![]() The adventures of Maureen include a series of sexual encounters, beginning in childhood wherein, having just had her first sexual intercourse, is examined by her father, a doctor, and finds herself desiring him sexually. Harriman's space program from The Man Who Sold the Moon, and the rolling roads from The Roads Must Roll. In addition, Maureen lives through, and gives her (sometimes contradictory) viewpoints on many events in other Heinlein stories, most notably the 1917 visit from the future by "Ted Bronson" (Lazarus Long), told from Long's point of view in Time Enough for Love, D. Maureen, born on July 4, 1882, recounts her girlhood in backcountry Missouri, discovery that her family is a member of the long-lived Howard Families (whose backstory is revealed in Methuselah's Children), marriage to Brian Smith, another member of that group, and her life-largely in Kansas City-until her apparent death in 1982. ![]() ![]() Maureen is ostensibly recording the events of the book while held in prison alongside Pixel, the eponymous character of The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. The book is a memoir of Maureen Johnson Smith Long, mother, lover, and eventual wife of Lazarus Long. ![]()
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![]() ![]() For Atticus, the jury’s still out on whether the wily old coot will be an asset in the epic battle with Norse god Loki-or merely a pain in the arse.īut Atticus isn’t the only one with daddy issues. Between busting Atticus’s chops and trying to fathom a cell phone, Owen must also learn English. What’s more, Atticus has defrosted an archdruid long ago frozen in time, a father figure (of sorts) who now goes by the modern equivalent of his old Irish name: Owen Kennedy.Ītticus takes pleasure in the role reversal, as the student is now the teacher. ![]() In the seventh book in the New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles, two-thousand-year-old Druid Atticus O’Sullivan and his apprentice Granuaile, take on an ancient plague-summoning demon and confront a rebellion of the Fae in Tír na nÓg.Ītticus’s apprentice Granuaile is at last a full Druid herself. Order The Book Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Seven ![]() ![]() In America half a million people died in India, many, many millions. All over the world the cruel influenza had been taking lives. ![]() It was 1919, and because the Great War was over, we had thought all the deaths were at an end, but it wasn’t so. It crept up on us like the hyenas I heard at night from my window, drawn to us, Kanoro said, by the smell of death. I would recommend it to fans of historical fiction and children's classics. It's well written (my favorite so far of the Gloria Whelan books I have read) and well-narrated by Bianca Amato. Will she ever be able to tell him the truth? And will she ever be able to return to her beloved Africa?I greatly enjoyed listening to this audiobook. As she remains with him, Rachel grows fond of the old gentleman, and begins to love him as she would her own grandfather. Rachel resolves to tell the truth anyway, but then she meets the ailing old gentleman, whose health is so frail that she fears the startling news of his granddaughter's death and his son's duplicity in sending Rachel could have disastrous consequences. ![]() Rachel is hesitant to take part in the scheme, but her only other option is being sent to the orphanage her own parents grew up in. ![]() Rachel will take that daughter's place on a voyage to England, to visit the dead girl's grandfather and get into his good graces. When both of her parents die in the 1919 influenza epidemic, Rachel falls into the clutches of a scheming family who have just lost their own daughter. She was born in Africa, and she loves it there. Rachel Sheridan is the daughter of missionaries. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was in the day before the magic of RoundUp (TM), when farmers routinely mixed up a witch’s brew of pesticide chemicals using their own home-brew recipes, and it still wasn’t enough to keep the weeds from conquering whole fields. etc. etc.įor me, the discussion is intensely personal because I spent whole chunks of my childhood summers with a hoe, amongst endless rows of soybeans, bandana draping my neck, and bottle of water perched in the dirt on one end of the field, engaging in hand-to-hand combat with weeds. ![]() Got in a minor Twitter brouhaha the other day about GMO and Roundup™ and the evils of Monsanto, etc. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the tales will make you shake your head. He is in neither tent and can see that even in WW2, the media image outstripped the abilities of both men. His criticism of both Montgomery and Patton is welcome and refreshing. There is a genuine critical perspective - and Ambrose is not partisan - he respects both the axis and the allies as soldiers quite equally and pulls no punches in pointing out the strengths and weakeness on both sides. ![]() The futility is there too - this account doesn't embellish armed conflict, but it doesn't saturate the reader with morality tales either. ![]() It gives you enough to understand the nasty side of war, without detracting one iota from the heroism. The solidiers and individuals, with characteristics and as much as he can he will tease out the humanity within the uniform. I like how Ambrose looks at soldiers as people first and foremost. He is a fine writer, his work is accessible and his perspective on human experience in combat is insightful and empathetic. I have to say that doesn't disconcert me at all. I've heard some try to undermine him by discrediting his academic prowess. ![]() He somehow cracked the market open and his Band of Brothers became that golden HBO TV hit. Stephen E Ambrose is a figure of some envy within the community of WW2 historians. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Ukraine once again finds itself at the center of global attention, Plokhy brings its history to vivid life as he connects the nation's past with its present and future. ![]() This revised edition includes new material that brings this definitive history up to the present. In The Gates of Europe, Plokhy examines Ukraine's search for its identity through the lives of major Ukrainian historical figures, from its heroes to its conquerors. Situated between Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Ukraine has been shaped by empires that exploited the nation as a strategic gateway between East and West from the Romans and Ottomans to the Third Reich and the Soviet Union. In this authoritative book, Harvard Professor Serhii Plokhy traces the history of Ukraine from the arrival of the Vikings in the tenth century to the current. A New York Times bestseller, this definitive history of Ukraine is an exemplary account of Europe's least-known large country (Wall Street Journal).Īs Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing struggle with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence, celebrated historian Serhii Plokhy explains that today's crisis is a case of history repeating itself: the Ukrainian conflict is only the latest in a long history of turmoil over Ukraine's sovereignty. ![]() |