![]() ![]() ![]() 'Ambrose proves once again he is a masterful historian. 'History boldly told and elegantly written. Ambrose can, the profound ties of brotherhood forged in the barracks and on the battlefields. Repeatedly send on the toughest missions, these brave men fought, went hungry, froze and died in the service of their country.Ī tale of heroic adventures and soul-shattering confrontations, Band of Brothers brings back to life, as only Stephen E. Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company. From their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to the dangerous parachute landings on D-Day and their triumphant capture of Hitler's 'Eagle's Nest' in Berchtesgaden. Ambrose pays tribute to the men of Easy Company, a crack rifle company in the US Army. The book that inspired Steven Spielberg's acclaimed TV series, produced by Tom Hanks and starring Damian Lewis. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.Ĭompact Disc. As Sagan demonstrates with lucid eloquence, the siren song of unreason is not just a cultural wrong turn but a dangerous plunge into darkness that threatens our most basic freedoms. And yet, disturbingly, in today's so-called information age, pseudoscience is burgeoning with stories of alien abduction, channeling past lives and communal hallucinations commanding growing attention and respect. Casting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons and UFOs. ![]() ![]() How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don't understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions. ![]() ![]() ![]() They may also contain content that is disagreeable or distressing to some readers. The stories in this collection may contain sexually explicit content and are intended for adult readers. Nearly 190 stories were submitted and have now been published as a twelve volume set with two additional bonus volumes, titled Love Has No Boundaries. The result was an outpouring of creativity that shone a spotlight on the special bond between M/M romance writers and the people who love what they produce. The Goodreads M/M Romance Group invited members to choose a photo and pen a letter asking for a short M/M romance story inspired by the image authors from the group were then encouraged to select a letter and write an original tale. ![]() They are a product of the Love Has No Boundaries promotion sponsored by the Goodreads M/M Romance Group, and each anthology is published as a gift to you. The stories you are about to read celebrate love, sex and romance between men. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ovid himself attributes his exile to carmen et error, "a poem and a mistake", but his discretion in discussing the causes has resulted in much speculation among scholars. He enjoyed enormous popularity, but in one of the mysteries of literary history he was sent by Augustus into exile in a remote province on the Black Sea, where he remained until his death. He was the first major Roman poet to begin his career during the reign of Augustus, and the Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. ![]() Ovid is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace, his older contemporaries, as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature. The Metamorphoses remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology. His poetry was much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and greatly influenced Western art and literature. ![]() Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BCE – CE 17/18), known as Ovid (/ˈɒvɪd/) in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet best known for the Metamorphoses, a 15-book continuous mythological narrative written in the meter of epic, and for collections of love poetry in elegiac couplets, especially the Amores ("Love Affairs") and Ars Amatoria ("Art of Love"). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Read on for an ultra relatable snapshot of life as a mum. To celebrate the launch, Gill has penned an exclusive short story for HELLO!. ![]() She's feeling overwhelmed and under-appreciated… and the only thing that Mummy knows for sure is that the bigger the kids, the bigger the drink. ![]() Mummy's kids are now navigating the trials and tribulations of reaching A-level age. Lockdown getting to you? If, like us, you're reaching for the wine and struggling to cope during these tough times, Gill Sims' brand new novel, 'Why Mummy's Sloshed: The Bigger the Kids, the Bigger the Drink' needs to be on your must-read list.ĭISCOVER: 7 brilliant tips from Stacey Solomon's sleep coach ![]() ![]() The two became close friends and in 1949 opened up the restaurant Café Nicholson together with Lewis as the Head Chef. Cut to Lewis meeting entrepreneur Johnny Nicholson. A craft honed through the teachings of techniques and traditions to preserve cultural heritage.Īt 16, Lewis left Freetown eventually making her way to New York where she landed a gig as a seamstress attracting big names like Marilyn Monroe. ![]() For Lewis and the Freetown community, cooking was a form of art and history. Here, Lewis grew up foraging, farming, and harvesting local, seasonal ingredients. ![]() The Grande Dame of Southern Cooking, writes in her book, In Pursuit of Flavor. The late Edna Lewis was born in Freetown, Virginia, a farming community established by emancipated enslaved people-including her grandfather Chester Lewis who opened up part of his home for the children of their community to use as a school. ![]() “When I was growing up, we ate only what was ripe and fresh at the moment,” Edna Lewis, a.k.a. ![]() ![]() ![]() Taking place just one year after the Tulsa Race Massacre, this event threatens to unleash an epidemic of hate on Georgia - and possibly the entire South. Griffith’s celebrated film is planned at Stone Mountain. Here, Simmons and his faction of newly-empowered Klansmen conducted a ritual that ushered in the Second Age of the Ku Klux Klan.įast-forward to 1922, a re-release of D.W. William Joseph Simmons, a preacher, fraternal society organizer, and “regular old witch,” was inspired by the film to coordinate a gathering at Stone Mountain, about thirty miles east of Atlanta. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation reinvigorated what was, at the time, a dying white supremacy movement. Hard to tell who won the war and who lost. The Klans died out, but the evil they loosed lived on - whipping and killing colored people for voting, driving them from government, whole massacres that established this Jim Crow what still choking us now. It was freed people that helped end that first Klan - Robert Smalls and his band. I read Ring Shout for Prompt #24 of my 2022 Reading Challenge: A book you can read in one sitting. Check out the complete list of prompts (and my selections!) ・゚✧here✧゚・. ![]() ![]() He was born as Mikheil Adamashvili in the village of Tserakvi in what is now the Kvemo Kartli region, Georgia (then part of Russian Empire). In modern Georgian prose only Konstantine Gamsakhurdia could aspire to the same international level." Early life and career In the words of the modern British scholar of Russian and Georgian literature, Donald Rayfield, "his vivid story-telling, straight in medias res, his buoyant humour, subtle irony, and moral courage merit comparison with those of Stendhal, Guy de Maupassant, and Émile Zola. His recalcitrance to the Soviet ideological pressure cost him life: he was executed during the Great Purge and his writings were banned for nearly twenty years. ![]() His first story appeared in 1903, but then the writer lapsed into a long pause before returning to writing in the early 1920s. Mikheil Javakhishvili (Georgian: მიხეილ ჯავახიშვილი birth surname: Adamashvili ადამაშვილი) (20 November 1880 – 30 September 1937) was a Georgian and Soviet novelist who is regarded as one of the top twentieth-century Georgian writers. Tserakvi, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away-with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. Nora Stephens' life is books-she’s read them all-and she is not that type of heroine. An insightful, delightful new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation. ![]() ![]() In the same year, a radio drama of Northern Lights was made by RTÉ (Irish public radio). The drama is now published by the BBC on CD. It starred Terence Stamp as Lord Asriel and Lulu Popplewell as Lyra. The trilogy was adapted as a radio play and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. The Book of Dust trilogy were all narrated by Michael Sheen.Īdaptations Radio Main article: His Dark Materials (radio play) The Collectors - an audiobook original - was narrated by Bill Nighy, whereas Serpentine will be narrated by Olivia Colman. The books of the original trilogy have been released as unabridged audiobooks, read by Philip Pullman with a cast providing the voices for the characters, this was repeated for Lyra's Oxford and Once Upon a Time in the North. ![]() The Secret Commonwealth (published 3 October 2019).La Belle Sauvage (published 19 October 2017).The follow-up trilogy to His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust, is currently being written: ![]()
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