![]() Samuel Adams amplified the Boston Massacre, helped to mastermind the Boston Tea Party, and rallied a town, a colony, and eventually a band of colonies behind him, creating the cause that created a country.Īpril 13 - Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora Macdonald (Author Flora Fraser) Pulitzer Prize-winner author Stacy Schiff dives into Samuel Adams' role as a Founding Father, introducing us to a man with high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, who led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history. March 15 - The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams (Author Stacy Schiff) ![]() Tickets are available only as a three-lecture package. Attend in person, or virtually at a discount. ![]() Each lecture includes a book signing and reception with complimentary beer, wine, and hors-d'oeuvres. Hear from authors of early American history in this three-part lecture series at George Washington’s estate. ![]()
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![]() ![]() What draws the younger reader in? In a word, empathy. Below the image of Michael carrying a sack the reader is told (an advertisement) in white font-The bestselling classic trilogy: Children of the Famine. ![]() The cover ticks the boxes, without standing out. Covers conform to a certain genre which reassures the reader that when they open then biscuit tin there’ll be biscuits inside. Eily O’Driscoll, the little mother, on the cusp of adolescence with an arm around her brother Michael aged 12 and wee sister Peggy aged seven. Name of the story, Under the Hawthorn Tree, in white below it, where green hills meet sky, the orange roof of a white cottage and the twisted branches of (what I suppose is) a hawthorn tree. Author’s name in black block on the title page. The cover by Irish artist, PJ Lynch seems bog-standard. ![]() I’m looking for markers that make it a success where other fail, something I could make use of. A book of 150 pages, its simple sentences and style meant I could digest the book in one sitting. Under the Hawthorn Tree is a children’s book and international bestseller set in 1845-200 000 copies sold in Ireland alone. I’m in the privileged position of never knowing life-threatening hunger. I’ve been reading about the Irish Famine 1845-51. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, for all its self-consciousness and researched archaic vocabulary, the late epic was based on very old, scattered materials. ![]() Medea figures in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, a myth known best from a late literary version worked up by Apollonius of Rhodes in the 3rd century BC and called the Argonautica. Jason, Perseus, Theseus, and above all Heracles, are all "liminal" figures, poised on the threshold between the old world of shamans, chthonic earth deities, and the new Bronze Age Greek ways. The myths involving Jason have been interpreted as part of a class of myths that tell how the Hellenes of the distant heroic age, before the Trojan War, faced the challenges of the pre-Greek "Pelasgian" cultures of mainland Greece, the Aegean and Anatolia. Ozsolak, Sarah Scott, Jack Vaughan) In front of Medea’s house in Corinth. ![]() The play tells of Medea avenging her husband's betrayal by slaying their children. Coleridge, revised by Roger Ceragioli, further revised by Gregory Nagy Newly revised by the Hour 25 Kosmos Society Medea Heroization Team (Jessica Eichelburg, Hlne Emeriaud, Claudia Filos, Janet M. In Euripides's play Medea, Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of Corinth, offers him his daughter, Glauce. Medea In Greek mythology, Medea was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Pheres. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Are you ready? It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. ![]() THE BOOK BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG 'Wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut' Independent 'Part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart' CNN 'Ernest Cline's novel deserves to be a modern classic' SciFiNow 'Gorgeously geeky, superbly entertaining, this really is a spectacularly successful debut' Daily Mail _ A world at stake. ![]() Description for Ready Player One Paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's no fluke many pieces in Spiral Cage go back to his very earliest years. 38.76, good condition, Sold by Baggins Book Bazaar rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rochester. Add to Cart Add this copy of The Spiral Cage-Diary of an Astral Gypsy to cart. We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at 3.98. In his intense autobiographical work The Spiral Cage (1990, Titan republished 2003 by Active Images with 40 pages of additional material) he didn't date or title this early dream, but context makes it clear he was only about a year old-a record for earliest dream remembered, at least among the World Dream Bank's thousands of entries. Buy The Spiral Cage by Al Davison online at Alibris. The Spiral Cage by Al Davison, April 22, 1990, Titan Books Ltd edition, Paperback - Revised ed edition The Spiral Cage (Apedition) Open Library It looks like you're offline. His