![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, relations with Great Britain worsened over the growing American commerce with France and her colonies. ![]() ![]() Article 4: A commercial war with the "Mistress of the Seas".Claiming exclusively to speak for the people, each party cast rivals as insidious conspirators bent on destroying freedom and the union. Ironically, that dread of parties drove each group to practice an especially bitter partisanship. Both cast their opponents as a selfish and destructive faction bent on perverting the fragile republic. Neither the Federalists nor the Republicans accepted the legitimacy of the other party. Article 3: The high stakes of political partisanship.This new nation struggled to find a place in a broader geopolitical world, leading to domestic tension. In many ways, the War of 1812 began as soon as the War of Independence ended. The War of 1812 served as the final act of the American Revolution, which was a complex and prolonged drama that lingered for a generation beyond the peace treaty of 1783 and the Federal Constitution of 1787. Article 1: Uneasy neighbors: Rival political systems in North America. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Though Frankenstein is infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement, Brian Aldiss has argued for regarding it as the first true science-fiction story. Īfter thinking for days, Shelley was inspired to write Frankenstein after imagining a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made. In 1816, Mary, Percy, and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story. Galvanism and occult ideas were topics of conversation for her companions, particularly for her lover and future husband Percy Bysshe Shelley. ![]() She then journeyed to the region of Geneva, Switzerland, where much of the story takes place. Shelley travelled through Europe in 1815, moving along the river Rhine in Germany, and stopping in Gernsheim, 17 kilometres (11 mi) away from Frankenstein Castle, where, two centuries before, an alchemist had engaged in experiments. ![]() Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through these stories, Shannon explains the intimate connection between faith and family-and how God’s unexpected agenda can redefine the way we think about family. And a daughter, Michal, struggled to keep her faithless father, Saul, from sin, while battling pride in herself. Another biblical mother, Rebekah, made terrible choices in an attempt to ensure her son’s place in history. Could Jochebed have imagined that God’s actual design for her son involved flight into exile and danger? And yet this was all part of the master plan to deliver Israel from slavery. She tells the story of Jochebed, a mother who took enormous risks to protect her son, Moses, from Pharaoh. But what does it actually look like to live it out? In The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak, Shannon Bream examines the lives of biblical women to see how God’s plans can turn our worlds upside down. “Have faith” is a phrase we hear all the time. ![]() ![]() God always keeps His promises, but not always in the way we expect…. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the comic, we are truly brought into the perspective of Calvin, seeing everything the way he sees it versus the way other people such as his parents or his more logical and rational classmate Susie do. This is one of the best parts of the Calvin and Hobbes series, as we are not only laughing at the characters, but also poking some fun at ourselves as hypocritical human beings. Throughout Calvin’s adventures at home and in doors, we are constantly exposed to the ironies and hypocritical observations that we make in everyday life. ![]() ![]() The series was originally published and reprinted in thousands of newspapers during the 80s, later being reprinted and published into book collections such as this spectacular title: “The Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons.” This particular edition of Calvin and Hobbes is the first ever edition that I’ve read and one I’ve had ever since I was very little, so I may be a little biased when I go to sing the comics praises.īut Calvin and Hobbes is truly something special- creating laughter, inspiring creativity, and providing comfort in the familiarity of those big introspective and existential topics we all get overwhelmed thinking about every now and then. Calvin and Hobbes, a series of comics written by Bill Watterson, follows the life of a six-year old boy named Calvin and his stuffed tiger best friend, Hobbes. ![]() ![]() ![]() With his little boy, his elderly father and the tattered remnants of his loyal crew of soldiers, he makes the classic American migration to California to start a new life.īut the Feds track him down and want Danny to do them a favor that could make him a fortune or kill him.Īnd when Hollywood starts shooting a film based on his former life, Danny demands a piece of the action and begins to rebuild his criminal empire. The Mafia, the cops, the FBI all want him dead or in prison. ![]() On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime war, Danny Ryan is now on the run. ![]() ![]() Following the epic, ambitious, instant New York Times bestseller City on Fire, “The Godfather for our generation” (Adrian McKinty), comes the dramatic second novel in an epic crime trilogy from Don Winslow, #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel trilogy (The Power of the Dog, The Cartel and The Border). ![]() ![]() ![]() Wren, Callum and Addie begin to realize that the reservation is not the sanctuary they hoped for. They meet a Reboot baby who has the requisite bright blue eyes and the ability to heal quickly. During the attack, the Reboots destroy all of the HARC shuttles.