5/23/2023 0 Comments Asser king alfred![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The 870s saw continuing war against the Danes, who were numerous, skilled, treacherous, well led, wanting conquest and settlement, not unattractive as allies or lords to rivals. He assisted Æthelred against the ‘great army’ which invaded in 865, and his accession in 871 was most likely not a certainty. The quality of his own writings suggests that he had a sound education in Latin. And if the denial of the text's authenticity, powerfully reasserted in 1995, should carry the day, then significant elements of the traditional reconstruction of Alfred's career will disappear.Īsser says Alfred was born in 849 in Wantage and married a Mercian lady in 868. But there was probably a different side to Alfred's character. Perception of Alfred's personality, policies, and methods depends largely upon his seemingly intimate hagiographical biography by Asser. Extreme revisionists emphasize his skill as propagandist, downgrading his achievements. ![]() A popular image of Alfred is of national superman destined by his father's ( Æthelwulf) will to be king, despite having three surviving older brothers ( Æthelbald, Æthelbert, and Æthelred I) saviour of the English from the Vikings architect of a united England founder of the navy, reformer of the army, town-planner, exponent of time and resource management patron of the church promoter of universal education and father of English prose saintly, and easy to know, since we have more evidence for him than for any earlier king. ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Short straw bride![]() ![]() ![]() Humor, romance, history, interesting plot and great characters- Short-Straw Bride has it all. Set in Texas after the Civil War, there is a subplot involving the schooling of freed slaves and the relationship with their white neighbors which is eye opening as well as entertaining. The importance of family, the loyalty brought by friendship, and kindness to others play a big part in this story. But when Meredith Hayes overhears a lethal plot to burn the Archer brothers off their ranch, a twelve-year-old debt compels her to take the risk. Drawing straws, Travis gets the short straw, and the bride. But when Meredith Hayes overhears a lethal plot to burn the Archer brothers off their ranch, a twelve-year-old debt compels her to take the risk. Lighthearted Historical Romance From a Rising Star No one steps on Archer land. Her aunt and uncle insists Mere marry one of the Archer brothers. But her kindness backfires when she spends the night at the Archer homestead without a chaperone. Mere’s erstwhile fiancé plans to burn out the Archers, and she notifies them of the plot. ![]() Travis Archer promised his dying father he would care for his three younger brothers and protect the land and stay away from strangers. Now that she is an orphan, Mere’s greedy aunt and uncle want her to marry someone she does not like. Meredith (Mere) Hayes gave her heart to Travis Archer when she was 10 years old, when he rescued her from an animal trap. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Mia manansala author![]() With this roundtable, my hope is that readers will explore these writers, consider how their voices enrich and expand this beloved genre, and, of course, find inspiration from them. She has also written three crime series, her most recent novel being the gripping Mimi Patterson/Gianna Maglione mystery You Can’t Die But Once. Mickelbury has written plays, short fiction, historical fiction-most recently Two Wings to Fly Away, about an enslaved person who uses her dress shop as a front for her work with the Underground Railroad. ![]() Her follow-up, Homicide and Halo-Halo, will arrive next February. Manansala’s debut, Arsenic and Adobo, is a culinary cozy that features a Filipina American lead, lots of humor, delicious food, and a twisty mystery. Charlie Mack, Head’s first book was a work of historical fiction about African Americans in the Armed Forces during World War II. ![]() Although known for her gritty and compelling series featuring P.I. ![]() The following three writers-Cheryl Head, Mia Manansala, and Penny Mickelbury-address a variety of subgenres, breadth of subject matters, and richness of themes. ![]() “Let it bother me? Not so’s you’d notice.” Three Queer Women of Color Writers Talk Crime FictionĪs with the transgender crime writers who featured recently in a roundtable, queer women of color are strikingly underrepresented in the crime fiction genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() Finally, in "I Thee Dread," Tolentino examines her own attitude towards weddings, weaving in historical and cultural perspectives on the institution. In "The Cult of the Difficult Woman," Tolentino