![]() ![]() The community of Salem began to look for answers as to why these women were suffering from demonic doings, which led to the Salem Witch Trials that ended with 19 women and men hanged and many others who died in prison. The witchcraft accusations began when villagers, who were mostly young women, started complaining of being haunted by a specter or curse and feeling the sensation of needles poking into their skin. ![]() ![]() The author focuses on the how and why the Salem Witch Trials began but is sure to explain that you cannot pinpoint an exact reason why this mystery occurred, “What happened in Salem was a perfect storm.” The chest was probably carved as a wedding gift for the Quaker couple Joseph and Bathsheba Pope in the 1670s, who end up playing a large role in the events in Salem, but not in the role you would think, being accused of practicing witchcraft but in fact they were accusers, who held the deaths of both Rebecca Nurse and John Procter on their hands. The novel opens by explaining a small wooden chest found as an artifact in the Peabody Essex Museum located in Salem, Massachusetts. Baker’s latest non-fiction book, A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Witch Trials and The American Experience, discusses one of the most interesting and most studied events in U.S. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadĪt a glittering society party in St. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the New York Review of Books.Ī stunning clothbound Hardcover Classics edition of Tolstoy's great novel, one of the undisputed masterpieces of world literature. Orlando Figes (introduction) is the prizewinning author of A People's Tragedy and Natasha's Dance. His novels and outspoken social polemics brought him world fame.Īnthony Briggs (translator) has written, translated, or edited twenty books in the fields of Russian and English literature. After serving in the Crimean War, he retired to his estate and devoted himself to writing, farming, and raising his large family. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born in central Russia. Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace (Penguin Clothbound Classics) ![]() ![]() ![]() He and Amy will then follow one of three young women who were the last to disappear, approximately a hundred years later, and both groups will activate a homing device on finding the ship so they can get a bearing on its position. He has Rory befriend Emily Bostock shortly before she disappeared in 1917 so he can accompany her into the woods. The Doctor realises this is the result of a spatial distortion caused by a crashed spaceship and discovers that a week after the last disappearances the entire area will be destroyed and replaced with a lake. ![]() Plot įor thousands of years, the inhabitants of Foxton have avoided Swallow Woods, but approximately every fifty years a number of people go into the woods and never come out. The Way Through the Woods is a book in the Doctor Who New Series Adventures series, featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams. ![]() ![]() ![]() INSKEEP: So we spent the last few months asking writers and thinkers to help us understand what this moment in history is that we're all going through. ![]() MEACHAM: Well, our mutual friend Andrew Jackson was a chess player. And all the pieces are flying, and we have no idea where any of them are going to land. INSKEEP: I keep thinking of this moment almost like there's a game of chess, and there's a chess board, and someone has taken the chess board and flipped it in the air. If you care about the underlying elements of our national story, the national order, then a moment in which all of those fundamental assumptions are being questioned is a time of intrinsic interest. And I'm not being overly facile about it. ![]() ![]() JON MEACHAM: It's as though every day is Christmas. What's it been like to be a historian living through this moment in history? His books range from an exploration of religion to the life of Thomas Jefferson to a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Andrew Jackson. He's a wide-ranging thinker and historian, former editor of Newsweek. INSKEEP: Jon Meacham will help us on this Independence Day. It's been a long-running conversation, and this morning, we pull the threads together. We've asked writers and thinkers how we got here, where we are, where we might be heading. At this unsettled and for many unsettling moment in history, we've been asking for a road map. And I'm Steve Inskeep with the history of our time. ![]() ![]() ![]() También conviene decir que, a pesar del éxito editorial de Heidi, no existe en Portugal, que sepamos, ni un solo estudio científico, ya sea en forma de libro o de artículo, sobre esta obra de Johanna Spyri. En Portugal y en otros países, tal como ya ocurrió en la década de los años 70 del siglo pasado, los públicos infantil, juvenil y adulto conocen actualmente a la pequeña Heidi más por las películas y por las series de dibujos animados que por la novela Heidi. ![]() ![]() Especialmente, procuraremos mostrar que el atractivo de esta obra de la literatura infantil y juvenil procede de su construcción como un texto cuyos temas esenciales (la infancia, la naturaleza, la casa y la familia) le garantizan, junto a la calidad de la escritura y de las opciones narrativas, un alcance universal. En este artículo proponemos una lectura de la novela Heidi, de Johanna Spyri, a partir de una célebre edición portuguesa de 1960 continuamente