Īt the compound, which consists of large numbers of tents including a weapons tent, Wren and Callum learn that many of the Reboots have removed their birth control chip. ![]() It turns out the reservation Reboots are heavily armed. Wren and Callum have had enough of fighting but when the shuttles return to the reservation compound,Micah and Wren head out in one armed with grenade launchers. Micah orders Jules and Kyle, two reservation Reboots, to retrieve the shuttles that Wren and Callum took with them. He tells them that there are at least seven HARC shuttles on their way to attack the reservation and announces that they will be counter-attacking. Micah is thrilled to see Wren with so many Reboots. They are met by Micah 163 who is the leader of the reservation Reboots. Wren, Callum, Addie 39 and the Austin Reboots they have freed from HARC are now at the border of the Reboot reservation. Tintera employs the dual narratives of Wren 178 and Callum 22 to tell her story. ![]() Rebel, the sequel to Reboot picks up the action right where the first novel ended. ![]() ![]() A sequel, Point of Retreat, was published in February 2012. She states that she published the novel so her mother, who had just gotten an Amazon Kindle, could read it. Hoover self-published Slammed in January 2012. ![]() She was inspired by a lyric, "decide what to be and go be it,” from an Avett Brothers song, "Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise," and she incorporated Avett Brothers lyrics throughout the story. In November 2011, Hoover began writing her debut novel, Slammed, with no intention of getting published. She worked various social work and teaching jobs, prior to starting her career as an author. Hoover graduated from Texas A&M-Commerce with a degree in social work. She married Heath Hoover in 2000, and they have three sons. She grew up in Saltillo, Texas, and she graduated from Saltillo High School in 1998. Hoover was born on December 11, 1979, in Sulphur Springs, Texas, to Vannoy Fite and Eddie Fennell. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023. Hoover has sold approximately 20 million books, as of October 2022. Many of her works were self-published, before being picked up by a publishing house. She is best known for her 2016 romance novel, It Ends with Us. ![]() ![]() Colleen Hoover (born Margaret Colleen Fennell December 11, 1979) is an American author who primarily writes novels in the romance and young adult fiction genres. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Working with practically nonexistent budgets, he directed movies ignored in their day but have since become recognized as cult classics: Glen or Glenda, Bride of The Monster, Orgy of The Dead, and his most "infamous" production: Plan 9 From Outer Space.īarely skimping by on his movie earnings, Ed turned to writing a series of lurid paperbacks with such titles as "Black Lace Drag", "Let Me Die In Drag" and "Devil Girls". Ed did realize his goal but his talents did not match his ambitions. Marines during World War II, Ed followed his dream to Hollywood, hoping to achieve success as a movie director. ![]() was a name forgotten in the history of Hollywood until the release of the 1994 Tim Burton biopic, Ed Wood, starring Johnny Depp as Ed, and Martin Landau as the horror icon Bela Lugosi, a role for which Landau received the Academy Award.įollowing service with the U.S. ![]() ![]() Spiritual because the smell is a soothing medicine inducing a sense of remembrance and reverence practical because its weaving makes beautiful baskets. Sweetgrass (ah, how Kimmerer makes you want to smell and feel it!) is a sacred ceremonial plant, offering two gifts from Mother Earth, one spiritual and the other practical. Robin Wall Kimmerer opens this book of treasures with the creation story of Star Woman, a story which embodies every element of the indigenous wisdom that is woven throughout the rest of her celebration of our kindred world. Here's what Peggy has to say about Braiding Sweetgrass: Beautifully bound with a new cover featuring an engraving by Tony Drehfal, this edition includes a bookmark ribbon, a deckled edge, and five brilliantly colored illustrations by artist Nate Christopherson this is a book you are going to want to gift - either to yourself or those you love. Today marks the release of a gorgeous new gift edition of Braiding Sweetgrass. But the book that has affected her the most, and the one she has mentioned I need to pick up every time we talk, is Braiding Sweetgrass. Fungi, owls, the collected works of Diane Ackerman - she's been digging deep into nature writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Peggy has spent much of her reading time lately dwelling on the natural world. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a romance born of basically Stockholm Syndrome and out of torture. So of course I bought it because I wanted to see if it was as dark as everyone says it was. It’s a dark fantasy romance and there are some puritans on TikTok that think books like this shouldn’t exist and want to shame the people who read and enjoy these books, this particular title especially. KING OF FLESH & BONE is not something I would usually pick up, but it kept popping up on TikTok, and not necessarily for good reasons. ![]() Worse than a ruthless king… is a king obsessed.īut I am the vile ruler who controls it all. The review below was originally posted on Bites in 2022. But if you can handle it, it’s a great book. ![]() Check your trigger warnings before entering this one. Reviews are cross-posted from my review site, Bites.Ī deep, DARK fantasy romance, KING OF FLESH & BONE is not for the faint of heart. Indie Spotlight is an occasional feature I do to highlight a well-deserving indie or self-published author. ![]() |