crafts an argument about the dangers of celebrating "difficult" women, as feminists have lately done. The final essays return to issues of feminism and womanhood. ![]() She examines her own alma mater in "We Come from Old Virginia," which analyzes relationships between sex and power institutions at the University of Virginia. In "The Story of a Generation in Seven Scams," Tolentino positions scamming as the action that has defined the Millennial generation, referencing how these scams have affected her life from college to the present day. The following essay, "Pure Heroines," also focuses on women here, tracing the life cycle of the literary heroine from girlhood to adolescence to adulthood. Tolentino uses a combination of personal narrative and analysis of larger social trends in "Always Be Optimizing," in which she describes society's current ideal woman and the ways in which athleisure trends reflect her. Tolentino focuses on her personal history in "Reality TV Me," which describes her time on a reality show as a teenager. She then begins the collection with "The I in Internet," which traces the development of the internet in terms of its social and psychological effects, as well as Tolentino's own use of it. ![]() Tolentino introduces her own work, contextualizing it as writing produced in the context of the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Why do you say that this thing is new? The dreams of men are older than brooding Egypt or the contemplative Sphinx, or garden-girdled Babylon, and this was fashioned in my dreams. Lovecraft then remembers himself answering the curator: The curator initially scoffs at him for trying to sell something recently made to a museum of antique objects. In the dream, Lovecraft is visiting an antiquity museum in Providence, attempting to convince the aged curator there to buy an odd bas-relief Lovecraft himself had sculpted. ![]() The first seed of the story's first chapter The Horror in Clay came from one of Lovecraft's own dreams he had in 1919, which he described briefly in two different letters sent to his friend Rheinhart Kleiner on May 21 and December 14, 1920. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928. " The Call of Cthulhu" is a short story by American writer H. Title page of "The Call of Cthulhu" as it appeared in Weird Tales, February 1928. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Predators of Eden by D.W. Vogel![]() ![]() Book Review/ Horizon Alpha: Predators of Eden.Thinking Ahead to Summer - writing & bookish plans?.It wasn't bad, just basically feeding me information about what happened before the story starts. The dinosaurs wait, too-for the electricity to die and the feast to begin. The last remnant of the human race waits behind the electric fence for their return. With most of the adult men dead, rookie soldier Caleb Wilde and his unit of teenage boys leave the electric fences of Eden in search of a reactor core lost deep in the jungle. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. The humans’ one defense against the dinosaurs ravaging the planet is an electric fence, built from the remains of the shuttles that brought them there.īut Eden base has only days of power left. Listen to Predators of Eden audio book by D. The passengers landed on Teu Ceti e expecting paradise, but instead they discovered a planet stuck in its own version of the cretaceous period. ![]() Two hundred years ago, the great Ark Horizon Alpha escaped a doomed Earth and went searching for a new home. Film reisen mit meiner tante, Eichkopf und vogel emblem auf hemd, Video schneide programm mit. I had to buy it because of the dinosaur on the cover. Wendy Vogel ( of Predators of Eden) Wendy Vogel Goodreads Author Born Cincinnati, The United States Website Genre Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror Influences Terry Goodkind Mercedes Lackey Rick Riordan. I was recently in a group promotion where this was one of the books. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The last thing he told me a novel![]() ![]() ![]() “The Last Thing He Told Me” premieres April 14 on Apple TV+. Garner summed up of the upcoming Apple TV+ series, “As Laura Dave’s number one fan, I just want people who love the book to feel satisfied with what I’ve done - what we’ve done - and to feel compelled to keep watching in the same way that I was driven to read, chapter, after chapter, after chapter.” “I felt such a connection to the character, even though I’ve been a mom for a minute, I can really understand looking at the world of teenagers and feeling like, OK, what is the path forward? What am I supposed to do? Just feeling unsure of your place in the landscape.” “I just went on, like, a letter-writing campaign, I guess,” Garner told Vanity Fair about landing the role. Jackson