Bowie, a forger of land claims, and Travis, an unscrupulous country lawyer, hardly fit our prescription for heroes after Davis is done with them. Of the three, Crockett comes off the best, as inventive, yet not immoral like the other two. His 187 pages of notes attest to the thoroughness of his research. Davis, a much-published historian of 19th-century America, contends that we "part reluctantly with our myths, and the more so when by removing the fable, we leave a hole in the story that we cannot fill with fact." In weaving the three strands of his narrative, which come together only in the last pages as the frontiersman, con man and entrepreneur join forces in the Alamo, Davis evokes boisterous Jacksonian America. Crockett had long been a legend in his own time when he turned up in San Antonio to join Bowie and Travis in the pantheon of frontier gallants. In the siege of the compound, all three would die violently in the predawn hours of March 6. A few days later, David Crockett wandered in from Tennessee, where he had lost his bid for reelection to Congress and vowed never to return. In 1836, Bowie and Travis, who would lead the 200 doomed Texas rebels at the Alamo, met for the first time at the walled adobe buildings that were largely comprised of the church of San Jose y Santiago del Alamo de Parras.
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6/28/2023 0 Comments The Next Ship Home by Heather WebbThat same day, a young German American woman reports to her first day of work at the immigration center. This is a novel of the dark secrets of Ellis Island, when entry to “the land of the free” promised a better life but often delivered something drastically different, and when immigrant strength and female friendship found ways to triumph even on the darkest days.Ī young Italian woman arrives on the shores of America, her sights set on a better life. Inspired by true events and for fans of Kristina McMorris and Hazel Gaynor, The Next Ship Home holds up a mirror to our own times, deftly questioning America’s history of prejudice and exclusion while also reminding us of our citizens’ singular determination. ELLIS ISLAND, 1902: Two women band together to hold America to its promise: “Give me your tired, your poor…your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” 6/28/2023 0 Comments Black light kimberly king parsonsBut what I couldn’t shake, even days later, was the depth of Parsons’s understanding of the human heart. It was her voice-fierce, gritty, twangy, and dark-that initially pulled me in her use of language both unexpected and apt that kept me reading at an almost frightening pace. I first encountered her work while reading submissions for the literary journal No Tokens back in 2016. Parsons writes with bleak humor and offbeat wisdom about thwarted desire: aching friendships, doomed love affairs, marriages gone stale. Such is an ordinary sequence of events for a character fashioned by Parsons’s singular mind. Case in point: in “Glow Hunter,” when the impossibly magnetic Bo gets shards of glass embedded in her hand while doing parking-lot cartwheels, she pours Mountain Dew on the gash, watches it fizz, and goes about her day (which involves hunting for magic mushrooms in roadside cowpats). Parsons gives her characters ample space to make mistakes, and they do-repeatedly-but we love them no less for it. The Texan girls and women who populate Black Light, Kimberly King Parsons’s debut story collection, are messy and loud and unapologetic. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Private series kate brianReed uses every part of herself - the good, the bad, the beautiful - to get closer to the Billings Girls. Reed vows to do whatever it takes to be accepted into their inner circle. They hold all the power in a world where power is fleeting but means everything. They are the most beautiful, intelligent, and intensely confident girls on campus. She feels like she’s on the outside, looking in. Reed realizes that even though she has been accepted to Easton, Easton has not accepted her. But when she arrives on the beautiful, tradition-steeped campus of Easton, everyone is just a bit more sophisticated, a bit more gorgeous, and a lot wealthier than she ever thought possible. Fifteen-year-old Reed Brennan wins a scholarship to Easton Academy - the golden ticket away from her pill-popping mother and run-of-the-mill suburban life. 6/28/2023 0 Comments The vagrants novel"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House. Includes reader's guide and discussion questions The Vagrants by Yiyun Li - Reading Guide: 9780812973341 - : Books In luminous prose, award-winning author Yiyun Li weaves together the lives of unforgettable characters who are forced to make moral choices, and choices. Even those who seem unconnected to the tragedy - an eleven-year-old boy seeking fame and glory, a nineteen-year-old village idiot in love with a young and deformed girl, and old couple making a living by scavenging the town's garbage cans - are caught up in remorseless turn of events We follow the pain of Gu Shan's parents, the hope and fear of the leaders of the protest and their families. It also deals with the aftermath of losing a child to suicide, and is deeply informed. They are all taken on a painful journey from one young woman's death to another. Yiyun Lis novel Must I Go is a portrait of the rich inner life of an octogenarian woman in long-term care. Sumei, a mother of a young child, is