![]() ![]() ![]() Part family story and part urban history, Family Properties is the riveting account of a city in crisis, involving unscrupulous slumlords and speculators pitched against religious reformers, community organizers, and an impassioned attorney?the author?s father? who launched a crusade against the profiteers. In this powerful book, Beryl Satter identifies the true cause of the city?s black slums and the ruin of urban neighborhoods throughout the country: a widespread institutionalized system of legal and financial exploitation. The ?promised land? for thousands of Southern blacks, postwar Chicago quickly became the most segregated city in the North, the site of the nation?s worst ghettos. This painstaking portrayal of the human costs of financial racism is the most important book yet written on the black freedom struggle in the urban North.?David Garrow, The Washington Post ![]()
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![]() ![]() IĮnjoyed reading The Reluctant Heiress once I started understanding I found myself getting attached to Tessa and Guy, with their down to earth characters. It turned out to be a wonderful love story in the end, and had a satisfying ending. However, once you get deeper into the story, you start figuring out who is who and what the characters are facing. I found The Reluctant Heiress very hard and confusing at first. ![]() Find out in The Reluctant Heiress by Eva Jhhotson. ![]() Will the love affairs end up working out? Or will Tessa, Max, Guy, and his fiancé end up marrying someone different, when there soul mates are already so close. Max, a prince, is also poor and in love with Tessa, but she just doesnt love him back, she loves Guy. Throughout the story Guy discovers what his widowed fiancé is really like, and discovers his love for Tessa. Turns up at the opera company searching for the perfect one toĮntertain not only his guests, but his soon to be wife. Though, opportunities open up for her when Guy, a millionaire orphan She doesnt have enough money and works for the Viennese opera company, which is all she really wants. Tiny Tessa doesnt act like the heir of Austria, and she certainly doesnt expect to be treated like one. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Rebel amy tintera![]() ![]() ![]() But Wren and Callum have never let that stop them before Tintera, Amy Dewey number 813. With HARC on one side and Micah on the other, saving the innocent and forging a lasting peace between humans and Reboots is a nearly impossible task. Wren's first instinct is to head out for new territory, but Callum can't stand by and let his human family and everyone else be hunted down. As they learn more about Micah, the bloodthirsty Reboot who runs it, they discover that he's been creating an army with one goal in mind: to kill the humans in the cities. But it isn't the paradise they'd hoped for. by Amy Tintera First published in 2013 5 editions in 2 languages 2 previewable Borrow Listen. Language eng Summary Wren and Callum finally reach the Reboot Reservation, a safe haven from HARC, which controls the cities. Author of All These Monsters, Rebel, Reboot, Avenged, All These Warriors, Ruined, Allied, Ruina. Label Rebel Title Rebel Statement of responsibility Amy Tintera Creator ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments The obelisk book![]() As she did in the first book, Jemisin treats her readers as intelligent beings and forces you to make many of the connections without spelling everything out. But overall this is a wonderfully intricate story with multilayered characters, a story that demands you pay attention and savor every new revelation. I have to admit I enjoyed The Fifth Season just a touch more, due to the slower pace of The Obelisk Gate and a slightly more confusing story structure. ![]() ![]() I’m happy to say it was a more than worthy follow-up and I enjoyed it immensely. The Fifth Season was one of my top ten books of 2015, and so I was beyond excited to start reading the second book in the series, The Obelisk Gate. The nitty-gritty: More stunning world-building, the return of some beloved characters, and even greater mysteries. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the Publisher in exchange for an honest review. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments My bondage and my freedom 1855![]() First published in 1881 and revised in 1892, three years before his death, it covered events during and after the Civil War. After the Civil War, Douglass remained an active campaigner against slavery and wrote his last autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. He described his experiences as a slave in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became a bestseller, and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). ![]() Even many Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.ĭouglass wrote several autobiographies. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings. ![]() Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c.February 1818 - February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments The golden compass book 2![]() The film gets the mechanics of human-daemon relationships right, but, ironically, it doesn't quite get the soul. ![]() ![]() But the film is so busy zipping from one plot point to the next that you never quite develop a feel for the relationship that exists between any individual human and his or her daemon. (The servants tend to have daemons shaped like dogs, while the villains tend to have daemons shaped like insects and reptiles.)