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![]() ![]() ![]() Location of the island of La Gonâve, west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti At the age of 11, he started sorting coal in Pittston. He and his parents settled in Dupont, Pennsylvania, a coal mining community northwest of Wilkes-Barre, where he was raised. ![]() Customs Service) show his correct birth place as Pittston, Pennsylvania. Early life Īccording to an official biography, Wirkus was born in 1896 in Rypin ( Congress Poland, in the Russian Empire) a small town now in Poland, however, numerous ship passenger lists (records of the U.S. He was reputedly crowned Faustin II, King of La Gonâve, a Haitian island west of Hispaniola, by Queen Ti Memenne of La Gonâve on 18 July 1926, and co-ruled until he was transferred by the United States Marine Corps to the United States mainland in 1929. Marine gunner (after reenlistment in 1939)įaustin Edmond Wirkus ( Haitian Creole: Faustin II Wirkus 16 November 1896 – 8 October 1945) was an American marine stationed in Haiti during the United States occupation of Haiti (1915–1934). Gunnery sergeant (upon original discharge in 1931) ![]() ![]() Set in turn-of-the-century Chicago, The Jungle opens with the wedding of Lithuanian immigrants Jurgis Rudkus and Ona Lukoszaite. This study guide refers to the 2006 Penguin Books edition of The Jungle. ![]() ![]() would gradually adopt various labor reform laws over the next several decades, the Socialist Party never achieved the kind of success the novel predicted. In this, its legacy was more mixed although the U.S. Sinclair, however, hoped his work would inspire public sympathy for the plight of the working classes and generate support for the Socialist Party. Sinclair’s graphic account of the unsanitary and corrupt practices of America’s big meatpacking companies horrified the public to such an extent that, by the end of 1906, Congress passed two acts aimed at regulating the industry: the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act, which established what would become the FDA. ![]() As an exposé of this kind, The Jungle both exceeded and fell short of its author’s intentions. Although fictional, the work is often considered an example of “muckraking” journalism-turn-of-the-century investigative reporting that took aim at political corruption while advocating for progressive reform. The Jungle, first published in serial form in 1905, is a realist novel by American writer Upton Sinclair. ![]() ![]() Her prose poem, House of Incest (1936) was followed by the collection of three novellas, collected as Winter of Artifice (1939). This edition includes a preface adapted from Anaïs Nin's diary that establishes a context for the work's gestation, and a postscript to her diary entries in which she explains her desire to use 'women's language, seeing sexual experience from a woman's point of view'.Īnaïs Nin (1903-1977), born in Paris, was the daughter of a Franco-Danish singer and a Cuban pianist. Her vibrant and impassioned prose evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning. ![]() Creating her own 'language of the senses', she explores an area that was previously the domain of male writers and brings to it her own unique perceptions. In Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin conjures up a glittering cascade of sexual encounters. ![]() As influential and revelatory in its day as Fifty Shades of Grey is now, Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus is a groundbreaking anthology of erotic short stories, published in Penguin Modern Classics ![]() ![]() But when a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie’s present life is thrown into chaos, and her future seems at best, unclear-and at worst, non-existent. She gets by doing odd jobs for her patrons and the naive new money in her town at the edge of the Berkshires. And sometimes, it has a life of its own.Ĭharlie is a low-level con artist, working as a bartender while trying to distance herself from the powerful and dangerous underground world of shadow trading. Your shadow holds all the parts of you that you want to keep hidden-a second self, standing just to your left, walking behind you into lit rooms. You can alter someone’s feelings-and memories-but manipulating shadows has a cost, with the potential to take hours or days from your life. In Charlie Hall’s world, shadows can be altered, for entertainment and cosmetic preferences-but also to increase power and influence. #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies in the vein of Ninth House and The Night Circus ![]() ![]() Her family is described as being typical middle class. ![]() Kelley Armstrong is the eldest of four siblings in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada and was born on December 14, 1968. Some of those shorts are available on her website, free to read. She also co-wrote, with Melissa Marr, a middle-grade fantasy novel in the “Blackwell Pages Trilogy”, three crime novels and several novellas and short stories that go along with the “Women of the Otherworld” series. ![]() She’s published one novel in a series titled “Age of Legends”, another single story in her “Cainsville” series and the six books of the “Darkest Powers” series. Currently, she has twenty-eight novels on the market, thirteen of which are part of a series called “Women of the Otherworld”. Kelley Armstrong, a #1 NY Times best selling author, is a Canadian author