reeditada, tanto porque le reconocemos valor literario como porque vemos en ella mensajes de gran profundidad humana o social. ![]() ![]() ![]() Forced out of their home, the family leaves their town in search for a better price for the pearl and a better life. People attempt to harm them and the pearl buyers try to swindle them. The whole community is overjoyed, but the pearl doesn’t bring the happiness Kino expected. ![]() He and Juana can get married, Coyotito can go to school and they will have the money to pay the doctor when they are ill. Convinced that this will be the solution to all his problems, Kino is ecstatic. One day when Kino is diving, he finds an oyster that contains a huge pearl. They live in relative poverty, but have each other and their families. ![]() Kino and his wife Juana are poor but happy in their relationship and delighted with baby Coyotito. The Pearl is a parable retelling of a Mexican folktale. I was impressed and looking forward to see how his style changes with his longer fiction and non-fiction. Why? Because even though I haven’t yet read a lot of Steinbeck, his style in this novella was completely different to the last book of his I read. The Pearl by John Steinbeck surprised me. ![]() Why I chose it: Enjoying making my way through Steinbeck’s works. The not-so-good: Somewhat predictable ending. The good: An enjoyable story that is very visual in its telling. When Kino finds ‘the Pearl of the World’, their fortunes change, but not for the better. In brief: Kino and Juana live a poor but happy life. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Other Words, an autobiographical work written in Italian, investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language, and describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice. There, she begins to read, and to write - initially in her journal - solely in Italian. Seeking full immersion, she decides to move to Rome with her family, for "a trial by fire, a sort of baptism" into a new language and world. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery always eluded her. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. It is at heart a love story - of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. ![]() From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut - an "honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) ![]() ![]() ![]() Published: (2010) Community college : curriculum and teaching / by Dr. ![]() He has an Honorary Doctorate in Dentistry, Fellowhips of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, The Royal College of Pathologists of United Kingdom and The Royal College of Pathologists of Australia.Ĭurrently, he is a Consultant Dental Surgeon at the University of Malaya Specialist Centre and a Free Lance Speaker on Leadership, Motivation and Stress Management. The renaissance man : Royal Professor Ungku A. Aziz: The Renaissance Man eBook : Yaacob, Hashim, Joseph, KT, Abd Hamid, Abu Bakar, Hamzah, Azizah: Amazon.in: Kindle Store Skip to main content. He is a retired Captain in the Malaysian Reserve Royal Navy. He is an Emeritus Professor and Consultant in Dentistry, Poet, Painter and a Puppeteer of the Malay Shadow Play. Hashim Yaacob is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya, and four other Private Universities in Malaysia. (Mal), MSc (Lond), BDS (OTAGO), MIBiol, CBiol (UK), Dip Islamic Studies (UIAM) ![]() HASHIM YAACOBĭDSc (Hon), FRCPath (UK), FFOP (RCPA) (Aust), FDSRCS (Eng) Ad Eundem, FDSRCPS (Glassg), FASC. Aziz: Di Sebalik Seorang Tokoh (The Other Side Of The Mountain) # ![]() ![]() PopPop, Leon Marks, was enslaved to the Marks family prior to the end of the Civil War. Then one Thanksgiving, Ray's grandmother, Grandma Nora, told Ray about her grandfather, PopPop. By the time Ray reached high school, he was desperate to make a life and career out of music. Despite his investment in music, his mother discouraged him, insisting that he was wasting his time. Ever since he was little, Ray loved to play the violin. Ray McMillian grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina with his family. The following summary relies upon a more streamlined, linear mode of explanation. The novel embraces structural and temporal distortions, in order to enact the ways in which protagonist Ray McMillian's life in the present is impacted by his complicated past. Penguin Random House LLC., 2022.īrendan Slocumb's novel The Violin Conspiracy is written from the third person point of view and in the past tense. ![]() The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Slocumb, Brendan. ![]() ![]() Warring crime families, forbidden love, lies, betrayal, and suspense, the story was right up my alley. Mafia romances are some of my favorite things to read, so I crossed my fingers and hoped for the best. I was browsing through Instagram one day when I saw the cover of The Mafia and His Angel: Part 1 by Lylah James and immediately signed up for an arc after reading the blurb. ![]() Suprisingly, most of my cover buys don’t let me down, so I would argue that maybe that advice we have gotten since grade school is wrong at least as many times as it is right. The number of times that I’ve had to talk myself down from buying a book based solely on the cover that I knew I would never actually read is almost embarrassing. ![]() Lol If I see a book with a beautiful cover, I automatically want to read it. You know how they say you should never judge a book by it’s cover? Well, I pretty much never follow that advice. ![]() |