well as upcoming fantasies. Golden Curse: A Free Epic Fantasy Romance Novel. ![]() When he finds himself caught in a web woven by the famously ruthless fae queen, Coeur, he insults her and she vows to teach him the most difficult and heart-breaking lesson he will ever learn: that humans are incapable of love, and that hearts are beastly things.Īrabella wasn't really living, she was existing and surviving as best she could. Instead of wallowing in despair, he embarks on a new journey, starting a new life on the Southern Isle. ![]() Prince Carden of Tierney lost his home, family, and claim to the throne in one fell swoop when he rebelled against his father for a cause he knew was right. ![]() Bond, a fairy tale retelling where Alice in Wonderland meets Beauty and the Beast ![]() ![]() ![]() Nothing too in-depth, and sadly he was unable to add his art to my Art Evolution project because it had been too many years since he’d done that kind of work. I sat with Bill at a seaside café back on 2009 when ComicCon was still a monster, but not the headache it is today and we discussed his work in the field. ![]() His tenure there, which ended with a blow up concerning the termination of artists that removed both he and Dee from the company, ended up being the best thing for him as he went on to relative fame and fortune in comics, a place that his talent certainly spawned from. I’ve always been a fan of his work, dating back to those early days in the RPG field when he was a member of ‘The First Four’ at TSR.Īlong with Jim Roslof, Jeff Dee, and Erol Otus, Bill managed to produce some absolutely lovely interior illustrations and acrylic covers for the first sets of D&D modules, once the business took off and TSR could afford color. Bet you didn’t realize it was cropped, did you?įormer TSR Artist and now comic writer sensation Bill Willingham wanted to be Frank Frazetta, or so I surmise. Check out the lady below Elric in this Willingham done for White Plume Mountain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Nikki determines to deny her feelings to save them both from hell. Mace and Raven have a forbidden love for Nikki and it may end them both. Nikki starts off not believing in God and through her trials, learns to trust and have faith in God. When three handsome Halflings (half angel and half human) show themselves to Nikki and swear to protect her, she soon must come to grips with a world she never even considered existed. She soon discovers that not only were they really hell hounds, Angels and Demons actually exist- Her simple life is shattered. Nikki finds herself being chased and nearly killed by what she thinks are wild dogs. Length of Book: paperback approximately 280 to 300 pages Target Audience Range: Teens to Young Adult Grade level Equivalent Reading level: Teen Halflings Series by Heather Burch (Halflings, Guardian and Avenger) ![]() ![]() Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, “None of what’s going to happen is your fault”. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. ![]() Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. ![]() Where Did I Get This Book: A friend let me borrow it!īook Description: The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts adds an inventive twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense that recalls Stephen King’s Misery, Ruth Ware’s In a Dark, Dark Wood, and Jack Ketchum’s cult hit The Girl Next Door. Publishing Info: William Morrow, June 2018 Book: “The Cabin at the End of the World” by Paul Tremblay ![]() ![]() ![]() Ada Lovelace never saw her work used, but it helped the first American computers a lot. The machine she made this algorithm for was never completed and the idea was forgotten until the notebooks were rediscovered in 1937. She came up with an algorithm that would calculate Bernoulli numbers which could change the state of a machine by using loops and if/else statements. ![]() ![]() Ada Lovelace was a young English mathematician. The very first person that history considers to be a software programmer is Ada Lovelace. There’s a lot to be said about this period in time with a lot of interesting history so let’s get into it. It started with a woman in 1842, leading up to software for very big and important computers in world war 2. Women were dominating the software development field once upon a time. I did some research, read books and articles, and decided to write a short condensed version of what happened to women in tech for everybody that wants to know. There’s a lot of history behind women in tech, how it was a female-dominated field at some point, and the big decline. Since 1984 there has been a huge decline in the number of women trying to get into Computer Science. Did you know that programming was once seen as a woman’s job? Not many people do but it is true. ![]() ![]() Maynard, owner of the Rooster Bar in Foggy Bottomĭarrell Cromley, lawyer at DUI court in D.C. Hinds Rackley, Wall Street lawyer and investment crook, owner of FBLS and seven other law schools.Ībdou Maal, Zola’s Muslim father originally from Senegal in Africaįanta Maal, Zola’s Muslim mother, originally from Senegal in Africaīo Maal, Zola’s brother, American citizen Louie Frazier, Brother to Mark, in trouble for drug dealing ![]() Gordy Tanner, Senior Year Law School Student at Foggy Bottom Law School, FBLS ![]() Zola Maal, Senior Year Law School Student at Foggy Bottom Law School, FBLS Todd Lucero, Senior Year Law School Student at Foggy Bottom Law School, FBLS ![]() Mark Frazier, Senior Year Law School Student at Foggy Bottom Law School, FBLS modern day For-Profit Law School Plus trips to Senegal in Africa. The Rooster Bar by John Grisham Book Report by Bobby Everett Smith ![]() ![]() After all, at the book’s end, we know she has children but know very little about them or her relationship or devotion to them, we know she is divorced but know very little of the details, and we know she is a professor but know little beyond that except what we might piece together from he seemingly fast and loose academic technique during a seminar (which is, incidentally, volubly critiqued by one of its students - but even then, we know very little about how she received that criticism). Hers is a kind of anti-narrator who seems to elicit and absorb the stories of all those around her (quite literally, when teaching a writing seminar, but also more informally, in her social relationships and happenstance encounters with strangers) and yet who seems reluctant or unwilling or unable to share her own. Some of her achievements from a technique standpoint are nothing short of astounding - especially in her presentation of the narrator, a cool and removed and detached presence about whom, at the end of the day, we know very little. Let’s start with this: there is no question that Cusk is brilliant. ![]() This book started very strong, took some questionable twists and turns, and left me feeling intellectually challenged and emotionally shortchanged. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Justus's Grand Lower City Infiltration ( Justus POV).Wilfried's Day as the High Bishop ( Wilfried POV).Chapter 12: Starting Merchant Activities.Chapter 10: Preparing for the Harvest Festival.Chapter 8: Discussing How to Improve Hasse.Chapter 7: Opening the Italian Restaurant.Chapter 6: A New Task & Winter Preparations.Chapter 4: The Orphan's Treatment & Investigating the City.Chapter 1: Discussing the Harvest Festival.This is the most action-packed volume of this biblio-fantasy yet! Being the High Bishop is hard, okay?!Ĭharacters are listed in order of appearance. Still, Rozemyne doesn’t give up! Encouraged by meetings with her lower city family and friends, she recharges by reading books in the temple! She’ll need as much energy as she can get as the yearly Night of Schutzaria is fast approaching, where Rozemyne will need to travel to the forest bordering Dorvan to gather materials. On top of all that, Ferdinand the High Priest is being as harsh as can be. ![]() Preparing for the Harvest Festival, taking care of new orphans, dealing with the dissatisfaction of a neighboring town-her list of problems just keeps on growing. Rozemyne, now both the High Bishop and the archduke’s adopted daughter, finds herself lost in a position of power she just isn’t used to. ![]() |