5/29/2023 0 Comments Grace and Grit by William Murphy![]() For decades he has combined his love of motorcycling with his interest in historic places (and unique geologic and geographic sites as well).An inactive Marine (there is no such thing as an ex-Marine) Bill is active in military and veterans support activities and is himself a combat veteran of the Vietnam War.Four of Bill's books highlight the unique opportunities for motorcycle exploration in the Great Lakes region - a beautiful and unique part of the country that is too often under-appreciated for its motorcycling and touring opportunities. Bill is an amateur history buff with a fascination for those aspects of Americana and American history that the history books tend to ignore. The money also helped cover trips around the country on a variety of motorcycles - a passion that has lasted forty years. ![]() William (Bill, please!) is a Michigan native who paid bills by working in the arena of environmental protection for a state agency. ![]()
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5/29/2023 0 Comments One last stop book cover![]() ![]() She’s literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her. ![]() August’s subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there’s one big problem: Jane doesn’t just look like an old school punk rocker. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August’s day when she needed it most. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. And there’s certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures.īut then, there’s this gorgeous girl on the train. ![]() She can’t imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks.įor cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don’t exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Claire oshetsky chouette![]() ![]() A professional musician, Tiny is attuned to the fact that the creature gestating inside her can’t possibly be human. Yet Tiny’s question to her unborn child - “How could such a thing come to pass between woman and owl?” - echoes with a sense of wonder and possibility. ![]() ![]() From the very first line we know we’re in an unreal reality. Right away, Oshetsky asks us to suspend our disbelief. Through her experience we see motherhood and associated notions of sacrifice, compassion, and belonging upended and redefined. For Tiny is not with child per se - not a human child - but rather an owlet, the offspring of an affair she has with a wild female owl in a dream. Equal parts magical realist and radical feminist, the novel follows the plight of Tiny, a woman whose journey through pregnancy and motherhood vies with the most dramatic of Hollywood depictions. If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then Claire Oshetsky’s delightfully disturbing novel, Chouette, offers a nonplanetary paradigm through which to view the female experience: the bestial. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Yang boxers and saints![]() ![]() Yang actually seems more influenced by American animation traditions. Yang has a fairly limited style which does not lend itself to the martial arts, especially given what a lot of other people have done with them in Manga. Early on Bao discovers that his dad is in fact a gongfu hero. Visually I am not sure Yang’s style works as well as it could with the subject matter. The main focus of Boxers is Bao, who grows from a random peasant boy to a redresser of wrongs who will save China and maybe even get the girl. If you want to show your students pictures of Chinese peasants being flooded out of their homes Cohen’s History in Three Keys was our main text and it is in Yang’s bibliography, as is Esherick’s Origins of the Boxer Uprising. ![]() How good is it? Well he has done his research. ![]() This is a two volume graphic novel that looks at the Boxer event. I did a class that focused on the Boxers last semester, and one of the things I talked about was Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers and Saints. ![]() ![]() ![]() Advanced undergraduates through faculty professionals." - A. "A must read for those interested in dismantling systems of oppression and in trans/queer liberation. Stanley's queer and trans stories rise beyond assimilation, honoring our gorgeous survival and refusals as resistance.” - Tourmaline, artist, activist, and writer “ Atmospheres of Violence offers a generous and generative reminder that queer and trans lives have always been bigger and more brilliant than the deadly state that tries to frighten and cajole us. Throughout, Stanley offers vital pedagogies of truancy and wicked survival for potential collective life.” - Lauren Berlant, author of Cruel Optimism Written with tenderness and passionate thunder, the book's brilliant storytelling circulates grief and hope for the governed who remain alive and ungovernable. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence animates trans/queer, young queer, and racially dominated lives never quite stamped out by a brittle white supremacist egosystem. Labor and Working-Class History Association.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.Author Resources from University Presses.Permissions Information for Journal Authors.Journals fulfilled by DUP Journal Services. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Charlotte bronte wuthering heights![]() Cathy is bold and opinionated, loves running around the moors and horseback riding, and isn't - at least until she meets the Lintons - particularly interested in being a proper lady, or even a feminine one. ![]() Though Wuthering Heights is an unapologetically Gothic story, the female lead at its center is surprisingly modern, particularly in this take on the story. But while there are undoubtedly substantial changes to the source material, this is also an adaptation that understands that part of the appeal of this story is its wild, untameable heart and that nowhere is that crucial element more evident than in its messy, endlessly appealing depiction of the book's heroine, Catherine Earnshaw. ![]() Next up: The 2009 ITV adaptation of Wuthering Heights, which certainly takes some liberties with the text of Emily Bronte's classic novel, but is remarkably faithful to its spirit.Įager to make much of the subtext of Bronte's story almost glaringly textual, this is a version of Wuthering Heights that includes sex scenes, suicide, and a strong hint that the love of Cathy's life may be her half-brother. ![]() As part of our "Classics Revisited" series, we're looking back at some of our favorite series and movies from years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Debbie Macomber is the reigning queen of women’s fiction.”- The Sacramento Bee “No one tugs at readers’ heartstrings quite as effectively as Macomber.”- Chicago Tribune Praise for Debbie Macomber and The Inn at Rose Harbor And as Abby and Joshua try to heal from their pasts, and Jo Marie dreams of the possibilities before her, they all realize that life moves in only one direction-forward. Back for the first time in twenty years, she almost wishes she hadn’t come, the picturesque town harboring painful memories. Jo Marie’s other guest is Abby Kincaid, who has returned to Cedar Cove to attend her brother’s wedding. ![]() The two have never seen eye to eye, and Joshua has little hope that they can reconcile their differences. Her first guest is Joshua Weaver, who has come home to care for his ailing stepfather. ![]() A young widow coping with the death of her husband, she purchases a local bed-and-breakfast-the newly christened Rose Harbor Inn-ready to begin her life anew. Jo Marie Rose first arrives in Cedar Cove seeking a fresh start. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber comes the first book in a series set in the beloved Pacific Northwest town of Cedar Cove. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Light on yoga![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Iyengar) (Born Decemin Bellur, Kolar District, Karnataka, India) is the founder of Iyengar Yoga. The book is thoroughly cross-referenced, and indexed, resulting in an accessible and helpful book that is of immense value both to students of Indian philosophy and practitioners of yoga.īellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar (Kannada: ಬೆಳ್ಳೂರ್ ಕೃಷ್ಣಮಾಚಾರ್ ಸುಂದರರಾಜ ಐಯಂಗಾರ್), (also known as Yogacharya B.K.S. The Sutras are also a wonderful introduction to the spiritual philosophy that is the foundation of yoga practise. The Sutras show the reader how we can transform ourselves through the practice of yoga, gradually developing the mind, body and emotions, so we can become spiritually evolved. BKS Iyengar has translated each one, and provided his own insightful commentary and explanation for modern readers. The Sutras are short and to the point – each being only a line or two long. They are amongst the world’s most revered and ancient teachings and are the earliest, most holy yoga reference. Patanjali wrote this collection of yoga wisdom over 2,000 years ago. ![]() This new edition of the classic text contains a new introduction by BKS Iyengar, as well as a foreword by Godfrey Devereux, author of Dynamic Yoga. BKS Iyengar’s translation and commentary on these ancient yoga sutras has been described as the “bible” of yoga. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments The true story of charlotte doyle![]() ![]() ![]() The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is an engaging and suspenseful novel that will keep readers hooked from beginning to end. Charlotte is an intelligent and resourceful girl, and her journal entries are full of her observations about the people and events around her. ![]() The novel is written in the form of Charlotte’s journal, which she kept during her voyage. However, she is saved at the last minute by the ship’s first mate, who confesses to the crime. Charlotte is put on trial and sentenced to hang. The only witness to the crime is a seagull, which Charlotte had saved from being eaten by the ship’s cat. The novel is set in 1832 and follows the story of thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle, who is accused of murder while sailing from England to America.Ĭharlotte is aboard the ship Elizabeth when she is accused of murdering the ship’s captain. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is a historical fiction novel written by Avi and published by Scholastic Press in 1990. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Nora roberts book the choice![]() ![]() With the enemy cast out and the portal sealed it is a time to recover but there is little time to rest. It's a time as painful as any Breen has ever known as she helps to treat the wounded, bring the dead home from blood-and ash-soaked battlegrounds and support her friends and family in their grief. But the terrible battle and heart-breaking losses have taken their toll. ![]() With Odran's defeat at the Battle of the Dark Portal, his quest to rule over Talamh and Breen has stalled - for now. 'If you're after the perfect pick-me-up, take-me-away-from-the-world read, then she's your woman' The Guardian It's time for the final reckoning. The conclusion of the epic trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Awakening and The Becoming. ![]() |
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