5/24/2023 0 Comments The day of battle by rick atkinson![]() ![]() ![]() With the liberation of Rome in June 1944, ultimate victory in Europe at last began to seem inevitable. Clark, among the war's most complex and controversial commanders, American troops became increasingly determined and proficient. The battles at Salerno, Anzio, the Rapido River, and Cassino were particularly ferocious and lethal, yet as the months passed, the Allied forces continued to drive the Germans up the Italian peninsula. But once underway, the commitment to liberate Italy from the Nazis never wavered, despite the agonizing price. ![]() The Italian campaign's outcome was never certain in fact, President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and their military advisors bitterly debated whether an invasion of the so-called soft underbelly of Europe was even wise. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943, attack Italy two months later, and then fight their way, mile by bloody mile, north toward Rome. The harrowing story of one of history's most compelling military campaigns.In An Army at Dawnwinner of the Pulitzer PrizeRick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Serafina biltmore books![]() Please specify if you will be attending the event and if you want your book personalized. GET YOUR COPY NOW! Pre-order your signed copy of Serafina and the Splintered Heart today, by either calling the store at 80 or ordering online. It may come as a surprise to fans of the popular 'Serafina' book. Serafina, the Protector of Biltmore, wakes at the beginning of the third book to discovered that she has been buried in a coffin but cant remember why. Places in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy of Serafina and the Splintered Heart from The King's English. The book is set in the Great Smoky Mountains. ![]() ![]() Serafina must uncover the truth about what has happened to her, and find a way to harness her strange new powers before it's too late. A mysterious threat moves towards Biltmore, bringing with it violent storms and flooding that stands to uproot everything in its path. Old friends do unthinkable things and enemies are all around. ![]() She has awoken into darkness, scarred from a terrible battle, only to find that life at her home, the historic Biltmore Estate, has changed in unimaginable ways. Join author Robert Beatty for a reading and signing of the newest book in his Serafina series, Serafina and the Splintered Heart. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Alien by alan dean foster![]() ![]() Captain Dallas, meanwhile, has a more formal relationship with his crew while at the helm of the Nostromo ship navigator Lambert repeatedly calls Dallas ‘sir’ when responding to orders, emphasising a hierarchy that was only hinted at in the film.Īs the crew prepares to land on LV-426, Foster peppers his prose with detailed descriptions of the stresses the ship undergoes, and the repairs Parker and Brett are making as the planetoid’s atmosphere takes its toll. ![]() Parker and Brett patch up the ageing Nostromo while openly voicing their resentment at the officers’ better pay, while the officers are irked by the engineers’ perpetual disgruntlement. Foster establishes the uneasy tensions between the officer class on the bridge – Ripley, Lambert, Kane, Ash and Captain Dallas – and the working class engineers Brett and Parker below decks. ![]() Foster eloquently introduces his characters in these opening pages, first among them warrant officer Ripley as the most resourceful and insightful member of these truckers in space. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Hotshot Doc by R.S. Grey![]() ![]() That means I have to stand near him in the OR for hours on end and anticipate his every need without letting his biting words and bad attitude intimidate me. His retirement leaves me with two terrible options: switch specialties and spend months retraining, or take an open position as Dr. Unfortunately, my plan crumbles when my trusty ol’ boss decides to swap his white coat for a Hawaiian shirt. ![]() It’s just as easy to admire his sexy, grip-it-while-he’s ravishing-you hair and chiseled jaw from a healthy distance, preferably from the other end of the hallway half-hidden behind a plant. ![]() I try to avoid him and his temper at all costs. The scrub techs say he’s cold-blooded, the nurses say he’s too cocky for his own good, and the residents say he’s the best surgeon in the world- really, just a swell guy!-on the off chance he’s within earshot. Russell has a bad reputation around our hospital. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments 20 hours 40 minutes book![]()
