![]() ![]() Anthony publishes scandalous rumors about Victoria’s past, Victoria enters into a fierce rivalry with Susan to control the women’s movement. Victoria then parlays her fortune into the first female-owned brokerage firm. Along with her loose and scandalous sister, Tennessee, Victoria manipulates Vanderbilt and together they conspire to crash the stock market”"and profit from it. ![]() James introduces Victoria to one of the wealthiest men in America-Commodore Vanderbilt. Victoria chooses revolution.īut revolutions are expensive, and Victoria needs money. ![]() She can stay in an abusive marriage and continue to work as a psychic, or she can take the offer of support from handsome Civil War general James Blood and set about to turn society upside down. It’s 1869 and Victoria has a choice to make. This is the true story of Victoria Woodhull and the love of her life, James Blood.Īdored by the poor, hated by the powerful, forced into hiding during their lifetimes and erased from history after death, the legend of their love lives on. Their social revolution attracted the unwanted who were left out of the new wealth: the freed slaves, the new immigrants, and women. ![]() He was the Hero of Vicksburg, disillusioned with the government after witnessing the devastating carnage of the Civil War. She was the first woman to run for President, campaigning before women could vote. Two Renegades So Controversial They Were Erased From Historyĭiscarded by society, she led a social revolution. ![]()
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![]() The consequences of that observation drive the second half of the novel, where the point of view shifts into the third person and she becomes "the wife", "the hurt one". ![]() ![]() As her agent presciently advises her: "every marriage is jerry-rigged". I had thought loving two people so much would straighten it." But there are no serene uplands to be found except in dreaming. In one of the key short passages in Offill’s melancholy, eloquent novel, the narrator confides that "there is still such crookedness in my heart. She – as we are forced to keep calling her – might be a fictional case study in Scott Stossel’s brilliant book of diagnosis and self-laceration, My Age of Anxiety. ![]() This union and the birth of a loved daughter only increase her anxiety. ![]() ![]() German shepherds threaten attack, a finger is amputated (and reattached with magic), and an explosion blows a hole through a fairy wing. Some bad guys betray their own and kill them with guns, once at close range to the back of the head. Still, a few bad guys go down, one from a kind of electric shock, and another falls in lava. As with the first book, Artemis Fowl, there's a whole lot of fantasy action violence here, but major bloodshed is averted in a climactic battle with the help of sophisticated fairy weaponry that knocks enemies unconscious instead of killing them. A graphic novel version is also available, as well as a movie of the first two books joined together set for release in 2020. Parents need to know that The Arctic Incident is the second book of eight in the Artemis Fowl storyline. Commander Root smokes fungus cigars often, Russian Mafiya men smoke.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Habits shouldn’t be impossible to reset–and with healthy boundaries, knowledge of–and permission to go after–our desires, and an easy to implement plan of action, we can make any new goal a joyful habit. The book includes enlightening interviews with people who’ve successfully strengthened their discipline backbones, new perspective on how to train our brains to become our best selves, and offers a simple, 21 day, step-by-step guide for ditching habits that don’t serve us and developing the habits we deem most important. C or U someone or something that you admire or find impressive: This car is pure badass. Badass Habits features Jen’s trademark hilarious voice and offers a much-needed fresh take on the conventional wisdom and science that shape the optimism (or pessimism?) around the age-old topic of habits. a bad or slightly frightening person: He plays a 21-year old badass who gets into a lot of trouble. Habit busting and building goes way beyond becoming a dedicated flosser or never showing up late again–our habits reveal our unmet desires, the gaps in our boundaries, our level of self-awareness, and our unconscious beliefs and fears. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Jen Sincero gets to the core of transformation: habits–breaking, making, understanding, and sticking with them like you’ve never stuck before.īadass Habits is a eureka-sparking, easy-to-digest look at how our habits make us who we are, from the measly moments that happen in private to the resolutions we loudly broadcast (and, erm, often don’t keep) on social media. ![]() ![]() ![]() This whiskey finishes different than it starts- the course of true love never did run smooth, after all-but the whole ride is enjoyable. Sometimes something drinkable is almost too light and easy to quaff, like it is there for thirst only–think very cold, shitty beer at a sporting event. Although it is not quite as after-dinner delight as the nose would have you believe and there’s a bite to it which I’m attributing to its 49.3% alcohol, it is balanced, with a sweet kick at the finish. As Shakespeare also wrote, “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.” This is a well-tended whiskey. Actually, on subsequent sniffs, it’s more like red currants. But not too much, because raisins are disgusting. And actually it has a slight whiff of raisins, like Port does. Has the depth and richness of a bourbon, I guess maybe that can be attributed to its aging style. Nose: Oooh, this is desserty! Enticingly sweet and beckoning in the glass. Tropical harwood, like South American ipe wood. Vital stats: Blend of straight rye whiskies, aged six years in French Oak and Port barrels, 98.6 proof, about $130 for 750 ml.