parents once again got notified not he wouldn’t walk anymore through his entire life. He was born with spina bilfda, and his parents were told by the doctor that he is not going to leave long. ![]() Cartoonist and dreamworker Al Davison was hospitalized on and off as a young child. The Spiral Cage by Al Davison is a really strong graphic novel of his own autobiography. ![]() ![]() Didn't do enough research when I asked my folks to buy it for me, probably for the holidays some years ago. I went into this book thinking it was nonfiction, so that's my bad. ![]() During this period, he also designed almost a dozen board games, including several Charles Roberts Award (gaming's Emmy) winners, such as Empire Builder and Sanctuary. ![]() With Mayfair Games he created, wrote, and edited many of the Role Aides role-playing game modules and supplements released in the 1970s and 1980s. He founded, and later sold, what is now the largest hobby shop in Northern Illinois.įawcett’s first commercial writing appeared as articles in the Dragon magazine and include some of the earliest appearances of classes and monster types for Dungeons & Dragons. As a book packager, a person who prepares series of books from concept to production for major publishers, his company, Bill Fawcett & Associates, has packaged more than 250 titles for virtually every major publisher. ![]() As an author, Fawcett has written or coauthored over a dozen books and dozens of articles and short stories. He is one of the founders of Mayfair Games, a board and role-play gaming company. His entire life has been spent in the creative fields and managing other creative individuals. Bill Fawcett has been a professor, teacher, corporate executive, and college dean. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now if you haven’t read the first two books in this series, you’re seriously missing out, however, you can easily read this as a standalone. If you have been sleeping on this author and haven’t yet been introduced to her brilliance, allow me to give you the swift kick in the that you obviously need. When I tell you that I am obsessed with this series, I’m saying I AM OBSESSED WITH THIS SERIES. He was a monster dressed like a gentleman. Unfortunately, a Russian winter is the coldest of them all, and Mila soon learns the only way to escape intact is to do the impossible and thaw her captor’s heart. But it doesn’t take long for his caress to become a rough grasp muffling her screams. ![]() One with unexplained wealth, tattoos on his hands, and secrets in his eyes. She never expected to fall for a man on the way. Suffocated by the rules and unanswered questions, Mila does what she’s always wanted to. Not about her papa’s absences or his refusal to let her set foot in her birthplace-Russia. Having always done what is expected of her, Mila dresses the part, only dates college boys with exemplary backgrounds, and doesn’t ask questions. She refrained from telling her it would be literally while Mila ran for her life. A fortune teller once told Mila she’d find a man who would take her breath away. ![]() ![]() Rome is a hotbed of accusation and conspiracy. ![]() Alexander murders, bribes and betrays to establish his dynasty. And so begins the Borgia reign of terror. Three wedding presents for the Borgia bride! Italy 1492 Pope Alexander VI is elected. This sweeping historical novel tells the dramatic tale of that most intriguing of Renaissance women, Lucrezia Borgia. Sancha de Aragon, daughter of King Alfonso II of Naples, arrives in Rome. Every day, the River Tiber is full of new bodies. ![]() ![]() Set in French Polynesia, this is the first book ever published by an author from Tahiti and what a book it is! Combining a look into the politics that caused the island to become a nuclear missile base for the French government with absolutely lyrical prose that tells of the Maohi people and their way of life, it's a treat to read even though the tone is inherently sad, telling of an inevitable loss for the islanders. Such a beautifully written book that tells the tale of a place through the lives of one family that tries to spread the love of land, culture and traditions and retain them in the face of strong winds of change that are forced on them. ![]() ![]() ![]() All cases were uneventful without intraoperative complications, although one postoperative wound infection occurred in a Lap-PEG case. We compared Lap-PEG ( n = 23) with F-PEG ( n = 6) where the mean ages and weights at surgery and sex ratios were similar. Once repeated, the stomach can be pexied at two points, approximately 2 cm apart. By introducing a loop through the lumen of one needle which allows placement of a suture introduced through the lumen of the other needle. ![]() We started using the “Funada-kit II” (CREATE MEDIC CO., Kanagawa, Japan) device with two parallel needles to puncture the stomach and assist suturing the anterior gastric wall to the anterior abdominal wall during Lap-PEG in 2011 (F-PEG). We aimed at assessing the effect of using a “Funada-kit II” device during laparoscopy-assisted percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (Lap-PEG), by reviewing 29 cases of Lap-PEG we performed from 2001 to 2011. ![]() |