sentenced to death as an anti-Communist activist. The citizens stage a protest after her death and, over the following six weeks, the town goes through uncertainty, hope, and fear until eventually the rebellion is brutally suppressed. She is twenty-eight years old and has already spent ten years in prison. In the provincial town of Muddy Waters in China, a young woman named Gu Shan is sentenced to death for her loss of faith in Communism. I'm playing a dangerous game, especially where my heart is concerned, but there's no turning back. But I'm not some innocent thirteen-year-old anymore-I have blood on my hands and lethal enemies on my tail. War has come to Lowell as rival gangs battle The Sainthood for ultimate power, and I enjoy rebelling from the inside, placing more obstacles in Sinner's path while I exact my revenge. Sinner thinks he's in control, but forcing me into initiation plays right into my hands. They all will, because I can't pull this off alone, and they owe me. Saint is used to calling the shots, but there are new rules, my rules, and if he wants me in his life, and in his bed, he'll toe the line. Galen did me a favor, reminding me the only person I can count on is myself, and I'm more determined than ever to avenge my father's death and avoid the destiny Sinner has mapped out for me. ★☆ AMAZON TOP 25 BESTSELLER ★☆ #1 New Adult & College Romance Bestseller Everything changed the night he betrayed me, and now, the game has entered a new level. Three little wolves go out into the world to build a house that will protect them from the big bad pig. Eugene Trivizas' s hilarious text and Helen Oxenbury' s enchanting watercolors have made this delightfully skewed version of the traditional tale a contemporary classic. It takes a chance encounter with a flamingo pushing a wheelbarrow full of flowers to provide a surprising and satisfying solution to the little wolves' housing crisis. But the little wolves' increasingly sturdy dwellings are no match for the persistent porker, who has more up his sleeve than huffing and puffing. When it comes time for the three little wolves to go out into the world and build themselves a house, their mother warns them to beware the big bad pig. 6/27/2023 0 Comments Ignis by Cassio FerreiraIn the last few years, however, it has declined in importance, especially because it now takes place immediately after the Tour de France, and before the Vuelta a España, a schedule that precludes the participation of major teams and cyclists. Although not as important as the three Grand Tours, it has long been a significant competition. It is one of the oldest stage races in the world. F Ignis: Once My Fire Is Out, What I Forged Remains af Cassio Ferreira som bog p engelsk - 9798379165956 - Bger rummer alle sider af livet. It is still the longest competition in cycling after the three grand Tours. In the last years the race consisted of ten stages and a prologue (a short time trial that starts the race). As of 2005 the race consisted only of ten stages. Since the 1980s it was reduced to the period of two weeks. In the period 1940–1980 the competition was staged over three weeks. In 1975 the competition was skipped due to the Carnation Revolution. During World War II the race was cancelled between 19. The competition started in 1927, although its second edition only occurred in 1931. The competition takes place during a two-week span. The Volta a Portugal (English: Tour of Portugal), also known as Volta a Portugal em Bicicleta (English: Tour of Portugal on Bicycle), is an annual multi-stage road bicycle racing competition held in Portugal. He is not from the future nor does he have the phone number of an octopus-like intergalactic alien, but he writes as if he did. 6/27/2023 0 Comments Ship of fools book sci fiIn Poland it was made into a film in 1979. It was published in expanded form in 1955 as Czas nieutracony: Szpital przemienienia, and translated into English by William Brand (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988). Hospital of the Transfiguration (1948) – partly autobiographical novella about a doctor working in a Polish asylum during World War II, centred on a German Nazi euthanasia program Action T4.In 2009 for the first time a long excerpt from Chapter 1 was translated into English by Peter Swirski and published, with permission of Lem's family, in the online literary magazine Words Without Borders.
The Lippincott editors were impressed with the skill Lee displayed in what she was then calling Go Set a Watchman-we will return to that title, and that draft, a bit later-but told her that there was still a lot of work needed. Lee made good use of that time, and delivered the first draft of a novel to Lippincott Publishers in late 1957. Lee’s friends pooled their resources to give her an extraordinary Christmas gift-a year’s wages so that she would have uninterrupted time for writing. By 1956, she had enough material to show to a literary agent, who encouraged her to continue writing, and suggested that there might be a novel somewhere in the pieces she’d already written. She studied law at the University of Alabama, then moved to New York in 1950, where she began writing essays and stories about her childhood in Monroeville. Lee was born in 1926, and grew up in Monroeville, Alabama. The novel was an instant success, and quickly became a standard of American literature. Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird was published on July 11, 1960. |