Patricia Miller’s marvelous Bringing Down the Colonel recounts Pollard’s sensational claim that Breckinridge had seduced her when she was 17, engaged in a years-long adulterous affair with her, then reneged on his marriage pledge when his wife died. But women had the last laugh: Representative Breckinridge, an eloquent political superstar, couldn’t escape the women who testified against him, the wealthy female activists who publicly backed Pollard and the ordinary women of central Kentucky who campaigned against his re-election, decades before they obtained suffrage. When close to 20 women arrived at the courtroom as spectators to the buzzy trial, the judge politely threw them out-the testimony was far too indelicate for ladies to hear. Madeline Pollard’s breach-of-promise lawsuit against famous Kentucky Congressman William Breckinridge was the talk of Washington, D.C., in 1894.
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Partnered with Beau Slokam, whose penchant for gambling leads them straight to the Doom Gang, Misfortune Annie guides the smooth-talking Southerner in a chase through the Rockies, with her Cheyenne friend, Wontoa, rounding out their unlikely trio. Too soon, her detested nickname re-stakes its claim. Promising to find out what he can about her missing father, the Director of the Secret Service persuades Annie to swear in. When Annabelle Fortune, the fastest gunslinger in the wild west, inadvertently stops a stranger from attacking a train - and he wears a suit that enables him to fly! - the government believes she’s the only one to have witnessed the Locomotive Reaper and survived to tell the tale. Sandra hasn’t contacted him in years, and now she reaches out in apparent distress? His anxiety is through the roof, and Ivy and J.C.’s distrust of the situation does nothing to help. In this story, Leeds and Co., are on the hunt for the elusive Sandra, who recently texted Stephen a single word: Help. His own personal biographer, all in his head! Personal faves were Lua and Jenny, an all new aspect intent on harassing Stephen as she follows him and writes down every bit of his adventures. Ivy, J.C., and Tobias are still front and center, but a few others come in to play over the course 105 page novella. Stephen Leeds is back, and so are his aspects. I know I needed the refresher before I tucked into this book. If it’s been awhile since you’ve read the first two novellas in this series, I recommend checking out my reviews for Legion and Legion: Skin Deep before delving into this one. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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Poems have been written about him, paintings inspired by him, his work has been set to music, and he has been made the central character in a successful novel that is little more than a fictionalized biography (The World as I Found It, by Bruce Duffy). Even those quite unconcerned with analytical philosophy find him compelling. About the book >.>.> The figure of Ludwig Wittgenstein exerts a very special fascination that is not wholly explained by the enormous influence he has had on the development of philosophy this century. Their gods failed them, but they still remember their names. Metro stations have turned into mini-statelets, and the people huddle around their fading memories of society, creed and what was once called religion. Those who survive live beneath Moscow in the Metro, the largest air-raid shelter ever built. The planet belongs to new stewards, the dark life-forms who constantly hunt down the last humans with a carnivorous vengeance. The remnant of humanity tries to remember the glory that had been yanked from beneath their feet. The cities are mostly destroyed, ravaged by radiation and rendered uninhabitable. Mankind was reduced to survival by any means possible, a sorry state for those who were once its rulers. What was left was no good to begin with, pathetic beyond recognition. Metro 2033, Dmitry Glukhovsky’s post-apocalyptic horror novel, is where the magic of the hit video game started, and this English translation brings readers all the thrills and scares of the original Russian novel. Mankind is struggling to survive, and unimaginable horrors rule the land. In the year 2033, the world is a mere shadow of its former self, corrupted beyond recognition. I now have some readers in university who still hang out for the latest update on Friday, her friends, her mishaps and successes – and of course, her love life!įriday, Melly and Ian, along with Uncle Bernie and a few assorted newcomers to the quirky cast of characters, are once again embroiled in an art crime. Subsequently – and by then in a different school library – the kiddos went wild when they found out Friday’s adventures were off and running again. Oh Friday, you just get betterer and betterer! Readers will remember my anecdote of the dismay felt by my coterie of Friday fans, when the ‘last’ in the (original) series was announced, and was confirmed by my (then) recent conversation with Rachel over afternoon tea. Jade War is more brutal, more devastating, more emotional, and more than you could ever expect it to be. Jade War, the sequel to Jade City, has dethroned its predecessor as my favourite book of all time. It’s not often you read a book where the second book, the middle book of a trilogy no less, is undoubtedly better than the first book, and yet, Fonda Lee did it. I have loved Jade City so passionately for years that I never gave thought to the possibility that it would be dethroned so soon. And now I find myself in the strange and unexpected position of finding a new favourite book of all time. And not just ‘one of my favourite books’ – Jade City is the favourite book. Many of you may know that Jade City is my favourite book of all time. Jade, Kekon’s most prized resource, could make them rich – or give them the edge they’d need to topple their rivals.įaced with threats on all sides, the Kaul family is forced to form new and dangerous alliances, confront enemies in the darkest streets and the tallest office towers, and put honor aside in order to do whatever it takes to ensure their own survival – and that of all the Green Bones of Kekon. Powerful foreign governments and mercenary criminal kingpins alike turn their eyes on the island nation. On the island of Kekon, the Kaul family is locked in a violent feud for control of the capital city and the supply of magical jade that endows trained Green Bone warriors with supernatural powers they alone have possessed for hundreds of years.īeyond Kekon’s borders, war is brewing. And the most renowned ghost story of our own times is, I think indisputably, The Woman in Black by Susan Hill. And, at the risk of being seen merely to be repeating received wisdom, it is hard to think of a better ghost story than The Turn of the Screw by that other James – Henry. James was the acknowledged master: he got it just right, time after time. For many aficionados of the genre (including myself), M. None of this prevents there being an entire library of great ghost stories. I know: I speak as one who has tried his hand at writing ghost stories, but who has been so embarrassed by the results that he has not even kept them tucked away on his hard drive. And the pacing has to be just right: any slight misjudgement in pacing that may pass unnoticed by most readers in other types of fiction can sink a ghost story. One must maintain throughout a judicious balance between telling too little, and telling too much: tell too little, and the reader feels cheated tell too much and the sense of mystery, of the unexplained – that sense which is the essence of any good ghost story – dissipates. Ghost stories are incredibly difficult to pull off. Students are to write a simple synonym for the definition. I start by passing out a vocabulary sheet in which students have the page number and the vocabulary word. Before the Ever After Jacqueline Woodson: Vocabulary It is heart-breaking to watch the young man be forced to lose his father in such a painful way. The novel also takes a close look at the culprit the National Football League and their stance of deniability. The novel takes a critical look at football players and the dangers of this condition which has reached hundreds of players. His father was an NFL football hall of famer and is now suffering from CTE (Chronic traumatic encephalopathy). Before the Ever After Jacqueline Woodson Novel Study- click HERE for the full lesson on Teachers Pay Teachers.īefore the Ever After Jacqueline Woodson is a coming-of-age novel where a young boy watches his father’s cognitive function diminish before his eyes. |