![]() ![]() History is able to record little or nothing of such abortive efforts. ![]() But it often happens, too, that a man of might strikes a blow which falls without effect upon a stubborn stone a short, sharp report is heard, and all is over. No event is great in itself, even though it be the disappearance of whole constellations, the destruction of several nations, the establishment of vast empires, or the prosecution of wars at the cost of enormous forces: over things of this sort the breath of history blows as if they were flocks of wool. ![]() FOR an event to be great, two things must be united-the lofty sentiment of those who accomplish it, and the lofty sentiment of those who witness it. Untimely Meditations (German: Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen), also translated as Unfashionable Observations and Thoughts Out Of Season) consists of four works by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, started in 1873 and completed in 1876. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Beauty in Breaking is the poignant true story of Harper’s journey toward self-healing. How we recognize those breaks, how we try to mend them, and where we go from there are all crucial parts of the healing process. In the ensuing years, as Harper learned to become an effective ER physician, bringing insight and empathy to every patient encounter, she came to understand that each of us is broken-physically, emotionally, psychically. Her marriage at an end, Harper began her new life in a new city, in a new job, as a newly single woman. They stayed together through medical school until two months before she was scheduled to join the staff of a hospital in central Philadelphia, when he told her he couldn’t move with her. ![]() Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself. ![]() ![]() ![]() When his mother makes contact, begging forgiveness on her son’s behalf, Angie agrees to meet with her in hopes of finding answers to the seemingly random attack. Angie narrowly escapes, and Bittner is arrested, but he takes his life in jail before he can offer an explanation for his crime. ![]() ![]() She can’t be with them all the time, though, and so Angie is alone when she’s snatched from a strip mall parking lot by Scott Bittner. Angie’s dad does the best he can, but his work as a musician keeps him on the road and away from home, where it’s up to Angie’s grandmother to keep an eye on the kids. Sure, things look normal on the surface - she goes to school, works her summer job, and argues with her older brother Jason - but she can’t shake the feeling her mother didn’t leave by choice. Five years have passed since Angie Favorite’s mother, Laura, disappeared without a trace, and Angie still hasn’t recovered. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her famous lecture, 'Royal Bodies', which caused a media frenzy, explores the place of royal women in society and our imagination. There are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher Marlowe and Margaret Pole, which display the astonishing insight into the Tudor mind we are familiar with from the bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy. Her subjects range far and wide: Robespierre and Danton, the Hite report, Saudi Arabia where she lived for four years in the 1980s, the Bulger case, John Osborne, the Virgin Mary as well as the pop icon Madonna, a brilliant examination of Helen Duncan, Britain's last witch. In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, 'I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.' This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three decades, tells the story of what happened next. ![]() A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light ![]() ![]() ![]() 2023.01.25 Campfire Reminiscing :: My Paddle's Keen and Bright - Available February 9.2023.02.08 Book Launch :: My Paddle's Keen and Bright :: Feb 27. ![]() 2023.04.15 Available Now :: Naked Defiance by Patrik Sampler.2023.04.30 Available Now :: The Postmedia Effect by Marc Edge. ![]() A fresh, engaging exploration of Canadian cultural identity, Captivity Tales evokes the desperate need to find yourself by losing yourself, and to return home by escaping from it. In searching out their stories, she finds a new map, an underworld of memory and connection, which offers a way home. Stranded in New York with her family, Elizabeth Hay searches for company and finds it in the lives of other Canadians who have come to New York: Inuit visitors in th 19th century, artists like Michael Snow, Joyce Wieland, Glenn Gould and Teresa Stratas. Captivity Tales, stories of settlers kidnapped by Indians, are turned on their head in this book about captivity in the city. This early non–fiction work by critically acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Hay displays the qualities that have resonated with readers ––– the pitch–perfect register of human psychology, the clear, unsentimental yet intimate sentences ––– in her bestselling novels A Student of Weather, Garbo Laughs, Late Nights on Air, and Alone In the Classroom. ![]() ![]() ‘Simm plays the lead with elegant understatement’ – Mail On Sunday ‘For fans still coming to terms with the end of Endeavour, the third series of Grace has arrived just in time to fill the Brit detective void… a world-weary detective a younger sidekick and plenty of knotty cases to be solved.’ – Poppie Platt, The Sunday Telegraph ![]() The third season of GRACE has received wonderful praise in the press and Season 4, with four episodes, starts shooting on April 11th. The series is adapted from the bestselling Roy Grace book series by Peter James, which has delivered nineteen consecutive Sunday Times Number Ones for Peter James and his publisher Pan Macmillan. GRACE stars acclaimed actor John Simm as tenacious detective Roy Grace, Richie Campbell as Glenn Branson and Zoë Tapper as Cleo Morley. Tune in then, and if you watch closely, in the first moments, you will be able to spot Peter James and his wife, Lara, walking down Brighton Palace Pier towards the camera! The last episode of the season, NOT DEAD YET, airs on Sunday 2nd April at 8pm. ![]() DEAD LIKE YOU (Series 3, Episode 1) drew in 5.6 million viewers on its seven-day consolidated figures – up a massive 700,000 on Season 2. ITV hit crime drama, GRACE, returned to screens on Sunday 19th March for a third season, garnering high praise and strong viewing figures. ![]() ![]() Soon, Olive finds that maybe she doesn't mind pretending. Forced to play loving newlyweds, she and Ethan find themselves in closer proximity than they ever expected. But when Olive runs into her future boss, the little white lie she tells him spirals out of control. Putting their mutual hatred aside, Olive and Ethan head for paradise. ![]() When the entire wedding - except for Olive and Ethan - gets food poisoning, there's an all-expenses-paid honeymoon in Hawaii up for grabs. While she's about to marry her dream man, Olive is forced to play nice with her nemesis: the best man, Ethan. With her sworn enemy Olive is always unlucky her identical twin sister Ami, on the other hand, is probably the luckiest person in the world. Ī perfect feel-good romantic comedy' Helen Hoang, author of The Kiss Quotient'You can never go wrong with Christina Lauren!' Paige Toon*A NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!*_The honeymoon of a lifetime. ![]() ![]() The perfect choice if you've had to cancel your summer holiday but still want to feel the sand between your toes' Beth O'Leary, author of The Flatshare'Witty and downright hilarious. ![]() ![]() ![]() Written by a prominent African-American OB/GYN and a highly respected journalist, Blessed Health is a personal health and spirituality guide for every stage of a black woman's life. ![]() Research has proven that a well-nurtured spiritual self can help to replenish, rejuvenate, and safeguard your physical self. You can achieve optimal health by arming yourself with medical knowledge and a strong spiritual base. Don't wait until a health emergency happens before turning to your faith and your physician. As a result, they are suffering with, and dying from, manageable illnesses such as heart disease, obesity, cancer, and diabetes more than any other group in the United States. Often the first people to pray when a serious illness strikes, black women may be the last to seek timely medical care. ![]() Yet that yearly doctor's visit could help save lives. Many black women will go to church all day every Sunday but won't take one day out of the year to get a Pap test and mammogram done. Blessed Health offers African-American women the medical information and inspirational motivation they need to achieve total health - a healthy mind, body, and spirit. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Using files from data for research provided by JSTOR, as well as self digitized periodicals, I explore a corpus of feminist periodicals from 1978-1981. Corpus linguistics provides a methodology for uncovering mathematical patterns within large bodies of texts that ultimately reveal larger discourses. The history that I investigate here is that produced by Alice Echols in the highly influential Daring to be Bad in order to see if her concept of “cultural feminism” is supported by a large data analysis. In large part narratives of women’s history are driven by the limitations of the historian’s mind, but they also reflect historiographical trends. Histories from “the bottom up” still focus on a relatively limited number of grassroots activists and tend to favor certain groups in large cities. However, in the case of women’s history, that promise remains unfulfilled. Social history promised to decenter the few in favor of the many in historical narratives. ![]() ![]() Trapped in the middle of this reinvigorated war are three teenagers: There's Adeluna, a soldier who helped overthrew Argrid Devereux, a pirate, or "Stream Raider," who deals in magic and becomes a target in the Argridian diplomat's abduction and Benat, the Crown Prince of Argrid and a heretic, who is obsessed with Grace Loray's magic. So, when an Argridian delegate vanishes during peace talks, the country quickly places blame on Grace Loray's people and their magic. Argrid is a country ruled by religion and has an inherent fear of Grace Loray's enchanted properties. ![]() ![]() Inspired by the Spanish Inquisition, Raasch's duology takes place on the magic-rich island of Grace Loray, which five years ago overthrew its oppressor country, Argrid. Even better? These Rebel Waves is only book one of the Snow Like Ashes author's new fantasy duology - and not only has Raasch given Bustle an exclusive look at book one's cover, but she has written a personal statement about why she decided to tackle the power of belief in her new series. ![]() Pirates, forbidden magic, revolution, and most of all, fervent religious belief are all intertwined in Sara Raasch's upcoming fantasy novel These Rebel Waves. ![]() |