as 91-year-old Ptolemy who is living with dementia. Garner previously revealed that Julia Roberts was originally cast in the limited series, but Garner went on a “campaign” to step into the role after Roberts exited due to scheduling conflicts. The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel Audio CD CD, by Laura Dave (Author), Rebecca Lowman (Reader) 131,410 ratings Amazon Charts 3 this week See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 16.30 102 Used from 5.98 60 New from 9. Based on the novel by Walter Mosley, The Last Day of Ptolemy Grey stars Samuel L. “Where the Crawdads Sing” director Olivia Newman helms the pilot episode, and the all-female director lineup for the series includes Deniz Gamze Erguven, Daisy Von Scherler Mayer, and Lila Neugebauer. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The cement garden summary![]() ![]() Derek gets a hint that something is hidden in their cellar, and becomes more and more interested while the children attempt to hide it from him. When Julie begins to date a young man called Derek, aged 23, and invites him to their house, Jack feels jealous and shows hostility towards him. ![]() Sexual tension between Jack and his older sister, Julie, becomes increasingly obvious as they take over the roles of "mother" and "father" in the house, which is gradually deteriorating into squalor. Jack then mentions how he longs to do the same to his older sister but it is not allowed. Jack describes how, when they were younger, he and Julie would play doctor with their younger sister, although he is aware that their version of the game occasionally broke boundaries. The narrator is Jack (14 at the start of the book, becoming 15 later), and his siblings are Julie (17), Sue (13), and Tom (6). The children then attempt to live on their own. In order to avoid being taken into foster care, the children hide their mother's death from the outside world by encasing her corpse in cement in the cellar. Soon after, the children's mother also dies. In The Cement Garden, the father of four children dies. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Rite of Passage by John Passarella![]() ![]() ![]() I'm pleased to announce my Halloween (2018) novelization was selected by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers (IAMTW) as a nominee for a Scribe Award in the Adapted Novel category. John Passarella Publication Date: OctoThe Official Movie Novelization Titan Books In 1978, Laurie Strode survived an encounter with Michael Myers, a masked figure who killed her friends and terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween night. ![]() Praise for Halloween: The Official Movie Novelization “Terrifying, intense and oh so good” “A wonderfully suspenseful read” “Expands and Enriches Read an in interview with me in this RVG Fanatic blog post about all the Halloween movie novelations. This time, Laurie is prepared with years of survival training to protect herself, her daughter Karen and her granddaughter Allyson, a teenager separated from her family and enjoying Halloween festivities. ![]() Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Rite of Passage (Supernatural Book 10). Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Myers was later gunned down, apprehended and committed to Smith’s Grove State Hospital.įor forty years, memories of that nightmarish ordeal have haunted Laurie and now Myers is back once again on Halloween, having escaped a routine transfer, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. Rite of Passage (Supernatural Book 10) - Kindle edition by Passarella, John. In 1978, Laurie Strode survived an encounter with Michael Myers, a masked figure who killed her friends and terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween night. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Before i die jenny downham movie![]() OL16921639W Page_number_confidence 95.88 Pages 342 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200726153858 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 566 Scandate 20200713111236 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781862304871 Tts_version 4. Hello Select your address All Hello, sign in. ![]() So she compiles her bucket list, her To Do Before I Die list. ![]() Urn:lcp:beforeidie0000down_c7v0:lcpdf:65e34f7f-ab5f-4753-89de-119ee5d1a8a1 Before I Die (Audible Audio Edition): Jenny Downham, Charlotte Parry, Listening Library: Amazon.ca: Books. Before I Die by Jenny Downham For fans of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, this is the powerful, award-winning story of a teenage girl and how she chooses to spend her final weeks of life. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 11:04:07 Boxid IA1886309 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() |