![]() ![]() He summer that young Dave Foster went to work on his uncle's farm in the Maine wilderness, the French were stirring up the Indians to attack colonial settlers. ![]() A Blow for Liberty will take its place with the best of Mr. In this new book, he not only tells a fast-paced story of action at sea but also describes with color and accuracy the hard life of farm families in the colonies and their struggles with the lawless Tory "refugees" who hid in the cedar swamps. Stephen Meader, whose many books for young people are known and loved throughout the land, now lives in historic Cape May County. By the time winter came again, Jed's share of the prize money enabled him to pay off his indenture. In the exciting months that followed, the schooner took some rich British prizes and had many narrow escapes in a series of daring sea fights. ![]() Then a privateer schooner, the True Patriot, was launched, and Jed was asked to join her crew his master consented because he had half a share in the venture. When the Revolutionary War broke out, Jed had a burning ambition to do his part, but what chance did a "bound" boy have to strike a blow for liberty? His first opportunity came when he participated in a night raid on a gang of Tory plotters. The orphaned boy had been indentured to a Quaker farmer who treated him with strict fairness. ![]() Ixteen-year-old Jed Starbuck, a young Nantucketer, had lost his father when their whaler went down in a storm off Cape May, at the southern tip of New Jersey. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. ![]() ![]() The Communist Manifesto remains one of the most influential works in history, and has profoundly impacted political landscapes across all continents. Since it was first published in 1848, it has become the rallying cry. ![]() While the authors were blamed as scapegoats by authorities in the wake of social unrest, others were persuaded by the Communist League’s principles. Few books have had as much of an impact on modern history as The Communist Manifesto. The Communist Manifesto was published at a time when revolutions were spreading throughout Europe, and the work was met with a mixture of praise and criticism. The 'Manifesto' was published as the platform of the 'Communist League' a workingmens association, first exclusively German, later an international, and under the political conditions of the Continent before 1848, unavoidably a secret society. It was published in 1848 under the title Manifesto of the Communist Party, and in it, Marx and Engels discuss the basic communist theories on society, economics, class struggles and politics. In 1847, while in Brussels, the German Communist League asked Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx to draft a pamphlet on the principles of communism. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene v lines 2702- 2723. O child! O child! my soul, and not my child! O love! O life! not life, but love in death!Ĭapulet. Despised, distressed, hated, martyr’d, kill’d! Most detestable death, by thee beguil’d, 2715 Paris. Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain! Lady Capulet. Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day! 2702īut one, poor one, one poor and loving child,Īnd cruel death hath catch’d it from my sight! There is a long series of laments by her parents and nurse where they are shocked and horrified at her sudden death: In Romeo and Juliet, there’s an excellent example of stichomythia in Act IV, Scene iv, right after Juliet’s parents and Nurse discovers her, apparently dead. These similar lines highlight the connection these two have (no spoilers), and also emphasize that, though the actors might be physically close onstage, their characters are meant to be far apart they wouldn’t be saying this to each other. ![]() Doescher uses this well as a staging device by having Vader and Luke speak similar lines as Luke plummets down the shaft after losing his lightsaber duel: The literary technique of stichomythia has characters who speak at more or less the same time, using slightly different forms of dialogue. Below is a link to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Learning Zone, where you can learn about the language of the Henry V chorus. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alexander had his own NDE due to bacterial meningitis from E. ![]() Alexander had heard of near-death experiences (NDEs) from patients which he dismissed as hallucinations. He has helped promote the development of stereotactic radiosurgery, intraoperative MR imaging and MRI-guided focused ultrasound surgery in neurosurgery.ĭr. Alexander has also taught at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, and the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. He achieved the rank of associate professor by 1994. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Duke University School of Medicine. For over twenty-five years, Eben Alexander III, M.D., FACS, ( has practiced as a neurosurgeon including fifteen years at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School. ![]() ![]() "The depressions were certainly more painful for me to experience and for friends and loved ones to witness," Forney says. The combination of words and drawings turned out to be a powerful medium for exploring manic depression, with cartoons representing the emotional extremes which words seldom seem to do justice to. When you go public and talk about something openly, you have no control over how people may react."įortunately, the response in the US, where her book was first published, has been overwhelmingly positive. ![]() ![]() I needed to believe that revisiting the most acute phases of my illness wouldn't be too traumatic, and also that I could cope with the reception – good or bad – of writing about it. So I didn't want to start work on something so sensitive and personal until I'd had some time to trust my recovery. "Even when I'm feeling OK, I have a nagging sense I might be on borrowed time. "Like most people with a mental illness, I'm only too aware of the fragility of my emotional state," she says. Though, as Forney admits: "By definition I was mentally ill, so perhaps I wasn't always the most rational of judges."