who primarily publishes fantasy fiction. The Horror Collection: Purple Edition: THC Book 3īirds of Prey: The Harlan Coben Challenge The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing Ghouls, Ghosts, and Ninja Rats: Paranormal Crime Stories That Just Might Kill You ![]() The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010Įvolve 2: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire ![]() ![]() I just couldn't connect with the main character, Lainey. Review 2: I believe this story could have had a lot of potential but for me it fell flat. It's great to see Lainey grow and mature through the summer, hopefully starting her senior year being more like the. ![]() I always like when romance is mixed with sports and food. But nothing ever goes like it should and Lainey has to face some tough questions, does she really want Jason back? & what's wrong with a real relationship with Micah? This was a cute, fun read. This plan involves her fake dating a friend from work, Micah and flaunting her fake relationship in front of Jason to make him jealous. ![]() What's a girl to do? With the help of her friend, Bianca and the book The Art Of War, Lainey is determined to win Jason back. Review 1: Lainey is planning to spend the summer playing soccer and hanging out with her boyfriend Jason but her plans are derailed when Jason breaks up with her. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Precisely a year ago, JK Rowling had teased her followers with a tweet that said: “Robert Galbraith wrote a chapter of the next #Strike book in a trailer on the set of the next #FantasticBeasts movie today.” The release of that book, Lethal White, her fourth in the Cormoran Strike detective series written under the Robert Galbraith pseudonym, has coincided with a heady controversy over the casting of the Nagini character in the second Fantastic Beasts film.Īt this moment, her crime writer alter ego seems like a useful idea, with the Strike series moving forth with an identity of its own. ![]() ‘We are both victims’: Kuki and Meitei students in Delhi invoke shared Manipuri ties to keep peace.In his early days in the RSS, Atal Bihari Vajpayee wanted minors to be banned from watching films.My Kerala Story: Finding liberation in Malabar.Third cheetah dies in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park.Can two friends track down a killer and absolve themselves? IPL 2023: At 41, MS Dhoni is striking the ball as well as ever has in his IPL career.Watch: How Cambodian runner Bou Samnang completed 5,000m race at SEA Games in an inspiring effort.Should India be worried about the Imran Khan versus Army battle in Pakistan?.From Odisha to Kerala, a bus of climate migrants.Fun watch: Actor Shraddha Kapoor’s ‘French’, ‘British’, ‘American’ accents while speaking in English. ![]() ‘I don’t worry about those things’: Sudha Murthy when asked about communal politics in Karnataka.‘It’d be madness to think it was all sword and fire’: Vivekananda on the long Muslim rule in India. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posted in Book Reviews, Christian Historical Fiction | Tagged A Beauty So Rare, A Lasting Impression, Adelicia Acklen Cheatham, Audience, Belmont Mansion series, Bethany House, Conductor, Graf-Martin Communications, Maestro, Music, Musical, Nashville, Nuts About Books, Oboe, Orchestra, Performing, Piano, Singing, Symphony, Tamera Alexander, Vienna, Violin, Voice | Leave a commentĪfter two and a half years of waiting, the release date finally arrived… A Beauty So Rare, book number two in Tamera Alexander’s Belmont Mansion series, was released in the spring of 2014 by Bethany House. If you haven’t already guessed from the title, the primary theme of this novel is the art of music. ![]() Although several characters are recurring from the previous books in the series, (including Belmong Mansion, which is almost a character itself!) “A Note Yet Unsung” is a brand-new story all of its own. Have you ever read a book that was so beautiful, so masterfully written, and reached so far into the depths of your heart that any words you used to describe it felt woefully inadequate? That is exactly my predicament after reading the long-awaited conclusion to the unforgettable “Belmont Mansion” series by Tamera Alexander, entitled “A Note Yet Unsung”. ![]() ![]() ![]() And if that’s not enough, it’s a mere 1.4 pounds, as opposed to the Britannica’s 128 pounds. ![]() I competed in a crossword-puzzle tournament, went on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and attended a Mensa convention. (My dad, for instance, holds the world record for the most number of footnotes in a law review article: 5,435.) And finally, it is a series of adventures to test the limits of intelligence. Third, it’s a memoir of my eccentric, knowledge-loving family. Second, it is a search for meaning and wisdom among that ocean of facts. The book is many things: First, it’s a compendium of the funniest, most fascinating, and most profound facts I uncovered-from the history of canned laughter to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s obsessive-compulsive behavior to female spies in the Civil War. Part memoir, part Cliff’s Notes to every topic under the sun, The Know-It-All is about the year I spent reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z (or, more precisely, from a-ak to zywiec). ![]() The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to become the Smartest Person in the World ![]() |