Īppearance: Reddish chestnut in the bottle, polished oak in the glass. A Midwinter Night’s Dram (image via Carin Moonin/The Whiskey Wash) Tasting Notes: A Midwinter Night’s Dram, Act 7, Scene 5 ![]() ![]() ![]() Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called "Honah Lee". Oh Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called "Honah Lee". Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff, and brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff. Three CBS television specials based on the song were made, the first of which Peter Yarrow starred in as Jackie Paper's father. ![]() However, this myth has been disregarded on multiple occasions. It is one of the best known children's songs of all time, being about "the loss of innocence of childhood", although some conspiracy theorists have suggested that the song has an ulterior meaning related to marijuana or other drugs. ![]() " Puff, The Magic Dragon" or " Puff (The Magic Dragon)", listed on the original Moving album simply as " Puff", is a song which was written by Peter Yarrow, based on a poem by Leonard Lipton, and was first performed by Peter, Paul, & Mary. #1 ( Billboard Middle-Road Singles Chart) ![]() ![]() ![]() We have a passenger under the floorboards, so you've got to be careful." ![]() ![]() ![]() You told me that at least five times on the last ride." Remember, Tom, if you hear horses, don't speed up, no matter what." the Railroad's character was engraven, as by a pen of fire, in the hearts and consciences of men, burning deeper and deeper. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Does that mean Will Spencer is a common thief? Or is he a young man doing what’s right? After all, according to the law, stealing slaves is just as bad as robbing a man’s house. When a runaway slave asks Will to help steal his older brother out of the South to keep him from being sold into the hard life of the cotton fields, Will amends his plan and begins an adventure that will take him into the heart of slavery’s evil.Īs he makes his way from Ohio to Kentucky, Will discovers that people are not always what they seem and that it’s not always easy to tell right from wrong. But Will is ready to leave Atwater, Ohio, and start a life of his own as a peddler seeking his fortune. Will Spencer’s family has always helped runaway slaves passing through their town as they travel the Underground Railroad. But lately, I’ve been hauling more people than goods." I come from a little town called Atwater, Ohio, and I bought this wagon to haul goods. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the delicious fresh blackberry cobbler of Edna Lewis, to the Appalachian favorites of Sean Brock (like his pickled shrimp and chocolate Alabama stack cakes), this list is meant to cover a lot of different approaches to southern cooking. You'll be sure to learn a lot about historical ingredients and techniques by picking up any of these books, and learn to make a lot of amazing dishes too. While they all don't solely traffic in "traditional" southern cooking, all give us a greater reverence for the dishes that are so important to the region. The cookbooks we've outlined below are by no means exhaustive but aim to show some of the best of historical southern cooking. ![]() And whether you grew up making biscuits or have never traveled below the Mason-Dixon line, there is still plenty to learn about southern cooking and all of its important history. Though no region is a monolith, there is perhaps no more region that has had more of an impact on American culinary history than the south. ![]() ![]() When you make a dish that's important to your family or even the families in your region, you honor your history and can form an emotional connection to the food. Traditional cooking is about more than just making a meal. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now the father has died in mysterious circumstances, and Willie Jacobs is convinced the machine is the culprit. A bizarre machine powers the tram and father and son have been fuelling it with phosphorous. The dishevelled Jacobs and his father have been running an experimental tram line in London’s East End. The year is 1890 and Holmes and Watson are thrown into a bizarre case by the visit of Willie Jacobs. ![]() The author Lois H Gresh is a noted writer of weird Lovecraftian-inspired fiction, but this is her first time writing about the great consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. The first, James Lovegrove’s Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows, was a thoroughly enjoyable romp. Written by Lois H Gresh - The Adventure of the Deadly Dimensions is the second mash-up this year combining HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos with Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. ![]() ![]() ![]() This was the second year I’ve had a day off from work in honor of Juneteenth, and I wanted to spend it intentionally. We can’t be of real service to the hopes we have for places - and people, ourselves included - without a clear-eyed assessment of their (and our) strengths and weaknesses.” In truth, it often requires the opposite. “Love does not require taking an uncritical stance toward the object of one’s affections. A commemoration of Juneteenth and the fraught legacies of slavery that still persist, On Juneteenth is stark reminder that the fight for equality is ongoing. ![]() Reworking the “Alamo” framework, Gordon-Reed shows that the slave-and race-based economy not only defined this fractious era of Texas independence, but precipitated the Mexican-American War and the resulting Civil War. ![]() Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts the origins of Juneteenth and explores the legacies of the holiday that remain with us.įrom the earliest presence of black people in Texas - in the 1500s, well before enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown-to the day in Galveston on June 19, 1865, when General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery, Gordon-Reed’s insightful and inspiring essays present the saga of a “frontier” peopled by Native Americans, Anglos, Tejanos, and Blacks that became a slaveholder’s republic. ![]() |
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