![]() ![]() One of theSkimm's "16 Essential Books to Read This Black History Month" ![]() In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes.Ī New York Times Bestsellers Editors' ChoiceĪmazon's Best Biographies and Memoirs of 2021 But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning Theirs is a history forgotten that begs to be told, and Tubbs tells it brilliantly." Through Tubbs' writing, Berdis, Alberta, and Louise's stories sing. "Tubbs' connection to these women is palpable on the page - as both a mother and a scholar of the impact Black motherhood has had on America. Tubbs’s book stands against the women’s erasure, a monument to their historical importance.” “This dynamic blend of biography and manifesto centers on Louise Little, Alberta King, and Berdis Baldwin. ![]()
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Please note that we're currently unable to ship to the EU. Where possible, all our deliveries are fulfilled by Royal Mail. The tales were collated and edited by JRR Tolkien's son and literary heir, Christopher Tolkien, who provides a short commentary on each story, helping the reader to fill in the gaps and put each story into the context of the rest of his father's writing. Unfinished Tales also contains the only story about the long ages of Numero before its downfall, and all that is known about such matters as the Five Wizards, the Palantiri and the legends of Amroth. The book concentrates on the realm of Middle-earth and comprises such elements as Galdalf's lively account of how it was that he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the emergence of the sea-god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor on the coast of Beleriand, and an exact description of the military organisation of the Riders of Rohan. ![]() Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the twentieth century's most acclaimed popular author. ![]() Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth by J R R Tolkien ![]() ![]() ![]() When Peyton returns to her hometown, they continue their relationship via phone calls and texting. Jace and Peyton met a few years ago at a party in Florida while Peyton is off visiting her family and they hit it off. 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Right of Way by Lauren Barnholdt promises a road trip in its blurb. ![]() ![]() ![]() Were the soldiers actually dismantling a temporary camp and not on a shell hunt?” ![]() And as for Caligula’s famous military debacle, when he ordered his soldiers to gather seashells as though they were the spoils of a victorious battle over the ocean? “The one about the seashells may well go back to a confusion about the Latin word musculi, which can mean both ‘shells’ and ‘military huts’. The likelihood of Hannibal cracking open the chunks of Alpine rock blocking his way is dismissed in a heartbeat (“probably not”). ![]() Cleopatra’s final moments are on the receiving end of some trademark scepticism: “Suicide by snakebite is a hard feat to pull off, and anyway the most reliably deadly snakes would be far too hefty to conceal in even a regal fruit basket.” Too few academics have a working knowledge of both the size of a royal fruit pile and the relative bulk of a snake. She is never less than a vastly engaging tour guide around some of the best-known parts of the Roman story, debunking its myths with ease. Nonetheless, she embarks on the colossal task of telling as much of the story of Rome and its provinces as she can fit into 544 pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is also the host of the top-rated Danger Close Podcast. His debut novel, The Terminal List, was adapted into the #1 Amazon Prime Video series starring Chris Pratt. He is the author of The Terminal List, True Believer, Savage Son, The Devil’s Hand, In the Blood, and Only the Dead. According to Jack Carr's website, True Believer follows James Reece on a new adventure, as he accepts a presidential pardon for the things he did in The Terminal List in exchange for. Jack retired from active duty in 2016 and lives with his wife and three children in Park City, Utah. ![]() ![]() Over his 20 years in Naval Special Warfare, he transitioned from an enlisted SEAL sniper to a junior officer leading assault and sniper teams in Iraq and Afghanistan, to a platoon commander practicing counterinsurgency in the southern Philippines, to commanding a Special Operations Task Unit in the most Iranian influenced section of southern Iraq throughout the tumultuous drawdown of U.S. Jack Carr is a former Navy SEAL who led special operations teams as a Team Leader, Platoon Commander, Troop Commander, and Task Unit Commander. ![]() ![]() What he discovers may upend the foundation of three major world religions-and, perhaps, give him a vital clue into the true nature of his aspects. When a company hires him to recover stolen property-a camera that can allegedly take pictures of the past-Stephen finds himself in an adventure crossing oceans and fighting terrorists. ![]() His brain is getting a little crowded and the aspects have a tendency of taking on lives of their own. He uses them to solve problems.for a price. Wherever he goes, he is joined by a team of imaginary experts to give advice, interpretation, and explanation. However, to contain all of this, his mind creates hallucinatory people-Stephen calls them aspects-to hold and manifest the information. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s his hallucinations who are mad.Ī genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter of hours. Includes the never-before-published Legion: Lies of the Beholder. ![]() ![]() ![]() Note that The Wages of Virtue, which was his first collection of stories about the Foreign Legion, was published well before he had any opportunity to be a legionnaire himself.īeau Ideal was the third of the trilogy, Beau Geste (1924), Beau Sabreur (1926) and Beau Ideal (1928) which sought to highlight the British upper middle class, Boys Own ideals of honour and sacrifice, held firm in a seething cauldron (don’t all cauldrons seethe?) of underclass foreigners, sand and Arabs – Bedouin and Touareg. Wren enlisted for WWI in India but saw no service (he was 40) and may have enlisted after the War in the French Foreign Legion, or may just have knocked around North Africa for a bit. ![]() ![]() Percival Christopher Wren (1875-1941) was of the lower middle class, a school teacher, the son of a school teacher, who worked to put himself through university, getting an MA from St Catherine’s Society, Oxford University, a non-collegiate institution for poorer students. And for which I paid 10c, probably in 1967 (at which date it was not as old as, for instance Monkey Grip is today, which is an odd thought). My copy of Beau Ideal is a first reprint of the first edition, 1928, in which year it was a Xmas present “from George”. No, I’m not fortunate enough to have this dustjacket, this is the first edition cover, though I have a similar cover, with the legionnaire seated, for my copy of PC Wren’s The Wages of Virtue (first pub. ![]() ![]() ![]() Theodore says he has no knowledge of Isabella, but Manfred’s pride and rage persist. The search for Isabella continues until Manfred confronts Theodore in the vault of the castle. There she meets Theodore, newly escaped from the helmet he aids her in escaping to a nearby convent. When Manfred tells this to Isabella, she is horrified and flees into a passage beneath the castle. Even though strange things begin to happen in the castle, Manfred is not deterred. Manfred plots to divorce his wife, Hippolita, on the grounds that she has failed to bear him a proper heir (he also claims they are related) and marry Isabella himself. The death of his son terrifies Manfred that a prophecy that the castle will pass on from their family is beginning to come true. ![]() Though he has no reason to truly suspect Theodore of Conrad’s death, Manfred makes a big to-do about the peasant’s putative guilt, and imprisons him under the helmet. ![]() Among the crowd is a handsome young peasant named Theodore, who muses that the helmet is like the one from the statue of Otranto’s founder, Alfonso. The wedding does not take place, however, for Conrad is crushed to death by a giant helmet moments before the event. ![]() The story begins on the wedding day of Manfred’s son, Conrad, and the Princess Isabella. The Castle of Otranto tells the story of Prince Manfred and his family, which includes his wife ( Hippolita) and his children ( Conrad and Matilda). ![]() |