Īgainst all odds, the film succeeds in creating an environment where the appearance of these animals everywhere is taken for granted, and where the constant shape-shifting by the younger ones seems perfectly natural. In the parallel universe where The Golden Compass takes place, every person has a daemon, and the daemons of children are constantly shifting shape, from one animal to another but when these children hit puberty, their daemons settle into one character-defining form for the rest of their lives. But many of them are "daemons," or external manifestations of a human being's soul. Some of the talking animals, namely the polar bears, are just that: animals that talk. For the most part, the actors are perfectly cast in their roles, and the special effects are dazzlingly complex and rendered with just the right, casual touch, especially where the talking animals are concerned. Fans of the book-including those who disagree with the trilogy's anti-religious thrust but enjoy Pullman's obvious skills as a writer-will find much to enjoy. ![]() There is spectacle aplenty here, to be sure. ![]() ![]() Ms Knowles told the jury she attributes all of her symptoms to the mercury, but admitted that to this day she has 'no knowledge whatsoever' regarding the consequences of ingesting the substance.ĭespite the pains and sickness, Ms Knowles said it was the hurt she felt which affected her most in the wake of the alleged incident. On her return to work on Monday, Ms Knowles had to be hospitalised due to having a seizure - 'the type people suffer when they have an epileptic fit', according to Rupert Bowers, defending. ![]() ![]() Ms Knowles, 36, the practice manager at the Shams Moopen Dental Practice, suffered with what she described as 'severe period pains' initially.īut her symptoms worsened, and Ms Knowles told the jury that over the weekend she had bouts of dizziness, diarrhoea and vomiting. Ravinder Kaur, 34, is charged with administering a 'poison or noxious substance with intent' after she allegedly put mercury amalgam - a substance used in dental fillings - into a cup of coffee she made for Laura Knowles.Īssistant dental nurse Kaur, who denies the charge, is accused of slipping the substance into Ms Knowles’ cup of coffee at a dental practice in Shefford, Bedfordshire, on Friday March 16 last year. The boss of a dental nurse was admitted to hospital and suffered from seizures three days after she tried to poison her with mercury intended for fillings, a court heard today. Ravinder Kaur, 34, is charged with administering a 'poison or noxious substance with intent' after she allegedly put mercury amalgam - a substance used in dental fillings - into a cup of coffee ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Sink or swim whatever after 3![]() with unexpected plot twists and plenty of girl power." - Booklist"Giddy, fizzy, hilarious fun!" - Lauren Myracle, author of Luv Ya Bunches"Tons of fractured fairy tale fun!" - Meg Cabot, author of Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls and The Princess Diaries"The feminist in me adored it, and the mother in me loved how my daughter would long to cuddle in close as we read together. Listen Free to Sink or Swim (Whatever After 3) audiobook by Sarah Mlynowski with a 30 Day Free Trial Stream and download audiobooks to your computer. will enchant readers from the first page." - Kirkus Reviews "Hilarious. The swift pace of the tale and non-stop action. ![]() ![]() Praise for Whatever After:"An uproariously funny read. with unexpected plot twists and plenty of girl power." - Booklist"Giddy, fizzy, hilarious fun!" - Lauren Myracle, author of Luv Ya Bunches"Tons of fractured fairy tale fun!" - Meg Cabot, author of Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls and The Princess Diaries"The feminist in me adored it, and the mother in me loved how my daughter would long to cuddle in close as we read together." - Danielle Herzog, blogging for The Washington Post ![]() ![]() ![]() I don't know how it compares to similar audiobooks I appreciate that the file seems to have both annotated and non-annotated readings. Otherwise, you have to remember fairly subtle voice differentiations - difficult if you are listening to the play in moderate intervals. The guide's relatively frequent interjections and scene analysis was helpful even beyond their informative content, as they made it much easier to follow which characters are active in a given scene. The addition then-contemporary references and allusions to then-topical events and scandals is a nice touch. I especially appreciate that the guide doesn't stick to only explaining archaic terminology, but also notes many of the more subtle themes that run through the play and describes how specific passages advance these undercurrents. However, after listening to their production of King Lear, I am very enthusiastic about the project. I was initially worried that the "Shakespeare appreciated" series would dumb the play down. Very Satisfying to have the extra context ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Whispers of War by Kit Pearson![]() ![]() were held below with the other competing teams, and then one by one were each presented into the center of the Victory Pit tournament where each has to battle a challenge of a creature or creatures in a three tier structure. managed to catch a few phrases off to the side of the initial lounge were signing up in, where discovered that war had been declared by the king on the eastern region of Xhorhas, that information was to be held back until the festival was over. They partook in a number of various games of chance and skill, got some fine snacks and food, challenged themselves, got thrown by their other party members, won some trinkets and toys, and then ended up signing up to the Victory Pit, the grand tournament that ends the Harvest Close festival. The Mighty Nein, upon clearing their names, making some new friendships in the city and taking some time for themselves in preparation for the coming Harvest Close Festival, found themselves wandering through the streets of celebration. ![]() The online shop has more d20s in stock. ![]() If you have Amazon Prime, you have Twitch Prime and can subscribe for free.Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is out now. ![]() To celebrate, Sam recites a top 10 for awesome Percy attributes. |