![]() ![]() ![]() As an adult, she has long, pale blonde hair, a straight nose, heart-shaped face, and large eyes. She is described as having her mother’s piousness and “high, pure forehead”, and is extremely sensitive and impressionable. ![]() Younger sister to Iris, born in the autumn of 1919. Like her younger sister, she is also blonde She constantly feels pressure and the need to look out for her younger sister Laura. She describes herself as appearing to be her father’s child, stating that she looked more like him, inheriting “his scowl, his dogged skepticism” as well as his hard nature. She is the eldest child in the Chase family, born in June of 1916, while her father was away fighting in the First World War. The main protagonist and narrator of the novel. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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![]() When it becomes clear Freya is in grave danger, he'll risk everything to keep her safe. But she's also fiery, bold, and sensuous - a temptation he can't resist. Freya knows all about his sins - sins he'd much rather forget. Until he recognizes Freya, masquerading among the party revelers, and realizes his troubles have just begun. ![]() ![]() Intent on keeping his secrets safe, he agrees to attend a house party where he will put an end to this coercion once and for all. ![]() So when the duke of Harlowe, the man who destroyed her brother and led to the downfall of her family, appears at the country house party she's attending, she does what any Wise Woman would do: She starts planning her revenge.Ĭhristopher Renshaw, the duke of Harlowe, is being blackmailed. New York Times best-selling author Elizabeth Hoyt brings us the first audiobook in her sexy and sensual Greycourt Series!įreya de Moray is many things: A member of the secret order of Wise Women, the daughter of disgraced nobility, and a chaperone living under an assumed name. ![]() ![]() Telecommunications, satellites, computers, and fiber optics taken together are halving the cost of processing, storing, and transmitting information every eighteen months. No, time has not ceased and space has not vanished, but life does seem to be moving rapidly that way. Portugal entered the 21st century as the first European nation to have freed itself from communism, returned to democracy and set about rebuilding itself as a vital part of the new Europe. They brought to Africa protection from malaria, and slave-shipments to America to India, higher education, curry and samosas to Japan, tempura and firearms. The Portuguese gave the English afternoon tea, and Bombay, the key to empire. ![]() Portuguese Jews introduced tulips, chocolate and diamonds to Holland. Before he became Pope John XXI, Joao Hispano of Lisbon wrote one of the first modern medical textbooks, consulted through much of Europe more than a century later. After the Norman conquest of Lisbon, the new Portugal bankrupted Venice and became the wealthiest nation in Europe. During the Dark Ages further north, Portugal's Arab rulers made it part of the world's most advanced civilization. Here, Hannibal discovered the warriors, weapons and gold, to march on Rome and Julius Caesar found the fortune that paid the way to his conquests of Gaul and England. When Jonah was swallowed by the big fish, he was trying to escape to what is now Portugal. ![]() ![]() Not to say, I didn’t like it, far from it, it just wasn’t quite what I was expecting. And while peppered with sweet, intellectual moments between the lovebirds, I missed the more puzzle solving, archaeological influences of the first book. ![]() ![]() The antagonists in this book mainly are trying to scare off our main characters. Now they must fight to clear their names and to gain acceptance on the island before its too late.Now, overall, the plot of this book lacked a lot of the sense of danger that defined the first book. However, things don’t quite go as they planned when Rias and Tikaya are arrested before they even leave the docks. Therefore, I can’t recommend this book unless you’ve already read Encrypted.Now that Rias and Tikaya have escaped their captors, and the ruins, alive, its time for the scariest prospect of them all – introducing her new beau to the family. ![]() I like this series better than her main Emperor’s Edge series.The action in this book directly follows the the action from the first book. The first novel in this series, Encrypted, is the first thing I ever read by Lindsay Buroker, and the novel that got me hooked on her world. ![]() ![]() ![]() They faced formidable resistance within their own communities even as they willingly took on new roles: “In bed,” Hartman writes of one lesbian couple, “it seemed like it was only the two of them in the world, in the vast stillness of the deep of night. In one Philadelphia area, for instance, “more than half the women in the ward were single, widowed, or separated, and this imperiled the newly fledged black family”-imperiled it because so many of those unencumbered women were determined to live on their own terms, having begun a journey to freedom that was ongoing. The population, writes the author, was young and in many cases disproportionately female, with liberating follow-on consequences. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, 2007, etc.) examines the many ways in which (mostly) young black women tried to live their lives within the confines of new urban enclaves such as Harlem and West Philadelphia, from which Italian and Jewish immigrants had moved on and into which newcomers from the South were streaming. A provocative study of urban African-American women a century and more ago.