![]() ![]() This one is being caused by us, not only through climate change but through deforestation, habitat loss and fragmentation, overhunting, overfishing, and general carelessness and exploitation of the planet on which we and a rapidly decreasing number of other species live. Each has been caused by a different unique event. ![]() There have been five other extinction events so drastic and impactful, the most famous of which is the asteroid that killed not only the dinosaurs but a good 80% of species in existence at that time. ![]() This book is about the current extinction event we are living through now. When I’ve described The Sixth Extinction to people, they assume I’m talking about science fiction. This genre is my catnip, and if I could trade lives with any author on the planet, well, it would probably be Michael Palin, actually, but Elizabeth Kolbert and Mary Roach are close seconds. It hits my sweet spot exactly between natural history, science, environmentalism, and travel writing (freaking Kolbert got to go to, off the top of my head, Australia, Germany, France, Peru, Panama, Iceland, Scotland, and Italy for this book, and I’m pretty sure I’m forgetting some). This book is equal parts heartbreaking, infuriating, fascinating, and beautiful. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hilary Mantel was the first author to win two Man Booker Prizes with consecutive novels. Mantel charts how the King begins to fall in love with the seemingly plain Jane Seymour at her family home of Wolf Hall how Cromwell must negotiate an increasingly dangerous court as he charms, bullies and manipulates nobility, commoners and foreign powers alike to satisfy Henry, and advance his own ambitions. But Henry remains without a male heir, and the conflict with the Catholic Church has left England dangerously isolated as France and the Holy Roman Empire manoeuvre for position. He learnt everything he knew from his mentor Cardinal Wolsey, whose place he has taken.Īnne Boleyn is now Queen, her path to Henry's side cleared by Cromwell. A one-time mercenary, master-politician, lawyer and doting father, Thomas Cromwell has risen from commoner to become King Henry VIII's chief adviser. In a special programme first broadcast in 2013, Hilary Mantel discusses Bring Up the Bodies, her second Man Booker Prize-winning novel with James Naughtie and his Bookclub audience.Įngland, 1535. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Mistress Shakespeare, Elizabethan beauty Anne Whateley reveals intimate details of her dangerous. Mistress Shakespeare: A Novel (Unabridged). Kobo eBook (February 4th, 2009): $10.99 York Timesabestselling author, Karen Harper. In Mistress Shakespeare, Elizabethan beauty Anne Whateley reveals intimate details of her.“A page-turner, a fascinating summation of the intriguing life and times of Elizabeth I, from Henry VIII’s pursuit of Anne Boleyn and his divorce of Catherine of Aragon, through the death of Edward VI and Elizabeth's coronation.”-Read All Day Product Details “The book is vivid, believable and the characters are so alive…You’ll read it cover to cover in a weekend and then order more Karen Harper books!”. “Intoxicating.a romantic roller coaster rich with vivid details.”- Women’s Day “An excellent read.will, without a doubt, become a classic of Tudor-era historical fiction.”-Writing the Renaissance ![]() “As good as the best of Philippa Gregory.”- Library Journal ![]() Praise for the Historical Novels of Karen Harper ![]() ![]() From the waist up she’s everything you’d imagine. And if I keep my mouth shut just because I'm afraid of what people's opinions of me will be or turn into, then that's not any way to live.”įor Chlöe, the journey into womanhood is about embracing who she is, without succumbing to the perceptions of what others think of her. And you know, I'm realizing that closed mouths don't get fed. “It's always scary for me, but now I'm realizing that I have to, in order to gain respect as a Black woman- a young Black woman- who's still navigating who she is. ![]() “I'm hesitant sometimes to truly speak my mind and speak up for myself and what I believe,” she later confessed to me a couple of weeks after the photoshoot. At 24 years young, she’s a “Bossy” chick in training- one who’s politely unapologetic and learning the power of her own voice. Though subtle, her quiet wardrobe directives give the air of a woman who’s been here before, and certainly knows what she’s doing. Her shapely figure is tucked into a strapless bodysuit with a deep v-neck that complements her décolletage. ![]() Her chocolate locs are adorned with a few jewels that she requested to spice up the look, and on her shoulders rests a jeweled piece that she asked to be turned around to better showcase her neck (“I feel a bit old,” she said of the original direction). ![]() She slightly shifts her body against a dark backdrop amidst camera clicks and whirs, giving a seductive pout here, and piercing eye contact there. On set inside of a mid-city Los Angeles studio, it’s all eyes on Chlöe. ![]() ![]() He was the president of the Municipal Art Society, active in the formation of the First Presbyterian Church, and a prominent contributor to Johns Hopkins University and Hospital. Spence was a pillar in the Baltimore community. Later, he founded the Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company and became an officer of The Eutaw Savings Bank. Spence also set up an import/export firm called W. ![]() Spence was a finance commissioner