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Serena akeroyd storm5/28/2023 Having had a teenage crush on Guilia’s mom, Nyx is somewhat confused by the frustration, yet turns on that Guilia is to him. Starting as she means to go on she gives as good as she gets with Nyx, the sweet butts and the other MC brothers. With an estranged relationship with her father who is an MC brother, she is hoping to save money to make it to New York to live. Guilia didn’t think she’d ever return to the Sinners MC compound, however, the death of her mother three weeks ago had her older twin brothers moving home from Utah and she opted to come along. However, it is the arrival of unexpected guests that has the Enforcer heading to check it out. The party paused whilst breaking news coverage is broadcast about their latest victim. Each one of these missions is personal to Nyx and with 29 of them under his belt he is happy but knows that there are more out there. Returning back to the Sinners MC clubhouse after another successful mission eradicating the world of a paedophile there is a party to be had.
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Lerone bennett before the mayflower5/28/2023 While not a fresh history, it provides a solid synthesis of current historical research and a lively writing style that makes it accessible and engaging reading.Īfter discussing the contributions of Africans to the ancient world, " Before the Mayflower" tells the history of "the other Americans," how they came to America, and what happened to them when they got here. " Before the Mayflower" grew out of a series of articles Bennett published in Ebony magazine regarding "the trials and triumphs of a group of Americans whose roots in the American soil are deeper than the roots of the Puritans who arrived on the celebrated Mayflower a year after a 'Dutch man of war' deposited twenty Negroes at Jamestown." Bennett's history is infused with a desire to set the record straight about black contributions to the Americas and about the powerful Africans of antiquity. The entire historical timeline of African Americans is addressed, from the Colonial period through the civil rights upheavals of the late 1950s to 1961, the time of publication. The black experience in America-starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961-is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American figure.
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Nancy Drew by Kelly Thompson5/28/2023 With a nearly 100-year-old property, it’s always dicey to see how the reinvention will turn out. What do the drugs, lobsters, and Pete’s mother’s death have in common? A lot, it seems. While digging deeper into Pete’s mother’s death, Nancy stumbles upon a drug cartel masquerading behind a commercial lobster company as the bodies continue to pile up. After much admonishing from her friends for not keeping in touch, Nancy reconnects with bestie Bess Martin, along with Bess’s cousin, George Fayne, George’s girlfriend, Danica, the Hardy brothers Frank and Joe, as well as newcomer Pete, to solve a cold case: the death of Pete’s mother. In Nancy Drew: The Palace of Wisdom, Nancy has received a threatening letter and returns to BayPort after many years. Nancy is also the inspiration for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Veronica Mars. There is also the award-winning popular computer game series about Drew which you can buy on Steam and there is even an annual Nancy Drew convention. Nancy remains wildly popular as ever she is everywhere from books to movies, to TV shows (with a third incarnation happening this fall on The CW). Created in 1930 as the counterpart to popular teenage detectives, The Hardy Boys, Nancy has been solving mysteries for nearly 90 years. I think it’s safe to say most of us have heard of the infamous girl detective, Nancy Drew.
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Amores ovid5/27/2023 We know more about Ovid’s life than that of nearly any other Roman poet. Ovid among the Scythians, by Eugène Delacroix, 1862, via Met Museum Scholars believe that it was some sort of indiscretion which angered the emperor directly. The poem is believed to be the erotically-themed Ars Amatoria, but little is known about the mistake. Ovid himself describes them as “ carmen et error”, meaning “a poem and a mistake”. The exact reasons for his exile are not clear. However, in 8 CE, he was dramatically sent into exile by Emperor Augustus, an event which dominated the remainder of his life. However, after holding some minor administrative positions, he soon turned his back on politics and dedicated the rest of his life to writing poetry.īy his early twenties, Ovid was already giving public readings of his poems, and by his mid-forties, he was the leading poet in ancient Rome. In his early adulthood, Ovid followed the traditional route into a senatorial career after finishing his education in Rome and Greece. In 43 BCE, Ovid was born under the name Publius Ovidius Naso to a wealthy equestrian family based in the north of Italy. Ovid: Life and Love Poetry in Ancient Rome Bronze statue of Ovid located in his hometown Sulmona, via Abruzzo Turismo
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The last night at the telegraph club5/27/2023 Thus, the story incorporates themes of identity, family conflicts, romantic bonds, and social acceptance to explore this tense period. As a child of Chinese immigrants, Lily also has to grapple with the clash between the cultural identities as a second-generation American. The teenage protagonist is at the center of all this chaos as these minority groups experience the burden of the red scare and the 1950s bar raids. Akin to the citizens with communist inclinations, the queer community faced discrimination and persecution from the government and the general public. The narrative takes place on the backdrop of the Red Scare with the practice of McCarthyism at its height. The novel explores a less tolerant time in American history, the 1950s, as the social and political spheres were not completely accepting. 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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A grief observed online free5/27/2023 ‘Testimony from a sensitive and eloquent witness ‘The Human Condition’. ‘A source of great consolation … Lewis deploys his genius for vivid imagery … It is a relief for the reader to find that he or she is not alone in the intense loneliness or feelings of anguish that bereavement brings.’ Henry Marsh, The Times ‘Raw and modern … This unsentimental, even bracing, account of one man’s dialogue with despair becomes both compelling and consoling … A contemporary classic.’ Observer ‘An intimate, anguished account of a man grappling with the mysteries of faith and love … Elegant and raw … A powerful record of thought and emotion experienced in real time.’ Guardian The perennial classic: this intimate journal chronicling the Narnia author’s experience of grief after his wife’s death has consoled readers for half a century with its ‘ sensitive and eloquent’ magic (Hilary Mantel)