Ĭharacterizing her work as an “account of the wayward,” literary scholar Hartman (English/Columbia Univ. ![]() ![]() Gies expresses regret over how some of the residents, in particular Dussel, where protrayed in various film versions.Īdditionally, Gies presents a good look at Amsterdam and the Netherlands during the war. She shows that Edith Frank was willing, encouraged, her husband and children to escape to America, even if it meant living her behind. Gies points out that Anne's diary was lucky enough to surive, while Margot's was not. The Van Danns become more just Anne's fighting couple and are shown to be as intelligent and as generous as the Franks. Gies, however, brings a different prespective to several of the attic residents. Frank, and in part because of the popularity of Anne Frank's diary. ![]() In part, this is because Gies had a closer relationship to Mr. In many ways, Otto and Anne Frank still dominant the book. Like the documentry about Anne Frank, this book does much in dispelling some of the myths that surrond the Frank family and thier assoicates. ![]() She may have a co-author, but her voice comes though loud and clear. ![]() If a person has heard Miep Gies speak, this book is extactly like her speech. ![]() ![]() ![]() In my analysis, I will show how Johnson’s imagery resonates with both the drunkard narrative and seminal works of American naturalism, such Stephen Crane’s Maggie (1893) and Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie (1900), and how Clarence and Corinne exemplifies salient-though rarely examined-interconnections between temperance discourse and naturalist aesthetics. ![]() Just as many novels published in the Black Woman’s Era at the turn of the twentieth century, it parallels the tradition of white woman’s fiction as defined by Nina Baym and the sentimental tradition as discussed by Jane Tompkins. ![]() The article investigates the intersection of temperance discourse and emergent naturalist aesthetics in Amelia E. ![]() ![]() ![]() They lead to solutions radically different from the ones we have been offered up until now. Hari’s journey took him from the people living in the tunnels beneath Las Vegas, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin-all showing in vivid and dramatic detail these new insights. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate this question-and he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression and anxiety is wrong.Īcross the world, Hari discovered social scientists who were uncovering the real causes-and they are mostly not in our brains, but in the way we live today. ![]() ![]() He was told-like his entire generation-that his problem was caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, a startling challenge to our thinking about depression and anxiety.Īward-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking antidepressants when he was a teenager. ![]() ![]() ![]() This new edition includes the original illustrations by Kathryn Uhl and features an introduction by Leslie Bow, who critically examines the changing reception and enduring legacy of the book and offers insight into Wong’s life as an artist and an ambassador of Chinese American culture. Unexplained disappearances at a sinister hotel (and former sanatorium) in the Swiss Alps spell trouble for vacationing detective Elin Warner in Pearses. ![]() ![]() It was written at a time when few portraits of Asian American life were available, and no similar works were as popular and broadly appealing. Sarah Pearse’s debut novel is a twisty, heart-thumping whodunit that’s been compared to the best of Agatha Christie. The US State Department even sent its charismatic young author on a four-month speaking tour throughout Asia.Ĭited as an influence by prominent Chinese American writers such as Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston, Fifth Chinese Daughter is a foundational work in Asian American literature. Mesmerizing, lyrical prose contrasts starkly with the dark story events in this debut thriller set at a remote. Originally published in 1950, Fifth Chinese Daughter was one of the most widely read works by an Asian American author in the twentieth century. Sarah Pearses The Sanatorium is a knockout. Jade Snow Wong’s autobiography portrays her coming-of-age in San Francisco's Chinatown, offering a rich depiction of her immigrant family and her strict upbringing, as well as her rebellion against family and societal expectations for a Chinese woman. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet it’s absolutely worth reading - and full of quotes that really should show up on mugs and T-shirts: We Are What We Are first among these. Prepare to weep.! Are there no flaws then? Compared to the first Theseus book this story hasn’t got the unstoppable sweep towards a resolution which makes The King Must Die such a juggernaut. Most unforgettable is the part is the story of the Amazon. About the Book In her inventive novels of ancient Greece, Mary Renault performs the alchemical feats of fashioning from the myth of Theseus a convincingly. ![]() The story alternates between stirring action and a bittersweet nostalgia for a lost past. Well known characters and episodes from Ancient Greek mythology will show up - you will be able to recognise famous plays, artworks and general mythological stories in the plot. This is the tale is the second half of the Greek mythological hero Theseus’ life. A world that is so beautifully detailed that her creation breathes, and you would swear to it’s reality even when you know better. Renault allows the reader to stay in the vivid world that never was, her vision of the epic Bronze Age. ![]() |