![]() ![]() ![]() Brutal guerrilla violence flared all along the frontier from New York to the Carolinas, fed by internal divisions as well as the clash with Britain. ![]() When war erupted, Patriot crowds harassed Loyalists and nonpartisans into compliance with their cause. Conflict ignited on the frontier, where settlers clamored to push west into Indian lands against British restrictions, and in the seaboard cities, where commercial elites mobilized riots and boycotts to resist British tax policies. Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, Taylor's Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain's mainland colonies, fueled by local conditions, destructive, hard to quell. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation's founding. Object Details author Taylor, Alan 1955- Contents Colonies - Land - Slaves - Rebels - Allies - Loyalties - Wests - Oceans - Shocks - Republics - Partisans - Legacies Summary "The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art. ![]()
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![]() This is a really strong debut novel, about a Dominican American from the Bronx moving out to set up his food truck business and falling for a white librarian. ![]() This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise : all the romance you’re looking for with an HEA/HFN. And if Jude can overcome his past and trust his man will never let him down. For the first time in his life, Jude can finally taste the kind of happiness that’s always been just out of reach.Īn opportunity too good to pass up could mean a way to stay together and an incredible future for them both…if Nesto can remember happiness isn’t always measured by business success. Soon he can’t get enough-of Nesto’s food or of Nesto. Until he tries Ithaca’s most-talked-about new lunch spot and works up the courage to flirt with the handsome owner. Jude Fuller is proud of the life he’s built on the banks of Cayuga Lake. He’s got six months to make it happen-the last thing he needs is a distraction. ![]() If it doesn’t? He’ll have to give up the hustle and return to the day job he hates. If it works? He’ll be a big fish in a little pond. For Nesto Vasquez, moving his Afro-Caribbean food truck from New York City to the wilds of Upstate New York is a huge gamble. ![]() ![]() ![]() The “autism spectrum” is a description introduced by the British clinician Lorna Wing to cover the broad range of functioning levels. The crux of the book is that autism has always been around and the “autism epidemic” was promoted by a group of people who are invested in their position that vaccinations and environmental pollutants are why more people are being diagnosed on the autism spectrum. ![]() The book is over 500 pages and worth the read. Steve Silberman, a seasoned journalist and adept storyteller has compiled an ambitious historical book NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity which this week has debuted on the New York Times bestseller’s list at #8. “ The good and bad in a person, their potential for success or failure, their aptitudes and deficits – they are mutually conditional, arising from the same source,” Hans Aspergers ![]() ![]() ![]() “Does it make sense that I put my vases in the oven when it’s not in use, so that my parrot doesn’t knock them over?” she asks herself. Josh’s mellow vibe balances Hazel’s electric personality to great effect. They’re in love, but they’re not ready to admit it just yet. Really, they’re excuses for Hazel and Josh to flirt without the risk. The dates-eight altogether, all of them bad-fly by in a blur of awkward conversations and uncomfortable reunions with exes. ![]() Meanwhile, Hazel’s apartment floods, and Josh agrees to take her in. After Josh’s relationship falls apart, Hazel takes him on a series of blind double dates to help them both get back in the game. ![]() Despite their mutual attraction, they agree to be just friends. Her high-energy quirkiness is not for everyone, and it’s definitely not for a nice, normal guy like Josh-or so she thinks. Josh is already in a relationship, and it’s no surprise to Hazel that she’s still single. Seven years later, they’re reunited when Hazel ends up teaching at Josh’s sister’s school. ![]() Hazel Bradford and Josh Im first met in college, and it was not love at first sight. Insisting that they’re not a couple, two best friends try to help each other find love. ![]() ![]() ![]() He then describes being 16 in 1968 in California, when surfers were seen as outcasts and even his friend who played on the football team drops off the team to surf.įinnegan then details his 1971 stay in Hawaii, when he has dropped out of the University of California and Santa Cruz to surf and live with his then-girlfriend, with whom he has a painful breakup after she has an abortion and finds her LSD-addicted father in California. His parents were TV and film producers and sea-loving liberals who encouraged him to devote himself to socially conscious causes. ![]() He then describes his ocean-obsessed upbringing in California starting in 1956, when he was four. ![]() Then in eighth grade, the young Finnegan contends with local waves that stoke his obsession with surfing and fends off bullies while developing greater independence from his family. The book begins in Honolulu in 1966, when Finnegan's family moves to Hawaii for his father's job. He divides his memoir into chapters that describe different epochs of his life and his approach to surfing at that time. In this memoir, Finnegan describes a lifetime of looking for waves and looking for himself. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Finnegan, William. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To take that final step, that ultimate act of definitive agency, seems the greatest act of teen defiance. It can be argued that Jeffrey Eugenides’ debut novel, The Virgin Suicides (reissued here by Picador) ushered in our era of fascination with the tragically dead or generally emotionally anguished beautiful teen female. ![]() Eager readers of the early ’90s had, of course, been inundated by a range of renditions of the romantic inevitability of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and the eternal longings in the works of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton never failed to make their way into high school freshman college English literature classes. The audience for contemporary teen tragic literature in 1993 never had to deal with the magic formulas of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton, 2012) or Jay Asher’s 13 Reasons Why (Razorbill, 2007). ![]() ![]() After the events of Kettle Springs in the first novel, Frendo is more than a mask, but a symbol of counterculture by people online who believe themselves too important to buy the ‘official’ story.Ĭesare writes skillfully, with empathy for his leads. ![]() When a slasher is depersonalized and made into a symbol, anyone can take up the legacy. Cesare is an excellent writer and he understands the men and women behind the mask of Frendo the Clown are far less important than the legacy of the mask itself. After being attacked by a new clown, Quinn must reunite with her friends to uncover a conspiracy targeting them. The Kettle Springs Three who survived the murderous rampage of Kettle Springs’ adult conspiracy, the trio are plagued by conspiracy theories as to what really happened. It is also a story of Cole Hill and his boyfriend Russ, along with Quinn Maybrook. ![]() Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives is a story of Frendo the Clown and all the dark slasher legacy that brings. ![]() Slashers must be about the killer, but about the survivors as well. Adam Cesare knows what makes slashers work. ![]() ![]() In such circumstances readers will expect revelations, and Bate is candid about many elements. Bate also fell out with the estate (managed by Hughes’s widow, Carol) as he neared completion of his work, hence its subtitle. ![]() Previous biographers were guided by Hughes’s sister, Olwyn, but Bate mentions early on that she became “very angry” after reading a draft of an early chapter that discussed tensions among his upwardly mobile extended family. Near the beginning of Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life, Jonathan Bate reports that he frequently found himself asking, “How can someone so good be so bad?” The scale and range of Hughes’s work have become apparent since the publication of his Collected Poems and Selected Letters, but Bate has read more of his unpublished work than any other scholar in the fraught lead-up to this book’s publication. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Elliot and three other kids from his class had been packed into a van by their harassed-looking French teacher and driven outside the city. ![]() ![]() He had been plucked from geography class, one of his most interesting classes, to take some kind of scholarship test out in the wild. Hilarious and bone-deep sweet, and a bona fide genius.Įlliot sat on the fence bisecting two fields and brooded tragically over his wrongs. Not to know she is both kind and clear-eyed, sharply Paper edition printed on 50# 30% PCR recycled Natures Natural paper by the Maple Press in York, PA.įor Holly Black, who knows many things, yet seems sometimes : Big Mouth House : Distributed to the trade Title: In other lands : a novel / Sarah Rees Brennan.ĭescription: Easthampton, Mass. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data All rights reserved.Īuthor photo © 2017 by Mark Griffin Photo ().Ĭover title design © 2017 by Jeffrey Rowland ().Įasthampton, MA Big Mouth House Printing All rights reserved.Ĭover & interior illustrations © 2017 by Carolyn Nowak (). In Other Lands copyright © 2017 by Sarah Rees Brennan. All characters and events portrayed in this book are either fictitious or used fictitiously. ![]() ![]() ![]() The sun had dipped below the horizon by the time Sam Raintree reached his destination. ![]() It doesn’t take Sam long to figure out that although Bo is married to a woman, he is very much in the closet, and wants Sam as badly as Sam wants him.Īs the investigation of Oleander House progresses and paranormal events in the house escalate, Sam and Bo circle warily around their mutual attraction, until a single night of bloodshed and revelation changes their lives forever. From the moment they meet, Sam is strongly attracted to his intelligent, alluring boss. The repetitive yet exciting work, the unusual and violent history of the house, the intensely erotic and terrifying dreams that plague his sleep. His new co-workers, he figures, don’t have to know he’s gay.įrom the moment Sam arrives at Oleander House, the site of his first assignment with Bay City Paranormal Investigations, nothing is what he expected. So taking a job as a paranormal investigator seems like a perfect fit. ![]() Things that have colored his view of the world, and of himself. All his life, he’s experienced things he can’t explain. ![]() |