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One time by sharon creech5/27/2023 was Walk Two Moons (1994), which won the American Newbery Medal in 1995. Called "comedy about contemporary teen life" by Kirkus Reviews, it featured a 13-year-old girl's "complete and unabridged journal for English class". Her first children's novel Absolutely Normal Chaos was published only in the U.K., by Macmillan Children's Books in 1990. she became intrigued by story-telling after taking literature and writing courses, and she later became a teacher of secondary school English and Writing in England and Switzerland. Bybanks appears in Walk Two Moons, Chasing Redbird, and Bloomability and there is an allusion to Bybanks in The Wanderer. She often used to visit her cousins in Quincy, Lewis County, Kentucky, which has found its way into many of her books as fictional Bybanks, Kentucky. Sharon Creech was born in South Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, where she grew up with her parents (Ann and Arvel), one sister (Sandy), and three brothers (Dennis, Doug and Tom). She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal and the British Carnegie. Sharon Creech (born July 29, 1945) is an American writer of children's novels. Children's novels, low fantasy, magic realism poetry
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Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill5/27/2023 With the aid of a small army of locals who hang around in the park, she expands her surveillance, making it known she'll pay for information or sightings. Although she sees no one who looks like her, it only takes a few visits to the park for her to become obsessed with the possibility of encountering her twin in the flesh. She begins at the crossroads of Kensington Market: a city park called Bellevue Square. But after two customers insist they've seen her double, Jean decides to investigate. Jean's a grown woman with a husband and two kids, as well as a thriving bookstore in downtown Toronto, and she doesn't rattle easily-not like she used to. Apparently, her identical twin hangs out in Kensington Market, where she sometimes buys churros and drags an empty shopping cart down the streets, like she's looking for something to put in it. She's never seen her, but others swear they have. *Winner of the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize*Ī darkly comic literary thriller about a woman who fears for her sanity-and then her life-when she learns that her doppelganger has appeared in a local park.
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No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe5/27/2023 The novel shows the difference between two cultures, and Achebe puts emphasis on the superiority of English culture and depicts how colonialism and Western orientalism produce stereotyped images of Nigerians and Obi as corrupt. Achebe in his novel shows how this effort causes some binary relation among the characters. Indeed, the colonizer imposes his/her superiority on the natives who try to assimilate themselves with the colonizer. Moreover, the colonizer through stereotyping the colonized people assumes them as other. Such effects cause some cultural transformation and changes in language of the colonized people. The colonisers affect the life, mind, culture, and identity of the colonized through various ways such as education, religion, and language. Edward Said's (1935-2003) attempts regarding Orientalism and Frantz Fanon's (1925-1961) issues relating inferiority of the indigenous people caused by colonization are used in this paper. The focus of this paper is on the dissemination of English culture and submission of Nigerian culture in order to represent the inferiority of Nigerians. This paper deals with Chinua Achebe's (1930-2013) "No Longer at Ease" (1960) which depicts the dissemination of English culture in Nigeria and its effects on the life and identity of Obi Okonkwo, the Western educated male protagonist.
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Louisiana longshot by jana deleon5/27/2023 Armed with her considerable skills and a group of elderly ladies the locals dub The Geritol Mafia, Fortune has no choice but to solve the murder before it's too late. No one in Sinful liked Pansy Arceneaux, but who hated her enough to kill her When aspiring actress Pansy Arceneaux returns to Sinful, Louisiana to head up the beauty pageant portion of the Summer Festival, CIA assassin Fortune. If she's not careful, this investigation might blow her cover and get her killed. From NY Times and USA Today bestselling author, Jana DeLeon, the second book in the Miss Fortune mystery series. To top things off, the handsome local deputy is asking her too many questions. Thrust into the middle of a bayou murder mystery, Fortune teams up with a couple of seemingly sweet old ladies whose looks completely belie their hold on the little town. Unfortunately, she hasn't even unpacked a suitcase before her newly inherited dog digs up a human bone in her backyard. Jana DeLeon grew up among the bayous and small towns of southwest Louisiana. 4.23 (30,554 ratings by Goodreads) Paperback Miss Fortune Mysteries English By (author) Jana DeLeon. Posing as a former beauty queen turned librarian in a small bayou town seems worse than death to Fortune, but she's determined to fly below the radar until her boss finds the leak and puts the arms dealer out of play. Louisiana Longshot : A Miss Fortune Mystery. With a leak at the CIA and a price placed on her head by one of the world's largest arms dealers, Fortune has to go off-grid, but she never expected to be this far out of her element. CIA assassin Fortune Redding is about to undertake her most difficult mission ever - in Sinful, Louisiana. |