The darkest hours of that tumultuous year were as dark as any Americans have known. But it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost - Washington, who had never before led an army in battle. And it is the story of the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence - when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.īased on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers.
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It’s doesn’t have that kind of reality TV fervour, where you feel like they’re going to get pushed off a cliff if they don’t do their thing correctly or fast enough. Obviously, it’s entertaining, and very funny - but there is also such a calmness to Making It to me. It’s a gently enjoyable show, and literally the perfect mood for pandemic watching - so I decide to ask Nick about the importance of arts and craft during COVID-19, the simple joy of making stuff, and the aspirational goals of having many canoes. But with this show, I just get to watch talented people do all the work, and all we have to do is be suitably wowed and say, ‘Oh my god. So, usually I work really hard to interpret a character and deliver dialogue onstage or onscreen. “I mean, that’s what makes me feel so incredibly lucky, because I’m a theatre actor. But who could possibly help her find a pureblood she’s never met, one who’s been missing for over a hundred years? Enter Simon Torquill, elf-shot enemy turned awakened, uneasy ally. Not with Jazz and Tybalt’s lives hanging in the balance. Now Toby doesn’t have a choice about whether or not she does as her mother asks. When Toby’s mother, Amandine, appears on her doorstep with a demand for help, refusing her seems like the right thing to do…until Amandine starts taking hostages, and everything changes. Maybe she should have realized that it was too good to last. The elf-shot cure has been approved, Arden Windermere is settling into her position as Queen in the Mists, and Toby doesn’t have anything demanding her attention except for wedding planning and spending time with her family. "Top of my urban-paranormal series list!" -Felicia Day Contains an original bonus novella, Of Things Unknown ! Things are slow, and October “Toby” Daye couldn’t be happier about that.Hugo Award-winning author Seanan McGuire.New York Times -bestselling October Daye faerie series Next Year in Havana is one of those books. Next Year in Havana ReviewĮvery so often, a book comes along that simply speaks to the heart. When more family history comes to light and Marisol finds herself attracted to a man with secrets of his own, she’ll need the lessons of her grandmother’s past to help her understand the true meaning of courage. Elisa’s last wish was for Marisol to scatter her ashes in the country of her birth.Īrriving in Havana, Marisol comes face-to-face with the contrast of Cuba’s tropical, timeless beauty and its perilous political climate. Freelance writer Marisol Ferrera grew up hearing romantic stories of Cuba from her late grandmother Elisa, who was forced to flee with her family during the revolution. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba’s high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country’s growing political unrest–until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary… Next Year in Havana Synopsis : After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity–and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution… “I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as much as I do.” “For thousands of nights I dreamed of making love to you. These poignant lines spoken by McKenna to Lady Aline brought tears to my eyes and pretty much reveal and convey the heart and soul of the story. It’s a sad, beautiful, affecting love story that stays with you once you’ve turned that last page. Aline’s staunch secrecy and foolish pride drove me nuts! I mean really, come on! You’re apart from the man you love for 12 years and then you finally have a miraculous, magical second chance, only you’re too chicken, distrusting, insecure, and vain to admit the truth and put your feelings out there?!? Arrrgh! Still, I was rooting for McKenna to soften his ways and for Aline to finally come to her senses and admit her “big” secret before it was too late because those two definitely needed and deserved a HEA! And I really enjoyed the sweet, steamy secondary romance between Gideon and Olivia, too. I loved McKenna, even when he was plotting Lady Aline’s ruin and being a cruel alpha, and his volatile and intense emotional reactions were so brutally honest and heartbreaking. I really enjoyed (loved!) this touching, emotional read of two childhood best friends turned sweethearts of opposing social classes whose love is torn apart by unfair prejudices, society rules and expectations, secrets, lies, mistrust, pride, and vanity. But Orion has an agenda of his own, and Rosalind has secrets that she wants to keep buried. To reduce suspicion, however, she must pose as the wife of another Nationalist spy, Orion Hong, and though Rosalind finds Orion’s cavalier attitude and playboy demeanor infuriating, she is willing to work with him for the greater good. Rosalind’s new orders are to infiltrate foreign society and identify the culprits behind the terror plot before more of her people are killed. A series of murders is causing unrest in Shanghai, and the Japanese are under suspicion. Now, desperate for redemption from her traitorous past, she uses her abilities as an assassin for her country.īut when the Japanese Imperial Army begins its invasion march, Rosalind’s mission pivots. It’s 1931 in Shanghai, and the stage is set for a new decade of intrigue.įour years ago, Rosalind Lang was brought back from the brink of death, but the strange experiment that saved her also stopped her from sleeping and aging-and allows her to heal from any wound. This fictionalised portrait of Guibert’s theorist Michel Foucault was also a reflection of the artist’s own experience of the disease that ultimately led to his death in 1991, aged just 35. His diaristic book À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie ( To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life), which was recently translated and published by Semiotext(e), transformed France’s attitude to AIDS. Originally an actor and director, he was a prolific photographer, the first photographic columnist at Le Monde, as well as a novelist, penning more than 25 books over the course of his career. Guibert did not restrict himself to one medium. Freud’s fundamental human drives Eros and Thanatos are both equally present in the photography and writing of Hervé Guibert, who is quite possibly the most interesting artist exploring desire to have been forgotten in the past 30 years – and the subject of an exciting new exhibition at Felix Gaudlitz in Vienna. |