5/31/2023 0 Comments Isabella by Kirstin Downey“A tale of feminist ambition that reads like a pulpy novel. Longlisted for the 2015 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Using new scholarship, Downey’s luminous biography tells the story of this brilliant, fervent, forgotten woman, the faith that propelled her through life, and the land of ancient conflicts and intrigue she brought under her command.įinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Yet history has all but forgotten Isabella’s influence. Whether saintly or satanic, no female leader has done more to shape our modern world. She also annihilated all who stood against her by establishing a bloody religious Inquisition that would darken Spain’s reputation for centuries. She sponsored Columbus’s trip to the Indies and negotiated Spanish control over much of the New World. She laid the foundation for a unified Spain. She ended a twenty-four-generation struggle between Muslims and Christians, forcing North African invaders back over the Mediterranean Sea. In 1474, when most women were almost powerless, twenty-three-year-old Isabella defied a hostile brother and a mercurial husband to seize control of Castile and León. An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in history.
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Faefever by karen marie moningAbout 20-30 % me would go back in time and change that decision. I gotta say, to start off, that reading the first three chapters in advance muted some of my excitement over this book. Who's with me? By the way, how do you know your man's a keeper? When he sees you ogling your Faefever Countdown widget with 10 hours, 42 minutes, and 15 seconds left to go and says, "do you want me to go to the bookstore while you're at work tomorrow?" Hoo-wee! Well, if we start now we could have a movement going for next year. I swear, we should have been able to declare the 16th a national holiday. I trust everyone is back on schedule after having put their lives on hold while reading Fae. the agonizing wait for Faefever is over and we now usher in the torturous downtime until Dreamfever. 5/31/2023 0 Comments Cherie priest boneshaker seriesHis quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Just beyond it lives Blue's widow, Briar Wilkes. Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead. Blue's Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska's ice. In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. About the Book a steampunk-zombie-airship adventure of rollicking pace and sweeping proportions, full of wonderfully gnarly details.-Scott Westerfeld, author of "Leviathan." 5/31/2023 0 Comments 12 angry men reginald roseShipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. At the end of a long afternoon he wins, all the others round to his view. Eleven of the jurors declare there is no reasonable doubt, but one of them, while far from convinced of the boy's innocence, feels that some of the evidence against him has been ambiguous. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose. The judge has directed the jury to find the boy guilty if there is no reasonable doubt. 12 Angry Men essays are academic essays for citation. Cobb, Martin Balsam Have you ever heard the expression herding cats Its all about situations when you just cant seem to get people to agree on anything or coordinate their efforts. A young delinquent is on trial for the murder of his aggressive father. 12 Angry Men Introduction Release Year: 1957 Genre: Crime, Drama Director: Sidney Lumet Writer: Reginald Rose Stars: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Reginald Rose, one of the most respected writers during the early days of television, served as a juror in a manslaughter case in early 1954. Eleven of the jurors declare there is no reasonable doubt, but one of them, while far from convinced of the boy's innocence, feels that some of the evidence against him has been ambiguous. It was inspired by a real jury duty experience. The judge has directed the jury to find the boy guilty if there is no reasonable doubt. A young delinquent is on trial for the murder of his aggressive father. 5/31/2023 0 Comments Sas heroes bookWhile there, Stirling is thought to have met Captain Julius Morris Green, a Scottish prisoner of war who worked as a spy for MI9 during his time at the prisoner camp. With Captain Stirling eventually being imprisoned in Colditz Castle and tasked with setting up the Colditz British Intelligence Unit, the second series might include elements of another of Macintyre's books, Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle. “We're gonna to take it to after the end of the Second World War and then see what happens, because the story just keeps it going… and it just gets more and more incredible.” “We're gonna go another three,” Knight told LadBible. The show's creator Steven Knight says he originally intended the drama to run for three seasons and the first series only covered the first part of Ben McIntyre's book, upon which the show is based. SAS Rogue Heroes has been greenlit for a second season and the wartime stories of David Stirling and Paddy Mayne had only just begun when the credits rolled at the end of season one. Paddy Mayne and the SAS will return (Image credit: BBC) Will there be a SAS Rogue Heroes season 2? |