with Enoch Pratt. He came to Baltimore to enter into a business partnership with Andrew Reid, forming the corporation Spence & Reid, which manufactured clipper ships. Spence then moved to Norfolk, Virginia, and was employed as a shipping clerk at Robert Soutter & Sons. Spence first lived in New York City for five years and worked as a clerk there. He attended high school in Edinburgh and immigrated to the United States at the age of eighteen with only one-hundred dollars in his pocket. ![]() William Wallace Spence was born on October 18, 1815, in Edinburgh to Sarah (née Dickson) and John Spence. ![]() He was a founding partner of Spence & Reid, which manufactured clipper ships, established an import/export firm at Pratt Street’s Old Bowley’s Wharf, and founded The Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company. William Wallace Spence (Octo– November 3, 1915) was a Baltimore Financier. ![]() ![]() ![]() Weber also depicts the typical stages of abuse-the explosions followed by resolutions, promises to change, and apologies, which quickly build tension toward the next, potentially bigger, explosion. One of the guide’s most helpful features is a list the author provides of instances, behaviors, and scenarios that show various forms of abuse, whether sexual, physical, verbal, emotional, or even financial. ![]() People often deny that abuse is happening, Weber explains, because of fear of physical violence or losing resources, an inability to accept that another’s behavior is profoundly unhealthy, or many other reasons. Weber ably shows the ways abuse may be revealed, stopped, and put in the past with healing and reflection.ĭebut author and psychologist Weber understands abusive relationships, having worked as a therapist in prisons, courts, and private practice for decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nimura presents a story of trial and triumph. As Elizabeth herself predicted, "a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now."Įxploring the sisters' allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P. From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions did not always align with the emergence of women's rights-or with each other. Together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. ![]() She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who was actually the more brilliant physician.Įxploring the sisters' allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P. In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. ![]() Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor." -Stacy SchiffĮlizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography ![]() ![]() ![]() Breslaw argues that Tituba's confession to practicing witchcraft clearly reveals her savvy and determined efforts to protect herself by actively manipulating Puritan fears. The author emphasizes the inextricably linked worlds of the Caribbean and the North American colonies, illustrating how the Puritan worldview was influenced by its perception of possessed Indians. The first focuses on Tituba's roots in Barbados, the second on her life in the New World. Breslaw divides Tituba's story into two parts. The uniquely multicultural nature of life on a seventeenth-century Barbadan sugar plantation-defined by a mixture of English, American Indian, and African ways and folklore-indelibly shaped the young Tituba's world and the mental images she brought with her to Massachusetts. ![]() Reconstructing the life of the slave woman at the center of the notorious Salem witch trials, the book follows Tituba from her likely origins in South America to Barbados, forcefully dispelling the commonly-held belief that Tituba was African. In this important book, Elaine Breslaw claims to have rediscovered Tituba, the elusive, mysterious, and often mythologized Indian woman accused of witchcraft in Salem in 1692 and immortalized in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-237) and index. ![]() ![]() Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. ![]() My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility what could be so terribly wrong? But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. ![]() Our narrator should be happy, shouldn’t she? She’s young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. ![]() ![]() ![]() is the greatest poem of Classical inspiration probably since the Cantos. To compare his versions with the Latin is to be awestruck again and again by the range and ingenuity of his poetic intelligence' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Hughes is as broad as Ovid and as subtle, as violent and as erotic, as elegant and as folksy - and often all at the same time. ![]() He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit. ![]() He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for both Tales from Ovid (1997) and Birthday Letters (1998). His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published by Faber and Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children, including Wolfwatching (1989). Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. Tales from Ovid, Ted Hughes's masterful versions of stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, includes those of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe, as well as many others. He was also admired as a performer of his own work. From his remarkable debut The Hawk in the Rain (1957) to his death in 1998, Ted Hughes was a colossal presence in the English literary landscape. ![]() |