Unlike previous biographies, which portray her as a nave victim of an ambitious family, Gareth Russells excellent account puts the oft-ignored Catherine in her proper historical context (Daily Mail, London) and sheds new light on her rise and downfall by showing her in her context, a milieu that includes the aristocrats and, most critically, the servants who surrounded her and who, in the end, conspired against her. The broad outlines of Catherines career might be familiar, but her story up until now has been incomplete. Sixteen months later, she would follow her cousin Anne Boleyn to the scaffold, having been convicted of adultery and high treason. On the morning of July 28, 1540, a teenager named Catherine Howard began her reign as queen of an England simmering with rebellion and terrifying uncertainty. Book Synopsis Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this biography of Henry VIIIs fifth wife, Catherine Howard, is a stunning achievement (The Sunday Times, London), and a masterly work of Tudor history that is engrossing, sympathetic, suspenseful, and illuminating (Charlotte Gordon, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography).
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Inspector Harry Hole tracks a Norwegian serial killer in this “fiendishly complex and terrifically entertaining” ( The New York Times Book Review) installment of the New York Times bestselling series.Killing Moon: A Harry Hole Novel (13) (Harry Hole Series #13) (Hardcover): Knife: A Harry Hole Novel (12) (Harry Hole Series #12) (Paperback): The Thirst: A Harry Hole Novel (11) (Harry Hole Series #11) (Paperback): Police: A Harry Hole Novel (10) (Harry Hole Series #10) (Paperback): Phantom: A Harry Hole Novel (9) (Harry Hole Series #9) (Paperback): The Leopard: A Harry Hole Novel (8) (Harry Hole Series #8) (Paperback): The Redeemer: A Harry Hole Novel (6) (Harry Hole Series #6) (Paperback): The Devil's Star: A Harry Hole Novel (Harry Hole Series #5) (Paperback): Nemesis: A Harry Hole Novel (Harry Hole Series #4) (Paperback): The Redbreast: A Harry Hole Novel (Harry Hole Series #3) (Paperback): The Bat: A Harry Hole Novel (1) (Harry Hole Series #1) (Paperback):Ĭockroaches: A Harry Hole Novel (2) (Harry Hole Series #2) (Paperback): This is book number 7 in the Harry Hole Series series. Looking back, she writes that no matter how unkind and dismissive she was to him, “I couldn’t quite believe it. Because he stuck around despite Jessica’s resistance, he became the father she needed. Her chapter, titled, “How to Make Ice and Other Things My Stepfather Taught Me,” tells how her stepfather, unlike the men who had previously come into her mother’s life, was strong and caring. Jessica tells how the ties between fathers and daughters don’t necessarily depend on biology. Most have a redemptive quality, as though writing about their relationships with their fathers gained the writers clarity and some resolution to the complexity of those relationships. Lisa says, “I don’t think I’ve ever been as lonely as I was that year-before or since.”Įach story provides a certain drama and conflict. Saleema’s father disappeared when she was two years old, leaving her to continually look for a father figure. There’s Susan, whose father’s alcoholism created a chasm between them even as she took responsibility for his unhappiness and inability to connect with her. Each account is deeply felt and readers will undoubtedly relate to one or more of their stories. What My Father Gave Me: Daughters Speak is written by seven female writers who are also daughters. The relationship between fathers and daughters is deeply personal, often complicated, and lasts a lifetime within a daughter’s heart. I’m on a laptop or netbook most hours of the day as it is, so working and writing me wouldn’t look any different to someone who happens to pass by. Missed one of my classes? You can get the textbook.įrom Page One: Interview: Mina V. Tune in to The Five By Five Podcast, which she co-hosts with Tania Arpa. Join the Mysterious Mailing List for exclusive updates. Her contemporary romance novellas won the Filipino Readers' Choice awards for Chick Lit in 2012 (Fairy Tale Fail) and 2013 (That Kind of Guy).Ĭontact her at minavesguerra gmail com / on Twitter. Her young adult/fantasy trilogy Interim Goddess of Love is a college love story featuring gods from Philippine mythology. She created the workshop series "Author at Once" for writers and publishers, and #romanceclass for aspiring romance writers. When not writing romance, she is president of communications firm Bronze Age Media, development communication consultant, indie publisher, professional editor, wife, and mother. Through her blog Publishing in Pajamas (), she documents her experiments in publishing. Esguerra writes contemporary romance, young adult, and new adult novellas. Waterman's book is primarily a portrait of the American sublime as it was conceived of by the agency's Progressive Era progenitors, though with updates for modern readers. And of course, as public historians might suspect, there is precious little here by way of engagement with how history gets made in national parks. But at no point does Waterman propose real solutions to the NPS's many problems beyond waiting for Congress to act. Even the 2019 government shutdown gets a brief mention, as does the ongoing border wall controversy. Yes, Waterman is deeply concerned about climate change, and worries about "urban encroachment … and political missteps" (8). There are no notes or suggestions for further reading. Large-format maps appear with each, however, as do hundreds of photographs and illustrations woven together with Waterman's narration into what amounts to a massive glossy guide to the national parks.