5/24/2023 0 Comments Eloquent rage![]() ![]() Deborah Anker Discusses Gender and US Asylum Law with Aziza Ahmed.Byllye Avery Discusses the Past and Future of Reproductive Justice with Susan Reverby.Eesha Pandit and Paula Moya Discuss Activism and the Academy with Carla Kaplan and Suzanna Walters.Patricia Williams Discusses Rage and Humor as an Act of Disobedience with Carla Kaplan and Durba Mitra.Jennifer Fluri Discusses the Gender Politics of the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan with Sandra McEvoy.Susan Stryker Discusses Trans Studies, Trans Feminism, and a More Trans Future with V Varun Chaudhry.Rene Almeling, Sarah Richardson, and Natali Valdez Discuss Reproduction in the Age of Epigenetics.The Field of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls. ![]() Visibility and Visuality: Reframing Gender in the Middle East, North Africa, and Their Diasporas.Feminist Scholarship through Four Decades.Signs Resources on Abortion and Reproductive Justice. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Ferran adrià a day at elbulli![]() ![]() The average cost of a meal was €250 (US$325). It accommodated only 8,000 diners a season, but got more than two million requests. Bookings for the next year were taken on a single day after the closing of the current season. ![]() ![]() The restaurant had a limited season: the PIXA season, for example, ran from 15 June to 20 December. The restaurant closed 30 July 2011 and relaunched as El Bulli Foundation, a center for culinary creativity. El Bulli held three Michelin stars and was described as "the most imaginative generator of haute cuisine on the planet" in 2006. Established in 1964, the restaurant overlooked Cala Montjoi, a bay on the Costa Brava of Catalonia. ![]() ![]() A piece mountain-ash wood is a good thing to keep close at hand, for it brings luck besides having power against witchcraft and evil. It was a small piece, which accounts for my being slightly under-sized even for a doll, and he treasured it, having brought it across the sea from Ireland. I have heard the story told so often by one or another of the Preble family that at times it seems I, also, must have looked on as the Old Peddler carved me out of his piece of mountain-ash wood. ![]() ![]() The narrative unfolds through the eyes of a tiny wooden doll with a nice brand of wood named Mehitabel (Hitty), who was carved early in the nineteenth century from the magical wood of the Mountain Ash tree by a peddler for a little girl, Phoebe Preble, who lives on Great Cranberry Island in Maine, during a winter when her father was away at sea. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Book haven emma donoghue![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired by about fifty cases of 'fasting girls' over the centuries, The Wonder (2016, a finalist for Canada's Giller Prize and Ireland's Kerry Group Novel of the Year) is about an English nurse sent to the Irish Midlands in 1859 to watch a little girl whose parents claim is living without food. My series for middle-grade readers (8 to 12), The Lotterys, includes The Lotterys Plus One (2017) and The Lotterys More Or Less (2018), both illustrated by Caroline Hadilaksono. My first contemporary novel for adults after Room was Akin ( 2019) it's about a retired New York professor and his eleven-year-old great-nephew going to the French Riviera to unearth the professor's mother's wartime secrets. My 2020 novel The Pull of the Stars was inspired by the centenary of the Great Flu of 1918 and is set in a Dublin hospital where a nurse midwife, a doctor and a volunteer helper fight to save patients in a tiny maternity quarantine ward. My latest novel Haven (2022) imagines the experience of the first three people to land on Skellig Michael around the year 600. ![]() ![]() Although I work in many genres, I am best known for my fiction, which has been translated into over forty languages. ![]() ![]() The once-in-a-generation event is set to attract some of the biggest names from the worlds of politics, celebrity and high society.Īnd despite his attempts to 'slim down' the occasion, the guest-list for the Coronation of King Charles III at Westminster Abbey on May 6 is believed to be around 2,000-people strong. Tasha had been asked to a reception at Windsor Castle this Sunday, the day after the King is crowned, as well as the Coronation Concert and a reception beforehand. ![]() ![]() So I think that's kind of why it's come about, but I'm excited. I think it's because I do a lot of charity work behind the scenes that not everyone really knows about. Tasha went on: 'I didn't expect it at all. Royally exciting: The model and deaf campaigner an ambassador for The Royal National Institute for Deaf People, which she revealed is how she managed to bag the coveted invite (King Charles pictured) ![]() |