Terra incognita ruth downie7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This is solid entertainment, nicely done. The plotting is clever and suspenseful, with subtle clues and lots of action, while the setting and supporting cast are vividly drawn. Ruso and Tilla must also deal with prejudice, envy and a new religion, Christianity. While Ruso and his family are quickly suspected of the murder, Ruso and Tilla’s attempts to solve the crime are hampered by interfering family members, a lying politician, a greedy banker and a pair of too-eager investigators sent from Rome. Once Ruso and Tilla return, Ruso is thrust into a dangerous quagmire involving a missing ship, huge family debts and, before long, the murder of the family’s principal creditor-a crafty phony named Severus-who is poisoned in Ruso’s home. Army doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso strikes out for the uncivilized bo. Ruso returns to his family home in southern Gaul, summoned by a forged letter pleading for his immediate return. Read 367 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The third installment to Downie’s Roman Empire series-the second-century saga of a witty and courageous army surgeon, Gaius Ruso, and his smart and loyal lover, Tilla, a barbarian woman from Britannia-continues in gripping fashion. ![]()
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Group by christie tate7/6/2023 ![]() Any bravery that people see in Christie’s own writing can be traced to Lidia’s book.Ĭhristie believes that her initial recovery from active bulimia had a lightning bolt effect. It turns out Lidia teaches online classes through her own organization and Christie was able to study with her and meet some other writers that also loved her book. ![]() ![]() After she read the book, she was so overcome with emotion about what she gives the reader on the page that she sought her out in order to pen a fan letter. She was so blown away by Lidia’s storytelling, feeling like she had stuck her finger into an electrical socket. “Chronology of Water” by Lidia Yuknavitch is a book that changed her life. She would only learn later that she had a lot to learn. At this time in her life, she believed that if she was thin enough and just made good enough grades, she would be happy. When she was just eighteen, one thing she did not know was that happiness was one thing that she would need to work at understanding for herself and that she would need to untangle a bunch of old messages, toxic stuff from culture, about what happiness required. Her work’s been published in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Pithead Chapel, The Chicago Tribune, McSweeney’s, Entropy Magazine, Motherwell, A Perfect Wedding, Brain, Child,, and others. Tate is a Chicago-based essayist and writer. ![]() Say no to joe by lori foster7/6/2023 ![]() Warner, who runs elections in West Virginia, toed the line for more than two years before going on a talk show this week to say he can “now firmly say” he believes the election was stolen. They persist in those views despite repeated investigations, audits and court cases concluding there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud or improper counting that could have changed the results in Donald Trump’s favor. Years after Democrat Joe Biden was declared the White House winner, Secretary of State Mac Warner and Attorney General Patrick Morrisey say they remain concerned his victory was not legitimate. But first, they have to sort out what happened in 2020. ![]() ![]() (AP) - Some Republican officeholders in West Virginia are already revving up campaigns for governor in 2024. ![]() Breaking Free by Rachel Jeffs7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Detailing how Warren Jeffs's influence over the church twisted its already rigid beliefs in dangerous new directions, Wall portrays the inescapable mind-set and unrelenting pressure that forced her to wed despite her repeated protests that she was too young. Offering a child's perspective on life in the FLDS, Wall discusses her tumultuous youth, explaining how her family's turbulent past intersected with her strong will and identified her as a girl who needed to be controlled through marriage. Now, in this courageous memoir, Elissa Wall tells the incredible story of how she emerged from the confines of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) and helped bring one of America's most notorious criminals to justice. ![]() This harrowing account proved to be the most compelling evidence against Jeffs, showing the harsh realities of this closed community and the lengths to which Jeffs went in order to control the sect's women. ![]() George, Utah, sat hushed as Elissa Wall, the star witness against polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, gave captivating testimony of how Jeffs forced her to marry her first cousin at age fourteen. In September 2007, a packed courtroom in St. ![]() Marc lamont hill seen and unseen7/6/2023 ![]() Seen and Unseen reveals the connections between our current news headlines and social media feeds and the country’s long struggle against racism.ĭrawing on the powerful role of technology as a driver of history, identity, and racial consciousness, Seen and Unseen asks why, after so much video confirmation of police violence on people of color, it took the footage of George Floyd to trigger an overwhelming response of sympathy and outrage. ![]() With his signature “clear and courageous” (Cornel West) voice Marc Lamont Hill and New York Times bestselling author Todd Brewster weave four recent pivotal moments in America’s racial divide into their disturbing historical context-starting with the killing of George Floyd. A riveting exploration of how visual media has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the author of the “worthy and necessary” ( The New York Times) Nobody Marc Lamont Hill and the bestselling author and acclaimed journalist Todd Brewster. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While working for The Sunday Times he published the book, War on the Mind: The Military Uses and Abuses of Psychology, which revealed psychological research carried out by various military forces in the Cold War period. He worked at New Society from 1970 to 1973, eventually serving as deputy editor, and was for four years a member of the Insight team at The Sunday Times. Having given up psychology he settled into a career in journalism and edited the first incarnation of Race Today, a journal launched in 1969 by the Institute of Race Relations think-tank. Laing, but left this profession in the late 1960s after becoming dissatisfied with Freudian theories. ![]() Career Journalism (1969-1982) Īfter university Watson trained as a psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic in London under R. He subsequently earned a scholarship to study for a diploma in music at La Sapienza and then completed a doctorate at the University of London. He graduated in Psychology from Durham in 1964. Watson attended Cheltenham Grammar School. His journalistic work includes detailed investigations of auction houses and the international market in stolen antiquities. Peter Frank Patrick Watson (born 23 April 1943) is a British intellectual historian and former journalist, now perhaps best known for his work in the history of ideas. ![]() The secret circle the initiation7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() After her encounters with the group of students, Cassie learns that she, along with the other students, is a witch. Faye Chamberlain, the voluptuous and dark puppet master, desires to turn Cassie into her plaything. In time, she meets Diana, the fair-haired beauty, whom Cassie comes to love like a sister. At her new high school, Cassie encounters a strange group of students who rule the student population. Cassie and her mother move to New Salem, and, much to her surprise, Adam is there. After meeting him, she rids herself of the idea of a relationship with him because she thinks they’ll never see each other again. And She Will Emerge the Leader or Perish! PlotĪ chance encounter brings sixteen-year-old Cassie Blake to fall for the mysterious Adam Conant. But if she does, her endless love could destroy the coven, New Salem, and her! ![]() Hopelessly in love with the coven leader's boyfriend, Cassie risks falling prey to dark powers in order to have him. Ĭharmed by the Secret Circle, she's initiated into the mysterious "in crowd," a coven of young witches whose power has controlled New Salem for three hundred years. Ĭassie must confront a shattering challenge: an ordeal that could cost her life or gain her more than she's ever imagined. ![]() The Stone Goddess by Minfong Ho7/6/2023 ![]() Her first short story eventually evolved into her first novel, Sing to the Dawn, which received first prize from the Council of Interracial Books for Children. She recognized that many Americans had false notions about life in Asia and she set out to change this by writing based on her own experience there. ![]() While attending Cornell University, Ho began writing her first short story, in an attempt to combat strong feelings of homesickness. There, she received her BA in Economics and History as well as her M.F.A. She was educated in Thailand and Taiwan, before moving to the United States to attend Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Her parents are of Chinese origin, so she spoke fluent Chinese in her home, Thai in the marketplace of Bangkok and English in school. Minfong Ho was born in Rangoon, Burma, and raised in both Singapore and Bangkok, Thailand. ![]() Holly Meade has illustrated many acclaimed books for children, including ON MORNING WINGS, THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR, BLUE BOWL DOWN: AN APPALACHIAN RHYME, PEEK! A THAI HIDE-AND-SEEK, and HUSH! A THAI LULLABY, a Caldecott Honor Book. The author of such picture books as ON A WINTRY MORNING, ONE LITTLE MOUSE, and MOMMA, WILL YOU?, she lives in Germantown, Wisconsin. ![]() ![]() Dori Chaconas learned story pacing from an early age while entertaining her younger siblings. ![]() Keys to the demon prison7/6/2023 ![]() In a doorway on your left you Alva, Seeker of the Spurned will invade wielding a curved sword and crossbow. Exit this room and follow the stairs outside along the cliff. Back up the stairs you came down is a way to drop down to the right to find a Rusted Gold Coin 1x, but be mindful of fall damage that will result from the drop. Once you have dispatched these enemies, head to the right to find 2 hags behind a pillar and a corpse with Large Titanite Shard 1x. Descend the steps from the bonfire to encounter two hags and a dancer hiding around the corner to the left. Head inside the archway and down to the Bonfire. Instead of heading under the overpass, traverse until you reach the deluged cobblestone shore and an ancient building. You reach this area from Irithyll of the Boreal Valley by progressing from the Yorshka church, down the steps on the left, and through the large body of water. ![]() ![]() Here for Lore and Speculation on this location. ![]() Haze by D. Dove7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() At one time Turner, like God, seemed to be everywhere, whether it was her face staring back at us through record store windows, or the woman herself strutting across stage in one of her trademark black leather miniskirts and gravity-defying wigs. It seems almost redundant to again trot out the chronology of a life that was chronicled in no fewer than three memoirs, a biopic, a jukebox musical, and the well-received 2021 HBO/Sky joint production Tina, which drew the best TV documentary ratings since the Michael Jackson expose, Leaving Neverland. That was the life trajectory of the artist known to the world as Tina Turner, who died Wednesday at the age of eighty-three. ![]() Even rock and roll can have produced few stranger paths than the one that led a then physically unprepossessing, raspy-voiced African-American named Anna Mae Bullock from her early days as a devoutly Baptist sharecropper’s daughter in Depression-era Tennessee, to her final years as a practicing Buddhist living in a whitewashed mansion overlooking the dove-blue haze of Lake Geneva. ![]() |