![]() ![]() As Susan waits to hear from David, she receives another call from her boss, Commander Trevor Strathmore, Deputy Director of the NSA. Susan's fiancé, David Becker phones to tell her that he has been called out of town unexpectedly and their weekend plans will have to be delayed. In a race against time, Susan uncovers the astounding truth about the NSA's deputy director as the nation's most classified information is in grave danger of being exposed to the world and the life of the man she loves hangs in the balance. When Strathmore realizes he needs assistance, he calls in the NSA's head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher. Commander Trevor Strathmore believes that a former NSA employee has successfully created an unbreakable algorithm, which threatens the security of the nation and the future of the agency itself.Īn ambitious man, Strathmore recognizes the opportunity to turn the situation around to his own benefit. ![]() Digital Fortress by Dan Brown is a novel of deception and betrayal in the nation's most secret and powerful government organization, the National Security Agency (the NSA). ![]()
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![]() ![]() Slaves in the southern hemisphere retained a greater degree of their African religious heritage than their counterparts in the northern hemisphere. ![]() ![]() This theme is echoed throughout the book and appears in different forms.Įarly in the book, for example, Raboteau observes that the religious experience of slaves differed between the southern hemisphere and the northern hemisphere. And it still deserves attention today for its insights.Ĭhief among those insights is his tracing of the transformation of African religious practices as Africans were transported to the New World. ![]() That book became important in opening doors to a much-neglected area of American religious history. ed., 2004), which was based on his dissertation. I recommend it as an accessible, evenhanded historical overview of the African American religious experience in the American colonies and the United States.Ī couple of decades before publishing Canaan Land, Raboteau wrote Slave Religion: The “Invisible Institution” in the Antebellum South* (Oxford University Press, 1978 rev. When I’ve had the opportunity to teach the history of religion in America, I’ve regularly used Albert Raboteau’s Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans* (Oxford University Press, 2001). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The Long Rain” sees a crew of military astronauts trudging through the nonstop rains of Venus, pitting the human will to survive against the power of nature. In “The Man,” a captain and his lieutenant’s faith are put to the test by the arrival of a mysterious man who travels from planet to planet, healing the sick and comforting the poor. “The Highway” also focuses on a minority group: a husband and wife south of the border whose quiet life is disrupted by tourists fleeing nuclear war. Astronauts tumble helplessly through space, connected only by long-distance radio, in “Kaleidoscope.” In “The Other Foot,” black colonists on Mars must decide whether to accept white refugees from Earth. In “The Veldt,” children raised by a virtual reality nursery turn on their parents after being denied their favorite simulation: an African savannah filled with lions. Bradbury tends to focalize his stories through the perspective of a single character, though the reliability of his narrators shifts from chapter to chapter. All the stories are told in the past tense. The Prologue, Epilogue, and one other story, “The Rocket Man,” are written in first-person voice, but the rest are written in third person. This acts as a framing device for the work. The collection is named after one of its characters, the Illustrated Man, a carnival worker whose supernatural tattoos represent each of the 18 stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.īlyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. Enid Mary Blyton (1897 - 1968) was an English author of children's books.īorn in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() His owner, defended by Davids father, is being sued for injuries. ![]() Nonfiction features including sidebars, sources, an index, and a list of further reading will support critical literacy skills and digging deeper with research on this topic. Allison has accepted her life as a Navy brat: but now she has. ![]() Co-authored by a scholar in the history of textiles and dress with the founder of WORN Fashion Journal, this book is equal parts fab and frightening: a stylishly illustrated mash-up of STEAM content, historical anecdotes, and chilling stories. ![]() Historical examples like the tragic "Radium Girl" watchmakers and mercury-poisoned "Mad Hatters," along with more recent factory accidents, raise discussion of unsafe workplaces-where those who make the clothes are often fashion's first victims. From silhouette-cinching corsets and combustible combs to lethal hair dyes and flammable flannel, this nonfiction book looks back at the times people have suffered pain, injury, and worse, all in the name of style. The clothes we wear every day keep us comfortable, protect us from the elements, and express our unique style-but could fashion also be fatal? As it turns out, history is full of fashions that have harmed or even killed people. Co-authored by a scholar in the history of textiles and dress with the founder of WORN Fashion Journal, this book is equal parts fab and frightening as it offers a fascinating look at the harmful history of fashion, from silhouette-cinching corsets to lethal hair dyes. by Alison Matthews David (Author) 220 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 16.01 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 75.57 Other used and collectible from 53.80 Paperback 22.97 - 25.61 Other new, used and collectible from 22. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Subscriptions to Apple’s streaming service cost $4.99 a month after a seven day free trial. ![]() On the streaming side of things, the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special is already available to be streamed on Apple TV+ as of Nov. Here is everything you need to know about when and where you can find “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” this holiday season. For now the company has announced that “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” will be receiving special broadcast airings on PBS in addition to its Apple TV+ premiere. Thankfully, it would appear that Apple heard those concerns and registered them. Back in October, Apple TV+ acquired the rights to a whole host of Peanuts holiday specials including “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.” This was great news to Apple shareholders and Apple TV+ subscribers (all 13 of us), but it also raised concern about how many timeless classic holiday specials would soon find their way behind corporate paywalls. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tremain's latest novel, The Gustav Sonata, takes us to Switzerland just before the Second World War. It shows a refugee from eastern Europe, struggling to survive on casual jobs, hungry, lost, homesick. A recent novel, The Road Home, is set in today's London. All Tremain's novels are primarily about character her empathy and imagination are stirred by people adrift or isolated by circumstance. Tremain's first big success, Restoration, revisited a much-explored costume drama site but was never weighed down by wigs and diamonds in the time of England's Charles II. That's a long way from the gritty realism of her New Zealand gold rush novel, The Colour. Ranging daringly in time and place, her novels include Music and Silence, set in Denmark at the eccentric court of Christian IV. What she writes about is quite different. Her own world is quintessentially English.Īs chancellor of the University of East Anglia, author of 15 highly praised novels, partner of the celebrated biographer Richard Holmes, Tremain knows about success and privilege at the centre of British cultural life. It sounds like dangerous advice but it has worked well for Tremain herself. ![]() "Write about what you don't know," Rose Tremain once told a group of aspiring writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She pushes all the right buttons for me, and as much as I want her to quit pestering me about Brooks’s estate, I find myself intrigued by the fiery redhead who can’t take no for an answer. Harlow Alston would be extremely appealing if she wasn’t so aggravating. His locker, his legacy, his persistent and annoyingly gorgeous attorney who won’t stop contacting me about his estate, even though I’ve demanded she leave me alone. ![]() Now I’m in Pittsburgh, playing for the Titans, and face-to-face with my dead brother’s ghost at every turn. But when the team’s plane crashed returning home one night, his light was snuffed out, and I was given the opportunity of a lifetime. As my career faded, my estranged brother’s star shot into orbit as the first line left winger for the Pittsburgh Titans. He never expected the phone call that followed.Īfter a shoulder injury put my NHL career on ice, I resigned myself to the fact I’d never see my way out of the minor league again. Minor league player Stone Dumelin lost his younger brother when the Titans’ team plane went down. ![]() ![]() CC: □ Something’s gotta give now, cause I’m dy!ng just to make you see □ | he’s picking up his daughter from his ex’s apartment and kneels down to greet her | “Hey, pretty girl.” |. ![]() ![]() TikTok video from Ray-law-knee "And for a little more context, he’s trying to fix his relationship with his ex & FORM a relationship with his daughter, he hasn’t been in their lives #ghosted #jmdarhower #kindleunlimited #kindleunlimitedromance #bookquotes #books #romancebooks #romance #secondchanceromance #secondchanceromancebooks #sadbooks #spicybooks #bookcouples #kennedygarfield #johnathancunnigham #johnnycunning #madisongarfield #booktropes #highschoolromance #friendstolovers #singleparent #singlemomtrope #pregnancytrope #booktok". ![]() And for a little more context, he’s trying to fix his relationship with his ex & FORM a relationship with his daughter, he hasn’t been in their lives #ghosted #jmdarhower #kindleunlimited #kindleunlimitedromance #bookquotes #books #romancebooks #romance #secondchanceromance #secondchanceromancebooks #sadbooks #spicybooks #bookcouples #kennedygarfield #johnathancunnigham #johnnycunning #madisongarfield #booktropes #highschoolromance #friendstolovers #singleparent #singlemomtrope #pregnancytrope #booktokĤ9K Likes, 101 Comments. ![]() ![]() ![]() But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. "Speak up for yourself-we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. From 2023 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award laureate Laurie Halse Anderson, the groundbreaking modern classic Speak is a bestselling National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature with more than 3.5 million copies sold. ![]() |