īy what standard should public historians evaluate a coffee table book? There are no scholarly claims here. In the end, only about half that number receive Waterman's full attention, the remainder summarized in a concluding section of brief vignettes. Jon Waterman's Atlas of the National Parks is just that: a compendium of over two hundred maps-many borrowed from or developed with National Park Service (NPS) cartographers-intended to, as he puts it, "reveal the glory of the 61 national parks" (40). A speech element can symbolize either a concept or relations within and between concepts. Therefore not only communication systems of animals are excluded from his definition of language but also any human articulation that is not symbolic or voluntary, e.g., instinctive cries. Sapir characterizes language as purely human and non-instinctive, consisting of a conventional system of arbitrary sound symbols that are produced voluntarily. Beginning with Sapir’s definition and characterization of language I want to carve out the function of language structure in connection with language change, its impact on world view, and finally Sapir’s conclusions concerning an artificial international language. In this paper I want to give an overview on his inquiries into the function and form of languages as arbitrary systems of symbolisms. He treats language as a cultural product and considers linguistics to be a fruitful possibility of a scientific study of society. As Edward Sapir first approached the field of linguistics in the course of his anthropologist studies, his view on language is one that takes into account not only cultural studies but the whole range of human sciences, among them psychology, sociology, and philosophy. (And they were in no way alone in these behaviors – one look at the news reveals that human failings do not discriminate based on socioeconomic class lines.)Īnd yet, Random Family doesn’t pity its subjects. The way some of the men treated the women was abominable, the way some of the mothers raised their children was sometimes borderline (or not so borderline) negligent, and yet often they repeated the same destructive behavior from generation to generation. Their lives seem tragic to sheltered me, and yet, they weren’t much different from other people they knew. I used to pass them on the way from the parking lot to campus every day. I realized that I know these people, or people like them. At one point, several of the characters move up the Hudson to the small city in which I went to college. The book grew progressively more heavy, and I grew progressively more depressed at the plight of these people, knowing that they are not only real, but they live in my city – and their experience is hardly an anomaly. The first two pages introduce some of our main characters, their convoluted relationships, and drugs, and I figured that would be par for the course. At first, I was dubious – the story seemed overwrought for overwroughtness’s sake. In a graduate class called “Storied New York” last spring, one of our required texts was the book Random Family, by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc. Tolkien's work.Ī film serving as a sequel to the events of The Dark Tower was released in August 2017. King's style of location names in the series, such as Mid-World, and his development of a unique language (High Speech), are also influenced by J. He identifies Clint Eastwood's " Man with No Name" character as one of the major inspirations for the protagonist, Roland Deschain. In the preface to the revised 2003 edition of The Gunslinger, King also identifies The Lord of the Rings, Arthurian legend, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as inspirations. The series was chiefly inspired by the poem " Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning, whose full text was included in the final volume's appendix. In addition to the eight novels of the series proper that comprise 4,250 pages, many of King's other books relate to the story, introducing concepts and characters that come into play as the series progresses. The series, and its use of the Dark Tower, expands upon Stephen King's multiverse and in doing so, links together many of his other novels. Incorporating themes from multiple genres, including dark fantasy, science fantasy, horror, and Western, it describes a "gunslinger" and his quest toward a tower, the nature of which is both physical and metaphorical. The Dark Tower is a series of eight novels, one short story, and a children's book written by American author Stephen King. Michael Whelan, Phil Hale, Ned Dameron, Dave McKean, Jae Lee, Bernie Wrightson, Darrel Andersonĭark fantasy, science fiction, horror, Western Schuyler’s Monster is more than the memoir of a parent dealing with a child’s disability. They didn’t know that Schuyler was going to teach them a thing or two about fearlessness, tenacity, and joy. Once they knew why she couldn’t speak, they needed to determine how to help her learn. When she was diagnosed with Bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria (an extremely rare neurological disorder caused by a malformation of the brain), her parents were given a name for the monster that had been stalking them from doctor visit to doctor visit and throughout the search for the correct answer to Schuyler's mystery. When Schuyler was 18 months old, a question about her lack of speech by her pediatrician set in motion a journey that continues today. Schuyler’s Monster is an honest, funny, and heart-wrenching story of a family, and particularly a little girl, who won't give up when faced with a monster that steals her voice but can’t crush her spirit. In the letter Van Ryn invites one of the Wells girls to Dragonwyck, to act as company for his six year old daughter Katrine. Abigail, Miranda's mother, receives a letter from Nicholas Van Ryn who is Abigail's maternal half first cousin and Patroon of a large manor called Dragonwyck near Hudson, New York. The story begins in May 1844 with Miranda Wells, the daughter of a humble farmer in Greenwich, Connecticut. The novel was adapted into the film Dragonwyck (1946). It is a fictional story of the life of Miranda Wells and her abusive marriage to Nicholas Van Ryn, set against a historical background of the Patroon system, Anti-Rent Wars, the Astor Place Riots, and steamboat racing on the Hudson River. Dragonwyck is a novel written by American author Anya Seton which was first published in 1944. |