įorney had the idea for the book for some time, but held off writing and drawing until she was sure that she could cope with the consequences. Her book, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo & Me, is an unflinching and frequently unforgiving narrative of what it means to have bipolar disorder and how treatment can often seem more terrifying than the illness itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() She's given the protagonists (Jude and Uriah) very interesting, very damaged and believable personalities ). Anne Frazier has done a wonderful job really fleshing out the characters. This is an excellent sequel to The Body Reader. The body count is rising.īut when the latest victim is found in Jude’s apartment, the puzzle comes with a personal twist that’s going to test the breaking point of her already-fragile state of mind. He believes that the madman’s next move is not incalculable in fact, it’s all part of a sequential and ingenious numerical riddle. But it’s a new, escalating series of mass slayings that has become her latest obsession at Homicide.Īt first, Jude and her partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, can see no pattern to the seemingly random methods, the crime scenes, or the victims - until they’re approached by a brilliantly compulsive math professor. Months after discovering the mastermind behind her own kidnapping, Detective Jude Fontaine is dealing with the past the only way she knows how: by returning to every dark corner of it. From a New York Times bestselling author comes the chilling follow-up to the Thriller Award winner The Body Reader. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After being visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future à la Dickens’s classic tale, Holly ignores all of the ghosts’ warnings and subsequently dies. Hand’s version tells the story of Holly Chase, who failed to be swayed by the efforts of Project Scrooge, a secret company that tries to save one Scrooge-like individual every Christmas. Review: I’m a huge fan of Cynthia Hand’s angel series Unearthly, so I was very excited to read her modern take on A Christmas Carol. As Christmas Eve approaches, Holly’s duties as the Ghost of Christmas Past increasingly take a backseat to what her heart wants. Holly is Project Scrooge’s Ghost of Christmas Past, a job that she’s not entirely keen on until the team begins planning for this year’s assignment: Ethan Winters, a Scrooge whom Holly takes a particular interest in when she starts to realize how much his life experiences mirror her own. Then begins Holly’s afterlife as an employee of Project Scrooge, the company that tried to reform her. After receiving a visit from three ghosts on Christmas Eve warning her to change her ways, Holly completely ignores them and a few days later, she dies. To Sum It Up: Holly Chase is a failed Scrooge. ![]() ![]() I have a village of friends that nourish me, mentally, and spiritually. I am lucky enough to have a family that loves me and pushes me to be my best, even if it is outside of my cushiony comfort zone. ![]() My life changed dramatically when my husband was diagnosed with Stage 3 cancer in 2018, and I am now a writer for a leading Canadian Cancer Non-Profit. I have tried a podcast - it's still on Apple and Google Podcasts - but writing is where my heart is. My first book - How Not To Blog: Finding Myself, One Post at a Time is available on Amazon (in eBook formats for you clever tech readers, and paperback for those of us who love that new book smell!) ![]() I write about issues that are near to my heart, be they political, feminist, motherhood, mental health, or, as the title holds, books.Ī thirty-something Canadian woman in my mid-thirties, I have been "super married" to my high school sweetheart since 2006, and together we have two crazy, clever, kind, hilarious, wonderful kids. Originally intended to simply focus on book reviews, over time, KaliDesautelsReads has morphed into its own entity. ![]() ![]() The Devils qualified for the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2018 and advanced past the first round for the first time since losing in the 2012 Stanley Cup Final. "As a coaching staff, we're proud and excited about where we got the team to." We were a fast team that improved in a lot of areas. "I couldn't have painted a better picture from Day One with some of the goals we set during the regular season. to see these guys operate and do what they did," Ruff said. "I'm going to tell you I had a lot of fun this year. That point will likely come this week for Ruff, who is a finalist for the Jack Adams Award given annually to the NHL coach of the year. ![]() ![]() "(General manager Tom Fitzgerald) and I are still in the process of breaking down the end-of-season meetings with players and we'll sit down at some point," Ruff said during breakup day Saturday. Ruff's three-year contract he signed in July 2020 expired after New Jersey lost a best-of-7 series in five games to the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Second Round on Thursday. ![]() ![]() "Guitar For Dummies" gives you everything a beginning or intermediate guitarist needs: from buying a guitar to tuning it, playing it, and caring for it, this book has it all-and you don't even need to know how to read music. ![]() Chuck Berry duck-walking across the stage to "Johnny B. ![]() The bestselling music guide-now updated!Have you always wanted to learn to play guitar? Who wouldn't? Think of Jimi Hendrix wailing away on his Stratocaster. ![]() |